| This unfit article should be immediately devoured by the much stronger USS Enterprise, because Charles Darwin would have wanted it that way. |
An "enterprise" is a prize awarded in a competition just for entering. Some examples include the boardgames, cheap watches and boxes of chocolates handed out to losing contestants on television gameshows, but there are a number of particularly famous examples.
The starship Enterprise. Perhaps the most famous example is the spaceship given to Captain Kirk for trying to join the Spanish Inquisition, after they realised he failed to meet their entry requirements due to an unfortunate and slightly disturbing prediliction for skintight velour. Assembling a crew of similarly deluded fashion pariahs, they shot him into space on a bogus mission to retrieve Russian astro-dog Laika, who was wanted for questioning regarding the incident with Paris Hilton and an enterprise boardgame.
The Enterprise spacecraft had many unique features, including:
- the universe's first Teleprat device - capable of broadcasting multiple idiots in physical form across vast depths of space.
- Phaser weapons - causing enemies to be "phased"; given cause for slight hesitation. (Unless they were that kind of people who isn't phased by anything.)
- Thorpedoes - Australian swimmers named Ian Thorpe who attack fully clothed underwater.