History Characters / StarTrektheOriginalSeries

->''"No bloody A, B, C, or D!"''[[labelnote:*]]or E[[/labelnote]]

** Series writer Theodore Sturgeon and DeForest Kelley came up with a scenario in which McCoy would give Spock a prostate massage, to ease the tensions between both men. The whole thing is even kinkier, given the differences in Vulcan anatomy.[[https://web.archive.org/web/20220829234225/https://sci-hub.3800808.com/https://doi.org/10.3828/sfftv.2016.9.15]]

!!!'''Played by:''' Booker Bradshaw

!!!'''Played by:''' Barbara Baldavin

!!!'''Played by:''' William Campbell

!!!'''Played by:''' William Campbell

* EvilCounterpart: Koloth

[[folder:Harry Mudd]]
!!Harcourt Fenton "Harry" Mudd
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!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/RogerCCarmel
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' | ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries''

* AffablyEvil: He's a shameless crook and totally unrepentant scam artist, but he's friendly, cheerful, easy-going, and surprisingly likable, so long as you remember never to trust him with anything, especially anything worth money. Basically, he's a proto-Ferengi.
%%* TheAggressiveDrugDealer: In "Mudd's Women."
* ConMan: His first appearance is based on his scam to marry gorgeous women [[spoiler:secretly modified with drugs to be super-beautiful]] to lonely, wealthy space-workers for a huge payout. In ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries'', it's mentioned he once tricked an alien species by selling them the Starfleet Academy building.
* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: This gets visited upon him by Kirk at the end of "I, Mudd."
* EvilIsPetty: While downplayed as Mudd is mostly just a dick, but his role as Kirk’s antagonist just seems to be wanting to see him squirm and take Mudd’s orders.
* FullNameUltimatum:
-->'''Stella:''' Harcourt! Harcourt Fenton Mudd!...
-->'''Mudd:''' [[PhraseCatcher Shut UP, Stella!]]
* HenpeckedHusband: It turns out in "I, Mudd" that he had a harridan of a wife named Stella; part of the reason he became a crook was to run away from her to the ends of the galaxy.
-->'''Mudd:''' You see, gentlemen, behind every great man there is a woman urging him on. And so it was with my Stella. She urged me on into outer space. Not that she meant to, but with her continual, eternal, confounded nagging. Well, I think of her constantly, and every time I do, I go further out into space.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: By the Stella androids at the end of "I, Mudd."
* HonestJohnsDealership: The first storyline involving him is his plan to sell brides to lonely space-miners ([[spoiler:after giving them illegal "Venus Drugs" to make them super-beautiful]]). He'd also been convicted as a smuggler prior to his first appearance. In his second appearance, he describes how he escaped Deneb V after being sentenced to death for fraud.
* LovableRogue: He's a money-grubber and irresponsible, but he's affable and rarely trying to commit "truly evil" crimes.
* {{Recurrer}}: He holds the distinction of being the ''only'' non-Starfleet character in the entire series to appear in more than one episode. He returns for an episode of the Animated Series, as well. (He was also planned to make a third appearance on the show, but the proposed story was dropped.)

[[folder:Tribbles]]
!!Tribbles
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' | ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries'' | ''Film/StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock'' | ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' | ''Film/{{Star Trek|2009}}'' | ''Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness''

Harmless little fuzzballs featured in three episodes -- "The Trouble with Tribbles" (TOS), "More Tribbles, More Troubles" (TAS), and "Trials and Tribble-ations" ([=DS9=]); and cameos in ''Film/StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock'', ''Film/StarTrek2009'', and ''Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness''.

* BornAsAnAdult: And pregnant. Which is quite a time-saver.
* CutenessProximity: For some reason, people tend to enjoy cooing over the fluffy, purring fuzzballs. Well, unless you're a Klingon.
* ExplosiveBreeder: {{Exaggerated|Trope}}. In three days, one tribble will become 1,771,561. (Assuming that tribbles reproduce every twelve hours with an average litter of ten.)
* NowYouTellMe: "We stop feeding the tribbles and they stop breeding!"
* SitcomArchNemesis: The only species that the Tribbles do not like are the Klingons, and the feeling is very mutual.
* ThrownOutTheAirlock: Where they'll be no tribble at all.

[[folder:Lieutenant Commander Gary Mitchell]]
!!Lieutenant Commander Gary Mitchell
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!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/GaryLockwood

The antagonist of "Where No Man Has Gone Before." Mitchell was Kirk's best friend until contact with the great barrier at the edge of the galaxy gave him extra-sensory perception and psionic powers, leading him to believe that he was becoming a god.

* AntiVillain: At first. His initial acts of villainy are simply attempts to stop Kirk and Spock from killing him out of fear for his power. He gradually becomes more evil over the course of the episode and by the end he's left this trope far behind.
* AGodAmI: He frequently refers to himself as such. During the final confrontation he uses his telekinesis to force Kirk to kneel and pray to him.
* TheCharmer: In Kirk’s bio, the female crewmembers all miss him when he dies, mostly because he flirted with them constantly by making them laugh.
* ChivalrousPervert: He’s the one that pushed girlfriends on Kirk in the academy days, and apparently flirts a lot (the bio has Kirk be annoyed that he’s hitting on the female crew too much), but he’s a nice guy until his run-in with the galactic barrier causes him to mutate into a PhysicalGod and go insane as a result.
* ForgottenFallenFriend: The end of the pilot does give the crew a little time to grieve over him, but he's never mentioned again (the for-some-time-ambiguous canonicity probably didn't help), with his role as Kirk's close trusted friend getting transplanted onto Spock and [=McCoy=] (in fact, some fans watching the pilot get the impression that Mitchell was supposed to be first officer before Spock). He's there in the novel versions of the movies (and in one of Kirk's Nexus fantasies), with the implication that Kirk is trying very hard to forget about him.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: After the accident, his eyes start to glow silver. His eyes return to normal when he's injured or is otherwise prevented from using his powers.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:He is killed when he is crushed by rocks while standing in the grave he created for Kirk.]]
* HotBlooded: Kirk’s bio has him making a lot of impulsive, rash choices. Sometimes they work out, sometimes they don’t, and he admits to Kirk at one point that he doesn’t think things through.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Prior to his transformation.
* PhysicalGod: He starts out gaining telepathy and telekinesis (powerful enough to deflect phaser fire and take control of the Enterprise through thought alone), and eventually evolves to nearly Q and Trelane's level, being able to will matter into existence through thought alone. Being crushed by rocks still kills him, though it takes being weakened in a psychic fight with another god-like being to get to that point.
* PositiveFriendInfluence: Kirk’s bio posits that he would still play it safe and just be another face in the academy if it hadn’t been for Gary’s charm and showing his friend that he needs to take risks. This is what makes his transformation into an insane god-like being even more tragic.
* PowerEchoes: He eventually gains this.
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: Tells Kirk in more than one prequel book that leaving people to die under the guise of the Prime Directive is a shitty thing to do.
* ShadowArchetype: Nearly every later official book involving him has him as what Kirk is considered to be in popular culture; too reckless, doesn’t think and overly flirty. He’s a decent person despite this though, and is a PositiveFriendInfluence when younger Kirk wants to be a ByTheBookCop.
* ShockAndAwe: After Kirk manages to convince Dr. Dehner to pull a HeelFaceTurn, she and Mitchell blast each other repeatedly with lightning, resulting in a DoubleKnockout; unfortunately Mitchell recovers relatively quickly, while Dehner is fatally wounded.
* TheStoic: He quickly loses all traces of human emotion.
* SuperStrength: After being briefly BroughtDownToNormal after a psychic duel with Dr. Dehner, Mitchell gets into a fist-fight with Kirk in which Kirk initially has the upper hand, until Mitchell starts regaining his powers; even without his telekinesis, he's strong enough to flip Kirk with an OffHandBackHand and lift a huge boulder and toss it at Kirk.
* TragicMonster: As Kirk says, Mitchell never wanted this to happen to him.
* {{Ubermensch}}: He believes that he has become a higher being who is destined to change mankind forever.
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: After he starts mutating, he's initially relatively normal and only attacks the crew because they're considering killing him out of fear he'll evolve to the point where he starts to see human beings as insects. Pretty soon, though, he evolves to the point where he sees human beings as insects, losing all empathy for them and even demanding to be worshipped as a god.

[[folder:The Gorn Captain]]
!!The Gorn Captain

The captain of a vessel that attacked a Federation colony and lured the Enterprise to the ruins of it for an ambush, before being forced to battle Kirk to the death by aliens called the Metrons, where it is revealed that the Gorn only attacked because they considered the colony to be the prelude to Federation conquest.

* AntiVillain: While utterly ruthless about how they went about dealing with it, the Enterprise crew concedes that they had no clue the colony was infringing on Gorn territory and that such a thing ''would'' look like an act of aggression if things were reversed. In the mind of the Gorn, they are acting in self-defence.
* AttackItsWeakPoint: During their initial fight, Kirk manages to briefly stun him by slamming the ear-like nodes on his head. It looks like Kirk managed to hit a vulnerable spot, because the Gorn is otherwise tough enough to NoSell a microwave-sized rock to the clavicle.
* GeniusBruiser: It looks like a brutish lizard monster that Kirk can't put down, yet it repeatedly outsmarts both Kirk personally and the ''Enterprise'' as a whole. Also, instead of relying on his superior natural strength, he takes the time to fashion a weapon from the location environment, just like Kirk does; however, he made a flint knife while Kirk made ''a cannon''.
* ImplacableMan: The Gorn Captain shrugs off every physical attack Kirk hits him with and even gets back up when Kirk drops a boulder on him.
* MadeOfIron: As Kirk himself notes during the episode, the Gorn Captain easily takes attacks from Kirk that would kill a human being. Even Kirk dropping a boulder on him only knocked him out for no more than a minute, and didn't injure him at all.
* MightyGlacier: Much more powerful and durable than Kirk, yet moves about as fast as molasses in January.
* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: Implied, since their first response to finding a Federation colony on their territory is to utterly destroy it and set a trap for the nearest Federation starship, and they prove to be superior both tactically and in terms of firepower.
* SuperStrength: Kirk manages to pick up a large rock (maybe 60-80 pounds) and throw it at the Gorn Captain, hitting him square in the chest and accomplishing nothing. In response, the Gorn Captain ''easily'' picks up and lifts over his head a boulder that has to weigh at least a ton, and throws it (judging by the arc and how much time Kirk had to see it coming and dodge) probably fifty feet.

[[folder:Janice Lester]]
!!Janice Lester
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!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/SandraSmith

Kirk's PsychoExGirlfriend, stealing his body in "Turnabout Intruder" so he can finally know the "indignity of being a woman" and she can get the Captain status she's always craved.

* AmbiguousGenderIdentity: Maybe she would have had an easier time if she just transitioned into being a man.
* BlatantLies: Delivered the infamous claim that women in the liberal utopia that is the Federation are barred from commanding starships. Regardless of whether Gene meant that literally or not, several decades and many female captains later and we are able to put this down to the fact that she is just making up excuses for the fact that there is no way anyone would promote someone this mentally unstable to the rank of captain.
* BrokenBird: A manipulative DeathSeeker who finds it easy to hit her ex boyfriend and hates herself.
* EasilyForgiven: Kirk has a habit of doing so to people who treat him awfully, but even Shatner complained that nothing in the episode actually got resolved.
* DeathSeeker: Kirk points out that her “love” for him was actually torturing and punishing, and that they would have killed each other. She responds with “that might have been better”.
* DomesticAbuse: She's a little too happy to be finally stronger than her ex boyfriend, mocking him for being scared all the time and punches him out to shut him up.
* FinalBoss: The villain of the original series' final episode, though due to the show's episodic nature there was no plot-related significance to this other than the fact it just happened to be the last episode filmed.
* IJustWantToBeYou: She vehemently denies loving Kirk, telling Coleman that she just loves and wants the life he leads of being Captain.
* ManIFeelLikeAWoman: Inverted. Sure she hates Kirk, but still takes the time to grope his abs when she's finally in him.
* MirrorCharacter: For Kirk, as she seduces her assistant the way he seduces villains of the week, plays {{wounded gazelle gambit}}s well like how he’s got the Enterprise to play dead multiple times, both have DeathSeeker inclinations and while he’s an AgentPeacock comfortable in his gender, she’s rigid in gender norms and is a TroubledAbuser because of it.
* NeverMyFault: In their conversation, Kirk is of the opinion that their relationship was a toxic mess, yet she blames Kirk for leaving, claiming he abandoned her when it got serious.
* PsychopathicWomanchild: She’s positively giggling when she manages to trap Kirk in her former body, and snuggles with him in her arms while talking about how he should have killed her.
* TooCleverByHalf: Aside from being an HystericalWoman, she partly fucks up because she thinks being a Captain means you’re formal with everyone, and shows no affection for the crew that Kirk does (like calling Bones “Doctor [=McCoy=]” constantly.)
* TroubledAbuser: According to the hearing, she hated being a woman, and took it out on Kirk, making it hell to be with her.
* WoundedGazelleGambit: She fakes having deadly serious radiation poisoning to get her ChronicHeroSyndrome ex alone with her and sympathetic.

!!Others

[[folder:Ambassador Sarek]]
!!Ambassador Sarek
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!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/MarkLenard
!!!'''Dubbed in French by:''' Roger Rudel (Star Trek III), Georges Berthomieu (Star Trek IV), Mario Santini (Star Trek VI)
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' | ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries'' | ''Film/StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock'' | ''Film/StarTrekIVTheVoyageHome'' | ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' | ''Film/StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry''

Father of Spock. A distinguished Vulcan Diplomat, he and Spock were not on speaking terms for some time prior to the former's first appearance in "Journey to Babel" (to the point where Spock never even mentioned to Kirk or Bones that they were related). Sarek had wanted his son to follow him in his footsteps by attending the Vulcan Science Academy, but instead, Spock chose to join Starfleet. Appears in only one episode of the Original Series, but returns in the films, the Animated Series, and even ''Star Trek: The Next Generation.''

* AbusiveParents: Not intentionally, but cold Vulcan logic means he was emotionally distant toward Spock when he was a kid, and it's helped cause a lot of Spock's anti-human attitude. Sort of tells you what his parenting styles are like when Spock's reaction to being told Sarek's at threat of dying is "meh". Fortunately, they manage to repair their relationship.
* {{Ambadassador}}: He's proficient in Vulcan martial arts. Spock points out that he could be a plausible suspect in the Tellarite ambassador's murder since Sarek knows the technique that killed him.
* AntiquatedLinguistics: Introduces Amanda as "she who is my wife" rather than just "my wife". He does the same thing decades later with Perrin.
* BlueBlood: Or at least he comes from good family, in so far as Vulcans count such things, and behaves in a courtly manner.
* GentlemanAndAScholar: A cut line indicated that Sarek was an astrophysicist before he turned to politics.
* HappilyMarried: Though Sarek and his human wife, Amanda, have their differences (as seen in "Journey to Babel"), and though he's culturally inhibited from expressing his emotions, it's clear the couple love each other very much.
* HasAType: When he resurfaces in Next Generation, he has remarried after the death of his human wife Amanda... to another human woman.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: For all his stern, no-nonsense traits and his differences with his son, he is a loving father and proud to represent his planet for the Federation.
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Died in the ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode [[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS5E7Unification1 "Unification I"]].]]
* MarryForLove: Marrying Amanda was... logical. Obviously. (Well, if you love them, marrying them ''is'' pretty logical.)
* MyGreatestFailure: Based on the emotions Picard feels during their mind meld, Sarek feels extreme disappointment and regret over his emotional detachment towards both his human wives. He also regrets never expressing his pride and love towards Spock appropriately.
-->''"Perrin. Amanda. I wanted to give you so much more. I wanted to show you such tenderness. But that is not our way. Spock, Amanda, did you know? Perrin, can you know how much I love you? I do love you!"''
* NotSoStoic:
** He teases Amanda in public at the end of "The Way to Babel".
** With a side order of OOCIsSeriousBusiness. In ''[[Film/StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock Star Trek III]]'', he's visibly angry when he confronts Kirk about the latter's supposed failure to return Spock's ''katra'' to Vulcan. This only escalates when he figures out Kirk has no idea what the hell he's talking about. This is [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] later at the foot of Mount Seleya, when Sarek requests the ''Fal-tor-pan'' ritual be performed to reunite Spock's body and mind. High Priestess T'Lar protests that the ceremony is dangerous and its outcome uncertain, making his request illogical. Sarek replies "''Forgive me, T'Lar. My logic is uncertain... where my son is concerned.''"
* OutOfCharacterMoment: In ''Sarek'', Picard is shocked to see him moved to tears by a musical performance. [[spoiler:This is because he has Bendii syndrome, which is analogous to Alzheimer's in a human.]]
* ParentsAsPeople: He has the unfortunate task of being a full Vulcan parent to three messed up main characters: Spock, Sybok and Michael. Part of his issue is overconfidence in the Vulcan ways, and not really knowing what his children need.
* SoProudOfYou: He admits this to Spock in ''[[Film/StarTrekIVTheVoyageHome Star Trek IV]]'', and in TNG's "Unification: Part II," Spock learns from mind-melding with Picard that he was even ''prouder'', which almost moves him to tears.
* SuperStrength: Like all Vulcans. That Tellarite ambassador mentioned earlier tried to manhandle Sarek during an argument. Sarek effortlessly knocks away his hands with just a ''[[FingerPokeOfDoom flick of two fingers each]]'' sending him reeling quite some distance '''as an aftereffect'''. He's lucky Sarek didn't actually hit him.
* YouLookFamiliar: In addition to Sarek, Lenard also played the Romulan commander in "Balance of Terror" and a Klingon captain in the first movie. He is the only actor to portray representatives of all three major galactic powers in the TOS continuity.

[[folder:Vina]]
!!Vina
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!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/SusanOliver

A human woman living among the alien Talosians, who falls in love with Captain Pike.

* AnatomicallyIgnorantHealing: She turns out to have been left disabled and disfigured by the Talosians' well-intentioned efforts to heal her -- they were able to successfully restore her to physical health, but their unfamiliarity with human anatomy led to them putting her back together as a scarred hunchback.
* BodyHorror: Downplayed, but she has been left scarred, withered and exaggeratedly hunchbacked as a result of her ship's crash.
* FacePalm: She does this when Pike gets punished for thinking wrong thoughts.
* GlamorFailure: Her beautiful appearance is an illusion; she's really an ineptly reassembled ''[[BodyHorror mess]]''.
* IWillWaitForYou: Enforced. She has to wait many years for the real Pike to return to Talos IV as she cannot leave the planet. The Talosians were at least kind enough to provide an illusion of Pike to keep her company.
* LoveAtFirstSight: Pike and Vina are attracted to each other from their first meeting and explicitly say so.
* LovingAShadow: The Talosians provided her with an illusory version of Pike to keep her company while she waited for the real Pike to return.
* SpaceClothes: Like the Talosians, she wears shiny, silvery clothes.

!Main Cast (in order of billing)

!!Recurring Characters:

[[folder:Ambassador Sarek]]
!!Ambassador Sarek
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!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/MarkLenard
!!!'''Dubbed in French by:''' Roger Rudel (Star Trek III), Georges Berthomieu (Star Trek IV), Mario Santini (Star Trek VI)
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' | ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries'' | ''Film/StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock'' | ''Film/StarTrekIVTheVoyageHome'' | ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' | ''Film/StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry''

Father of Spock. A distinguished Vulcan Diplomat, he and Spock were not on speaking terms for some time prior to the former's first appearance in "Journey to Babel" (to the point where Spock never even mentioned to Kirk or Bones that they were related). Sarek had wanted his son to follow him in his footsteps by attending the Vulcan Science Academy, but instead, Spock chose to join Starfleet. Appears in only one episode of the Original Series, but returns in the films, the Animated Series, and even ''Star Trek: The Next Generation.''

* AbusiveParents: Not intentionally, but cold Vulcan logic means he was emotionally distant toward Spock when he was a kid, and it's helped cause a lot of Spock's anti-human attitude. Sort of tells you what his parenting styles are like when Spock's reaction to being told Sarek's at threat of dying is "meh". Fortunately, they manage to repair their relationship.
* {{Ambadassador}}: He's proficient in Vulcan martial arts. Spock points out that he could be a plausible suspect in the Tellarite ambassador's murder since Sarek knows the technique that killed him.
* AntiquatedLinguistics: Introduces Amanda as "she who is my wife" rather than just "my wife". He does the same thing decades later with Perrin.
* BlueBlood: Or at least he comes from good family, in so far as Vulcans count such things, and behaves in a courtly manner.
* GentlemanAndAScholar: A cut line indicated that Sarek was an astrophysicist before he turned to politics.
* HappilyMarried: Though Sarek and his human wife, Amanda, have their differences (as seen in "Journey to Babel"), and though he's culturally inhibited from expressing his emotions, it's clear the couple love each other very much.
* HasAType: When he resurfaces in Next Generation, he has remarried after the death of his human wife Amanda... to another human woman.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: For all his stern, no-nonsense traits and his differences with his son, he is a loving father and proud to represent his planet for the Federation.
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Died in the ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode [[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS5E7Unification1 "Unification I"]].]]
* MarryForLove: Marrying Amanda was... logical. Obviously. (Well, if you love them, marrying them ''is'' pretty logical.)
* MyGreatestFailure: Based on the emotions Picard feels during their mind meld, Sarek feels extreme disappointment and regret over his emotional detachment towards both his human wives. He also regrets never expressing his pride and love towards Spock appropriately.
-->''"Perrin. Amanda. I wanted to give you so much more. I wanted to show you such tenderness. But that is not our way. Spock, Amanda, did you know? Perrin, can you know how much I love you? I do love you!"''
* NotSoStoic:
** He teases Amanda in public at the end of "The Way to Babel".
** With a side order of OOCIsSeriousBusiness. In ''[[Film/StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock Star Trek III]]'', he's visibly angry when he confronts Kirk about the latter's supposed failure to return Spock's ''katra'' to Vulcan. This only escalates when he figures out Kirk has no idea what the hell he's talking about. This is [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] later at the foot of Mount Seleya, when Sarek requests the ''Fal-tor-pan'' ritual be performed to reunite Spock's body and mind. High Priestess T'Lar protests that the ceremony is dangerous and its outcome uncertain, making his request illogical. Sarek replies "''Forgive me, T'Lar. My logic is uncertain... where my son is concerned.''"
* OutOfCharacterMoment: In ''Sarek'', Picard is shocked to see him moved to tears by a musical performance. [[spoiler:This is because he has Bendii syndrome, which is analogous to Alzheimer's in a human.]]
* ParentsAsPeople: He has the unfortunate task of being a full Vulcan parent to three messed up main characters: Spock, Sybok and Michael. Part of his issue is overconfidence in the Vulcan ways, and not really knowing what his children need.
* SoProudOfYou: He admits this to Spock in ''[[Film/StarTrekIVTheVoyageHome Star Trek IV]]'', and in TNG's "Unification: Part II," Spock learns from mind-melding with Picard that he was even ''prouder'', which almost moves him to tears.
* SuperStrength: Like all Vulcans. That Tellarite ambassador mentioned earlier tried to manhandle Sarek during an argument. Sarek effortlessly knocks away his hands with just a ''[[FingerPokeOfDoom flick of two fingers each]]'' sending him reeling quite some distance '''as an aftereffect'''. He's lucky Sarek didn't actually hit him.
* YouLookFamiliar: In addition to Sarek, Lenard also played the Romulan commander in "Balance of Terror" and a Klingon captain in the first movie. He is the only actor to portray representatives of all three major galactic powers in the TOS continuity.

[[folder:Harry Mudd]]
!!Harcourt Fenton "Harry" Mudd
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!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/RogerCCarmel
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' | ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries''

* AffablyEvil: He's a shameless crook and totally unrepentant scam artist, but he's friendly, cheerful, easy-going, and surprisingly likable, so long as you remember never to trust him with anything, especially anything worth money. Basically, he's a proto-Ferengi.
%%* TheAggressiveDrugDealer: In "Mudd's Women."
* ConMan: His first appearance is based on his scam to marry gorgeous women [[spoiler:secretly modified with drugs to be super-beautiful]] to lonely, wealthy space-workers for a huge payout. In ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries'', it's mentioned he once tricked an alien species by selling them the Starfleet Academy building.
* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: This gets visited upon him by Kirk at the end of "I, Mudd."
* EvilIsPetty: While downplayed as Mudd is mostly just a dick, but his role as Kirk’s antagonist just seems to be wanting to see him squirm and take Mudd’s orders.
* FullNameUltimatum:
-->'''Stella:''' Harcourt! Harcourt Fenton Mudd!...
-->'''Mudd:''' [[PhraseCatcher Shut UP, Stella!]]
* HenpeckedHusband: It turns out in "I, Mudd" that he had a harridan of a wife named Stella; part of the reason he became a crook was to run away from her to the ends of the galaxy.
-->'''Mudd:''' You see, gentlemen, behind every great man there is a woman urging him on. And so it was with my Stella. She urged me on into outer space. Not that she meant to, but with her continual, eternal, confounded nagging. Well, I think of her constantly, and every time I do, I go further out into space.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: By the Stella androids at the end of "I, Mudd."
* HonestJohnsDealership: The first storyline involving him is his plan to sell brides to lonely space-miners ([[spoiler:after giving them illegal "Venus Drugs" to make them super-beautiful]]). He'd also been convicted as a smuggler prior to his first appearance. In his second appearance, he describes how he escaped Deneb V after being sentenced to death for fraud.
* LovableRogue: He's a money-grubber and irresponsible, but he's affable and rarely trying to commit "truly evil" crimes.
* {{Recurrer}}: He holds the distinction of being the ''only'' non-Starfleet character in the entire series to appear in more than one episode. He returns for an episode of the Animated Series, as well. (He was also planned to make a third appearance on the show, but the proposed story was dropped.)

[[folder:Fleet Captain Christopher Pike]]
!!Fleet Captain Christopher Pike
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!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/JeffreyHunter ("[[Recap/StarTrekS1E0TheCage The Cage]]"), Sean Kenney (Disfigured Pike in "The Menagerie")
!!!'''Dubbed in French by:''' Yvon Bouchard

The previous captain of the Starship ''Enterprise'' and Spock's prior commanding officer. A celebrated space explorer, much like Kirk, he was later horribly disfigured in a training accident. Spock's loyalty to Pike was too much to allow Pike to remain a disabled wreck, so he returned Pike to the [[SufficientlyAdvancedAliens Talosians]] to live out his days in an illusion of good health with his love Vina.

For tropes relating to his other appearances, see ''[[Characters/StarTrekDiscoveryFederation Discovery]]'' and ''[[Characters/StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds Strange New Worlds]]''.

For tropes relating to his appearances in the Kelvin Timeline, see [[Characters/StarTrekKelvinTimeline here]].

* AndIMustScream: The training accident he was in gave him a huge dose of delta radiation, bad enough that he's completely immobilized. [=McCoy=] notes his brain is working as much as anyone else's, but he can't even speak. And when he realises what Spock's doing, all can he do is repeat "no" over and over again.
* BodyHorror: What we see isn't pretty. His face is covered in scarring, and one massive burn going from chin to temple on the right side of his face. And it's hinted the radiation did a lot of other damage, given mention is made of his heart being kept operated by battery. Even getting agitated nearly puts him into a coma from the strain.
* TheCaptain: The ''original'' captain, preceding even Kirk. He later became a fleet captain.
* CelibateHero: Especially when compared to [[FemmeFatale Kirk]]. While he’s had fantasies of Orion slave girls, he runs out disgusted, calls out Boyce for being a DirtyOldMan and shows little interest in any husband and wife dreams cooked up for him.
* TheDeterminator: The Talosians expected Pike to quietly accept captivity. Pike had other ideas and didn't stop until he escaped.
* DueToTheDead: ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' revealed that Starfleet named one of their combat decorations in his honor, the Christopher Pike Medal of Valor.
* AFatherToHisMen: Implied from how Spock was willing to risk his career and life to help his former CO.
* HappilyEverAfter: The end of "The Menagerie" implies this for him and Vina, as they get to spend their remaining years together in an illusion of good health.
* HollywoodMidLifeCrisis: "The Cage" can be interpreted as an extended metaphor for a man going through a mid-life crisis. (Creator/GeneRoddenberry was well into his forties when he wrote the pilot, and even cast his mistress as the female lead.) Pike's character is clearly supposed to be older than Kirk, even ''before'' the eleven-year TimeSkip in "The Menagerie", although Hunter was a relatively young man (he turned 38 during filming of "The Cage"). Subsequent depictions of the character clearly portray him as middle-aged even during his prime (played by 53-year-old Bruce Greenwood in ''Film/StarTrek2009'' and 45-year-old Anson Mount in ''Series/StarTrekDiscovery'', both set some years before the TOS era).
* {{Mangst}}: He’s having a HeroicBSOD over getting some of his crew killed, and it takes drinking for him to admit he’s tired and wants to retire.
* OnceForYesTwiceForNo: Following the accident, Pike is left in a state where his only form of communication is a light on his elaborate wheelchair, which he can light once for "yes" and twice in a row for "no".
* SmallRoleBigImpact: He only appeared in two episodes, one of which didn't air until decades after the show ended, yet is easily one of the most recognizable things from TOS. His blinking lights and wheelchair have been been parodied and paid homage to in numerous other works.
* StayInTheKitchen: Can’t get used to having women on the bridge, and when Number One is offended, he tells her she’s different, offending her again.
* UnresolvedSexualTension: The Talosians noted that both Pike's first officer, the original Number One, and his yeoman were attracted to him, but since we never saw anything further of Pike's adventures, we don't know if anything came of it. He was apparently still in love with Vina, as he later accepted retirement with the Talosians to be with her.
* TheVoiceless: The training accident left him unable to speak, so he had to communicate via blinking lights on his wheelchair. One blink for yes, two for no.

[[folder:"Number One"]]
!!"Number One"
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!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/MajelBarrett

The first officer of the ''Enterprise'' and the second-in-command to Captain Pike, originally filling the cold, logical first officer role that would later go to Spock. She only appeared in "The Cage" and footage reused in "The Mengerie".

%%* CommandingCoolness: As per her rank as first officer.
%%* ConsummateProfessional:
* EverybodyCallsHimBarkeep: Everyone calls her Number One, all the time.
* NotSoStoic: When Pike remarks that he "can't get used to having a woman on the bridge", she looks openly surprised before he excludes her as "different, of course."
%%* NumberTwo: As the ''Enterprise''[='=]s first officer.
* OnlyOneName: She's only referred to as "Number One" in "The Cage". A variety of apocrypha over the years either confirmed this as a given name or title on her homeworld, or suggested various real names, such as Una.
* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Majel Barrett was the girlfriend and eventual wife of Creator/GeneRoddenberry, which caused suspicion among NBC executives when they viewed "The Cage". She was removed from the show and not acknowledged again for decades.
* UnresolvedSexualTension: The Talosians noted that she was attracted to Pike, and her official biography confirms this, but we don't know if anything came of it. He was apparently still in love with Vina, as he later accepted retirement with the Talosians to be with her.
* YouLookFamiliar: Majel Barrett was later cast as Christine Chapel after Number One was removed from the show (which NBC executives were not informed about) and, much later, she also played Lwaxana Troi in ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', and was the official computer voice in most ''Star Trek'' productions over the years. She also played most of the female characters except for Uhura in ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries''.

!!Antagonists:

[[folder:Khan Noonien Singh]]
--> See [[Characters/StarTrekTheOriginalSeriesKhanNoonienSingh his page]].

[[folder:Commander Kor]]
!!Commander Kor
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!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/JohnColicos
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' | ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries'' | ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine''

The main antagonist of "Errand of Mercy" and Kirk's first Klingon opponent. ''Technically'' he isn't ''Star Trek'''s [[MonsterProgenitor first Klingon]] since several troopers are seen before him, but he is the primary Klingon in the episode which introduces the race. He returned in one episode of ''[[WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries The Animated Series]]'', three episodes of ''[[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Deep Space Nine]]'' (undergoing a HeelFaceTurn with the rest of the Klingons), and more [[Franchise/StarTrekExpandedUniverse novels and comics]] than you can shake a stick at.

* AffablyEvil: Despite intending to execute Kirk once he discovers his identity, he has a drink with him first and is generally hard to dislike.
* ColdHam: Dominates everyone in his first scene, not raising his voice in his command, but is shaking with barely contained power.
* EnemyMine: When the Organians demonstrate their powers and use nonlethal force on both sides, Kor is quick to whisper to Kirk that they should team up to take them on.
* EvilCounterpart: Like Kirk, Kor is a senior field officer, but with the military dictatorship of the Klingon Empire rather than the democracy of the Federation.
* ANaziByAnyOtherName: Kor's control of Organia involves restriction of personal freedoms, mass executions, and constant surveillance.
* NoSenseOfPersonalSpace: As well as the famous “you’ll be taught how to use your tongue” line, he sees Kirk and immediately circles him like prey, along with a blatant check out of his ass.
* NotSoDifferentRemark: Kor tries to pull one of these on Kirk, saying they are both warriors on a world of cowards. However, he is horrified when the Organians pull one on him and say one day humans and Klingons will be friends.
* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: Unlike many TOS Klingons, Kor does seem to embody this trope.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: John Colicos played Kor only once on TOS before reprising the role decades later on [=DS9=], but his Genghis Khan-inspired performance set the standard for all Klingons.
* YellowPeril: Kor's look was based on UsefulNotes/GenghisKhan.

[[folder:Tribbles]]
!!Tribbles
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' | ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries'' | ''Film/StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock'' | ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' | ''Film/{{Star Trek|2009}}'' | ''Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness''

Harmless little fuzzballs featured in three episodes -- "The Trouble with Tribbles" (TOS), "More Tribbles, More Troubles" (TAS), and "Trials and Tribble-ations" ([=DS9=]); and cameos in ''Film/StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock'', ''Film/StarTrek2009'', and ''Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness''.

* BornAsAnAdult: And pregnant. Which is quite a time-saver.
* CutenessProximity: For some reason, people tend to enjoy cooing over the fluffy, purring fuzzballs. Well, unless you're a Klingon.
* ExplosiveBreeder: {{Exaggerated|Trope}}. In three days, one tribble will become 1,771,561. (Assuming that tribbles reproduce every twelve hours with an average litter of ten.)
* NowYouTellMe: "We stop feeding the tribbles and they stop breeding!"
* SitcomArchNemesis: The only species that the Tribbles do not like are the Klingons, and the feeling is very mutual.
* ThrownOutTheAirlock: Where they'll be no tribble at all.

[[folder:Lieutenant Commander Gary Mitchell]]
!!Lieutenant Commander Gary Mitchell
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!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/GaryLockwood

The antagonist of "Where No Man Has Gone Before." Mitchell was Kirk's best friend until contact with the great barrier at the edge of the galaxy gave him extra-sensory perception and psionic powers, leading him to believe that he was becoming a god.

* AntiVillain: At first. His initial acts of villainy are simply attempts to stop Kirk and Spock from killing him out of fear for his power. He gradually becomes more evil over the course of the episode and by the end he's left this trope far behind.
* AGodAmI: He frequently refers to himself as such. During the final confrontation he uses his telekinesis to force Kirk to kneel and pray to him.
* TheCharmer: In Kirk’s bio, the female crewmembers all miss him when he dies, mostly because he flirted with them constantly by making them laugh.
* ChivalrousPervert: He’s the one that pushed girlfriends on Kirk in the academy days, and apparently flirts a lot (the bio has Kirk be annoyed that he’s hitting on the female crew too much), but he’s a nice guy until his run-in with the galactic barrier causes him to mutate into a PhysicalGod and go insane as a result.
* ForgottenFallenFriend: The end of the pilot does give the crew a little time to grieve over him, but he's never mentioned again (the for-some-time-ambiguous canonicity probably didn't help), with his role as Kirk's close trusted friend getting transplanted onto Spock and [=McCoy=] (in fact, some fans watching the pilot get the impression that Mitchell was supposed to be first officer before Spock). He's there in the novel versions of the movies (and in one of Kirk's Nexus fantasies), with the implication that Kirk is trying very hard to forget about him.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: After the accident, his eyes start to glow silver. His eyes return to normal when he's injured or is otherwise prevented from using his powers.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:He is killed when he is crushed by rocks while standing in the grave he created for Kirk.]]
* HotBlooded: Kirk’s bio has him making a lot of impulsive, rash choices. Sometimes they work out, sometimes they don’t, and he admits to Kirk at one point that he doesn’t think things through.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Prior to his transformation.
* PhysicalGod: He starts out gaining telepathy and telekinesis (powerful enough to deflect phaser fire and take control of the Enterprise through thought alone), and eventually evolves to nearly Q and Trelane's level, being able to will matter into existence through thought alone. Being crushed by rocks still kills him, though it takes being weakened in a psychic fight with another god-like being to get to that point.
* PositiveFriendInfluence: Kirk’s bio posits that he would still play it safe and just be another face in the academy if it hadn’t been for Gary’s charm and showing his friend that he needs to take risks. This is what makes his transformation into an insane god-like being even more tragic.
* PowerEchoes: He eventually gains this.
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: Tells Kirk in more than one prequel book that leaving people to die under the guise of the Prime Directive is a shitty thing to do.
* ShadowArchetype: Nearly every later official book involving him has him as what Kirk is considered to be in popular culture; too reckless, doesn’t think and overly flirty. He’s a decent person despite this though, and is a PositiveFriendInfluence when younger Kirk wants to be a ByTheBookCop.
* ShockAndAwe: After Kirk manages to convince Dr. Dehner to pull a HeelFaceTurn, she and Mitchell blast each other repeatedly with lightning, resulting in a DoubleKnockout; unfortunately Mitchell recovers relatively quickly, while Dehner is fatally wounded.
* TheStoic: He quickly loses all traces of human emotion.
* SuperStrength: After being briefly BroughtDownToNormal after a psychic duel with Dr. Dehner, Mitchell gets into a fist-fight with Kirk in which Kirk initially has the upper hand, until Mitchell starts regaining his powers; even without his telekinesis, he's strong enough to flip Kirk with an OffHandBackHand and lift a huge boulder and toss it at Kirk.
* TragicMonster: As Kirk says, Mitchell never wanted this to happen to him.
* {{Ubermensch}}: He believes that he has become a higher being who is destined to change mankind forever.
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: After he starts mutating, he's initially relatively normal and only attacks the crew because they're considering killing him out of fear he'll evolve to the point where he starts to see human beings as insects. Pretty soon, though, he evolves to the point where he sees human beings as insects, losing all empathy for them and even demanding to be worshipped as a god.

[[folder:The Gorn Captain]]
!!The Gorn Captain

The captain of a vessel that attacked a Federation colony and lured the Enterprise to the ruins of it for an ambush, before being forced to battle Kirk to the death by aliens called the Metrons, where it is revealed that the Gorn only attacked because they considered the colony to be the prelude to Federation conquest.

* AntiVillain: While utterly ruthless about how they went about dealing with it, the Enterprise crew concedes that they had no clue the colony was infringing on Gorn territory and that such a thing ''would'' look like an act of aggression if things were reversed. In the mind of the Gorn, they are acting in self-defence.
* AttackItsWeakPoint: During their initial fight, Kirk manages to briefly stun him by slamming the ear-like nodes on his head. It looks like Kirk managed to hit a vulnerable spot, because the Gorn is otherwise tough enough to NoSell a microwave-sized rock to the clavicle.
* GeniusBruiser: It looks like a brutish lizard monster that Kirk can't put down, yet it repeatedly outsmarts both Kirk personally and the ''Enterprise'' as a whole. Also, instead of relying on his superior natural strength, he takes the time to fashion a weapon from the location environment, just like Kirk does; however, he made a flint knife while Kirk made ''a cannon''.
* ImplacableMan: The Gorn Captain shrugs off every physical attack Kirk hits him with and even gets back up when Kirk drops a boulder on him.
* MadeOfIron: As Kirk himself notes during the episode, the Gorn Captain easily takes attacks from Kirk that would kill a human being. Even Kirk dropping a boulder on him only knocked him out for no more than a minute, and didn't injure him at all.
* MightyGlacier: Much more powerful and durable than Kirk, yet moves about as fast as molasses in January.
* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: Implied, since their first response to finding a Federation colony on their territory is to utterly destroy it and set a trap for the nearest Federation starship, and they prove to be superior both tactically and in terms of firepower.
* SuperStrength: Kirk manages to pick up a large rock (maybe 60-80 pounds) and throw it at the Gorn Captain, hitting him square in the chest and accomplishing nothing. In response, the Gorn Captain ''easily'' picks up and lifts over his head a boulder that has to weigh at least a ton, and throws it (judging by the arc and how much time Kirk had to see it coming and dodge) probably fifty feet.

[[folder:Janice Lester]]
!!Janice Lester
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!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/SandraSmith

Kirk's PsychoExGirlfriend, stealing his body in "Turnabout Intruder" so he can finally know the "indignity of being a woman" and she can get the Captain status she's always craved.

* AmbiguousGenderIdentity: Maybe she would have had an easier time if she just transitioned into being a man.
* BlatantLies: Delivered the infamous claim that women in the liberal utopia that is the Federation are barred from commanding starships. Regardless of whether Gene meant that literally or not, several decades and many female captains later and we are able to put this down to the fact that she is just making up excuses for the fact that there is no way anyone would promote someone this mentally unstable to the rank of captain.
* BrokenBird: A manipulative DeathSeeker who finds it easy to hit her ex boyfriend and hates herself.
* EasilyForgiven: Kirk has a habit of doing so to people who treat him awfully, but even Shatner complained that nothing in the episode actually got resolved.
* DeathSeeker: Kirk points out that her “love” for him was actually torturing and punishing, and that they would have killed each other. She responds with “that might have been better”.
* DomesticAbuse: She's a little too happy to be finally stronger than her ex boyfriend, mocking him for being scared all the time and punches him out to shut him up.
* FinalBoss: The villain of the original series' final episode, though due to the show's episodic nature there was no plot-related significance to this other than the fact it just happened to be the last episode filmed.
* IJustWantToBeYou: She vehemently denies loving Kirk, telling Coleman that she just loves and wants the life he leads of being Captain.
* ManIFeelLikeAWoman: Inverted. Sure she hates Kirk, but still takes the time to grope his abs when she's finally in him.
* MirrorCharacter: For Kirk, as she seduces her assistant the way he seduces villains of the week, plays {{wounded gazelle gambit}}s well like how he’s got the Enterprise to play dead multiple times, both have DeathSeeker inclinations and while he’s an AgentPeacock comfortable in his gender, she’s rigid in gender norms and is a TroubledAbuser because of it.
* NeverMyFault: In their conversation, Kirk is of the opinion that their relationship was a toxic mess, yet she blames Kirk for leaving, claiming he abandoned her when it got serious.
* PsychopathicWomanchild: She’s positively giggling when she manages to trap Kirk in her former body, and snuggles with him in her arms while talking about how he should have killed her.
* TooCleverByHalf: Aside from being an HystericalWoman, she partly fucks up because she thinks being a Captain means you’re formal with everyone, and shows no affection for the crew that Kirk does (like calling Bones “Doctor [=McCoy=]” constantly.)
* TroubledAbuser: According to the hearing, she hated being a woman, and took it out on Kirk, making it hell to be with her.
* WoundedGazelleGambit: She fakes having deadly serious radiation poisoning to get her ChronicHeroSyndrome ex alone with her and sympathetic.

!!Others

[[folder:Vina]]
!!Vina
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!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/SusanOliver

A human woman living among the alien Talosians, who falls in love with Captain Pike.
----
* AnatomicallyIgnorantHealing: She turns out to have been left disabled and disfigured by the Talosians' well-intentioned efforts to heal her -- they were able to successfully restore her to physical health, but their unfamiliarity with human anatomy led to them putting her back together as a scarred hunchback.
* BodyHorror: Downplayed, but she has been left scarred, withered and exaggeratedly hunchbacked as a result of her ship's crash.
* FacePalm: She does this when Pike gets punished for thinking wrong thoughts.
* GlamorFailure: Her beautiful appearance is an illusion; she's really an ineptly reassembled ''[[BodyHorror mess]]''.
* IWillWaitForYou: Enforced. She has to wait many years for the real Pike to return to Talos IV as she cannot leave the planet. The Talosians were at least kind enough to provide an illusion of Pike to keep her company.
* LoveAtFirstSight: Pike and Vina are attracted to each other from their first meeting and explicitly say so.
* LovingAShadow: The Talosians provided her with an illusory version of Pike to keep her company while she waited for the real Pike to return.
* SpaceClothes: Like the Talosians, she wears shiny, silvery clothes.
[[/folder]]

For tropes relating to his other appearances, see [[Characters/StarTrekDiscoveryFederation Discovery]] and [[Characters/StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds Strange New Worlds]].

[[caption-width-right:350:To boldly go...]]

!!The ''Enterprise''

[[caption-width-right:350:NCC-1701]]

->'''Played by:''' Creator/JamesDoohan (archive recordings)

->'''Played by:''' Creator/NichelleNichols (archive recordings)

->'''Played by:''' Creator/MajelBarrett (computer voice)

->'''Played by:''' Creator/JohnWinston

-> '''Played by:''' Creator/EddiePaskey

->'''Played by:''' Creator/BruceHyde

->'''Played by:''' Booker Bradshaw

->'''Played by:''' Barbara Baldavin

->'''Played by:''' Creator/MarkLenard

->'''Dubbed in French by:''' Roger Rudel (Star Trek III), Georges Berthomieu (Star Trek IV), Mario Santini (Star Trek VI)

[[folder:Harcount Fenton "Harry" Mudd]]

->'''Played by:''' Creator/RogerCCarmel

->'''Played by:''' Creator/JeffreyHunter ("[[Recap/StarTrekS1E0TheCage The Cage]]"), Sean Kenney (Disfigured Pike in "The Menagerie")
->'''Dubbed in French by:''' Yvon Bouchard

->'''Played by:''' Creator/MajelBarrett

->'''Played by:''' Creator/JohnColicos

->'''Played by:''' Creator/GaryLockwood

->'''Played by:''' Creator/SandraSmith

->'''Played by:''' Creator/SusanOliver

[[folder:Doctor (Lieutenant Commander) Leonard Horatio "Bones" [=McCoy=]]]

[[folder:Ensign Pavel Andreievich Chekov]]

->'''Played by:''' Creator/MajelBarrett

->'''Played by:''' Creator/GraceLeeWhitney

!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' | ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries'' | ''Film/StarTrekTheMotionPicture'' | ''Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan'' | ''Film/StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock'' | ''Film/StarTrekIVTheVoyageHome'' | ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' | ''Film/StarTrekVTheFinalFrontier'' | ''Film/StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry'' | ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' | ''Film/StarTrekBeyond'' [[note]]Photograph[[/note]]

!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' | ''Film/StarTrekTheMotionPicture'' | ''Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan'' | ''Film/StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock'' | ''Film/StarTrekIVTheVoyageHome'' | ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' | ''Film/StarTrekVTheFinalFrontier'' | ''Film/StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry'' | ''Film/StarTrekGenerations'' | ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' [[note]]Archive footage[[/note]] | ''Film/StarTrekBeyond'' [[note]]Photograph[[/note]]

->'''Played by:''' Creator/DeForestKelley
->'''Dubbed in French by:''' Michel Georges (TOS), François Marié (Star Trek I to V), Jean-Pierre Delage (Star Trek VI)

->'''Played by:''' Creator/JamesDoohan
->'''Dubbed in French by:''' Julien Bessette (TOS), Georges Aubert (Movies)

->'''Played by:''' Creator/NichelleNichols
->'''Dubbed in French by:''' Arlette Sanders (TOS), Laure Moutassamy (Star Trek: the Motion Picture, III, IV, V and VI), Jane Val (Star Trek II)

->'''Played by:''' Creator/GeorgeTakei
->'''Dubbed in French by:''' Daniel Roussel (TOS), Tola Koukoui (Star Trek I to V), Creator/PatrickGuillemin (Star Trek VI)

->'''Played by:''' Creator/WalterKoenig
->'''Dubbed in French by:''' André Montmorency (TOS), Thierry Bourdon (Star Trek: the Motion Picture), Vincent Violette (Star Trek II, V and VI), Nicolas Brémont (Star Trek III and IV), Creator/GilbertLevy (Generations)

* AmbiguouslyChristian: He frequently swears in the name of God, or Heaven. He explicitly mentions Jesus in ''Film/StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry'', one of only two times in the history of the entire franchise He is mentioned by name[[note]]a bit character in the ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'' episode "Storm Front" also mentions him[[/note]]. When he is about to [[spoiler: kill the salt vampire]] in "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E1TheManTrap The Man Trap]]", he asks the Lord to forgive him. He teases Scotty once for "not believing in God." He remarks in "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E24ThisSideOfParadise This Side of Paradise]]" how their rejection of the spores is the ''second'' time Man's been thrown out of Paradise[[note]]Kirk, another Ambiguous Christian, corrects him by saying that '''this time''' they walked out on their own[[/note]]. His staunch pacifism is certainly consistent with the tradition of Christian pacifism, and many conscientious objectors have served as medical personnel. However, the character never came out and professed a belief in the divinity of Christ (or in any other religion).

* {{Retirony}}: The ''Enterprise'' had been taken off front-line duty and reassigned to academy training when Khan nearly blasted her into scrap metal: after that, she was scheduled for total decommissioning. Then Kirk took her on one more (unauthorized) mission...

* DeaderThanDead: [[spoiler: Unlike the ''D'' or her alternate timeline counterpart, the original ''Enterprise'' has no chance of being rebuilt. After the saucer exploded, she is last seen burning up in the atmosphere of the Genesis planet. Anything that survived would have slammed into the surface at high velocity. Then the Genesis planet exploded. sadly, you'd need a replicator to stitch her atoms back together.]]

->'''Played by:''' Susan Oliver

** Series writer Theodore Sturgeon and DeForest Kelley came up with a scenario in which McCoy would give Spock a prostate massage, to ease the tensions between both men. The whole thing is even kinkier, given the differences in Vulcan anatomy.[[https://trekkiefeminist.com/theodore-sturgeon-and-slash-fic/]]

** The same goes for Kirk, as he’ll regularly tease the man for being a charmer or AccidentalPornomancer, but looks out for him when he’s in a bad way, and will be first to get angry on his behalf when Sargon shows off the new body, or Elaan has drugged him into kissing her and worse. “Wrath Of Khan” has him actually apologise when Kirk tells him bluntly that Carol is an old wound, and to not make jokes about it.

* MeaningfulName: ''Uhura'' is derived from ''Uhuru'', which means "freedom" (which carried a strong RealitySubtext in the 1960s), while ''Nyota'' means "star."
* MyBelovedSmother: According to “Catalyst Of Sorrows”, the only time she felt free as a child was the month where she got to be with her grandparents, and not in a strictly regimented routine of after school activities.
* MyGreatestFailure: In a minor TakeThat towards the [[Film/StarTrekVI film]], “Catalyst Of Sorrows” has her call not being able to speak enough Klingon when it was needed as the most embarrassing moment of her career.
* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: She is African and her first language is Swahili, yet she sounds American. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in that she is a linguist.
* PassiveAggressiveKombat: When trying to make conversation with Spock, it ends up with her telling him super politely that he’s predictable.
* PluckyGirl: Attempted in “Plato’s Stepchildren”, as she tries to protect Kirk as he protected her, and tells herself and him that she’s not scared of being forced to kiss him, She’s lying, they’re both afraid.

* ShellShockedVeteran: In “Catalyst Of Sorrows”, she tells Crusher that the worst part of being a communication officer is having to listen to screams, and she keeps going in the service so she can finally make it stop.

** She appears to show an interest in Spock in a few episodes. ([[Film/StarTrek2009 Yes, long before the reboot.]]) According to Nichols, this was largely her own idea, that it was a one-sided relationship.

** She shares a kiss with Kirk in "Plato's Stepchildren," although given that it was under alien MindControl and both were [[MindRape rather traumatized]]; if anything, it may be closer to ShipSinking.

* StepfordSmiler: She’s the worst of all of them in “This Side Of Paradise”, and in the novel version of the fifth film, she tries her best to tell herself that the Enterprise will be fine because everyone else is grumpy about it.

** This trend continues into the films: In ''[[Film/StarTrekTheMotionPicture The Motion Picture]]'' Chekov gets electrocuted by one of V'ger's energy blasts. In ''[[Film/StarTrekTheWrathOfKhan Wrath of Khan]]'' he gets a Ceti Eel in the ear; ''[[Film/StarTrekIVTheVoyageHome The Voyage Home]]'' sees him nearly fatally injured when he falls off a ship onto the dock below. Walter Koenig jokingly subtitled the second film ''Star Trek II: Chekov Screams Again''.

* PositiveFriendInfluence: Kirk’s bio posits that he would still play it safe and just be another face in the academy if it hadn’t been for Gary’s charm and showing his friend that he needs to take risks.

* [[Characters/StarTrekTheOriginalSeriesJamesTiberiusKirk James Tiberius "Jim" Kirk]]