Has there been any reference to Captain Archer and the crew of the original "Enterprise" in any Star Trek series?

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• I guess that was a good though on the writers' part--make it seem like the planet was named after the captain to tie the series' together...

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  by HungryGuy on February 18th, 2008

• Exactly.

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  by Anonymous on February 18th, 2008

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• Actually, I don't think that the Dr. Soong that we meet in Enterprise is the one that created Data. At the end of that series, as Soong is musing over the possibilities of cybernetics, he also muses that the project he envisions will probably take multiple generations. A pretty clear implication that Data's creator was one of his decedents. Also I would point out the age and physical condition of Admiral Lenard McCoy when he put in a cameo appearance on the premier episode of The Next Generation. He was absolutely ancient. I very much doubt that the Soong of Enterprise would have survived into The Next Generation's era.

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  by Glenn Blaylock on February 18th, 2008

• I did a little more research. The Soong of Enterprise was Arik Soong (http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/series/ENT/episode/6485.html). The Soong who created Data was Noonien Soong (http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/library/character/bio/1071411.html).

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  by Glenn Blaylock on February 22nd, 2008

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• I would point out that Archer's Enterprise did not have the service number NCC-1701. It was the NX-01. So, that does not stop Kirk's Enterprise from being the first NCC-1701. However, I will agree with you that the NX-01 had not yet been conceived of at the time of the original series. A better line of evidence to support this conclusion is the fact that the NX-01 does not appear in the series of pictures shown in Star Trek: The Motion Picture that depicts other ships that bore the name Enterprise.

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  by Glenn Blaylock on February 18th, 2008

• Yes, indeed! Revisionist history is a bad thing--in both fact and fiction.
  
  Oh, and I just remembered: the captain prior to Kirk was Pike. There may, or many not, have been captains of the Enterprise prior to Pike.
  
  As for me, I'm awaiting two new series: Star Trek: Temporal Corps, and Star Trek: Starfleet Academy. But I'm not holding my breath...

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  by HungryGuy on February 18th, 2008

• In the books, we are told of one of the other Captain of the Enterprise. The first one was Robert April. As a matter of fact, Kirk's father, George Samuel Kirk, served on the ship under April.
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  I, too, get annoyed with revisionist history. A very different history for Zefram Cochrane had been pretty well established in the novels prior to Star Trek: First Contact. Then shortly before that movie came out they completely changed it.

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  by Glenn Blaylock on February 18th, 2008

• I sort of have to disagree on revisionist history -- well, inconsistencies are annoying, but I thought Enterprise presented a most-exciting time in the history of Earth & space exploration, bridging the gap between Cochrane and the Original. and it did it in a way that didn't threaten the original. it was its own place and time.
  situations and people could be more colorful, being that much closer to our own point in history, to the way things are done now, before all that annoying & cloying (& boring characters) political-correctness of The Next Generation had developed in society.

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  by overeducated on March 29th, 2009