The Galileo Seven fight". The Galileo Seven "The "Galileo" Seven" is the sixteenth episode of the of the American science fiction television series, "". Written by Oliver Crawford and directed by Robert Gist, it first aired on January 5, 1967. In the episode First Officer Spock leads a scientific team from the "Enterprise" aboard the shuttlecraft "Galileo" on an ill-fated mission. Inspired by the film "Five Came Back", it featured the debut of the shuttlecraft. On stardate 2821.5, the Federation starship USS "Enterprise", under the command of Captain James T. Kirk, is en route to Makus III to deliver medical supplies destined for
Starship Enterprise D. Moore noted in the "Star Trek: The Next Generation Technical Manual" that real-life naval tradition would insist on calling such a craft the captain's gig, rather than the captain's yacht. Rick Sternbach later designed similar craft for USS "Voyager" and USS "Equinox", known as the aeroshuttle and the waverider, respectively. As on the "Enterprise"-D, however, these vessels were only depicted on technical schematics and never seen in operation or referred to in dialog. "Time" described each iteration of the "Enterprise" as "a character in its own right". Over many decades, the starship has influenced real-life activities of NASA and