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
Mass	190,000 metric tons (210,000 short tons)[2][3]
Length	288.6 metres (947 ft)[2][3]
Width	127.1 metres (417 ft)[2][3]
Height	72.6 metres (238 ft)[2][3]

USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) is the original starship in the Star Trek fictional media universe. It is the main setting of Star Trek TOS (The Original Series) television series (1966–69), and it is depicted in films, other television series, spin-off fiction, 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." Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (2022–present) depicts the Enterprise under the command of Kirk's predecessor, Captain Christopher Pike.

Matt Jefferies designed the Enterprise for television, and its core components – a flying saucer-shaped primary hull, two offset warp nacelles, and a cylindrical secondary hull – persisted across several television and film redesigns. The vessel influenced the design of subsequent in-universe spacecraft, 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.