The USS Enterprise is synonymous with Star Trek, and I'm glad Gene Roddenberry changed the starship's original name when he created Star Trek: The Original Series. Roddenberry pitched Star Trek as a new science fiction adventure series to NBC in 1964 and went into production on Star Trek's pilot, "The Cage," in 1965. NBC rejected "The Cage" but greenlit a second pilot episode, which resulted in Star Trek becoming a TV series. From "The Cage" going forward, Star Trek's signature ship was known as the USS Enterprise.