2112
Jonathan Archer was born to warp engine specialist, Henry Archer and his wife.

2120
Jonathan?s father gives him his first Astronomy book. It was "The Cosmos: A to Z" by Laura Danly. The 'Arachnid Nebula' was on the cover, something he would later get to see on Enterprise's first mission. The nebula was stated in the book as being 6.5 km across. He would later find out that it was really 8 billion km in width.

2121
By the age of nine, he was actively building models of the low-warp spaceships known at the time.

2120s
He was an eagle scout and earned 26 merit badges (though not the one for exobiology). He earned his wilderness badge in the rainforests of New Zealand.

2130s
During his senior year at school, Jonathan was a member of the water polo team. His team went on to the North American finals against Princeton. He's still a fan of the sport.

2143
After entering Starfleet, he became friends with his future Chief Engineer, Charles "Trip" Tucker III.

2147
Jonathan saved Trip's life for the first time during an Omega training mission on Titan. Trip developed nitrogen narcosis when his EV pack froze up. When he tried to take off his helmet in desperation, Jonathan, who was his superior, ordered him to keep it on.

2151
He assumed command of Enterprise and oversaw her final construction. When the Klingon, Klaang, crashed on Earth, Archer convinced Admiral Forrest, the head of Starfleet, to let him take the Klingon back to his home world aboard Enterprise. Klaang was abducted during the mission. During the successful rescue operation, Archer learned that the Suliban are operatives in a temporal cold war. After the mission, Archer requested that the temporary Vulcan science officer, T'Pol, and the Denobulan medical specialist, Doctor Phlox, remain aboard as permanent crew members.

Captain Archer paves the way for Terran space exploration by making contact with a variety of different species, including the Axanar, the Xyrellians, the Andorians, a strange, large eared thieving species and many more, including the Novans who were human descendants of the first Terran colony of Terra Nova. The original colonists were killed by a radioactive atmosphere after a meteorite struck in the mountains. The children were forced underground and subsequently relocated to a non toxic area of the planet after Enterprise determined their ground water was poisoned by the radioactivity.

The Ingari monastery in Tibet was the oldest Jonathan had ever visited before his curiosity lead his crew to the P'Jem monastery where they uncovered a spying facility aimed at the Andorians.

2152
After an awkward first contact meal with the Kreetassans, Jonathan became entangled in web-like alien (that had the ability to let the captors share thoughts) with Trip and Crewmen Rostov and Kelly. Thanks to Ensign Sato's capability to communicate with the creature and Lt. Reed's new experimental EM forcefield, they talked to the creature and the members of the crew were released without harm.

The Captain was a prisoner in a Suliban detention centre, operated by the Tandarans and oversaw by Grat. It was here he learned not all Suliban are members of the Cabal and has since refined his distaste of the Suliban to Silik and his operatives. While there he helped orchestrate an escape plan for the other detainees, with the help of Enterprise.

While en route to a pleasure planet called Risa, Enterprise is deterred by a distress call from a nearby ship. After helping the lone occupant, Zobral, with his clogged warp injectors, Zobral invites Captain Archer and Commander Tucker down to his home planet for a thank you dinner and a friendly, albeit exercising game of Geskana. Not wanting to offend him, he accepts. Zobral's alterior motive in inviting him down is misinformation; he thinks of Archer in super hero proportions and when he finds out he is just a simple man, is dejected that his plight against his opressors will go un-aided. He does agree to help locate the now lost-in-the-desert duo. Captain Archer again saves Tucker's life, this time from heat stroke, by boiling rancid water and by getting him to remain conscious all the time. Captain Archer however, suffered only a severe sun burn.

Finally at their shore leave destination of Risa, Captain Archer leaves Enterprise in the capable hands of his Sub-Commander. While relaxing in an exotic and lovely ocean vista, he eyes an equally exotic and lovely alien woman named Keyla. The animosity between Porthos and her dog Rhylo force them to meet. She discloses little information about her past and her family, except that they were massacred by the Suliban. When she floods Archer with questions about them, he grows wary of her. When she leaves momentarily, he processes the residual DNA she left on her wine glass to find she's really a Tandaran. When he confronts her, she renders him unconscious by pricking him with some type of anesthetic. When he awakens, Keyla and Rhylo are long gone.

In an attempt to repair the timeline, 'Crewman' Daniels inadvertently trapped Jonathan and himself in an alternate and desolate, 31st century. The two of them jerry rigged a temporal communicator, and Captain Archer helped the now Suliban held members of Enterprise devise a plan to trick Silik in using a temporal device, so he could escape back into his own time and restore the timeline.

Jonathan's pet beagle, Porthos, picks up a lethal pathogen on the Kreetassan home world. Doctor Phlox's radical treatment of an underwater surgery to replace Porthos' pituitary gland with that of the Calrissian chameleon, succeeds.

There will be more to come as history writes itself.

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