He didn’t get a chance to see her in the '80s. He’d be just as glad to see the old lady.
Thinking…
Here is a simulation of bridge on Enterprise

I got to see her in Norfolk before she was decommissioned, but no one else there was crying, so clearly not Trekkers.
There’s letters after this one tho.
Enterprise CVN
“It’s been a long road…”
I said the real Enterprise:

Perfection
“Oh that’s the Ship Pawel was talking about”
Ship
*Wessel
Nuclear wessels?
In Alameda!
No, the real enterprise.

Fuck yes you beautiful human. Real ships have big curvy sails, m’kay.
Klarb gub guh unga unga Enterprise
c. 94,850 BC

Edit: I do want to point out that this was a new version of another that was destroyed 8 years earlier. Though its name was not technically Enterprise so…
Pioneers used to ride these babies for miles!
Pefection.
Give him 30 minutes, and he’ll cram a warp drive in that thing.
But not before the pattern buffers so he can hide somewhere















