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| - In this sector, Earth Cargo Service freighters were frequently attacked, over a time period lasting years, by Nausicaan pirates. Travis Mayweather knew about the sector and the repeated attacks within it. One of the freighters which were assaulted in this area was the ECS Fortunate, which consequently sustained heavy damage, in 2151. When Enterprise NX-01 arrived to investigate the aftermath of the battle, the starship's crew found no other ships in the region. Despite subsequent onslaughts by the Nausicaans, Matthew Ryan, who was temporarily in command of the Fortunate, refused Enterprise's help, which his commanding officer, Captain Jackson Keene, reasoned was due to Ryan and others who had grown up on the freighter feeling that they had some special claim to ownership of this particular
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| - In this sector, Earth Cargo Service freighters were frequently attacked, over a time period lasting years, by Nausicaan pirates. Travis Mayweather knew about the sector and the repeated attacks within it. One of the freighters which were assaulted in this area was the ECS Fortunate, which consequently sustained heavy damage, in 2151. When Enterprise NX-01 arrived to investigate the aftermath of the battle, the starship's crew found no other ships in the region. Despite subsequent onslaughts by the Nausicaans, Matthew Ryan, who was temporarily in command of the Fortunate, refused Enterprise's help, which his commanding officer, Captain Jackson Keene, reasoned was due to Ryan and others who had grown up on the freighter feeling that they had some special claim to ownership of this particular stretch of space and typically became jumpy when they saw another ship within ten light years. After Keene resumed command of the Fortunate, Enterprise departed from the area. (ENT: "Fortunate Son") In the first draft script of "Fortunate Son", Captain Archer recommended setting up regular patrols in this sector, to protect the freighters. However, Admiral Forrest, doubtful that plan would work, replied that the sector was "pretty big." Later in the teleplay, a freighter called the Gallant (later renamed the ECS North Star) was said to have been destroyed by Nausicaans in the same sector, a few years beforehand. In the final edit of the episode, however, the word "sector" is only mentioned once, when Mayweather tells Archer that Nausicaan pirates had been "attacking freighters in this sector for years."
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