Enterprise or USS Enterprise, often referred to as the Starship Enterprise, is the name of several spacecraft in the Star Trek science fiction franchise.
Matt Jefferies designed the first of many starships named Enterprise in the Star Trek franchise.
The same filming model was used to depict two different vessels named Enterprise in the franchise's first six films.
Andrew Probert designed a new Enterprise for a television series that takes place over 70 years after the original Star Trek.
Producers created a ship meant to bridge the gap in appearance between the Excelsior class and the Enterprise-D for the episode "Yesterday's Enterprise".
USS Enterprise is the first in a series of starships in the Star Trek media franchise. Enterprise is the main setting of the original Star Trek television series, nine Star Trek films, and Star Trek:
Starship Enterprise
…or USS Enterprise, often referred to as the Starship Enterprise, is the name of several spacecraft in the Star Trek science fiction franchise. The Enterprise made for the original Star Trek television series has been called an iconic design, and it influenced subsequent spacecraft in and outside the franchise…
The first color rendering of the Enterprise design; soon after, Jefferies would realize the design into a small wooden model. Note the prototypical elements used in Enterprise redesigns, other franchise vessels named Enterprise, and numerous other Star Trek spacecraft: a disc-like primary hull, a pair of offset engine nacelles, and a cylindrical secondary hull.
Leonard Nimoy poses as Spock with the 33-inch (0.8 m) first filming model
The 11-foot (3.4 m) filming model, which Paramount Pictures donated to the Smithsonian Institution in 1974