Editing USS Enterprise CVN-65 (section)

==ENTERPRISE IN FICTION==

•	Enterprise was supposed to appear in the film Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, but she was at sea at the time of filming. Instead, the carrier USS Ranger CV-61 played the part of the Enterprise. This is most visible in a background shot with Nichelle Nichols in the foreground; while the actress’s hair mostly blocks out the older carrier’s conventional rectangular island, the producers are unable to completely mask the ship’s structural differences from the newer vessel (shot from the starboard side, the two elevators abaft the island are easily visible, vs. two elevators ahead of the island on Enterprise). Since her engineering spaces were deeply classified at the time, it is unlikely that the producers would have been given access even had she been in port. Further, in the scenes where Commander Pavel Chekov is being pursued by U.S. Marines through the ship's passageways, sailors appearing as extras can be seen wearing Ranger ballcaps. 

•	Parts of the movie Top Gun were set aboard the Enterprise; and all of the carrier operation footage was filmed aboard her during carrier qualifications off the coast of San Diego prior to her 1986 deployment. All interior shots of the CIC and other spaces were filmed aboard Ranger (which between the two movies had a busy film career in 1984–1985) 

•	Enterprise was used in the filming of the movie version of Tom Clancy’s novel The Hunt for Red October. Interestingly, the novel makes no mention of Enterprise; rather, the carrier John F. Kennedy had control of all Atlantic air operations. 

•	Enterprise had a small role in the Tom Clancy novel Debt of Honor; at the end of a joint US-JMSDF exercise Enterprise was intentionally damaged by Japanese anti-submarine torpedoes. Enterprise was towed back to Pearl Harbor, where she remained for the remainder of the novel. 

•	Enterprise had a small role in the Tom Clancy novel Red Storm Rising, when the carrier launched aircraft to support a small group of NATO soldiers on Iceland during the battle to retake Iceland. Although not mentioned by name, the callsign “Starbase” is used to denote the carrier. 

•	Enterprise is featured in the James H. Cobb novel Sea Strike. It is mentioned that it is her last cruise, and would be slated for decommissioning and scrapping due to neutron fatigue from her nuclear reactors. 

•	Enterprise also appeared as the USS Seahawk in the pilot and several subsequent episodes of the TV show JAG, and as herself in an episode of NCIS. 

•	Enterprise was featured in Neal Stephenson's novel Snow Crash where it had been purchased as military surplus by the tycoon L. Bob Rife. The carrier served as the core of a conglomeration of smaller boats called "The Raft", which played a central role in the book. In the book, Enterprise was still equipped with its 4 Phalanx guns which were used to enforce order on the rest of the raft. 

•	Actual crewmembers appeared as background extras on Star Trek: Enterprise.