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|"Broken Bow"
|ENT, Episode 1x01
Production number: 001
First aired: 26 September 2001
|1st of 97 produced in ENT
|1st of 97 released in ENT
|629th of 728 released in all
|A feature-length episode
Written By
Rick Berman & Brannon Braga
Directed By
James L. Conway
|April 16, 2151/2121
|Arc: Temporal Cold War (1 of 13)
Earth launches its first starship of exploration, Enterprise, on a mission to return an injured Klingon to his homeworld. (Series Premiere)
Summary Edit
In San Francisco of the year 2121, a young Jonathan Archer paints a model of his father's spacecraft. When he recites a quote from a speech by Zefram Cochrane, Henry Archer tells him the inventor of the warp drive would be proud of him. Jonathan curiously asks about his father's ship, wondering if it will be bigger than "Ambassador Pointy's" ship. Henry corrects his son, noting that the Ambassador is actually named Soval, an extremely helpful Vulcan. Jonathan responds that – according to Billy Cook, an acquaintance of his – Humans would already be flying at warp five, if the Vulcans had not intervened. Although Henry Archer does not fully understand the reasons behind the Vulcans' constraint, he believes that there must be an explanation.
Thirty years later, the Broken Bow incident takes place in Broken Bow, Oklahoma, on Earth. A pair of aliens pursuing Klaang, the Klingon pilot of a crash-landed K'toch-class scout ship, attract the attention of a farmer named Moore. Although Klaang eventually manages to kill the aliens, he is shot with Moore's plasma rifle.
Act One Edit
Aboard an inspection pod, Jonathan Archer, now a captain in Starfleet, and Commander Charles Tucker inspect the prototype NX-class starship Enterprise NX-01 in the Orbital Drydock Facility, a spacedock orbiting Earth. After being called back to Starfleet Medical, Archer attends a meeting where a group of high-ranking Starfleet officers, including Admiral Forrest, discuss Klaang with several Vulcan dignitaries: Ambassador Soval, Tos and Subcommander T'Pol. Archer also meets an alien doctor who is providing Klaang with medical care. Eventually, it is decided that Enterprise will launch ahead of schedule on a mission to return Klaang to the Klingons' homeworld, Qo'noS. The Vulcans completely disagree with this; they had objected to Humans returning Klaang out of fears that a perceived provincial attitude and accompanying volatile nature of Humans would complicate Human contact with the Klingons so soon. Vulcan objections, however, fueled the idea that Vulcans have deliberately withheld information from Earth for over a hundred years.
Aboard Enterprise, Lieutenant Malcolm Reed and Ensign Travis Mayweather discuss the vessel's transporter, a brand-new piece of equipment first installed on their ship. As they walk through a corridor, Mayweather reminisces about his childhood aboard cargo ships. When they enter Engineering, Reed introduces Mayweather to Commander Tucker. Meanwhile, Archer travels to Brazil to recruit linguist Hoshi Sato as his communications officer.
Another addition to Archer's crew is Subcommander T'Pol, whose assignment for the position of executive officer and science officer was obligatory in exchange for the Vulcan star charts. In the captain's ready room, T'Pol is introduced to Commander Tucker by Archer and she gives him a PADD confirming her new assignment. An embarrassing encounter with the captain's dog, Porthos, then follows, since Vulcan females have an heightened sense of smell. Along with T'Pol – whom Archer saw as a Vulcan "chaperon" – the Doctor he met before, at Starfleet Medical, is also added to Enterprise's crew.
At Enterprise's launching ceremony, Admiral Forrest makes a speech and remarks there is no better person to captain the first Warp 5 starship than the son of its inventor, Jonathan Archer. After this, a recording of a speech by Doctor Zefram Cochrane is played, from the dedication ceremony of the Warp Five Complex, 32 years ago.
- "On this site, a powerful engine will be built. An engine that will some day help us to travel a hundred times faster than we can today. Imagine it. Thousands of inhabited planets, at our fingertips. And we'll be able to explore those strange new worlds and seek out new life, and new civilizations. This engine will let us go boldly, where no man has gone before.
As these historic words are spoken, Archer remembers his childhood, when he and his dad placed an anti-gravity controller into the model. Mayweather then asks for instructions. He responds, "Take her out, Mr. Mayweather. Straight and steady." And so, the NX-01 Enterprise leaves spacedock and jumps into warp.
Meanwhile, in a strange chamber aboard an alien complex, a Suliban officer confers with a mysterious silhouetted figure and promises to recover evidence that the figure requires. This evidence apparently was in the hands of Klaang when he was pursued by the Suliban.
Act Two Edit
Aboard Enterprise, Archer observes a jar full of immunocytic gel worms in sickbay. The doctor he met earlier, a Denobulan in the Interspecies Medical Exchange program named Dr. Phlox, asks the captain to make sure that he doesn't shake the worms. Archer helps Phlox unpack medical equipment and an Altarian marsupial, an animal that makes the captain squirm because its droppings are used as medicine. Meanwhile, Travis Mayweather shows Commander Tucker the "sweet spot", an area of every ship where gravity is reversed. Mayweather is a well-traveled "space boomer" and has visited the planets Trillius Prime, Draylax, and both the Teneebian moons. Later, when Tucker enters the ship's mess hall, he is offered a seat by Crewman Fletcher but the engineer replies that he has already been asked to the captain's mess. There, the engineer eats with Archer and T'Pol while they discuss Human evolution.
However, all is not well – during a test of the ship's warp reactor, a verbal conflict between Hoshi Sato and T'Pol arises. When Ensign Sato insults T'Pol in the Vulcan language, the science officer retorts that she herself was instructed to speak English during her assignment aboard the ship and expects Hoshi to do the same. Later, the vessel loses main power while Archer, Hoshi and Phlox are in sickbay, trying to interrogate Klaang. Alien soldiers board Enterprise and attack the Starfleet officers. Klaang recognizes the aliens as Suliban and, although Archer manages to shoot one of the aliens, the Klingon is abducted from the ship.
Act Three Edit
On the bridge, an irritated Archer asks his crew why the Suliban were not detected by Enterprise's sensors. When Lieutenant Reed tells him that the starboard sensor logs did record a spatial disturbance, the captain orders the bridge crew to conduct a full investigation into the incident. T'Pol advises Archer to consult the astrometrics computer in San Francisco, believing that he himself has no hope of finding Klaang. However, the captain decides not to take her advice and forbids T'Pol from contacting Starfleet. In sickbay, Phlox shows Archer the corpse of the alien soldier that was left aboard Enterprise. The doctor has learned that the alien has Suliban DNA, but its anatomy has been altered by very sophisticated genetic modifications.
In engineering, T'Pol helps Tucker to review the sensor data. Archer and Sato soon enter. Using both Sato's translation of Klaang's words as well as T'Pol's reluctant assistance, Archer learns that Klaang visited Rigel X just before his scout ship crashed on Earth. The captain contacts the bridge and orders Mayweather to set course for the tenth planet in the Rigel system. Meanwhile, an alien officer aboard the Suliban complex interrogates Klaang in Klingonese. This Suliban officer asks Klaang where he left a particular unnamed item, but the Klingon claims ignorance. He tells the officer that he was sent to meet a Suliban woman named Sarin on Rigel X but that Sarin did not give him anything. As Enterprise approaches the planet, Archer and T'Pol brief an away team in the ship's launch bay. Archer informs the officers that Klaang was a courier and tells them to find the person who gave the Klingon whatever he was carrying, so they might find out why the Suliban have captured Klaang.
The team travel to Rigel X in Shuttlepod 1 and search in a trade complex on the planet's frozen surface. Reed and Mayweather are persuaded, by a man who claims that he saw Klaang, to watch a pair of alien females performing with butterflies. The pair of officers doubt the man's honesty and soon leave. While T'Pol investigates, Tucker finds difficulty with accepting several aliens that he encounters, including a Lorillian mother and son. Archer and Sato meanwhile catch a fleeting glimpse of a group of Klingons. Soon after, the entire away team is attacked and captured by Suliban.
Act Four Edit
Sato, T'Pol and Tucker are imprisoned by the alien soldiers in a section which is sealed by a force field. Archer is taken to a woman who looks Human but who changes her appearance after she kisses the captain. The woman's name is Sarin – the same Suliban female that Klaang met on Rigel X earlier. Sarin was once a member of the Cabal, the Suliban military. She informs Archer that the Cabal are following orders from a faction in the Temporal Cold War, a conflict fought through time. The Suliban are promoting internal strife in the Klingon Empire and Klaang was transporting evidence of this back to Qo'noS to prevent a civil war.
Sarin offers to help Archer find the Klingon, but agents of the Suliban Cabal discover them and open fire. Sarin frees the Starfleet officers but is killed in the fight between the Cabal and her small group of renegade Suliban. Archer, injured while on the run, manages to escape in the shuttlepod. With a damaged thruster, the shuttlecraft ascends into the atmosphere as T'Pol contacts Enterprise and announces that she is taking command of the ship. When Captain Archer loses consciousness, he dreams about himself as a child flying his model spacecraft on a beach with his father. He is disappointed when the model crash-lands in the sand, and his father tells him that he can't be afraid of the wind as T'Pol watches from the shore.
Act Five Edit
After Shuttlepod 1 has returned to Enterprise, T'Pol and Tucker use the decon chamber to rid themselves of a protocystian spore they picked up on Rigel X. Here, Tucker questions whether he should take command rather than T'Pol, because she was only assigned to the ship as an "observer". The engineer worries that T'Pol will not continue the search for Klaang if she takes command.
Six hours later, Archer regains consciousness in sickbay. Phlox removes, from Archer's leg, an osmotic eel that the doctor used to cauterize the captain's wound. T'Pol and Tucker visit and the Vulcan informs Archer that they have tracked a Suliban ship that left Rigel X just after the captain was injured. Archer is surprised that T'Pol didn't order a course back to Earth, but the Vulcan states that, as acting captain, she was obligated to anticipate Archer's wishes. Archer responds that, as acting captain, she could have done whatever she wanted.
As Enterprise continues to follow the Suliban ship, Archer, back in his quarters, is making a log entry, pausing the log several times to question himself about T'Pol's motives to continue the mission.
- "Enterprise starlog, Captain Jonathan Archer – April 16, 2151. We've been tracking the Suliban ship for ten hours, thanks to our... science officer, who came up with a way to tweak the sensors. I have no reason to believe that Klaang is still alive, but if... what the Suliban woman told me is true, it's crucial that we try to find him. I still haven't decided whether to ask Subcommander T'Pol about this 'Temporal Cold War.' My instincts tell me not to trust her."
Archer hears the warp drive changing and looks out his window to see that the ship has dropped out of warp. He contacts T'Pol, who asks him to come to the bridge.
There, a gas giant is displayed on the viewscreen. T'Pol tells Archer that the Suliban craft entered the planet's radiation belt a few hours ago, scattering the vessel's warp trail. T'Pol instructs Reed to run a spectral analysis on fragments he has detected nearby. The bridge crew finds that the fragments were left from fourteen different ships. Realizing that Enterprise has found an area used frequently by the Suliban, Archer orders Reed to activate the ship's weapon systems and to polarize the hull plating. The captain then directs Mayweather to set a course that will take the ship into the planet's atmosphere.
Act Six Edit
Aboard the alien complex, the Suliban officer talks with the mysterious figure. The officer is unsure whether Sarin gave the Enterprise crew anything, but he knows that Enterprise has followed a Suliban ship and is nearby. He promises the figure that he will destroy the Human vessel before it locates the Helix, the complex that he is currently on. The figure says that he didn't intend for Humans or Vulcans to become involved yet, and demands that the officer must stop Sarin's message from reaching Qo'noS.
In the atmosphere of the gas giant, Enterprise almost loses the warp trail. T'Pol estimates that the ship's condition should improve, shortly before the bridge starts to shudder. She uses a viewer at her station to determine that the quakes are being caused by unexpected liquid phosphorus. When the ship's condition improves, the officers detect two Suliban cell ships and the helix. Sato reads more than three thousand bio-signs aboard the alien station, but is unable to find Klaang with the ship's sensors. When Suliban ships start attacking, Enterprise returns to the phosphorus layer, where the enemy vessels can't find the Starfleet craft. T'Pol reports that the helix seems to be comprised of hundreds of other vessels, locked together by magnetic seals. When Sato finally detects Klaang aboard the complex, Reed suggests using the transporter to get him out but Archer finds Reed's plan too risky. The captain decides to use Enterprise's grappler to retrieve one of the attacking cell ships and bring it aboard Enterprise.
In the situation room, aft of the bridge, Mayweather questions Archer and Tucker about the workings of the captured Suliban vessel. As the engineer seems to be slightly unsure of the craft, Mayweather believes that he would make a better pilot. Archer replies that the ensign is needed on board Enterprise and Tucker believes that piloting the Suliban vessel won't be as hard as it seems.
In the captain's ready room, T'Pol attempts to discourage Archer from leaving. She suggests that he appeal for support from a nearby Vulcan ship. The captain suspects the Vulcan is displaying emotional concern, but T'Pol claims that the Vulcan High Command will hold her responsible if anything happens to Tucker or the captain. Reed enters, carrying two cases into the room – one holds a magnetic device and the other holds two newly designed weapons called phase pistols. According to the lieutenant, the weapons have two settings – stun and kill. He advises Archer not to confuse the two.
Archer and Tucker leave Enterprise and use the captured cell ship to travel to the helix, where they find Klaang. Although the Klingon is initially hostile, Archer threatens the alien with his phase pistol so he will cooperate with the captain's orders. Together, the three men move through the helix and attack any Suliban guard that approaches them. The captain instructs Tucker to return to the cell ship with Klaang while he stays behind and tries to separate the helix using the magnetic device. After doing so, Archer contacts Tucker and tells the engineer not to return for him, but to take Klaang to Enterprise. Tucker complies as several of the drifting enemy ships surrounding the commandeered cell ship collide.
Act Seven Edit
Tucker ignites the cell ship's thruster exhaust, giving Sato, on board Enterprise, the opportunity to tell T'Pol what to look for. When T'Pol detects Tucker's position, she thanks Sato in the Vulcan language.
Aboard the helix, Archer fights with the alien officer. The alien nearly kills Archer with his own phase pistol, but the captain moves out of the way just in time. The alien chases Archer into another room where a strobing, pulsating light throbs. Just as the alien shoots again, Archer is beamed aboard Enterprise. Tucker apologizes for using the transporter, but claims it was the only way to recover the captain. Enterprise immediately leaves the gas giant at warp speed.
After arriving on Qo'noS, Archer, Klaang, Sato and T'Pol enter the Klingon High Council Chamber. As Klaang addresses the High Council in Klingonese, Sato tries her best to interpret his words. According to the linguist, Klaang says something about disgracing the Klingon Empire and mentions that he's ready to die. The Klingon Chancellor approaches Klaang and makes a small cut in his hand with a jagged dagger. The Klingons then pour some of Klaang's blood into a vial which they examine with a large scientific device. The extracted DNA from his blood contains a wealth of Suliban information. The Klingons shout in gruff approval, but soon quiet again. The Chancellor approaches Captain Archer and, holding the dagger against the captain's throat, says something in Klingonese that Archer interprets as a thanks. Once the Chancellor leaves, Sato comments that the captain's interpretation was incorrect, and claims that Archer wouldn't want to know what the Klingon actually said.
Aboard Enterprise, Archer tells his crew that the starship's mission is to continue. Tucker begins work on repairing the starship as Archer orders Mayweather to set a course for an inhabited planet nearby. Although there is an ion storm between the starship and its destination, the captain tells Mayweather that they can't be afraid of the wind.
Archer remembers himself as a child, standing beside his father as his model spacecraft flew across the sunny morning sky.
Deleted scenes Edit
There are several deleted scenes from the feature version of the episode. There were three presented in the extra features of the Enterprise season one DVD release. The numbers on the scene tag are the numbers of what the scenes would have been in the episode.
"Broken Bow" deleted scene 092 Edit
Archer and Sato are meeting with an alien dockmaster in a landing port control tower, asking questions about Klaang, and querying what business he had on Rigel X. Although the dockmaster is preoccupied monitoring the traffic to the planet's trade complex, including a craft he calls Elkan Nine, he is curious to learn that the officers are Human and, with some persuasion from Archer, researches Klaang in Rigel X's records. He informs the officers that the Klingon visited the planet in a K'toch-class vessel seven days earlier, but does not elaborate on what Klaang did, or whom he met, stating that visitors to Rigel X "value their privacy". When Archer mentions the Suliban, the dockmaster claims he has never heard of the word, and suggests that the officers' translator must be malfunctioning. Sato, holding the translator, confirms that the device is not at error, however.
"Broken Bow" deleted scene 099 Edit
This scene features Reed and Mayweather, moments after having observed the butterfly dancers on Rigel X. The same alien who persuaded them to watch the dancers follows them through a crowded, narrow arcade and presents them with the opportunity to view an "inter-species performance". Seeing Reed consider this, Mayweather realizes that the alien knows nothing about Klaang and advises Reed that their "guide" is trying to take advantage of their interest in the new surroundings. Reed declines the offer and, as he and his companion walk away from the alien, Mayweather exclaims disbelief that they were almost fooled by the man. While the officers move past an entertainer demonstrating fire-breathing skills, Reed replies by reminding his companion that they are explorers.
"Broken Bow" deleted scene 154-155 Edit
In this scene, Sato and Reed discuss the symptoms of frost bite (as Sato is convinced she has it) while Enterprise NX-01 tracks the vessel they are following. When an alarm rings, and Mayweather alerts T'Pol (who we see, for a split second in her original look) to the fact they are losing sight of the ship, she orders an increase in speed. Mayweather reminds her that he cannot do so without authorization, which they subsequently receive from engineering.
Memorable Quotes Edit
"Where no man has gone before."
- - Said twice, first by young Jonathan Archer, reciting a speech by Zefram Cochrane, which is heard later
- - This was the very first line of the series.
"How big will it be?"
"Pretty big."
- - Jonathan Archer asks his father Henry about the upcoming starship to have the first warp five engine
"Neptune and back in six minutes."
- - Archer, marveling at Enterprise
"Great... you scratched the paint."
- - Archer, after a small inspection pod piloted by Tucker bumps into the bottom of Enterprise
"Where'd he come from?"
"Corn farmer named Moore shot him with a plasma rifle."
- - Archer, asking about Klaang, a Klingon with Williams and Forrest's response
"Volatile? You have no idea how much I'm restraining myself from knocking you on your ass."
- - Archer's first words to T'Pol, in response to her claim that Humans are not ready to make their own decisions
"Don't screw this up."
- - Forrest, after Archer declares he and the crew of Enterprise will return Klaang to Qo'noS
"It's a Klingot."
"A Klingon."
- - Admiral Leonard and Tos, while observing Klaang
"Listen to me, you're making a mistake!"
"When your logic doesn't work, you raise your voice? You've been on Earth too long."
- - Soval and Archer
"You're upside down, Ensign."
- - Tucker to Mayweather while in the sweet spot of Enterprise
"I heard this platform's been approved for bio-transport."
"I presume you mean fruits and vegetables."
"I mean armory officers and helmsmen."
"I don't think I'm quite ready to have my molecules compressed into a datastream."
- - Mayweather and Reed, discussing the ship's brand new transporter
"Keep your shirt on, loo-tenant."
- - Said twice, first by Malcolm Reed doing an impression of Trip Tucker, then by Tucker himself
"Four days and four days back. Then she's gone. In the meantime we are to extend her every courtesy."
"I don't know. I'd be more comfortable with Porthos on the bridge."
- - Archer and Tucker, discussing T'Pol
"I took a shower this mornin', how about you, Cap'n?"
- - Commander Tucker, making fun of T'Pol's heightened sense of smell
"T'Pol tells me she's been living in the Vulcan compound in Sausalito."
"No kidding. I lived a few blocks nearby when I first joined Starfleet. Great parties in the Vulcan compound."
- - Archer and Trip
"Grandma taught me to never judge a species by their eating habits."
- - Trip, in response to T'Pol's criticism over Humans still eating the flesh of animals
"You can't be afraid of the wind."
- - Said twice, first by Henry Archer when young Jonathan Archer was having trouble flying a model starship, then at the end of the episode by Captain Archer, in reply to Ensign Mayweather's suggestion to fly around an ion storm, a minor spatial disturbance
"On this site, a powerful engine will be built. An engine that will someday help us to travel a hundred times faster than we can today. Imagine it - thousands of inhabited planets at our fingertips... and we'll be able to explore those strange new worlds, and seek out new life and new civilizations. This engine will let us go boldly... where no man has gone before."
- - Zefram Cochrane's speech from the dedication ceremony for the Warp Five Complex, in 2119
"Take her out, Mr. Mayweather... straight and steady."
- - Captain Archer, ordering Ensign Mayweather to leave space-dock
"Let's go."
- - Captain Archer's order to engage warp and depart Earth
"Optimism, captain!"
- - Phlox's advice to Captain Archer, before the Denobulan doctor smiles a massive grin
"Ponfo mirann!"
- - Hoshi Sato's Vulcan insult
- According to Rick Berman and Brannon Braga, this phrase can be translated as "Go to hell!" (Episode's audio commentary, ENT Season 1 DVD)
"I'm not interested in what you think about this mission, so take your Vulcan cynicism and bury it along with your repressed emotions."
- - Archer, to T'Pol
"How complicated can it be? Up, down, forward, reverse... I'll figure it out."
- - Tucker's response to learning the controls of the captured Suliban vessel
"He says, 'his wife has grown ugly'?"
- - Hoshi Sato, translating Klingon spoken by Klaang
"I think the doctor's right, Captain; unless "stinky boots" has something to do with all this?"
- - Hoshi Sato, after Phlox explains that Klaang has no idea what he is saying
"Do you know how to tell him to shut up?"
"Shut up!"
- - Archer, asking Hoshi to translate his request into Klingon, and Hoshi, not even bothering to do so
"Now get the hell out there and make yourself useful."
- - Captain Archer, to T'Pol
[Klaang says something in Klingon]
"I don't particularly like the way you smell either!"
- - Trip Tucker, while flying back to Enterprise with Klaang
"Ensign Mayweather tells me that we'll be at Kronos in about eighty hours. Any chance he'll be conscious by then?"
"There's a chance he'll be conscious within the next ten minutes. Just not a very good one."
- - Archer and Phlox discuss Klaang's condition
"Your superiors don't think we can flush a toilet without one of you to assist us."
- - Captain Archer, to T'Pol
"That's... never happened before."
- - Archer, to Sarin after she kisses him and transforms into a Suliban
"Bridge, we're taking damage down here! What's going on?"
"Just a little trouble with the bad guys."
- - Tucker and Archer
"I'll take that as a thank you."
"I don't think they have a word for thank you."
"What did he say?"
"You don't want to know."
- - Archer and Hoshi, in reference to the Klingon Chancellor's response to Klaang's return
"I hope nobody is in a big hurry to get home. Starfleet seems to think that we're ready to begin our mission."
- - Archer
"I'm reading an ion storm on that trajectory, sir. Should I go around it?"
"We can't be afraid of the wind, Ensign. Take us to warp four."
- - Travis Mayweather and Jonathan Archer
Background Information Edit
- This is the first episode of Star Trek: Enterprise, then called simply Enterprise, and the only feature-length episode of the entire series.
- The name of this particular episode (pronounced "Broken Boh", rather than rhyming with "cow") was chosen around the same time as the identically named town featured herein received its moniker. The name was used as this episode's title partly because it – in episode co-writer Brannon Braga's opinion – worked "great" as a title, another reason being that it integrated well with the naming of both the town and the Broken Bow incident. (Star Trek: Communicator issue 135, p. 22)
Story and ScriptEdit
- At first, Rick Berman and Brannon Braga did not plan to write this episode together, an experience that nevertheless set a precedent for subsequent episodes of the same series. "I don't know why we decided to write the pilot of Enterprise together, the first time we wrote together," Braga recalled. "We were working out the story; beating out the story, scene by scene, and one of us just said, 'We're practically writing this together. Let's do it!'" [1]
- The writing duo set out with a particular aim in mind. Admitted Brannon Braga, "Our goal, as lofty and pretentious as it sounds, was to do the best pilot ever for Star Trek." (Star Trek: Communicator issue 139, p. 22) How they would try to achieve this underwent much consideration, while the plot formed. Braga commented, "We had to basically come up with a story that would give Enterprise a reason to go on its first mission, other than: 'let's just launch and go out and have our first adventure.' We wanted to give Archer a specific noble goal – a test; an incident that would test humanity's ability to prove themselves, and kinda piss off the Vulcans, too. I had an image of Klingons in small-town America. My first image was, 'What if we show Klingons attacking Iowa?' Then we pared it down to, 'What if a Klingon crash-landed in a cornfield?'" Braga also noted that the mission he and Rick Berman decided upon – returning Klaang to his people, in defiance of the Vulcans – additionally enabled the writers to bring T'Pol on board the ship. (Star Trek: Communicator issue 135, p. 22)
- After conceiving of the contortion abilities exhibited by the Suliban, Rick Berman and Brannon Braga consulted Visual Effects Producer Dan Curry, ensuring that it would be possible to show such flexibilities on-screen. (Star Trek: The Magazine Volume 2, Issue 10, p. 27)
- Several of the guest characters' names were invented as homages to The Original Series. These consist of Admiral Forrest (named after DeForest Kelley), Admiral Leonard (Leonard Nimoy), Commander Williams (William Shatner) and Tos (an abbreviation of The Original Series).
- Farmer Moore was named after Ronald D. Moore, a former Star Trek staff writer and friend of Brannon Braga.
- The two Teneebian moons that Ensign Mayweather visited when he was young were originally scripted to be two Andorian moons.
- This episode's script was entirely written without any of the show's regular cast having yet been selected. (Star Trek: The Magazine Volume 2, Issue 9, p. 22)
- Scott Bakula waited until after he and Paramount Television executives Kerry McCluggage and Garry Hart had read this episode's script before accepting the role of Jonathan Archer. Bakula later recalled, "Garry Hart told me when he read the script he immediately thought of me." (Star Trek: The Magazine Volume 2, Issue 9, p. 12) The script gave Bakula a similar impression. "They had him pretty much on the page when I got the pilot script," Bakula said of the character. (Star Trek: The Magazine Volume 2, Issue 7, p. 14) His approval of the script actually helped convince Bakula into committing to portray Jonathan Archer over the course of the forthcoming series. (Star Trek: The Magazine Volume 2, Issue 9, p. 12) The actor subsequently commented, "Actually, the monumental event of the [first] season, for me, was the pilot." (Star Trek: Communicator issue 139, p. 33) Compared with later installments of the series, he found this outing was "very physical." In addition, of all Captain Archer's lines of dialogue from ENT Season 1, Bakula reckoned that his line here, "Let's go!" was the most like a catchphrase, such as, "Engage," "Make it so," or "Do it!" from the other series. (Star Trek: Communicator issue 135, p. 27 & 30)
- Similarly to Scott Bakula, T'Pol actress Jolene Blalock auditioned for her role only after she read the script of this episode. "It was just brilliant," she later reminisced. (Star Trek: Communicator issue 135, p. 37)
- Hoshi Sato actress Linda Park was thrilled that this episode depicts the linguist at her place of work, Amazon University. "That side of her is great because we see her doing what she loves to do," Park enthused. Of Sato's dispute with T'Pol in this installment, the actress stated, "What she finds so annoying about the Vulcan is she seems to look down on people who are vulnerable and passionate and act with a sense of childishness. Hoshi thinks the Vulcan is arrogant and full of herself." (Star Trek: Communicator issue 135, pp. 52 & 53)
- While playing the Suliban's mysterious benefactor herein, actor James Horan was not given a copy of the full script but was instead provided with only the pages featuring his own dialogue. (Star Trek: The Magazine Volume 2, Issue 10, p. 44)
- Vaughn Armstrong (who holds the record for playing the largest number of alien guest characters on the various series) played his first human role in this episode as Admiral Forrest.
- This episode features the second of three guest appearances of a (former) WWE superstar on Star Trek (in this case, Tommy "Tiny" Lister, Jr.). The other two were The Rock and The Big Show.
- This is the second of two feature-length episodes of Star Trek directed by James L. Conway, the other being DS9: "The Way of the Warrior".
- James Conway found that directing this episode easily fit into his schedule as an executive vice-president at Spelling Television. "They've often called me and wanted me to come and do a Star Trek show and I was not able to, but this time, because the pilot episode fell between seasons, we were just finishing our own pilots and I was available," Conway remembered. "When Rick [Berman] called, I was thrilled that he asked me, and thrilled that I was able to come in!" (Star Trek: The Magazine Volume 2, Issue 7, p. 46)
- When James Conway arrived to helm the episode, its script was finalized. "When I first read it, I said, 'This is a wonderful script, but I can't believe they're ever going to let us do it; it's so expensive!' There was a lot of action and a lot of visual effects – much more than you'd ever find on a television show. But they let us do it!" (Star Trek: The Magazine Volume 2, Issue 7, p. 46) Scott Bakula observed, "They spent a fortune on this pilot." (Cinefantastique, Vol. 33, No. 5, p. 21)
- In total, the making of this episode involved the creation of forty-three different sets. (Star Trek: The Magazine Volume 3, Issue 3, p. 86) "It was definitely like a movie workload," noted Senior Illustrator John Eaves, who was tasked with designing the interiors and exteriors of the NX-class Enterprise as well as designing the other vessels that appear herein. (Star Trek: The Magazine Volume 2, Issue 7, p. 48) Concerning the over-forty sets used in this episode, James Conway remarked, "We'd never walked on to [them] before – and that means you have to prelight and light all these sets for the first time." (Star Trek: The Magazine Volume 2, Issue 7, p. 47)
- Both the Interspecies Medical Exchange ward and the observation deck of the Orbital Drydock Facility were mostly redresses of a set that went on to represent Enterprise's armory, during the series run. (text commentary, ENT Season 1 DVD)
- The model starship which young Jonathan Archer plays with in flashbacks throughout this episode was designed by illustrator Jim Martin and built by the Paramount Pictures prop shop. (text commentary, ENT Season 1 DVD)
- The osmotic eel that Phlox uses on Archer's leg was created by Makeup Supervisor Michael Westmore. (Star Trek: The Magazine Volume 2, Issue 7, p. 112)
- The producers at first hoped for production on this episode to begin in May 2001. However, as the costuming department prepared to start their efforts on Enterprise while simultaneously wrapping up work on Star Trek: Voyager, threats of an actors' strike loomed on Hollywood, endangering this plan. (Star Trek: Communicator issue 135, p. 72)
- Upon initially reading the pilot script, Costume Designer Robert Blackman was intrigued with the idea of creating clothing designs that were not products of the extremely distant future. "With that, came a lot of interesting things we hadn't done before," he said. (Star Trek: Communicator issue 135, p. 71)
- Robert Blackman produced full-body sketches of both the pair of butterfly dancers and the yellow-skinned alien man who, on Rigel X, invites Reed and Mayweather to watch them perform. Creating the look of the dancers entailed a collaboration between Blackman's costume department and Michael Westmore's makeup department. (Star Trek: The Magazine Volume 2, Issue 8, pp. 92 & 93)
- The first scenes to be shot on the first day of this pilot episode's production were the bridge scenes that form part of Enterprise's launch. James Conway supervised these initial scenes. (text commentary, ENT Season 1 DVD)
- This episode's production was at first complicated by the fact that the type of film initially used for shooting the series had to be compatible with DVD formats, causing Director of Photography Marvin Rush to make some choices he might otherwise have made differently. Production Designer Herman Zimmerman later noted, "We had some learning curves we had to assimilate the first few days of shooting, knowing that we were heading in that direction." (Star Trek: Communicator issue 135, p. 61)
- This episode's production schedule consisted of more than seventeen days, at which point, Rick Berman stated, "We're half-way done with" it. (Star Trek: Communicator issue 134, pp. 12 & 76)
- This episode's production incorporated an unusual amount of location filming. James Conway explained, "We did two days in Bakersfield [[[California]]] [...] and then we were three days at a water treatment plant and one day in an electrical power plant, and one day at Malibu, so we were out quite a bit." (Star Trek: The Magazine Volume 2, Issue 7, p. 47) Bakersfield was used for the sequence depicting the Broken Bow incident, standing in for Broken Bow itself; the fact that a grain silo was planned to be shown exploding required the on-site construction of that building as a full-scale mock-up. Malibu stood in for Hoshi Sato's Brazilian, outdoors classroom as well as some of its surroundings – involving the addition of a yawning and the classroom itself – and Malibu's Zuma Beach was used for the beach scenes that feature in Archer's flashbacks. (text commentary, ENT Season 1 DVD) Rigel X scenes were filmed at the Redondo Power Plant and Hyperion Water Treatment Plant. ("These Are the Voyages..." text commentary, ENT Season 4 DVD) The footage taken in Bakersfield was shot on 12 and 13 June 2001, whereas the scenes captured in Malibu were filmed on 19 June 2001. (citation needed • edit) The late June filming of the Malibu scenes was near the end of the episode's shooting schedule. (text commentary, ENT Season 1 DVD)
- While directing this outing, James Conway endeavored to embellish it with "as many dynamic angles as I could find a way to put in." Despite thinking that the eventual version of the episode includes "a lot of dynamic shots" as well as "a lot of pace and energy," he also believes it contains no filming techniques that set it too far apart from the earlier-made Star Trek productions. (Star Trek: The Magazine Volume 2, Issue 7, p. 47)
- Ultimately, James Conway – a director of fourteen previous televised Star Trek episodes – discovered that he was well-suited to the shooting of such an historically important installment of Star Trek as this. "Having been a fan, and having directed all those episodes and being fluent with all of the Star Trek stuff," he related, "it enabled me to completely understand all of the jokes and all of the subtext and be able to translate them to film." (Star Trek: The Magazine Volume 2, Issue 7, p. 47)
- James Conway additionally found that the episode's production "ran very smoothly." "Our hours weren't too bad [....] Given all those things [the multitude of new sets and complex action sequences as well as the rare length of time spent on location], and with all the complications that we had, I thought it went incredibly well." (Star Trek: The Magazine Volume 2, Issue 7, p. 47)
Visual EffectsEdit
- For the visual effects artists who participated in this episode's creation, the aim was simply (in Dan Curry's words) "to do the best work we've ever done." The workload they were presented with was an extraordinary challenge, though. "The pilot has over 300 effects shots in it; a lot of movies don't have that many, and they probably have more than a month or two to do them!" exclaimed Visual Effects Supervisor Ronald B. Moore. (Star Trek: The Magazine Volume 2, Issue 10, p. 24)
- In order to tackle the massive amount of work, the in-house VFX team from Paramount brought in both of their regular CGI vendors, Foundation Imaging and Eden FX. Foundation was assigned to handle most of the space shots whereas Eden was principally brought in to deal with CG elements which had to be added to live-action footage. (Star Trek: The Magazine Volume 2, Issue 10, p. 24)
- The workload was so enormous that, at Foundation Imaging, Robert Bonchune had to divide his supervising duties with David Morton. "This is the biggest thing we've ever done for Star Trek. We had over 70 shots, so it's a huge show," related Bonchune. "Dave Morton and I split the roles on the pilot. He supervised the gas giant stuff; I supervised model construction and space sequences." (Star Trek: The Magazine Volume 2, Issue 10, p. 24)
- To make sure all the visual effects could be approved as quickly as possible, Dan Curry and his boss, Supervising Producer Peter Lauritson, regularly visited the CGI vendors instead of waiting for the companies to deliver their input. This freed Ron Moore from having to supervise the incoming shots and, as an alternative, he devoted himself to overseeing the compositing work at CIS Hollywood. (Star Trek: The Magazine Volume 2, Issue 10, p. 24)
- The pace was frantic, especially because the VFX artists were unwilling to compromise on quality. (Star Trek: The Magazine Volume 2, Issue 10, p. 24) "The thing that I stressed to our vendor companies and the staff," said Dan Curry, "is that the technology to create visual effects is available to anyone who wants to invest in the hardware, so what we have to do is make sure that we try to approach everything with superior artistry and thinking; we try to make sure that each shot informs the audience about what's going on and delights them with images and surprises." (Star Trek: The Magazine Volume 2, Issue 10, p. 25) Curry relished the adrenaline involved in the frenetic approach to delivering the VFX and the process worked well, with all the shots being completed on time. (Star Trek: The Magazine Volume 2, Issue 10, p. 24)
- One of the first shots that Eden FX did for this episode was that of the wrecked Klingon ship in the cornfield. In common with the other shots they delivered, this involved adding a CG element to live-action footage. (Star Trek: The Magazine Volume 2, Issue 10, p. 27) An establishing wide shot of Amazon University was an obvious visual effect. Subtler VFX were used to expand the spacedock observation deck, adding an additional level to the room and making the audience larger. Phlox's immunocytic gel worms were also depicted with CGI. (text commentary, ENT Season 1 DVD)
- Showing the Suliban's extraordinary physical maneuvers and some of their technology in this pilot episode represented other challenges. In fact, adding a pre-echo effect to all the footage set in the temporal communications chamber was one of the most difficult effects in the whole episode. (Star Trek: The Magazine Volume 2, Issue 10, p. 28) Midway through the installment's post-production schedule, Dan Curry explained, "Ron [Moore] has, working with Paul Hill at CIS, been focusing on the temporal chamber stuff [....] And I've been focusing on, among other things, the Suliban's [dislocation ability], again working with John Teska out of Foundation." (Star Trek: Communicator issue 135, p. 77)
- Entirely CGI models were used for not only the Suliban but also the starship Enterprise's senior officers; this signified the first time such models were utilized for the regular characters of a Star Trek series. Regarding these digitized versions of Enterprise crew members, John Gross – a co-founder of Eden FX – said, "They were used a lot in the pilot." (Star Trek: The Magazine Volume 2, Issue 10, p. 28)
- By the time the group finished their task of completing a total of over 300 VFX shots, all members of the team were exhausted but happy with the experience. (Star Trek: The Magazine Volume 2, Issue 10, p. 30)
Music and SoundEdit
- During shots set on the NX-01 bridge, background sound effects from the TOS-Enterprise bridge can be heard.
- An instrumental version of the ENT theme song, "Where My Heart Will Take Me", plays over the closing credits of this episode.
- By Star Trek's fictional chronology, this is the first episode of all six TV series.
- Like previous spin-off premieres, the new crew of Enterprise was sent off by a character who made a crossover from a previous role; in this case, Zefram Cochrane returned, having previously appeared in both TOS: "Metamorphosis" and Star Trek: First Contact (played by Glenn Corbett and James Cromwell respectively, the latter of whom reprised the role in an uncredited capacity for this installment). Unlike previous spin-off premieres, Cochrane was not a main character from a series that directly preceded the new series. In the previous cases, Doctor McCoy was seen briefly in the Star Trek: The Next Generation pilot, "Encounter at Farpoint"; Captain Jean-Luc Picard appeared in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine pilot, "Emissary"; and Quark had a cameo appearance in the Star Trek: Voyager pilot, "Caretaker", in which Morn also appeared.
- Sections of Zefram Cochrane's speech were taken from the opening narrations heard in the title sequences of The Original Series and The Next Generation.
- Porthos is the only character, besides the regulars, to appear in both this episode and the finale of the series, "These Are the Voyages..." (although technically, all Enterprise-related characters in the last episode are holograms created by the USS Enterprise-D's holodeck).
- Young Jonathan Archer's miniature starship that features herein reappears in the Season 3 episode "Similitude".
- The series finale of ENT, "These Are the Voyages...", establishes that Rigel X was additionally the last place visited by Enterprise before its decommission in 2161.
- This episode marked the first appearance of the Denobulans, in the form of Phlox, although the name of his species was not revealed until "Terra Nova".
- This episode portrays the First Contact between Earth and the Klingon Empire. The Klingons were, of course, seen on all of the previous Star Trek series, all taking place either one or two centuries after this episode. Other alien races seen on other Star Trek series who were encountered earlier by Enterprise include Andorians, Nausicaans, Ferengi, Romulans, the Borg, Tholians, Coridans, Orions, Organians, and, in the mirror universe, the Gorn.
- For the first time, this episode shows that the facial appearance of the Klingons, prior to the 23rd century, was much as it was in the 24th century; the Klingons in this outing appear with distinctive forehead ridges, in common with how they were established in Star Trek productions created subsequently to the making of the original series, set in the 23rd century. An explanation for the differences between how they are shown in this era and how they appear in TOS was finally provided in the ENT Season 4 episodes "Affliction" and "Divergence".
- The Enterprise crew went on to encounter the Klingons in the episodes "Unexpected", "Sleeping Dogs", "Marauders", "Judgment", "Bounty", "The Expanse", "The Augments", "Affliction", and "Divergence".
- In "Judgment", Captain Archer's advocate Kolos turns the Klingon court's attention to how Archer had assisted the Empire in the past, referring to events in this episode.
- The Temporal Cold War plot, which began in this episode, was continued in "Cold Front" and concluded in "Storm Front, Part II". The arc was intended to carry throughout the run of the series, but was mostly scrapped when the series took on a "new direction" in its third season.
- The scene in which Archer inspects Enterprise in drydock with Tucker is reminiscent of the scene in Star Trek: The Motion Picture in which Kirk looks over the USS Enterprise with Scotty, or less notably, the scene in "All Good Things..." featuring Captain Picard and Lieutenant Yar.
Reception and AftermathEdit
- Rick Berman was extremely enthusiastic about this episode during its production. Seventeen days into the installment's shooting schedule, Berman gave an interview to Star Trek: Communicator in which he said of the pilot, "It is everything I hoped it would be," and remarked that the episode's revelation of the Vulcans having been "rather patronizing" to Humans historically is "learned by the audience in a very entertaining fashion." Berman also commented about the selection of James Conway as the director of this outing, saying, "He couldn't have been a better choice because [...] the stuff we're getting from him is all pure gold." (Star Trek: Communicator issue 134, pp. 12, 13 & 76)
- The first footage from this episode that was seen by Trip actor Connor Trinneer was viewed by him after he had completed his work on seven episodes of the series; he glimpsed sections of the pilot while rerecording lines of dialogue in a "looping" session. In an interview with Star Trek Communicator later that day, Trinneer declared, "The graphics and effects are unbelievable. It all looks outstanding. And it's a real experience seeing yourself in it all." (Star Trek: Communicator issue 135, p. 56)
- Prior to the show's telecast premiere, UPN ran a pre-recorded message in which Scott Bakula urged viewers to donate blood to the American Red Cross in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks. The episode premiered just two weeks after those attacks.
- TV commercials promoting the series premiere incorporated the song "Wherever You Will Go" by The Calling.
- A certain amount of controversy was sparked when it was decided to have the Klingons appear as they did after The Original Series – with their trademark forehead ridges. This at first caused much speculation and debate among fans as to how the race had evolved from having bony ridges on their foreheads, in this episode, to having smooth foreheads in Kirk's era. (Star Trek: Communicator issue 135, p. 74)
- This pilot episode was given a special premiere at the Paramount Theater, at Paramount Studios. [X]wbm
- The episode was viewed by an average of 12.5 million viewers on its network premiere, making it UPN's best Wednesday night rating, and its second highest-rate night of all time (after its launch night, when "Caretaker" premiered). (Star Trek Monthly issue 86) The pilot was well received by not only fans but also critics, earning positive reviews. Of the episode's success, Brannon Braga remarked, "We pretty much accomplished what we set out to do [....] And the icing on the cake was the overwhelming response of the audience and critics. That was something we hoped and prayed would happen, but it exceeded our wildest expectations." Braga was personally happy with the installment too; he termed it "certainly the most ambitious" of Star Trek's pilot episodes and went on to say, "If you look at the sheer amount of action sequences and production value, it was pretty impressive." (Star Trek: Communicator issue 139, p. 22)
- In hindsight, Rick Berman thought this episode turned out to be "terrific", and named it as one of his favorites from all the episodes he himself worked on. [2]
- This episode won the 2002 Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Visual Effects for a Series, beating out a later episode, "Breaking the Ice", in the same category. "Broken Bow" also received Emmy nominations for its prosthetic makeup designs and for its sound editing.
- When this installment was released on VHS, Star Trek Magazine rated the episode 5 out of 5 arrowhead insignias. (Star Trek Monthly issue 90, p. 56) In the same publication's "Ultimate Guide", however, the episode was given only 4 out of 5 arrowhead insignias. (Star Trek Magazine issue 164, p. 77)
- The book Star Trek 101, by Terry J. Erdmann and Paula M. Block, lists this episode as one of the "Ten Essential Episodes" from Star Trek: Enterprise.
- The unofficial reference book Beyond the Final Frontier (p. 358) says about this pilot episode, "An excellent start, a clever bend of Star Trek traditions, like Klingons and alien dancing girls, and intriguing new elements like the time-traveling baddies and the spiky relationship with the Vulcans. An episode that introduces the new characters well, it has some nice variations in tone, from comedy to action. It's a shame the transporter is used as a deus ex machina – it's not so much that you see the solution coming, it's that after 700 previous episodes of Star Trek it's hard to get excited about seeing it."
- Several items from this episode were sold off on the It's A Wrap! sale and auction on eBay, including a language lecture computer [3] and a Suliban interrogation device. [4] The disruptor rifle used by Klaang at the beginning of this episode was also auctioned off in It's A Wrap! (item #2890), along with a Denobulan medical chest used by Phlox (item #480).
Production History Edit
- Final draft script: 11 May 2001
- Premiere airdate: 26 September 2001
Video and DVD Releases Edit
- UK VHS release (two-episode tapes, Paramount Home Entertainment): Volume 1.1, catalog number VHR 5325, 1 April 2002.
- As part of the UK VHS collection Enterprise 1.1-1.3 Collectors Edition: 19 August 2002
- As part of the ENT Season 1 DVD collection.
- As part of the Star Trek: Fan Collective - Klingon collection.
- As part of the ENT Season 1 Blu-ray collection.
Links and references Edit
Starring Edit
- Scott Bakula as Captain Jonathan Archer
- John Billingsley as Doctor Phlox
- Jolene Blalock as Subcommander T'Pol
- Dominic Keating as Lieutenant Malcolm Reed
- Anthony Montgomery as Ensign Travis Mayweather
- Linda Park as Ensign Hoshi Sato
- Connor Trinneer as Commander Charles "Trip" Tucker III
Also Starring Edit
- John Fleck as Silik
- Melinda Clarke as Sarin
- Tommy "Tiny" Lister, Jr. as Klaang
- Vaughn Armstrong as Admiral Maxwell Forrest
- Jim Beaver as Daniel Leonard
- Mark Moses as Henry Archer
- Gary Graham as Soval
- Thomas Kopache as Tos
- Jim Fitzpatrick as Commander Williams
- James Horan as the Humanoid Figure
- Joseph Ruskin as a Suliban Doctor
Co-Stars Edit
- Marty Davis as Young Archer
- Van Epperson as an Alien Man
- Ron King as Farmer
- Peter Henry Schroeder as the Klingon Chancellor
- Matt Williamson as a Klingon Council Member
- Byron Thames as a Crewman
- Ricky Luna as Carlos
- Jason Grant Smith as Crewman Fletcher
- Chelsea Bond as a Alien Mother
- Ethan Dampf as a Alien Child
- Diane Klimaszewski as a Dancer
- Elaine Klimaszewski as a Dancer
Uncredited Co-Stars Edit
- Tyler Abrams as a linguistic student
- Anthony Acker as a Vulcan delegate
- F. Alekseyeva as a Human civilian
- David Keith Anderson as a Human civilian
- Jef Ayres as Crewman Haynem
- Irina Bazidott as a scientist
- Kenneth Beck as a Human civilian
- Woody Bosco as a Human civilian
- Connie Bosmans as a Vulcan delegate
- Rafael Boza as a linguistic student
- Margery Bradbard as a Starfleet admiral
- Solomon Burke, Jr. as Billy
- B. Burton as a Human civilian
- Paulo Caillile as a linguistic student
- Sofie Calderon as a science division crewman
- Mario Carter as an operations division crewman
- Manuel Cazz as a linguistic student
- Gina Chai as a Human civilian
- Michael Chong as a scientist
- Marijane Cole as a Human civilian
- Cecilia Conn as a command division crewman
- Mark Correy as Alex
- James Cromwell as Zefram Cochrane
- Vince Deadrick, Jr. as a security crewman
- Janet Dey as a Human civilian
- Sandro DiPinto as a science division crewman
- Milton James Donaldson as a Human civilian
- Renae Duran as a linguistic student
- Bob Earns as a Vulcan delegate
- Evan English as Ensign Tanner
- L. English as a Human civilian
- Alyssa Espinoza as a linguistic student
- Mimi Fisher as Bennett
- Susan Foley as a Starfleet Medical surgeon
- Stacy Fouche as an operations division crewman
- Devinna Garcia as a linguistic student
- Edwin Garcia as a linguistic student
- Hilde Garcia as Crewman Rossi (deleted scene)
- Lindly Gardner as an operations division crewman
- Hank Gartrel as a Human civilian
- N. Gehr as a Human civilian
- Maria Celeste Genitempo as a Human civilian
- Angela Giampietro as an Alien Woman
- Nelson Grande as a linguistic student
- J. Harris as a Human civilian
- Alberto Hector as a linguistic student
- Dieter Hornemann as a Vulcan delegate
- Aldric Horton as an operations division crewman
- Cheri Isabella as an operations division crewman
- Roman James as a Starfleet Rear Admiral
- Betty Jimenez as a linguistic student
- Connie Kang as a linguistic student
- Debra Lamb Bailleaux as an alien fire eater (deleted scene)
- Steven Lambert as a Suliban agent
- Kristin Lindquist as a Human civilian
- Sven Lindstrom as a linguistic student
- James Lozano as a linguistic student
- Betty Matsushita as a Human civilian
- Christy Melendrez as a linguistic student
- R. Michael as a Human civilian
- Marlene Mogavero as an operations division crewman
- Simone Montanti as a Human civilian
- Shauna Moore as a scientist
- Gilbert Morales as a linguistic student
- Arthur Murray as a Markalian dock crewman (deleted scene)
- Carmen Nogales as an operations division crewman
- J. Nunez as a Human civilian
- Stephanie Nunez as a linguistic student
- W. Oldford as a Human civilian
- Glenn Ota as a Benzite on Rigel X
- Sonia Parikh as a linguistic student
- Monica Parrett as a command division crewman
- Woody Porter as Starfleet Rear Admiral
- Sandra Quoos as a linguistic student
- David Richards as Markalian dockmaster (deleted scene)
- Cesar Rodriguez as a linguistic student
- R. Rosenberg as a Human civilian
- Tobias Schonleitner as a Vulcan delegate
- J. Scott as a Human civilian
- Mernoosh Shazadi as a Starfleet admiral
- Paul Sklar as a Suliban
- Pablo Soriano as a Human civilian
- Joel Steingold as a Human civilian
- Darryl Stewart as a Starfleet admiral
- Quint Strack as a command division crewman
- Max Thayer as a Human civilian
- A. Thomas as a Human civilian
- M. Tucker as a Human civilian
- Thelma Tyrell as an operations division crewman
- Cynthia Uhrich as an operations division crewman
- John Wan as an operations division crewman
- Mark Watson as a Human civilian
- Mike Watson as a Suliban agent
- Gary Weeks as an operations division crewman
- Todd Wieland as an operations division crewman
- David Williams as a scientist
- K. Williams as a Human civilian
- Jon Wright as a Markalian dock crewman (deleted scene)
- Prada as Porthos
- Unknown performers as two Starfleet Medical surgeons
Stunt doubles and stand-ins Edit
- David Anderson as
- Stand-in for Anthony Montgomery
- Stand-in for Peter Henry Schroeder
- Stand-in for Paul Sklar
- Stand-in for Steven Lambert
- Stand-in for Mike Watson
- Stand-in for John Fleck (splinter unit)
- Kenneth Beck as stand-in for Vaughn Armstrong
- Larry Carroll as stand-in for Tommy "Tiny" Lister, Jr.
- Gina Chai as stand-in for Linda Park
- Amy Kate Connolly as
- Stand-in for Melinda Clarke
- Stand-in for Linda Park
- Utility stand-in
- John Duff as running double for Tommy "Tiny" Lister, Jr.
- Evan English as
- Stand-in for Dominic Keating
- Stand-in for John Fleck
- Stand-in for Ricky Luna
- Diamond Farnsworth as stunt double for Scott Bakula
- Anthony Gaffe as stand-in for David Richards
- Gregory Hinton as stand-in for Tommy "Tiny" Lister, Jr.
- Lisa Hoyle as stunt double for Jolene Blalock
- Simone Montanti as
- Stand-in and hand double for Jolene Blalock
- Stand-in for Diane Klimaszewski
- Stand-in for Elaine Klimaszewski
- Mike Muñoz as stand-in for Marty Davis
- J.R. Quinonez as
- Stand-in for John Billingsley
- Utility stand-in
- Jeff Sanders as stunt double for Tommy "Tiny" Lister, Jr.
- Richard Sarstedt as
- Stand-in for Scott Bakula
- Stand-in for Mark Moses
- Stand-in for Joseph Ruskin
- Stand-in for Steve Lambert
- Stand-in for Ron King
- Stand-in for Jason Grant Smith
- Stand-in for James Horan
- Pablo Soriano
- Stand-in for Vince Deadrick, Jr.
- Stand-in for Mike Watson
- Stand-in for Scott Bakula (splinter unit)
- Utility stand-in
- Mark Watson as stand-in for Connor Trinneer
- Mike Watson as stunt double for Connor Trinneer
References Edit
2121; Altarian marsupial; "Ambassador Pointy"; april; astronaut; Atlantis; autonomic system; autosequencer; boomer; bread stick; Broken Bow; Broken Bow incident; California Clipper; Chinese food; clock; Cook, Billy; corn; cornfield; Corvallen; courier; crash landing; decontamination chamber; Deep Flight 1; dockmaster; Draylax; Draylaxian; droppings; Earth; Elkan Nine; Emmette, SS; Emmette-type; endocrine system; enzyme; farmer; fire; First Contact; gas giant; genetic engineering; hay; immunocytic gel worm; inspection pod; ion storm; Jelik; Klingon; Klingon disruptor; Klingon language; K'toch-class; life span; linguistic database; liquid; logic; long range sensor; Lorillian; McIntyre; methane; model; nitrogen sulfide; non-humanoid; Oklahoma; Orbital Drydock Facility; osmotic eel; OV-165; paint; paint brush; phase pistol; phosphorus; plasma coil; plasma rifle; protocystian spore; remote control; remote controlled model spaceship; Sausalito; scoutship; Sector 3641; sensor log; silo; Starfleet Medical; stethoscope; Suliban; Suliban Cabal; Suliban cell ship (cylindrical); Suliban cell ship (spherical), Suliban helix, Suliban pistol; sweet spot; cyclohexane; Teneebian moons; Tholia; tricyclic plasma drive; Trillius Prime; valve sealant; vegetarian; viewer; Vulcan; Vulcan Compound; warp; Warp Five Complex; warp five engine
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#202186 - 08/30/11 10:07 PM Re: a familiar wring [Re: Tromboniator]
Carpal Tunnel
Registered: 06/23/08
Posts: 8541
Loc: Land of the Flat Water
There was a young lad named Little Boy Blue,
horn in his hand, to the haystack he flew.
The townsfolk knew his songs were just fluff,
Variations on one theme, it was all just a bluff.
Worn out from his efforts sleep came fast too.
Edited by LukeJavan8 (08/30/11 10:09 PM)_________________________
----please, draw me a sheep----
#202214 - 09/01/11 02:52 PM Department of Corrections [Re: LukeJavan8]
old hand
Registered: 05/10/10
Posts: 954
Loc: Alaska
I pick up my rule book and hammer,
Make my way to the linguistic slammer.
As I walk down the hall
I buff up the peen's ball:
I am here to correct me some grammar.
Edited by Tromboniator (09/01/11 02:52 PM)
#202244 - 09/03/11 01:32 PM Re: Department of Corrections [Re: Tromboniator]
Carpal Tunnel
Registered: 06/23/08
Posts: 8541
Loc: Land of the Flat Water
To the boneyard the zombie went in fact,
to check and see if the tomb remain intact.
If not, what that did infer,
was he'd have to re- inter,
His beloved's home,the earth to be repacked.
(whew: exhausted brain, Brains???)
----please, draw me a sheep----
#202370 - 09/10/11 12:35 PM Go back to June 30, 2011: [Re: wofahulicodoc]
Carpal Tunnel
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Posts: 6943
Loc: Worcester, MA
Well, whaddaya know? Pigs can fly, after all!
From the AP wire service, September 3, 2011:
Saturday, September 3, 2011
Pig flies to new home in NY
A pig flew from Florida to New York on Pet Airways.
Newsday reports that a miniature potbellied pig named Bosley arrived at Republic Airport on Long Island Thursday to join his new adoptive family in Sag Harbor.
The 49-pound porker is the first pig for the Florida-based Pet Airways, which specializes in flying animals.
Airline cofounder Alysa Binder says its exciting and so fun that pigs can fly now.
Bosley was originally adopted as a piglet by a Florida family from a local pet shop, but grew too large for his home.
His new family in Sag Harbor prefers to remain anonymous.
Newsday says Bosley appeared content when he deplaned at Republic and didnt need to wait for his stomach to settle before he started eating.
#202371 - 09/10/11 01:21 PM Re: Go back to June 30, 2011: [Re: wofahulicodoc]
Carpal Tunnel
Registered: 06/23/08
Posts: 8541
Loc: Land of the Flat Water
Oink! for him._________________________
----please, draw me a sheep----
#202383 - 09/11/11 05:43 AM Re: Go back to June 30, 2011: [Re: wofahulicodoc]
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Nice story Wofa.
#202533 - 09/21/11 03:14 AM Surprise party [Re: LukeJavan8]
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At the céilidh exceedingly lavish
Sylph-like beauty my senses did ravish.
Chased her into the laurel
With a motive immoral.
To my shock, it was Angus MacTavish.
Edited by Tromboniator (09/21/11 03:15 AM)
#202535 - 09/21/11 08:07 AM Re: Surprise party [Re: Jackie]
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He's back!
Apart from having to google 'céilidh'....a wonderful tale, Peter
Not much left to the imagination LOL
#202539 - 09/21/11 09:13 AM Re: Surprise party [Re: Candy]
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Keeping the ole mind going: good for you, Peter._________________________
----please, draw me a sheep----
#202541 - 09/21/11 11:29 AM Re: Go back to June 30, 2011: [Re: wofahulicodoc]
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we had them fly in a much more interesting manner. Writing that limerick was such hard work (thanks wofa) I forgot it was funny.
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Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Why I am not buying an ebook reader
So I started looking for answers to the following questions:
1: What books are available in ebook format? And for how much?
I picked a selection from the books I have around me now. Terry Pratchett's books are on the Kindle for around £4.50 each, although "I Shall Wear Midnight" is £9.24. Hang on a minute, the paperback of ISWM is only £3.49. So for almost three times the price I get to save the book industry the cost of printing and shipping me a physical product? I don't think so. Even the older Pratchett books still cost more for the Kindle than in paperback.
Looking elsewhere, the first four Google hits are for pirate torrents and Usenet indexers. Then there is "Fictionwise", which seems to be Barnes & Noble in the US selling stuff on it's Nook. Despite getting a hit in the Google search it seems that B&N don't actually sell any Pratchett. Finally the Diesel e-book store has them for around $8 each, with ISWM for $10. At the moment a dollar is about £0.61 although doing it through a credit card company is going to cost more.
OK, what about some other books? Robert Heinlein: there are four Kindle e-books out of the 32 novels and 59 short stories written by Heinlein. Diesel does better, with 8 Heinlein books. Baen also have some more Heinlein books.
"Contact" by Carl Sagan is not available for Kindle. Googling for "contact sagan ebook" turns up pages of pirate copies but nothing legitimate.
Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan saga I already have in ebook format because Baen included the entire opus on a CD with the latest volume. Not only does it not have DRM, but it is licensed for free redistribution. Kudos to Baen, and I hope the experiment works for them.
The Matthew Shardlake stories by C.J. Sansom are all available for Kindle, for about the same price as the paperbacks. They are also available in other ebook formats from Diesel for $13 each, which seems a bit steep even by ebook standards.
"Next Stop Execution" by Oleg Gordievsky is not available on the Kindle or on Diesel.
Some of Matt Ridley's books, including "The Red Queen", "Genome", and his latest "The Rational Optimist" are available on the Kindle, but "The Origin of Virtue" is not, which seems odd. Diesel only has "The Rational Optimist".
So my conclusion is that I can buy most of my existing library in ebook format, but not all. Even then its going to be an expensive business to do it legally; we probably have around 1,000 books in our house (never actually counted), and the cost of getting just half of them in ebook format is going to be in the thousands of pounds. Ouch!
2: What about Digital Restrictions Management
The attitude of most publishers here is best summed up by Barnes & Noble. Its "LendMe(TM) technology" lets you lend a book to someone else for a maximum of two weeks exactly once. Amazingly this is sold as a feature! What planet are these people living on? My wife and I both enjoyed C.J. Sansom's series of historical novels. If we used ebook readers then we would both have to buy our own copies. And our son is now starting to read my Terry Pratchett books, so make that three copies in some instances.
And then there is the limit on transfers to new devices. It seems from reports on the Web that ebooks can only be transferred to new devices a finite number of times. After that, your books are stuck on your old devices. So as I upgrade and replace my ebook readers over the years, as I am sure I will, eventually I will start having to keep my old readers around or else purchase their content yet again. Also these transfers have to be mediated by the website you bought the ebook from; if they go out of business then your content is stuck.
Of course I could resort to the pirate copies around the Net. It seems like pretty much anything that is available in a DRM version is available unlocked for free. As a test I downloaded a copy of "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" from one such site, and sure enough I got an unencrypted PDF (which I could read on my Linux box as an added bonus). I don't feel morally obligated to buy a whole new book just to shift formats: I've already paid the author for the words when I bought the dead-tree version. (Or have I? Some of my books were purchased second-hand. Interesting conundrum there.) But such "solutions" are inherently unreliable. I also worry that I will be sucked into a life of copyright infringement; a little demon on my shoulder is asking me, if I'm going to the trouble of locating and downloading a pirate copy to escape the DRM, why bother buying a legitimate copy that I'm never actually going to look at?
The list of things I can't do with a DRM'd ebook grows the more I think about it. As our son grows out of books we have donated the old ones to his school library. I've lent technical books to colleagues. I've bought out-of-print books second hand. I've borrowed books from libraries. My parents read some of our books when they visit. None of these things are possible with ebooks.
So despite all the advantages, I think I'll pass for now. Maybe in a few years the publishing industry will learn the same lessons that the music industry is learning about the futility of DRM and how to price electronic material, and more old books will be digitised. Then I'll get an ebook reader. But not now.
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- gwern said...
> I've already paid the author for the words when I bought the dead-tree version. (Or have I? Some of my books were purchased second-hand. Interesting conundrum there.)
IMO, the conundrum is easily answered. The ability to resell a book - the existence of a second-hand market - is part of the value of a physical book and part of the price. (You can see this empirically by looking at prices when books cannot be resold, such as sometimes with college textbook or with many ebooks. The prices are lower.)
Or to put it another way, if there were no people like you buying used books, part of the value of a book would disappear, and at the margin, people would buy fewer books - and by supply and demand, the price would drop.
So indirectly, your dollars are feeding the authors.
- April 20, 2011 at 5:11 PM
- Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho said...
The Baen CDs are a fairly established practice by now, no longer an experiment. Of course, for Bujold it would still be an experiment.
- April 20, 2011 at 11:19 PM
Nice summary of the problems of current eBooks. In my opinion for new books to buy, eBooks are not really an option, especially because of the DRM hassle.
I can understand a lending mechanism that prevents me from reading the book when I gave it to someone else, but limiting the time and the number of times I can do that?
Nevertheless, the points against eBook (readers) is mainly about problems with DRM. I got mine after looking through Project Gutenberg and use it primarily for those books, secondarily to read pdf papers I wrote myself. For this use-case the eBook reader was totatlly worth it.
- April 21, 2011 at 12:44 AM
- Paul Johnson said...
I'm familiar with the argument, but I'm not sure it works for real. when I buy a book I'm buying the information for use immediately, and the price of the book is the price I pay. I don't mentally deduct a hypothetical second hand value. In any case the typical payment at a second hand bookshop is tiny compared to the original cost (most of the price at a second hand bookshop is markup), and selling the odd book via Amazon is more trouble than its worth.
- April 22, 2011 at 3:50 AM
You summarized many of the reasons that I've avoided e-book readers, but there are a few others that loom large in my mind.
1. You can't read without electricity!
2. Moving the "books" on and off the device is inconvenient and dependent on the software/hardware
3. Software upgrades or obsolesence could force you to buy your library all over again
4. Can't write on the book. This can be simulated with e-books, but it's really not the same
5. Can't photocopy pages
6. If you drop the e-book reader on the floor, you're in big trouble.
I could go on. E-books have some attractive features, but for me the disadvantages greatly outweigh the advantages, even disregarding DRM.
And as for DRM, well, that's the whole point of e-books. The idea is fundamentally a rent-seeking scheme. The companies involved are hoping to move books, like other "content", to the subscription/license model, which allows them to rent-seek with impunity. In no sense do e-books and e-book readers represent innovation for the customer.
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Belinda Ramirez, who engaged in a second adoption scheme following her release from prison for her 2007 adoption scheme conviction, has been sentenced to more than six years in prison, United States Attorney Don DeGabrielle announced.
Ramirez was convicted in January 2007 of mail and wire fraud and sentenced by U.S. District Judge Janis Graham Jack to 24 months in federal prison to be followed by three years of supervised release for engaging in an adoption scam, DeGabrielle reported.
"In that case, Ramirez claimed to be pregnant, found and communicated online with couples seeking to adopt and solicited and received money and gift cards purportedly to cover pregnancy expenses from a number of prospective adoptive parents," he explained. "Ramirez was not pregnant, spent the money and caused prospective parents to spend thousands of dollars to make trips to Corpus Christi in anticipation of a birth that never happened."
By May 2008, Ramirez, who had completed her prison term and had been released from prison, began a second adoption scam, DeGabrielle added.
"This second similar scheme — claiming a pregnancy, seeking adoptive parents online and soliciting things of value — involved numerous victims who lost approximately $17,747," the federal prosecutor noted.
Ramirez pleaded guilty to two felony offenses — mail fraud and wire fraud — arising from this second adoption scheme, DeGabrielle said.
Judge Janice Graham Jack, calling Ramirez's behavior "egregious," sentenced Ramirez to 30 months on each of the two counts for the 2008 case — the maximum sentence under the applicable guideline range, followed by three years of supervised release. The sentences are to be served concurrently, meaning at the same time.
DeGabrielle said Jack, in deciding the sentence, considered the sophisticated means used by Ramirez — the use of a computer to look up adoption facilities and prospective adoptee profiles — to target persons she knew to be vulnerable.
He said Judge Jack furthered ordered Ramirez to have no access to cell phones, no contact with the victims, no access to the Internet and to obtain mental health and psychiatric care.
According to DeGabrielle, the investigation into the second adoption scam case that led to Ramirez's arrest on May 21, 2008, by special agents of the FBI-Corpus Christi office at a motel in Beeville, was initiated after the FBI received a call from a detective of the Placer County Sheriff's Department in California about a suspicious adoption by a woman calling herself "Jennifer Silver."
"The California detective told FBI agents, Silver claimed to be looking to place her soon-to-be delivered baby up for adoption," DeGabrielle recounted. "A couple from Fresno, Calif., seeking to adopt a baby, was contacted by an adoption facilitator and placed in contact with Silver. The prospective adoptive couple was told by Silver they had been chosen as adoptive parents for her baby. Silver told the couple she needed financial assistance to cover expenses for food, clothing and medical necessities." The couple wired Silver a $800 Moneygram from California to Texas on May 19, 2008. DeGabrielle explained.
On May 21, 2008, FBI agents arranged to deliver an envelope addressed to Jennifer Silver from the California couple purported to contain approximately $500 in cash at the Beeville motel, he said.
"Belinda Ramirez was Jennifer Silver," DeGabrielle said. "Ramirez was arrested at the hotel when she accepted delivery of the envelope."
Additionally, because Ramirez was serving a term of supervised release as part of her sentence in her first conviction when she orchestrated the second adoption scheme, she faced revocation and the imposition of a second prison term. Judge Jack held a hearing, ordered the term of supervised release revoked and imposed a 24-month prison term on each of the two counts of conviction in that case — the maximum statutory sentence allowable. These terms of imprisonment are to be served consecutively to each other and to the 30-month sentence on the 2008 charges. Ramirez will serve a total of 78 months in the Bureau of Prisons.
Ramirez has been in custody since her May 2008 arrest and will remain in federal custody to begin serving her prison terms. Both cases were prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Elsa Salinas Patterson.


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Juvenile girls sent back to juvenile detention
STEUBENVILLE – Two juvenile females accused of making threats against a juvenile rape victim will remain in the Jefferson County Juvenile Detention Center until an adjudication hearing scheduled for March 27 in Juvenile Court.
Juvenile Judge Sam Kerr ordered the two unidentified juveniles remanded after hearing a statement from Assistant County Prosecutor Sam Pate, who requested the two remain detained, "to protect a person from immediate or threatened harm."
Both juveniles were charged this morning with intimidation of a witness which is a felony, aggravated menacing and telecommunication harassment, both misdemeanour.
Attorney Francesca Carinici represented the 15-year old girl who is accused of threatening the rape victim.
Carinci said her client is, "A very good girl who was responding to comments made against her for showing support for one of two juvenile boys convicted of rape Sunday.
Ma'Lik Richmond, 16, of Steubenville and Trent Mays, 17, of Bloomingdale were sentenced to confinement at the Ohio Department of Youth Services after they on Sunday were found delinquent by visiting Judge Thomas Lipps following a four-day trial at the Jefferson County Justice Center.
The 16-year old female did not have an attorney at the detention center, but her older sister and guardian Raven Harris said the juvenile was quoting a rap song in her tweet.
Harris also said her family has been threatened on social media because they are related to Richmond.
Pate said the investigation into threatening messages on social media is ongoing.
Police Chief Bill McCafferty said he and juvenile Detective Erik Dervis are still pursuing information about a male juvenile who allegedly made comments about the rape victim.
"We take these threats very seriously," McCafferty said, adding the investigation is continuing.
McCafferty also said Nathaniel Richmond, the father of Ma'Lik Richmond, filed a report with the police department Monday citing, "threatening messages made against himself and his family on Facebook."
Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine also issued a warning late Monday to anyone making threats against the rape victim.
"Let me be clear. Threatening a teenage rape victim will not be tolerated. If anyone makes a threat verbally or via the Internet, we will take it seriously, we will find you, and we will arrest you," said DeWine.
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My admiration for the efforts of all involved and especially the club's executive director, Alexis Eggleton, is unparalleled. "We are actively in pursuit of raising money all year long, one dollar at a time," Eggleton shared. "In a terrible economic climate, we have been forced to reduce our reliance on grant money and have turned to the community, which has gone above and beyond in response, making the Celebrity Dinner the 'event of the year' here in Sullivan County."
The final count (still growing) is over $40,000 dollars, so The Boys and Girls Club will be able to continue to flourish. Tax deductible donations can still be made by visiting the web site or calling 845/342-8833. Dharma raised more than her share of funds auctioning off The River Reporter's "pawtographs," and we're already consulting over next year's plans assuming that we'll all be fully recovered by then.
With great entertainment still on my mind, I managed to heave myself out of bed on Sunday, toss the recuperating dog into her carry-on and swing by our local distillery (www.catskilldistillingcompany.com) to catch lightning-hot, progressive country sensation the Jacob Martin Band (www.jacobmartinband.com) as they swung through town to kick off the Thunder 102 "Startin' to Rumble: Up Close and Personal" series, showcasing up- and-coming country stars of the future. The guys were (IMHO) fantastic and had a tremendous rapport with the audience. I'm fascinated by their story, which front man Martin shared. Seeking to form a band, he advertised on the Internet (www.craigslist.com), finding himself guitarists and a drummer who meshed as a unit and are now touring out of Nashville, performing original songs and covering country hits, while putting their own unique spin on them. Their visit to the original Woodstock Festival site was "inspiring" and their fervent wish is to "perform on the main stage at Bethel Woods in the near future." My guess is that we'll see them fulfill that dream soon. That's entertainment!