Jonathan Archer (mirror)

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In the mirror universe, Jonathan Archer was first officer of the Terran flagship starship Enterprise.

In his ready room, Archer had a display with several types of guns, including the shotgun Zefram Cochrane owned that was used to kill the first Vulcan who set foot on Terran soil.

In 2155, after finding scans of an Earth ship from the future, later discovered to be the USS Defiant, Archer tried to convince Captain Maximilian Forrest to go after that ship. When Forrest refused, Archer mutinied to find the ship and use its technology to aid the Empire. When Archer assumed command of Enterprise, he made T'Pol his first officer and had her and Trip Tucker install a Suliban cloaking device on the ship and set a heading into Tholian space to find the Earth vessel. After T'Pol helped Forrest regain his command, Archer was thrown in the agony booth for a record 10 hours. When Forrest was forced to continue the mission at the behest of Starfleet, Archer briefed the senior staff on the origin of that ship.

After arriving at the vessel's coordinates, Archer commanded an away team to the ship. Forrest told T'Pol to make sure that Archer didn't come back alive. While on the Defiant, the ISS Enterprise was destroyed, and Archer was able to take control of the Defiant and head toward Terran space.

While abord the Defiant, Archer learned about his counterpart, Captain Jonathan Archer in the normal universe. He thought that his counterpart was weak and foolish for his efforts in helping to form the United Federation of Planets (which he dismissed as a Federation of Fools), noting that great men should conquer other species, not work together with them. He became even more resentful and jealous of his counterpart when he learned that he had a long, respected career as a starship captain, diplomat and statesman, had two planets named for him and was noted by historian John Gill as the greatest explorer in the 22nd century. His pre-occupation with his counterpart's success eventually drove him to have hallucinations of his counterpart, who mercilessly taunted him.

When the Defiant eventually made it to the battle between both Starfleet and rebel forces, the ISS Avenger, under command of Admiral Black, was the only surviving Starfleet vessel. Archer destroyed all but one of the rebel ships, as he wanted the rebels to learn what had transpired.

Black was gratetul to Archer for both his intervention in the battle and for obtaining the Defiant, and assured Archer he would be promoted at the earliest opportunity. When Archer asked for an immediate battlefied promotion and command of Defiant on a permanent basis, Black refused, stating he wanted to take the ship back to Earth as a trophy and have it reverse engineered to learn about its technology. Archer, fed up with the continuing losses suffered by the Empire, its corrupt leadership, the setbacks his own career was suffering and the realization that Black would likely take all the credit for his own achievements (all the while being taunted by his illusory counterpart) finally reached his breaking point. In a bold move, Archer murdered Black and took the Defiant for himself.

In an address before the crews of Avenger and Defiant, Archer unveiled his most ambitious plan yet, seizing control of the Empire. Archer argued that the problem with the Empire was its leadership, and publicly announced that he was seeking to make himself Emperor and then stop the rebellion. In the process of approaching Earth, Archer also became more anti-alien in his views, believing they were holding humanity back. In his paranoia, he ordered all alien crewmembers (with the exception of Phlox) on the Defiant transferred onto the Avenger. He later destroyed the Avenger as its alien crew led by Soval attempted to stop him. As the Defiant made its way to Earth, Archer was poisoned by Hoshi Sato (with assistance from Sergeant Mayweather) who decided to take the crown for herself.

It remains unclear if Archer was killed or just drugged (rumour has it that had Enterprise been renewed for a fifth season, a sequel to this storyline would have been made). As of now, it is unlikely we'll ever know his final fate.

Writer/producer Mike Sussman, who penned both Enterprise Mirror Universe episodes, has written the story for a novelized sequel that will reportedly reveal Archer's fate. The book is scheduled to be released in 2007.

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