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[i]In "The Making of Star Trek" (Stephen E. Whitfield and Gene Roddenberry, 1968), an early draft of the series concept (dating to 1964) is reprinted. In that document, there is no reference to a shuttle-like vehicle, only to the transporter, and to the fact that the ship "rarely" lands on a planet. In the same book, a memo from Harvey Lynn, dated Sept 14, 1964, makes reference to a shuttle-like vehicle that apparently appears in an early draft of "The Cage." Lynn refers to the smaller ship as a "space shuttle or taxi." Therefore, it appears that the term shuttlecraft was not yet part of the Star Trek lexicon at that point. My suspicion is that Lynn's reference to a space shuttle is not in our present use as a formal name, but rather using "space" as an adjective to modify "shuttle or taxi."[/i]
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