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Captain Jonathan Archer (Scott Bakula) is the fictional captain of the starship Enterprise (NX-01) in the television series Star Trek: Enterprise. He was born in upstate New York and spent many years of his life in San Francisco, California.
His father Henry Archer was a part of the early Starfleet team to help design Enterprise, so it was only fitting that Jonathan took command. He grew up with a distrust of Vulcans, since he perceived them as having held back Humanity's progress, particularly with regard to his father's Warp 5 engine.
Archer's favorite sport is water polo and has a pet dog named Porthos.
He has the distinction of making Earth's official first contact with dozens of alien races, including the Andorians, the Axanar, the Romulans, the Tandarans, the Tellarites, the Tholians, and the Xindi.
Although initially optimistic, Archer became involved in his first mission as captain of the Enterprise in the Temporal Cold War.
In a dispute with the Klingon Empire in 2152, Archer was convicted and sentenced to exile on Rura Penthe. With his escape, a bounty was put on his head and tensions with the Empire increased.
With the Xindi attack on Earth in 2153, Archer became a changed man, determined to seek out and confront the perpetrators. This pushed him to commit desperate acts of questionable morality to ensure a future for Earth.
While on his mission to locate the Xindi, Archer was briefly transformed into a member of the extinct Loque'eque species by a mutagenic virus. He later was afflicted by subspace parasites, creating an alternate timeline in which the Enterprise mission failed and Earth was destroyed. ("Twilight") With the help of Crewman Daniels, he and T'Pol traveled back in time to 2004 Detroit to prevent the release of a Xindi-reptillian bioweapon. ("Carpenter Street") By the end of the third season, Archer was presumed dead when the Xindi superweapon was destroyed. However, he was transported back to the early 1940's, as was the Enterprise herself.
The time traveler Daniels had revealed that Jonathan Archer would eventually have a major role in the founding of the United Federation of Planets in 2161. He briefly took Archer ahead in time to the point where Archer is about to sign the Federation accords on Earth. In the Next Generation episode "Yesterday's Enterprise" the planet Archer IV is mentioned twice. It is possible that the planet was named in Archer's honor - but the franchise has never said one way or the other whether that was the case.
In some circles, Archer has earned the nickname of "Captain Quantum", because of Scott Bakula's previous role of Sam Beckett in Quantum Leap.
[In early stages of writing, the character of Jonathan Archer was called Jeffrey Archer. This may have been changed to avoid clashing with the notorious UK politician Jeffrey Archer.]
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