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This 5 page paper looks at three movie spaceships, the Enterprise (First Contact), the Nostromo (Alien), and the Nebuchadnezzar (The Matrix) and discusses what they tell us about the people who build and fly them; what role they play in the story; what they tell us about the world in which they exist; and how the way they are filmed determines some of our feelings about them. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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reader/viewer finds himself makes sense. This paper looks at three movie spaceships, the Enterprise (First Contact), the Nostromo (Alien), and the Nebuchadnezzar (The Matrix) and discusses what they tell us
about the people who build and fly them; what role they play in the story; what they tell us about the world in which they exist; and how the way
they are filmed determines some of our feelings about them. Discussion The most famous fictional spaceship of all time has to be the U.S.S. Enterprise of Star Trek fame. It
has become such an icon that even people who have never seen the shows or movies know the ship. She seems to be alive; in one of the original
Star Trek episodes, Kirk talks directly to the ship, saying (if memory serves): "Not lose you. Never lose you" or something similar. He speaks to the ship as if it
were a lover, and in some senses it is. It consumes him; he is obsessed with it every waking moment. It has been the same for every captain since. First
Contact is a very well crafted film that makes good use of the hackneyed device of time travel. In the movie, the Enterprise and her crew travel back in time
to prevent a Borg takeover of Earth, and to make sure that Zefram Cochrane (James Cromwell) makes the flight that will attract the Vulcans and pave the way for the
eventual founding of the Federation with Earth as a member. This ship is the successor to the one destroyed in the previous film Generations. She is the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC
1701-E; her predecessor was the NCC 1701-D. Like real aircraft designers, the Enterprise builders give a new letter to each model that comes out to indicate there has been an
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