April 16th, 2152: During the Captain's dinner on the occasion of T'Pol's one-year anniversary aboard the ship, she tells Archer and Tucker about a historical event that must be regarded as the actual first contact between humans and Vulcans. T'Pol's great-grandmother T'Mir belonged to a crew of a Vulcan vessel that was observing the launch of Sputnik in 1957 when it was forced to crash land near the small town of Carbon Creek. The captain was killed in the impact. When the surviving crew members were running out of food supplies, they had to live among the local population. One of them, Mestral, became fond of Earth's culture - and of a woman called Maggie. He decided to stay on Earth, urging his two crewmates to pretend he was dead when a Vulcan ship arrived to retrieve them three months later.

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