First Flight Shiban and Black dark matter nebula, 10 million km in diameter Forrest A.G. Robinson, killed in accident climbing Mt. McKinley forrest says sorry to Archer about AG's death; do you do that just for a collegue-close friend? Starfleet regulations prohibit captain from leaving ship unaccompanied NX Test Program also referred to as NX Project test pilots: Gardner, Duval, Archer, Robinson to break warp 2 barrier Commander Archer, Commander Robinson Commadore Forrest, square rank insignia on each side Robinson chosen for warp 2 test Henry Archer already dead, how did this guy die? 602 Club, Ruby, pretty Archer hasn't drank like that since Caroline moved to New Berlin Robinson barely survived warp 2 test, Warp 2.15, at 2.2 warp field collapsed ship blew up near Jupiter can see a moon in background as well NX Alpha destroyed; NX-Beta - warp 3 prototypes Robinson 1st to deploy escape pod at warp Lt. Tucker makes his appearance; on Capt. Jeffries engineering team Ruby chose kids names when 10 will marry guy who guesses Tucker Great grandfather Cyrus, father Charles, grandfather Charles everyone keeps interrupting Archer and Tucker's date, first Forrest then Robinson DON'T insult Henry Archer's engine *just a word of advice* Archer and Robinson fight, Archer cracked molar and 2 bruised ribs, Tucker grabbed the beer bottles (he has his priorites straight), later helps break up fight night launch of NX-Beta Archer and Robinson, Tucker monitoring; Robinson manually adjust the intermix idiot security tries to arrest the guy (meaning Tucker) monitoring the flight, not overly bright Archer at Warp 2.5 Evil Vulcan Overlords took Vulcans 100 years to make warp 2 not courtmarshalled, grounded 3 months program on hold 1 year while Vulcans insisted tests be run 8 months later Duval breaks warp 3 in NX-Delta 5 years later laid the keel for Enterprise Archer chosen captain of Enterprise 6 months before launch (down to him and Robinson, which is interesting since Gardner supposedly the Vulcan's choice) approximate time line Warp 2- 2143 Warp 3- 2145 (could be 2144) laid keel for Enterprise - 2150; only took 1 year to build? AG calls Archer Jon Archer look gives Tucker Robinson Nebula interesting note: Vulcans seem to have no problem omitting certain things from official records