The Romulan Bird-of-Prey class starship, a 2260s-era fighter seen in "Balance of Terror", featuring a cloaking device and a powerful plasma_based weapon and easily identifiable by the red and yellow painting of a bird on the bottom of the hull
The Klingon B'rel class starship, a small scout ship with a form similar to a bird and with movable 'wings'.
The Klingon K'Vort class starship, a large cruiser similar in appearance to the B'rel, but with unmovable wings.
The use of the term with respect to Klingon ships was in itself an error by the writers, who changed the enemies in Star Trek III from Romulans to Klingons without updating the dialog.
The Boeing Bird of Prey, which bears a resemblance to the Star Trek spacecraft, also took its name from the fictional series. Interestingly, the Boeing aircraft was used to test stealth and (potentially) active camouflage technologies.
External links
Klingon Bird-of-Prey (http://www.memory-alpha.org/en/index.php/Klingon_Bird-of-Prey) at Memory Alpha, a Star Trek WikiWiki
Romulan Bird-of-Prey (http://www.memory-alpha.org/en/index.php/Romulan_Bird-of-Prey) at Memory Alpha
The Romulan Bird of Prey class starship, a 2260s-era fighter seen in "Balance of Terror", featuring a cloaking device and a powerful plasma-based weapon and easily identifiable by the red and yellow painting of a bird on the bottom of the hull
The use of the term with respect to Klingon ships was in itself an error by the writers, who changed the enemies in StarTrek III: The Search for Spock from Romulans to Klingons without updating the dialog.
The Boeing Bird of Prey, which bears a resemblance to the StarTrek spacecraft, also took its name from the fictional series.
StarTrek is a science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry in 1966 that tells the tale of the crew of the starship Enterprise and of their adventures "to boldly go where no man has gone before".
The stories of StarTrek are now a recognised part of American culture, forming a kind of mythology, and they are gaining in international popularity as well.
One of StarTrek's claims to fame is that it featured the first televised kiss between a European-American and an African-American to be shown in the United States.
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