Q) Can you tell me what the serial numbers on the Starship Enterprise stand for? Many thanks.
A) It doesn’t stand for anything.
The Star Trek Encyclopedia states:
“NCC doesn’t stand for anything. It 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. Think of it as being like the arbitrary three-letter code that’s part of automobile license plate numbers in many states.”
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February 12th, 2010 at 4:51 am
in the star trek 2009 movie with commentary, they question this also. at mark 1:51:47 (as an answer to the question brought up earlier in the commentary), they say that it was matt jeffries and: N= registered in united states, c = civil aircraft, c (2) = space, 1701 is the seventeenth design, first ship - they did not discuss the source of the information