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TSN
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I thought someone had said that the shuttle pic in the ENT credits had the TOS cast in it, making it the Enterprise. Was that not true?
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I stand corrected.

Starboard side Enterprise Shuttle:
http://images.jsc.nasa.gov/luceneweb/fullimage.jsp

Shuttle from ENT opening credits:
http://www.neutralzone.de/database/PreFederation/SpaceShuttleEnterprise03a.htm


Enterprise Shuttle with Star Trek Celebs:
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Stealing from NASA! Way to nail the government baby! [Big Grin]

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Captain Boh
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The nasa page shows a dead image for me...
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PsyLiam
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quote:
Originally posted by TSN:
I thought someone had said that the shuttle pic in the ENT credits had the TOS cast in it, making it the Enterprise. Was that not true?

I always thought that that was urban myth.

And not to nitpick the nixpicker, but don't the shuttles not have a definitive article in front of them when address by name? I thought that was the reasoning behind the NX-01 being called "Enterprise" and not "the Enterprise".

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Harry
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So what's the deal with the big letters on the ENT intro shuttle? Just a silly way to make the name more readable on television?

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I was just looking at picture and see that our dear Captain in missing? Was he just to good to there? And also did you all know that in the late 70's and 80 that Nichelle Nichols was employed by NASA and was in charge of astronaut recruits and hopefuls. Most of the recruits that she launched were minority candidates of different races and/or ethnicities, as well as gender, like Guion Bluford (the first African American male astronaut), Sally Ride (the first female astronaut), Judith Resnick (one of the original female astronauts recruited by NASA, who perished during the launch of the Challenger on January 28, 1986), and Ronald McNair (another victim of the Challenger disaster). She lived in Houston, Texas during her years as a Johnson Space Center employee(IMDB)
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TSN
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"And not to nitpick the nixpicker, but don't the shuttles not have a definitive article in front of them when address by name?"

I think that's a rule that applies to all ships, actually. And I think it's seldom-observed by normal people.

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Lee
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I remember a mention in Takei's autobiography about Shatner not showing up at the NASA ceremony - or Roddenberry's funeral either, for that matter.

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MinutiaeMan
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The first USS Constellation was the first warship commissioned into the US Navy, in 1797. I would assume that there wasn't a previous British ship with the same name, because the name refers to the "constellation" of stars on the US flag.

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Wasn't the Constitution the first? And why am I arguing this with a history major? [Razz]

(It occurs to me that the Constellation could have been the first warship, but I'm pretty sure that the Constitution was the first of her class.)

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Actually, the very first ship in the Continental Navy was named Alfred.

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PsyLiam
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Well, he does do a good job looking after Bruce.

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Lee
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Burns cakes, though.

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I believe the "USF United States" was first - commissioning in July 1797.

USF Constellation didn't enter commission until September of that year, with USF Constitution commissioning in October 1797.

The other three "original frigates" didn't commission until after the Quasi-War with France.

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