April 2151 - March 2152
First Year of USS ENTERPRISE (NX-01) VoyageTuesday, April 13, 2151
- Tuesday, April 20, 2151
Events of "Broken Bow."
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
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.
The
Enterprise speeds along her way, but suddenly the ship experiences a
power failure and unknown chameleon-like aliens invade and kidnap Klaang from
Sickbay. Dr. Phlox examines a captured alien and discovers he's a Suliban who
has been genetically altered. Archer orders Mayweather to set a course for the
Rigel system, Klaang's last stop before crashing on Earth. At Rigel X, the
Enterprise away team discovers an amazing multitude of alien life at a
trading complex there. Archer eventually meets Sarin, who tells him of a
Temporal Cold War in which the Suliban are being used to incite internal
strife within the Klingon Empire. Klaang was bringing proof of this back to
his High Council in order to avoid the Empire being thrown into chaos. Hidden
Suliban soldiers suddenly attack, forcing Archer, Sarin and the rest of the
away team to fight their way back to Enterprise. During the extremely
intense firefight Sarin is killed.
The crew track the Suliban vessel to a gas giant planet, and
discover a huge Suliban mothership, or "Helix," with 3000 lifesigns on board.
They are attacked by several individual Suliban cell ships, but manage to
capture one with the ship's grappler. Archer and Tucker learn to fly the
stolen craft and use it to infiltrate the Helix while Enterprise hides
in a dense upper layer of the atmosphere. Archer and Tucker find Klaang and
release him while fending off the Suliban with their new phase-pistols. While
Tucker takes the Klingon back to Enterprise, Archer stays behind to set
off a magnetic disruptor that dismantles the Helix. Trying to stay alive while
waiting for pick-up, Archer discovers a Temporal Chamber used by the Suliban
to obtain their orders from a mysterious shrouded figure from the future.
Archer is found by the Suliban leader, Silik, and the two struggle against
each other in a time-shifted environment. Realizing he's no match for the
genetically mutated Suliban, Archer tries to gain some distance by exiting the
chamber, where time returns to normal. As Archer runs, Silik fires his weapon
dead center into Archer, but at that moment the captain dematerializes, being
unwittingly beamed back to Enterprise by a nervous Tucker using the
relatively untried bio-transporter.
Leaving
the Suliban behind, Enterprise warps away and successfully delivers
Klaang to his homeworld. The Klingon Chancellor draws blood from Klaang, and
his scientists find hidden within his DNA Suliban data proving their
conspiracy to undermine the Empire.
Back aboard Enterprise, Archer receives orders from
Starfleet that henceforth, he and his crew are to officially begin their
mission of exploration. Gratefully acknowledging her assistance in the
mission's success, Archer sets aside his pride and convinces T'Pol to remain
on the ship as Science Officer. A course is laid in for the nearest inhabited
planet, and the crew of Enterprise boldly warps toward the unknown.
End of episode was two weeks prior to the start of
"Fight or Flight", events of the episode covered roughly one week. Archer
gives a date of April 16,2151 in the episode.
April 21, 2151 - Monday, May 3, 2151
The Enterprise traverses an ion storm. (After
"Broken Bow.")
The Enterprise explores several planets and star systems,
but encounters no intelligent life forms. Hoshi brings a slug aboard from one
such planet.
(Between "Broken Bow" and "Fight or Flight")
Tuesday, May 4 - Thursday, May 6, 2151
Events
depicted in the episode "Fight or Flight."
As they continue their deep space exploration, the
Enterprise crew comes across an alien ship where they discover 15 humanoid
corpses that seem to have been part of a scientific experiment. The horrific
sight inspires Hoshi to panic and demand a return to Earth, but Archer insists
on continuing the mission and finding out more about the abandoned dead.
Trouble comes calling when the aliens that were conducting the gruesome
experiments return and begin attacking Captain Archer and his team.
Date of May 6, 2151 is given in mission log. First
contact with Axanar vessel had occurred two days previous. "Fight or Flight" (ENT))
At this time Hoshi seriously considered leaving Starfleet,
but ultimately decided not to. ("Exile")
Tuesday,
May 11- Wednesday, May 12, 2151
Events of "Strange New World."
Trip, Mayweather and T'Pol go on a survey mission to a
seemingly uninhabited Earth-like planet where a mysterious alien presence
sends them into a state of paranoid overdrive. When a violent storm strands
them on the planet, Archer must find a way to save his crewmembers before they
turn dangerously upon one another.
(Three weeks after the beginning of the voyages of
Enterprise.)
c.
May 20, 2151 Events of
"Unexpected."
When Trip is dispatched to assist an alien ship with its
power source problems, he is delighted to have a friendly encounter with one
of the ship's female engineers. But after discovering that their special
moment has resulted in his becoming pregnant, he realizes he's had an
unwitting experience with alien sex. Archer and his crew must then try and
return the rapidly growing alien baby to its mother.
(One month after the visit to Q'onos)
early
June 2151 Events of
"Terra Nova"
The Enterprise crew alters course to investigate the mystery
of Terra Nova, a legendary Earth colony whose inhabitants mysteriously
disappeared decades ago. But when they arrive, they confront descendents of
the colonists who have become more alien than Archer could ever have imagined.
(date is speculation)
c. June 21, 2151 Events of "Andorian
Incident "
The Enterprise crew pays a friendly visit to an ancient
Vulcan spiritual sanctuary, despite T'Pol's concerns that her human colleagues
will be an awkward and disruptive presence there. Upon landing, they discover
that the monastery has been forcibly taken over by the Andorians, a paranoid
and highly excitable race of aliens with a long history of conflict with the
Vulcans. Archer soon discovers that the Enterprise crew has gotten in the
middle of an interstellar Pandora's Box and now must find a way out.
(It is noted in the episode that it has been 9 weeks and
4 days since the Enterprise left Earth.)
c.
early July 2151 Events of
"Breaking the Ice"
Trip learns that T'Pol is transmitting secret messages to a
Vulcan ship, which has been shadowing Enterprise for weeks. Meanwhile, Archer
must attempt a dangerous rescue to recover two crewman stranded on a rapidly
disintegrating comet.
(date is speculation)
c.
July 31, 2151
Events of "Civilization"
Captain Archer and the crew discover a fully inhabited,
civilized though less advanced Earth-like planet. Disguised to look like its
inhabitants, they pay the planet an exploratory visit where they learn that a
pernicious illness is afflicting the local population. As Archer seeks to help
them find the malady's source, he finds himself in a close encounter with a
comely female alien.
(date is speculation)
August
2151 Events of "Fortunate Son"
Enterprise must intervene when
the leader of a human freighter crew sets out for revenge against alien
pirates.
c.
September 4, 2151
Events of "Cold Front"
(four months, three weeks and six days in
the ship's mission, according to T'Pol)
While Enterprise joins an alien pilgrimage to witness
a religious stellar occurrence, Archer finds himself again faced against the
Suliban warrior Silik.
c.
September 21, 2151
Events of "Silent Enemy"
Attacked by an unidentified enemy ship, the crew struggles
to get their new phase canons operational. Meanwhile, Archer realizes that no
one knows Reed well enough to give him a personalized birthday gift. (Date
of September 1, 2151 given in episode - or was it September 1st? I'll have to
listen back to it - editor)
c.
September 30, 2151 Events of
"Dear Doctor"
The crew discovers a new planet with two races, one in
desperate need of medical and scientific assistance. In the course of trying
to help, Dr. Phlox recalls his own Denobulan past to address the ethical
dilemmas that arise in the present.
(speculation)
early
October 2151 Events of "Sleeping Dogs"
When Enterprise comes across a wounded Klingon
vessel, T'Pol, Hoshi and Reed take a shuttlepod down to investigate. There
they are ambushed by a hostile female Klingon who hijacks the shuttlepod,
leaving the Enterprise crewmembers dangerously stranded aboard the
Klingon vessel.
mid October 2151 The Andorians give the Vulcans on
P'Jem warning to evacuate, and then proceed to invade and occupy the planet.
(just prior to "Shadows of P'Jem" (ENT)
late
October 2151 Events of "Shadows of P'Jem"
Archer and the crew are disappointed to discover that T'Pol
has been ordered by the Vulcan High Command to leave the Enterprise —
and equally frustrated at her seeming indifference to leaving their ranks.
T'Pol's last mission as a Starfleet officer, however, proves eventful when she
and Archer are kidnapped by a militant faction on an alien planet and find
themselves once again at the mercy of the volatile Andorians.
c.
November 9, 2151 Events of "Shuttlepod
One"
On a routine shuttlepod mission to investigate an asteroid
field, Trip and Reed find themselves suddenly cut off from the Enterprise and
become convinced that the mothership has been destroyed. With a limited oxygen
supply and almost no chance of being rescued, the opposite-minded twosome must
battle their annoyance with one another while also coming to terms with their
impending demise. (Date of November 9, 2151 given in episode)
late
November 2151 Events of "Fusion"
Captain Archer agrees to assist a civilian
Vulcan ship with repairs, and learns this group of Vulcans left their
homeworld years ago to explore ways to reintegrate emotions into their lives.
As the two crews work together and become fast friends, one of the visitors
named Tolaris reaches out to T'Pol and urges her to experiment with releasing
her own "primal nature."
(Seven months since Enterprise left Earth)
early December 2151 Krem, the
Ferengi, first starts serving aboard his cousin's merchant vessel. (one month
before "Aquisition")
c.
December 2151 Events of "Rogue Planet"
While exploring an uncharted planet, Enterprise crew members
encounter a group of aliens who are hunting down indigenous creatures for
recreation. During their exploration, Archer is mesmerized by visions of a
woman desperately attempting to communicate with him. The woman's ethereal
distress signal informs Archer that she and others like her are actually the
prey of the alien hunters. Heeding her call, Archer levels the playing field
against the alien hunters.
c.
January 2152 Events of "Acquisition"
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. After the Ferengi awaken the Captain to force his
assistance in pillaging his ship, Trip secretly reveals to Archer that he has
inadvertently escaped the effects of the noxious gas and they work together to
try to surreptitiously thwart the robbery and save the crew.
c.
January 2152
Events of "Oasis"
While exploring a crashed vessel on a desolate
planet, the Enterprise crew is haunted by some ghostly figures, and they
encounter an alien race that has survived despite insurmountable odds. Trip
helps repair their derelict vessel and is befriended by Liana, an attractive
humanoid alien who develops feelings for him.
January
2152 Events of "Detained"
While exploring a planet, Archer and Mayweather enter a
"military zone" and are detained in an internment prison by an alien race
called Tandarans, who are at war with the Suliban. While the Enterprise crew's
previous encounters with the Suliban have been disastrous, Archer and
Mayweather find themselves sharing a cell with some Suliban detainees who they
believe may be wrongly imprisoned.
late
January 2152 Events of "Vox
Sola"
A strange, symbiotic alien creature boards the Enterprise
capturing a few of the crew members, including Archer and Trip, and cocoons
them in its web feeding off their bodies to survive. With the captured
crewmembers' lives in jeopardy, Hoshi, under T'Pol's command, faces her
biggest challenge by trying to find a way to communicate with the lifeform in
order to return it to its home planet.
February
6 - February 9, 2152 Events of
"Fallen Hero"
When a Vulcan ambassador is accused of secretive criminal
misconduct, Enterprise is asked to transport her back to the Vulcans.
Following an attack by a corrupt alien race, T'Pol defends the Ambassador and,
for the first time, asks Archer for his help. Meanwhile, after the Vulcan
diplomat boards the Enterprise, alien weapons begin firing from hostile ships,
putting everyone's lives at risk. (Date of February 9, 2152 given in
episode)
February 9, 2152
Captain Archer makes a log entry regarding Ambassador Velar,
which is later played by the aliens who try to take over the Enterprise in
"The Catwalk." (Although, I thought he said February nineteenth
when i first heard it - must have been a mispronunciation.)
February
12 - February 15, 2152 Events of
"Desert Crossing"
When Archer and Trip are invited to a desert-like planet by
an alien leader after they help fix his ship, they discover he is a terrorist
who has lured them onto his planet under false pretenses. Meanwhile, T'Pol,
while in command, faces a tough decision when she cannot locate Archer and
Trip in the desert. (Date of February 12, 2152 given in episode)
February 18 - February 22, 2152
Events
of "Two Days and Two Nights"
When the crew takes shore leave on the famous pleasure
planet of Risa, Archer has a mysterious encounter with an alien woman; Hoshi
has a surprising romantic rendezvous; Mayweather has a rock-climbing accident;
and Trip and Reed go clubbing only to end the evening as unwitting victims of
robbery. Meanwhile, Phlox stays on board the Enterprise with T'Pol to take his
annual 48-hour hibernation and exhibits some uncharacteristic oddities when
they have to wake him up after an injured crew member returns from shore
leave. (Date of February 18, 2152 given in episode)
roughly
February 25 - March 1, 2152
Events of "Shockwave"
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.
("10 months" after "Broken Bow")