MM> CP>> Actually, he is'nt trying to say that the Eeterprise (NCC-1701) as 
part
MM> CP>> of the TV show was named for  the Space Shuttle. What he is getting 
at
MM> CP>> is looking at it in the Trek Universe.  The USS Enterprise,NCC-1701, 
was
MM> CP>> named for an old (our time) early Earth Spacecraft.
MM> BN> However, since precognition doesn't work even in the Trek mythos,
MM> BN> that's impossible, too. }:)  It was just the traditionally naval
MM> BN> Enterprise, not any sort of space craft that hadn't even been fully
MM> BN> conceived yet, much less named. 
MM>However, in the mid-2200s, when the Starship Enterprise was built, the
MM>people who named her were well aware that part of the tradition of the
MM>name Enterprise was that it was the name of the first space shuttle.
MM>TMP makes it canon that a space shuttle was named Enterprise.
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