The Constitution-Class: The Ship That Bet Everything on Exploration
Show someone who has never seen a minute of Star Trek a picture of the original Enterprise, and they will still know what they are looking at. A ship. Something built to go a long way from home. The wide saucer, the slim neck slung beneath it, the two engines held out on struts well clear of the body. That outline has been printed on lunchboxes, flown on parade floats, and rebooted on cinema screens for the better part of sixty years, and it is still the first thing a great many people picture when someone says the words science fiction.