WHEN?
PART – 2 / CHAPTER 1
APRIL 24TH 2153
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OK, big jump here. Yes, I'm sorry for not saying anything between 2063 and now, 2153, 90 years, or something. Well, I have to say, they're out. Yes, the first starship, the first Captain.
Zephram came back from the test launch, made first contact, yadda yadda yadda. So then this NX program was set up. This guy called Henry Archer made a warp engine that goes up to warp 5. The people running the NX program made two test shuttles, and while they were these people were building a starship, called the Enterprise NX-01.
But the Vulcans are making up excuses to keep Earthlings out of Space!! What on Earth did they make first contact then, for?
A.G. Robinson was doing a test flight in one of the test shuttles, trying to break the warp 2 barrier. But, something went wrong, and the ship exploded. Well, at least ol' A.G. set a new record for fastest speed to be ejected out into an escape pod.
The Vulcans were convinced. "No more flight." "You are obviously incapable of space flight." "You disobeyed a direct order to abort the test. How then, will you keep order in space?" But no. Not wanting to let his father's engine, the one he died for, go to waste, Jonathon Archer made plans with A.G. for a secret launch in the remaining shuttle. They left, at night. Charles "Trip" Tucker III ("My grandfather was Charles Tucker, My father was Charles Tucker II, I'm Charles Tucker III. Trip, triple…") helped them, becoming Archer's closest friends.
Anyway, the test was a success. They safely beat the warp 2 barrier. With a few convincing arguments blasted into their superior, Admiral Foresst's face, they kept the NX program going.
Then the Enterprise was complete. People who had enlisted in Star Fleet were being assigned to the NX-01. Captain Jonathon Archer, of course, Sub-commander T'pol (Vulcan, yes. She was assigned to provide logic. She's also Science officer) Commander Tucker (Engineer), Armory officer Malcolm Reed, (Wow, I feel special writing all these names out!) Ensign Travis Mayweather (pilot), Ensign Hoshi Sato (translator), and Doctor Phlox. Don't forget Porthos the space beagle!
I even wrote a poem about them!!!
Captain Archer makes humanity's way
Weaving through my stars
Aboard Enterprise NX-01
With Porthos the space beagle.
The Vulcan T'pol provides the logic
To sharpen the Captains attitude
While manning the science station
Aboard man's first starship.
Charles "Trip" Tucker III
Keeps the ship running
Cap'n Archer's hilarious best friend
And also Lieutenant Reed's.
Malcolm Reed is the armory officer
And strictly by-the-book
This spit-and-polish Brit
Is ready for a fight.
Ensign Mayweather is at the helm
Laying in a course for
Here and Therese,
Just stay out of the Captain's chair.
Ensign Hoshi Sato
Talk all you want!
Just make sure you speak
In a language we all understand!
Dr Phlox, of Denobulan species
You're always so happy it annoys
Everyone aboard!
(Hoshi wants to feed one of your many pet tribbles)
OK, so it's not all that good.
Well, their first mission was to return Klaang to the Klingon High Council or Empire. He had crash landed on Earth, injured himself (mentally and a little physically, I think) and needed to get back to the Klingon home world. So, while he was in sickbay, it was chaos. Klaang was mumbling, Hoshi was yelling translations, ("Unless it has something to do with his mother's boot") Archer was yelling trying to ask what he was saying, Enterprise was under attack by the Suliban. That's what Klaang called them. He doesn't know how to growl in English. So what's their English name? Anyway, the Suliban grabbed him; Enterprise rescued him and took back to the Klingons.
So, the adventure's they've been on so far:
1. They came across a ship full of dead aliens and were almost killed themselves.
2. They investigate and Earth-like planet, but some sort of alien pollen in an alien flower is driving them insane. The people down on the planet are seeing things that aren't there, and they're going paranoid.
3. They come across an alien ship in need of assistance. Trip is sent over, but he becomes pregnant when he interacts with the alien engineer. (No, they didn't do what you think they did. Becoming pregnant was surprise to both Trip and the alien.)
4. Malcolm is held hostage on a planet where Earthlings once had a colony. But the people live in caves and they paint their faces like aboriginals. They suffered some sort of gas poisoning. Some sort of light poisoning.
5. When Archer and his crew pay a friendly visit to an ancient Vulcan monastery, they stumble into an interstellar conflict between the Vulcans and their militaristic rivals, the Andorians.
6. Archer and the Enterprise follow a comet. Reed and Travis are sent in a shuttle pod to collect samples of the comet. A Vulcan ship observes them, and aids them when the shuttle pod falls down a widening crack in the comet's surface
7. The Enterprise crew encounters a pre-industrial society that is afflicted with a plague caused by exploitative secret visitors.
8. Enterprise must intervene when the leader of a human freighter crew sets out for revenge against alien pirates.
9. While Enterprise joins an alien pilgrimage to witness a religious stellar occurrence, Archer finds himself again faced against the Suliban warrior Silik.
10. An ill-prepared Enterprise is under attack by mysterious aliens with unknown motivations. (On Malcolm's birthday, too! I'm goin into much detail here, I don't have forever to write this. I have to go back to observing the Enterprise soon. She's in deep peril.
11. Dr. Phlox faces a serious dilemma as a dying race begs for help from Enterprise.
12. T'Pol, Reed and Hoshi get stranded on a Klingon "shipwreck" sinking inside a gas giant. Archer tries to convince a captured Klingon to help before his crewmates get crushed in the intense pressure of the planet's atmosphere.
13. When T'Pol is ordered by her superiors to leave Enterprise, she goes on one last away mission with Archer to planet Coridan, where they are taken captive by a militant faction and once again encounter the volatile Andorians.
14. During a shuttlepod mission, Tucker and Reed are cut off from Enterprise and become convinced the starship has been destroyed and that their days are numbered.
15. A group of atypical Vulcans visiting Enterprise subject T'Pol to uncomfortable new ideas.
16. While exploring an uncharted planet, Enterprise crew members encounter a group of aliens who are hunting down indigenous creatures for recreation.
17. When the Ferengi, a group of intergalactic thieves, stun the Enterprise crew and try to rob the ship, it's up to Trip to work covertly to stop them.
18. The crew is directed to a derelict ship on a barren planet that they can salvage for supplies, and learn that rumors the shipwreck is haunted may not be unfounded.
19. Archer and Mayweather are detained by the Tandarans in a Suliban internment camp. Learning of the Suliban's persecution by the Tandarans, Archer enlists the aid of Enterprise and his crew to look past their own prejudices and free the wrongfully imprisoned.
20. When a strange, symbiotic alien creature boards Enterprise and captures several crew members, it's up to Hoshi to decipher the creature's complex language.
21. When Archer and Trip are invited to a desert-like planet by an alien leader, they discover he is a terrorist who has lured them there under false pretenses.
22. Archer is ordered to transport the Vulcan Ambassador V'Lar, an early role model of T'Pol's, from the planet of Mazar to rendezvous with a Vulcan ship. En route, Enterprise comes under attack from the Mazarites.
23. Shore leave takes an interesting twist for the lucky few who are able to take some time off on Risa, the famous pleasure planet. Archer, Trip and Reed all have mysterious encounters with females who may not be all they appear. Meanwhile, Hoshi struggles with learning a new language, Travis breaks his leg rock climbing and must disturb a hibernating Dr Phlox for medical attention.
24. After apparently causing the obliteration of an alien colony, Enterprise is ordered to return to Earth, until a surprise visitor offers Archer startling evidence about what really happened...
Anyway, that's all for now. But more will be coming soon. Sorry for the so little detail on the ship's adventures!
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NOTES: Actually, yeah, I am sorry. And now there are gonna be parts. PART 1 – Before Enterprise.
PART 2 – Enterprise
PART 3 – The Original Series
PART 4 – The Next Gen
PART 5 – Deep Space 9
PART 6 – Voyager
PART 7 – MY CREW!!! MWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
Just to make life a little easier.