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Hey, I read at Trek BBS that this episode revealed that NX-02 is USS Columbia. Is this true? If you remember, in August we had a name prediction thread.
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There would'nt be very many constructed in the line then, would there?
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Well, the first ones anyway. As it is though by the time the Enterprise is finished in the Expanse they might need a new spaceframe for all the little tech bits (like the Warp 6.whatever that the hull and injectors can't handle)
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So, I liked this episode a lot, but it hinged on a revelation that really deserved a little seeding in previous episodes. I didn't think much of Archer's "aha" moment, connecting the Xindi's curiosity about the number of human ships in the Expanse to there being another Enterprise flying around. I mean, it's such an obvious, relevant question for someone to ask, no time-travel hijinx necessary. They already know Enterprise has at least one other ally in the area, in the Andorians.
Moreover, it seems to me that, with this ship roaming around the Expanse for a hundred years, the Xindi have good reason to think humans are out to get them.
Having said that, I agree with most everybody else's praise of this episode. I especially liked the rushed and ambiguous nature of the ending.
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The order in which the shuttles were built is Enterprise (OV-101), Columbia (OV-102), Challenger (OV-099, technically a converted test vehicle), Discovery (OV-103), Atlantis (OV-104), and Endeavour (OV-105).
And NX-03 should be christened Buran, just because it's Russian. B)
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Challenger, as you said, was originally a test article (STA-099) and thus was technically the first built. Columbia was the third built (after fully-fledged prototype Enterprise OV-101) but the first to fly in space.
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