USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) is a starship in the Star Trek media
franchise. It is the main setting of the original Star Trek television
series (1966â€"1969) and several Star Trek films, and it has been
depicted in various spinoffs, films, books, products, and fan-created
media. Under the command of Captain James T. Kirk, the Enterprise
carries its crew on a mission "to explore strange, new worlds; to seek
out new life and new civilizations; to boldly go where no man has gone
before".Matt Jefferies designed the Enterprise for television, and its
core design components â€" a saucer-shaped primary hull, two outset
engine nacelles, and a cylindrical secondary hull â€" have persisted
across several television and film redesigns. After the destruction of
the Enterprise in the third franchise film, that vessel's filming
model was refurbished and depicted as its starship successor, the USS
Enterprise, NCC-1701-A.Initially a vision of the potential for human
spaceflight, the Enterprise became a popular culture icon. The
vessel's design influenced the design of subsequent franchise
spacecraft. The model filmed for the original Star Trek TV series has
been on display for decades at the National Air and Space Museum. The
Enterprise has repeatedly been identified as one of the best-designed
and most influential science fiction spacecraft.Pato Guzman was the
original art director assigned to Star Trek; Matt Jefferies, his
assistant, took over when Guzman left the project. Jefferies, who was
not a science fiction fan, was the primary designer of the Enterprise
and based his work on concepts from series creator Gene Roddenberry.
Roddenberry did not have any ideas about what the ship should look
like, but he laid out several parameters for the ship: USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) Biography, NetWorth, Height, Age, Weight, Family, Married, Son, Daughter