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Alshrim Dax
Member # 258
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Well this one comes to me as a bit of surprise.http://www.treknation.com/episodes/season1/terra_nova.shtml It seems that our crew of the NX-01 Enterprise isn't the first band of human to trek outside their solar system.
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Aban Rune
Member # 226
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Sounds like the second season TNG episode with all the clones in it. When was the Mariposa launched?
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Omega
Member # 91
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20 or 30 years before Enterprise, IIRC.
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CaptainMike
Member # 709
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Lots of humans have been outside the solar system.. just not very fast. Travis Mayweather spent hs whole life popping around starsystems a few years each trip.The Mariposa was launched in 2124.. logged along with it were dozens of slower, less ambitious missions than enterprise. The Valiant got all the way to the galactic barrier before enterprise(probably through what im going to call a 'Rigel conduit' of improbable speed)
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Harry
Member # 265
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No, the NX-01 crew is definitely not the first to get out.A short early spaceflight history: The DY-100 (by Yoyodyne?) class was designed in the early 1990s, but for some strange reason they never really became a success-story. According to "The Terratin Incident" (TAS), Earth launched ten 'Space Arks', named Terra 1 to Terra 10. The tenth generation ship was launched around 2069. The S.S. Mariposa (an old 'Y-500 class, as Mayweather calls them) was launched in 2123, and was one of the last of it's class. Probably also one of the last of the one-way colony ships. The 'Terra Nova' colony ship was launched 'more than 70 years ago', says the episode promo. That's earlier than 2081. No inconsistencies anywhere, just a nice acknowledgment of some TOS/TNG backstories.
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Alshrim Dax
Member # 258
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I'm looking forward to it.. The story sounds interesting.What is the timeline for the launch of the Botany Bay?
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Aban Rune
Member # 226
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I think it was launched in the late 1990's (96 if I recall correctly) according to Space Seed and WoK...There's also a model of the DY-100 in Rain Robinson's office in "Future's End" VOY
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Michael_T
Member # 144
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Oh, I remember that episode...what a cute white thing...the model not the actress. Anyway, so we are launching slow speeding ships out to colonize other M-Class worlds from the 1990's to the 2150's? This reminds me of a Fox sci-fi series called Space Above and Beyond. Interesting...
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Aban Rune
Member # 226
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My vote is for the actress....
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MIB
Member # 426
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If I recall correctly, the ships in "Space: Above and Beyond" used a vast network of naturally occuring wormholes to move through interstellar distances. The ships themselves were not capable of faster-than-light flight. One could only imagine exactly why so many wormholes were within a close enough proximity to Earth so that they can be used though.....[ October 19, 2001: Message edited by: MIB ]
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