The first faster-than-light flight by a human vessel, made by Zefram Cochrane from Bozeman, Montana on 5 April 2063, which drew a passing Vulcan ship to Earth.
The Phoenix was built by Zefram Cochrane and his colleagues in a missile silo in Montana, using a converted Titan II nuclear missile, during the poverty that followed the Third World War.
In Star Trek: First Contact a Borg sphere travels back to stop the launch and bombards the complex. The crew of the Enterprise-E repair the ship, and William Riker and Geordi La Forge fly as Cochrane's crew in place of his injured associates. The Phoenix reaches warp one and returns safely.
The warp signature is detected by the Vulcan survey ship T'Plana-Hath, which lands that evening. The flight is remembered throughout later history, and the opening of Enterprise recalls it as the start of human star travel.