The Vulcans recommended terminating the warp trials, which Starfleet agreed to, until Charles Tucker III (who would later serve as chief engineer under Archer) fixed the intermix ratios and Archer and Robinson take the NX-Beta, the second test ship, without clearance to prove its readiness. ) Robinson pushed the limits of a test ship, the NX-Alpha, resulting in its destruction. It is assumed it is this Gardner who becomes Admiral when Maxwell Forrest dies in ' The Forge'. (All mentioned in the episode ' First Flight'. As a commander, Archer served as a test pilot in the NX warp trials with A.G. ) He is an avid Water polo fan, often relaxing by watching water polo games.Īrcher grew up with a distrust of Vulcans, perceiving them as having held back Humanity's progress, particularly with regard to his father's warp five project.

(Mentioned in the episode ' Rogue Planet'. As a youth, Archer earned the Eagle Scout Award, along with 26 Merit Badges, from the Boy Scouts of America. His dreams of exploring started as a boy. The second-season episode 'First Flight' depicted in flashback that he spent many years as a test pilot in the nascent Starfleet's NX program, based in San Francisco. Archer, the son of famed warp engineer Henry Archer and his wife Sally, was born in 2112 on August 4 in Upstate New York, where he spent most of his formative years he later claimed to have spent the majority of his life in San Francisco.

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