!For characters who debuted in ''Star Trek: The Original Series'', see Characters.StarTrekTheOriginalSeries

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!Starfleet Personnel
[[folder:Admiral Lance Cartwright]]
!!Admiral Lance Cartwright
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[[caption-width-right:287:''"I don't know whether to congratulate you or not, Jim."'']]
!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/BrockPeters
!!!'''Dubbed in French by:''' Creator/GerardRinaldi
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/StarTrekIVTheVoyageHome'' | ''Film/StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry''

->''"The opportunity here is to bring [the Klingons] to their knees. Then, we'll be in a far better condition to negotiate terms."''

A fairly pragmatic Starfleet admiral.
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: In ''The Voyage Home'', he's a ReasonableAuthorityFigure. Come ''The Undiscovered Country'', he turns out to be another InsaneAdmiral.
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: In the novel ''Cast No Shadow'', Cartwright is revealed to have died in prison of a respiratory infection.
* FaceHeelTurn: Becomes a villain in a couple movies.
* FantasticRacism: Against Klingons, whom he says will become "the alien trash of the Universe". For Peters, who was a civil rights crusader, it was ''painful'' for him to utter those lines, and he had to be convinced to do it.
* {{Hypocrite}}: He is pretty open about his racist attitude toward Klingons. He has no problem working with Klingons to sabotage peace talks and assassinate his own president.
* NamedByTheAdaptation: The novelization gives him the first name Lance.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: His role in the film is pretty small, but he seems fairly calm and level-headed in the face of a planetary catastrophe. Unfortunately, that disappears as soon as [[Film/StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry Klingons get involved...]]
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: When the conspiracy is exposed, he attempts to make a break for it, only to be cornered by Sulu.
* SuddenSequelHeelSyndrome: In ''Film/StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry'', without any clear explanation, he becomes downright villainous in contrast to his past appearance to a point Peters is playing a completely different character in the latter ''Star Trek'' film and makes some Trekkies wonder if Cartwright in his debut was a BitchInSheepsClothing all along who fooled us all with his ReasonableAuthorityFigure act.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: For [[Film/StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock Admiral Morrow]]. In fact, nearly all versions of the scripts did feature Morrow instead of Cartwright, who apparently was a last-minute replacement after Morrow's actor, Robert Hooks was unavailable. A common fan theory, backed up by the novelization, is that Morrow resigned due to the scandal that erupted with Kirk stealing the ''Enterprise''.
* VillainOfAnotherStory: In ''The Voyage Home'', even though he does not show any villainy at all, though he could be good at concealing it, until ''The Undiscovered Country''.
* WalkingSpoiler: As might be noticed, Cartwright plays a major role in the reveal at the climax of ''The Undiscovered Country''.
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[[folder:The ''Enterprise''-A]]
!!USS ''Enterprise'' (NCC-1701-A)
The successor to the ''Enterprise'' after the latter was destroyed in the previous movie.
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* TheAllegedCar: In ''The Final Frontier'', she is in the middle of extensive repairs, and for some reason, Starfleet Command assigns Kirk and crew to an important mission. Kirk himself is nonplussed by his squeaky chair, dodgy transporters, and the defective Log transcriber (which keeps popping open with ridiculous SPRONNG! noises).
* CoolStarship: As expected of a ship called ''Enterprise''. At least, once all the bugs get worked out.
* LegacyVesselNaming: The second Federation ship to be called ''Enterprise'', and not the last. Roddenberry claimed she used to be the ''Yorktown'' (the original name for ''Enterprise'' during production on ''TOS'').
* RushedIntoService: Sent into an important rescue mission in ''The Final Frontier'' even when the crew (at least, [[CriticalStaffingShortage what little crew there is]]) hasn't finished some crucial modifications.
* SavedByCanon: While a lot of ''Star Trek'' expanded universe material had treated what happened to her in Creator/WilliamShatner's novel ''Ashes of Eden'' -- where she was destroyed while foiling the plan of an InsaneAdmiral -- as her official fate, the third season of ''Series/StarTrekPicard'' showed her preserved in the Starfleet museum.
* SuperiorSuccessor: Designed to outperform the original ''Enterprise'', at least when she is fully operational. The irony is that, while she only serves less time in this identity than her predecessor, she actually survives, and is consigned to the Fleet Museum for posterity following the signing of the Khitomer Accords.
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!20th Century Individuals
[[folder:Dr. Gillian Taylor]]
!!Dr. Gillian Taylor
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"Don't tell me: You're from outer space."'']]
!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/CatherineHicks
!!!'''Dubbed in French by:''' Emmanuèle Bondeville

->''"Look, I don't have a clue who you are, really. You wouldn't want to show me around your spaceship, would you?"''

A marine biologist specializing in the study of whales.
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* ConvenientlyAnOrphan: She has no living relatives or friends tying her to the 20th century that would miss her should she disappear.
* FishOutOfTemporalWater: She ends up accompanying Kirk and crew to the 23rd Century, and stays there. Though she could easily have been beamed back down to Earth before returning to their own era, Kirk decides to let her come along on the grounds that no-one in his century would have the first idea how to care for humpback whales.
* ReplacementGoldfish: Very similar to Edith Keeler, and while she and Kirk don’t get together (or anywhere beyond a few cheek kisses), he’s just happy in AllThereInTheManual that he “got to take the angel back with him this time”.
* TemporaryLoveInterest: To Kirk. In fact, aside from his former partner Carol Marcus in the second film (whose relationship in that film isn't really romantic as such), she's the only love interest that he gets in any of the six original cast films.
* YourUniverseOrMine: Downplayed. There's no way Kirk can stay in the 20th Century due to the importance of getting the humpback whales to the future and saving Earth, and any desire that Gillian might have had to stay in her own time disappears when her boss releases the whales without informing her.
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[[folder:Bob Briggs]]
!!Bob Briggs
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"And besides, we're not talking about human beings here."'']]
!!!'''Played by:''' Scott [=DeVenney=]

Gillian's boss at the whale institute.
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* JadedProfessional: While he recognises the [[MortonsFork between a rock and a hard place]] decision to send the whales into an unsafe environment and hope for the best, he is rather detached about it, doubting the whales' intelligence.
* MarsAndVenusGenderContrast: His dispassionate attitude towards the whales is used as a contrast to Gillian's compassion.
* RomanticFalseLead: He seems to play this role to Gillian.
* WrongGenreSavvy: He sees himself as the DoggedNiceGuy who will teach Gillian to appreciate people as well as whales, when in fact he's the ObstructiveBureaucrat making things harder for the real protagonists.
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[[folder:Bus Punk]]
!!Bus Punk
!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/KirkThatcher
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/StarTrekIVTheVoyageHome'' | ''Series/StarTrekPicard''

Some random [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin punk on a bus]] who refuses to turn off his radio -- and gets a neck pinch for his trouble.
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* TheBusCameBack: {{Pun}} fully intended, he returns in ''Series/StarTrekPicard'', where he's doing the exact same thing he was 30 years ago. This time, when asked to turn off his music, he sheepishly complies.
* TheCameo: In ''Series/StarTrekPicard''.
* FlippingTheBird: Unwisely does this to Kirk and Spock when the former asks him to turn off his music. Fittingly, this occurs just as the song on the boom box exclaims "Screw you!"

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!Other Characters

[[folder:Ambassador Kamarag]]
!!Ambassador Kamarag
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"There shall be no peace as long as Kirk lives!"'']]
!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/JohnSchuck
!!!'''Dubbed in French by:''' Yves Brainville (Star Trek IV), Pierre Baton (Star Trek VI)

->''"We expect the Federation to abide by the Articles of Interstellar Law, which you claim to cherish."''
The Klingon ambassador to the Federation.
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* AssInAmbassador: "YOU POMPOUS ASS!"
* EverybodyCallsHimBarkeep: In both this film and ''Film/StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry'', he's only credited as "Klingon Ambassador." His actual name is never revealed in either film. However, he is identified as Kamarag in their novelizations.
* {{Jerkass}}:
** Demands that Kirk be extradited to the Klingon Empire with a thinly-veiled insinuation that he'll be executed as soon as they get their hands on him. For the "crime" of killing a bunch of Klingons who were ''illegally in Federation space'', and had likely killed far more people (specifically, the crew of the USS ''Grissom'' and David Marcus) than Kirk. Not surprisingly, the Federation council brush off his demands.
** Averted when he reappears in the sixth film, and is able to put his points across far more reasonably when the facts are (apparently) on his side.
* LargeHam: There's a reason why fans often call him the Klingon ''Ham''bassador.
* NamedByTheAdaptation: His name originates in the novelizations.
* PetTheDog: Despite his previous jerkass attitude toward Kirk, he applauds Kirk when he exposes the conspiracy and saves the peace talks, albeit somewhat begrudgingly.
* TheRival: He apparently sees himself as this to Sarek. Not that Sarek himself seems to consider him worthy of that honor.
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[[folder:President Hiram Roth]]
!!President Hiram Roth
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"Save your energy. Save yourself. Avoid the planet Earth at all cost. Farewell..."'']]
!!!'''Played by:''' Robert Ellenstein
!!!'''Dubbed in French by:''' Michel Gudin

->''"I'm sure the Admiral will recognize the necessity of keeping discipline in any chain of command."''
The President of TheFederation.
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* AllThereInTheManual: His name is never spoken on-screen; it instead comes from supplementary materials.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: He's responsible for Kirk's {{Unishment}}--which is, of course, Kirk's reward for saving the day yet again.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: By the sixth film, he's been replaced as President by Ra-ghoratreii. The expanded universe says he died in office.
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[[folder:Whale probe]]
A mysterious automated probe from outside our galaxy.
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* StarfishLanguage: Its constant screeching translates into whale singing.
* VillainyFreeVillain: Its only goal is to communicate with humpback whales and it's apparently unaware of all the damage it has caused.
* WeatherControlMachine: Does this as a [[ObliviouslyEvil side effect]]; its transmissions are so powerful they destabilize Earth's atmosphere and cause superstorms all over the planet.
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