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The warp five engine aboard an Template:ShipClass starship
The Warp five engine was a type of warp reactor developed by Humans in the 22nd century. The Template:ShipClass starships of the mid-22nd century were the first Earth ships to utilize the reactor. Warp five technology allowed Humans to travel a hundred times faster than was possible with the previous generation of warp engines that were limited by the warp 2 barrier. (ENT: "First Flight", "Broken Bow")
Development
The first test vehicle NX-Alpha
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Columbia, the second starship to have the warp five engine
The Warp five program was the name given to the research and development project commissioned by United Earth Space Probe Agency to develop the reactor. Doctors Zefram Cochrane, Tasaki and Henry Archer were among the main scientists involved in the project. They did much of their work at the Warp Five Complex, located on Earth just outside of Bozeman, Montana, from 2119 onward, when the complex was dedicated. (ENT: "Broken Bow", "Singularity")
The NX Project, overseen by Commodore Maxwell Forrest from its initial stages in the early 2140s, fielded several test vehicles with prototype versions of the warp five engine. These prototypes were piloted by Commanders Jonathan Archer, A.G. Robinson, Gardner, and Duvall. Captain Jefferies was an engineer on the NX Program, and Lieutenant Charles Tucker III worked on his team.
After the engine was ready for full scale use, the Enterprise NX-01 was constructed. The ship was launched in April of 2151 and became the first United Earth starship to utilize the warp five engine in deep space. Unfortunately, by this time, Henry Archer had died of Clarke's Disease. His son, Jonathan Archer, captained this first NX-class starship, with Charles Tucker III as his chief engineer. (ENT: "First Flight", "Broken Bow")
An alternate timeline, created by Daniels' taking Jonathan Archer into the future, diverged from the primary one at approximately the beginning of the Warp Five program; by the 31st century, the Earth of this timeline had long since been destroyed. (ENT: "Shockwave, Part II")