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The show's limited budget also affected the Enterprise 's support craft: Jefferies wanted to give the show's shuttlecraft a more aerodynamic look than the Enterprise itself, but it was too expensive to build a life-size filming model with a curved hull. Although initially lacking internal lighting, the tight budget ultimately allowed the model's starboard side to receive illuminated windows. The '1701' digits were chosen for their readability on television screens.

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Jefferies combined the 'NC' of American civilian aircraft registration codes with the 'CC CC' of Russian aircraft, deriving 'NCC'. The Enterprise is depicted with a registry number of 'NCC-1701'. The filming model's constituent parts cost under $600. The original series' Klingon cruiser design was retained for the first Star Trek film, and the motif of a manta ray-type hull with a bulbous prow influenced the design of Klingon vessels in subsequent films and spin-offs. The saucer module, engineering hull, and twin warp nacelle design influenced producers' designs of Starfleet vessels throughout the franchise's spin-offs and films.

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Looking at an early balsa and birchwood model of the Enterprise, Roddenberry thought the vessel would look better upside down, and a TV Guide cover once depicted it as such ultimately, however, the show used Jefferies' arrangement. Jefferies kept the exterior as plain as possible, both to allow light to play across the model and to suggest that the ship's vital equipment was on the interior, where it could be more readily maintained and repaired. Although Jefferies wanted to avoid the cliche of a 'flying saucer', the saucer-shaped upper portion of the hull eventually became part of the final design. Jefferies initially designed the habitable portion of the ship as a sphere, but it conflicted with the need to suggest the ship's speed. Jefferies imagined the ship's engines were so powerful they would be dangerous to be near, hence the pair of external warp nacelles. With Roddenberry's speed requirement, Jefferies decided the ship needed to be instantly recognizable from a distance, and that speed could be conveyed by the ship starting small in the background and growing as it accelerates toward the camera. Roddenberry insisted the ship not have fins or rockets Jefferies also avoided repeating fictional designs from Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon, along with the real-world space exploration work done by Boeing, Douglas Aircraft Company, Lockheed Corporation, NACA, NASA, and Northrop.

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Series creator Gene Roddenberry wanted the ship's design to convey speed, power, a 'shirt sleeve' working environment, and readiness for a multiyear mission.

Jefferies' experience with aviation led to his Enterprise designs being imbued with what he called 'aircraft logic'. Matt Jefferies designed the crew's spaceship, the USS Enterprise. The original Star Trek television series (1966–1969) established key tenets of the Star Trek franchise: an intrepid, diverse crew traveling through space and encountering the unknown. They will document all changes to their designs on the same Blueprint Worksheet to denote how they adapted their design from Play Part 1 to Play Part 2.Matt Jefferies' design of the USS Enterprise-featuring a saucer section, engineering hull, and external engine nacelles-established a design schema that influenced the Star Trek franchise's future television and film spin-offs. At the beginning of Play Part 2, students will be given new criteria for their spaceship design.Students will design and build a secondary version of a spaceship where the Astronaut is enclosed in Play Part 2.At the Mid-Play Break, they will be asked how they would change their designs if they had more time. During Play Part 1, students will sketch and label their designs of the spaceship on their Blueprint Worksheet.Students will build an exposed version of a spaceship using the newly introduced pieces from the VEX GO Kit, the connectors and the Gray Slide Beam in Play Part 1.Students will implement the iterative design process while designing a spaceship.Students will be able to produce a design that includes connectors and the Gray Slide Beam.

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