USS Enterprise (NCC-1701)

USS Enterprise
Star Trek vehicle
USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) as it appeared in promotional material for the remastered original Star Trek series
First appearance	"The Man Trap" Star Trek 1966
Last appearance	"Hegemony" Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 2023
Created by	Matt Jefferies
Information
Affiliation	United Federation of Planets Starfleet
Launched	2245[1]
Captain	Robert April Christopher Pike James T. Kirk Willard Decker Spock
Auxiliary vehicles	Shuttlecraft
General characteristics
Class	Constitution[1]
Registry	NCC-1701
Armaments	Phasers Photon torpedoes
Defenses	Deflector shields
Propulsion	Thrusters Impulse drive Warp drive
Power	Matter/antimatter reaction

USS Enterprise is a series of fictional starships in the Star Trek media franchise. Enterprise is the main setting of the original Star Trek television series (1966–69), nine Star Trek films, and Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (2022–present). The vessels carry their 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 components – a flying saucer-shaped primary hull, two offset engine nacelles, and a cylindrical secondary hull – persisted across several television and film redesigns. The vessel influenced the design of subsequent franchise spacecraft, including other vessels named Enterprise, and the model filmed for the original Star Trek TV series has been on display for decades at the National Air and Space Museum.

Initially a vision of the potential for human spaceflight, the Enterprise became a popular culture icon. The Enterprise has repeatedly been identified as one of the best-designed and most influential science fiction spacecraft.