When Does "Star Trek: Enterprise" Season One (2001) Take Place?
"Enterprise" (later released as "Star Trek: Enterprise") season one is a science fiction television show season showran by Brannon Braga that released September 26th, 2001. So when is "Star Trek: Enterprise" season one set?
It takes place on the fictional Star Trek timeline in the year:
We know this because in season 1 episode 1 "Broken Bow" ??, ? says, "When Zephram Cochran made his legendary warp flight 90 years ago and drew the attention of our new friends, the Vulcans"... referring to events depicted in the time-travel period of the main action of the film "Star Trek: First Contact" (1996), which is clearly specified by Commander Data to be "April 4th, 2063".
2151? AD
We know this because in season 1 episode 1 "Broken Bow" ??, ? says, "When Zephram Cochran made his legendary warp flight 90 years ago and drew the attention of our new friends, the Vulcans"... referring to events depicted in the time-travel period of the main action of the film "Star Trek: First Contact" (1996), which is clearly specified by Commander Data to be "April 4th, 2063".
2063 + 90 = 2153.
Season 1 episode 1 "Broken Bow" ?? also includes a prologue and a series of flashbacks to Captain Jonathan Archer's childhood in 2121 AD.
Although the famous "stardate XXXX.X" captain's records that open most episodes and some films were mistaken for years on the Gregorian calendar, there is no one-to-one relationship between them. As identified in the biography "Gene Roddenberry: The Myth and the Man Behind Star Trek": "They marked off sections on a pictorial depiction of the known universe and extrapolated how much earth time would elapse when traveling between given points, taking into account that the Enterprise's warp engines would be violating Einstein's theory that nothing could exceed the speed of light. They concluded that the 'time continuum' would therefore vary from place to place, and that earth time may actually be lost in travel. 'So the stardate on Earth would be one thing, but the stardate on Alpha Centauri would be different,' Peeples says." so they are relative to long distance travel and not an absolute calendar. HOWEVER, actual years on the Gregorian calendar began to be used later.
It is the first chronological TV show in the Star Trek universe and can be watched at its timeline point or as an extended flashback after "Star Trek: The Next Generation" (1987).
Parts of this season were adapted to prose in late 2001.
