First Flight

Archer reflects on his days in the NX test program when he is told of the death of an old rival.

Summary

SUMMARY

This is the 50th episode of the series.
Trip refers to Captain Jefferies, an engineer who worked on the NX program in the 2140s who later helped designed the NX class. This is a reference to Matt Jefferies who was the art director of Star Trek: The Original Series and designed the Enterprise, the D7 class Klingon battle cruiser, the Romulan Bird-of-Prey and many other ships. The Jefferies tubes are also named after him. He died on July 21, 2003, two months after this episode first aired.
In the 602 Club there are paintings and patches of many of the spacecraft mentioned on Star Trek, including the DY-100 (possibly Khan Noonien Singh's ship), the Phoenix, the NX-Alpha, and the Enterprise (XCV-330). A patch of the Earth-Saturn probe, featuring Christopher, and added astronauts O'Herlihy and Fontana, named after the Director and Writer of "Tomorrow is Yesterday", the episode where it was mentioned.
Also in the bar is the Rings game from VOY: "Fair Haven".
Dominic Keating (Lt. Malcolm Reed), John Billingsley (Dr. Phlox) and Anthony Montgomery (Ensign Travis Mayweather) do not appear in this episode. Linda Park (Ensign Hoshi Sato) appears in one scene and has only one line.

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Regeneration

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Bounty