TMC
12-15-2023, 09:52 PM
https://whatculture.com/trekculture/star-trek-10-things-you-didn-t-know-about-jonathan-archer-2?rf=homepage
Come leap with us into the long road. Cue tambourines!
BY JACK KIELY
DECEMBER 15TH, 2023
Captain of Earth's first warp five mission and (co-)founder of the Federation, Jonathan Archer is one of the most important people in human and interstellar history. Look what effect removing him from the timeline at the wrong moment had on the timeline — pretty much no more timeline, as anyone would recognize it.
If, on screen, the NX-01 and crew were most recently celebrated with 250 Frontier Day birthday bumps and antimatter fireworks from Admiral Shelby aboard the 1701-F, then, off-screen, fan reaction to Star Trek: Enterprise has been as tempestuous as the swirling gas clouds of Jupiter that followed, and Archer has undoubtedly divided more than the Borg Queen.
Critiqued, criticized, and cancelled at the time, then, like everything you never knew you had, reappraised upwards in the years after, Enterprise has achieved the popularity it never managed on its first flight. Archer himself has yet to make a now much-desired come back to the franchise in any form other than a tip of the (baseball) hat, and we only got to spend four seasons with him in the first place, but there's still plenty left to say about this trailblazing captain. So, let's take a look at some of the things you might not have known about Porthos' dad.
Come leap with us into the long road. Cue tambourines!
BY JACK KIELY
DECEMBER 15TH, 2023
Captain of Earth's first warp five mission and (co-)founder of the Federation, Jonathan Archer is one of the most important people in human and interstellar history. Look what effect removing him from the timeline at the wrong moment had on the timeline — pretty much no more timeline, as anyone would recognize it.
If, on screen, the NX-01 and crew were most recently celebrated with 250 Frontier Day birthday bumps and antimatter fireworks from Admiral Shelby aboard the 1701-F, then, off-screen, fan reaction to Star Trek: Enterprise has been as tempestuous as the swirling gas clouds of Jupiter that followed, and Archer has undoubtedly divided more than the Borg Queen.
Critiqued, criticized, and cancelled at the time, then, like everything you never knew you had, reappraised upwards in the years after, Enterprise has achieved the popularity it never managed on its first flight. Archer himself has yet to make a now much-desired come back to the franchise in any form other than a tip of the (baseball) hat, and we only got to spend four seasons with him in the first place, but there's still plenty left to say about this trailblazing captain. So, let's take a look at some of the things you might not have known about Porthos' dad.