Talk:Daedalus (Star Trek: Enterprise)

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Anyone know why this episode is called Daedalus? I kept expecting to see a Daedalus-class starship! I am guessing it's something to do with the mythical Daedalus. It would be nice if someone in-the-know could write a couple of sentences about it on the main page. E.g. "The name of this episode gets its name from...". Marky1981 09:34, 12 May 2005 (UTC)

Trivia

 * References are made to Zefram Cochrane's drinking habits, as seen in Star Trek: First Contact.
 * The title of the episode is a reference to the myth of Daedalus and Icarus. Daedalus devised wax wings which his son used without caution. He flew too close to the sun, had his wings melt off and then fell to his death. This is paralleled by Emory letting his son use the transporter without fully analyzing the risks first.
 * Archer refers to a talk with his father on the day he entered flight training. However in the episode "Borderland" it is established that his father died of Clarke's Syndrome when he was 12. It is doubtful that flight training in Starfleet began at an age below 12.
 * The episode includes the line "worship your shadow", a reference to Lexx, where this line is featured heavily.

Ratings
The Nielsen ratings share for this article is listed as 1.9/4 and the reference is an article from Zap2it from Saturday January 15, the day after the episode aired. These are the overnight ratings or "fast national ratings" which are (usually) different from the final ratings. TVTango lists the final ratings for this episode as 1.9/3 and average viewers as 3 million.

This might just be a typo since the Zap2it article says "The WB nipped the 1.9.3 for UPN's "Enterprise."" and it seems as if they wrote 1.9.3 instead of 1.9/3 and the claimed ratings share of 1.9/4 is not in the source article. -- 109.79.169.104 (talk) 15:41, 28 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Either way, it's been wrong since it was added in 2014 and was not noticed by any of the Good Article reviews. -- 109.79.169.104 (talk) 15:49, 28 June 2021 (UTC)
 * I went ahead and fixed it and added TV Tango as an alternative source to confirm the final ratings numbers and also a source of the average number of viewers. -- 109.79.169.104 (talk) 16:08, 28 June 2021 (UTC)