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Zefram Cochrane was born on 27 January 2031, into the chaos of the decades between the [[Eugenics Wars]] and [[World War III]] on [[Earth]]. In 2044, Cochrane's parents, academics at the [[University of Chicago]], were killed in a purge of academia. He had been raised to be an intellectual like his parents, and his desire to study the sciences remained acceptable in only one area: warfare. Forced into pragmatism to survive, Cochrane found work as a military contractor. There, he began to study matter/[[antimatter]] reactions, which fascinated him. Reports of the excavation of an extraterrestrial element, called [[dilithium]], near the South Pole also piqued Cochrane's interest.<ref name="UFP150"/>

Although his motives were an opportunistic desire for money, Cochrane kept much of his research into a matter/antimatter reactor secret, and therefore out of the hands of those who would have turned it into devastating weaponry. He assembled a circle of trusted scientists and engineers for his project, and one of his first recruits was an engineer named [[Sloane, Lily|Lily Sloane]]. Following the end of World War III in 2053, Cochrane had a computer expert in his circle erase the location of an already secret missile silo near [[Bozeman, Montana]] from all military records, then moved his group there. Over the course of the next ten years, the group slowly assembled what would become [[The Phoenix|the ''Phoenix,'']] Earth's first [[warp drive|warp]] capable spacecraft.<ref name="UFP150"/>

On 5 April 2063, Cochrane piloted the ''Phoenix'' past the [[speed of light]]. This caught the attention of a passing [[Vulcans|Vulcan]] science vessel,<ref name="ST08"/> the ''[[T'Plana-Hath (21st Century)|T'Plana-Hath]],'' commanded by [[Solkar]].<ref name="VOY269"/> The ensuing decades saw a radical increase in Cochrane's influence, with massive demand for his warp engine design as companies and nations began to commission starships of their own,<ref name="UFP150"/> including the [[S.S. Valiant|S.S. ''Valiant'']]<ref name="TOS01"/> and the [[S.S. Conestoga|S.S. ''Conestoga'']].<ref name="ENT06"/> The engines of the [[J class]] and [[Y class]] freighters constructed for the fledgling [[Earth Cargo Service]] were designed by Cochrane himself, and legend had it that he signed the inside of the reactor casing of each ship's engine.<ref name="ENT10"/>

In 2101,<ref name="UFP150"/> Cochrane, seeking escape from his fame and notoriety on Earth, led an expedition to colonize [[Alpha Centauri]]; because of the attention that Cochrane brought to the expedition, the colony thrived.<ref name="UFP150"/> Cochrane returned to Earth in 2121, where he met [[Archer, Henry|Henry Archer]], an associate professor of engineering at the [[State University of New York at Albany]]: Archer's [[doctor|PhD]] dissertation was a workable design for a Warp 5 engine.<ref name="UFP150"/> Within two years, Archer and Cochrane broke ground on the [[Warp Five Complex]],<ref name="ENT01"/> which was built on the same site as the missile complex where the ''Phoenix'' was launched sixty years earlier.<ref name="UFP150"/>

{{ImageBox2|float=left|file=cochrane_zefram-tos31.jpg|caption=A restored Zefram Cochrane ([[Star Trek|TOS]] [[Metamorphosis (Episode)|31]])}}
Two years after the Warp Five Complex was dedicated, Cochrane, his health failing from the stresses of the undertaking, took a small warp ship that his company had designed but never marketed, and left Earth.<ref name="UFP150"/> Cochrane's disappearance would become one of the greatest mysteries of the century, leading to several false starts where people believed that they had found Cochrane's long-lost vessel.<ref name="ENT42"/> The mystery would not be solved, however, until nearly 150 years later, when the [[Shuttlecraft Galileo II NCC-1701/7|Shuttlecraft ''Galileo'' II NCC-1701/7]], piloted by [[Starfleet Ranks#Captain|Captain]] [[Kirk, James T. (Myriad)#UFP150 Timeline|James T. Kirk]], [[Starfleet Commander|Commander]] [[Spock (Myriad)#UFP150 Timeline|Spock]], and [[Doctor]] [[McCoy, Leonard (Myriad)#UFP 150 Timeline|Leonard McCoy]] of the [[U.S.S. ''Enterprise'' NCC-1701]], were pulled off course to [[Gamma Canaris N]] by a being known as the [[Companion]] on [[Stardate]] 3219.4. The Companion was a noncorporeal entity that had rescued Cochrane, and restored him to youth and health, which it had maintained for him ever since.<ref name="TOS31"/> The process was so effective, the effects of [[radiation]] exposure and [[alcohol]] abuse from his youth were eliminated, leaving him looking far younger than he had even as a young man.<ref name="UFP150"/> Accompanying the ''Enterprise'' crew was [[Federation Commissioner|Assistant Federation Commissioner]] [[Hedford, Nancy (Myriad)#UFP150 Timeline|Nancy Hedford]], who was dying from the rare [[Sakuro's Disease]]. Hedford agreed to merge with the Companion, which cured her illness and gave the entity physical form, so that it could finally share its love for Cochrane, who was unable to reciprocate its affection in its noncorporeal state. The two expected to live out the remainder of their normal, human lifespans together, as Hedford/Companion would no longer be able to restore the couple's youth in their combined state. Kirk agreed to keep their existence secret, and officially reported that Hedford had died on the shuttle, with no mention of Cochrane.<ref name="TOS31"/>
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<ref name="VOY269">"[[Homestead (Episode)|Homestead]]." ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]],'' Season 7, Episode 23. [[Paramount Pictures Corporation]], 2001.</ref>
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<ref name="ENT42">"[[Future Tense (Episode)|Future Tense]]." ''[[Star Trek: Enterprise|Enterprise]],'' Season 2, Episode 16. [[Paramount Pictures Corporation]], 19 February 2003.</ref>
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