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Episode: 02x02
Title: Carbon Creek
Type: Regular Episode
Production Code: 40358-027
First Aired: Sep. 25, 2002

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Star Trek: Enterprise - 02x02 Carbon Creek

Summary: Celebrating T'Pol's first full year with the Enterprise crew over dinner, Archer asks why her record states that she once took a five-day leave to visit an old Pennsylvania mining town called Carbon Creek. She claims Carbon Creek was the site of actual first contact between humans and Vulcans, long before the historical First Contact in 2063, and her second foremother (great-grandmother) was there. Trip Tucker scoffs at this, but then T'Pol offers to tell "the story."

Who appeared in this episode?

Guest Stars:

Sub-Commander T'Pol	played by Jolene Blalock
T'Mir	played by Jolene Blalock
Maggie	played by Ann Cusack
Mestral	played by J. Paul Boehmer
Jack	played by Hank Harris
Stron	played by Michael Krawic
Vulcan Captain	played by David Selburg
Billy	played by Clay Wilcox
Vulcan Captain Tellus	played by Ron Marasco

	Season 2 / Episode 2: - Carbon Creek Jack: [to Mestral] Want to shoot some eight-ball? Maggie: Jack! Jack: I've got a geometry midterm next week; it's good practice.
	Season 2 / Episode 2: - Carbon Creek Mestral: This antenna is inadequate. I believe I can use a waveform discriminator to enhance it. T'Mir: You'll be safer to go after dark. You can't risk being followed. Mestral: I need to go now. "I love Lucy" is on tonight!

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MISTAKES/GOOFS

FACT: T'Mir sells the idea (patent?) for the Velcro fastener on her pouch to raise money for Jack's college tuition. This episode supposedly takes place sometime after the launch of Sputnik (October 4, 1957). However, Velcro was invented by a Swiss engineer in 1945 and patented in 1955.
DATE: In "Carbon Creek," modern-day dollar bills released in the late 1990s (most notably a $50 note) are seen in the bar's tip jar, despite supposedly being set in the late 1950s.
DATE: Which takes place sometime after September of 1959 (as evidenced by a reference to "The Twilight Zone" (1959), new twenty dollar bills are visible when the tip jar is seen overflowing with cash.

TRIVIA

Episode #2.2, "Carbon Creek," which aired on 25 September 2002, included a reference to the TV series "The Twilight Zone" (1959), in which William Shatner once guest starred. As it happened, the debut episode of a revived version of the series aired immediately after the Enterprise broadcast. It also features a joke involving the TV series "I Love Lucy" (1951) which was produced by Desilu - the company that produced "Star Trek" (1966). Lucille Ball has also been credited with saving the original series from early cancellation. The episode includes a scene in which T'Pol's great-great-grandmother introduces Velcro to earth. One of the Vulcans involved is named Mestral, after the real-life inventor of Velcro, George de Mestral.

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