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 SHIP PROFILE
 At a time when humanity was only just
beginning to send out unmanned probes into
near orbit of Earth, the Vulcans were already
using warp-powered survey ships to study the
Galaxy. These American football-shaped vessels The survey ship also had impulse engines
were fully independent, and allowed a crew of for travel around planetary systems, and its
four to perform a thorough analysis of any aerodynamic shape and various fins meant it
stellar phenomena that piqued their interest.
was suitable for atmospheric flight. Landing pads
allowed it to touch down on planetary surfaces.
The main bridge of the survey ship was on top of
the vessel towards the front, and although small
and fairly cramped, there was enough room for
all four crew members to work side-by-side. There
appeared to be only one chair on the bridge, and
most of the consoles and scanning workstations
were operated from a standing position.

LONG-TERM MISSIONS
Survey ships were often sent on missions that
could take weeks to complete, and this meant
that they were equipped with crew quarters
where individuals could rest and sleep. There also

A
Vulcan survey ship was a type of starship must have been some type of food replicator
operated by the Vulcan Science technology on board, as although there were
Directorate in the 20th century. It was emergency ration packs sealed in individual bags,
mainly used to scout unexplored areas of space or they could only sustain the crew for about a week.
investigate unusual readings received from planets A Vulcan survey ship was sent to Earth in
or spatial phenomena. If what was found was of October 1957 after the Vulcans detected the
interest to the Vulcans, a survey ship could then launch of Sputnik 1, Earth’s first artificial satellite.
make a more thorough scientific study of what The Vulcan crew consisted of a captain, his
had been discovered. second-in-command T’Mir, who was T’Pol’s great
The main body of the Vulcan survey ship was grandmother, Stron, a warp field engineer and
zeppelin-shaped, while various curved fins were Mestral, who was the youngest and most junior
attached to its rear. It was roughly 25 meters in member of the ship.
length and was normally operated by a crew of During their third week of making statistical
four. Its maximum speed was somewhere between scans of Earth and gathering information about
warp 4 and warp 5. humanity from high orbit, their ship’s impulse

VULCAN DATA FEED

SURVEY SHIP
T’Pol claimed that the incident of a Vulcan survey ship
crash-landing on Earth in 1957 was well-documented
on Vulcan. It appeared that the event was kept from
humanity, as Captain Archer and Commander Tucker
had never heard of it until T’Pol told them.

In the 20th century, Vulcans used small survey ships

 In 1957, a Vulcan survey ship was sent to study Earth after
scans detected Sputnik 1, Earth’s first artificial satellite. The crew of
the Vulcan ship, which included T’Mir, T’Pol’s great-grandmother,
to conduct scans and gather information on planets. performed statistical scans from high orbit. The vessel crash-landed
on Earth after developing a fault with its impulse manifold.

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 SHIP PROFILE VULCAN SURVEY SHIP OVERVIEW SHIP PROFILE

 The Vulcan survey  T’Mir took command

ship that was studying after the captain of the
Earth in 1957 developed survey ship died in the
a problem with its crash-landing. T’Mir,
impulse manifold, and it Stron and Mestral stayed
crashed in an isolated near the crash site for
area of woodland. over a week hoping to
be rescued. They
remained there for five
 After spending about days after they had
three months living in consumed their
Carbon Creek, T’Mir and emergency rations, but
Stron were rescued by driven by hunger they
the D’Vahl. This was eventually had to make
another type of Vulcan their way to Carbon
survey ship, but it was Creek to look for food.
slightly larger.

 Unlike later Vulcan manifold developed a fault. This caused the bearings, they realized that the ship’s subspace After three months of living in Carbon Creek, the
vessels of the 22nd refusion pressure to drop and the ship’s orbit transceiver had been damaged and they were Vulcans thought they were going to have to live DATA FEED
century, the Vulcan
began to decay. The crew tried everything to fix it, unsure it their distress call had been transmitted. there forever, but then they were contacted by At first, T’Mir had little regard
survey ship did not have
for humanity. She believed
a large annular warp ring but in the end they had no choice but to attempt Captain Tellus of the Vulcan survey vessel D’Vahl.
that they were on the brink
that encircled the main an emergency landing on Earth. REAL FIRST CONTACT He explained that their distress signal had been
body. Instead, the survey of self-annihilation because
Despite deploying the survey ship’s stabilizers, T’Mir decided that they should remain in the woods picked up by a Tellarite freighter, but it took them they seemed to reveal in
ship of the 20th century
had warp engine pods their landing vector was too steep and the Vulcans and await rescue. They consumed their rations some time to report it to the Vulcan High Council. violence. But as time went
attached to its rear crash-landed in an isolated area of North America. within a week, but after another five days without When it came time to leave Earth, Mestral by, T’Mir saw more potential
section. It also had The impact wrecked the ship, causing fires to break food, they reluctantly decided to venture into decided he wanted to stay. He wanted to study in humans, and she became
impulse engines that fond of the tavern’s owner,
out throughout its systems and making repairs the nearest town, which turned out to be Carbon humans up close, as they stood on the verge of
emitted an amber glow Maggie, and her son Jack.
when in use. impossible. The captain was killed in the crash, Creek, a small mining town in Pennsylvania. countless social and technological advancements.
Before she left Earth, T’Mir
while the other crew members were lucky Over the following weeks, the three Vulcans took T’Mir and Stron returned to Vulcan, but Mestral sold some Velcro, which she
to escape with their lives. menial jobs and integrated themselves with the remained on Earth presumably for the rest of life. took from her crashed survey
The one fortunate aspect of the disaster was local community. Stron became a plumber, T’Mir This could have been for 150 years or more, which ship, to a local businessman.
that they landed in such a remote area that they took work in the local tavern, and Mestral became would have meant that he was still there when She gave the proceeds to
Maggie, so she could afford
did not attract the attentions of the indigenous a coal miner. He was by far the most enthusiastic official ‘first contact’ between the Vulcans and
to send Jack to college.
population. Once the survivors had regained their when it came to interacting with humans. Zefram Cochrane happened in 2063.

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 SHIP PROFILE VULCAN SURVEY SHIP PLAN VIEWS

Stabilizing winglet
Subspace transceiver
DATA FEED
VULCANS ON EARTH In reality, Velcro was not a Vulcan invention, but was first
Of the three surviving crew members of the made by Swiss engineer George de Mestral in 1955, two
years before the events depicted in ‘Carbon Creek.’ De
Vulcan survey ship, Stron had the most trouble
Mestral initially made Velcro out of cotton, but when this
adapting to Earth and did not enjoy spending wore out too quickly, he discovered that nylon worked
Main bridge
time around humans. He especially did not much better. It was this Swiss inventor that also gave the
appreciate humans likening him to Moe out Vulcan character of Mestral his name.
of ‘The Three Stooges’ because of his hairstyle.
T’Mir too had a low opinion of humanity,
certainly at first, although she was partially
won around by the time she left.
Mestral, the youngest of the Vulcan crew,
had a strong fascination for humanity,
however. He integrated into the local culture,
liked to watch TV and even went with tavern
owner Maggie to a baseball game. When Forward sensor palette

some of his fellow miners became trapped NUCLEAR TESTING

underground, he was determined to help his The White Sands test
“friends,” even though T’Mir and Stron were was mentioned in
much more reluctant to get involved. Mestral ‘Carbon Creek.’ This is
an area of New Mexico
used a Vulcan particle weapon, which he
where the first atomic
retrieved from an armory case aboard the bomb was tested in
crashed survey ship, to blast a hole through Impulse engine 1945. The project was
the rock in order to rescue all 12 miners. code named ‘Trinity,’
and the early bomb was
Mestral became so engrossed in humanity
nicknamed ‘Gadget.’
that he did not want to leave. T’Mir knew Warp engine shroud
that the Vulcan High Command would never TELLARITE MENTION
allow him to stay, so she told their rescuers Chronologically, the
that Mestral died in the crash along with their Tellarites were mentioned
for the first time in
captain, and that they had burnt the bodies.
‘Carbon Creek’ when one
T’Pol presumed that Mestral remained on Earth of their ships received
for the rest of his life, without his true identity Impulse engine the distress call from
ever coming to light. the Vulcan survey ship.
Tellarites were not
actually seen until the
episode ‘Bounty.’

Warp engine shroud

VULCAN RECORD
On the first anniversary
of her assignment on
Enterprise NX-01, T’Pol
told the story of her
great-grandmother’s
experiences on Earth
in 1957. It was also
revealed that before T’Pol
served on Enterprise,
the previous record for
a Vulcan remaining with
 Mestral became fascinated with human culture and even joined
an Earth starship was
tavern owner Maggie on a trip to a baseball game. He later chose
just 10 days.
to remain on Earth rather than return to Vulcan with his colleagues. Retractable landing pad

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 DESIGNING THE SHIP

 When asked to design

a Vulcan survey ship Rescue Vehicle docked onto it for “The only problem I had with this the 22nd-century D’Kyr-type vessel that
for ‘Carbon Creek’ John rescue missions. I thought it would be design was that when it was shown to was first seen in the Season Two opener
Eaves first came up with pretty cool to do something similar one producer, the same one who had ‘Shockwave, Part II’ and would go on to
this concept, which was
on a starship, and the warp ring of flipped the direction of Ru’afo’s flagship appear in several more episodes.
inspired by the shape of
an American football. a Vulcan ship lent itself to having a little from STAR TREK: INSURRECTION, he
shuttle parked in there – the football- started looking at it with a confused look UNCLEAR ORIGINS
shaped shuttle I had designed earlier. on his face. I quickly ran over and drew Sixteen years after ‘Carbon Creek’
a big forward arrow on it to indicate its was first broadcast no one can quite
MECHANICAL MOVEMENT direction of travel so there wouldn’t be remember where the design for the
“I also thought it would be a nifty idea any similar misunderstandings.” Vulcan survey ship that did appear in
if the warp ring folded up and down At this stage, the larger Vulcan ship the episode first came from. The popular
mechanically. Since we were now was known as a D’Vahl transport and opinion seems to be that lead CG artist
creating CG ships, I thought it wouldn’t Eaves drew up an illustration of it with Pierre Drolet from Eden FX adapted
be difficult for them to animate this, the smaller survey ship docked inside Eaves’ design for the football-shaped
whereas before when they had to make its warp ring. The producers loved survey shuttle. Drolet certainly seems to
physical models it would be hard to rig. this design, but they decided not to have used it for inspiration, but the final
I also thought having a mechanical use them for the survey ship and the design did not feature an opened-ring
moving ring made it look more retro D’Vahl-type vessel in ‘Carbon Creek.’ look, but was more of a conventional
and this tied in with the fact that it was Instead, they thought the design was shuttle shape, which perhaps better
supposed to be from the 20th century. so good that they decided to use it for reflected a 20th-century design.

 Eaves was also asked to come up

with a larger Vulcan ship known as
the D’Vahl for ‘Carbon Creek,’ and he
thought it would be clever idea if the
smaller survey ship docked inside its
warp ring. The producers loved this
concept so much that they decided to

DESIGNING THE use it for a totally different Vulcan ship –

the D’Kyr type – which would feature
in many more episodes.

VULCAN SURVEY SHIP

John Eaves designed such great Vulcan ships for ‘Carbon Creek’ that
it was decided it would be a waste to use them just for one episode.

L
eading into Season Two of “Doug Drexler designed the first In order to gauge a sense of scale
ENTERPRISE, illustrator John Eaves Vulcan ship on ENTERPRISE,” said Eaves. of the ship, Eaves was encouraged to
was asked to come up with a “He set the architectural tone for the design another larger Vulcan vessel,
design for a Vulcan ship for the episode Vulcans, so I played off what he had and this led to a further breakthrough.
‘Carbon Creek.’ At this point, the done. I just followed his opened-ring “I also had this piggyback idea of two
Vulcans really did not have that many starship, so it would all tie together. The ships locked together, which came
ships in the STAR TREK library, but there first idea I had came from a football from the US Navy,” Eaves. “There was
had been the Surak-class vessel shape cut open like a sandal. The this nuclear submarine called the USS
designed by Doug Drexler that featured producers liked that idea immediately, Dallas that featured in the film ‘The
in the Season One episode ‘Breaking so I drew up a couple of color Hunt for Red October.’ On occasion,
the Ice.’ sketches.” this submarine had a small Deep Sea

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however, that ENTERPRISE would not been given  ENTERPRISE got off
this kind of time, whether through franchise fatigue to a tremendous start
with ‘Broken Bow’ when
or expectations that were too high.
a Klingon pilot crash-
ENTERPRISE launched in 2001 when STAR TREK landed in a corn field
fans for the first time could instantly make their in Oklahoma. This first
views known on the internet through message episode was ambitious
and full of action, but the
boards and blogs. The show came in for criticism rest of Season One had
for being too derivative and rehashing plots and trouble living up to its
themes that had already been seen in earlier promise and did not feel
as fresh and exciting as
incarnations of the franchise.
many had hoped.

INUNDATED WITH WORK

Braga felt some of the criticism was valid and
knew he had to shake things up. The problem
was that he was snowed under with work. He
had hired a bunch of writers, who he knew were
creative and talented, but had not written on
a sci-fi show like STAR TREK before. It required
a particular skill-set that took time to learn and
they were thrown in at the deep end.
The upshot was that Braga had to do at least
some rewriting on all 26 episodes of the first
season, and some of them required substantial
rewrites. On top of this, he had to break the
next episode, deal with set issues and attend
production meetings. He was absolutely
overwhelmed with work and found himself in the

THE WRITERS ON ENTERPRISE’S midst of the most difficult STAR TREK season he’d
ever experienced.
The consequence of all this was that he didn’t

SECOND SEASON
have the time to be doing what he really should
have been doing as showrunner and that was
looking ahead to story development rather than  A farmer welcomed
being mired in rewrites. the first Klingon to set
When Berman and Braga first took their idea of foot on Earth by blasting
him with his shotgun.
A perfect storm of writers unfamiliar with STAR TREK, constant rewrites ENTERPRISE to the studio, they wanted to employ
serialized storytelling. The studio, however, did not
The whole idea of
ENTERPRISE was that
and pressure from the network forced Rick Berman and Brannon want that and insisted on standalone episodes the humans would react
to things much more
where the plot was tied up in an hour of television.
Braga to make major changes in their approach to Season Two. Braga felt that this demand to do more of
like the people of today
and that would make the
the same kind of storytelling was stifling them series more relatable. This

E
 ENTERPRISE had a xecutive producers and co-creators Rick were not up to what they had expected and they creatively, but he battled through. Going into extended to members
decent, but uninspired of Enterprise’s crew, but
Berman and Brannon Braga were feeling were aware that they had to turn things round. Season Two, Braga knew he had to change things
first season. Many of the after the pilot many of the
stories felt like they had the pressure going into Season Two of What many people forget, however, is that and many of the writers were not rehired. What he writers felt like they were
been told before, as the ENTERPRISE. The show’s pilot, ‘Broken Bow,’ had THE NEXT GENERATION, DEEP SPACE NINE and really needed was a trusted lieutenant or a core prevented from making
co-creators relied on been an absolute success in most people’s eyes, VOYAGER all took a few seasons to find their stride. group of writers like they had on THE NEXT them as tough and gritty
ideas that had brought as they would have liked
but much of the rest of the season didn’t live up to Most fans would say that these shows were in their GENERATION or VOYAGER, who could keep the
them earlier success. They to have done.
knew, however, that they the promise of the feature-length debut episode. third seasons before they really found their voice storytelling consistently high, but he just did not
needed to make changes. The ratings, while very good by today’s standards, and became compelling television. It seemed, have that kind of backup.

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 Writer and co-

executive producer Chris
Black had been led to
believe that Captain
Archer would be an all-
action, get-the-girl type of
hero from the beginning.
It wasn’t until the fourth
season, however, that
we saw Archer have a
dalliance with a green-
skinned Orion woman.

 ‘Carbon Creek,’ in
which the Vulcans were
first seen visiting Earth
in the 1950s, introduced
a fresh way of telling a
story, which Braga was
delighted with, and the
episode was nominated
for a Hugo Award.

Some writers were kept on, like Chris Black, the captain would get in fistfights and romance Gene Roddenberry would have thought. They to get these Vulcans into different clothes. Most  Braga felt that Season
André Bormanis, Mike Sussman and Phyllis Strong green-skinned women. wanted to keep his STAR TREK ideals and vision notably, Mestral wore a woollen hat to cover his Two got off to a strong
start with ‘Shockwave,
and they were eager to help, but felt that the Some of the writers felt that there was reticence intact, but it was at odds with the freshness that Vulcan ears just as Spock had done.
 Chris Black decided Part II.’ In the episode,
to join ENTERPRISE after reality was somewhat different to the vision of to mess with the formula and break the mold. One they wanted to bring to ENTERPRISE. Black, who wrote the teleplay for ‘Carbon Archer found himself
he was told that it would the show that they had been sold on. of the things that really frustrated Black was that Creek,’ said it was one of his all-time favorite stranded in the 31st
be like ‘The Right Stuff’ century with Daniels at his
they weren’t allowed to kill anybody. He had RENEWED DETERMINATION episodes and it was nominated for a Hugo Award.
in space. He finally got ruined base of operations.
to explore this notion in MISSING THE POINT been told that the crew would really be pushing They knew that Season Two had to be better and “I loved that episode on a lot of levels,” said Black. They had no technology
Season Two when he Chris Black believed that ENTERPRISE was going the boundaries and putting their lives on the line they approached it with vigor. The season started “I thought it was different and it wasn’t something to send him back to
worked on the teleplay for to be like ‘The Right Stuff’ in space. For him, the as they did things no human had ever done with ‘Shockwave, Part II,’ which Braga was really that I felt we had seen before. I like the idea of Enterprise in the 22nd
‘First Flight,’ which saw century, leaving them
whole point of setting it a hundreds years prior to before. And yet no one ever got seriously hurt, let happy with and felt provided a strong opening. digging a little bit into the canon of what we
Archer as a hotshot test wondering how to repair
pilot trying to break the THE ORIGINAL SERIES was that it was going to be alone killed even though the premise of the show This was followed by ‘Carbon Creek,’ and Braga thought was the first time Vulcans had come to the timeline.
warp 2 barrier. a throwback to old-fashioned STAR TREK where was that most things on the ship were new and thought it was a great concept. The idea had Earth, only to find that in fact it was not the first
untested. To him, this didn’t sell how dangerous the been pitched to him during the first season by Dan time they had visited Earth.”
stakes were for the crew, and this was precisely O’Shannon, who was the executive producer and
what had intrigued him when he joined the show. head writer on ‘Frasier.’ PERFECT ALLEGORY
Braga felt that it was too off concept to do in Braga also felt that ‘Stigma’ was a great episode
CREW CONFLICT the first season, so they held it back. “If we’d done from Season Two. It was an allegory for AIDS, in
Similarly, he wanted more conflict within the crew. it too early, it wouldn’t have been appreciated which the Vulcans discovered that T’Pol had
He knew that in Gene Roddenberry’s universe quite as much,” said Braga. “It was like on NEXT Pa’nar Syndrome, a neurological disease caused
everybody got along and that there was harmony GENERATION when they did ‘The Naked Now’ as by a mind-meld, which at the time her people
among humans, but he felt that this had grown episode two. How can you show the characters considered a disgusting practice. The idea had
out of all proportion. Even in THE ORIGINAL SERIES, with their inhibitions down if you didn’t know what come to Braga after he attended a seminar that
Dr. McCoy and Spock were often at loggerheads their inhibitions were? So we waited. It wasn’t the network had for their showrunners about AIDS,
and McCoy sometimes called him all manner of easy, believe me. When you have a good story, and he felt it was an issue that would be perfect
racist names. your inclination is to use it right away.” to tell through the lens of STAR TREK.
Looking back, Berman and Braga admitted that The show had several echoes of ‘The City on the Even though Braga had sworn to himself that he
they were probably a little too conservative in their Edge of Forever’ from THE ORIGINAL SERIES, which would not do any Borg episodes on ENTERPRISE, he
approach, and a little too worried about what were entirely deliberate as they figured out how felt that when Mike Sussman pitched him the idea

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into action. He had a concept for a world where  Initially, ‘Regeneration’

humanoids were not the only one to develop came in for flak when
intelligence. What if there was a world where fans heard it was going
to feature the Borg, which
sea-dwelling creatures had done it, other primates
they believed were a
had done it and insects and reptiles. And what if 24th-century species
they had a grudge against Earth? This was the and should not be seen
seed of the idea that became the season-long in ENTERPRISE. After it
aired, many changed
arc to feature the Xindi threat. their minds as it not only
offered some thrilling
EXCITING TIMES scenes, but also did not
contradict established
Braga and Berman put their heads together to
continuity.
figure out how it would work and set the ball
rolling in the Season Two finale ‘The Expanse.’
In it, an alien probe visited Earth and cut a huge
swath of destruction from Florida to Venezuela,
killing seven million people. There was nothing
timid about this approach. Trip even looked
 T’Pol found herself for ‘Regeneration’ it was just too good to pass up. would encourage more young people to tune in future. Dolgen loved STAR TREK and gave the Archer in the eye and asked if they were really
ostracized by Vulcan But just as in the previous season, there were and up the viewing figures. producers permission to do anything they wanted. going after the perpetrators with “none of that
society after they learned
episodes that didn’t hit the mark and none more This was just beyond ridiculous on so many levels. non-interference crap T’Pol is always going
she had a neurological
disease caused by a so than ‘Precious Cargo.’ The story featured When Braga asked how they were going to get a BOLD DIRECTION on about.”
botched mind-meld, Trip rescuing an exotic alien princess, played by different band on the ship each week when it was This was music to Braga’s ears, as he always felt After realizing that they had to shake things up,
which they considered Padma Lakshmi, from kidnappers and then going in deep space, the executive entirely missed the from the get-go that ENTERPRISE should feature Berman and Braga had decided to really go big.
a disgusting practice. The
episode was an allegory
on the run. At first, he found her demanding and point and said, “Don’t you have a restaurant on an on-going serialized arc rather than standalone Braga was delighted. “We wrote, I think, a killer
for AIDS, and Braga spoiled, but then he fell for her charms. the ship where they can play?” episodes. This way they could push the stakes very finale,” said Braga. “I was excited to go into
considered it to be the Braga performed a rewrite of the script, in It was clear that ENTERPRISE was not being met high and put Earth at stake, with only Captain Season Three. For the first time in a while, the first
type of story that STAR
which he treated it like a screwball comedy, but with the same passion from the network as the Archer and his crew able to save the planet. time since my last tenure on VOYAGER, I felt truly
TREK told so well and
one the best installments admitted that he didn’t do a very a good job. So earlier incarnations of the franchise, and Braga already had an idea, which was the Xindi and genuinely exciting to be working on STAR
of Season Two. dissatisfied with the end product, he even asked something radical had to be done. Braga was concept and now he had carte blanche to put it TREK. I couldn’t wait to get into Season Three.”
Berman if they had to aired it, but it was too late desperate to bring in an additional high-level
to do anything else. person to help him with the planning and writing  The Season Two
cliffhanger ‘The Expanse’
of the show. To that end, Ira Steven Behr, who had
marked a major turning
NEW PROBLEM worked on THE NEXT GENERATION and run DEEP point in the storytelling
While for Braga this was the nadir of the season, SPACE NINE, was brought in for a chat. of ENTERPRISE. The
there were still too many episodes that were producers were given
permission to do a story
retreading old ground. However, the biggest EXTRAORDINARY DIATRIBE
arc over an entire season,
problem was that UPN had gone through a It was certainly a memorable meeting. Behr and they set this up when
change of management. Before this, the network absolutely let rip at the show, saying he hated the the Xindi attacked Earth
had just let STAR TREK get on with making shows characters, hated the concept and thought the and cut a huge swath
of destruction across the
without any interference. However, after this big whole thing was terrible. Braga was both aghast planet’s surface.
change at UPN, they suddenly started giving and entertained by the tirade. While he agreed
Berman and Braga copious notes on how to with some of Behr’s critiques, he didn’t really
improve ENTERPRISE. understand why Behr had taken the meeting
It was clear that some of these executives really unless it was his way of really shaking things up.
didn’t understand STAR TREK at all. One suggestion Instead, salvation came from another source.
came in that left Braga unable to tell if it was Jonathan Dolgen, who was chairman of the
serious or not. They wanted ENTERPRISE to feature Viacom Entertainment Group and “head of
a different boy band each week where they everything” according Braga, told them to do
would sing their latest single on the ship. They felt it what they had to in order to secure ENTERPRISE’s

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ON SCREEN TRIVIA DALA’S
‘DELTA FLYER ’
Actor J. Paul Boehmer, who starred as
Mestral in ‘Carbon Creek,’ also featured in
several other STAR TREK roles. He appeared
as an SS Kapitan in the VOYAGER episodes
‘The Killing Game, Parts I & II’ and the
technically advanced Borg drone known
as ‘One’ in ‘Drone.’ He then featured as the
EVERY
Inside your magazine
Cardassian Vornar in the DEEP SPACE NINE
TWO WEEKS In-depth profile of Dala’s ‘Delta Flyer,’
episode ‘Tacking Into the Wind.’ His final AT YOUR
STAR TREK appearance was as another RETAILER a 24th-century vessel that con artist
Nazi SS officer in the ENTERPRISE episodes Dala claimed was the Delta Flyer
‘Zero Hour’ and ‘Storm Front.’
attached to the U.S.S. Voyager

How illustrator Tim Earls designed

a dilapidated vessel to feature as
Dala’s fake‘Delta Flyer’ in the episode
‘Live Fast and Prosper’

A look at how some of the special

effects were put together in Season Six
of STAR TREK: VOYAGER

Before the episode was officially called

FIRST APPEARANCE:

TV APPEARANCE:
‘CARBON CREEK’ (ENT)

STAR TREK: ENTERPRISE

‘Carbon Creek,’ the script had the working
title of ‘Population: 612’ in reference to the
sign seen on the edge of town [see picture
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T’Pol tells the story of a Vulcan survey among humans, the Vulcans are The ENTERPRISE episodes ‘Home’ and
ship that visits Earth in 1957 after it is rescued, although Mestral, who ‘Daedalus’ revealed that Vulcan was
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