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There's a subdivision on the west side of Webb Road in Grand Island that has imprints of the 23rd century.
NCC-1701 Subdivision.
The name threw Regional Planning Director Chad Nabity off for a few days. Then it hit him.
"That's the Starship Enterprise! I Googled it and I was right," Nabity said.
NCC-1701 is the number on the Starship Enterprise the spaceship in the 1966 science fiction television series Star Trek: The Original Series.
"NCC-1701 is a Naval Construction Contract number that's what that stands for," said Ezell Fox, who came up with the subdivision name. "1701 is the Enterprise, because there are other ships in the Star Trek world that are of the Constitution-size class.
"It's all Trekkie stuff," Fox laughed.
Fox, a medical office bookkeeper, said as a junior high girl in the 1960s she began watching Star Trek with her sister. In the 1970s everyone watched Star Trek reruns. They gave way to more shows "Enterprise, Deep Space Nine and Voyager," she began listing.
Fox's enthusiasm for Star Trek carried over to the subdivision title when she and fianc, Tim Grandon, decided to add onto their house at 2672 N. Webb Road.
In order to meet the city's setback regulations, they needed an additional foot of property from their neighbor to the south.
It was no problem buying the additional property, but because the land only had a metes and bounds description, it needed to be surveyed, platted and named as a subdivision.
"The surveyor said we could name the subdivision anything we wanted," Fox said.
The couple considered naming it after two other shared hobbies showing their purebred Doberman Pinscher, Miles, and restoring Volkswagens.
"But the oldest thing I've ever done is collect Star Trek memorabilia," Fox said.
She has a whole room full of lithographs and signed photos, including ones of William Shatner as Capt. James T. Kirk and Leonard Nimoy as First Officer Mr. Spock, a half Vulcan. There's a Star Trek clad Barbie and Ken, a Star Trek throw rug and glassware.
She has every series episode and every Star Trek movie.
Fox also has two prize possessions.
One is a master replica of a Klingon disrupter. The other is a three-foot long master replica of the Starship Enterprise with working lights, movable parts and air-brushing to make it appear that is has traveled through space.
"Let's just name it something obscure that nobody would know let's just name it the call names of the Enterprise the USS Enterprise," Fox finally suggested.
"We wanted to do something different do something nobody would know unless they were a Star Trek fan," Grandon said.
Grandon, a drywall company owner, refers to himself as a "closet Trekkie" having watched and enjoyed the series. He even enjoyed the "Star Trek Experience" in Las Vegas, where the couple was the night the Grand Island City Council approved NCC-1701 Subdivision locally.
The "Star Trek Experience" details the Star Trek chronology, displays costumes and props and even has virtual reality rides.
"I really liked the Borg Invasion best it was 4-D," Grandon said.
"Resistance is futile," Fox said laughing at how Star Trek lines aptly described how Grandon has joined in on her fun.
"I think that is one of the most unique names (for a subdivision) I've seen," Nabity said.
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