A closer look
Paramount Pictures initially hated the design of the Starship Enterprise when Gene Roddenberry pitched the original Star Trek television series. Studio executives thought the iconic saucer-and-nacelles shape looked entirely too weird and begged for a more traditional rocket ship design that audiences would easily understand. Roddenberry stubbornly refused to change it, ultimately giving the world one of the most recognizable silhouettes in science fiction history and ensuring that generations of nerdy engineers would spend their entire adult lives passionately arguing in internet forums about the fictional physics of warp drives and the structural integrity of imaginary deflector shields
