Broken Bow (Star Trek: Enterprise)
| "Broken Bow" | |
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| Star Trek: Enterprise episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 1 Episode 1 & 2 |
| Directed by | James Conway |
| Written by |
Rick Berman Brannon Braga |
| Produced by | Dawn Valazquez |
| Featured music | Dennis McCarthy |
| Production code | 40358-721 (101-102) |
| Original air date | September 26, 2001 |
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"Broken Bow" is the pilot episode of the science fiction television series Enterprise (later renamed Star Trek: Enterprise). It originally aired as a double-length episode, but has been split into two segments for syndication. A novelization of the episode, written by Diane Carey, was published in 2001. The episode won the 2002 Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Visual Effects for a Series, and was also nominated for sound editing and make-up.
It is nine decades since Zephram Cochrane produced humans' first warp flight (as seen in the movie Star Trek: First Contact), and Earth finally launches its first starship of exploration, Enterprise NX-01. Commanded by Captain Jonathan Archer, and against the objections of the Vulcans, it departs on an urgent mission to return an injured Klingon to Qo'noS, the Klingon homeworld.
On Earth in 2121, a young Jonathan Archer is painting a model spaceship with his father, Henry, principal designer of Earth's first Warp 5 engine. Without fully understanding the reasons behind the Vulcans' constraint, he believes that there must be an explanation for holding the human space program back.
30 years later, in 2151, a Klingon named Klaang crashes in Broken Bow, Oklahoma. He kills his two Suliban pursuers, but is then critically wounded by a farmer. Archer, now Captain of the soon-to-be-launched prototype starship Enterprise NX-01, is called to Starfleet Headquarters, where he discusses the incident with Admiral Forrest and Vulcan ambassador Soval. The Vulcans wish to delay the launch of Enterprise. Archer, after consulting with the Denobulan Doctor Phlox, convinces Forrest to allow the new ship to take Klaang to Qo'noS.
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