Broken Bow

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Broken Bow (novel)

Broken Bow is a Star Trek: Enterprise novel, which was released on 1 October 2001 (hardback) and 1 June 2003 (paperback).

Synopsis

The book is a novelization of the pilot episode of the same name. It is highly controversial among Trek fans - and with producer Rick Berman - due to author Diane Carey's constant use of passages, often presented as characters' internal monologues, commenting on how terrible she believed the script was (in the Season 1 Blu-ray special feature, Berman and Brannon Braga point out that the book is filled from "beginning to end" with such passages).

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Broken Bow (Star Trek: Enterprise)

"Broken Bow" is the pilot episode of the science fiction television series Enterprise (later renamed Star Trek: Enterprise). It originally aired as a double-length episode, but has been split into two segments for syndication. A novelization of the episode, written by Diane Carey, was published in 2001. The episode won the 2002 Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Visual Effects for a Series, and was also nominated for sound editing and make-up.

It is nine decades since Zephram Cochrane produced Human's first warp flight (as seen in the movie Star Trek: First Contact), and Earth finally launches its first starship of exploration, Enterprise NX-01. Commanded by Captain Jonathan Archer, and against the objections of the Vulcans, it departs on an urgent mission to return an injured Klingon to Qo'noS, the Klingon homeworld.

Plot

Episode 1

On Earth in 2121, a young Jonathan Archer is painting a model spaceship with his father, Henry, principal designer of Earth's first Warp 5 engine. Although not fully understanding the reasons behind the Vulcans' constraint, he believes that there must be an explanation for holding the Human space program back.