Star Trek: Every Enterprise Ranked Worst To Best
10. The Original Series 1701
The one that started it all! Back in 1965, Matt Jefferies designed the Enterprise for Star Trek's first pilot episode, The Cage. Here, the familiar design of the saucer section above an engineering hull with the two nacelles swept back, was actually something that Jefferies and Roddenberry disagreed on.
Roddenberry wanted to invert the ship and have the saucer section on the bottom. Jefferies did not like this idea at all. Jefferies won the day, and the classic design was born.
The beautiful 11-foot filming model has since been expertly restored and is on show in the Smithsonian Museum, a tribute to the lasting impact of this wonderful ship.