  Observations of the Crab Nebula have proven to be the best tool to calibrate
and to characterize the performance of a Cherenkov telescope. Scientifically,
it is interesting to measure the energy spectrum of the Crab Nebula close to
the inverse-Compton peak where a deviation is expected from the power law seen
at energies above 300 GeV. Additionally, it is important to search for pulsed
emission from the Crab Pulsar at energies beyond the 10 GeV upper limit of the
EGRET pulsar detection. Since current models predict a cut-off in pulsed
emission between 10 and 100 GeV, measurements at energies close to this range
may help to discriminate between them. We observed the Crab extensively in the
2006-2007 season during the VERITAS 2- and 3-telescope commissioning phases.
Using this data set we reconstructed a preliminary energy spectrum of the
signal from the Crab Nebula. We also measured the optical pulsed signal to
validate our GPS time-stamping and barycentering techniques and obtained an
upper limit for the pulsed emission at gamma-ray energies.
