ENT Episode - First Flight

Series :

Enterprise

Rating :

Disc No :

2.6

Episode :

First Aired :

14 May 2003

Stardate :

Unknown

Director :

LeVar Burton

Year :

2153

Writers :

Chris Black, John Shiban

Season :

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

People
Ruby

People
Robinson

Internals
NX Test Ship Bridge

Nebulae
Robinson nebula

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Last updated : 9 Oct 2003