Your grace shall pardon me, I will not back: I am too high-born to be propertied, To be a secondary at control, Or useful serving-man and instrument, To any sovereign state throughout the world.

I really hit it off with Jack, and hired him without needing an interview.

Considering Enterprise was the only starship dispatched to locate the Xindi, it is very likely that Edison even served under Archer aboard the NX-01. On top of all this, two shuttlepods reminiscent of those carried aboard Enterprise also appeared in a recording of Edison’s crew from the 2160s.

So, even in its agricultural aspects, it was more than a dairyland. And it was more than a food-and-beverage state. It was a leader in the science of nutrition.