Scott Bakula credited as playing...
Capt. Jonathan Archer • Cmdr. Jonathan Archer
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: [the final lines in the show] Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its continuing mission...
- Captain James T. Kirk: ...to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations...
- Captain Archer: ...to boldly go where no man has gone before.
- [Archer is being interrogated violently by a Reptilian]
- Captain Archer: I'll bet you didn't know this, but at one time, most of my world was ruled by reptiles.
- Commander Dolum: I wasn't aware of that.
- Captain Archer: A comet hit around 65 million years ago caused a mass extinction. Most of the reptiles died out. Mammals became the dominant species.
- Commander Dolum: How unfortunate.
- Captain Archer: Still, the reptiles might have come out on top, if it hadn't been for a slight disadvantage.
- Commander Dolum: And what was that?
- Captain Archer: They had brains the size of a walnut. That's very small. Apparently, it's a constant in the universe.
- Commander Dolum: [resisting the urge to strangle Archer] Earth vessels... how many?
- Captain Archer: The reptiles didn't all die out. Some evolved into snakes, alligators, turtles. As a matter of fact, one of my favorite restaurants in San Francisco makes the most wonderful turtle soup. You should try it sometimes if you're ever in the area.
- Commander Dolum: [putting his hand to Archer's throat] You want me to kill you?
- Captain Archer: Just making conversation.
- [observing an unconscious Klingon pilot]
- Admiral Leonard: He's a Kling-ot.
- Tos: A Kling-on.
- Captain Archer: Where'd he come from?
- Commander Williams: Oklahoma.
- [after finding a ship from the future with a corpse in it that has both human and Vulcan genes, T'Pol has to make a report for the Vulcan High Command]
- Captain Archer: I wonder... if they'll believe that humans and Vulcans will be... swapping chromosomes one day.
- Subcommander T'Pol: They're more likely to believe in time travel.
- [to T'Pol]
- Captain Archer: You have no idea how much I'm restraining myself from knocking you on your ass.
- Captain Archer: [Archer and T'Pol are being stalked by a large, ravenous Vulcan sehlat] How long before it starts to lose interest in us?
- Subcommander T'Pol: Days, at least. They're very persistent creatures. When I was a child I had one as a pet.
- Captain Archer: You had one of those?
- Subcommander T'Pol: Domesticated. They're smaller... slightly.
- Captain Archer: How slightly?
- Subcommander T'Pol: You have Porthos.
- [referring to Captain Archer's pet beagle]
- Captain Archer: Porthos doesn't try and eat me when I'm late with his dinner.
- Subcommander T'Pol: Vulcan children are *never* late with their sehlat's dinner.
- Captain Archer: I can believe that.
- Subcommander T'Pol: The Earth cargo ship Fortunate. Y-class freighter. Maximum speed: warp one point eight. Crew complement: twenty-three.
- Travis Mayweather: Not counting newborn babies.
- Captain Archer: Ensign?
- Travis Mayweather: I grew up on a J-class, a little smaller but the same basic design. And one thing I can tell you is that at warp one point eight, you've got a lot of time on your hands between ports. That's how my parents wound up with me.
- Subcommander T'Pol: Do you have any helpful information on this vessel beyond its recreational activities?
- [Archer, T'Pol and Ambassador Soval are hiding from hostile Andorians]
- Captain Archer: No offense, but my ears are less likely to draw fire then yours.
- Vulcan Ambassador Soval: [to T'Pol] What is their fixation with our ears?
- Subcommander T'Pol: I believe they are envious.
- Captain Archer: You missed T'Pol's latest battle with chopsticks.
- Commander Tucker: Darn. Dinner and a show.
- Captain Archer: I've always been much better at avoiding farewells than giving them, so I'm not even gonna try. But I'm going to ask all of you to think back to the day when this ship was first launched. We were explorers then. When all this is over, when Earth is safe, I want you to get back to that job. There are 400 billion stars in our galaxy. We've only explored a tiny fraction of them. We have a lot to do. Of all the captains that'll sit in this chair, I can't imagine any of them being more proud than I am right now.
- [Archer and T'Pol are tied back-to-back to each other]
- Captain Archer: Houdini could get out of this.
- Subcommander T'Pol: Perhaps you should invite him on your next mission.
- [T'Pol is lying in sick bay after saving a Vulcan Captain's life]
- Captain Archer: [to Vulcan Captain] I know how you must feel. She saved my life once too. She can be a real pain-in-the-ass. Stubborn, arrogant. Sometimes, she makes me angry enough, I want to shove her out of an airlock. I can understand why the High Command is upset. But it took a lot of courage to step in front of that plasma bullet. Do you really want to take her back home in disgrace?
- Bu'kaH: I've never seen your kind before, but you have made an enemy of the Klingon Empire.
- Captain Archer: From what I've noticed, that's not hard to do.
- Captain Archer: We should be entering the nebula.
- Subcommander T'Pol: The readings could be misleading.
- Captain Archer: As Dr. Phlox would say - optimism.
- Subcommander T'Pol: Optimism doesn't alter the laws of physics.
- [Eating a piece of cheese while talking to his dog, Porthos]
- Captain Archer: You know that you and cheddar don't get along.
- Commander Dolum: You don't want to know my specialty!
- Captain Archer: Let me guess... stinking up the room?
- Captain Archer: I hope nobody's in a hurry to get back home... Starfleet seems to think we're ready to begin our mission.