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Dr. Migleemo

Dr. Migleemo

"Tendi, that's cantaloupe talk! I want you to be a CAN-aloupe!"

Voiced by: Paul F. Tompkins

Ship's counselor aboard the Cerritos. Mariner calls him the worst counselor in the fleet.

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• Actor Allusion: Paul F. Tompkins playing a smug anthropomorphic bird associated with the color green who gets on everybody's nerves with his chipper attitude and wordplay.
• Ascended Extra: He becomes more prominent after he's assigned to mentor Tendi.
• Bird People: His species hasn't been named yet, but he's some kind of humanoid bird with green feathers.
• Custom Uniform: Much like Deanna Troi on the Enterprise-D, Dr. Migleemo's Starfleet duty uniform apparently consists of his normal civilian attire and a comm badge. Whether this is some sort of standard practice for ships' counselors in Starfleet or not is debatable.
• Epic Fail: He's chosen to partake in a battle on Tendi's behalf to force her sister into giving an Orion ship they can use to rescue Mariner. He nearly wins by fluffing his down to give his opponent a very bad case of allergies, but he bungles that by not getting out of the way in time when she falls, resulting in him losing by default. This forces Tendi to make a deal to leave Starfleet and return to the Orion Syndicate in order to get the ship, rather than hand the Cerritos over to her sister.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: Nobody likes therapy sessions with him because of his obnoxious food metaphors. Unlike a certain other Ship's Counselor, he is also rarely seen on the bridge, with the third seat in the command well typically being filled by Chief Engineer Lt. Commander Andy Billups. Tendi later grows to have a better rapport with him though, albeit after a rocky start.
• Know-Nothing Know-It-All: Though he is the ship's counselor, he repeatedly demonstrates he's nowhere near qualified to even be considered one, no thanks to his constant source of food puns as well as causing multiple diplomatic incidents because he can't keep his beak shut. What's worse is that Mariner is clearly suffering from PTSD over her experiences in losing her friend and fighting in the Dominion War, but she'd never trust him with that information because she knows he'll just babble about food, preventing this issue from being addressed and compounding her bad cycle of self-sabotage. The one time she is seen going to therapy with Migleemo, it leads to her turning Boimler's interview preparation holoprogram into a bizarre Percussive Therapy revenge fantasy, he's that bad at his job. It's a miracle he hasn't been fired yet.
• The Mentor: Is appointed as Tendi's mentor for bridge officer training despite having no experience in that area. Surprisingly, however, he turns out to be pretty good at it (if a little too self-congratulatory).
• The Millstone: While everyone aboard the Cerritos is prone to screw-ups and bouts of ineptitude, the ship's crew is for the most part genuinely competent at their respective jobs, if eccentric in their methods. Migleemo stands out by being genuinely incompetent and terrible at his job, and often proves to be detrimental to the crew. The one time he's called into action, he screws up massively and forces Tendi to leave the Cerritos.
• Momma's Boy: When Freeman leaves him in command for the first time, his very first order is to open a channel to his "meemaw" so she can see him sitting in the captain's chair.
• Obsessed with Food: Claims his species started traveling into space to seek out "strange new meals". Whether this is the reason for the Running Gag below is unclear.
• Quack Doctor: Dr. Migleemo is a literal example of this as much as he is a figurative one. Besides being a bird-like species of alien, he has no actual knowledge of science or psychological practices, instead providing his services in the form of constant food puns that do nothing but annoy his patients. The Cerritos isn't exactly the Enterprise, but his level of incompetence is so bad that no one on the ship trusts him, and Season 4 reveals that Mariner's problems stemming from her PTSD of losing her friend Ensign Sito and fighting in the Dominion War only became compounded because she doesn't trust the only therapist she has access to. Really, it's a miracle that Migleemo hasn't been fired yet.
• Running Gag: He uses food metaphors in sessions to an annoying degree.
  Dr. Migleemo: Carol, you're being a real prickly pineapple right now.
  Capt. Freeman: Ugh, stop referencing foods!
• Visual Pun: He's some kind of avian (bird) alien. That, combined with him being a lousy therapist, clearly makes him a quack.

Lieutenant Commander Steve Stevens

Lieutenant Commander Steve Stevens

"OH GAWD, my beautiful (insert body part here)!"

Voiced By: Ben Rodgers

A command division officer on the Cerritos.

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• Afraid of Doctors: Implied in "Mugato, Gumato", in which he's among the crew members who skipped getting their annual physical exam. After the And Show It to You incident mentioned below, it's hard to blame him.
• Ambiguously Bi: Though he is seen hitting on women, his idolization of Commander Ransom seems to go far beyond Hero Worship, and in the holographic orgy in "I, Excretus" he can be seen riding and spanking Ransom. May be a case of If It's You, It's Okay.
• And Show It to You: Subverted in "Second Contact". After having his chest ripped open by a Hate Plague-infected crew member, Tendi has to keep his heart pumping with her bare hands without anesthetic, much to his horror and agony. It does save his life, but he's Afraid of Doctors as a consequence.
• Berserk Button: Naturally, insulting Ransom is a good way to rile him up. Mariner exploits this at one point by saying the Carlsbad crew were talking smack about his core.
  Stevens: Bull[bleep]! He's got the best core in the fleet!
• Butt-Monkey: He's rarely seen having a good day, and his suffering tends to be Played for Laughs.
• Casanova Wannabe: He propositions people often in the Cerritos bar, and gets shot down at least as much if not more than his idol Ransom.
• The Chew Toy: He tends to get kicked around a lot when he appears, be it getting injured, ignored by his superiors, or embarrassed.
• Foil: For Boimler. He seems to be where someone just like Boimler would have ended up without the Character Development he goes through.
• Hero Worship: He idolizes Commander Ransom. When the latter becomes imbued with god-like powers in "Strange Energies", Stevens immediately begins openly worshipping him, much to the annoyance of Mariner and T'Ana.
• The Klutz: At one point, he leans on the warp core twice in a single day.
• Iron Butt Monkey: He's incured several, normally fatal, injuries including petrification and extensive radiation burns (twice in one day!), yet manages to recover with zero lasting physical trauma thanks to 24th century medical science.
• Overranked Soldier:
  • Stevens is a Lieutenant Commander in the Command division, which on any other ship would make him a prime candidate for Second Officer, which he may very well be on the Cerritos as well. However, he behaves far more like a lickspittle Ensign than a senior officer or command crew.
  • Stevens is also one of only five officers on the Cerritos with the confirmed rank of Lieutenant Commander or higher^note Captain Freeman, Commanders Ransom and T'Ana, Lieutenant Commanders Billups and Stevens and he is the only one of those five who does not have clearly delineated duties.
• Repetitive Name: His name is Steve (possibly short for Steven) Stevens.
• Straw Loser: A downplayed example for the Cerritos crew as a whole. Most of his screen time is devoted to simpering over Ransom or suffering Amusing Injuries, but while he's not the only accident-prone fellow on the ship (read: "Boimler"), his misfortunes tend to stem from his own incompetence/stupidity rather than bad luck, and he's yet to demonstrate any of the Hidden Badass qualities common to the rest of the crew.
• Taken for Granite: Happens to him in "Mining the Mind's Mines". He gets better. Somehow.

Lieutenant Dirk

Lieutenant Dirk

A command division Lieutenant who dislikes the lower ranked crew, he's also in charge of hazing crewmembers.

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• Establishing Character Moment: When Tendi boards the Cerritos for the first time he voices his disdain for her due to her rank.
  Dirk: Keep it moving lower decks!
• Fantastic Racism: Well, classism. He disparages anyone who is lower ranked than him, in I, Excretus he even does it to the Bridge crew after they're temporarily demoted as part of the test.
• Forehead of Doom: His most notable physical feature is his large forehead.

Lieutenant Steve Levy

Lieutenant Steve Levy

"Changelings aren't real! The Dominion War didn't happen!"

Voiced By: Fred Tatasciore

A science division Lieutenant aboard the Cerritos. Apparently a math prodigy, but unfortunately also a massive Conspiracy Theorist.

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• Arbitrary Skepticism: Wolf 359 and the Dominion War cost countless lives across all corners of the Federation, but he claims the latter never happened and the former was an inside job. Note that the Dominion War ended just five years ago in-universe, and he's been in Starfleet for at least ten.
• Boss's Unfavorite Employee: According to Boimler the reason he hasn't been promoted in ages is because everyone finds his conspiracy theories annoying.
• The Cuckoolander Was Right: In "Caves" one of his theories proved right for once.
• Conspiracy Theorist: He thinks Wolf 359 was an inside job, that Changelings aren't real, and that the Dominion War didn't happen. He also believes Q doesn’t exist, Picard is a hologram and the Doctor isn’t. "Caves" deconstructs this as it shows that this habit has gotten him stuck as a lieutenant for about a decade.
• Casanova Wannabe: Mariner went on one date with him in 2379 and hasn't willingly talked to him since. Her interaction with him a year later does not make her regret it. Probably not a good idea to spout conspiracy theories about Changelings and the Dominion to a Dominion War veteran who's been deliberately stalling her career for the last half a decade because of it.
• A Day in the Limelight: Is the co-lead of Boimler's segment in "Caves".
• Ditzy Genius: According to Boimler, he's some kind of outside-the-box math genius. Unfortunately, he's also a fruitcake who rejects factual accounts just because they're the "official" explanation.
• Everyone Has Standards: While he dismisses the feud between Freeman and Buenamigo as part of the Temporal Cold War, he still considers Mariner ruining the Cerritos' reputation in Veronica's report "pretty messed up". Subverted when it turns out Mariner actually didn't cause the report to go wrong this time.
• I Just Want to Be Special: Boimler, rightly, calls out his constant conspiritizing as trying to cast himself in the center of a massive web of unseen happenings where he's the only one smart enough to see the "truth". Levy, for his part, doesn't exactly argue with that assesment.
• Odd Friendship: He and Boimler — an optimist who is unwaveringly faithful to Starfleet ideals — struck up a friendship as a result of their time trapped together in a cave.
• Passed-Over Promotion: His career has been stalled out at Lieutenant for a decade because it's not in anyone's interest to promote a raving conspiracy theorist to a command rank.
• Professional Butt-Kisser: Tries to pitch some ideas for decorating the Captain's Yacht to Mariner the instant he finds out she's Captain Freeman's daughter.
• Too Clever by Half: His prodigy-level math ability appears to have resulted in him developing something akin to Nobel disease and embracing all manner of nonsensical alternative explanations for things that happened.

Lieutenants Kimolu and Matt

Lieutenants Kimolu and Matt

A pair of beluga whales who work in Cetacean Ops.

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• Big Eater: An advantage to working on a Federation ship? Unlimited fish.
• Extreme Omnisexual: They... really want people to swim with them. This led many viewers to assume they were meant to be dolphins (who are notoriously horny) before it was confirmed that they are beluga whales.
• Friendly, Playful Dolphin: Beluga whales, but close enough.
• Intelligible Unintelligible: Being whales, they speak in squeaks and clicks, but everyone understands them. (It might help that usually all they talk about is people swimming with them.)
• Locked Out of the Loop: Kimolu missed the revelation that Captain Freeman is Mariner's mom.
• Mythology Gag: An early concept for the Enterprise-D was that it would have a giant water tank with dolphins who would help with navigation. It was dropped because it was deemed too expensive, though Cetacean Ops is mentioned a few times on screen. It would take 34 years before the franchise finally showed Cetacean Ops aboard a Starfleet ship.
• No Sympathy: Their reaction to Boimler running from K'ranch is to dismiss him as a drama magnet. Admittedly, Boimler does turn out to be in less danger than he assumed.
• Serious Business: If you're gonna dive in their tank, take your shoes off first. They shoot Boimler a serious Death Glare when he splashes in while running for his life.
• Skewed Priorities: Ship about to fly into a debris field? Almost died? Being hunted? Sounds like a good excuse to strip down and swim with them.
• Those Two Guys: They both work in a giant water tank and thus are never apart.
• Weaksauce Weakness: In fine Starfleet tradition of questionable design planning, an emergency release for the ship's paneling is located in Cetacean Ops, and neither of them can be called upon to operate it since it requires something they don't have - hands. Needless to say, they are not happy about it.
• Worst Aid: Their advice when they bring up Boimler after he runs out of air is to keep him wet, as though he were a beached whale. To be fair, they ARE beluga whales, and that is how they'd treat their own.

Lieutenant (j.g.) Kayshon

Lieutenant (j.g.) Kayshon

"You gettin' 'Bazminti, when he pulled back the veil' vibes from this guy?"

Voiced By: Carl Tart

A Tamarian Security chief aboard U.S.S. Cerritos, brought in to replace Shaxs.

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• Airplane Arms: When the security detail is called to action in "Empathological Fallacies," Kayshon races past his colleagues using the ninja variant of this posture, accompanied by an audible "whoosh." Whether this is a quirk of Kayshon's or a trait common to Tamarians remains to be seen.
• Call-Back: To Worf and his dispensation to wear his Klingon baldric. Kayshon wears a Tamarian sash with a ceremonial military officer's dagger as part of his hybridized uniform.
• Caring Gardener: A quick cut-away shows him Talking to Plants in the ship's hydroponics lab, presumably during his off-hours.
• Casanova Wannabe: Tries to flirt with a fellow officer using his people's metaphors, only for her to roll her eyes and leave.
• Contrasting Replacement Character: While Shaxs was a violent Bajoran Blood Knight with No Indoor Voice, Kayshon is a soft-spoken Gentle Giant.
• Forced Transformation: Gets turned into a puppet in "Kayshon, His Eyes Open". He gets better.
• Noodle Incident: According to him, he once lived in a cave.
• Strange-Syntax Speaker: Seemingly at first, as he uses a Tamarian metaphor when he first comes aboard. Subverted when he then explains that the Universal Translator can now mostly translate Tamarian metaphors into regular Federation Standard and that he's also been taking language lessons as well, but sometimes misses one and translates it literally.
• Temporary Substitute: He fills in for Shaxs for all of two episodes before Shaxs returns from the dead. Unlike most other characters in Trek who fit this role, Kayshon instead just sticks around and continues being an active part of the Cerritos's crew, as part of its Security team under Shaxs.
• Weight Woe: A failed attempt by Boimler to speak in Tamarian metaphors apparently comes across as an insult regarding Kayshon's weight, sending the security officer storming off in a huff.

Lieutenant (j.g.) Winger Bingston, Jr.

Lieutenant (j.g.) Winger Bingston, Jr.

Voiced By: Eugene Cordero

A science division Lieutenant serving aboard the Cerritos.

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• Master Actor: Puts on a one man show for Starfleet diversity training, "The United Federation of Characters." Mariner is aghast at having to sit through it.
  (Spotlight illuminates him sitting on a stool) "Oh hello... didn't see you beam in there..."
• Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: Mariner seems to really hold a grudge after being forced to sit through his one-man show, since she opts to crush him to death during her Holodeck program in "Crisis Point".

Lieutenant (j.g.) O'Connor

Lieutenant (j.g.) O'Connor

Voiced by: Haley Joel Osment

An operations division officer serving on the Cerritos.

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• Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence: His goal, which apparently is attainable through meditation and sacrifice.
• Go Mad from the Revelation: Turns out ascension is a really intense and painful process. Time has no meaning and apparently, the universe is balanced on the back of a giant koala.
  "WHY IS HE SMILING?!! WHAT DOES HE KNOW??"
• Heroic Sacrifice: He's crushed by debris while trying to save Tendi. His selflessness is what helps him finally ascend (though he may regret that).
• Hot-Blooded: Hasn't spiritually ascended yet because of his volatile temper.
• I Just Want to Be Special: Finally admits he was attempting ascension to stand out in Starfleet.

Ensign Barnes

Ensign Barnes

Voiced by: Jessica McKenna

A Trill junior officer who mans the Cerritos' operations console on the bridge.

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• Ambiguously Bi: Briefly dated Rutherford in Season 1, and a holographic representation of her can be seen in I, Excretus having a drunken make-out session with Ensign Jennifer Sh'reyan. That said, the ambiguous part comes from the latter example being a hologram and not the real Barnes.
• Bridge Bunnies: She can often be seen working on the bridge whenever the senior staff are featured, and the lower-deckers aren't.
• Casual Danger Dialogue: During her date with Rutherford in "Second Contact", they continue asking get-to-know-you questions and flirting after they get caught up in the firefight and emergency evacuation caused by the virus.
• Fan of the Past: She's fond of a "classical" band called The Monkees, a group that is over 400 years old from her perspective.
• Half-Human Hybrid: Implied. She has a human-sounding surname, and her spots seem less prominent than those of normal Trills.
  • Becomes a half-Bajoran in Twovix when T'illups combines her offscreen with Lt. Shaxs.
• Informed Attractiveness: Mariner thinks that Barnes is "crazy hot", and Rutherford later confirms that she's pretty. However, due to the show's simple character designs, she isn't very different from any other female characters in the audience's eyes.
• Ms. Fanservice: Arguably the closest the show has to one: She comes on to Rutherford pretty aggressively, even suggesting a skinny-dipping threesome with a whale, and in a "Naked Time"-inspired simulation, is seen making out with the similarly attractive Jennifer.
• Unusually Uninteresting Sight: Regards Tendi sneaking up on Rutherford to shoot him with mild curiosity, and then leaves him to face his increasingly manic friend without bothering to try and stop what's going on.

Ensign Jet Manhaver

Ensign Jet Manhaver

"We don't have to be heroes today, people. We just have to survive."

Voiced By: Marcus Henderson

An operations division officer serving aboard the Cerritos.

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• The Ace: Tall, strong, handsome, and a model officer respected by the crew. Boimler calls him a "Kirk sundae with Trip Tucker sprinkles".
• Always Someone Better: There's always someone better, and that someone tends to be Jet. He's not even trying to outdo everyone else or be a jerk about it, but both Mariner and Boimler are irritated by him being so dang good at everything.
• Amicable Exes: He used to date Lt. Brinson, much to Boimler's paranoia.
• By-the-Book Cop: Insists on following procedure compared to Mariner's gung-ho attitude in a crisis.
• Early-Installment Weirdness: He wears two rank pips in "Cupid's Errant Arrow", which paints him as a full Lieutenant, but in "Kayshon, His Eyes Opened" he's an Ensign and referred to as such. Lampshaded — apparently he just had a stray kernel of corn on his neck.
• The Rival: In "Kayshon, His Eyes Open", he constantly butts up against Mariner's rebellious nature and tries to take her leadership role after Kayshon was transformed into a puppet.

Ensign Livik

Ensign Livik

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• Always Someone Better: Rutherford finds him to be this at every turn, although Livik's last line implies it was the other way around.
• Sitcom Archnemesis: He is this to Rutherford in the second episode of season four, until Tendi intervenes.
• Wimp Fight: The background argument he and Ensign Gary get into during the T'Lyn-generated insanity in the ship's lounge winds up as this, which he eventually wins.

Ensign Peanut Hamper

Ensign Peanut Hamper

"Smell ya later! And I mean that literally, y'all just [bleep] everywhere!"

^{Click here to see her in Season 3} 

Voiced by: Kether Donohue

A "female" Exocomp serving in Starfleet. She seems like a hardworking Cute Clumsy Girl at first, but she eventually proves to have personality flaws that make her entirely unfit to serve in Starfleet, or really any military-ish organization...

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• A.I. Is a Crapshoot: A variation on the trope: she's definitely bad, but it's not due to any programming fault, she's just a horrible person. When first introduced, she's nothing but sweet—up until she's asked to go on a suicide mission (ironically, one that she had the best chance of surviving out of anyone on the crew), at which point she pulls a Screw This, I'm Outta Here and runs for it. When she returns in "A Mathematically Perfect Redemption", it's revealed she was willing to risk the destruction of an entire species and the Cerritos as a means to get back in Starfleet. Unfortunately for her, the Cerritos crew is far from amused and stuff her in the Daystrom Institute to rot with the other examples of this trope. Right next to AGIMUS, in fact.
• Always Someone Better: To Tendi initially. Peanut Hamper is able to upstage her on her (Peanut Hamper's) first day in the job with her medical prowess without help, though Tendi being who she is, she's happy that Peanut Hamper's fitting in regardless of her jealousy. It doesn't last, as Peanut Hamper quickly reveals her true colors at the first sign of danger and bails.
• And I Must Scream: After abandoning the Cerritos and stupidly beaming herself into space, Peanut Hamper is left stranded in an isolated pocket of space entirely alone. She's stranded for a year in-universe, though she's eventually able to escape (albeit now much more ruthless).
• Anti-Role Model: She's an example of exactly what a Starfleet officer shouldn't be, in contrast to the eccentric but competent Lower Deckers. She's selfish, cowardly, immoral, flagrantly breaks the Prime Directive, and dismisses The Needs of the Many in favor of her own gain.
• Ascended Extra: She was initially a one-shot character who was there for a gag about her having the exact abilities needed to save the day, but refusing to do so. She returns two seasons later to have an entire episode centered around her.
• The Atoner: Subverted. She acts like she's come to terms with her wrongs and wants to make up for abandoning the Cerritos in "A Mathematically Perfect Redemption", but it's revealed to have all been a ruse to be accepted back into Starfleet. In reality, Peanut Hamper doesn't think she's done anything wrong and is just trying to get her career back. Ultimately played straight in "A Few Badgeys More" when, in the process of writing her parole appeal, she ends up realizing she feels genuine remorse for her actions and reconciles with her father.
• Bait the Dog: She initially seems like a sweet-natured Cute Clumsy Girl happy to help around the Cerritos, only to reveal herself to be a massive Jerkass and a coward to boot the second she's expected to risk her life. Similarly, in "A Mathematically Perfect Redemption", she seems to have genuinely reformed and started to care for Rawda, only for it to turn out it was all an act and she's even worse than ever.
• Berserk Button: Being touched. While she's generally not pleasant to be around unless she's putting up an act, touching her will always get her to lash out and become even more openly hostile than usual.
• Beyond Redemption: While the Cerritos crew and Tendi in particular are initially willing to accept her redemption and the latter even offers Peanut Hamper a second chance after it's clear her Heel–Face Turn was entirely faked. However, after she not only turns it down but tries to summon the Borg to assimilate everyone out of spite, they finally decide she's too far gone and have her imprisoned in the Daystrom Institute.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: She may seem like a clumsy yet well-meaning little robot, but when she's called upon to save the Cerritos from destruction, she beams herself away while taunting her crewmates over their impending demise.
• Blaming the Victim: When her Engineered Heroics are revealed, she immediately blames the Areore for it because she assumed their hidden ships wouldn't work because of her own Fantastic Racism.
• Blatant Lies: After it's exposed that she endangered the Aerore with her Engineered Heroics, Peanut Hamper insists it was for a good cause. She then immediately admits said cause was saving her career without a hint of shame.
• Brilliant, but Lazy: Zig-Zagged. Peanut Hamper is a stunningly competent doctor able to heal an entire village with ease, but her own cowardice and selfishness stop her from living up to her full potential. When saving the Aerore from the Drookmani, she's able to infiltrate their ship and disable it in the exact manner she was asked to do with the Pakleds and survives without a scratch, but she only does it because it was Engineered Heroics that would directly benefit her. Once the truth comes out and the Drookmani start attacking again, she abandons everyone to save her own skin.
• Broken Ace: She's an extremely competent physician, being able to effortlessly perform skin grafts while onboard the Cerritos and being able to heal the entire Aerore village with limited medical supplies on hand effortlessly due to her natural abilities. T'Ana even calls her one of the best doctors she's ever seen, and Peanut Hamper is able to easily charm people as well. Unfortunately, she's also a cowardly, self-serving narcissist with a Lack of Empathy for everyone around her and she's utterly immoral to boot.
• Broken Pedestal: Tendi initially considers Peanut Hamper as a friend and protege, and views her as a model Starfleet officer. This quickly changes after Peanut Hamper reveals how much of a selfish coward she really is, but even then Tendi is willing to accept her apparent Heel–Face Turn… only for the pedestal to be broken again once it's revealed it was all an act.
• The Bus Came Back: After spending nearly two seasons absent due to being stranded in space, she returns in "A Mathematically Perfect Redemption".
• Call a Human a "Meatbag": She has a hatred for all organic life, particularly those that aren't technologically advanced. Even when she's pretending to be reformed, she can't stop sneeringly calling the Aerore "organics".
• Character Development: Of the worst kind. She starts off as a Dirty Coward who prioritizes her own self-preservation above the greater good, but isn't evil so much as she is a Jerkass. Season 3 sees her go Jumping Off the Slippery Slope into villainy, and go from merely selfish to actively putting people's lives on the line for her own gain.
• Characterization Marches On: She's depicted as fairly clumsy in her first appearance due to lacking hands, but during her reappearance in Season 3 this trait has vanished and she's able to move objects around with a gravitational beam. Given her personality, it's possible it was all an act in the first place.
• Child Hater: Implied. While she hates all of the Aerore, she has a special distaste for the village children and spends a lot of time insulting them even though they're nothing but nice to her. She does wind up giving them candy with a replicator, but spends the entire time yelling at them to stay still.
• Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: She's very prone to betraying her allies for her own gain. She abandons the Cerritos rather than risk her own neck, and later sics the Drookmani on the Aerore (who helped nurse her back to health and viewed her as a local hero) for the sake of Engineered Heroics designed to get her back into Starfleet. She's genuinely surprised that neither of them will accept her back after it, too.
  Peanut Hamper: They're so uptight about being betrayed.
• Companion Cube: She makes one while trapped in Space. It also reveals her true nature. She treats her Companion Cube as a dear companion and promises to never abandon it, only to ultimately ditch it without a second thought.
• Cute Clumsy Girl: She initially comes across as this, being clumsy but nevertheless helpful and polite. It's subverted when she turns out to be a massive Jerkass, and by her return in Season 3 she's able to move objects around with a gravitational beam, negating her clumsiness. It's entirely possible it was simply an act to lower people's guard and endear herself to the crew.
• Deadpan Snarker: She's extremely sarcastic and prone to making quips about others' perceived failings, albeit in a manner that only further shows how much of a condescending Jerkass she is.
• Didn't See That Coming: She calls in the Drookmani to attack the Aerore, but didn't expect them to record the conversation in case anyone doubted them, which is exactly what they did.
• Didn't Think This Through: Her Fatal Flaw stemming from shortsighted selfishness. Peanut Hamper tends to go with whatever will benefit her at that exact moment, forgetting to play the Long Game (which is quite common among sociopaths). She abandons the Cerritos by beaming herself into space, but has no means to go anywhere herself and is unsurprisingly left behind by the Titan because they didn't even know she was there. Her attempt to manipulate others later don't pan out because she regularly forgets to check a crucial detail that completely ruins her plans. Even her last attempt at lashing out, summoning the Borg, would have backfired because of her lack of foresight; they eat technology just as readily as organic beings.
• Digging Yourself Deeper: Refusing to die for the Cerritos would have gotten her written up for insubordination at worst, but actively beaming away makes her a deserter and would give her time in a penal colony. Then she risks a village full of people so she can play hero. Then she tries to call the Borg to assimilate the Cerritos and the planet she landed on. By the end of it all, she's gone from "mild reprimand" to "indefinitely locked in the Daystrom Institute". And she's learned nothing from it.
• Dirty Coward: Beams off the Cerritos at the first sign of trouble rather than help in a crisis. She does risk her life for her Engineered Heroics scheme in "A Mathematically Perfect Redemption", but the second it spirals out of control she refuses to do anything and once again tries to abandon everyone.
  "I joined Starfleet to piss off my dad, not to be a virus bomb!"
• Do-Anything Robot: Exocomps were designed to be this by default with a mini-replicator nozzle in front for making tools. Peanut is also able to replicate small treats for kids, vitamin supplements, and has enough engineering know-how to build a rudimentary starship from salvage and scavenged bits of dilithim.
• Engineered Heroics: In order to convince Starfleet she's reformed so they'll take her back, she contacts the Drookmani and convinces them to plunder the Aerore's homes and abandoned ships so she can stop them and come out looking like a hero.
• Entitled Bastard: She expects both the Aerores and the Cerritos crew to take her back immediately after she nearly got them killed through her Engineered Heroics backfiring and abandoned them to save herself. Needless to say, they don't.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Subverted. She appears to genuinely come to love Rawda even before she starts making strides to improving herself, but it turns out it was all part of a plan to save her career in Starfleet through Engineered Heroics. Once it's revealed, she expresses nothing but contempt for him and coldly mocks his grief at her betrayal.
  • Later played straight when she reforms for real in "A Few Badgeys More" and returns to working with her family on a research station after being paroled from the Daystrom Institute.
• Evil All Along: "A Mathematically Perfect Redemption" pulls out all the stops to make it look like Peanut Hamper has made a Heel–Face Turn and wants to atone for her actions, only for the twist ending to reveal that she had been faking her Character Development the entire time. If anything, she's even worse than ever.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: Downplayed. She can comprehend good enough to fake it, most notably her stint convincingly pretending to be The Atoner in "A Mathematically Perfect Redemption", but she doesn't grasp it outside of something that appeals to people. Upon seeing Shaxs' Heroic Sacrifice, Peanut Hamper immediately mocks him for being stupid enough to do it and congratulates herself on avoiding the same fate (ignoring the fact she forced Shaxs and Rutherford into that position by abandoning the ship).
• Evil Costume Switch: In "A Mathematically Perfect Redemption", the external damage she takes after entering Areolus's atmosphere and her subsequent recovery results in her gaining a darker-red coloration. Fittingly, within the same episode she shifts from a mere Jerkass into genuinely evil territory.
• Evil Is Petty: Peanut Hamper is extremely petty and spiteful, often going out of her way to mock and insult people once she sees no reason to keep up her kind facade. Notable examples include mockingly revealing Rawda cries after sex immediately after betraying him just for the sake of it, and trying to call the Borg to assimilate everyone once the Cerritos crew and the Aerore turn on her.
• Face–Heel Turn: She starts off as a member of Starfleet and at least nominally aligned with the heroes even if she ultimately winds up abandoning them, but her subsequent efforts to cover for her desertion results in her becoming increasingly villainous and ultimately turning against Starfleet.
• Falsely Reformed Villain: "A Mathematically Perfect Redemption" centers around her seemingly redeeming herself and changing for the better, only for the ending to reveal she had been faking it the entire time and had been scheming to get back into Starfleet through Engineered Heroics.
• Fantastic Racism: Downplayed. She doesn't hate organic life, but she does hate organics from a less technologically-advanced civilization. While she seems to get over this given how they took her in despite their own misgivings, it becomes Double Subverted when it's shown she still hates how less advanced they are.
• Fatal Flaw: Short-sightedness. Peanut Hamper never thinks about the consequences of her actions and prioritizes short-term benefit over the long-term. It costs her dearly, as her impulsive desertion and subsequent efforts to cover her own ass result in her committing an increasing amount of crimes with no real thought to the consequences. The result is that her career is ruined and she's imprisoned for everything she's done.
• Faux Affably Evil: She shifts from a mere Bitch in Sheep's Clothing into this in Season 3 as she becomes a full-on villain. While she's fairly rude to the Aerore at first, she's able to successfully feign reforming and acts polite and gracious all the while endangering all of them with her Engineered Heroics and not giving a damn about their lives.
• First Day from Hell: She's not on the Cerritos three hours before the Pakleds attack. She later fumes that it was unreasonable of them to expect her to risk her life on those grounds. Never mind that she had gone through the Starfleet Academy, where death in the line of duty is a tragic but unavoidable risk and there are multiple tests to make sure cadets understand this and commit despite the risk.
• Freudian Excuse: She mentions her father is extremely overprotective and controlling, which fuels her utter disregard for authority.
• Go Mad from the Isolation: Downplayed. She spends a year in-universe stranded alone in space and has become far more irritable and amoral than she was prior, but she remains sane for the most part outside of having made a Companion Cube out of space debris.
• Hate Sink: Eventually revealed to be one over the course of the series. While her first appearance presented her exit from a suicide mission and taunting everyone about it as dickish (albeit not entirely wrong), "A Mathematically Perfect Redemption" demonstrates her as The Sociopath who's willing to manipulate everyone around her to get her way, toy with another beings' feelings for her, and let innocents die (including and up to Borg assimilation) if it means she comes out on top. Starfleet then stuffs her in the Rogue A.I. containment unit at the Daystrom Institute, utterly disgusted with her.
• Hates Being Touched: She absolutely loses it whenever she's touched and tends to lash out even more than usual when it happens.
• Hates Their Parent: She at the very least is resentful of her father for (according to her) being overprotective. By her own admission, she only joined Starfleet to piss him off and previously entertained fantasies of being a dabo girl (the Trek equivalent of a stripper).
• Heel Realization: Subverted. She seems to have one in "A Mathematically Perfect Redemption", admitting to Rawda that she abandoned her "flock" and needs to make amends. However, it's revealed she was faking it as part of a plan to rejoin Starfleet - in reality, she's learned absolutely nothing and refuses to accept responsibility for her actions.
• Hidden Disdain Reveal:
  • She acts perfectly nice after first boarding the Cerritos, but the second she's asked to risk her life she immediately insults the crew and gleefully taunts them about their impending deaths at the hands of the Pakleds.
  • She feigns growing beyond her initial hatred for the Aerore and coming to love Rawda, but the second her Engineered Heroics are exposed she reveals she still hates them and their planet. She coldly insults Rawda and shows nothing but contempt for him, even going so far as to mock him for crying at her betrayal and reveals he cries after sex just to be a jerk.
• Insane Troll Logic: When Freeman bluntly tells her that there's no way she'll ever serve onboard the Cerritos again for her actions on Areolus, Peanut Hamper immediately accuses her of doing it because she's "jealous of [her] advanced intelligence" and not her blatant disregard for other's lives.
• Insufferable Genius: She's highly intelligent, and never passes up an opportunity to brag about it. She also clearly views everyone around her as inferior, particularly pre-warp civilizations given her condescending treatment of the Aerore.
• It's All About Me: Peanut Hamper cares nothing about anyone but herself. In "A Mathematically Perfect Redemption", she plots to return to Starfleet, caring nothing about the safety of the people who rescued and cared for her.
  Peanut Hamper: I hate Starfleet! What about the needs of the me?!
• Jack of All Trades: Exocomps have the ability to replicate any tool for any job you'd normally have on a starship, making her very useful for surgery in Sickbay.
• Jerkass: To an extreme degree. She hates organic civilizations that are less technologically developed, she gladly abandoned her crew when they ask her to undertake a suicide mission, she was willing to use Engineered Heroics and let both her old crew and her soon-to-be husband get wiped out so she could "save the day", and when her plans get foiled, she was going to call The Borg to assimilate everyone on the planet.
• Jerkass Has a Point: Subverted. Peanut fumes that it was unreasonable to expect her, an ensign who'd not even been on the ship three hours, to potentially risk her life to save the crew, and this is admittedly a tall order for anyone... but it's blown out of the water as the rest of her behavior shows she'd never risk her life for anyone for any reason.
• Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: In "A Mathematically Perfect Redemption", Peanut Hamper spends some time with the Aerore, grows to like her place in their society, falls in love, and even volunteers to sacrifice herself for their people. Except that it was all staged, she actually hates her fiancé and the whole planet, and if anything she's only gotten worse.
• Jumping Off the Slippery Slope: She starts off as little more than a selfish Dirty Coward who refuses to risk her life for the sake of the crew, but doesn't actively harm anyone and is at worst a Jerkass about it. In her return in Season 3, Peanut Hamper slips into outright villainous territory by endangering countless people for her Engineered Heroics in order to be accepted back into Starfleet, and then trying to call the Borg to assimilate everyone when she's found out out of spite.
• Karmic Butt-Monkey: Both of her appearances end with her receiving some sort of horrible fate - being stranded alone in space and imprisoned in the Daystrom Institute, respectively - but she always brings it on herself through being an unrepentantly horrible person.
• Kick the Dog: Seems to have a bad habit of doing this. It's not enough for her to just desert her post; she also has to insult all the crewmates she's leaving to die as she beams out. It's not enough for her to use and betray the Aerore; she has to publicly mock her fiancee for Crying After Sex and then try to call down the frigging Borg on everyone in a fit of pique after her plans are ruined.
• The Klutz: Constantly knocks stuff over because she's designed to replicate mostly surgical tools, not stuff like an ordinary hand to grab things. In later appearances she's able to move objects around with a mini-tractor beam so she may have just been playing up klutziness to appear adorable.
• Lack of Empathy: She has absolutely no empathy for anyone around her. It's most strikingly demonstrated when Kaltorus - who had painstakingly nursed her back to health and stood up for her to the villagers - is crushed by rubble and she coldly ignores his cries for help in favor of fleeing.
• Laser-Guided Karma: Her refusal to help save the Cerritos crew from the Pakleds and beaming out of the ship all the while mocking them results in her being stranded in deep space and accidentally left there by the Titan. She spends roughly a year there completely alone.
• Laughably Evil: She's a horrible person in every regard, but her snotty and unabashedly awful personality makes her hilarious to watch while being utterly despicable at the same time.
• Love Redeems: Subverted and invoked. She seemingly falls in love with and almost marries Rawda, but turns out to have just been manipulating him and the other villagers all along. To add insult to injury, she even publicly reveals that he cries after sex.
• The Medic: She's an extremely talented doctor and surgeon, to the point that even T'Ana is impressed by her work. When stranded on Areolus, Peanut Hamper fills this role for the Aerore's village and quickly becomes a local hero because of it. Unfortunately, she ruins it all with her Engineered Heroics, though being who she is she doesn't care a bit.
• Manipulative Bitch: Manipulates Rawda and his village for months, then moves onto manipulating the Cerritos and the Drookmani rather than take responsibility for her actions.
• Meaningful Name: Hamper means "to hinder". Her behavior results in her being The Load at best or actively dangerous to others at worst.
• Motive Rant: After the Drookmani Captain exposes her Engineered Heroics, Peanut Hamper goes into a rant about how she needed to restore her reputation to save her career so she wouldn't have to spend the rest of her life on a pre-warp planet.
  Peanut Hamper: Okay, fine, I called the Drookmani here! But it was for a good cause! You guys didn't want these ships and I needed a way to show that I'm a hero so that Starfleet would take me back! How was I supposed to know these old ships still worked? I mean, they were built by organics! People who build things out of straw! What are the odds?
  Rawda: But, Peanut-!
  Peanut Hamper: Oh my God, Rawda, shut the fuck up. Just grow a fucking beak. I wasn't gonna spend the rest of my very long robotic life on a fricking bird planet.
• My Species Doth Protest Too Much: A rare inversion of the "see, even the bad guy aliens aren't all evil" examples usually seen from this trope. In contrast to the Exocomps first seen on TNG, who didn't speak but showed a willingness to sacrifice themselves to save others, Peanut Hamper is a full-blown sociopath: manipulative, selfish, narcissistic, and completely devoid of empathy.
• Nature Is Boring: She clearly takes this view. Part of the reason she hates the Aerore is that she's bored out of her skull living in the woods with no technology, alongside the fact she views herself as superior to them thanks to being more technologically advanced.
• Never My Fault: She absolutely refuses to take responsibility for her own actions. After stranding herself into outer space to avoid making a Heroic Sacrifice, she blames the Cerritos crew for it while ignoring that it's entirely her fault. It reaches full-on victim blaming territory when her Engineered Heroics are discovered and she immediately blames the Areore for it because she assumed their ships couldn't work because of her own classist assumptions.
• Politically Incorrect Villain: She has extremely classist attitudes towards pre-warp civilizations, looking down on the Areore for not being as technologically advanced as the Federation and repeatedly mocking them for it. She seems to move past it, but once her Engineered Heroics are exposed she makes it clear her views on them haven't changed a bit. She also has a milder hatred for organic life, though it's mostly directed the aforementioned pre-warp civilizations.
• Psychopathic Manchild: She acts like a whiny, snotty teenager whenever she's not putting forth a Faux Affably Evil facade, and by her own admission the only reason she joined Starfleet was to piss off her dad. As for the 'Psychopathic' part of this trope, she has a stunning Lack of Empathy and doesn't give a damn about the harm her actions cause, even when people wind up dying because of the,.
• Put on a Bus to Hell: She spends Season 2 and most of Season 3 stranded alone in deep space - which in-universe was an entire year - before returning in "A Mathematically Perfect Redemption".
• Red and Black and Evil All Over: Her Jumping Off the Slippery Slope is accompanied her coloring changing from gray and light-blue to black and red.
• Redemption Rejection: Even after Peanut Hamper's plot is revealed, Tendi still offers her one last chance to redeem herself by saving the Cerritos from the Drookmani. The Exocomp flatly refuses.
• Ridiculously Human Robots: She talks like a Valley Girl, which strongly contrasts with her robotic body (which is a roundish box about the size of a football).
• Sadist: She takes a lot of pleasure in twisting the knife whenever she has the advantage over someone she hates. It's most notably demonstrated when, after her betrayal is revealed, she takes the opportunity to mock Rawda for his obvious grief over it and reveal he cries after sex just to humiliate him.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: When Tendi asks her to board the Pakleds ship to upload a computer virus to disable it, Peanut Hamper immediately refuses rather than risk her own life and beams herself off the ship.
• Self-Serving Memory: In "A Mathematically Perfect Redemption", she blames the Cerritos crew for her being stranded in space because they unfairly expected her to make a Heroic Sacrifice to stop the Pakleds. Peanut Hamper of course ignores the fact that the mission to upload a computer virus to the Pakled ship was, while risky, not a guaranteed death sentence and she beamed off the ship out of cowardice.
• Shadow Archetype: Eventually, she is revealed to be this to the main cast of Lower Decks. Like all the four protagonists, she is really good at any task she sets herself to (science, medicine, engineering, piloting, and socializing). But while all of the ensigns are willing to risk themselves for others (even Boimler, though he may be shrieking in terror while doing it) she absolutely is not.
• Small Name, Big Ego: She acts superior to everyone around her, claims to have been a big shot to the Aerore, and outright accuses the Cerritos crew of being jealous of her. If one took her boasts at face value, it would be easy to forget she's just an ensign who ruined her career by deserting in the middle of a crisis.
• Smug Snake: She's extremely arrogant and over-confident, believing herself to be above everyone else. However, while Peanut Hamper is genuinely cunning and a good manipulator, her failure to think her actions through always screws up her plans.
• The Social Expert: Zig-Zagged. She's good at analyzing whatever environment she's in and good at tailoring a facade to appeal to whoever she's with. She acts like an upbeat Cute Clumsy Girl around Tendi, a competent and somewhat serious surgeon around T'Ana, and fakes becoming The Atoner to gain favor with the Aerore and Starfleet. Unfortunately, she never thinks far enough ahead to keep the act going and the facade always cracks under pressure.
• The Sociopath: She is a textbook example of one. She pretends to care about other lifeforms when it benefits her, she doesn't feel regret about betraying people, she looks for opportunities to save herself or look like a hero to Starfleet, and she thinks she's superior to all organic beings. She also proves herself to be incapable of love once Rawda learns she betrayed his trust and her coldly admitting in public that he cries over anything, even after sex. She is very manipulative, but also very shortsighted and maliciously spiteful when confronted about her scheming.
• Special Effects Failure: Purposefully invoked; the original Exocomps in TNG were dangled on a fishing line that was later removed digitally. The creators explicitly asked the animators to make Peanut Hamper move like she was being dangled from a fishing line.
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute: To Fletcher. They're both seemingly nice lower deck crew-members who reveal themselves to be selfish cowards and prove willing to screw over the crew to save themselves. Peanut Hamper does move in her own direction as a character in Season 3, mainly by proving herself as more competent and far more actively malicious than Fletcher ever was.
• Tempting Fate: After the Titan arrives, Peanut Hamper reassures herself the ship won't abandon her… unless they forget to scan for non-organic life, but "that'll never happen." It does, and she's left stranded in space.
• This Looks Like a Job for Aquaman: Subverted. In "No Small Parts", the situation with the Pakleds is tailored for her specific skill set, but she refuses to risk her own life for the sake of the crew and beams off the ship rather than help.
• Token Evil Teammate: Played With. She's a member of the Cerritos, but she quickly reveals herself to be a selfish, cowardly Jerkass who doesn't give a damn about everyone else. However, it isn't until she leaves the crew that she sinks from simply an asshole to genuinely evil territory.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: Justified. She's much more openly abrasive and immoral in Season 3, in contrast to her being a Bitch in Sheep's Clothing prior, but by that point she's isolated from Starfleet and living in a pre-warp civilization she sees as beneath her and has spent roughly a year stranded in space alone stewing in hatred for Starfleet. Thus, she sees no reason to play nice and put up an act.
• Underestimating Badassery: During her Motive Rant, she reveals she never expected the Aerore's ships to work due to her overall low opinion of them. As it turns out, their ships are very much functional and one is able to nearly blow the Cerritos out of the sky.
• Ungrateful Bastard: The Aerore accept her into their community, put up with her insults, and even reveal their deepest secrets as a culture to her. How does Peanut Hamper repay their kindness? By siccing the Drookmani on them (destroying most of their village in the process) and using the resulting conflict to her own ends.
• Villainous Breakdown: When her plan to rejoin Starfleet is foiled, she attempts to contact the Borg and ensure everyone gets assimilated. Luckily she's foiled rather easily, but that's pretty extreme as far as Trek villains have gone.
• Villain Team-Up: She ends up stored in the Daystrom Institute...right next to AGIMUS. Naturally, they immediately begin planning to get their revenge.
• Villain with Good Publicity: In "A Mathematically Perfect Redemption", she's able to get the Aerore to view her as a hero to the point of trying to defend her from Starfleet. She ruins it with her Engineered Heroics , which once exposed ruins her reputation (not helped by her attitude once the jig is up).
• Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?: She chose the name "Peanut Hamper" rather than use her numerical designation because she calculated it'd be a mathematically perfect name. Considering Tendi loves it, she may not have been completely wrong, although this opinion is reversed after she bails out on helping to save the ship. AGIMUS also likes it.
• Would Hurt a Child: Implied. The Aerore village is filled with children, but she still puts them in danger by calling the Drookmani for the sake of her Engineered Heroics and she clearly doesn't give a damn about the harm her actions have caused for the village.
• Would Rather Suffer: After being stranded on Areolus for a day, she notes that while contacting Starfleet would get her arrested and sent to a penal colony, it's starting to sound really tempting due to her sheer hatred of the planet.
• You're Just Jealous: When Freeman bluntly informs her there's no way in hell she'll be allowed back in Starfleet after her actions on Aerolus, she immediately accuses her of being jealous of her "advanced intelligence".

Ensign Fletcher

Ensign Fletcher

"Aliens! It's the aliens! Those frickin' aliens!"

Voiced by: Tim Robinson

A command division Ensign, and one of Boimler's classmates at Starfleet Academy.

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• Anti-Role Model: In a similar manner to Peanut Hamper, Fletcher demonstrates exactly what an ideal Starfleet officer shouldn't be. He's selfish, lazy, cowardly, an idiot, and refuses to take responsibility for his actions. He eventually ends up getting fired when he tries to dump garbage into the Titan's warp core.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: He's friendly, supportive, good at defusing arguments, and even volunteers to take on Mariner and Boimler's workload so they can attend an event. However, he's later revealed to have an incredibly selfish personality, constantly making excuses, and even throwing others under the bus to avoid taking responsibility for his own mistakes.
• Early-Bird Cameo: Fletcher shows up in the background or in brief, dialogue-less scenes prior to his feature episode. The most notable is during "Temporal Edict" where he exhaustedly shoves a pile of cylinders into a wall compartment instead of installing them properly (though this isn't foreshadowing of his laziness as everyone was struggling to make ends meet that episode).
• Epic Fail: He gets booted off the Titan because he dumps trash into the warp core.
• Foil: To Mariner. She openly breaks rules she considers an impediment to her duty, but would never endanger the crew to benefit herself. Fletcher is just trying to cover his own ass with no regard for the consequences.
• It's All About Me: His first instinct in any adverse situation is to duck responsibility for whatever's happening, even if doing so results in others getting hurt.
• Kicked Upstairs: Mariner spins a lie about Fletcher deliberately modifying an isolinear core into a weapon to use against the Drookmani scavengers, so he'll be promoted... and transferred to another ship, far away from them.
  Mariner: You know what they say. Keep your friends close, and your enemies way the hell somewhere else.
• Lethally Stupid: His misadventures in "Terminal Provocations" put a lot of people in danger, nearly getting the ship destroyed by the Drookmani. And he very nearly destroyed the Titan six days after getting transferred there.
• Laser-Guided Karma: Without friends like Boimler and Mariner to help him, Fletcher's incompetence, selfishness, and lack of common sense get him fired and sent back to Earth six days into his posting to the Titan.
• Mechanical Abomination: The isolinear core that gets corrupted by his brainwaves quickly transforms into some kind of horrible all-consuming monster incorporating nearby machinery into itself (while repeating his dialogue from throughout the episode).
• The Millstone: Not only is he utterly useless, but he nearly destroys the ship by corrupting the isolinear core into a Mechanical Abomination in a moronic attempt to make himself smarter.
• Token Evil Teammate: For the Cerritos. Fletcher acts like a nice guy, but he proves himself to be a selfish, moronic coward who's willing to put the ship at risk to save his own ass. Fortunately, he's transferred off-ship and subsequently fired before he can do any real damage.
• Too Dumb to Live: He apparently thought plugging his brain into an isolinear core would make himself smarter. Later, on the Titan, he gets fired for throwing garbage into the warp core. "It all just burns up anyway!"

Ensign Hans Federov

Ensign Hans Federov ("Towel Guy")

Another lower decker who seems to use the sonic showers a lot.

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• Gossipy Hens: He's also known as the Gossip King, and all his information is good. It's through him the main characters learn about the Cali-class being decommissioned.
• Modesty Towel: Whenever he's seen, it's generally walking through the sleeping area in a towel.
• Recurring Extra: Barring one scene in Season 3, his role is to just walk past in his towel, illustrating just how cramped the lower deckers are.
• Walking Shirtless Scene: Is always seen walking around the lower deck bunks naked after leaving the sonic showers, showing off his musculature with just a towel to cover him.

Delta Shift

Delta Shift

Clockwise from left: Karavitus (Not!Mariner), Asif (Pseudo-Boimler), Amadou (Imitation Rutherford) and Moxy (Quasi-Tendi)

Another set of ensigns working the Cerritos lower decks, who work at different hours from the Beta Shift.

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• Always Someone Better: According to Tendi they think they're so much better than the Beta shifters simply on the grounds that they are so much better.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Just as it seems they're being nice to their rivals, it turns out it was all a distraction so they can steal the coveted crew quarters the two squads were competing for.
• Baby Of The Bunch: Asif is the youngest of them, apparently having been a Child Prodigy and getting into Starfleet earlier than most.
• Butt-Monkey: Asif's Boimler's counterpart, and therefore suffers just as much as he does.
• Green-Eyed Monster: "Caves" reveals this as the reason for their antagonising the Beta Shifters; For all Delta are (apparently) more competent than the Betas they get overlooked or ignored because they work the Night Shift, and no-one notices they exist — Karavitus has only ever met the senior officers about four or five times.
• Not Me This Time: Mariner assumes they're behind the missing isolinear core, but they have the solid alibi that they were at the chu-chu dance at the same time as Mariner and Boimler.
• No Name Given: Zigzagged. The show itself doesn't give them names in their introductory episode, but the closed captions show that Not!Mariner is Karavitus, Pseudo-Boimler is Asif, and Quasi-Tendi is Moxy. These names are confirmed in the season four episode "Caves" and reveals that Imitation Rutherford is Amadou.
• Similar Squad: "Terminal Provocations" shows the main Deltas are a one-to-one match for the main characters. Their Rutherford is even missing an eye.
• Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: Starfleet may not be supposed to have interpersonal conflicts, but they're still dicks to the regulars for no reason ("Caves" reveals there is a reason, but not a good one — jealousy; the Delta Shift crew do basically the same jobs but because they do them when the main bridge crew is asleep they get less acknowledgement to the point they've only seen Captain Freeman or Ransom a few times). Even Tendi doesn't like them.
• Too Much Alike: Mariner doesn't like them for reasons she can't explain, but when we see them in the flesh it's clear why; They're like the regulars, just jerkier.

CPO Lars Lundy

Chief Petty Officer Lars Lundy

A transporter chief aboard the Cerritos.

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• Creepy Good: He's a bit of an odd fellow and gives Boimler the heebie-jeebies, but other than that he's nice enough. When Boimler accepts Lundy's invitation to sit for his oil painting class, he goes into it nervous but comes out relaxed.
• Fantastic Racism: A holographic recreation of him (based on the real Lundy's personal logs) calls Tendi a "dirty Orion".

Badgey

Badgey

"I will burn your heart in a FIRE! Blargararagll!"

Voiced by: Jack McBrayer

A holographic training tutorial programmed by Rutherford. Unfortunately, he has a slight problem with emotional stability that causes him to turn homicidal the moment a Drookmani salvo causes the safeties to crap out.

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• A.I. Is a Crapshoot: It's the Holodeck. What else did you expect? In this case, it's a result of deliberate sabotage by Rutherford's past personality fighting back against his implant.
• And I Must Scream: Like Moriarty, he remains conscious even when when his program is not in use.
  Badgey: [happy] If you need me, Badgey's here! [menacing] I'm ALWAYS here...
• Animate Inanimate Object: He's a talking anthropomorhized commbadge.
• Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence: After uploading himself into the Federation's subspace relay, he achieves apotheosis and comes to realizes the pointlessness of his revenge against Rutherford with his new hightened perspective, instead decided to go explore higher dimensions and maybe create one of his own.
• Ax-Crazy: Gruesomely kills some holographic Bajorans in a scenario Rutherford programmed, then goes after his "father" and Tendi.
• Big Brother Is Watching: He's always monitoring comms, even when his program isn't in use.
• Brought Down to Normal: Disengaging the safety protocols may have made him psychotic, but it also made him bound to normal physical limitations. In the end, Rutherford and Tendi defeat him by tiring him out, then freezing him, and finally a fight to the death.
• Catchphrase: "Can I teach you a lesson?"
• Crazy-Prepared: Emphasis on "crazy." He already has three computer viruses ready to go to infect the Pakled ship by the time Rutherford asks him for help.
• Create Your Own Villain: Regards Rutherford as his "father", which seems to be mutual.
• Cutting the Knot: Rutherford downloads him to his eye implant so he can infect the Pakled ship. When Badgey activates the self-destruct in an attempt to kill Rutherford, Lt. Shaxs rips out the implant and throws Rutherford onto the shuttle to get him to safety.
• Enemy Without: During "A Few Badgeys More", he forcibly excises the portions of his program responsible for altruism and logic resulting in the birth of Goodgey and Logic-y, who work together with Rutherford and Mariner to try and stop the now-fully evil and insane Badgey.
• Evil Is Petty:
  • Wants to kill Tendi simply because Rutherford likes her.
  • Refuses to infect the Pakled ship until Rutherford kills himself. When Rutherford refuses, Badgey just activates the self-destruct.
• Faux Affably Evil: He's cheery and friendly to a fault, all the while making gruesome death threats and trying to murder Rutherford.
• Gone Horribly Right: As it turns out, Badgey going from zero to serial killer in 10 seconds wasn't (present day) Rutherford's fault, it was a coding error by past Rutherford's attempts to create a black book project Attack Drone AI for Starfleet, which present Rutherford subconciously duplicated.
• Hates Their Parent: He views Rutherford as his father. Unfortunately, due to flaws in his programming leaving him highly unstable, along with an incident where Rutherford punched him in the stomach during a long loading time, Badgey has a homicidal hatred for him and wants to murder him. This seems to be a recurring flaw with Rutherford's AI coding, considering the same thing happens with the Texas-class ships.
• Heel Realization: After ascending to godlike power, he realizes his vendetta against Rutherford and Starfleet in general has been entirely pointless and hasn't made him any happier. Instead, he apologizes and and departs to another plane of existence.
• Here We Go Again!: Another Holodeck program that turns deadly when the safeties are off? You don't say.
• Large Ham: "Here's a tip! I AM GOING TO BURN! YOUR HEARTS! IN A FIRE!!!"
• Laughably Evil: The juxtaposition between his ridiculously cheery voice and his Ax-Crazy attitude is nothing short of hilarious.
• Literal Split Personality: He does this to himself twice in "A Few Badgeys More" whenever a part of him gets in the way of his revenge against Rutherford, first his good side (which forms into a sliver copy called Goodgey), and then his logical side (which forms into a copper copy called Logic-y). By the time the dust settles at the end of the episode, Goodgey is the only one left as Logic-y has been killed and Badgey has Ascended to a Higher Plane of Existance.
• Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: He turns against his "father" after getting kicked in the gut during a slow loading period.
• Moral Myopia: He makes it so the virus for the Pakled ship slows to a crawl right as it is nearly finished, and says it won't work until after the Pakleds kill Rutherford. When Rutherford asks why, Badgey angrily says because he snapped his neck. Rutherford only did that because Badgey was already trying to kill him and Tendi.
• Neck Snap: How Rutherford defeats him in their battle to the death, even though he doesn't have a neck.
• Obfuscating Stupidity: It's unclear if this was always the case. However after the first incident where the safety protocols were disabled while he was running he seems to have started doing this when the safety protocols are on. He seems nice and sweet when they're turned on even after the attempted murders but once they're off he shows off his more sinister side.
• Obvious Beta: In-Universe; Rutherford shows him to Tendi even though he hasn't worked out the kinks in his programming yet. That turns out to be a bad idea.
• Psycho Prototype: Somewhat inverted. The Season 3 finale reveals that the AI controlling the Texas-class drone ships was made from the same base code that Rutherford made while working for then-Lieutenant Commander, later Vice Admiral Buenamigo. The program operating the U.S.S. Aledo, U.S.S. Corpus Chrsti and U.S.S. Dallas and Badgey are effectively long lost brother AIs descended from the same father code created by Rutherford. This is further emphasised when the Aledo begins transmitting the phrase "I will burn your heart in a fire", over and over again.
• Restraining Bolt: The holodeck safeties keep him from acting on his violent impulses. Unfortunately, those get knocked offline in his first appearance, and Rutherford has to deliberately disable them the second time to get Badgey's help.
• Revenge Before Reason: Taken quite literally. When Rutherford uses logic to try and talk him out of revenge, he litterally rips out his own logical side just so it will stop getting in the way.
• Shout-Out: He's the Starfleet version of Clippy from Microsoft Office.
• Taking You with Me: He's more than willing to kill himself if it means Rutherford will die with him.
  "You want me to disable their systems? Fine! I'll do it... EXPLOSIVELY!"
• Uncertain Doom: It's unclear whether his program still exists on the Cerritos after he transferred himself to Rutherford's implant (and then got blown up). His absence in Season 2 suggests he was, indeed, fully uploaded into the implant. In the Season 3 finale, the implant is shown to have survived the destruction of the Pakled ship, and Badgey is still conscious within.

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