Nowhere is it ever established the Bonaventure was April’s first command. Indeed the ship was referenced as missing 150 years ealier, long before April was born.
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it's been a while since i watched TAS, i admit
Understandable. You are the victim of confusing dialog that contradicted continuity.
The Time Trap
SCOTT: There are ships here I've only seen crude drawings of, pictures in museums.
SPOCK: Sensor scans give a rough approximation of the age of the metal in the hulls, Captain. Some of them have been here for centuries.
SCOTT: Captain, there's the old Bonaventure. She was the first ship to have warp drive installed. She vanished without a trace on her third voyage.
(Bonaventure looks very like a fat Enterprise, with 0201NCC on the nacelle)
SPOCK: The crew's descendants may still be living, Captain.
KIRK: Their descendants?
SPOCK: Yes. I am picking up life and energy readings from the cluster of ships ahead of us.
The Counter-Clock Incident
Captain's log, stardate 6770.3. The Enterprise is on course for the planet Babel, where ambassadors from all Federation planets are waiting to honour the Enterprise's distinguished passenger, Commodore Robert April, first captain of the USS Enterprise, and for the past twenty years, Federation Ambassador at large. Now seventy five years old, Commodore April has reached mandatory retirement age.
APRIL: No matter where I've travelled in the galaxy, Jim, this bridge is more like home than anywhere else.
KIRK: Yes, Commodore, I know the feeling.
APRIL: To me she was always like my child. I was there in the San Francisco Navy Yards when her unit components were built.
(McCoy enters with Mrs. April)
MCCOY: Jim, I didn't realise how many of the tools I use in Sickbay were designed by Sarah.
SARAH: As the first medical officer aboard a ship equipped with warp drive, I'm afraid I had to come up with new ideas all the time.
KIRK: Your modesty is unnecessary, Mrs. April. Your achievements as a pioneer doctor in space are well known.
So, the Bonaventure was the first ship to have warp drive installed. April's wife was the first medical officer to serve aboard a ship with warp drive. April was the first captain of the Enterprise. Easy to see how your memory merged all this into thinking April was captain of the Bonaventure.
It could fit with continuity that the Aprils were adults serving in Starfleet during the same time the Bonaventure was launched. However, later Trek established the Phoenix was the first warp capable Earth ship and that by the time the Bonaventure would have been launched would have been after the events depicted in ENT where we see several warp powered Earth ships and some had medical officers.
Those who practice mental gymnastics explain some of the continuity error with the retcon that Dr. April mean she was the chief medical officer on a warp capable starship.
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Well, we never explicitly had him linked to it.
Also, there's just been a whole Lower Decks comic about the Bonaventure... which I need to catch up RE lore connections...
Bonaventure' warp drive is a puzzle...
I think that I just solved it.
The DY-100 and Nomad had selective screen Amplifiers...
The European Space Agency in the early 2000's came up with a two stage ion drive - doubling the power possible, from 5,000 amps to 10,000 amps(Space does not conduct electricity very well, but above this threshold it will). So Selective Screen Amplifiers also have this limitation as well (the laws of physics) so Zephram Cochran does a two stage Selective Screen Amplifier...
Space warp discovered.
I think that I just solved it.
The DY-100 and Nomad had selective screen Amplifiers...
The European Space Agency in the early 2000's came up with a two stage ion drive - doubling the power possible, from 5,000 amps to 10,000 amps(Space does not conduct electricity very well, but above this threshold it will). So Selective Screen Amplifiers also have this limitation as well (the laws of physics) so Zephram Cochran does a two stage Selective Screen Amplifier...
Space warp discovered.
