Map of Earth.
The English Channel is a body of water between England and France on Earth.
History and specifics[]
On 25 July 1909, Louis Biériot was the first man to fly across the English Channel, a 37-minute flight aboard his plane, the Biériot XI. (Star Trek Annual 1969 article: Who Was First?)
The Channel Tunnel ran underneath the English Channel. (ST novel: The Rise and Fall of Khan Noonien Singh, Volume 2)
When he was a child, Jean-Luc Picard often dreamed he was a World War II fighter pilot who was forced to bail out of his Royal Air Force aircraft over the English Channel. (TNG novel: Requiem)
Julian Bashir and Miles O'Brien's holoprogram of the Battle of Britain featured aerial combat over the English Channel between the RAF and the Germans. The character of Clive crashed his plane into the English Channel and was killed. (DS9 episodes: "Looking for par'Mach in All the Wrong Places", "Homefront", "Accession")
In 2372, Bashir and O'Brien recreated the 19 August 1942 Dieppe Raid in a holosuite at Quark's. Strangely, when an Allied bomber crashed into the English Channel, both the holodeck program and time itself suddenly froze. O'Brien had to crawl out of his Bristol Blenheim bomber in order to investigate. (DS9 - Explorer short story: "A Year to the Day I Saw Myself Die")
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| Bodies of water on the planet Earth | ||
|---|---|---|
| Allegheny River • Arno River • Arctic Ocean • Atlantic Ocean • Bering Sea • Caribbean Sea • Chattahoochee River • East River • English Channel • Great Lakes • Gulf of Mexico • Indian Ocean • Loch Ness • Mediterranean Sea • Nile • Orinoco River • Pacific Ocean • River Thames • Ryerson River • San Francisco Bay • Scheldt River • Seine River • Tiber River • Victoria Falls |  
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External links[]
- English Channel article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.
- English Channel article at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.