ATimson wrote:

First Contact indicates otherwise (when Picard and Lily are in the Jeffries tubes).
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Actually, when they were in the chamber with the view of Earth, it was after Picard demonstrated the force field that Lily surrendered the phaser.
1001001 wrote:

We also don't know who made first contact with the Klingons. It might have been the Vulcans before the Federation was formed.
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This, Picard was more than most a "Federation Citizen." When he spoke of
our disastrous first contact with the Klingon, he wouldn't automatically have been referring the Humans.
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Decades of war. Its possible as we have large periods of "history" that are unaccounted for. Who know what trouble Archer may have caused then.
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The decades of war might have been during his time as President of the Federation. he would have been in a position to have caused even more trouble there, than when he commanded a single ship.
C.E. Evans wrote:

The United Earth Space Probe Agency (which eventually was renamed Starfleet Command)
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We know through ST: Enterprise and Kirk's statement that United Earth Space Probe Agency existed, and did so through the mid 23rd century (and maybe beyond that).