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3!!Main Cast (in order of billing)
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9[[caption-width-right:350:[[https://youtube.com/watch?v=FCARADb9asE Star Trekkin', across the universe...]][[note]]Main cast from left to right: [[TheEngineer Lt. Cmr. Montgomery "Scotty" Scott]], [[FunnyForeigner Ensign Pavel Chekov]], [[DrJerk Dr. Leonard]] [[TheMcCoy "Bones" McCoy]], [[HospitalHottie Nurse Christine Chapel]], [[TheKirk Cpn. James T. Kirk]], [[MissionControl Lt. Nyota Uhura]], [[TheSpock Lt. Cmr. Spock]] and [[GuyInBack Lt. Hikaru Sulu]], all aboard [[CompanionCube the]] ''[[CoolShip Enterprise]]''. [[/note]]]]
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11* [[Characters/StarTrekTheOriginalSeriesJamesTiberiusKirk Captain James Tiberius "Jim" Kirk]]
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13* [[Characters/StarTrekTheOriginalSeriesSpock Lieutenant Commander (later Commander) Spock]]
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15[[folder:Doctor (Lieutenant Commander) Leonard "Bones" [=McCoy=]]]
16!!Doctor (Lieutenant Commander) Leonard Horatio "Bones" [=McCoy=]
17[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tos_mccoy_3729.jpg]]
18!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/DeForestKelley
19!!!'''Dubbed in French by:''' Michel Georges (TOS), François Marié (Star Trek I to V), Jean-Pierre Delage (Star Trek VI)
20!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' | ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries'' | ''Film/StarTrekTheMotionPicture'' | ''Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan'' | ''Film/StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock'' | ''Film/StarTrekIVTheVoyageHome'' | ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' | ''Film/StarTrekVTheFinalFrontier'' | ''Film/StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry'' | ''Film/StarTrekBeyond'' [[note]]Photograph[[/note]]
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22->''"I signed aboard this ship to practice medicine, not to have my atoms scattered back and forth across space by this gadget."''
23-->-- '''[=McCoy=]''', "Space Seed"
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25The third member of the PowerTrio. Nicknamed "Bones" by Kirk, [=McCoy=] was a highly competent doctor who wasn't entirely comfortable with deep space and always brought a more emotional and moral component to the philosophical debates. He clashed frequently, and colorfully, with Spock, as he found Spock's rejection of emotion to be absurd; however, the two men did genuinely respect each other. Despite his "down-home country doctor" routine, [=McCoy=] could and did carry moments of badassery frequently.
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27Despite a very wild appearance -- including a full beard -- in the first one, [=McCoy=] remained largely the same in the movies: a cantankerous but kind-hearted medical professional.
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29* ActualPacifist: For all the verbal fights he gets into, he’s against war at any cost, is disgusted by prisons and is usually the one telling Kirk to be a diplomat not a soldier.
30* TheAlcoholic: Drinks in the sickbay on his off hours, regularly brings alcohol to Kirk to drown both their sorrows, and apparently both he and Scotty get worse as they get older, having more to grieve over.
31* AmbiguouslyChristian: He frequently swears in the name of God, or Heaven. He explicitly mentions Jesus in ''Film/StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry'', one of only three times in the history of the entire franchise He is mentioned by name[[note]]Uhura directly alludes to Him as the "Son of God" at the end of "Bread and Circuses", and 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).
32* AngerBornOfWorry: Par for the course for a SourSupporter with UndyingLoyalty. He and Spock will often butt heads because either Bones thinks Spock doesn’t understand the feeling, or Spock ''does'' but is trying to not show it.
33* AudienceSurrogate: Is almost always the one to call Kirk out when he’s torturing himself, or Spock when he’s being too alien, or have the more sci-fi language explained to him.
34* BadassPacifist: He's a doctor and takes that very seriously. However, that doesn't stop him from doing extremely dangerous things to save lives. Circumstances sometimes force him to show that he is a decent shot and somewhat competent brawler, but he is hardly a willing CombatMedic, both disgust with violence and unashamed fear always extremely apparent on his face. Possibly best seen in "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E22SpaceSeed Space Seed]]," where he doesn't flinch at Khan holding a knife to his throat and even gives advice on the best way to kill him from their current position.
35* BerserkButton:
36** Don't recommend pragmatism and coolheadedness over compassion during a crisis.
37** In “[[Recap/StarTrekS1E24ThisSideOfParadise This Side Of Paradise]]”, what gets him out of a spores-induced HappyPlace is even just the suggestion of not being a doctor anymore.
38* BigBrotherInstinct: He’s older than Kirk is, and when shit gets rough, looks out for him and tells him not to destroy himself with self doubt or hate himself too much for having a darker side.
39* BlueIsHeroic: [=McCoy=]'s blue uniform represents his gentleness and kindness. See also InnocentBlueEyes.
40* CatchPhrase: Two:
41** "[[HesDeadJim He's dead, Jim.]]"
42** "[[ImADoctorNotAPlaceholder I'm a doctor, not an X]]!"
43* CasualKink: Robert Hewitt Wolfe had a [[https://jonathanarcher.tumblr.com/post/648239444929937408/hey-robert-hewitt-wolfe-writer-on-both-tng-and famous twitter thread]] where he all but confirmed that Dax pegged Bones.
44** Series writer Theodore Sturgeon and [=DeForest=] Kelley came up with a [[https://web.archive.org/web/20220829234225/https://sci-hub.3800808.com/https://doi.org/10.3828/sfftv.2016.9.15 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.
45* CharacterDevelopment: Went from having emotional conniptions to the point of HairTriggerTemper when the situation looked bleak, to understanding Spock and the benefit of logic more. He admits to Spock’s body in the third movie that he doesn’t want to lose him again, and that helps the patience and understanding on both sides.
46* ChivalrousPervert: He's notable for being more open about his skirt-chasing than Kirk...[[CasanovaWannabe and less successful at it]].
47* ChronicHeroSyndrome: He’s very proud of his medical profession, especially comparing it to earlier centuries, and takes it personally when he can’t save everyone. He euthanised his father who was dying, only a few months later to hear that there was a cure, and he's filled with self hatred over it.
48* CombatPragmatist: [=McCoy=] is especially fond of hitting an enemy (or even a reluctant friend) with a hypospray to render them unconscious/simulate a disease/etc. in order to get the upper hand. In "[[Recap/StarTrekS2E1AmokTime Amok Time]]," he does this ''[[HeroicBystander without being an actual participant in the fight]]'' in order to save Kirk's life and Spock's career.
49* TheConfidant: Spock is a great friend, but he’s not that useful when Kirk is feeling anxious, so Bones helps out with advice, reassurance, ToughLove and booze.
50* DeadpanSnarker: He specializes in snarky comments. "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E24ThisSideOfParadise This Side of Paradise]]" has a couple gems.
51-->'''[=McCoy=]:''' ''[after Kirk informs a man that he will be taken from his planet with or without his cooperation]'' Should I get the butterfly net?
52* DeterminedDoctor: Where Scotty wouldn't roll over and die on keeping the ship together, this man refuses to just let his patients die if he has any means to save them.
53* DisappearedDad: According to the show bible, he has a daughter called Joanna that despite his efforts, he can’t often see. There were a few plans to include her in the show (including one where she has a crush on Kirk and Bones as a father assumes the worst) but never came to fruition.
54* DrJerk: While he's a JerkWithAHeartOfGold, his [[ImADoctorNotAPlaceholder cantankerous reminders of his actual occupation]] qualify for this trope. In "[[Recap/StarTrekS2E11FridaysChild Friday's Child]]," he persuades an obstinate, haughty patient to let him ease her pain...by slapping her in the face. {{Justified|Trope}} in that the woman in question was a Capellan, a ProudWarriorRace that regards a show of force as a sign of respect and honesty, and that [=McCoy=] was an expert on this species, having been part of the first contact team that discovered them years earlier. Given that the woman later gave birth [[MeaningfulName and named the child after [=McCoy=]]], it worked as well as intended:
55-->'''Kirk:''' Never seen that in a medical book.\
56'''[=McCoy=]:''' It's in mine from now on.
57** Especially in "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E24ThisSideOfParadise This Side of Paradise]]," when he's under the influence of AppliedPhlebotinum that makes him more irritable.
58--->'''Sandoval:''' We don't need you, not as a doctor.\
59'''Bones:''' Oh, no? Would you like to see just how fast I can put you in a hospital?
60* EveryoneHasStandards: Will tease Kirk for how often he seduces to get his way, but will be the first to be angry on his behalf if Kirk is drugged or gets his body hijacked. Same with Spock, VitriolicBestBuds, but he’s disgusted that the Platonians will make him laugh and cry by force.
61* FirstNameBasis: With Kirk, although in Kirk's case, it's [=McCoy=]'s nickname, "Bones," never his first name, "Leonard." (Kirk does call him "Leonard" exactly once, in "[[Recap/StarTrekS2E11FridaysChild Friday's Child]]", but it's context-specific.)
62* ForgetsToEat: For all he complains about Kirk and Spock neglecting their health, he’s the same when he’s wrapped up in his work.
63* FourTemperamentEnsemble: [=McCoy=] is the Sanguine. While he's the complainer of the group, he's also got a folksy joie de vivre and casual manner that [[{{foil}} directly]] contrasts Spock's strict stoicism.
64%%* FreudianTrio: [=McCoy=] is the Id to Kirk's Ego and Spock's Superego.
65* FriendToAllChildren: Unlike Kirk who likes them but is never really sure what to do, and Spock who is just awkward, he’s both loving and professional around kids. Helps that he’s a father (who sees his child more often than Kirk does) and a doctor.
66* FrontierDoctor: Dr. [=McCoy=] is perhaps ''Trek'''s outstanding example of a final frontier doctor --resourceful in the face of alien ailments, preferring simple homespun methods when possible, but cantankerous, eccentric, and not entirely happy with his lot (he fled to space on the heels of a divorce). ''Franchise/StarTrek'' was pretty much [[WagonTrainToTheStars the original]] SpaceWestern, after all, and actor Creator/DeForestKelley had an extensive background in westerns.
67* GenreRefugee: He's a western frontier doctor who just happens to work on a starship. It helps that Kelley was a veteran character actor in several westerns.
68* GoodIsNotNice: He's not hesitant about expressing his dislike for people or his refusal to suffer fools, but he is most often the one who suggests doing the right thing.
69* GoodOldWays: He both enforces and subverts this trope. He's rabidly in favor of fighting the dehumanizing effects of too much technology (especially the transporter) in favor of enjoying "the simple things in life," and yet sees "primitive 20th-century medicine" as just above trepanation, leeches, and blood-letting in its barbarity, preferring the "high-tech approach" to healing. In general, he embraces the positive, constructive aspects of technological progress rather than the destructive or dehumanizing ones.
70* GrumpyOldMan: He becomes this in the movies. His brief cameo in ''TNG'' has him even older and grumpier.
71* TheHeart: He's a deeply ethical man underneath his cantankerous exterior and always brings the moral side to a discussion.
72* HesDeadJim: He's the TropeNamer.
73* HonorBeforeReason: [=McCoy=] believes in doing the right thing no matter what, and he will proudly admit it.
74* HospitalHottie: According to [[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Jadzia]] [[TheKnightsWhoSaySquee Dax]], one of her previous hosts discovered he has the "[[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything hands of a surgeon]]."
75* HypocriticalHeartwarming:
76** [[TheMcCoy [=McCoy=]]] is always trying to get an emotional rise out of [[TheSpock Spock]], but in the episode "[[Recap/StarTrekS3E10PlatosStepchildren Plato's Stepchildren]]," [=McCoy=] jumps to Spock's defense when powerful aliens force him to cry and to laugh. And in other episodes, he's usually the first to jump to Spock's defense any time ''anyone'' attacks or insults him, possibly because his issues with Spock are more of a giant angry moral debate while other people tend to operate out of pure racism.
77** 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. ''Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan'' has him actually apologise when Kirk tells him bluntly that Carol is an old wound, and to not make jokes about it.
78* ImADoctorNotAPlaceholder: He's the TropeNamer.
79* InnocentBlueEyes: [=McCoy=] has Creator/DeForestKelley's bright, shining baby blues. He's probably the kindest, most compassionate character of the entire ''Trek'' franchise.
80* InSeriesNickname: "Bones" is actually short for "saw-bones," an archaic term for a surgeon.[[note]]Fittingly, in "A Piece of the Action", set on a planet inspired by TheRoaringTwenties gangster culture, Kirk ''does'' address [=McCoy=] as "Saw-Bones" when he's in "character".[[/note]] It was originally intended as the nickname of Dr. Boyce from "The Cage," but was never used in that episode, making it available for [=McCoy=].
81* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Grumpy, impulsive, sarcastic and rather rude, but at heart he's a good man who always does the right thing.
82* KnightInSourArmor: He's grumpy, sarcastic, and has little respect for authority (with the exception of Kirk), but when the chips are down, you can always count on him to do the right thing.
83* MeaningfulName: In addition to "Bones" recalling the old-fashion slang for a doctor ("Sawbones") it also reflects a character who relies on intuition over logic, i.e. he doesn't go by other people think, but by what he feels down to his ''bones.''
84* TheMedic: He's even able to treat a silicon-based life-form.
85* TheMcCoy: He's the TropeNamer. In a crisis, his proposed solutions usually involve trying to do the right thing in the moment and standing on principle no matter the long-term costs.
86* MildlyMilitary: Unlike Spock who is naturally logical, and Kirk who (pre-CharacterDevelopment) always believes in the Federation, he’s the least military; doctor first, in the service second.
87* MoreHeroThanThou: In "The Empath," when aliens offer Kirk the choice of sacrificing [=McCoy=] or Spock, [=McCoy=] takes out Kirk with drugs. Spock is glad; since this leaves him in command, he can make the sacrifice himself. [=McCoy=] proceeds to drug him as well and sacrifice himself.
88* OlderAndWiser: In sharp contrast to both Kirk and Spock, who struggle with their age, his appearance in TNG has him glad to be old, as it means he hasn’t died yet.
89* PromotionToOpeningTitles: At the beginning of the second season.
90* PsychologicalProjection: Bones has a tendency to assume what Kirk is feeling (usually romantic feelings for yeomen that he doesn’t actually have) or that Spock has less humanity than he actually does. Both of them call him out for it.
91* RankUp: By the time of ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', he's an Admiral. His promotion to Captain, while never seen on screen, has been stated in non-canon publications as having taken place sometime in the late 2290s. Several published works have also indicated that he later served as the head of Starfleet Medical School and as the Starfleet Medical Surgeon General. The reference manual ''Star Trek: The Next Generation Officer's Manual'' states that he eventually became Chief of Starfleet Medical and held a special rank known as "branch admiral".
92* RedOniBlueOni: He's the Red to Spock's Blue.
93* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Is the Admiral of a medical branch in TNG, and seemingly learns from the mistakes of Kirk in the movies, being as peaceful as his grumpy self gets.
94* ResignationsNotAccepted: At the beginning of [[Film/StarTrekTheMotionPicture the first movie]], [=McCoy=] has retired to private practice, and is called back into service against his protests on Kirk's request.
95* SarcasticDevotee / SourSupporter:
96** He will follow Kirk into the pits of Hell and back, but he'll grumble about it first.
97** Similarly, if Spock is in trouble he'll strive to help him, just don't expect him to hold back on a [[VitriolicBestBuds few jibes]] whilst he does.
98* SouthernFriedGenius: One of the most respected doctors in {{the Federation}}--straight out of Georgia.
99* StrawmanEmotional: At times.
100* SuperDoc: He can be nothing else such as when he successfully treated the Mother Horta, a silicon based lifeform whose physiology he is not only completely unfamiliar with, but he didn't even believe such a lifeform even existed until that very moment.
101-->'''[=McCoy=]''': By golly, Jim, I'm beginning to think I can cure a rainy day!
102* TeamDad: He’s not a therapist but... he usually tries to give Spock some ToughLove as a counterpoint to his logic, always becomes a worried friend when Jim is being a LoveMartyr, and a pregnant woman is very fond of him.
103* TallDarkAndSnarky: Not as tall as Spock, but plenty dark-haired and snarky.
104* ToughLove: He and Chapel make a great team for sickbay, her bluffing GoodCopBadCop to self pitying patients, and Bones being a mother hen of both Kirk and Spock, telling them off if they’re ever planning on being martyrs (not that Bones is much better).
105* TrueCompanions: With Kirk and Spock.
106* VitriolicBestBuds: With Spock. They argue ''constantly'' but if ''anyone'' other than him attacks or criticizes Spock (and that includes Kirk), he will ''always'' rush to his defense.
107* TheWatson: Despite serving on Starfleet's flagship, [=McCoy=] is routinely unfamiliar with various technical aspects of the ship or other technology he encounters. (He is an excellent doctor, however, which makes up for it.)
108* WroteTheBook: According to STV, he wrote a book called ''Comparative Alien Physiology'', which is required reading at Starfleet Medical. It's apparently the ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray%27s_Anatomy Gray's Anatomy]]'' of aliens.
109* YouCalledMeXItMustBeSerious: In contrast to Spock, it's when Bones calls Kirk "Captain" and not "Jim" that you know he's not messing around.
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112[[folder:Lieutenant Commander Montgomery "Scotty" Scott]]
113!!Lieutenant Commander Montgomery "Scotty" Scott
114[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tos_scotty_2892.jpg]]
115!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/JamesDoohan
116!!!'''Dubbed in French by:''' Julien Bessette (TOS), Georges Aubert (Movies)
117!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' | ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries'' | ''Film/StarTrekTheMotionPicture'' | ''Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan'' | ''Film/StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock'' | ''Film/StarTrekIVTheVoyageHome'' | ''Film/StarTrekVTheFinalFrontier'' | ''Film/StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry'' | ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' | ''Film/StarTrekGenerations'' | ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' [[note]]Archive footage[[/note]] | ''Film/StarTrekBeyond'' [[note]]Photograph[[/note]]
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119->''"I cannae change the laws of physics! I've got to have thirty minutes!"''
120-->-- '''Scotty''', "The Naked Time"
121
122Chief Engineer of the ''Enterprise''. Scotty's most frequent job was to solve a seemingly-impossible crisis with the engine or transporters (or whatever piece of Starfleet technology was making trouble that week), protesting all the way before either hitting on a creative solution or sweating it through. He was also Scottish and had many sterotypical Scottish traits, such as a love of good whisky and namedropping haggis. Scotty was firmly established as the ship's third-in-command behind Kirk and Spock, and seeing as those two were ''always'' members of the landing party, he took the conn with surprising regularity. Though he was sometimes used for comic relief, it's worth noting that Scotty was ''extremely'' badass whenever he was the ranking officer on the bridge and kept it safe from interfering aliens or Starfleet's many half-crazed admirals.
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124Scotty's role in the films was still the Chief Engineer, but he was relegated to the comic relief role more often. He also appeared in an [[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS6E4Relics episode]] of ''The Next Generation''.
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126* TheAce: Scotty is certainly no slouch in the engineering department, and has gotten the ''Enterprise'' out of scrapes with his bare hands more times than he can count. It's through his talent than he got a promotion to Captain of the Engineering Division, and managed to rig the ''Enterprise'' to run on a skeleton crew of just 5 men. And even a century later, despite feeling useless throughout most of his time on the ''Enterprise''-D, he bounces back and pulls off yet another miracle.
127* TheAlcoholic: Scotty's love of strong booze is apparent. He keeps a stash of all kinds of liquor in his quarters, including a green bottle of [[GargleBlaster something he can't even identify]]. He dismisses Russian vodka as mere "soda pop" compared to what gets him hammered.
128* AmusingInjuries: In ''The Final Frontier'', he bangs himself up pretty badly trying to fix the ''Enterprise''-A when she's conking out all over, and it's all PlayedForLaughs.
129* AlternateSelf: He has a counterpart in the Kelvin Timeline, and another in the Mirror Universe.
130* BerserkButton:
131** He's a very calm, polite, and peaceful man...unless you call the ''Enterprise'' a piece of garbage. Then he'll punch you in the face regardless of the cost.
132** As Geordi learned, don't tell him he's getting in the way; he was fixing starships when [=LaForge=]'s great grandfather was still in diapers!
133* BewareTheNiceOnes: Scotty's perhaps the friendliest fellow on the ''Enterprise''. Just don't you dare call his baby a piece of garbage, lest you get a slug in the face.
134* BigDamnHeroes: In "Friday's Child," Kirk, Spock, and [=McCoy=] are unarmed and surrounded by a superior Klingon force.
135-->'''Kirk:''' ''[to Spock]'' Too bad the cavalry doesn't come over the hill anymore. ''[cue Scotty beaming down with a large force of {{Redshirt}}s to save the day]''
136* BreakTheBadass: Scotty may be the most renowned engineer of his time, but when he ends up stuck in a transporter loop for 75 years and awakens to find that the times have leaped ahead without him, he feels practically useless.
137* BrokenAce: He goes through this arc in "Relics" when it's discovered he was stuck in a transporter loop on the ''Jenolan'' for 75 years. Upon seeing that the engineering technology of his time has jumped so far ahead, he [[DrowningMySorrows takes to Ten Forward]] and guzzles down some Aldebaran Whisky.
138* BullyingADragon: Sure, the Klingon who dared to insult the ''Enterprise'' had it coming when Scotty decked him for it, but the entire crew was explicitly warned not to start a diplomatic incident--and Scotty isn't a warrior who lived his entire life being bred for combat.
139* ButtMonkey: Sometimes, when he was left in charge of the ''Enterprise''.
140* TheCaptain: He gets promoted to the rank of captain in ''The Search for Spock'', which puts him on equal terms with both Kirk and Spock. It's no small feat, either. He's one of the very few non-command division people to achieve the rank and the promotion is given in recognition of his engineering skills. [[TheCreon He never pulls it on anyone, however.]]
141* CaptainEthnic: Or in this case, Lieutenant-Commander Ethnic. In case the accent, taste for whisky, and the occasional wearing of traditional Scottish clothes and playing of bagpipes don't clue you in, there is also the surname. Lampooned in the ''[[Radio/ImSorryIllReadThatAgain I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again]]'' parody:
142-->'''Uhura (Jo Kendall):''' Captain, our Scottish chief engineer [[MeaningfulName Scott]]--[[PropheticName "Scotty"]] [[BlatantLies for short]]--[[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment from Scotland]] has something terrible to tell you.
143-->'''Scott (Graeme Garden):''' ''[incomprehensible Scots English gibberish]''
144-->'''Kirk (Tim Brooke-Taylor):''' Yes, that was terrible, wasn't it?
145* CargoShip: Scotty and the Enterprise
146* ChickMagnet: He may not be as lucky as Captain Kirk in that department, but he's attracted his fair share of lovely ladies, most notably in "Wolf in the Fold" and even Uhura herself in ''The Final Frontier''.
147* CompanionCube: If Kirk saw the ''Enterprise'' as a demanding wife, Scotty saw the ship, particularly her engines, as no less than children ("My bairns! My poor bairns!").
148* CompressedVice: “Wolf In The Fold” has him hate women for a while because a woman caused an explosion that injured him. Kirk and [=McCoy=]’s solution is to bring him to see belly dancers.
149* ADayInTheLimelight: "Wolf In The Fold," "The Trouble With Tribbles," "By Any Other Name," and "The Lights of Zetar."
150* DrowningMySorrows: He always had a liking for the stuff, along with Bones, but after his nephew dies, Scotty thinking Peter stayed to impress him, he gets to the point in the books where Kirk has to pull rank and order him to bed. And when he ends up stuck in the ''TNG'' era feeling useless, he gets hammered, then goes to the holodeck to pull up a recreation of his old bridge.
151* TheEngineer: His primary duty.
152* FatherNeptune: Though as he is RecycledInSpace, perhaps he would be Father Jove or Father Apollo, but you get the idea.
153* FishOutOfTemporalWater: His fate in ''TNG'' shows that in 2294, he was on the way to a retirement colony when the ship he was riding on crashed on a Dyson Sphere. He and one other crew member used a transporter loop to hold themselves inside until someone could find them, but it wouldn't be until 75 years later when the ''Enterprise''-D happened to pass by the area did they pull him out, (and only him, his friend's pattern had deteriorated too much). When he heard that the ''Enterprise'' came to the rescue, he thought Kirk had pulled the ''A'' out of mothball to find him (having forgotten Kirk had died just a year prior), only to realize how far out of time he really was when Worf showed up. He spends most of his guest spot trying to readjust to his new time.
154* FormerlyFit: He's fairly portly in most of his post-TOS appearances. Of course, since it's a live-action show it's a case of RealLifeWritesThePlot.
155* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Scotty is the Phlegmatic. He's a modest, simple guy and pretty content to just follow orders. The Enterprise is his personal BerserkButton... but even when a Klingon calls her "garbage", Scotty stays [[TranquilFury cool]] and offers him a chance to take it back.
156* GadgeteerGenius: Can [[MacGyvering MacGyver]] just about anything on his own, but particularly shines teamed with Spock. The two of them could turn the most obscure theory into a way to save the day.
157* GeniusBruiser: Pretty handy with both his fists and his mind.
158* {{Leitmotif}}: More an example of a BootstrappedLeitmotif. A piece called "A Matter of Pride" was composed by Jerry Fielding for "The Trouble with Tribbles" to underscore the scene where Scotty admits he started the bar fight with the Klingons. It was then reused for "By Any Other Name" in the scene where Scotty drinks Tomar under the table. It was never used again, but because of its exclusive association with two of Scotty's greatest character scenes, it is sometimes remembered as "Scotty's Theme" among fans.
159* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Scotty is promoted to the Chief Engineer of the ''Excelsior'' in ''The Search For Spock''. He's also the one who sabotages the ship so it can't follow the ''Enterprise'' when her crew steals her from Spacedock.
160* MrFixIt: He’s the only one who doesn’t act like an asshole losing his temper with Spock’s reactions in “The Galileo Seven”, mostly because he’s so focused on fixing the shuttlecraft.
161* NiceGuy: He's a kind, humble, friendly, quiet and easygoing guy who's very loyal to his crew. He's perhaps the most agreeable - and absolutely the least prone to act like a jerk - member in his crew.
162* RapidAging: In "The Deadly Years", he's one of a handful of crew members who get subject to a virus that causes this, though it's fortunately reversed.
163* RankUp: In ''Film/StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock'', he gets promoted to Captain and reassigned to the USS Excelsior as Captain of Engineering during the ship's early test runs.
164* ReplacementGoldfish: With a bit of reality writing the plot, the book version of “Generations” has Kirk clinging to Scotty now that Bones and Spock are both back home, and it falls to the poor man to tell him off for doing stupid suicidal shit.
165* ScottyTime: He's the TropeNamer. His section quote is an example: in that case, the ship didn't ''have'' 30 minutes to spare--it had ''8'' minutes before it would crash--so he had to use some drastic, unproven measures.
166* UndyingLoyalty: He's always stood by Captain Kirk's side in the most dire of situations.
167* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Twice from the same action. His sending the tribbles home with the Captain Koloth apparently resulted in an ecological disaster for the Klingon Empire, which in turn caused the Klingons to hunt down the tribble homeworld and obliterate it, rendering them extinct. At least for a century, or so. The [=DS9=] crew undid the second part by accident.
168* {{Workaholic}}: Would rather read technical manuals in his off time than actually taking shore leave.
169* WroteTheBook: According to the TNG episode "Relics", he wrote some of the Starfleet engineering regulations that are still in use. Hence, he knows when it's safe to ignore them.
170
171!!Hologram Scotty
172!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/JamesDoohan (archive recordings)
173
174A holographic representation of Scotty appears as part of the Kobayashi Maru simulation on the holodeck of the ''U.S.S. Protostar''.
175
176For tropes relating to his appearance there, along with the other holograms, see, ''Characters/StarTrekProdigy''.
177[[/folder]]
178
179[[folder:Lieutenant Nyota Uhura]]
180!!Lieutenant Nyota Uhura
181[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tos_uhura_6588.jpg]]
182!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/NichelleNichols
183!!!'''Dubbed in French by:''' Arlette Sanders (TOS), Laure Moutassamy (Star Trek: the Motion Picture, III, IV, V and VI), Jane Val (Star Trek II)
184!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' | ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries'' | ''Film/StarTrekTheMotionPicture'' | ''Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan'' | ''Film/StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock'' | ''Film/StarTrekIVTheVoyageHome'' | ''Film/StarTrekVTheFinalFrontier'' | ''Film/StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry'' | ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' [[note]]Archive footage[[/note]] | ''Film/StarTrekBeyond'' [[note]]Photograph[[/note]]
185
186->'''Uhura:''' Mr. Spock, I haven't done anything like this in years. If it isn't done just right, I could blow the entire communications system. It's very delicate work, sir.
187->'''Spock:''' I can think of no one better equipped to handle it, Miss Uhura. Please, proceed.
188-->-- "Who Mourns for Adonais?"
189
190Uhura was ''Enterprise's'' communications officer and, [[WordOfGod according to Gene Roddenberry]], was fourth in line of command behind Mr. Scott (something flatly contradicted in the series, where Sulu and even [[MauveShirt [=DeSalle=] ]] took command ahead of her). Unfortunately, her character was vastly underutilized during the series' run, although the times she was allowed to do more than be the ship's phone operator, she was pretty good at whatever she was doing. Her role was somewhat expanded after the first season and she did get to take the captain's chair in the animated series.
191
192Off-screen, Nichols was subjected to racist harassment and resigned when she learned that the studio executives had been withholding her fan mail. A conversation with UsefulNotes/MartinLutherKingJr convinced her to stay; he told her that the idea of a black woman being equal to whites was something vitally important for children to see, as a role model or as an example of what should be. Both Mae Jemison (America's first black female astronaut) and Creator/WhoopiGoldberg have cited her as an influence, along with many others. Nichols worked with [=NASA=] to recruit women and minorities into the astronaut corps.
193----
194* SixtiesHair: Wore a pixie cut before sporting a bouffant in the later seasons.
195* AcePilot: Never really allowed to show it off in the series thanks to Roddenberry and execs banning it, but offscreen she was called a great pilot.
196* ActionGirl: In "Mirror, Mirror" and "The Gamesters of Triskelion." Even more so in the ''[[WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries Animated Series]]'' episode "The Lorelei Signal", where she leads [[AmazonBrigade a landing party of female crewmembers]] on a phaser-stunning spree when the men are all disabled.
197* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: The far more LowerDeckEpisode-ish “Man Trap” implies heavily that she feels lonely, and only lets that out when she’s not in other company.
198* AmbiguouslyGay: She's as starry eyed as Chekov is over the androids in "I, Mudd", and visibly confused when Kirk asks for male androids.
199* BadassPacifist: Strictly on the diplomat side of the soldier vs diplomat conflict nearly every Trek character finds themselves on, finding war to be the last resort.
200* BewareTheNiceOnes: Very nice and even-tempered but as Bones lampshades in the third movie, it’s a bad idea to get on her bad side.
201* BridgeBunny: To Nichols' frustration. She did have a few episodes where she was in the landing party, but for the vast majority of the show, she was confined to her station.
202** For a long time, in interviews Nichols would answer the question, "What is your favorite episode of the series" with "Any episode that got me off the bridge."
203* CatchPhrase: "Hailing frequencies open." She says this ''seven times'' in her debut appearance, "The Corbomite Maneuver", including ''five times in a row''. It's no wonder she complains about hearing the word "frequency" too many times in "The Man Trap".
204* CommunicationsOfficer: One of the most famous examples.
205* ConsistentClothingStyle: She always wears sparkling or bright earrings, with fancy nails. Lampshaded in ''Literature/StarTrekExMachina'', as she misses the bright colours of the old clothes, and like everyone in the book, hates the first movie uniforms.
206* CoolOldLady: “Catalyst Of Sorrows” has this be the reason for why so many adore her, she’s over a hundred years old and at peace with herself.
207* CutenessProximity: Is the first to fall madly in love with tribbles.
208* ADayInTheLimelight: "Mirror, Mirror" and "The Trouble With Tribbles." She also got to play LargeHam as much as the boys did in "I, Mudd". ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries'' added "The Lorelei Signal".
209* DeathGlare: “Catalyst Of Sorrows” calls it the Uhura Look, and describes it like a KubrickStare just sassier and angrier.
210* HiddenDepths: NOMAD complains that her mind is a chaotic mess, full of conflicting wants.
211* HumbleHero: “Catalyst Of Sorrows” has her admit that nothing makes her feel older than when people call her a legend.
212* LikeBrotherAndSister: Ironically given that Nichols couldn’t stand Shatner, but forced kissing aside, he picks her up to hug her, she affectionately snarks at him that she never gets shore leave, and he makes her feel safer.
213* MeaningfulName: ''Uhura'' is derived from ''Uhuru'', which means "freedom" (which carried a strong RealitySubtext in the 1960s), while ''Nyota'' means "star".
214* 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.
215* MyGreatestFailure: In a minor TakeThat towards the [[Film/StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry 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.
216* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: She is African and her first language is Swahili, yet she sounds American. {{Justified|Trope}} in that she is a linguist.
217* PassiveAggressiveKombat: When trying to make conversation with Spock, it ends up with her telling him super politely that he's predictable.
218* 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.
219* RankUp: At some point prior to ''Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan'', she made Commander.
220* RetCanon: Her first name, ''Nyota'', was used in the non-canon novels for decades before finally being made official. Very early ''Trek'' guides suggest that ''Penda'' was considered a possibility by the fans. Parodied in the 2009 film when Uhura refuses to tell Kirk her first name until the end of the movie.
221* 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.
222* ShipTease:
223** She appears to show an interest in Spock in a few episodes. (Yes, long before [[Film/StarTrek2009 the reboot]].) According to Nichols, this was largely her own idea, that it was a one-sided relationship.
224** By the later movies, she seems to be in a casual relationship with Scotty.
225** 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.
226* SilkHidingSteel: Uhura may be a non-combatant most of the time, but as noted above, she is quite the ActionGirl when necessary. In particular, "Mirror, Mirror" and "The Gamesters of Triskelion" show that Uhura ''can'' kick someone's ass when necessary, and the animated series shows she's not afraid to take command and take the initiative when needed.
227* 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.
228* TeamMom: In a story written by Nichelle Nichols, Kirk tells her she would make a great mother. She replies that she has experience, being that she’s on a ship full of little boys.
229* {{Troll}}: She sings a light hearted jab about Spock being the devil in “Charlie X”, and the third movie novel has her provide a distraction by mixing all the channels with clips from TV channels.
230* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Her tomboy to Christine's girly girl.
231* TwoferTokenMinority: The only black member of the crew, and the only woman besides Christine Chapel.
232* WrenchWench: She rigs a subspace bypass circuit to restore communications easily, and even gets a compliment from Spock.
233
234!!Hologram Uhura
235!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/NichelleNichols (archive recordings)
236A holographic representation of Uhura appears as part of the Kobayashi Maru simulation on the holodeck of the ''U.S.S. Protostar''.
237
238For tropes relating to her appearance there, along with the other holograms, see, ''Characters/StarTrekProdigy''.
239[[/folder]]
240
241[[folder:Lieutenant Hikaru Sulu]]
242!!Lieutenant (later Captain) Hikaru Sulu
243[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tos_sulu_6960.jpg]]
244!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/GeorgeTakei
245!!!'''Dubbed in French by:''' Daniel Roussel (TOS), Tola Koukoui (Star Trek I to V), Creator/PatrickGuillemin (Star Trek VI)
246!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' | ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries'' | ''Film/StarTrekTheMotionPicture'' | ''Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan'' | ''Film/StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock'' | ''Film/StarTrekIVTheVoyageHome'' | ''Film/StarTrekVTheFinalFrontier'' | ''Film/StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry'' | ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' | ''Film/StarTrekBeyond'' [[note]]Photograph[[/note]]
247
248->''"We're using hand phasers to heat the rocks. One phaser quit on us, three still operating. Any possibility of getting us back aboard before the skiing season opens down here? "''
249-->-- '''Sulu''', the one with the alien unicorn dog
250
251The helmsman, thankfully living in a time before bridge consoles were MadeOfExplodium. Sulu was an affable and level-headed officer, a staple of bridge drama and landing parties. He worked well with other members of a crew and sometimes shared his hobbies: botany, antiquing, and fencing (although the last one was not exactly in a clear state of mind). When Chekov was added to the cast, they formed a ThoseTwoGuys dynamic. Although it was never ''firmly'' established in canon (where there is no clear command structure after Kirk-Spock-Scotty, and several different characters, Sulu included, are shown to take the conn in situations where all three are absent or incapacitated), Sulu is generally regarded as the ship's Third Officer and fourth-in-command.
252
253Although he has a Japanese first name, his surname is deliberately ambiguous; it is the name of a sea that borders several Asian countries [[note]]The Sulu sea is between the Philippines and the island of Borneo, which is divided between Indonesia, Malaysia, and Brunei[[/note]]. Like Uhura, Sulu was significant for being a non-stereotypical portrayal of an Asian man. In the [[Film/StarTrekIVTheVoyageHome fourth film,]] we learn that he was born in San Francisco.[[note]]Which incidentally means he (belatedly) joined Bones as the only TOS lead not to be a FakeNationality. (Well, unless you consider Spock half-American.)[[/note]]
254----
255* TheAce: Like Kirk, an experienced and capable multi-talented officer who went on to have a distinguished career as a captain of his own. Unlike Kirk, who [[MarriedToTheJob never made time for a family]] and whose hobbies seem limited to drinking, flirting, and the occasional camping trip/rock climbing expedition, Sulu ''also'' managed to have a happy marriage, a beautiful daughter who followed in his footsteps, and cultivated a variety of interests outside his career, including fencing, botany, and tea.
256* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Again, "The Naked Time."
257* CanonImmigrant: His now-canon first name, ''Hikaru'', was given to him in the non-canon novels by Creator/VondaNMcIntyre, before officially being made his name in ''Film/StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry''. Very early ''Star Trek'' guides suggest that ''Walter'' was considered as a possible first name during the show itself, but never officially used.
258* CulturedBadass: Very knowledgeable in many subjects, such as botany, and when he gets infected and runs amok with a fencing foil in "The Naked Time", he even scares Kirk.
259* ADayInTheLimelight: "The Naked Time" and "Mirror, Mirror."
260* DeadpanSnarker: Sulu is prone to making pithy commentary on the events of the episode.
261* DemotedToExtra: He has a much smaller role in ''The Undiscovered Country'' due to being busy commanding his own ship for most of the movie.
262* DotingParent: As a foil to Kirk, who couldn’t resist his job and wasn’t allowed to see his son, “Generations” as well as expanded material have him as a devoted father to his daughter Demora, who wasn’t planned and lived with him after her mother died.
263* EvilIsHammy: Every MirrorUniverse character was hammy, but Takei was a particularly rich, dripping slice.
264* FanOfThePast: He's a history buff and a competent fencer. Overlaps with AcePilot in the movies when, upon a simple inspection of the controls, he flies a 20th-century helicopter competently enough to perform cargo-lifting duties.
265* FleetingPassionateHobbies: Including fencing ("The Naked Time") and botany ("The Man Trap"). In fact, in "The Naked Time," Kevin Riley {{Lampshades}} it.
266* GenerationXerox: In ''[[Film/StarTrekGenerations Generations]]'', we meet his daughter Demora, who is (where else?) at the helm of the ''Enterprise''-B.
267* GeniusBruiser: Just happens to be an expert in botany, swordsmanship, French history, and flying ancient aircraft.
268* GoodScarsEvilScars: His MirrorUniverse counterpart has a big nasty scar on his face.
269* GunNut: Overlapping with FanOfThePast, in "Shore Leave," he's thrilled to find an ancient revolver. An animated series episode expanded this to Sulu having expertise with weaponry across the board.
270* InscrutableOriental: Deliberately inverted per the series bible. Sulu's most prominent trait was probably his sense of humor and enthusiasm for hobbies that never seemed to last. This got an in-joke in the animated series when he claimed, with a wink, you had to be "inscrutable" to fight the way he did--and Kirk replied "you're the most scrutable man I know."[[note]]Incidentally, the episode was penned by Walter Koenig, who was and still is a good friend of Takei.[[/note]]
271* KatanasAreJustBetter: {{Averted|Trope}} in "The Naked Time." Sulu was originally supposed to go on his rampage with a samurai sword, but at Takei's request to do something less stereotypical, it was switched to an epee.
272* NiceGuy: Consistently friendly and level-headed. Subtly demonstrated in "Day of the Dove", when an EnergyBeing triggers a HatePlague on the ''Enterprise''; Sulu is the only one who never seems to act out or show anger (even Spock is seething with TranquilFury). And when Bailey in “The Corbomite Maneuver” was freaking out, Sulu did most of his tasks for him.
273* TheOneWithAPersonalLife: This was retconned for Sulu. The TOS movies gave the distinct impression that the crew killed time between ''Enterprise'' missions teaching at the Academy. They didn't have personal lives. Then the seventh movie revealed that Sulu had a daughter. The novel ''The Captain's Daughter'' (not to be confused with the [[Literature/TheCaptainsDaughter Pushkin novel of the same name]]) elaborates on their relationship.
274-->'''Kirk:''' Sulu. When did he find the time to have a family?
275* RankUp: The last we see him, he's captain of the USS ''Excelsior''.
276* TheReliableOne: He's quite competent at a variety of tasks, and very level-headed compared to characters like Chekov or Scotty. He's also fiercely loyal to his crewmates, to the point of disobeying Starfleet orders and potentially causing a serious diplomatic incident just to rescue them.
277* SadClown: While freezing to death in “The Enemy Within”, he makes jokes about room service to try and reassure the others.
278* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: In "Turnabout Intruder," Sulu gets a good moment when he says he'll flatly refuse any order to execute a fellow officer.
279* ShirtlessScene: In "The Naked Time."
280* ThoseTwoGuys: With Chekov.
281* TookALevelInBadass: As Captain of the ''Excelsior'' in ''Star Trek VI''.
282* UniversalDriversLicense:
283** He adapts pretty quickly to the controls of a Klingon ship in ''Film/StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock''.
284** In ''Film/StarTrekIVTheVoyageHome'' he learns to fly a 20th century helicopter in a ''single day''; possibly ''barely'' justified in that he's a FanOfThePast so maybe he read about helicopters of the 1980's in his leisure time.
285[[/folder]]
286
287[[folder:Ensign Pavel Chekov]]
288!!Ensign Pavel Andreievich Chekov
289[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tos_chekhov_1941.jpg]]
290!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/WalterKoenig
291!!!'''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)
292!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' | ''Film/StarTrekTheMotionPicture'' | ''Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan'' | ''Film/StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock'' | ''Film/StarTrekIVTheVoyageHome'' | ''Film/StarTrekVTheFinalFrontier'' | ''Film/StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry'' | ''Film/StarTrekGenerations'' | ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' [[note]]Archive footage[[/note]] | ''Film/StarTrekBeyond'' [[note]]Photograph[[/note]]
293
294->''"Of course, Doctor. The Garden of Eden was just outside Moscow. A very nice place. Must've made Adam and Eve very sad to leave."''
295-->-- '''Chekov''', "The Apple"
296
297The ship's navigator from Season 2 onwards. Chekov had a tendency to refer to GloriousMotherRussia and claim that any human advancement, be it technological or cultural, originated there. He also had terrible luck and frequently ran foul of whatever physical or psychological menace the ship was facing that week, mainly because Creator/WalterKoenig had an excellent capacity for screaming. Aside from that, he and Sulu were good friends and would frequently banter about the action.
298
299Chekov is, by far, the most junior of the regular bridge officers, but the writers justified his presence by having him act as the relief science officer whenever Spock was busy or incapacitated. In fact, Chekov would often abandon his navigation console in order to take up the science scanner if Spock had to step away, even at warp or in the middle of a battle. In ''Film/StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock'', in a nod to this, Chekov identifies himself as the "Acting Science Officer" of the ''Enterprise''.
300
301Chekov was added for a few reasons: to attract younger viewers and give a nod to the Russians in the space race. (Also to fill in some of Sulu's role while Takei was filming ''Film/TheGreenBerets''.)
302
303Koenig is reprising his role for the FanFilm series ''WebVideo/StarTrekRenegades'', where Chekov is now over a hundred and an admiral.
304
305----
306* AmbiguouslyJewish: An idea with some popularity in the {{fandom}}, partially since [[Creator/WalterKoenig Koenig]] (and Creator/AntonYelchin, who played Chekov in the [[Film/StarTrek2009 2009 reboot]]) are Jewish.
307* BrilliantButLazy: He does genuinely have a lot of knowledge, he just decides to make it all about Russian history instead.
308* ButtMonkey: Chekov did more screaming-in-pain than the rest of the crew combined. He even got a [[ColdBloodedTorture torture]] scene in the episode "Mirror, Mirror." This was explained as a convenient way to show there was mortal peril. Apparently, Kirk, Spock, and [=McCoy=], all being older, dignified men, would have made it improper for them to scream, but Chekov is in his early twenties and still very boyish, so it's all right for him. Doesn't make it any easier on the poor guy, though. In a nice inversion, he's the only one who ''doesn't'' get hit with the aging disease in "The Deadly Years." He still ends up getting subjected to a thousand and one medical checks, though.
309-->'''Chekov:''' Blood sample, Chekov! Marrow sample, Chekov! Skin sample, Chekov! If--''if'' I live long enough, I'm going to run out of samples!
310-->'''Sulu:''' You'll live.
311-->'''Chekov:''' Oh yes, I'll live. But I won't enjoy it!
312** 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/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan 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''.
313* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Chekov's constant references to Mother Russia appear to only make sense in his mind.
314* CulturalPosturing: What ''didn't'' Mother Russia invent?
315* ADayInTheLimelight: "[[AgonyBeam Mirror, Mirror]]," "The Trouble With Tribbles," "The Deadly Years," and "The Way to Eden."
316* DeadpanSnarker: Not as much as Bones or even Spock, but he definitely has a smart-assed side. As he gets older, it gets worse.
317* DidNotGetTheGirl: In the “Generations” book, he tries to avoid retirement loneliness by contacting his old girlfriend from “The Way To Eden”, only to discover that she got married to someone else.
318* GloriousMotherRussia: This trope is ''very much'' in effect with Chekov. He is the only person on the ''Enterprise'''s bridge who speaks with a thick, nearly incomprehensible accent (in the company of an African, an East Asian, and a half-''alien''), and much of his dialogue is CulturalPosturing about how Russia is the greatest country in the world that has apparently in''wen''ted everything.
319* IconicSequelCharacter: Just as recognisable as Scotty, Uhura and Sulu, despite only joining the cast in the second season.
320* TheIntern: Much is made of his relative inexperience and impulsiveness.
321* InTheOriginalKlingon: A RunningGag is that he keeps claiming things were invented in Russia.
322* KnowNothingKnowItAll: Chekov both amused and annoyed his crewmates by spouting what he didn't know about Russian history.
323* MrFanservice: Really. Brought in specifically to appeal to younger {{Fangirl}}s, complete with hair straight out of Music/TheMonkees.
324* PluckyComicRelief: Particularly as the films progressed.
325* RankUp: At some point prior to ''Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan'', he got promoted to Commander. Of all the characters in the TOS era, he has the biggest number of promotions (four).[[note]]From Ensign to Lieutenant Junior Grade to Lieutenant to Lieutenant Commander to Commander. Sulu is promoted three times, Spock, Scotty, and Uhura are promoted twice, Kirk and Bones just once -- only for Kirk to be demoted back to Captain and Bones subsequently promoted several more times after the TOS era to reach the rank of Admiral by TNG. It is unclear what Chapel and Rand's initial ranks were, though they also end up as Commanders.[[/note]]
326* RussianGuySuffersMost: Oh, yeah.
327** In ''Film/StarTrekTheMotionPicture'', Chekov's arm gets burned by an [[ExplosiveInstrumentation exploding console]]. [[WhatCouldHaveBeen An early draft had him]] ''[[WhatCouldHaveBeen dying]]'' [[WhatCouldHaveBeen during this scene]].
328** Walter Koenig called ''Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan'' "Star Trek II: Chekov Screams Again", as Chekov gets a PuppeteerParasite [[OrificeInvasion inserted into his ear]] by Khan.
329** In ''Film/StarTrekIVTheVoyageHome'', Chekov gets arrested by law enforcement in 1986, and suffers a near-fatal concussion while attempting to escape.
330** In "The Deadly Years", Chekov is the only one of the landing party who doesn't fall prey to the aging disease, which would seem to be a good thing. However, what it really means is that he's forced to go through numerous painful and annoying tests so [=McCoy=] can figure out why he wasn't affected.
331* TheScream: Creator/WalterKoenig had a good one, which is why it's Chekov who always gets stuffed into the [[AgonyBeam agony booth]], shot, driven insane, tortured by Klingons, implanted with parasitic worms... Koenig lampshaded this by jokingly calling the second movie in the series "Star Trek II: Chekov Screams Again."
332* SixthRanger: Subverted. Chekov didn't ''appear'' on the show until Season 2, but apparently served on the ''[[CompanionCube Enterprise]]'' long before he appeared, because in [[Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan the second movie]], [[LargeHam Khan]] recognizes Chekov, apparently having met him in the Season 1 episode "Space Seed."\
333\
334Walter Koenig's explanation for how they met is that Chekov actually was serving aboard the ''Enterprise'' but was on duty during the night shift, and he and Khan met off-screen. The circumstances of their meeting were thus: Chekov was using the bathroom and he was taking an inordinately long time, and Khan approaches that very same bathroom, needing to use it. Finding it occupied, he soon loses his patience and pounds on the door. When Chekov finally emerges, Khan grabs him and fixes him with a DeathGlare, and says "I will ''never'' forget your face!" This is further compounded by the fact that he expended ''all'' the toilet paper.
335* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: He was initially this to Sulu, due to Creator/GeorgeTakei's absence during much of season 2, with many of Sulu's lines rewritten for him (e.g. Chekov's sudden familiarity with botany, one of Sulu's areas of expertise, in "The Trouble with Tribbles").
336* ThoseTwoGuys: With Sulu, which makes sense since Sulu is the helmsman and Chekov is the navigator. ''The Final Frontier'' even shows them vacationing together.
337[[/folder]]
338
339[[folder:Nurse Christine Chapel]]
340!!Nurse Christine Chapel
341[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tos_chapel_70.jpg]]
342!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/MajelBarrett
343!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' | ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries'' | ''Film/StarTrekTheMotionPicture'' | ''Film/StarTrekIVTheVoyageHome''
344
345The ship's nurse, known for her attraction to Spock.
346----
347* TheConfidant: [[https://www.bu.edu/clarion/guides/Star_Trek_Writers_Guide.pdf The writer’s bible]] calls her a medical confidant for Bones, and they have a friendly but professional relationship.
348* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: She has a crush on Spock, but is horrified and traumatised when the Platonians force them to kiss.
349* ADayInTheLimelight: "The Naked Time," "What Are Little Girls Made Of?", "Amok Time," and "Plato's Stepchildren."
350* DeadpanSnarker: "You know, self-pity is a terrible first course. Why don't you try the soup?"
351** "Come along, Ensign. This won't hurt. Much."
352* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Blonde and among the ''Enterprise'''s most caring officers.
353* PutOnABus: Chapel only appeared as part of the crew in the first TOS film. After that other than a brief cameo in ''Film/StarTrekIVTheVoyageHome'' she never appeared again.
354* RankUp: When she reappears in ''Film/StarTrekIVTheVoyageHome'', she's a doctor.
355* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Majel Barrett was the girlfriend and eventual wife of Creator/GeneRoddenberry, which may explain why we saw Nurse Chapel so much. In part, her role was also expanded in the latter half of the first season (after only sporadically appearing in the early episodes) due to Grace Lee Whitney leaving, and Creator/NichelleNichols also threatening to quit, which would have left the show without any recurring female characters.
356* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: Roger Korby, her fiancé, was a man to whom "life was sacred" by her own description. Given that her reasons for crushing on Spock included his honesty, it seems this applies across the board for Chapel.
357* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Her girly girl to Uhura's tomboy.
358[[/folder]]
359
360[[folder:The ''Enterprise'']]
361!!USS Enterprise (NCC-1701)
362[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/14f1aaa1_7435_4d45_8bd3_c69ad6227559.jpeg]]
363[[caption-width-right:350:Boldly going where no man has gone before...]]
364!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/MajelBarrett (computer voice)
365
366->''"No bloody A, B, C, or D!"''[[labelnote:*]]or E or F or G[[/labelnote]]
367-->-- '''Scotty''', "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS6E4Relics Relics]]"
368
369The most powerful armed ship in Starfleet, and the main method of transit for the entire cast. Alongside Kirk and Spock, she appears in every episode of the series, and is very often [[CompanionCube regarded as a character in her own right]], both in and out of universe; in fact she is the only character mentioned in the legendary opening narration ("these are the voyages of the Starship ''Enterprise''").
370
371----
372* BadassCrew: An important part of what makes her so great -- and what becomes an important part of her legend -- is her crew. Throughout the series, we are shown her sister ships, which always fail where she would ultimately succeed, and her crew is what makes the difference.
373* BoringButPractical: Unlike her [[Series/StarTrekEnterprise predecessor]], her [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration successor]], or her [[Film/StarTrek2009 alternate timeline counterpart]], this ''Enterprise'' is not the most advanced ship in the fleet, but rather is just one of the normal workhorse ships Starfleet has in service. That said, she repeatedly shows why the ''Constitution''-class ships remain in service so long by being able to do just about anything Starfleet needs, from science missions to front line combat. With the right crew, she even manages to upstage the ship that was designed to replace her!
374* CelebrityParadox: One of her "ancestors" is the Space Shuttle ''Enterprise'', a picture of which is in her recreation room as seen in TMP. That Space Shuttle got its name from this ship, after a massive write-in campaign from Trekkies convinced President Ford to change it from ''Constitution'' to ''Enterprise''. Ironically the Space Shuttle ''Enterprise'' never actually went to space.
375* CompanionCube: She's like a wife to Kirk and a daughter to Scotty, but everyone on the crew seems to have a certain fondness for the old girl... even Spock.
376* CoolOldLady: By the time we first see her, the ''Enterprise'' has been going around the galaxy for at least twenty years, first with Captain April, then with Pike. By the time she's destroyed, she's a good forty years old. Compare that to ''Enterprise''-D, who only lasts slightly over seven years.
377* CoolStarship: The TropeCodifier.
378* 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.]]
379* ExplosiveOverclocking: Thanks to her captain's tendency to overachieve, the Enterprise has had her systems strained and overloaded on many occasions.
380* FamedInStory: Like her crew, this ship is a legend in Starfleet. [[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Sisko and Dax]] are awestruck when they see her in person.
381* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:During ''Film/StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock'', the ''Enterprise'' was destroyed as part of a (successful) attempt to rescue Spock... who had done the same thing in order to save ''her'' (and all hands) in [[Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan the previous film]].]]
382* LegacyVesselNaming: Both InUniverse and out, she's named after two American aircraft carriers, ''Enterprise'' CV-6, the most decorated ship in U.S. Navy history, and ''Enterprise'' CVN-65, the world's first nuclear powered aircraft carrier. [[https://web.archive.org/web/20190504070319/https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/memoryalpha/images/b/bb/Enterprise_legacy_tmp.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20110617021112&path-prefix=en Paintings of the previous ships named Enterprise can be seen in her recreation room.]]
383* LightningBruiser: The ''Enterprise'' is portrayed to be both very fast and extremely powerful in battle. Thanks to DeflectorShields, she can also [[StoneWall temporarily become nearly impervious to enemy fire,]] but at a high power cost.
384* MacrossMissileMassacre: More subdued than most examples, the ''Enterprise'' can fire up to six [[PhotoprotoneutronTorpedo Photon Torpedoes]] at a target in rapid succession without needing to reload.
385* MasterOfAll: She can handle pretty much any mission you can throw at her, from scientific surveys, to combat, to interstellar mapping, to cargo hauling.
386* OrbitalBombardment: It's mentioned more than once that the ''Enterprise'' can [[ApocalypseHow destroy a planet's entire surface from orbit]].
387* PointDefenseless: {{Averted|Trope}}. The ''Enterprise'''s [[RayGun phasers]] can [[https://youtu.be/sDya1eCyqgM?t=53 shoot down missiles]] with great accuracy.
388* {{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...
389* SelfDestructMechanism: The Enterprise had two ways to self-destruct:
390** 1: The warp engines' antimatter reactors can be rigged to [[ExplosiveOverclocking to blow themselves up]], [[NuclearOption instantly vaporizing the ship and anything else unlucky enough to be nearby]].
391** 2: A controlled destruction that selectively destroys all livable and critical areas on the ship, leaving a hollowed husk of a ship behind. Kirk activated this one twice. The first time, it was a bluff and he calls it off in the nick of time. The ''second'' time wasn't a bluff.
392* StandardSciFiFleet: In ''The Search For Spock'', the Klingons identify her as a battlecruiser, which is an accurate description of her LightningBruiser design.
393* TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler:When she goes down, she takes a Klingon crew with her.]]
394* TookALevelInBadass: [[MidSeasonUpgrade She's practically rebuilt after her five-year mission with a boatload of new tech]] that makes her even more of a LightningBruiser. In particular, her new DeflectorShields can NoSell an attack from V'Ger that ''[[OneHitKill utterly vaporized]]'' a Klingon battlecruiser.
395* WeaponOfMassDestruction: In addition to her ship-to-ship armaments, the ''Enterprise'' carries several antimatter bombs that are powerful enough to [[EarthShatteringKaboom obliterate a planet's surface in one shot]].
396[[/folder]]
397
398!!Other ''Enterprise'' Crew Members
399
400[[folder:Yeoman Janice Rand]]
401!!Yeoman Janice Rand
402[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tos_rand_1807.jpg]]
403!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/GraceLeeWhitney
404!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' | ''Film/StarTrekTheMotionPicture'' | ''Film/StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock'' | ''Film/StarTrekIVTheVoyageHome'' | ''Film/StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry'' | ''Series/StarTrekVoyager''
405
406A personal assistant to Captain Kirk, she later receives a promotion to Chief Petty Officer and eventually Lieutenant Commander.
407----
408* SixtiesHair: The aforementioned beehive below.
409* BeehiveHairdo: The infamous basketweave hairdo. Whitney's wig is supposed to be a 'futuristic' version of the contemporary beehive. From Lisabeth Shatner's (daughter of Bill) memoirs of being on-set:
410-->Eventually, I began looking around the room, and discovered I had a bird's eye view of the top of the actress's head. I was utterly fascinated by her hair, which was woven into a checkered pattern on top. I stared at that hair for a long time, wondering if it was possible to actually play checkers on it.
411* BridgeBunny: The TropeCodifier.
412* TheBusCameBack: She became the Transporter Chief in the first film, had a cameo in ''Star Trek III'', and was Captain Sulu's communications officer in ''Star Trek VI''. She also appears in a flashback episode of ''Voyager'' set during her time serving aboard Sulu's ship. Tuvok nerve-pinches her, allowing Janeway to borrow her uniform.
413* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Vanished halfway through the first season due to [[RealLifeWritesThePlot off-screen issues]]. She was replaced by Dr. Helen Noel in "Dagger of the Mind".
414* ClingyJealousGirl: Spock seems to like stoically taunting her on how Kirk is off-limits, even when he’s coldly seducing someone else.
415* DamselInDistress: She ends up endangered more than once, including being attacked by an evil clone of Kirk, temporarily zapped out of existence, and kidnapped and tied up by the Onlies.
416* GotOverRapeInstantly: In "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E5TheEnemyWithin Enemy Within]]", Kirk is split into Good and Evil duplicates. The evil one almost rapes Yeoman Rand, and she's traumatized for the rest of the episode, but the reboot button is pressed and she's back to mooning over Kirk in her next episode as though nothing had happened.
417* IgnoredEnamoredUnderling: Kirk does have feelings for her, but refuses to act upon them, and after “The Enemy Within”, is mostly dismissive and awkward, except when sick and yearning in “The Naked Time”. Even in that former episode, his “good half” ignores her before his evil half tries to assault her.
418* MundaneUtility: Yeoman Rand heated coffee with a phaser in "The Corbomite Maneuver."
419* HypercompetentSidekick: Implied; there are several references to her ability to keep Kirk from being swamped in paperwork, and one to improvising with a ''phaser'' when the food systems won't provide hot coffee.
420* MsFanservice: The original media package described her as having "a strip queen's figure that a uniform can't hide." Not that those uniforms hide much, but whatever.
421* RankUp: In the series, she was a yeoman. In ''The Motion Picture'', she's chief petty officer and transporter chief. In ''The Voyage Home'', she's a communications officer assigned to Starfleet Command on Earth. Finally, in ''The Undiscovered Country'', she's communications officer on the ''Excelsior'', going from Lieutenant junior grade to commander.
422* SatelliteCharacter: With the exception of "The Man Trap," where she hangs around with Sulu for a large part of the episode, and "Charlie X," where she's the unwanted focus of Charlie's attraction until he (temporarily) zaps her out of existence, she has no significant interaction with any character other than Kirk.
423* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: She herself is one, to Yeoman Colt from "The Cage" and Yeoman Smith from "Where No Man Has Gone Before". A WillTheyOrWontThey romance between the Captain and his female Yeoman (note that both Pike and Kirk explicitly complain about their Yeoman being a woman) was a key element of Roddenberry's concept for the series from the very beginning, and it took quite some time (and him stepping down as active showrunner in favour of Gene Coon) before it was finally abandoned.
424** Although Rand herself vanished midway through the first season, several more episodes for the rest of the season contain a Yeoman character obviously written as Rand but hastily recast and renamed. (As late as the following season, in writing [[Recap/StarTrekS2E15TheTroubleWithTribbles "The Trouble with Tribbles"]], David Gerrold had outlined the role that eventually went to Uhura in the finished episode as Rand, before Gene Coon informed him that Rand had "transferred to another ship".) Obvious Rand substitutes include Mears ([[Recap/StarTrekS1E16TheGalileoSeven "The Galileo Seven"]]), Barrows ([[Recap/StarTrekS1E15ShoreLeave "Shore Leave"]]), Ross ([[Recap/StarTrekS1E17TheSquireOfGothos "The Squire of Gothos"]]), Tamura ([[Recap/StarTrekS1E23ATasteOfArmageddon "A Taste of Armageddon"]]), and Zahra ([[Recap/StarTrekS1E29OperationAnnihilate "Operation -- Annihilate!"]]).
425* TraumaButton: Every official book that includes her has feeling uncomfortable in some way around Kirk, eventually needing time away from him.
426* UnreplacedDeparted: Rand was intended to be a series regular as a recurring love interest for Kirk, and was featured even more prominently than ''Spock and [=McCoy=]'' in promotional materials, and indeed was a major fixture of the first half of season one. She was eventually cut from the show by the halfway point of the series.[[note]]It's unclear precisely why Rand was removed. The reasons vary from NBC looking to cut costs and argued that random nameless characters could fulfill her same role for cheaper than a regular, showrunners deciding they wanted Kirk to remain single and free to hook up with the random GirlOfTheWeek, a sexual assault by an NBC executive leading to her termination, or even blaming Whitney having personal or substance abuse problems as the reason.[[/note]] Although Rand's role as Kirk's aide was taken up by the occasional background extra, there was never a permanent replacement for her character.
427* UnresolvedSexualTension: With Kirk.
428[[/folder]]
429
430[[folder:Lieutenant Kyle]]
431!!Lieutenant Kyle
432[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tos_kyle_5637.jpg]]
433!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/JohnWinston
434!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' | ''Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan''
435----
436* TheCameo: He's the communications officer on the ''Reliant'' in ''Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan''.
437* MauveShirt: Because he was the only recurring {{redshirt}} not played by an extra, he usually had much more dialogue than other {{redshirt}}s, a consistent name and position on the ship, and was allowed to play an active role in the {{plot}} (see "The Doomsday Machine" or "Mirror, Mirror" for examples).
438* OnlyOneName: Though non-canon sources have variously used both "John" and "Winston," both obviously in tribute to the actor.
439* TeleportersAndTransporters: Contrary to [[CommonKnowledge popular belief]], he was the Transporter Chief, not Scotty. Like other {{redshirt}}s, he was occasionally seen on the bridge, though usually he was explicitly pinch-hitting for someone else (as in "Who Mourns For Adonais?" when Spock has taken command and Chekov is in the landing party, and Kyle mans the science station).
440* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: We never see him on-screen again after being marooned on Ceti Alpha V, which caused much speculation about his fate, despite Kirk's log entry that they are heading there to pick up the crew of ''Reliant''. The non-canon novels and comics established that he survived his unwanted shore leave on the planet, and eventually ended up on the ''Enterprise''-A.
441[[/folder]]
442
443[[folder:Lieutenant Leslie]]
444!!Lieutenant Leslie
445[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/leslie_command_division_navigator.jpg]]
446!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/EddiePaskey
447----
448* InexplicablyIdenticalIndividuals: A common fan theory is that there is multiple Leslie brothers or clones, due to Leslie's occasional tendency to be seen on the bridge in one shot, then behind Scotty in engineering in the next.
449* OmnidisciplinaryScientist: By virtue of Paskey being the omnipresent extra on set, Leslie is seen working in literally every conceivable position on the ship, from medical to security to transporter operation.
450* OnlyOneName: And only referred to by that name on a few occasions. Various non-canon sources have called him "Frank," "Ryan," or "Ed" (the last, naturally, after the actor).
451* ThrowItIn: His otherwise un-named character was given a name by none other than William Shatner, who named Lesley after one of Shatner's young daughters.
452* RedShirt: The King of the Redshirts, no less, as he has the distinction of being the first ''Trek'' character to die and return to life. He dies in [[Recap/StarTrekS2E13Obsession "Obsession"]], yet turns up later in the episode completely unharmed. Paskey was Shatner's stand-in and lighting double, and Doohan's hand double, so they couldn't really get rid of him, and he actually appears in more episodes than Chekov.
453[[/folder]]
454
455[[folder:Lieutenant Kevin Thomas Riley]]
456!!Lieutenant Kevin Thomas Riley
457[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tos_riley_3136.jpg]]
458!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/BruceHyde
459
460----
461* AscendedExtra: Actor Bruce Hyde was cast as a crewman with a significant part in "The Conscience of the King" without anyone realizing he had also played ''uber''-[[{{Oireland}} Irishman]] Riley in "The Naked Time." When the producers finally realized this, the script was hastily re-written so that Hyde played the same character in both episodes. (The same thing happened with actress [[http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Barbara_Baldavin Barbara Baldavin]], who appeared three times as Angela Martine but is accidentally addressed by other names more than once due to rewrites; figuring out who she really is almost approaches ContinuitySnarl levels.)
462* DarkAndTroubledPast: Who would've guessed the dorky, fun-loving Riley was one of the few survivors of a horrific massacre when he was just a little kid?
463* DreadfulMusician: "Iiiiii'll taaaaake you hooome again, Kathleeeeeen...."
464* HeKnowsTooMuch: Lenore poisons him, Hamlet-style, to prevent him from pointing at Kodos as a war criminal. (Ironically, he doesn't even know that Kodos is aboard until near the end.)
465* ImprobableAge: Riley seems pretty young for a full-braid Lieutenant - Hyde was 24 at the time, and looked it. This also makes him an improbable witness to a man who had disappeared 20 years before, when he would have barely been out of diapers. Amusingly, the greenhorn ''Ensign'' Chekov, introduced in the second season, was played by an actor five years ''older''.
466* IncessantMusicMadness: "And now, crew, I will render ''Kathleen'' ONE MORE TIME!
467-->'''Kirk:''' Please, not again.
468* {{Oireland}}: Got his "Irish" up when under the influence of the mind virus in "The Naked Time."
469* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Riley, the resident class clown of the lower decks, becomes deadly serious when he learns that Kodos is aboard the Enterprise.
470* OneDegreeOfSeparation: Riley and Kirk are two of the only people in the galaxy who have seen Kodos the Executioner in person, and they both serve aboard the same ship.
471* RealLifeWritesThePlot: The reason Riley never returned after "The Conscience of the King," despite being very popular with fans, was that Hyde left to become a hippie. Yes, really. Remember, this ''was'' 1967. (He later became a professor of philosophy.)
472[[/folder]]
473
474[[folder:Doctor M'Benga]]
475!!Doctor M'Benga
476[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mbenga.jpg]]
477!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/BookerBradshaw
478
479The ship's ranking Chief Medical Officer when Bones was off the ship, Doctor M'Benga interned on Vulcan and specialised in treating Vulcan physiology, which came in useful when Spock was shot.
480
481For tropes about M'Benga's character in ''Strange New Worlds'', see [[Characters/StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds here]].
482----
483* AllThereInTheManual: The character originated in an ultimately unused script, which gave his first name as Joseph and his nationality as Ugandan. An early novel used "Geoffrey" and the Literature/StarTrekNovelVerse named him [[MeaningfulName Jabilo]]. As of ''Strange New Worlds'', Doctor M'Benga's first name has been canonised as Joseph.
484* CruelToBeKind: Spock needs to be put in pain to be brought out of his trance, so Nurse Chapel taps him gently. Scotty pulls Chapel away from Spock, thinking she's gone mad, slapping her patient around. Then M'Benga steps in and gives Spock the necessary physical stimulus.
485* TheMainCharactersDoEverything: Averted in the episodes he showed up. He fills in for Bones when the latter joins a landing party.
486* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Never even mentioned outside his two appearances, despite the many times his specialisation in Vulcan medicine would have been useful, and being Bones's second-in-command.
487
488[[/folder]]
489
490[[folder:Angela Martine]]
491!!Angela Martine
492[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/angela_martine.png]]
493!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/BarbaraBaldavin
494
495An enlisted crewmember on the ''Enterprise.'' Her debut episode, "Balance of Terror," had her about to get married (with Kirk, as ship's captain, officiating) when her wedding was interrupted by an encounter with the Romulans. Her fiancé is killed. She's brokenhearted of course, but she musters her courage to cope with it. Returned in minor roles in "Shore Leave" and "Space Seed" (in the latter, she's addressed as Angela, but once is called "Teller"). Baldavin also appeared under the name "Lieutenant Lisa" in "Turnabout Intruder," though she was made up differently and Lisa is usually considered a separate character.
496
497[[/folder]]
498
499[[folder:Fleet Captain Christopher Pike]]
500!!Fleet Captain Christopher Pike
501[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/pike.jpeg]]
502!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/JeffreyHunter ("[[Recap/StarTrekS1E0TheCage The Cage]]"), Sean Kenney (Disfigured Pike in "The Menagerie")
503!!!'''Dubbed in French by:''' Yvon Bouchard
504
505The 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.
506
507For tropes relating to his other appearances, see ''[[Characters/StarTrekDiscoveryFederation Discovery]]'' and ''[[Characters/StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds Strange New Worlds]]''.
508
509For tropes relating to his appearances in the Kelvin Timeline, see [[Characters/StarTrekKelvinTimeline here]].
510----
511* 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.
512* 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.
513* TheCaptain: The ''original'' captain, preceding even Kirk. He later became a fleet captain.
514* 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.
515* TheDeterminator: The Talosians expected Pike to quietly accept captivity. Pike had other ideas and didn't stop until he escaped.
516* DueToTheDead: ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' revealed that Starfleet named one of their combat decorations in his honor, the Christopher Pike Medal of Valor.
517* AFatherToHisMen: Implied from how Spock was willing to risk his career and life to help his former CO.
518* 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.
519* 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).
520* {{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.
521* 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".
522* 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.
523* 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.
524* 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.
525* 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.
526[[/folder]]
527
528[[folder:"Number One"]]
529!!"Number One"
530[[quoteright:320:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/number_one_tos.png]]
531!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/MajelBarrett
532
533The 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".
534----
535%%* CommandingCoolness: As per her rank as first officer.
536%%* ConsummateProfessional:
537* EverybodyCallsHimBarkeep: Everyone calls her Number One, all the time.
538* 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."
539%%* NumberTwo: As the ''Enterprise''[='=]s first officer.
540* 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.
541* 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.
542* 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.
543* 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''.
544[[/folder]]
545
546!!Antagonists
547
548[[folder:Khan Noonien Singh]]
549--> See [[Characters/StarTrekTheOriginalSeriesKhanNoonienSingh his page]].
550[[/folder]]
551
552[[folder:Commander Kor]]
553!!Commander Kor
554[[quoteright:292:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/292px-kor_2266_7914.jpg]]
555!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/JohnColicos
556!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' | ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries'' | ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine''
557
558The 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.
559----
560* AffablyEvil: Despite intending to execute Kirk once he discovers his identity, he has a drink with him first and is generally hard to dislike.
561* ColdHam: Dominates everyone in his first scene, not raising his voice in his command, but is shaking with barely contained power.
562* 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.
563* 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.
564* ANaziByAnyOtherName: Kor's control of Organia involves restriction of personal freedoms, mass executions, and constant surveillance.
565* 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.
566* 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.
567* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: Unlike many TOS Klingons, Kor does seem to embody this trope.
568* 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.
569* YellowPeril: Kor's look was based on UsefulNotes/GenghisKhan.
570[[/folder]]
571
572[[folder:Captain Koloth]]
573!! Captain Koloth
574!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/WilliamCampbell
575!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' | ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries'' | ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine''
576
577The second major Klingon antagonist to appear in the Original Series; he is one of the many problems Kirk has to contend with in "The Trouble With Tribbles". He is a boisterous and devious captain, cheerfully exploiting the terms of the Organian peace treaty for his benefit while scheming to advance the Klingon Empire's interests. Koloth proved extremely popular with fans and reappeared in the Animated Series and [=DS9=] alongside his fellow Klingons Kor and Kang, as well as starring in several novels and short stories.
578----
579* FriendlyEnemy: Kirk and Koloth (somewhat sarcastically) greet each other as "my dear captain" when they meet on K-7.
580* LargeHam: William Campbell is channeling more than a little of his performance as Trelane into Koloth.
581* NoodleIncident: Koloth and Kirk's first meeting prior to the episode.
582* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: [[WordOfSaintPaul According to William Campbell]], Koloth wanted to be the one to defeat Kirk and would have happily fought anyone who tried to take that opportunity away from him.
583* RulesLawyer: Koloth uses the terms of the Organian peace treaty to get his men shore leave on K-7 over Kirk's protests.
584* SmugSnake: Koloth is clearly enjoying the opportunity to tweak Kirk's nose while advancing the Empire's plot to poison the quadrotriticale shipment.
585* WorthyOpponent: Koloth is clearly happy to be involved in verbal sparring matches with Kirk; decades later, Jadzia Dax tells Ben Sisko that Koloth always regretted never getting to face Kirk in battle.
586[[/folder]]
587
588[[folder:Commander Kang]]
589!! Commander Kang
590!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/MichaelAnsara
591!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' | ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' | ''Series/StarTrekVoyager''
592The third and last major Klingon antagonist of the Original Series. Kang is a battle-hardened commander who squares off with Kirk at the remote planet of Beta-XII A. Originally created because John Colicos was unable to reprise his role as Kor, Kang proved popular enough to be brought back for guest appearances in ''Deep Space Nine'' and ''Voyager''.
593----
594
595* ColdBloodedTorture: Kang threatens to torture and execute the ''Enterprise'' crew one by one until Kirk confesses to killing his men.
596* DeadpanSnarker: He gets a few good lines in.
597-->'''Kor: Most interesting. The bulk of your crew trapped? Your ship racing from this galaxy at wild speeds? Delightful.
598* EnemyMine: When Kang finally accepts that the Klingons and the ''Enterprise'' crew are being manipulated by the Beta-XII A entity, he teams up with Kirk to defeat the energy being.
599* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: His wife, Mara, is his science officer, and he clearly cares for her, though he also won't let her be used as a bargaining chip against him.
600* AFatherToHisMen: Kang is ''pissed'' at Kirk for having apparently killed most of his crew.
601* IHaveYourWife: Kirk tries threatening to kill Mara if Kang doesn't agree to a truce. Kang just shrugs it off as the inevitable result of war.
602* SheatheYourSword: Kang lays down his arms when he realizes that he's being manipulated by the Beta-XII A entity.
603* YellowPeril: Like Kor, Kang's appearance takes a lot of cues from Genghis Khan.
604[[/folder]]
605
606[[folder:Harry Mudd]]
607!!Harcourt Fenton "Harry" Mudd
608[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tos_mudd_4090.gif]]
609!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/RogerCCarmel
610!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' | ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries''
611----
612* 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.
613* TheAggressiveDrugDealer: A DeletedScene in "Mudd's Women" had him trying to sell the "Venus" drug to Uhura, as if she needed any help to be beautiful.
614* 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.
615* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: This gets visited upon him by Kirk at the end of "I, Mudd."
616* 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.
617* FullNameUltimatum:
618-->'''Stella:''' Harcourt! Harcourt Fenton Mudd!...
619-->'''Mudd:''' [[PhraseCatcher Shut UP, Stella!]]
620* 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.
621-->'''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.
622* HoistByHisOwnPetard: By the Stella androids at the end of "I, Mudd."
623* 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.
624* LovableRogue: He's a money-grubber and irresponsible, but he's affable and rarely trying to commit "truly evil" crimes.
625* {{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.)
626* SpaceJews: His Irish accent, flamboyant dress sense, pierced ear, and dishonesty make him seem like a negative stereotype of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Travellers#Social_conflict Irish Travellers.]]
627[[/folder]]
628
629[[folder:Trelane]]
630!! Trelane, Squire of Gothos
631!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/WilliamCampbell
632!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries''
633
634A flamboyant, childlike, and surprisingly dangerous entity encountered by the ''Enterprise'' crew. Trelane ("General Trelane, retired") is intrigued by humanity, specifically its more warlike and savage aspects, and wants to "play" with Kirk.
635----
636
637* AgentPeacock: He dresses quite flamboyantly, with a frilled shirt and bright blue tailcoat dripping in gold braid and medals, but he's still a dangerous entity.
638* AliensStealCable: Trelane has apparently been monitoring Earth for some time, but his information is quite out of date, considering he's dressed like an 18th-century fop.
639* AlwaysABiggerFish: The episode is resolved when his parents show up and ground him for messing with the poor primitive earthlings.
640* BewareTheSillyOnes: Trelane spends the first half of the episode being a vaguely threatening cornball. Then he decides to hunt Kirk for sport and nearly succeeds in killing him.
641* EnfantTerrible: Turns out to be one once his parents show up.
642* {{Expy}}: Trelane's attitude and manner of interacting with the crew are quite similar to John [=DeLancie=]'s Q, to the point where most fans nowadays take it as a given that Trelane and his parents are members of the Q Continuum.
643* GratuitousForeignLanguage: He switches into French and German to greet Lieutenants [=DeSalle=] and Jaeger, but uses English to give Sulu a faux-Japanese greeting, causing the latter to amusedly ask if he's serious.
644* KlingonsLoveShakespeare: Trelane seems enthralled by human history, specifically its martial aspects; he introduces himself as a retired general and asks Kirk to tell him about his battles and missions of conquest.
645* PsychopathicManchild: He is fascinated by Kirk's phaser, vaporizing several objects in his house before declaring that one could kill millions with it. He later throws a tantrum when Kirk and the others won't cooperate with him and ultimately decides to hunt the captain for sport, gloating and cackling all the while. Then it turns out he actually is a child, at least by the standards of his species.
646* RealityWarper: He can twist space and matter as he pleases, though time is a bit beyond him.
647* SoreLoser: He doesn't take it at all well when Kirk bests him. When his parents show up to haul him off, he whines and complains like a little boy being told to go to bed and fades out insisting that he "woulda won".
648[[/folder]]
649
650[[folder:Tribbles]]
651!!Tribbles
652!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' | ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries'' | ''Film/StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock'' | ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' | ''Film/{{Star Trek|2009}}'' | ''Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness''
653
654Harmless 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''.
655----
656* BigEater: They'd have to be, to support all that [[ExplosiveBreeder explosive breeding]]. They chew through the Enterprise's food stores, and absolutely demolish the huge bins of super-valuable quadrotriticale grain aboard station K-7.
657* BornAsAnAdult: And pregnant. Which is quite a time-saver.
658* CutenessProximity: For some reason, people tend to enjoy cooing over the fluffy, purring fuzzballs. Well, unless you're a Klingon.
659* 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.)
660* NowYouTellMe: "We stop feeding the tribbles and they stop breeding!"
661* SitcomArchNemesis: The only species that the Tribbles do not like are the Klingons, and the feeling is very mutual.
662* ThrownOutTheAirlock: Where they'll be no tribble at all.
663[[/folder]]
664
665[[folder:Lieutenant Commander Gary Mitchell]]
666!!Lieutenant Commander Gary Mitchell
667[[quoteright:320:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/gary_mitchell.jpg]]
668!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/GaryLockwood
669
670The 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.
671----
672* 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.
673* 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.
674* 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.
675* 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.
676* 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.
677* 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.
678* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:He is killed when he is crushed by rocks while standing in the grave he created for Kirk.]]
679* 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.
680* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Prior to his transformation.
681* 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.
682* 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.
683* PowerEchoes: He eventually gains this.
684* 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.
685* 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.
686* 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.
687* TheStoic: He quickly loses all traces of human emotion.
688* 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.
689* TragicMonster: As Kirk says, Mitchell never wanted this to happen to him.
690* {{Ubermensch}}: He believes that he has become a higher being who is destined to change mankind forever.
691* 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.
692[[/folder]]
693
694[[folder:The Gorn Captain]]
695!!The Gorn Captain
696
697The 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.
698----
699* 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.
700* 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.
701* 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''.
702* 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.
703* 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.
704* MightyGlacier: Much more powerful and durable than Kirk, yet moves about as fast as molasses in January.
705* 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.
706* 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.
707[[/folder]]
708
709[[folder:Janice Lester]]
710!!Janice Lester
711[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/janice_lester.jpg]]
712!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/SandraSmith
713
714Kirk'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.
715----
716* AmbiguousGenderIdentity: Maybe she would have had an easier time if she just transitioned into being a man.
717* 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.
718* BrokenBird: A manipulative DeathSeeker who finds it easy to hit her ex boyfriend and hates herself.
719* 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.
720* 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”.
721* 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.
722* 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.
723* IJustWantToBeYou: She vehemently denies loving Kirk, telling Coleman that she just loves and wants the life he leads of being Captain.
724* ManIFeelLikeAWoman: Inverted. Sure she hates Kirk, but still takes the time to grope his abs when she's finally in him.
725* 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.
726* 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.
727* 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.
728* 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.)
729* TroubledAbuser: According to the hearing, she hated being a woman, and took it out on Kirk, making it hell to be with her.
730* WoundedGazelleGambit: She fakes having deadly serious radiation poisoning to get her ChronicHeroSyndrome ex alone with her and sympathetic.
731
732[[/folder]]
733
734!!Others
735
736[[folder:Ambassador Sarek]]
737!!Ambassador Sarek
738[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sarek.jpg]]
739!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/MarkLenard
740!!!'''Dubbed in French by:''' Roger Rudel (Star Trek III), Georges Berthomieu (Star Trek IV), Mario Santini (Star Trek VI)
741!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' | ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries'' | ''Film/StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock'' | ''Film/StarTrekIVTheVoyageHome'' | ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' | ''Film/StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry''
742
743Father 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.''
744----
745* 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.
746* {{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.
747* AntiquatedLinguistics: Introduces Amanda as "she who is my wife" rather than just "my wife". He does the same thing decades later with Perrin.
748* BlueBlood: Or at least he comes from good family, in so far as Vulcans count such things, and behaves in a courtly manner.
749* GentlemanAndAScholar: A cut line indicated that Sarek was an astrophysicist before he turned to politics.
750* 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.
751* HasAType: When he resurfaces in Next Generation, he has remarried after the death of his human wife Amanda... to another human woman.
752* 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.
753* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Died in the ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode [[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS5E7Unification1 "Unification I"]].]]
754* MarryForLove: Marrying Amanda was... logical. Obviously. (Well, if you love them, marrying them ''is'' pretty logical.)
755* 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.
756-->''"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!"''
757* NotSoStoic:
758** He teases Amanda in public at the end of "The Way to Babel".
759** 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.''"
760* 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.]]
761* 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.
762* 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.
763* 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.
764* 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.
765[[/folder]]
766
767[[folder:Vina]]
768!!Vina
769[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/vina.png]]
770!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/SusanOliver
771
772A human woman living among the alien Talosians, who falls in love with Captain Pike.
773----
774* 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.
775* BodyHorror: Downplayed, but she has been left scarred, withered and exaggeratedly hunchbacked as a result of her ship's crash.
776* FacePalm: She does this when Pike gets punished for thinking wrong thoughts.
777* GlamorFailure: Her beautiful appearance is an illusion; she's really an ineptly reassembled ''[[BodyHorror mess]]''.
778* 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.
779* LoveAtFirstSight: Pike and Vina are attracted to each other from their first meeting and explicitly say so.
780* LovingAShadow: The Talosians provided her with an illusory version of Pike to keep her company while she waited for the real Pike to return.
781* SpaceClothes: Like the Talosians, she wears shiny, silvery clothes.
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