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Just days after Garth Franklin at Dark Horizons released his review of what is probably an early draft script of the "Enterprise" pilot "Broken Bow," Hercules from Ain't It Cool News has released details of what he says is a much more recent script.
Please Note: Possible spoilers ahead.
According to Hercules, the name of the pilot comes from where the Klingon shuttle is shot down -- Broken Bow, Okla. -- the place where humans meet a Klingon for the first time. He is shot down and pursued by the new "Enterprise" aliens, the Suliban, but he ends up killing its soldiers before being put out of commission by a farmer in the cornfields had landed in.
As previously reported, Jonathan Archer (Scott Bakula) puts together a crew to return the Klingon back to his homeworld in the Beta Quadrant. However, his ship is invaded by the Suliban who take the Klingon, and Archer later learns that the Suliban are trying to create a Klingon civil war.
Some more specific details released in the report include the following:
The Enterprise: The ship's registry is apparenly NX-01 and is described in the script as "lean and masculine, yet its twin warp nacelles suggest the shape of Starfleet vessels to come."
The ship also will have a maximum speed of Warp 4.5 (it is assumed that they will simply be using the same warp scale established in modern Trek), which Archer says in the script, could take them to "Neptune and back in six minutes."
It will have transporters, but none of the crew trusts them despite their clearance to transport biomatter like humanoids.
Capt. Archer: He is described as a San Francisco native who is the son of one of Zefram Cochrane's chief warp-drive team members. He resents Vulcans because they impeded his father's work by not sharing more technology.
T'Pol: A science attache with the Vulcan consulate. When Archer is badly injured midway through the mission, she will assert that her rank in the Vulcan military is higher than the Starfleet ranks of anyone else on board.
The Zefram Cochrane cameo: According to Hercules: "There's a launch ceremony footage of a very old Zefram Cochrane giving a speech 32 years earlier: 'On this site, a powerful engine will be built ... an engine that will someday let us 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."
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Just days after Garth Franklin at Dark Horizons released his review of what is probably an early draft script of the "Enterprise" pilot "Broken Bow," Hercules from Ain't It Cool News has released details of what he says is a much more recent script.
Please Note: Possible spoilers ahead.
According to Hercules, the name of the pilot comes from where the Klingon shuttle is shot down -- Broken Bow, Okla. -- the place where humans meet a Klingon for the first time. He is shot down and pursued by the new "Enterprise" aliens, the Suliban, but he ends up killing its soldiers before being put out of commission by a farmer in the cornfields had landed in.
As previously reported, Jonathan Archer (Scott Bakula) puts together a crew to return the Klingon back to his homeworld in the Beta Quadrant. However, his ship is invaded by the Suliban who take the Klingon, and Archer later learns that the Suliban are trying to create a Klingon civil war.
Some more specific details released in the report include the following:
The Enterprise: The ship's registry is apparenly NX-01 and is described in the script as "lean and masculine, yet its twin warp nacelles suggest the shape of Starfleet vessels to come."
The ship also will have a maximum speed of Warp 4.5 (it is assumed that they will simply be using the same warp scale established in modern Trek), which Archer says in the script, could take them to "Neptune and back in six minutes."
It will have transporters, but none of the crew trusts them despite their clearance to transport biomatter like humanoids.
Capt. Archer: He is described as a San Francisco native who is the son of one of Zefram Cochrane's chief warp-drive team members. He resents Vulcans because they impeded his father's work by not sharing more technology.
T'Pol: A science attache with the Vulcan consulate. When Archer is badly injured midway through the mission, she will assert that her rank in the Vulcan military is higher than the Starfleet ranks of anyone else on board.
The Zefram Cochrane cameo: According to Hercules: "There's a launch ceremony footage of a very old Zefram Cochrane giving a speech 32 years earlier: 'On this site, a powerful engine will be built ... an engine that will someday let us 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."
