The 602 Club in the 2140s
Inside the 602 Club
The 602 Club sign
The 602 Club was an eating establishment located in Mill Valley on Earth.
Many of the pilots and engineers involved in the NX Project based at the Warp Five Complex frequented this establishment, including Jonathan Archer, A.G. Robinson, Charles Tucker III, and Malcolm Reed. The walls of the 602 Club were decorated with many astronautical illustrations, including a portrait of Zefram Cochrane's warp drive prototype Phoenix, a DY-100 class sleeper ship, and the USS Enterprise (XCV 330). (ENT episodes: "Shuttlepod One", "First Flight")
One of the waitresses at the 602 Club, Ruby, was known to have been romantically involved with two crewmen from Enterprise, Charles Tucker III and Malcolm Reed. Tucker went so far as to call her "the one." (ENT episode: "Shuttlepod One")
Charles Tucker promised to buy the NX-01 engineering staff, as well as Captain Archer and T'Pol, a round at the 602 Club for their excellent work during the Delphic Expanse mission. (ENT episode: "Countdown")
Jonathan Archer preferred the 602 Club to the Lotus Blossom and determined that he would have to argue with Erika Hernandez over which establishment they would eat at when they finally saw each other in the mid-2150s. (ENT novel: Beneath the Raptor's Wing)
Starfleet Academy has a 602 Club located on its campus. (Star Trek Online)
In 2399, Seven of Nine often visited the 602 Club to have a drink. It was during one such visit to the 602 Club that Seven encountered her friend Typhuss James Kira for the first time in seven years. Typhuss wanted her help to find their friends from the USS Voyager, Portia Lin and his daughter Sarah. (Star Trek: Intrepid episode: "Seven of Nine and The Admiral")
Background information
It is likely that the 602 Club was named for a bar near the University of Wisconsin–Madison, Rick Berman's alma mater. Berman, along with Brannon Braga, wrote the Enterprise episode "Shuttlepod One", which marks the first mention of the 602 Club. Both are credited with creating the series as well. The digits "602" are also the area code for Phoenix, Arizona, a possible reference to Zefram Cochrane's warp ship.
In the final draft script of "First Flight", the 602 Club was defined as "the modest Mill Valley watering hole Trip and Reed discussed in 'Shuttlepod One'." The club's interior was described as "A friendly neighborhood bar – the exposed brick walls reveal the place's more rustic roots, but the modern fixtures remind us this is the 22nd Century."
A display case seen in the 602 Club contains mission patches from various space shuttle orbiter missions and Apollo 8. These patches came from Michael Okuda's private collection.
Two Pilsner glasses, seen inside the club, were sold off on the It's A Wrap! sale and auction on eBay.
In Star Trek Online, a new version of the 602 Club designed to be a social zone can be visited as part of the Starfleet Academy area on Earth.