In Popular Culture
Enterprise was a principal setting of the popular movie Top Gun released in 1986. Director Tony Scott filmed actual flight operations aboard ship and incorporated them into the film's plot. Some interior scenes taking place aboard Enterprise were actually filmed on USS Ranger (CV-61).
In the film version of The Hunt for Red October, Enterprise is the flagship of the US fleet responding to the Soviet deployment.
In 1986, Enterprise was a setting of scenes in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. The ship was unavailable for filming, so scenes depicting Enterprise were again filmed aboard USS Ranger.
More important for Star Trek lore, the first nuclear aircraft carrier was in position to inspire naming of Starship USS Enterprise (NCC-1701). The original premise by Gene Roddenberry dated March 1964 describes a starship USS Yorktown. As USS Enterprise (CVN-65) was then one of the newest and most celebrated ships of the US Navy, occupying a similar status as the fictional Starship Enterprise, the aircraft carrier may have inspired a name change. One of Art Director Matt Jeffries' original drawings depicts the Starship Enterprise with Enterprise (CVN-65) for scale. Most of the subsequent Star Trek television shows and movies have been set aboard a ship named Enterprise, and the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) of the show Star Trek: The Next Generation has a relief of six Enterprise starship models on the wall of its observation lounge.
In turn, the name was given to the Space Shuttle Enterprise. Originally to be named Constitution (coincidentally, USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) is said to be Constitution-class), test vehicle OV-101 was named following a concerted letter-writing campaign by Star Trek fans.
In the Japanese series Mahoromatic: Something More Beautiful, CVN-65 is used to test a matter transporter which sends the Enterprise from the Earth's surface into the path of an alien ship near the Moon. Just before the ship is transported, the character responsible comments, "True science is not without a sense of irony. This turned out to be the first 'Enterprise' to be sent into space. Ha ha ha!"
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