Name of the Enterprise

[pop-culture guy]

Hi I was just wondering if anyone knows where the name NCC-1701 on the Enterprise comes from?

 

[sbk1234]

Yes. According to Richard Arnold many years ago: Actually, the registry, NCC came from many airplanes having NC on the side of them. TPTB added the extra C, to make it more futuristic and interesting, I suppose. As for the 1701, they just needed numbers that would show up well on the TV screens of the day.
So, it actually means....NOTHING!

 

[Alidar Jarok]

Hi I was just wondering if anyone knows where the name NCC-1701 on the Enterprise comes from?

Please don't post the same thread in more than one place. I'll leave this one open (since it's OK to discuss it here), but don't do it again.

 

[TigerOfDarkness]

Yes. According to Richard Arnold many years ago: Actually, the registry, NCC came from many airplanes having NC on the side of them. TPTB added the extra C, to make it more futuristic and interesting, I suppose. As for the 1701, they just needed numbers that would show up well on the TV screens of the day.
So, it actually means....NOTHING!

The first line in Forbidden Planet being (IIRC) "We've reached DC point at 17:01, Skipper" is just a coincidence, right?

 

[sbk1234]

^^^^Cool. I've seen Forbidden Planet a few times, but I've never picked up on that. I don't know if it would be cooler to be a coincidence or by design.

 

[TigerOfDarkness]

I can't claim to be the first person to have posted that, but it is interesting.

 

[LAFR]

Look here:

http://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/articles/miscellaneous.htm


Then here:

http://www.eaa231.org/Museum/WacoYOC/WACO.htm


Ron

 

[Gepard]

Then here:

http://www.eaa231.org/Museum/WacoYOC/WACO.htm

"The Star Trek Enterprise..."

And yet somehow they're geeky enough to know both that the Enterprise was "Starship class" and what Jeffries' tail number was.

 

[LAFR]

Geekness knows no bounds.....

 

[gastrof]

Then here:

http://www.eaa231.org/Museum/WacoYOC/WACO.htm

"The Star Trek Enterprise..."

And yet somehow they're geeky enough to know both that the Enterprise was "Starship class" and what Jeffries' tail number was.

Ummm...

How would you have phrased it without thinking it was laughable?

"The Star Trek Enterprise" is like saying "The Lost In Space Jupiter II" or "The Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea Seaview". It means "The Enterprise from Star Trek."

Seems they worded it fine, to me.

 

[AdmiralGarak]

Then here:

http://www.eaa231.org/Museum/WacoYOC/WACO.htm

"The Star Trek Enterprise..."

And yet somehow they're geeky enough to know both that the Enterprise was "Starship class" and what Jeffries' tail number was.

Ummm...

How would you have phrased it without thinking it was laughable?

"The Star Trek Enterprise" is like saying "The Lost In Space Jupiter II" or "The Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea Seaview". It means "The Enterprise from Star Trek."

Seems they worded it fine, to me.

That's how I read it, too. However, among Trekkies "Dr. Spock serves on a ship called the Star Trek Enterprise" is a common view of people who don't 'get' the show.

They would have been better off wording it "Star Trek's Enterprise".

 

[Gepard]

^Or "the starship Enterprise," which is what I'd assumed they meant.

 

[T'Aerwynd]

I believe "NCC" means "Naval Construction Contract." I doubt it was used in that way for Star Trek back in the day, but there you go.

 

[Forbin]

I believe "NCC" means "Naval Construction Contract." I doubt it was used in that way for Star Trek back in the day, but there you go.

That was coined by Franz Joseph, I think, for his 1973 blueprints.

 

[TigerOfDarkness]

I believe "NCC" means "Naval Construction Contract." I doubt it was used in that way for Star Trek back in the day, but there you go.

That was coined by Franz Joseph, I think, for his 1973 blueprints.

Not Nurse Christine Chapel?