Editing Starship Enterprise (section)

==Reception and influence==
[[File:Figure_8_from_US_Patent_US8348714B2.png|thumb|[[Mattel]]'s 2009 patent for a flying toy is based on "the fictional and imaginary star ships "Enterprise" created for the Star Trek science fiction television series and movies." The shape includes the core design shapes from [[Matt Jefferies]]' original ''Enterprise'' design.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Toy flying aircraft |url=https://patents.google.com/patent/US8348714B2/ |access-date=February 22, 2025 |website=Google Patents}}</ref>]]''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' described each iteration of the ''Enterprise'' as "a character in its own right".<ref name=Conway2013>{{Cite magazine |title=Star Trek, Before Darkness: 47 Years of Starship Designs |last=Conway |first=Richard |date=May 16, 2013 |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |issn=0040-781X |url=https://entertainment.time.com/2013/05/17/star-trekkin-a-geeks-guide-to-the-uss-enterprise/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160927042353/http://entertainment.time.com/2013/05/17/star-trekkin-a-geeks-guide-to-the-uss-enterprise/ |archive-date=2016-09-27 }}</ref> ''[[io9]]'' ranked the original design of the ''Enterprise'' as the best version of the ''Enterprise'' lineage, characterizing the original as still superior to all later versions.<ref name="IO9-2018">{{Cite web |last=Whitbrook |first=James |title=All 11 Versions of the U.S.S. Enterprise, Ranked |url=https://io9.gizmodo.com/all-11-versions-of-the-u-s-s-enterprise-ranked-1823170805 |access-date=2019-07-09 |website=io9 |language=en-US}}</ref> By contrast, [[Syfy|SyFy]] ranked the refit design of the ''Enterprise'' from ''The Motion Picture'' and its sequels as the franchise's best.<ref name="Syfy2019">{{Cite web |last=Brigden |first=Charlie |date=January 21, 2019 |title=From one generation to the next: Ranking the Starships Enterprise |url=https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/star-trek-ranking-the-starships-enterprise |website=SyFy Wire}}</ref>

Over many decades, the starship has influenced activities of [[NASA]]. This includes a successful letter writing campaign by fans to name the initial flight-test [[Space Shuttle]] [[Space Shuttle Enterprise|''Enterprise'']],<ref name=NASA-Kennedy>{{cite web |title=Enterprise (OV-101) |website=Kennedy Space Center |publisher=[[NASA]] |editor-first=Jim |editor-last=Dumoulin |date=March 18, 1994 |url=https://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/resources/orbiters/enterprise.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180818040244/https://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/resources/orbiters/enterprise.html |archive-date=2018-08-18 }}</ref><ref name=McKinnon>{{cite web |title=Declassified Memos Debate Naming the Shuttle ''Enterprise'' |first=Mika |last=McKinnon |date=July 10, 2014 |website=[[Gizmodo]] |url=https://gizmodo.com/declassified-memos-reveal-debate-over-naming-the-shuttl-1603073259/1603195852 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180819194914/https://gizmodo.com/declassified-memos-reveal-debate-over-naming-the-shuttl-1603073259/1603195852 |archive-date=2018-08-19 }}</ref> and NASA's decision to name its [[IXS Enterprise|IXS ''Enterprise'']] advanced propulsion concept vehicle after the ''Star Trek'' vessel.<ref name=Phillips2014>{{cite web |first=Chaka |last=Phillips |date=June 22, 2014 |title=Warp Speed Tests: NASA Advanced Propulsion Names Latest Model ''Enterprise'' After ''Star Trek'' |website=Latin Post |url=http://www.latinpost.com/articles/15393/20140622/warp-speed-tests-nasa-advanced-propulsion-names-latest-model-enterprise-after-star-trek.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180820074553/https://www.latinpost.com/articles/15393/20140622/warp-speed-tests-nasa-advanced-propulsion-names-latest-model-enterprise-after-star-trek.htm |archive-date=2018-08-20 }}</ref> [[NetDragon Websoft]] based the design of its [[Fuzhou]] headquarters building on the ''Enterprise''-E under an official license from CBS.<ref name="Pachal">{{cite web |last=Pachal |first=Pete |date=May 19, 2015 |title=Make it so: Chinese building looks just like Star Trek's USS Enterprise |url=http://mashable.com/2015/05/19/enterprise-building-star-trek/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171219135416/http://mashable.com/2015/05/19/enterprise-building-star-trek/ |archive-date=December 19, 2017 |access-date=September 18, 2017 |website=[[Mashable]] |df=mdy-all}}</ref>

Celebrity astrophysicist [[Neil deGrasse Tyson]] has spoken highly of the influence and legacy of the [[USS Enterprise (NCC-1701)|original ''Enterprise'']] on other fictional spaceships. Drawing a parallel to comparing athletes between eras, he said of spaceship design, "What matters is not what they look like now, but what they looked to others at the time that they prevailed... There is only one spaceship that's earlier than [the original ''Enterprise''], and that's the flying saucer from ''[[The Day the Earth Stood Still]]''. So, what matters here is, what did [the ''Enterprise''] look like at the time it came out (1966) compared with anything that had been imagined before? And when you consider that, that is the most astonishing machine that has ever graced the screen."<ref name=Tyson2012>{{cite web |title=Neil deGrasse Tyson at the Starship Smackdown, Comic-Con 2012 |author=Plumbline Pictures |date=July 16, 2012 |publisher=[[YouTube]] |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyUN5vG1T8k | archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211117/OyUN5vG1T8k| archive-date=2021-11-17 | url-status=live|access-date=2018-08-17}}</ref> On the ship's influence upon scientists, Tyson wrote, "The ''Enterprise'' was the first ever spaceship represented in storytelling that was not designed to go from one place to another; [it was] only designed to explore. It was revolutionary in terms of what we would think space would, and should, be about."<ref name=Tyson2015>{{Cite AV media |author=National Geographic |title=Millennium Falcon or Starship Enterprise? - Fan Question |work=StarTalk |publisher=[[YouTube]] |date=November 27, 2015 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMH1vDDd1xc | archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211117/TMH1vDDd1xc| archive-date=2021-11-17 | url-status=live|access-date=2018-08-17 }}</ref>