The Bonaventure (10281NCC) was a Template:ShipType starship and the first Earth ship to have warp drive installed.
She was lost on her third mission, in the Delta Triangle, several decades before 2269. The ship became trapped inside a pocket dimension, called Elysia, along with a large number of other ships. (TAS: "The Time Trap")
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Background
The Bonaventure may have been named after the Bonaventure (C1-21). There have been several ships in the Royal Navy with the name HMS Bonaventure. A Canadian aircraft carrier was renamed HMCS Bonaventure in 1952.
It is not clear if the Bonaventure was a ship launched by United Earth Space Probe Agency or Starfleet, or another agency. It is equally unclear if she was launched in the 21st, 22nd, or 23rd century. To truly be the first starship with warp drive, she would have had to be launched before the SS Valiant was launched and lost in 2065 and after the launch of the Phoenix in 2063.
Star Trek: Star Charts names the ship as SS Bonaventure and lists the year she was lost in the Delta Triangle, over 200 light years away from Earth, as 2079. This date would be consistent with the fact that no other Earth ships were spotted from the debris field and a human appeared to be a member of the Elysian Council where everyone was stated to be several centuries old.
There is also a Bonaventure listed in the Star Trek Spaceflight Chronology. It looks totally different from both canon Bonaventures. The UNSS Bonaventure was a Warp 2.5 Cruiser of the Cochrane Class under the command of Captain Hadrian Huckleby. She was was Earth's first Warp Drive ship. The UNSS Bonaventure began Earth's Warp Drive era with a trip to Tau Ceti four years after the first successful demonstration of warp technology. She was unaccountably lost on her third mission, 18 years later, on the voyage to Sirius. The UNSS Bonaventure was stated to have a maximum emergency velocity of Warp 2.5, although engines experienced a slight power breakdown at that speed. The Bonaventure was also the first Earth ship to use alien technology as the warp guidance system. A ship passing Warp 2 this early is inconsistent with what is established in ENT: "First Flight". There is also an inconsistency between the Bonaventure's 23rd century design and slower speed and the Enterprise 22nd century design and faster speed.
Apocrypha
In the novel Federation, Zefram Cochrane's first warp ship that traveled to Alpha Centauri was called the Bonaventure and his later personal ship was called the Bonaventure II.
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