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First Flight

Series :	Enterprise	Rating :
Disc No :	2.6	Episode :	50
First Aired :	14 May 2003	Stardate :	Unknown
Director :	LeVar Burton	Year :	2153
Writers :	Chris Black, John Shiban	Season :	2
Guest Cast :	Brigid Brannagh as Ruby John B. Moody as Security Officer Keith Carradine as Robinson Michael Canavan as Vulcan Vaughn Armstrong as Admiral Forrest Victor Bevine as Flight Controller
Plotline :	Archer recieves a message from Earth that his old friend AG Robinson has died in a climbing accident. Whilst he and T'Pol investigate a dark matter nebula, Archer recounts the story of his time on the NX development program, and how he and Robinson competed to be the first person to break warp 2.
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Great Moment :	The NX-Alpha prototype! It's rare that Enterprise produces a ship that looks right for this period, but this one is perfect as a successor to the Phoenix.
Body Count :	Zero.
Factoid :	We get something of a timeline for warp speed records in this episode; AG Robinson was the first person to break the warp 2 barrier. Twenty months later warp 3 was broken, and five years after that the keel of Enterprise was laid down. If we knew how long Enterprise took to build, we would be able to date these events precisely - but judging by Archer's appearence the warp 2 flight could have been no more than ten years or so prior to the first season of Enterprise in 2151.
Quote :	"I suppose we'll never know... who would have won." - T'Pol to Archer on his fight with Robinson. Given his track record with fights, I thought this was a nicely snarky comment for the writers to throw in.
Datapoints :	Internals :  NX Test Ship Bridge Food :  Deep fried mushrooms Nebulae :  Robinson nebula People :  Ambassador Soval, Jonathan Archer Scitech :  Metrion particles Ship Classes :  NX Test Ship, Type 0 Shuttle Ship Names :  NX Test Ship : NX Alpha, NX Beta, NX Delta, NX Gamma Timeline :  2143
Images :	Ships NX Test Ship Ships NX Test Ship Ships NX Test Ship Ships NX Test Ship People Ruby People Robinson Internals NX Test Ship Bridge Nebulae Robinson nebula

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