Remember how, whenever anything broke on the USS Enterprise, no matter which ship in the line it was -- from the original all the way up to the NCC-1701-E -- some poor schlub (Scotty, Data, Geordi) had to climb into one of those tiny crawlspaces and shimmy along until they found the exact piece of circuitry or whatnot that had broken, thus keeping Captain Kirk from being beamed off the Constellation or something similar? Those crawlspaces were called "Jefferies Tubes", presumably after the Starfleet engineer who designed them...but the name was really a tribute to the real-life Star Trek art director Walter "Matt" Jefferies, who designed the Big-E for the original series way back in 1964.
Jefferies, alas, has died.
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