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Season 1 » Episode #01 - Broken Bow (1)
 In the nine decades following Zefram Cochrane's visionary warp flight in space and the First Contact that followed, the human race has been slowly guided by the Vulcans toward developing the Warp Five engine. Mankind is at last able to explore the virgin depths of space with a revolutionary new starship, the Enterprise NX-01, under the command of Captain Jonathan Archer. Plans to launch Enterprise are moved up when a Klingon courier is shot down by unknown assailants and crash-lands in Broken Bow, Oklahoma. Feeling that the Vulcans have been condescending toward mankind for years, Archer insists it's the humans' responsibility to return the injured Klingon to his homeworld alive. Archer is fully backed by Starfleet Command, and the Vulcans' objections fall upon deaf ears. The story of Broken Bow commences... |
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Episode Quotes
Admiral Maxwell Forrest: Ambassador Soval thinks it would be best if we push off your launch until we've cleared this up.
Capt. Jonathan Archer: Well, isn't that a surprise. You'd think they would've come up with something a little more imaginative this time.
Capt. Jonathan Archer: Well, isn't that a surprise. You'd think they would've come up with something a little more imaginative this time.
Capt. Jonathan Archer: We've got state-of-the-art sensors. Why the hell didn't we detect them?
Ensign Travis Mayweather: Mr. Reed thought he detected something right before we lost power.
Lieutenant Malcolm Reed: The starboard sensor logs recorded a spatial disturbance.
Commander Charles 'Trip' Tucker III: Looks more like a glitch.
Ensign Hoshi Sato: Those weren't glitches in sickbay.
Ensign Travis Mayweather: Mr. Reed thought he detected something right before we lost power.
Lieutenant Malcolm Reed: The starboard sensor logs recorded a spatial disturbance.
Commander Charles 'Trip' Tucker III: Looks more like a glitch.
Ensign Hoshi Sato: Those weren't glitches in sickbay.
Capt. Jonathan Archer: Ensign Mayweather tells me that we'll be to Qo'noS in about eighty hours. Any chance he'll be conscious by then?
Dr. Phlox: There's a chance he'll be conscious within the next ten minutes. Just not a very good one.
[More Quotes]Dr. Phlox: There's a chance he'll be conscious within the next ten minutes. Just not a very good one.
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Trivia
- Mission Date: 16 April 2151
- The title refers to Broken Bow, Oklahoma, a real town incorporated in 1911 and named after the town in Nebraska where the founding fathers came from.
- There is a scene in this episode where Jolene Blalock, as T'Pol, bared her navel. This required removal of Blalock's navel piercing ring. According to interviews given by Blalock, the ring proved very difficult to remove, and forced Blalock (in full Vulcan make-up) to visit a nearby tattoo-body piercing shop to have it removed.
- Vaughn Armstrong, a longtime Trek actor, appears here as a human for the first time, bringing his total Trek appearances to eleven - as 9 different characters, and 7 different species (human, Cardassian, Klingon, Romulan, Borg, Vidiian, Hirogen).
- Several supporting actors in the pilot had previously appeared in different roles on earlier Star Trek series including James Cromwell, John Fleck, Gary Graham, Mark Moses, Thomas Kopache, Joseph Ruskin, James Horan, and especially Vaughn Armstrong. Several subsequent episodes would feature other actors who had previously appeared on Star Trek in other roles.
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