
Name: Jonathan Archer
Nickname: Jon (Broken Bow, First Flight); Jonny, as a child (Fusion)
Rank: Captain
Born: Upstate New York (North Star, Storm Front)
Hometown: San Francisco (Broken Bow); spent most adult life in San Francisco (North Star)
Physical attributes: right handed [phase pistol] (Silent Enemy; Desert Crossing)
Quarters: possibly E deck (Unexpected)
double bed (Broken Bow); shower (Unexpected)
bookshelf above bed, chair, couch (The Seventh); statue of Cochrane (Similitude);
photo of his father and photo of himself on the first day of flightschool (Similitude)
Eagle Scout; 26 merit badges; earned Wilderness merit badge in a rainforest in New Zealand (Rogue Planet)
Once considered joining the crew of a cargo ship a few years before Starfleet was chartered (Horizon)
NX Program test pilot (rank Commander), broke Warp 2.5 barrier [ca. 2143] (First Flight)
Grounded for 3 months for unauthorized warp test (First Flight)
Survival training- two weeks in the Australian outback; group included Tucker (Desert Crossing)
Chosen captain of the Enterprise 6 months before launch (First Flight)
Father: Henry Archer, PhD.; Engineer, Warp 5 project (Broken Bow); deceased (Shockwave), more than 10 years [2143] (First Flight); biography written about him (Singularity); died from Clark's Syndrome [degenerative brain disorder which causes pain, hallucinations, and memory/recognition loss] (Borderland; Cold Station 12); last 2 year of life often didn't recongnize Archer or his mother (Cold Station 12); [contradictory information about his death] died when Archer was 12 (Cold Station 12); alive when Archer started flight training (Daedalus)
Mother: would recite 'Song of the Wandering Aengus' by Yeats to him when he was a kid and couldn't sleep (Rogue Planet)
Great Grandfather; in north Africa during Eugenics Wars (Hatchery)
Archer has known Tucker for 8 years [2143] (Unexpected); met during NX Test Program (First Flight)
Caroline; relationship unknown but Archer got drunk when she moved to New Berlin (First Flight)
A. G. Robinson; close friend; deceased, accident climbing Mt. McKinley [see miscellaneous page] (First Flight)
Margaret Mullen; met her when 24 in flight school in San Francisco, night before he graduated Archer asked her to marry him, she said no (Twilight)
Katie Bentley; got sent to Principal's office because he passed her a note asking her to go to a party (The Council)
Erika Hernandez; stopped seeing each other because Archer was her superior officer (Home)
Quinn Erickson; childhood best friend (Daedalus)
Emory Erickson; was like a second father (Daedalus)
coffee with cream (Regeneration)
hamburger, catsup only (Carpenter Street)
Andorian ale (Proving Ground)
reads real books (Strange New World; Unexpected)
water polo (various); played water polo in college, senior year beat Princeton in Regionals and went to Finals (Vox Sola)
body surfing in Oahu (Cogenitor)
recognizes the singing of Billie Holiday (Storm Front I)
rockclimbing (Home)
Shot in left thigh (Broken Bow)
Bombarded with analeptic radiation to protect him from a mutagenic pathogen (Cease Fire)
Cracked a molar and bruised two ribs during a fight with AG Robinson c. 2143 (First Flight)
Exposed to Loque'eque mutagenic virus and transformed into Loque'eque (Extinction)
Continuing symptoms from mutagenic virus causing itching and dreams (Rajiin)
Long cuts on left cheek (Impulse)
mild concussion [alternate time line infected by parasites that live outside regular time-space (Twilight)
Shot by projectile weapon, right shoulder (North Star)
Blood type, B- (Carpenter Street)
Exposed to neurotoxin that caused him to bond with Xindi insectoid eggs (Hatchery)
Shot upper right arm, missed bone (Storm Front I)
Has nightmares about Xindi reptiles (Home)
Cut on right cheek from fighting Shran in Ushaar ritual (United)
Infected with Klingon augment virus in order to produce antibodies, gets temporary forehead ridges (Divergence)
Father gave him an astronomy book for his eighth birthday (Fusion)
When he was 8 years old his father took him on a tour of the Warp 5 facility (Singularity)
When young read everything he could on Zefram Cochrane (Regeneration)
Went on trip to east Africa when he was in his early 20s (Shockwave II)
Has visited a monastery in Angari, Tibet (The Andorian Incident)
Saved Tucker's life 4 years ago [2147] (Unexpected)
T'Pol gave Archer a copy of "The Teachings of Surak" (Two Days and Two Nights)
Sentenced to life on Rura Penthe by the Klingons; escaped (Judgment)
Klingons have a 9000 darsek bounty on his head (First Flight)
Sleeps in blue tank top (Rajiin); or shirtless (Twilight)
$10,000 reward offered by Nazis for information leading to his capture (Storm Front I)
Carried Surak's katra after Syrran's death (The Forge); melded with T'Pau to confirm (Awakening); removed by Vulcan priest (Kir'Shara)
Wanted by the Klingons and the Orion Syndicate (Bound)
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Beagle, male Archer has had Porthos since he was six weeks old; he got him from the mother of an ex-girlfriend (A Night in Sickbay) Porthos' bed is at the foot of Archer's bed against the wall (A Night in Sickbay) Likes cheddar cheese, but it doesn't agree with him (Fight or Flight) Archer hasn't taught him any tricks and he doesn't fetch (Similitude) Favorite food is Chicken liver with graded cheddar (Storm Front I) |
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