History Characters / StarTrekEnterprise

An Andorian space captain, Shran was slated to become an ''Enterprise'' regular in the unproduced fifth season. Sadly, the show was [[MissedMomentOfAwesome cancelled]] before this could happen.

* EmotionlessGirl

* LawfulNeutral: With leanings toward LawfulStupid, especially his decision to let an entire race die due to the PrimeDirective '''''which wasn't invented yet'''''.

-->''"We don't know what to do about Humans. Of all the species we've made contact with, yours is the only one we can't define. You have the arrogance of Andorians, the stubborn pride of Tellarites. One moment, you're as driven by your emotions as Klingons, and the next, you confound us by suddenly embracing logic."''

->''"[[PatrickStewartSpeech We're going to stumble, make mistakes...I'm sure more than a few before we find our footing. But we're going to learn from those mistakes. That's what being human is all about.]]"''

* LawfulNeutral: With leanings toward LawfulStupid, especially his decision to let an entire race die due to the PrimeDirective ''''' which wasn't invented yet'''''.

* WaterPolo: Archer played in college (implied to be Stanford) and is still a big fan - a water polo ball appears several times in the series.

->''"If we expect to continue our relations with Humanity, we have to earn their trust."''

Archer's Vulcan science officer and second-in-command, T'Pol did not like humans when she first joined ''Enterprise'''s crew. Of course, as the years wore on, she came to respect her human crewmates more and more, and shifted her loyalty from the Vulcan High Command to Starfleet and, more specifically, Captain Archer, with whom she would develop a strong friendship. (Falling in love with Trip Tucker certainly didn't hurt, either.)

* [[PromotedFanboy Promoted Fangirl]]: Jolene Blalock is a Trekkie and, like Tim Russ (the Vulcan actor in [[StarTrekVoyager the previous show]]), would get into arguments with the producers about whether T'Pol was staying in character. (And here we thought she was just MsFanservice!)

->''"You expect us to sit up here for a week while the probes have all the fun?"''

->''"This is called a phase pistol. It has two settings: 'stun' and 'kill.' It would be best not to confuse them."''

* StuffBlowingUp: 90% of the time, when Reed is openly happy/gleeful about something, it's related to weapons - usually using them.
* TheUnfavourite: His father was a life-long Navy man, and has remained aloof, cold and generally disappointed in Malcolm because he didn't follow the family tradition (he's afraid of water).

->''"I must admit, I wasn't planning to stay this long, but the opportunity to observe your species on their first deep-space venture has proven irresistible."''

->''"I couldn't call a place home unless it came with a pair of warp nacelles."''

* AdvertisedExtra: To absurd degrees. He's one of the least developed characters in Trek history.

->''"I'm a translator; I didn't come out here to see corpses hanging on hooks!"''

Not a fan of space travel, getting eaten and aliens, Hoshi Sato was on ''Enterprise'' for one reason: She had an unmatched gift for languages. In the days before the Universal Translator, she was a critical part of first contact missions, especially since [[spoiler:she would go on to ''invent'' the aforementioned Universal Translator]].

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: [[spoiler: The Reptilian Xindi abduct her and use brain parasites to force her to decrypt the Aquatic activation codes for their superweapon. When she gets access to the code, she fights off the brain parasites, reasserts her willpower, and adds even more encryption. When Dolim realizes what she's doing and drags her off for a second dose of brain parasites, she [[HeroicSacrifice tries to throw herself to her own death]]. It doesn't work, and in the end she does decrypt the access code, but by then, TheCavalry has had [[DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu time to show up]].]]

* MeLoveYouLongTime / ReallyGetsAround / TheStarscream: In the evil MirrorUniverse.

** In the penultimate episode, the former shrinking violet commands the ship, takes on the President of Earth in a battle of the wills and wins. (Which [[FridgeHorror sort of suggests]] that Starfleet is a bit too comfortable with ignoring the civilian government. Might explain why every third admiral was planning a coup from ST VI on.)

->''"Well, this may come as a surprise to you, Jon, but the Vulcans aren't talking."''

->''"We don't know what to do about Humans. Of all the species we've made contact with, yours is the only one we can't define. You have the arrogance of Andorians, the stubborn pride of Tellarites. One moment, you're as driven by your emotions as Klingons, and the next, you confound us by suddenly embracing logic."''

The Vulcan ambassador, he doesn't trust humans one bit and attempts at all costs to stump them at every turn. T'Pol was his original partner in crime, until she [[BecomingTheMask Became The Mask]] and decided she'd rather throw her lot in with the humans.

* AssInAmbassador: Soval is an annoying JerkAss until [[spoiler:Admiral Forrest gets killed off trying to protect him in the fourth season]]. ''Then'' he cooperates with Archer. And even then he's kinda pushy.

->''"Tell Archer that's ''two'' he owes me!"''

* ByronicHero: In fact, ALL Andorians are walking Romanticism incarnate, praising emotion and the experience of passion ... ritualizing the concept of a "duel" to settle differences ... housing probably the greatest Art Academy in the United Federation of Planets ... and thoroughly disagreeing with Vulcans (Realists and Rationalists).
* TheCavalry: Shows up in the nick of time and [[spoiler: destroys a Xindi warship that was about to shoot down Archer's shuttle]], which in turn would have allowed the superweapon to destroy Earth unopposed.

->''"I'm married to Starfleet...just like you."''

Archer's old flame and the captain of ''Enterprise'''s sister ship ''Columbia'' (NX-02), Erika Hernandez was a fiery ActionGirl who appeared in only three episodes of the show. Somebody liked her, though, because she shows up as a main character in the ''StarTrekDestiny'' novel trilogy - and, if you consider the StarTrekExpandedUniverse canon, plays a [[{{Understatement}} rather sizable role]] in the history of the Federation. (Spoilers for ''Destiny'' are marked.)

* [[spoiler:GoingNative: After nearly a millennium, Erika is finally able to admit that she is, indeed, Caeliar.]]

* LawfulNeutral: With leanings toward LawfulStupid, especially his decision to let an entire race die due to the PrimeDirective '''''[[WallBanger which wasn't invented yet]]'''''.

** In the MirrorUniverse, Hoshi, a [[PunyHumans puny human]] who's built like a twig, is [[WallBanger somehow able]] to defeat a [[SuperStrength superhumanly strong]] Vulcan in unarmed combat with little difficulty.

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: The Reptilian Xindi abduct her and use brain parasites to force her to decrypt the Aquatic activation codes for their superweapon. When she gets access to the code, she fights off the brain parasites, reasserts her willpower, and adds even more encryption. When Dolim realizes what she's doing and drags her off for a second dose of brain parasites, she [[HeroicSacrifice tries to throw herself to her own death]]. It doesn't work, and in the end she does decrypt the access code, but by then, TheCavalry has had [[DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu time to show up]].

* TheCavalry: Shows up in the nick of time and (([[spoiler: destroys a Xindi warship that was about to shoot down Archer's shuttle]])), which in turn would have allowed the superweapon to destroy Earth unopposed.

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: The Reptilian Xindi abduct her and use brain parasites to force her to decrypt the Aquatic activation codes for their superweapon. When she got access to the cod, she fought off the brain parasites, reasserted her willpower, and added even more encryption. When Dolim realizes what she's doing and drags her off for a second dose of brain parasites, she [[HeroicSacrifice tries to throw herself to her own death]]. It doesn't work, and in the end she does decrypt the access code, but by then, TheCavalry has had [[DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu time to show up]].

* ByronicHero

* GeneralRipper: In Season Three.

* InformedAttribute: We're told he got trained to be a diplomat in the episode "A Night In Sickbay," an episode where he does virtually everything a diplomat should never, ever do.
* JamesBondage

* DeadLittleSister: As of the season 2 finale.

* ShrinkingViolet: Except where his crew's safety is concerned.

->''"I must admit, I wasn't planning to stay this long, but the opportunity to observe your species on their first deep space venture has proven irresistible."''

* AdvertisedExtra: To absurd degrees, one the least developed characters in Trek history.

** She [[spoiler: Becomes the Empress soon after that's why]]

* [[spoiler:KilledOffForReal]]

The Vulcan ambassador, he doesn't trust humans one bit and attempts at all costs to stump them at every turn. T'Pol was his original partner in crime, until she [[BecomingTheMask Became The Mask]] and decided she'd rather throw her lot in with the humans.

* DeadLittleSister

* HeavySleeper

* AdvertisedExtra

* MandatoryLine

!!Jonathan Archer (Scott Bakula)
->''We're going to stumble, make mistakes...I'm sure more than a few before we find our footing. But we're going to learn from those mistakes. That's what being human is all about.''

The Captain of Earth's first Warp 5 starship, Jonathan Archer had spent most of his life dreaming of going to the stars. And since his father was a major player in humanity's achievement of Warp 5 in the first place, his command is rather personal. This is also where he got his distrust of Vulcans, as they had spent most of his life attempting to keep humanity in and around its own solar system.

* GeneralRipper: In Season 3.

!!T'Pol (Jolene Blalock)
->''If we expect to continue our relations with Humanity, we have to earn their trust.''

Archer's Vulcan science officer and second-in-command, T'Pol Did Not Like humans when she first joined ''Enterprise'''s crew. Of course, as the years wore on she came to respect her human crewmates more and more and shifted her loyalty from the Vulcan High Command to Starfleet - and, more specifically, Captain Archer, with whom she would develop a strong friendship. (Falling in love with Trip Tucker certainly didn't hurt, either.)

* {{Jerkass}}: In the early seasons, at least.

* [[PromotedFanboy Promoted Fangirl]]: Jolene Blalock is a Trekkie and, like Tim Russ (the Vulcan actor in [[StarTrekVoyager the previous show]]), would get into arguments with the producers about whether T'Pol was staying in-character. (And here we thought she was just MsFanservice!)

!!Charles 'Trip' Tucker III (Connor Trinneer)
->''You expect us to sit up here for a week while the probes have all the fun?''

''Enterprise'''s Chief Engineer and Archer's longtime best friend, Trip Tucker's "good ol' boy" Southern charm disguised one of the sharpest minds in Starfleet. Between his engineering genius and Security head Malcolm Reed's deep and lasting desire to blow things up, ''Enterprise'' kept flying even when she probably shouldn't have and exceeded all expectations in the process.

!!Malcolm Reed (Dominic Keating)
->''This is called a phase pistol. It has two settings: "stun" and "kill". It would be best not to confuse them.''

British, shy, quiet, and reserved unless someone was in danger, Malcolm Reed had a talent for getting himself injured while trying to protect his crew and his Captain. As it turns out, he also had a talent for blowing things up, and with Trip Tucker's engineering genius, did it much better than the weapons specifications said he should have been able to. Although he started out isolated from everyone, he went on to develop a strong friendship with frequent verbal sparring partner Trip and became an anchor for Archer during the Xindi crisis.

* AmbiguouslyGay: Dominic Keating is on record as saying, "God knows I played him gay!" but [[SarcasticConfession no one's sure whether he's joking or not]]. There is some evidence that Malcolm was slated to be the first gay character in StarTrek, but this was apparently later revoked. Considering he's had significant HoYay with at least three characters (Archer, Tucker, and Hayes), however, Keating may not have been joking all that much.

* HoYay: With [[NoSenseOfPersonalSpace Archer]], [[BelligerentSexualTension Tucker]], and [[SlapSlapKiss Major]] [[TheMasochismTango Hayes]], at the very least.

* StuffBlowingUp: 90% of the time, when Malcolm Reed is openly happy/gleeful about something, it's related to weapons - usually using them.
* TheUnfavourite: His father was a lifelong Navy man, and has remained aloof, cold, and generally disappointed in Malcolm because he didn't follow the family tradition (he's afraid of water).

!!Phlox (John Billingsley)
->''I must admit, I wasn't planning to stay this long, but the opportunity to observe your species on their first deep space venture has proven irresistible.''

!!Travis Mayweather (Anthony Montgomery)
->''I couldn't call a place home unless it came with a pair of warp nacelles.''

''Enterprise'''s pilot, Travis Mayweather was a "space boomer", born on one of the slow-moving cargo transports launched right after humans discovered warp flight. Since transports usually took years to get between ports, Travis grew up on the cargo ship ''Horizon'' and probably knows more about living in space than anyone else on board. This also translated into a talent for flying spacecraft.

!!Hoshi Sato (Linda Park)
->''I'm a translator; I didn't come out here to see corpses hanging on hooks!''

Not a fan of space travel, getting eaten and aliens, Hoshi Sato was on ''Enterprise'' for one reason: she had an unmatched gift for languages. In the days before the Universal Translator, she was a critical part of first contact missions - especially since she would go on to ''invent'' the aforementioned Universal Translator.

* MeaningfulName: "Hoshi" means "star." "Sato" means "journey." Therefore, "Hoshi Sato", more or less, translates to ''StarTrek''.

** Ahem: {{Rule of Cool}}, {{Rule of Sexy}}, and this is ''mirror'' Hoshi; it makes sense she knows how to defend herself.

->''Well, this may come as a surprise to you, Jon, but the Vulcans aren't talking.''

* MythologyGag: The three Admirals seen in ''Enterprise'' are Admirals Forrest, Leonard and Williams, after [[DeForestKelley [=DeForest Kelley=]]], LeonardNimoy and WilliamShatner, respectively. As Kelley had died roughly a year prior to the start of filming, Forrest has by far the largest role in the show.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Admiral Forrest is Captain Archer's patron and friend; somewhat unusual for ''StarTrek'', where admirals tend to be indifferent or [[DaChief outright hostile]] to the crew.

->''We don't know what to do about Humans. Of all the species we've made contact with, yours is the only one we can't define. You have the arrogance of Andorians, the stubborn pride of Tellarites. One moment, you're as driven by your emotions as Klingons, and the next, you confound us by suddenly embracing logic.''

The Vulcan ambassador, he doesn't trust humans one bit and attempts at all costs to stump them at every turn. T'Pol was his original partner in crime, until she [[BecomingTheMask Became The Mask]] and decided she'd rather throw her lot in with the humans.

* AssInAmbassador: Soval is an annoying {{Jerkass}} until [[spoiler:Admiral Forrest gets killed off trying to protect him in the fourth season]]. ''Then'' he cooperates with Archer. And even then he's kinda pushy.

!!Shran (JeffreyCombs)
->''Tell Archer that's ''two'' he owes me!''

* WithFriendsLikeThese: Although arrogant, militant and speciesist (his favourite nickname for Archer is "pinkskin", and he loathes Vulcans and Tellarites), he has a strong sense of personal obligation and provides more practical help than humanity's Vulcan "allies" during the Xindi crisis. Nevertheless, Shran often causes as many problems as he helps to solve.

!!Erika Hernandez (Ada Maris)
->''I'm married to Starfleet... just like you.''

Archer's old flame and the Captain of ''Enterprise'''s sister ship ''Columbia'' (NX-02), Erika Hernandez was a fiery ActionGirl who appeared in only three episodes of the show. Somebody liked her, though, because she shows up as a main character in the ''StarTrekDestiny'' novel trilogy - and, if you consider the StarTrekExpandedUniverse canon, plays a [[{{Understatement}} rather sizable role]] in the history of the Federation. (Spoilers for ''Destiny'' are marked.)

* [[spoiler:AloneInACrowd: In ''StarTrekDestiny'', leading to her attempted suicide.]]

* NewOldFlame: To Archer.

* TookALevelInBadass: Hoshi suddenly acquires martial arts skills in Season 4.

* [[spoiler:GoingNative: After half a millennium, Erika is finally able to admit that she is, indeed, Caeliar.]]