The Warp Five Program was the name given to a research and development project commissioned by UESPA to develop a warp five engine for Earth Starfleet. Before the program began, Human ships were limited to a speed just under warp 2. Doctor Zefram Cochrane and Doctor Henry Archer were two of the main scientists involved in the project; they did much of their work at the Warp Five Complex on Earth. The project was immediately succeeded by the NX program, to develop prototype ships with a working warp five engine.
The NX class was the first Earth starship to utilize the warp five engine. Unfortunately, by the time his engine was finally used, Henry Archer was dead. However, his son Jonathan Archer captained the first NX-class starship, the Enterprise. (ENT: "Broken Bow")
In an alternate timeline, Earth was destroyed just as the Warp Five Program began. (ENT: "Shockwave, Part II")
See also
- NX program