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 Contents NX-ALPHA
04: NX-ALPHA SPECIFICATION
10: DESIGNING THE SHIP

14: THE ROAD TO WARP 5

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 SHIP PROFILE
 The NX-Alpha was the first in
a series of prototype ships that
were built to test a new type of
warp engine. It was similar in
appearance to Dr. Cochrane’s
Phoenix, with a tubular-shaped of the Phoenix, Dr. Tasaki, and Dr. Henry Archer,
main body. The chief differences the father of Jonathan Archer, who would later
were found at the rear and in
become captain of Enterprise NX-01.
the shape of the ‘wing’
structures and nacelles. These scientists did much of their work at the
Warp Five Complex, which was located just
outside of Bozeman, Montana, the site of the
Phoenix’s construction and launch. The scheme
was overseen by Commodore Maxwell Forrest and
was supervised by the Vulcans. They helped in so
far as they were willing to point out any dangerous
mistakes that were made, but they were unwilling
to share their knowledge of warp mechanics.

SLOW PROGRESS
The program evolved into the NX Project in the
2140s as the scientists sought to test their warp
engines in prototype starships. Progress was
frustratingly slow, especially as Cochrane retired
and disappeared to “parts unknown,” while Henry
Archer died due to advanced Clarke’s disease in
2124. Nevertheless, the warp engine that Henry

T
he NX-Alpha was Earth’s first starship to break Archer was primarily credited with designing was
the warp 2 barrier. It was flown by test pilot eventually fitted to an experimental starship.
A.G. Robinson in 2143, 80 years after the In 2143, the prototype NX-Alpha was ready
Phoenix had first achieved warp 1. for its inaugural flight. Several commanders in
In the years following the successful faster-than- Starfleet were in competition to pilot the ship in
light flight of the Phoenix, the United Earth Space its attempt to break the warp 2 barrier: Gardner,
Probe Agency merged with Starfleet and set up Duvall, Robinson and Jonathan Archer. In the final
the Warp Five program. As its name suggested, weeks before it was launched, this was narrowed
this scheme was designed to develop a warp five down to just two: Archer and Robinson. Archer
engine. The main scientists involved in this project dedicated himself to the project and spent 18 or
were Dr. Zefram Cochrane, the designer and pilot even 20 hours in the flight simulator, but he was
overlooked in favor of Robinson.
Despite Archer’s disappointment, he

UNITED EARTH STARFLEET

NX-ALPHA
congratulated Robinson and monitored the flight
from the Warp Five complex. Once NX-Alpha was
launched and in orbit, problems arose in the warp
field stabilization protocols, delaying the warp 2
attempt. It was not long before the problems were

 At Enterprise NX-01’s launch ceremony, a recording of a speech

The NX-Alpha was the first human-made starship to given by Dr. Zefram Cochrane in 2119 at the Warp Five Complex was
played to the attending dignitaries. Cochrane was filmed with Dr. Henry
exceed warp 2 before it broke apart on its first test run. Archer and the other scientists involved in developing a warp engine
that would allow humans to travel further than they ever had before.

5
 SHIP PROFILE NX-ALPHA OVERVIEW SHIP PROFILE

 Once in orbit around u After breaking the

Earth, various checks warp 2 barrier, the
were made on the NX-Alpha’s warp field
NX-Alpha’s warp engine became unstable, but
before it began its attempt Robinson believed he
at reaching warp 2. could go even faster.
This led to a catastrophic
u Problems arose collapse of the warp field
in keeping the warp and the ship exploded.
field stable, but these
appeared to have been
 In order to prove that
solved as the NX-Alpha
the warp engine worked,
accelerated to warp 2.
Archer and Robinson
 Jonathan Archer decided to take the
monitored the progress NX-Beta on a test run
of the NX-Alpha’s maiden without permission. They
flight on a display that ‘stole’ it from its hangar
recorded its warp jumps during the night when
at the NX complex. no one was around.

 The cockpit of the ironed out and flight control gave the order to go warp engine for the loss of NX-Alpha. The Vulcans it worked was to take a ship out and perform the every simulation they could think of on the warp  The NX-Beta was
NX-Alpha had seating for to warp. Moments later, NX-Alpha accelerated agreed with him, and told Starfleet to put the NX flight. They therefore decided to appropriate the engine before they were convinced that it would virtually identical to the
two pilots, but the craft NX-Alpha. By controlling
through warp 1, on to warp 1.5, and after a small program on hold. NX-Beta, an almost identical ship to the NX-Alpha, work. In 2145, over 20 months after Archer and the ratio in which the
could be flown by just
one. The technology and bump, past warp 2. Robinson had done it – piloting without permission to perform a test flight. Robinson’s unsanctioned flight in the NX-Beta, matter and antimatter
controls featured in the the first human starship to warp 2. As he continued BUST UP With the help of engineer Trip Tucker at the NX Commander Duvall broke the warp 3 barrier in the were combined, the warp
cabin were much more field remained stable and
to accelerate, however, the craft began to shake Archer was furious as it would set the project hangar, Archer and Robinson ‘stole’ the NX-Beta. NX-Delta. The success of the NX Program eventually
sophisticated than they it successfully reached
had been in the Phoenix
alarmingly and warp field integrity fell to 20 per back decades, and he believed the cause of the As they pushed past warp 2, the same fluctuations led to the first warp 5 engine, and the launch of warp 2.5.
when it made its flight cent. Robinson was ordered to slow to sublight accident was pilot error. Robinson would have in the intermix chamber occurred as before, but Enterprise NX-01 in 2151.
80 years earlier. The speeds while the problem was diagnosed. none of it, and refused point blank to take any this time they were able to make adjustments to
instrument panels directly
Robinson had ideas of his own, and believed blame. Instead he placed the failure on Henry keep the warp field stable. Moments later they DATA FEED
in front of the pilot not
he could push the ship even faster. He continued Archer, accusing him of “designed a lousy engine,” reached and held steady at warp 2.5, proving the A.G. Robinson and Jonathan Archer were friends and
surprisingly dealt with
great rivals. Robinson was somewhat arrogant and
the direction and velocity to accelerate to warp 2.2, but as NX-Alpha a statement of staggering insensitivity which engine worked.
more of a maverick than Archer, attributes that he
of flight, while the panels approached Jupiter, the warp field collapsed and triggered a fist fight between the two men. When they returned to Earth, both men were
to the right monitored the felt were the reason that he was chosen to pilot the
the ship exploded. Fortunately, Robinson survived Once Archer and Robinson had calmed down, suspended from duty. There was a real threat that NX-Alpha. Robinson and Archer came to blows after
engine and warp field.
as he ejected from the craft, making him the first they tried to work out how they could keep the they would be dismissed from Starfleet altogether, the destruction of the NX-Alpha, but later made up
person to deploy an escape pod at warp, and he project alive. Robinson realized that however but the men felt it was worth it to keep the NX and took the NX-Beta on its record breaking flight.
was later picked up and brought back to Earth. many simulations and calculations they made, Project on track. Robinson was killed in 2153 while climbing Mount
McKinley on Earth, shortly before he was expected to
In the debriefing of the mission, Robinson the Vulcans would never countenance restarting As it transpired, Archer and Robinson were only
take command of Columbia NX-02.
blamed a fundamental flaw in the design of the the project. The only thing that would prove that suspended for three months, but the Vulcans ran

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 SHIP PROFILE NX-ALPHA PLAN VIEWS

SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES Support stabilizer

The NX-Alpha was similar in appearance Bussard ramscoop
to the Phoenix, Earth’s first warp ship. The
cockpit module at the nose of the ship was
almost identical from the outside, but the
interior was much different. The command
module of the Phoenix had seating for three
occupants, and the technology was much
more rudimentary as Dr. Cochrane had Warp nacelle
to make do with whatever parts could be Folding nacelle support
Navigational sensor
scavenged on post-apocalyptic Earth. In
contrast, the NX-Alpha had seating for two
crew members, and its controls and interfaces
Cockpit
were much more sophisticated. While the
NX-Alpha’s cockpit had a pressurized and
DATA FEED
breathable atmosphere, the occupants wore
Jonathan Archer and ‘Trip’ Tucker first met while PILOT PROMOTION
full spacesuits and helmets in case of sudden they were working on the NX Project together. Duvall was made
depressurization. It was Trip who was convinced that there was captain of the
Behind the cockpit module, the NX-Alpha nothing wrong with the design of the NX-Alpha’s Shenandoah seven
still had a cylindrical main body like the warp engine. He correctly believed that the years after he broke
problem lay in the ratio in which the matter and the warp 3 barrier in
Phoenix, but it had shorter and much more
antimatter were combined. the NX-Delta. Upon
advanced nacelles, which were attached to hearing the news,
thicker articulated wing-like structures. Jonathan Archer
The main differences between the two ships remarked, “Thank God
Warp reactor we’re a hundred light
were to be found at the rear. The Phoenix
years away.”
was launched through Earth’s atmosphere Main thruster
and into space via rocket boosters that RIVAL CAPTAIN
detached from the craft once it was in orbit. Commander Gardner,
The NX-Alpha used rocket-like propulsion to who was another of
the test pilots in the NX
speed along a horizontal sled-track that had
Project, was Vulcan
an almost vertical launch ramp at the end. Ambassador Soval’s
The combined effects of these launch systems first choice to become
powered the craft into orbit, and the rocket- captain of Enterprise
NX-01. Soval felt
like engines remained part of the ship rather
Captain Archer was too
than detaching and falling away. Particle exhaust impulsive to hold such
an important position.

NX ENGINEERS
Other people who were
Access hatch Cockpit part of the NX Project
included Captain W.M.
Jefferies and Lt. Charles
Tucker III. Jefferies
wanted to fit powerful
weapons to NX-class
ships, something that
Jonathan Archer was
initially against, but later
Heat tiles agreed was probably
 The Warp Five Complex included a launch system for the NX-Alpha
a good idea.
and the NX-Beta. They were blasted along rails that ended in a vertical Warp coils
ramp, launching them through the atmosphere and into orbit.

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 THE NX-ALPHA

 Eaves’ initial design for the NX-Alpha was intended

to be an obvious evolution of today’s X-planes. Eaves
describes it as having a catarman-like shape, with
warp nacelles on the outside.

 After talking to NASA Eaves came up with a

system for launching the NX-Alpha that involved a
second craft, with a blended body, that carried it into
the upper atmosphere.

models. The X-48B was one of these

model tests that we used as the basis of
our design. It had what they call a
blended body, with little wingtips at the
end. We came up with this kind of
smooth, limping body and detailed that
into a futuristic version with the Alpha
on the back.”
Eaves produced a drawing showing

DESIGNING THE This first design was approved without atmosphere by another ship, in much
the two ships together but around this
time it became clear that the

NX-ALPHA
any serious alterations, but now the art the way that the space shuttle had production couldn’t justify the cost of
department had to work out how it been mounted on the back of a 737. building two ships instead of one. There
would be launched. The script made it “It was kind of like a Spaceship One was another problem: the art
clear that the experimental NX base scenario,” Eaves says “there was a department had to show the outside of
was on the ground so somehow the ship mothership and then the Alpha would
had to get into orbit. Massive rocket piggy back on the top. The mothership
boosters didn’t seem appropriate. Eaves would get it off the ground then it
Earth’s first Warp 3 ship went through some surprising changes thought the answer might lie with NASA would break off when it went into

before it finally got off the ground and took flight. so he called them up. space.”
“We went out to Edwards Airforce Moore also provided Eaves with

D
esigning the NX-Alpha was one interested in real space flight and plane-like,” Eaves recalls. “It had warp base to visit NASA and to research all inspiration for the design of the ship that
of concept artist John Eaves’ fascinated by everything that had ever nacelles and a twin fuselage, like a their plans for that kind of spaceship. would carry the Alpha into near-orbit,
favorite assignments. The script been done by NASA so he was catamaran, with the capsule Two gentlemen named Tony Moore and when he pointed him towards the
called for an experimental ship that was delighted that this ship represented a suspended in the center. It’s got all your Pete Merlin invited me up and we went design of an experimental craft called
more primitive than the Enterprise NX-01. bridge between today’s experimental STAR TREK elements on it but it was also through all of the NASA stuff at that the X-48B. “It was a future ship idea,”
Like most of the rest of the art spacecraft and Matt Jefferies’s STAR an evolution of an X-plane. It was kind time.” Moore suggested that the NX Eaves explains, “NASA does this unusual  The badge for the experimental project was
department Eaves was deeply TREK aesthetic. “My first pass was very of where those two things met” Alpha could be carried into the upper thing where they make quarter-scale designed by Mike Okuda.

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 THE NX-ALPHA

t The NX-Alpha was

an experimental ship
and didn’t have the
kind of engines it would
need to get into orbit.
This meant it needed
some kind of launch
system. Eaves’ second
suggestion was that it
would be launched by
magnetic rails.

 When the producers decided to reuse elements

from Earth’s first warp ship, the Phoenix, Eaves
redesigned the NX-Alpha to look more like its a lot of open framework, with exposed him. A change in the script called for
illustrious predecessor, using elements of his original
tanks, fuselage and engines, so we the base to be in a forest, so the
design for the Phoenix that had been rejected.
carried a lot of those design elements massively long track he’d designed was
over to the Alpha.” no longer practical. “We did another
the ship and to build a set showing the This still left Eaves with the tricky issue version where you have a track with
interior. It was decided that in order to of how to get the NX-Alpha off the a ramp on it and that’s what we used in
make the most of the budget they ground and into orbit. Again the solution the final rendition.”
should reuse the Phoenix nose cone was to be found at Edwards Airforce A final change came about because
that had been built for STAR TREK: FIRST Base. “We went for an idea where it was of the practical needs of the set that
CONTACT. It was an elegant solution: launched from a testbed. They built a the art department had designed for
the production already had a model of test track out at Edwards in the 50s and the hangar bay. The ship Eaves had
the exterior and a set for the interior. the 60s that was on the lake bed. come up with simply couldn’t get out
And, all-importantly, it made sense that They’d accelerate these little nose the doors. “The wings I designed were
the NX-Alpha would be a direct capsules up to super speeds to do the fixed and it made it too big so Doug
descendant of Earth’s first warp ship. tests. It was a magnetic system and we [Drexler] designed these hinge points for
This meant that both of Eaves designs thought we could launch off of that.” the wings – it was a weird kind of L-kink
would be lost. Instead he returned to his Eaves produced drawings showing his so they folded up like an accordion.”
design for the Phoenix. “I pulled the new ship launching from the kind of flat Finally, after all the twists, turns and
Phoenix up and tried to move it ahead.  The decision was taken to reuse the nose cone and cockpit of the Phoenix because they had already been built terrain that can be found at Edwards redesigns the NX-Alpha was ready for
Some of the earlier Phoenix designs had and would allow the art department to put more on screen for the same budget. but the process had a few last twists for its first flight.

12 DESIGNING THE SHIP

 BEHIND THE SCENES

warp-5 starship. Before 2151, humans had been Proxima Centauri – the next nearest star beyond  Zefram Cochrane was
puttering around the nearby stars at low warp for our solar system – is about four and a quarter light the first human to break
the warp barrier, and this
nearly a century. They visited a handful of star years away. At warp 2, about the maximum speed
led to first contact with the
systems, and established a few research stations Earth ships could achieve in the early 22nd Vulcans and a new era for
and colonies. Cargo ships crewed by ‘space century, getting there would take 155 days, or space flight.

THE ROAD TO boomers’ – people born and raised on starships –

transported supplies and exotic alien goods. But
about six months (this is about as long as it takes
present-day spacecraft to get to Mars, the next  A young Jonathan
Archer and his father

WARP 5
with the advent of the warp 5 engine, humans planet out in our own tiny solar system!). But at
Henry dreamed about
were finally ready to get out into really deep warp 5 the journey time would be significantly
exploring space, but felt
space. reduced – in fact you could make the trip in just the Vulcans held back the
The difference between warp 2 and warp 5 is a week. This would be a significant game changer, warp program.
significant. The warp speed scale isn’t linear; it’s
geometric. Warp 1 is equivalent to the speed of
light (commonly designated by the letter c). Warp
STAR TREK’s science consultant Andre Bormanis writes an article about 2, however, isn’t twice c; it’s nearly 10 times c.

why it was so important for humans to develop a warp 5 engine – that Warp 3 is about 40 times c, warp 4 is about 100 c,
and warp 5 a bit over 200 c (this speed scale was
is, if they really wanted “to seek out new life and civilizations.” established during the first season of STAR TREK:
THE NEXT GENERATION and didn’t exactly conform

T
 It’s one thing to be he dream of interstellar travel became a voyages of the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701 helmed to the warp factors referenced in THE ORIGINAL
able to travel faster than reality on April 5, 2063, when warp pioneer by James T. Kirk, were something of a mystery in SERIES, but it was followed on ENTERPRISE).
the speed of light, but
Zefram Cochrane successfully tested the first the STAR TREK universe. But all that changed with
to explore a significant
number of new worlds, faster-than-light starship. His seminal flight drew the the debut of the fifth STAR TREK television series, HABITABLE PLANETS
humans had to go much attention of the Vulcans and the rest, as they say, is ENTERPRISE. Our Galaxy, the Milky Way, is a big place; its spiral
faster. This was finally STAR TREK history. Set in the year 2151, some 90 years after arms span 100,000 light years and contain several
possible with Enterprise
The years between Cochrane’s daring mission, Cochrane inaugurated the warp age, ENTERPRISE hundred billion stars. A sizeable fraction of those
NX-01’s warp 5 engine.
as portrayed in STAR TREK: FIRST CONTACT, and the followed the adventures of the crew of the first stars are like our sun and have families of planets.

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 BEHIND THE SCENES

Space Shuttle into orbit were essentially just refined creation of a faster-than-light engine, he
versions of the engines that powered V2 rockets in presumably imagined a material that – under the
World War II more than 70 years ago. proper conditions – could warp space. He then set
Dilithium crystals lay at the heart of a warp core, about designing such a material, and eventually
moderating the matter-antimatter reaction that hit upon the formula for verterium cortenide.
created warp plasma. Lithium is an element found Channeling warp plasma through the coils of
in a number of common mineral compounds. the warp nacelles thrust the ship into subspace,
Dilithium was a fictional crystal substance that and off we went to the next star system. But
probably included lithium atoms in its matrix. achieving the level of power required to throttle
Cochrane may have found a source of dilithium up from warp 2 to warp 5 was no easy task.
deep in the Earth’s crust, or perhaps dilithium Given the geometric increase in speed, one
crystals formed in asteroids and comets in the far can imagine how difficult it must have been to
reaches of the solar system, and then occasionally generate and control that much power. Taking
fell to Earth encrusted in meteorites. another cue from history, it took tens of thousands
of dedicated scientists and engineers several
DESIGNER MATERIALS decades of hard work to evolve rocket
Warp coils were fashioned out of an artificial, technology from the V2 to the mighty Saturn V
composite material called verterium cortenide; launch vehicles that carried men to the Moon.
composite materials are common in today’s world, One would imagine that an even greater degree
one example being the graphite shafts of tennis of effort was required from people like Henry
and golf clubs. Scientists have made great strides Archer to achieve a reliable warp 5 engine after
lately in the creation of ‘designer’ materials. They the initial invention of warp drive.
start with a set of requirements: tolerance to heat Like the square-rigged sail and the rocket motor
and cold, hardness and flexibility, resistance to of ages past, the development of the warp 5
corrosion, etc. and then design a compound, engine marked the beginning of a totally new era
atom by atom, that has the desired properties. in human exploration. Enterprise NX-01 was truly a
When Cochrane was dreaming about the quantum leap in space technology!

p The warp reactor, or as a voyage that would have taken 10 years on just a few. To coin a phrase, warp 5 pushes back
warp core, was where a warp 2 ship would take just five weeks on a warp the final frontier big-time.
the matter and antimatter
were mixed together to
5 vessel. The warp reactor that powered the Phoenix
create the power for faster- or the NX class of ships was fundamentally no t The warp speed graph
than-light travel. The warp NEW POSSIBILITIES different than the warp reactors on 23rd- and had an exponential
core on Enterprise NX-01 growth. This meant that
There are a dozen stars or so within 10 light 24th-century starships. This really shouldn’t be very
was an oblong cylinder warp 5 was not simply
connected by pylon tubes years of Earth, including Alpha, Beta, and Proxima surprising. The rocket engines that blasted the five times faster than
into the warp nacelles. Centauri, and Sirius, the Dog Star. All are perfectly warp 1 – it was actually
lovely places to visit, but a 10-light-year radius from 214 times faster than the
speed of light. Although
Earth spans a pretty limited territory – galactically
warp 5 made significant
speaking. And at a measly warp 2, it would take space exploration
a whole year to cover that distance. At warp 5, practical, it was still more
u Prior to the launch of however, 10 light years would be a walk in the than eight times slower
Enterprise, the humans than warp 9.6, which
with the most experience
park: two and a half weeks.
was the U.S.S. Voyager
of space travel were At warp 5 you can cover a distance of 100 light NCC-74656’s top
‘boomers.’ These were years in less than six months. That makes a huge sustainable speed.
individuals who lived,
difference, as how many stars do you think are
and sometimes were
born, on freighters that within a hundred light years of Earth? Thousands,
spent months or years including many that are familiar to STAR TREK fans:
traveling between planets. Aldebaran, Regulus, Arcturus and Vega, to name

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 APPEARANCES NX-ALPHA
NCC-1701-D
COMING IN ISSUE 85
ON SCREEN TRIVIA FEDERATION
HOLOSHIP
In the STAR TREK: ENTERPRISE episode
‘First Flight,’ we are introduced to Ruby,
a waitress who works in the 602 Club. She
had previously been mentioned in the
season one episode ‘Shuttlepod One,’ when
Trip Tucker and Malcolm Reed, fearing that
they were about to die, confessed that they
had both had a relationship with Ruby. EVERY
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How illustrator John Eaves went

through several different looks for the
Federation Holoship before he hit on
the right design direction

A look at how the script for STAR TREK:

INSURRECTION evolved from first ideas
to the finished article

The 602 Club, where the members of the NX

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father, Henry, Starfleet chose Robinson nebula, and Archer calls it the Robinson choose from. back into stock.
to make the record-breaking attempt. Nebula in honor of his friend.

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