From: utzoo!decvax!cca!REM@MIT-MC@sri-unix
Newsgroups: net.space
Title: Why the ENTERPRISE won't fly, Thank the TREKies!!
Article-I.D.: sri-unix.1721
Posted: Fri Jun 11 09:05:37 1982
Received: Sat Jun 12 01:14:59 1982

From: Robert Elton Maas 
I'm not sad that we don't have a flying shuttle named "Enterprise".
After all, the USS Enterprise was a starship, not a shuttle.
If any name from Startrek should be used for a shuttle, it should be
"Galileo", not "Enterprise". Unfortunately that name is going to be
used for something else. Maybe we'll name our first space station
"Tribble" or something else related (did the space station on Startrek
have a name?), and our first interstellar craft "Enterprise"?