Why did star trek called their ship number as 1701?!
Question: Why did they called uss enterprise "1701"?
Answers: Why did they called uss enterprise "1701"?
According to "Star Fleet Technical Manual" by Franz Joseph, "NCC" is the acronym for "Naval Construction Contract" and the Constitution Class Heavy Cruiser was given the "1700" series numeration. Enterprise was the second ship in the class.
This explains it right here as follows:
The USS Enterprise, (NCC-1701) is a fictional starship in the television series Star Trek, which chronicles the vessel's mission "to explore strange new worlds; to seek out new life and new civilizations; to boldly go where no man has gone before" under the command of Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner). An upgraded version of the ship also appears in the first three Star Trek films.
According to The Star Trek Encyclopedia, the ship's registry number, "NCC-1701"
"was devised by Matt Jefferies, art director of the first Star Trek series. Jefferies, who is a pilot, based NCC on 20th century aircraft registration codes. In such 20th century usage, an "N" first letter refers to an aircraft registered in the USA. A "C" second letter refers to a civil aircraft. Jefferies added a second "C", just because he thought it looked better."[1]
The name Enterprise itself comes from a long series of ships. The first was the French frigate L'Entreprise, captured by the British in 1705. The British rechristened the ship HMS Enterprise for use by the Royal Navy. The first United States ship to use the name USS Enterprise was a Revolutionary War-era sloop-of-war. The eighth American ship to bear this name was the world's first nuclear aircraft carrier.
To capitalize on the popularity of Star Trek, as well as to honor the actual, historical vessels, NASA named an initial flight-test space shuttle Enterprise.[1] For Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, external shots of the aircraft carrier USS Ranger substituted for the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise, at sea during filming.[1] In 1994, the real aircraft carrier Enterprise played host to a Star Trek convention and Star Trek memorabilia can be found throughout the ship and in the movie, The Hunt for Red October, Enterprise is referred to by its call sign, "Starbase".
They designated USS Enterprise as NCC-1701 because "1", for example-USS Reliant NCC "1"864,USS Constellation-NCC "1"017 and so on...is the early designation of starships.The 701 means it's the 701th starship created by the Federation.