When I was 7.
The original model of the USS Enterprise, 1965. pic.twitter.com/lzN2kgg1Zn
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I feel like the Enterprise was the first SciFi space ship to break out of the ‘cigar or saucer’ mode that dominated before that. Or if not the first, then at least popular enough to change how people thought of space ships.