Most of the major cities have been destroyed. So, we see that ZC is frequently directly credited as both the inventor and the builder.Īlso, the end of WW3 was about 2053, and according to Riker (who really establishes a great deal of the FC continuity compared to other characters), most major governments were gone. However, William Riker and Geordi La Forge (both of the USS Enterprise-E, from 2373) served as the crew.ĬRUSHER (OC): Then the missile complex must be the one where Zefram Cochrane is building his warp ship. Cochrane was the pilot, and Lily Sloane was initially intended to be one of the co-pilots. The titanium took six months for Lily Sloane to scrounge enough to build the four-meter cockpit of the Phoenix. The ship was initially a United States Air Force nuclear missile with a titanium casing. Zefram Cochrane, the inventor of warp drive, built this warp ship inside a missile complex in Bozeman, Montana. I have not made it clear, but the fact that the Chronology's second edition revised the Bonaventure's entry was a mistake created by the false perception (shared by some of you) that FC retconned the Bonaventure into impossibility, which it did not.ĮDIT 2: You can find my refutation of the Tom Paris quote argument here.ĭr. Thus, the Bonaventure was not retconned by First Contact because it didn't contradict First Contact. That said, it's a valid topic of discussion, is referenced passingly in canon, and is eminently reasonable based on canon.Ī retcon only eliminates previous canon or beta canon when the newer canon contradicts the older canon. However, we still encourage discussion of non-canon (sometimes called "beta canon") materials. The Bonaventure did not attract attention because it did not breach the warp threshold (despite using the same tech) and because the Vulcans were simply not present at the time.ĮDIT: I have three things to say to you all. After descending into alcoholism, Zefram met Lily Sloane, who inspired him to give it another shot and 'rise from the ashes' of his mistake in a new ship, the Phoenix, which utilized a newer warp drive to breach the 'warp barrier, ' go FTL, and attract the attention of the Vulcans. The Bonaventure appears in DS9, indicating that it really did exist in the Prime Timeline.Ĭonclusion: The Bonaventure was the first human ship to use a warp field for propulsion in a test flight by Zefram Cochrane in 2061, but it wasn't able to break the 'warp barrier' of the speed of light. We better break the warp barrier in the next five minutes if we're going to get their attention. RIKER: They should be out there right now. We know from TMP that decimal warp factors can denote a warp speed lower than 1c, so the 'warp field' of the Bonaventure simply didn't reach warp 1.Ī quote from Riker supports the notion that the Bonaventure hadn't broken 1c: The term 'space warp' on the MA page for the Bonaventure links to 'warp field.' RIKER: Doctor, tomorrow morning when they detect the warp signature from your ship and realise that humans have discovered how to travel faster than light, they decide to alter their course and make first contact with Earth, right here.Ģ061 is a logical chronological placement for a pre-Phoenix test. All FC establishes is that the Phoenix was the first human ship to travel faster than light and that the Vulcans happened to detect it: These statements are not actually inconsistent with First Contact. In the Chronology the ship is identified as Zefram Cochrane's first warp powered spacecraft from 2061. The first appearance of the Bonaventure was in the first edition of the Star Trek Chronology, the reference model for which, especially built by Greg Jein. The Bonaventure (C1-21) was an early Earth starship credited with the discovery of the space warp. It was actually the ( (C1-21) ) launched by Zefram Cochrane in 2061.
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