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22 years ago, Star Trek: Enterprise retconned Vulcan history with a flashback episode set in 1957 Carbon Creek, Pennsylvania. Before 'Star Trek' was added to the prequel's title, Enterprise season 2, episode 2, "Carbon Creek," saw Subcommander T'Pol (Jolene Blalock) regale Captain Jonathan Archer (Scott Bakula) and Commander Trip Tucker (Connor Trinneer) with the story of how her ancestor, T'Mir (also Jolene Blalock), and two Vulcan explorers, crashed in Pennsylvania and lived among humans undetected in the 1950s. While Archer and Trip take T'Pol's tale with a grain of salt, Enterprise strongly implies it's the truth.

Star Trek: Enterprise's "Carbon Creek" was produced 6 years after Star Trek: First Contact, which was essentially Star Trek's origin story. Director Jonathan Frakes' hit movie depicted Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) and the USS Enterprise-e time-traveling to 21st-century Bozeman, Montana. While Picard battled the Borg on the Enterprise, Commander William Riker (Jonathan Frakes) and his away team ensure Dr.

One of the funniest episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine saw the show's Ferengi family accidentally land on Earth, beating the Vulcans of Star Trek: Enterprise by a decade. Earth has been a lightning rod of alien visitations throughout Star Trek history. The most pivotal was First Contact with the Vulcans on April 5, 2063, an event that literally pulled humanity from the aftermath of World War III into their optimistic destiny as founders of the United Federation of Planets.

Over a century before the Vulcans met Dr. Zephram Cochrane (James Cromwell) in Star Trek: First Contact, a different set of Vulcans crash-landed in Carbon Creek, Pennsylvania. In Star Trek: Enterprise, T'Pol (Jolene Blalock) revealed that her great-great-grandmother, T'Mir, was part of a Vulcan survey mission that crashed on Earth in 1957 after they studied the launch of Sputnik. Her colleague, Mestral (J. Paul Boehmer), became fascinated with humans, and he chose...