Comet Special
Established in the writers' second draft script of the  first season episode , the "Comet Special" was a type of meatball sandwich concocted by  aboard . He designed it as an in-joke reference to the fact that the starship was meanwhile studying a rogue comet. The meatballs in the sandwich were meant to represent comets.

In the script, Captain Jonathan Archer showed the sandwich to Commander . Trip was at first unimpressed by the sandwich, but after Archer explained that the meatballs were intended to represent comets, he responded that the sandwich was "clever."
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