History Characters / StarTrekOnlineUnitedFederationOfPlanets

* TheAtoner: She blames herself for the Vaadwaur's rampage across the Delta Quadrant, since she woke the first of them from stasis over three decades prior. She then makes it her personal mission to fix the problem.

** She tells a scathing TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to the Octanti Ambassador Rerrick in "Alliances" should you [[spoiler: tell him his hatred has blinded him and allow the Octanti to destroy an Octanti virus-infected Cooeperative Tactical Cube, which holds Rerrick's Liberated Borg brother, Meshk effectively making Rerrick commit SiblingMurder.]]

--> Played by Creator/TomHaney (through Season 10)

* WhatTheHellHero: If you provoke the opposite faction flagship captain, refuse to shut down the station (and be forced to open the gateway) or try to take out the Voth without using the station defenses. The first time he will override you to prevent the situation from turning back into a shooting war with the Klingons/Federation (with the Republic getting split over it). The second time, his orders are to shut down the station from High Command, meaning he doesn't have to accept your orders on it. And the last one... well he'll do it since there is no rule in the book preventing it.

** She does this in "Alliances" should you [[spoiler:allow the Octanti to destroy an Octanti virus-infected Tactical Cube holding the Liberated Borg brother of the Octanti ambassador.]]

--> Played By: Creator/LisaLoCicero

-->Played by Jeri Ryan

The PlayerCharacter. Because everything from his/her/it's appearance to species can be wildly different from player to player, only general characteristics will be listed here.

** This is actually [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] in the Delta Recruitment event: [[spoiler:while running the Tutorial, you encounter your future self, who has reached the highest ranks in the game and told of what's going to happen with the Iconians. When you encounter a member of the Temporal Investigations with the knowledge afterwards and he replies that the guy you met was from only ''18 months into the future'', your character have every right to jaw drop because ''that makes no sense''.]]

The PlayerCharacter introduced with the third expansion, ''Agents of Yesterday''. A Captain from the year 2270, he becomes a Temporal Agent to protect the timeline.

* YouAreInCommandNow: Unlike your Starfleet Academy Cadet hero, this Captain gets his/her ship after the former captain, Issac Garret, is promoted to Admiral

** Its starting to be [[AvertedTrope averted]]. Tuvok in ''Fluid Dynamics'' now mentions that your rapid promotion to the Admiralty got the attention of everyone in Starfleet as something of a HolyShitQuotient. Suddenly, all those lower ranked yet longer serving officers talking down to you [[UngratefulBastard starts to make sense.]]

* RoleReprisal: Creator/TimRuss returns to voice Tuvok, and his in-game model is an InkSuitActor version of Russ.

! The Crew of the U.S.S. ''Enterprise'' (NCC-1701-F)]]

! Admirals

[[folder: Fleet Admiral Jorel Quinn]]
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--> Played by Creator/TomHaney (through Season 10)

The Trill CO of Earth Spacedock and much of Starfleet. Gives the player their orders during the Borg attack on Vega Colony, and later for the rest of the "Klingon War" storyline.

* BenevolentBoss: Runs Earth Spacedock with a firm but benevolent hand.
* CoolOldGuy: Old and yet very awesome.
* InsaneAdmiral: Can come off as this at the beginning.
* INeedAFreakingDrink: This is his reaction when he finds out what Tom Paris wants to do, so soon after the attack on New Romulus and Lae'nas III.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: In defiance of almost all Federation admirals historically.
* SoProudOfYou: So damn proud that he will call the player to come see them no matter what, be they in another universe, a parallel reality, or hundreds of years in the past, just to pat them on the back. This finally culminates in "Surface Tension", when he admits that he had misgivings in promoting you after Vega Colony, but now realizes he made the right call.

[[folder: Admiral T'nae]]
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--> Played by Creator/LaniMinella

The Vulcan CO of Starbase 39-Sierra and the player's direct superior for the Starfleet "Romulan Mystery" story arc and Fed-aligned Romulan "Freedom" arc.

* ArtEvolution: Received a minor tweak between Seasons 9 and 9.5 to make her look slightly older (they added a few wrinkles, is all) and switch her uniform to the new standard "Odyssey" style.
* BenevolentBoss
* BigGood: For the "Romulan Mystery"/"Freedom" story arc.
* CoolStarship: The new "Romulan Mystery" mission "Empress Sela" reveals that her flagship is an ''Ambassador''-class.
* FantasticRacism: She openly dislikes the Romulans. But she goes through some CharacterDevelopment after working with the Romulan PC during the "Freedom" episode, admitting that her hatred was illogical. {{Justified}} according to WordOfGod: Lead writer Christine Thompson stated during an [[[[http://starbaseugc.com/FoundryRoundtable/episode19audio.mp3 interview]] with the fan podcast ''The Foundry Roundtable'' that she was aboard one of the Starfleet relief vessels attacked by Nero in the immediate aftermath of Hobus.
* OlderThanTheyLook: As a long-lived Vulcan, she unsurprisingly looks fairly young for a Starfleet Admiral.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: T'nae in the Romulan Player's arc is the Federation member who is opposed to a peace treaty. Though it's implied she thinks the Republic is no different than Sela's Tal Shiar. Still it makes her very three-dimensional and does kinda show some of the reasoning behind the Sundering.
** Unfortunately, it doesn't ''exactly'' carry through to the Freedom arc, where (for Federation-aligned Romulans) she's your boss -- she's ends up looking more petty than anything, due to unchanged dialogue having her repeatedly refer to Sela and the Tal Shiar's Star Empire as "the Romulans". Blame it on Cryptic being lazy and copy-pasting the Fed missions onto everyone else starting with the Nimbus arc: The KDF missions are known to mistake you for ''Starfleet''.
** Turns out there is a LEGIT reason for this. T'nae's BloodKnight hatred for the Romulans? She was on one of the ships attacked by Nero when she was a young officer. After that you can't really blame her for having that. Source from [[WordOfGod Kestral's interview]] here: [[http://starbaseugc.com/FoundryRoundtable/episode19audio.mp3]]
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Even to Republic characters. Despite [[FantasticRacism not liking the Romulans]], she's just as courteous and helpful to them as she is to the Starfleet PC. And upon sending you on to Kurland for the "Cardassian Struggle" episode she admits she may have been wrong about the Romulans.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: At the end of "Temporal Ambassador", the player character was beamed off the ''Enterprise''-C to prevent polluting the timeline... except T'nae was still aboard when the ''Enterprise'' went back!
** Eventually resolved in ''Survivor'', which reveals that this was a ''major'' screw-up of Captain Walker, eventually leading to massive temporal anomalies centred around the ''Temporal Ambassador''-timeline T'nae after she'd spent decades in the main timeline.
* YouSoundFamiliar: Creator/LaniMinella also started providing the Federation ComputerVoice after Creator/MajelBarrett died. She also voices Subcommander Mivek, one of the quest givers in the Tau Dewa PVE dailies, and Commander Phillipa Matthias aboard the ''Enterprise''-F.

[[folder: Admiral D'Vak]]
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A Klingon Starfleet admiral and commanding officer of Omega Force, a joint Federation/Klingon task force formed specifically to battle the Borg and other forces that threaten the entire quadrant. Grandson of Worf.

* BlingOfWar: Wears glitzy silver Klingon battle armor instead of a Starfleet uniform.
* CoolStarship: The ''Odyssey''-class starship USS ''Houston''.
* CustomUniform: Wears the armor of the Klingon Empire's Honor Guard, despite being a starfleet officer.
* FamousAncestor: That being Lieutenant Commander (retired) Worf, son of Mogh, former security chief of the USS ''Enterprise''-D and Strategic Operations Officer of Deep Space 9, and now a senior Klingon diplomat and high-ranking member of the House of Martok. He's also the step-nephew of Captain Koren, daughter of Grilka, the captain of the KDF flagship IKS ''[=Bortasqu'=]''.
* FourStarBadass: After being promoted to Admiral and forming Omega Force.
* MonsterMunch: Not him, but his ship. The ''Houston'' is blown away by a Borg Unimatrix's lance weapon in "Hive Onslaught" pretty much just to show off the extra OneHitKill attack Cryptic gave them for the STF. He and most of his crew make it to the {{escape pod}}s in time and are picked up after the battle.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure
* UnevenHybrid: 1/8 human, 7/8 Klingon. He's the son of Worf's son Alexander Rozhenko by his ex-wife B'Enn.

[[folder: Rear Admiral, Lower Half Tuvok]]
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--> Played by Creator/TimRuss

The former security chief of the USS ''Voyager'', now a rear admiral and aiding in the Dyson Sphere alliance. He is also in command of ''Voyager'' now.

* BigGood: As far as the Admiralty of Starfleet goes, he's probably among the most ReasonableAuthorityFigure and most clever.
* BotheringByTheBook: His orders come from Joint Command, which means the orders were signed off by Starfleet, KDF High Command and the Romulan Republic. [[spoiler:If you won't shut it down, he is under orders to do so.]]
* ButThouMust: [[spoiler:When you're told that the only way to stop the Dyson Sphere jump capabilities is to open up ''another'' Iconian gateway, you can flat out refuse. Tuvok will even tell you that if you don't open it, he will. If you continue being stubborn (and with good reason), he ''will'' activate the gateway.]]
* InkSuitActor: Thanks to Tim Russ allowing Cryptic to use his likeness.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler: Thanks to being controlled by the Undine, he's allowed the creatures complete and total access to the Alpha Quadrant. He seeks to make it up through mediating a conference to solve the problem with the Dyson Sphere they recovered.]]
** NiceJobFixingItVillain: He makes up for the above by pulling one of these on [[spoiler: Dr. Cooper when he mind probes Tuvok to taunt him. Tuvok extracts the information on the attack and disconnects, leaving Cooper to rage.]]
* OneBulletLeft: [[spoiler: When the Undine attack Qo'noS and haul out their own Planet Killer]], Tuvok reveals that the ''Voyager'' still has one last remaining Nanite Torpedo and hopes it can do the trick. [[spoiler:It barely damages it, but it's enough for Shon to pilot the ''Aquarius'' through its shields and assault the Planet Killer.]]
* RecurringCharacter: The third canon ''Trek'' character to do so, and the second to promise to return.
* RoleReprisal: Creator/TimRuss returns to voice Tuvok, and his in-game model is an InkSuitActor version of Russ.
* WhatTheHellHero: If you provoke the opposite faction flagship captain, refuse to shut down the station (and be forced to open the gateway) or try to take out the Voth without using the station defenses. The first time he will override you to prevent the situation from turning back into a shooting war with the Klingons/Federation (with the Republic getting split over it). The second time, his orders are to shut down the station from High Command, meaning he doesn't have to accept your orders on it. And the last one... well he'll do it since there is no rule in the book preventing it.

! Captains

[[folder: Captain Masc P. Taggart]]
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A Denobulan Starfleet captain attached to the Academy. In the post-Season 8 Federation tutorial he commands the player's starting ''Miranda''-class starship on a training cruise. Dies in the first hour of the game after being kidnapped from the ship by a Klingon raiding party.

* TheNicknamer: He calls the player his "Number One" and says he picked it up from another captain he served with, suggesting that he served with Captain Picard.
* SacrificialLion: Ends up sacrificing his life to save his crew from invading Klingons.
* ShootTheHostage[=/=]TrialByFriendlyFire: Orders the player to lock onto his combadge and fire on his position after he's captured by the Klingons, though he's killed by the Klingon captain before the player gives the order to fire.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: Dies in the first part of the Tutorial.

[[folder: Captain James Kurland]]
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--> Played by Jeremy Randall

Current CO of [[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Deep Space 9]] and the USS ''Defiant''. Hands the player their missions during the "Cardassian Struggle" storyline.
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* CreatorCameo: Jeremy "Borticus" Randall is one of Cryptic's programmers. After "KURLAND HERE" went {{memetic|Mutation}} [[SelfDeprecation he added it to his forum signature]].
* CreatorInJoke[=/=]SelfDeprecation: Kurland is in charge of the station in the Bajoran system and is possibly a member of the Bajoran religion. Jeremy and his co-host Chris Fisher (who also had a one-shot guest spot as a Bajoran) are not fans of the Bajorans.
* BadassLongcoat: While wearing his formal uniform.
* BigDamnGunship: Comes to the player's aid in the ''Defiant'' twice. Once to aid the player against Klingons seeking to [[spoiler: obliterate the Tribble homeworld again]] in the old version of the Cardassian storyline, and again in "Boldly They Rode" [[spoiler: alongside the ''Enterprise''-F.]]
* TheCaptain
* CoolStarship: Kurland's secondary command, a ''Defiant''-class starship, remains stationed at Deep Space 9 as she has been since the third season of the television series. Whether or not she is the same as the replacement ''Defiant'' introduced in the penultimate episode of ''Deep Space Nine'' is unknown, but previous to "The 2800" the ''Defiant'' was represented by a ''Valiant''-class.
* DummiedOut: His pre-"2800" appearances were removed when the "Cardassian Struggle" storyline was redone, [[RealLifeWritesThePlot likely due to STO now being a Screen Actors' Guild project]] (his voice actor is one of Cryptic's programmers). His role was taken up by a new character, [=DS9=] operations officer Commander Sarish Minna.
* TheExile: Briefly, during the Dominion featured series, courtesy of [[spoiler:time-shifted]] Dominion ships occupying the station.
* FailureHero: Deep Space 9 is boarded and taken over no fewer than four times over the course of the pre-revamp Cardassian storyline (most of these incidents were DummiedOut, leaving just the Dominion occupation in "The 2800"). In the fandom it's a RunningGag almost as much as [[MemeticMutation "KURLAND HERE"]] is.
* GiveMeASword: Will not hesitate to pick up a phaser rifle and fight by the player's side when Deep Space 9 is boarded in "Second Wave".
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[[folder: Captain Thelin]]
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The captain of the ''Exeter''-class starship USS ''Kirk''.

* BigDamnHeroes: Rescues the player from certain doom [[spoiler: the first time they are attacked by an Undine Tethys Dreadnought.]]
* {{BFG}}: When B'Vat and his men board the ''Kirk'' in "City on the Edge of Never", he defends his bridge with a big ol' phaser assault minigun.
* MauveShirt: We know his name, we know he's Miral Paris' boss, and we're pretty sure he's still alive. That's about it.
* PutOnABus: Never seen again after the "Klingon War" storyline, though he gets a mention in "Delta Flight": apparently the ''Kirk'' was badly damaged during the events of "Blood of the Ancients" and is in drydock.
* TheWorfEffect: The irony of a ship named after James Tiberius Kirk having to be rescued so often [[LampshadeHanging is not lost on him]].

[[folder: Captain Akira Sulu]]
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The descendant of Captain Hikaru Sulu and his daughter Demora Sulu. [[MemeticMutation Someone most of Starfleet goes looking for randomly.]]

* CoolStarship: He [[spoiler: or rather, his Undine duplicate]] commands the ''Defiant''-class USS ''Poseidon''.
* DummiedOut: He used to be a relatively important character but by 2014 every mission he was involved in has been removed. Nowadays he pretty much just stands around Earth Spacedock ([[WordOfGod he's the station CO according to Kestral]]) and doesn't even have any lines.
* FamousAncestor: The Sulus, natch.
* MilitaryBrat: He hated being the son of a legendary Starfleet Family. The Breen attack on San Fran when he was a kid ([[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine DS9]]: [[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS07E20TheChangingFaceOfEvil "The Changing Face of Evil"]]) changed that.
* NiceGuy
* NumberTwo: To Admiral Quinn. Has his own in Commander Winters [[spoiler: Until he joined the crew of the ''Enterprise'']] and Commander Burgess.
* OlderThanTheyLook: Sulu is in his 50s. He looks younger.
* TheSmartGuy: He coordinates all of the fleet actions for Admiral Quinn including advanced strategies.
* ShoutOut: To ''Manga/{{AKIRA}}'', Creator/GeorgeTakei's favorite anime.

[[folder: Captain Jay Yim]]
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The captain of the USS ''Khitomer'' in the post-Season 8 Federation tutorial. Later gives Federation-aligned player characters the challenge to visit every sector of the galaxy in fifteen minutes.

* TheAlcoholic: {{Implied|Trope}}. Starfleet has apparently benched him and he now spends all his time in Club 47 aboard Earth Spacedock before the revamp. These days, though, he's just standing around near the shipyard.
* AscendedExtra: Previously he just hosted the "Tour The Galaxy" event mission. Now he's the CO of the USS ''Khitomer''.
* NoEndorHolocaust: Originally the ''Khitomer's'' command crew was murdered by the Borg before you even got there. The revamped tutorial revealed Yim was the CO of the ''Khitomer'' and the holocaust of the original tutorial never happened.
* {{Retcon}}: To being the CO of the USS ''Khitomer''.
* ScarsAreForever: He was badly injured at Vega Colony when his ship was hit.[[/folder]]

[[folder: Captain Harry Kim]]

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-->Played by Creator/GarrettWang

Formerly a lowly ensign onboard the U.S.S. ''Voyager'', he's finally moved up the ranks, taking up command of the U.S.S. ''Rhode Island''. [[spoiler:He's also the quantum duplicate of the real Harry Kim, who died 34 years ago.]]
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* CloningBlues: [[spoiler:He ends up finding the real Harry Kim is still alive and is utterly shocked at it all. However, its the real Harry who's gone nuts about it.]] It does ''not'' help that [[spoiler: the nature of the quantum duplication means that both have ''equal'' claim to be the original and real Harry Kim. The only difference is that the Kim who died 34 years ago was from the same side of the duplication as the Voyager that got back home instead of being destroyed in the Delta Quadrant]].
* DudeWheresMyRespect: Averted. Unlike everybody else, Harry is extremely respectful to the PC and treats them like his superior officer, which includes asking them for their options/orders. He'll still add a few of his own, but he'll always do so with 'If I may'.
* InkSuitActor: Modeled after his actor Garret Wang, although intentionally made to look a bit older, due to Wang having barely visibly aged since ''Voyager.''
* LimitedAdvancementOpportunities: As in the ''Literature/StarTrekVoyagerRelaunch'', ''finally'' averted after he spent seven gorram years as an ensign due to the insistence of the ''Voyager'' writers that there needed to be an EnsignNewbie character for the other officers to talk down to, regardless of whether it made sense anymore or not. ''The Path to 2409'' states that he was security chief of Deep Space K-7 in 2400, and he's now a full-bird captain and C.O. of a starship in his own right.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech[=/=]WhatTheHellHero:
** [[spoiler:Failing the Elite-level Battle of Korfez leads to Harry Kim (in full vocals, no less) telling you that he's disappointed that Joint Command's supposed awesome group of captains couldn't get the job done and that he's gonna hafta go for the bloodier Plan B to save the day.]]
** He also gives this to [[spoiler: the Kobali for reviving the Vaadwaur troops attacking them as Kobali.]]
** He also gives one to [[spoiler:the Prime Directive, pointing out that Kobali for all intents and purposes ARE interfering in Vaadwaur culture by reviving their dead instead of finding another solution to their infertility. The Kobali come to a compromise, which he accepts. He probably wouldn't had he know about the ''real Harry Kim'' that they plan to revive as Kobali!]]
*** [[spoiler:That little bit does come back to bite him as he ''does'' find out about the other Harry and he plans to take them to task over their lies.]]
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: According to the backstory, after Harry got back from the Delta Quadrant and rose up the ranks, he planned to just chain himself around the Alpha Quadrant, afraid of getting lost again. [[ChangedMyMindKid He thought otherwise once Tuvok convinced him to join him.]]
* TalkingToHimself: [[invoked]] Quite literally in the mission "Dust to Dust", as Keten is the original Harry Kim revived as a Kobali, and both him and Harry Kim share the same voice actor, making for some... interesting conversations between the two characters during the missions.

[[folder: Captain Nog]]
-->Played By: Creator/AronEisenberg

Son of Grand Nagus Rom and the first Ferengi in Starfleet, he has risen up the ranks and became captain of the U.S.S. ''Chimera''.
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* CoolShip: He flies the prototype ''Chimera''-class starship. That's the 1000-day Veteran ship for subscribers and Lifetime Subscribers.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: Heavily downplayed. He helps the player character in convincing Qwen to fork over the Krenim artifact by using his status as Grand Nagus Rom's son, but he admits that he was here as Starfleet and that the Grand Nagus staff he used was his dad's second-best.

[[folder: Captain Thomas Eugene "Tom" Paris]]
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-->Played By: Creator/RobertDuncanMcNeill

The ever-maverick, Tom Paris is now a Captain within Starfleet.

* FanOfThePast: Oh yes. He even peppers his speeches with (in-universe) {{Shout Out}}s to 20th century shows and movies.
* FourStarBadass: Sort of. While he's technically a captain rather than an admiral, he's in command of a small task force and leads from the front with aplomb. In RealLife he'd likely be addressed as "commodore" (which in the modern US Navy isn't an official rank anymore, but rather a title given to a non-admiral placed in charge of a flotilla).
* IToldYouSo: In "Tales of the War" #18, this was his reaction when [[spoiler:Everyone finds out about the info in the temporal shielded computer.]]
* InkSuitActor: A pretty good facsimile of an aged-up [=McNeill=].
* MilitaryMaverick: His streak of being busted down in ranks has continued even after returning from the Delta Quadrant.
* NoodleIncident: According to his reintroduction blog, he was either (the phrasing is ambiguous) ''once'' considered for admiralty, but did ''something'' bizarre to get him taken off the list, or like Kirk he was promoted to admiral and then demoted back to captain after something showed he was better suited in that role. The [[http://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/9212923-tales-of-the-war-%231 first "Tales of the War"]] seems to hint that he already ''was'' an admiral, but he did something to gladly get him out of the saddle. Even more so, he was at least a higher rank than Quinn was.
* OverprotectiveDad: He's willing to abort the strike on an Iconian installation because Miral's ship was boarded and slightly damaged, though she talks him out of it. He's also very suspicious of her relationship with the team's computer expert. After learning she'd used one of his tricks to keep the Heralds out of her ship's computers, he has this to say:
--> "Did he teach you anything else that got him sent to a penal colony?"
* RagtagBandOfMisfits: His "Delta Flight" team, including two smugglers, an Academy washout who got sent to a penal colony, an ensign with a penchant for joyriding [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg and Guroth]].
* SpeaksInShoutOuts: {{Downplayed}}. His dialogue is by no means ''completely'' made up of TV references, but he makes far more than anyone else, to the point where Miral {{lampshades}} it before introducing you to him. {{Justified}}: one of his character aspects in ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' was [[FanOfThePast having retro tastes]].

[[folder: Captain Pavel Chekov]]
-->Played by Creator/WalterKoenig

Former member of the USS ''Enterprise'' and a well-recognized member of the Temporal Agents

* GratuitousRussian: Lets loose with "Bozhe moy" (Russian for "oh my god") when Scotty appears unexpectedly aboard the ''Enterprise''-J during "Ragnarok".
* InkSuitActor: Has a very good likeness of Walter Koenig, the actor who played Chekov in the original series and subsequent movies.
* NeverShallTheSelvesMeet: He's forced to hang back for awhile in "Return to Babel" - he doesn't want to explain to his younger self why he's here.
* SoProudOfYou: His younger counterpart (as well as the rest of the ''Enterprise'' crew) compliments you for saving their bacon.

! Officers

[[folder: Lt. Commander Miral Paris]]
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--> Played By: Creator/LisaLoCicero
Chief of Security aboard the USS ''Kirk''. The adult daughter of Tom Paris and B'Elanna Torres, she was born aboard the starship ''Voyager'' as it returned to the Alpha Quadrant. Believed by some to be the Kuvah'magh, a messianic figure in Klingon lore.

* ArtEvolution: A recent (circa July 20, 2014) update has changed her look to be more Klingon-like (see right), to be more in accordance with her adult appearance from "Endgame". There was speculation about her playing a role in the ''Delta Rising'' expansion, but this ultimately didn't happen... only for her to play a role in Season Ten: The Iconian War.
* ArtisticLicenseMilitary: She's a security officer, so following the game's uniform conventions her divisional color should be red, but instead she wears yellow, which is for operations and engineering personnel.
* AscendedExtra: She only had two appearances in the live-action canon: The day of her birth and a single scene as an adult and Admiral Janeway's Klingon contact in [[Series/StarTrekVoyager VOY]]: [[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS7E23Endgame "Endgame"]].
* TheBusCameBack: She disappeared from the storyline for a while, despite her purported status as the Kuvah'magh having potential for a plot in ''Delta Rising'' (the concept was introduced by a Klingon faction USS ''Voyager'' encountered in the Delta Quadrant). Instead she made a joint appearance with her father Captain Tom Paris in Season 10's "Delta Flight".
* DistressedDamsel: All three times she is encountered in the Federation leveling missions. She is kidnapped once, and rescued by the player twice. She comes into her own for "Delta Flight", however, commanding the battlecruiser USS ''Bern''.
* FauxActionGirl: During the "Klingon War" storyline. When she appears in "Delta Flight", she proves her chops.
* GenerationXerox: {{Downplayed}}. Though she's a security officer instead of an engineering officer, she takes after her mother somewhat in personality, and Tom Paris complains in "Delta Flight" that he could never win an argument with B'Elanna either.
* IJustWantToBeNormal: In her own words in the "Pirate Radio" mission, when asked by the player if she wants "to lead the Klingon Empire to glory":
--> "All I want is to be a good Starfleet officer. For every Klingon who wants to worship me, there is another who wants to kill me. It makes it hard to have anything resembling a normal life."
* InkSuitActor: Her redone model looks like [=Lisa LoCicero=], who played the adult Miral in the alternate future seen in [[Series/StarTrekVoyager VOY]]: "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS7E23Endgame Endgame]]".
* MilitaryBrat: The daughter of two Starfleet officers, at least one of which (Tom) is still on active duty. (B'Elanna's status hasn't been established yet.) She's also an admiral's granddaughter, and comments in "Delta Flight" that almost her entire extended family is either Starfleet or people like Seven of Nine "who might as well be."
* ProphecyTwist: It is said the Klingons would follow in her footsteps before she had made them. [[spoiler: Because she was abducted and taken into the past.]]
* RankUp: Starts as a Lieutenant in the Klingon War.
* SciFiBobHaircut: In her appearances in the "Klingon War" episode. She's grown her hair out by the time of her next appearance in "Delta Flight", set the next year.
* UnevenHybrid: Her mother was half-Klingon, so Miral is a fourth.

[[folder: The ''Khitomer'' EMH]]
--> Played by: Creator/ZacharyQuinto

An Emergency Medical Hologram running an improvised infirmary on the USS ''Khitomer'' during the Borg attack on Vega Colony. Hands the player objectives for part of the tutorial mission.

* BigDamnHeroes: Pulls this, alongside a small fleet's worth of ships when the player is beset by a ''Borg Cube''.
* DemotedToExtra: In Season 8. Most of the EMH's part of the tutorial was cut for the redesigned tutorial.
* PutOnABus: Neither the ''Khitomer'' EMH, nor any other of the same model of EMH, are ever seen again after the tutorial.

[[folder: Kolez]]

A Saurian security officer serving on Vega Colony when the Borg attacked. He defends Administrator Willa Post until you arrive to rescue them. He sticks with your crew afterwards.

* DemotedToExtra: After the tutorial he is reduced to a generic bridge officer story-wise, due to the backlash over Romulan players getting stuck permanently with Tovan Khev.

[[folder: Commander Ethan Burgess]]
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-->Played by Creator/JonStJohn

Second in Command of Starfleet Intelligence under Admiral Chakotay. Burgess assists in the Doomsday Machine incident and takes command of the Starfleet contribution to Operation: Delta Rising.
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* BigGood: He's the main mission giver for Federation characters during ''Delta Rising''.
* CommandingCoolness: For Starfleet Intelligence and Operation: Delta Rising.
* InterServiceRivalry: He hates hates HATES Franklin Drake and Section 31 according to his ''Delta Rising'' bio. He's rather justified in this lorewise since Section 31 as an organization has no actual official status: they're a [[RenegadeSplinterFaction rogue group within the Federation military hierarchy]], ''not'' a legally sanctioned intelligence service.

[[folder: Lieutenant Commander Kyla [=VanZyl=]]]
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-->Played by Creator/LauraBailey

Commander Ethan Burgess' right hand girl. A member of Starfleet Intelligence who helps the player stop the Doomsday Machine. In ''Delta Rising'' she's been promoted and assigned to USS ''Voyager'' under Tuvok.

* BrainwashedAndCrazy: [[spoiler:In "Uneasy Allies", it turns out she was infected by a Bluegill by the Iconians in order to kill Sela. Thankfully, she's saved thanks to her Trill physiology making her less vulnerable to the bluegills..]]
* NoNameGiven: She's initially just called "[=VanZyl=]", but her first name is revealed as "Kyla" in "Uneasy Allies".
* PutOnABus[=/=]TheBusCameBack: She disappears from the storyline after "The Doomsday Machine" but reappears aboard USS ''Voyager'' in "Mindscape" and "Alliances".
* RankUp: In "The Doomsday Machine" she's a lieutenant, but by ''Delta Rising'' she's had a promotion offscreen.

[[folder: Emergency Medical Hologram Mk. I "The Doctor"]]
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-->Played by Creator/RobertPicardo

The ever snarky hologram doctor is back to deal with more problems.

* BecomeARealBoy: Or at least get treated as a normal person. Like Data before him, "The Path to 2409" revealed that he went through a hell of a time trying not to be disassembled and be treated as a normal person. There's still a big legal mess going on with the Soong Foundation regarding self-aware holograms like him. Notable that The Doctor himself does have this right already. But other holograms are having issues with this still. Gein, from "What Lies Beneath" noted in his logs the Ferengi didn't care [[spoiler: before he went crazy thanks to the Devidians]] about his well-being. Holo-Leeta seems kinda sad at her job as a Dabo Girl. Also, the Daystrom Institute is in a massive legal battle over the hologram known as "Moriarty" citing his imprisonment is unethical, while Starfleet points out he nearly destroyed the Enterprise-D twice, which is countered by the Institute that he just wanted to be released from the holodeck (which they can do now with Mobile Emitters).
* InkSuitActor: PlayedWith. His in-game model is based on Picardo as the Doctor, but looks considerably less photo-realistic than anybody else who isn't a hologram.
* YouMonster: Is disgusted with the Vaadwaur sending a false distress signal to get you to meet with them. (Worth noting: in RealLife that's considered a war crime.)

! Citizens

[[folder: Dr. Annika "Seven of Nine" Hansen]]
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-->Played by Jeri Ryan

The infamously curvaceous Liberated Borg, now a member of the Daystrom Institute.

* InkSuitActor: Like the rest of ''Voyager'''s returning characters, she is modeled on her actress.
* NotThatKindOfDoctor: Seven is the lead Anti-Borg researcher for the Daystrom Institute.
* MeaningfulRename: While she is still called "Seven of Nine" in-game (for now), her backstory indicates that she now typically goes by her human name, Annika Hansen.
* MyGreatestFailure: [[spoiler: She blames herself for the Vaadwaur becoming a super power in the Delta Quadrant since she was the one who freed them. Of course, she nor Starfleet had any idea that the Vaadwaur would become a superpower and it turns out that the Iconians had more to do with it than she did.]]
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere:
** According to "The Path to 2409" backstory, Seven was one of the ''Voyager'' crew who tried to warn the Federation of the Borg's renewed threat. When the warnings were dismissed, she quit in protest.
** After showing up in "Broken Circle", "Tales of the War" #18 revealed that Seven transferred away from the team working on the Temporal Warship because the head Krenim was constantly shutting down her concerns.
* TheAtoner: She blames herself for the Vaadwaur's rampage across the Delta Quadrant, since she woke the first of them from stasis over three decades prior. She then makes it her personal mission to fix the problem.
* WhatTheHellHero:
** Regarding Starfleet ignoring the Borg threat for 30 years until Vega.
** She does this in "Alliances" should you [[spoiler:allow the Octanti to destroy an Octanti virus-infected Tactical Cube holding the Liberated Borg brother of the Octanti ambassador.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Neelix]]
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-->Played By: Creator/EthanPhillips

Formerly TheLoad and LethalChef to the crew of ''Voyager'', now head of a Talaxian colony.

* BigGood: To the Talaxians. They are really thankful for Neelix's help in getting them all set up for their new homeworld.
* InkSuitActor: A pretty darn good replica of an aged-up Ethan Phillips-as-Neelix.
* OnlySaneMan: Work-wise, he takes his duties very seriously thanks to his time on Voyager, while the Talaxians under him are simply not used to that kind of discipline.
* TalkativeLoon: He likes to ramble, but he gets around to the point that he needs to hit. Eventually.
* YouMonster: {{Subverted}} when Gaul [[spoiler:guns down Neelix's chef Jolex [[StuffedIntoTheFridge to get a rise out of the player character]]. Neelix says he feels nothing for Gaul but pity for his soul.]]

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!President Aennik Okeg
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The President of the United Federation of Planets and the PlayerCharacter's ultimate boss. [[InvisiblePresident Surprisingly has no role in the actual game]], but is a fairly important figure in the {{backstory}}.

* ContinuityNod: Okeg is ''STO'''s successor to President Nanietta Bacco from ''Literature/StarTrekArticlesOfTheFederation'', who stepped down at the end of her second term in 2392. [[AlternateContinuity This differs immensely from the novelverse.]]
* InvisiblePresident: He appears in ''The Path to 2409'' but doesn't appear in game until the Temporal Cold War arc. He finally had a speaking role in a 2016 story blog titled "In the Purview of Diplomats," complete with an actual in-game screenshot of the character (shown at right), but he's still absent from any actual missions or social maps until the Season 11.5 episode, Temporal Front. He would later go on to host the cross-faction "First Contact Day" anniversary event where players construct and launch model rockets based on the ''Phoenix'', Earth's first warp-capable spacecraft.
* OurPresidentsAreDifferent: He's a President Minority, as the first Saurian ever elected. He also comes off as a President Iron with his ScrewYourUltimatum rhetoric to the Klingons.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: He certainly comes off this way in the backstory (see below), and is popular enough that he's been able to hold the office for eighteen years.
* ScrewYourUltimatum: In late 2404 J'mpok gave him an ultimatum to remove all Federation citizens from the Hromi Cluster within three months. Okeg basically told him to go jump in a lake.
-->'''Okeg:''' We will continue our explorations of the cluster. We will not uproot Federation settlements that have been in these sectors for decades. You claim you have ancient claims to this region of space. I say that current possession counts for something. We do not want war. But we will defend ourselves.
* ThrowTheDogABone: After defeating Jaed Maz of Trill and Shad Ona of Bajor in the 2392 election, Okeg gave them both posts in his cabinet.

!Ambassador Jiro Sugihara
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A leading Federation diplomat. And a moron.

* AssInAmbassador: Due to apparent incompetence rather than malice. His (chronologically) first appearance in "Turning Point" has him bring T'Nae, as in the Vulcan admiral who [[FantasticRacism hates Romulans]], to a diplomatic conference on whether the Federation and Klingon Empire should recognize the Romulan Republic's sovereignty, and follows this by spewing a several THOUSAND word speech to the Romulan PC, even cutting them off. The player is allowed to get out of there 3 pages of dialogue in, but if they stay he [[DidIJustSayThatOutLoud blurts out that he's planning on full reunification with the Vulcans and implicitly having the Federation occupy Republic territory]]. One wonders if the devs just wanted to make the Federation look bad next to the Klingons (who sent the much more competent S'taass), after the Klingons, you know, ''freaking invaded the Romulan Empire after Hobus'' (whereas Starfleet lost several ships to Nero providing humanitarian aid). Things go downhill from there until even ''Captain Shon'' tells him to shut his trap in the middle of a peace summit. This is especially irritating given that the most well-known RealLife diplomat named Sugihara was a hero who saved thousands of Jews from the Holocaust.
* ShoutOut: Presumably his name is a reference to RealLife diplomat Chiune Sugihara, who saved six thousand Lithuanian Jews during World War 2.
* TheScrappy: One of the most hated characters in the game, due to his long-winded speeches and diplomatic incompetence. This has become a RunningGag among the fans.
* TooDumbToLive: His long-winded speech in "Turning Point" would be this if the Republic PC actually bothered to pay attention. Talking about how you want to occupy the territory of a rebel faction that is asking you to recognize them is a great way to drive them to your geopolitical enemies--namely, the Klingon Empire.
* WallOfText: His speech in "Turning Point" is several ''thousand'' words long.

!Franklin Drake
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->Played by Creator/AdamHarrington

The main member of Section 31 the player encounters. And what seems to be the only cynic in the Federation.

* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: Is fully aware that no one likes Section 31.
* ComplexityAddiction: His plan in the House of Torg arc is stupidly over-complicated considering its objective was "tell Worf that the House of Torg plans to exterminate the House of Martok". Apparently [[StatingTheSimpleSolution email]] is LostTechnology in the 25th century.
* GrumpyBear: In a weird kinda of way.
* GuileHero: Section 31 seems to have mellowed out a bit since the Dominion War, and Drake, for all his shadiness, is a tremendous help who's mostly on the side of the good guys.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Ever since the events of the previous century, Section 31 has had a deservedly poor reputation which Drake cheerfully embraces. Despite that, he takes care of his operatives and does little (if any) of the evil his organisation is infamous for, though let's not forget that his plan in the KDF storyline resulted in the destruction of several Federation capital ships by the KDF player character.
* ManipulativeBastard: He likes turning the player characters into his own personal catspaws and gets minimum ''thousands'' of Starfleet personnel killed to advance his agenda in the KDF storyline.
* OvertOperative. A variant. The circumstances always makes it clear that he's a spy, but he's remarkably open about the fact that he works for Section 31 (the rogue group that is so secret that almost no-one knows it exists) rather than Starfleet Intelligence proper.
* ProtagonistCenteredMorality: He sends a false DistressSignal to delay the KDF PC dealing when they get onto his trail faster than he expected, which is a war crime.
* RuggedScar: Has a big ropy scar on his right cheek for apparently no other reason than that it looks threatening.
* WeHaveReserves: Uses Starfleet as his own personal RedshirtArmy, getting a ''Galaxy''-class starship and several frigates and battleships destroyed, as well as getting a Starfleet Intelligence safehouse on Qo'noS captured, in the process of putting the KDF player character onto the House of Torg's EvilPlan. [[SarcasmMode But they're just nameless NPCs so it's okay, apparently.]]
* YouSoundFamiliar: He shares a voice actor with Kar'ukan.

[[folder:The Crew of the U.S.S. ''Enterprise'' (NCC-1701-F)]]
!The ''Enterprise''
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The new flagship of the Federation, replacing the ''Enterprise''-E, which was [[TheWorfEffect destroyed by the Undine]] according to the background literature. Originally built as part of the first wave of ''Odyssey''-class starships, she was refitted to ''Yorktown''-class specifications [[https://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/10804994 as part of major repairs after the Battle of Earth.]]

* BigDamnHeroes: In [[spoiler: "Boldly They Rode"]] and the Tau Dewa patrols.
* CoolStarship: Designed by a fan no less, named Adam Ihle.
* CustomUniform: The ''Enterprise'' crew all use the "Jupiter" style uniforms, only available to players with a {{microtransaction|s}} and unique to them among the {{NPC}}s, though Shon and Winters were put into the new standard "Odyssey" uniforms after season 9.
* CutscenePowerToTheMax: The ''Enterprise'' is notably a lot tougher than most of the player ''Odyssey''-classes.
* DysfunctionJunction: ''And HOW!'' Kestral's backstory for pretty much every single one of the crew consists of suffering of some kind, whether it be the death of people close to them ([[CrusadingWidower Shon]], [[OrphansOrdeal Kyona, Jirelle Kav]]), being extreme [[MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch black sheep amongst]] [[CoolLoser their own people]] ([[DrJerk Savel]], [[NayTheist Tem Inasi]]) and in one case [[BerserkButton extremely frustrating]] [[{{Nepotism}} favoritism]] (Winters). The only exceptions are Kirayoshi O'Brien ([[GenerationXerox but considering the lineage, that won't last]]) and Matthias... [[IronicHell whose job is it to fix these problems.]]
* FiveTokenBand: By far the most diverse ''Enterprise'' crew ever seen in the franchise, especially in terms of nonhuman representation.
* HeroOfAnotherStory: [[WeirdnessMagnet It's the ]]''[[WeirdnessMagnet Enterprise]]'', so naturally they're having their own wacky adventures offscreen that only occasionally intersect with the {{Player Character}}s. Before leaving Cryptic, Thestral wrote several short stories about the ''Enterprise''-F for ''Star Trek Magazine'', and various other devs continued that in story blogs on Cryptic's website beginning in the Iconian War.

!Captain Va'Kel Shon
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--> Played by Creator/DaveRivas

Andorian captain of the USS ''Belfast'' and later the USS ''Enterprise''-F. Becomes a constant presence in the game after meeting him towards the end of the Cardassian storyline (with the tutorial and "Romulan Mystery" revamps he was retconned to appear earlier), and occasionally fights alongside the player while patrolling the various systems of the Tau Dewa region.

* AllThereInTheManual: The majority of Shon's exploits, and those of the ''Enterprise''-F, are told in ''Star Trek Magazine''.
* AcePilot: In "Sphere Of Influence" his special tactical ability is Shon Evasive Maneuvers IV. ''Quadrupling the speed and turn rate of the ship you are piloting.'' Also, in "Surface Tension" he personally pulls a Luke Skywalker-style AirstrikeImpossible against the Undine planet killer going after Qo'noS, ramming the ''Aquarius'' right into a chink Tuvok blew in its armor.
* BadassBoast:
** He's got more than a few of these. "THEY PICKED THE WRONG SYSTEM!"
** Dave Rivas wanted Shon's "engage" catchphrase be [[LetsGetDangerous "Number One, let's roll."]]
* BigDamnHeroes:
** Like Kurland, twice. The first time is covering the player's escape aboard the ''Belfast''. The second [[spoiler: is as Captain of the new ''Enterprise'', to fight alongside you against Kar'ukan and his rogue Jem'Hadar.]]
** He also commands the ''Belfast'' as part of a joint Starfleet/KDF fleet sent as TheCavalry when the Elachi attempt to invade New Romulus in the Romulan mission "Devil's Choice".
* BluntYes: He cuts off Ambassador Sugihara and admits the Federation made a mistake in not believing the Klingon Empire about the Undine. The admission floors Ambassador S'taass.
* BerserkButton: Anything to do with the Borg.
* TheBusCameBack: After spending the entire ''Delta Rising'' expansion MIA, he finally shows up for "Midnight".
* CoolStarship: The ''Belfast'', an aging ''Defiant''-class starship. And later the ''Odyssey''-class starship ''Enterprise'', NCC-1701-F.
* CrazyPrepared: He didn't like the Romulans messing with [[spoiler:the Iconian Gateway underground]] and has Kirayoshi devise charges to take them down should things go belly up.
* CrusadingWidower: His family was killed during the Borg attack on Vega colony that kicks off the Federation game.
* FingerTenting: Shon of all characters does this when speaking to the player in the epilogue of "Boldly They Rode" when [[spoiler:discussing his new posting as Captain of the ''Enterprise''-F]]. Slightly subverted however in that he's not trying to be sinister and his fingers don't actually touch or interlace.
* FriendOrIdolDecision: After the events of "Sphere of Influence", Shon is left with a major decision: Either he destroys [[spoiler:the Iconian gateway in space]] to protect the universe and risk losing the Romulans' friendship or leave it alone and risk [[spoiler:the Iconians or anyone else]] to charge through. [[spoiler:The discovery of a Omega Molecule]] take the decision out of everyone's hands.
* HeroOfAnotherStory: He is the captain of the current ''Enterprise''. It's also possible for ''Enterprise'' to randomly show up in some patrol missions, answering to distress calls just as you are.
* HotBlooded: Par for the course for an Andorian.
* InkSuitActor: Shon looks like Dave Rivas but blue and minus a goatee.
* KnightInSourArmor: Comes off as this while attending the Borg conference on Deep Space Nine.
* MilitaryMaverick
* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: Its easy to forget that the Andorians have this [[PlanetOfHats hat]], but Shon does try to tone it down. Doesn't help the ''Enterprise'' gets the hard assignments.
* TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler:With one last chance, Shon hops into the ''Aquarius'' destroyer that's docked on the ''Enterprise''-F and, with your help, rams it down an Undine Planet Killer's throat! Thankfully, Tuvok and the ''Voyager'' rescues Shon.]]
* TokenNonhuman: The first nonhuman to ever command an ''Enterprise'' (apart from Spock when it was assigned to Starfleet Academy at the start of ''Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan''). InUniverse, this appointment was taken by the Andorians as a sign that their species was returning to prominence in the Federation.
* WhatTheHellHero:
** Gives this to Koren and A'dranna about [[spoiler: saving the Iconian Gate]]. TheReveal that happens mid-conversation takes it out of all their hands.
** Gives another one to Joint Command about territorial dispute over the [[spoiler: Jenolan Dyson Sphere]].
* YouSoundFamiliar: Amusingly, Dave Rivas also voices Hakeev. That's right, one of the most monstrous individuals in the Franchise/StarTrekExpandedUniverse has the same voice as the captain of the Starship ''Enterprise''.

!Commander Samuel Winters
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--> Played by Creator/TimSimmons

The first officer of the ''Enterprise'' under Captain Shon.

* EarlyBirdCameo: Piloted the player's shuttle into the Gamma Quadrant in "Operation Gamma" (he's replaced by a one-shot Orion officer in the KDF version of the mission), then appeared briefly in a cutscene in "Boldly They Rode" before being officially introduced as XO of the ''Enterprise'' in "First Contact Day".
* GenerationXerox[=/=]MilitaryBrat: Starfleet's the family business. His parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents all served, too.
* TheLancer: To Shon. Previously, he was one to Captain Akira Sulu.
* LockedOutOfTheLoop: The guy sounds completely confused and frightened when [[spoiler:he tells Captain Shon that the ''Enterprise'' is in a complete shut down and all the monitors are showing an Omega symbol, not knowing of the Omega Directive. Which is how things should be.]]
* {{Nepotism}}: Averted, at least according to him. He admits that having lots of family in Starfleet means he's got contacts not every officer has, but he's earned every position he's held.
* NumberTwo: To Shon.
* StraightGay[=/=]WordOfGay: It never comes up in game, but his bio in ''Star Trek Magazine'' ([[WordOfGod which was written by Kestral, the writer for STO]]) explicitly states he's openly gay.

!Lieutenant Commander Tem Inasi
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A non-religious Bajoran who joined up with Starfleet for scientific endeavors. Formerly the science officer of the ''Belfast'' under Shon, she followed him to the ''Enterprise''.

* BlackAndNerdy[=/=]BrainyBrunette: She held a position at the Vulcan Science Academy and has advanced degrees in physics and exozoology.
* EarlyBirdCameo: Had a non-speaking role in a cutscene in "Boldly They Rode" before being officially introduced in "First Contact Day".
* MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch: She thinks Bajorans are too full of themselves with their religious beliefs. She's personally closer to a Roddenberry human.
* NayTheist: That the Prophets exist is indisputable, but she views them as SufficientlyAdvancedAliens rather than gods to be worshiped. While she is Bajoran, she also sees humanity's reverence towards Zefram Cochrane to be ridiculous and points out the he was OnlyInItForTheMoney.
* TheSmartGuy
* TwoferTokenMinority: More like ''Three''fer. Black, female, and Bajoran in one package.

!Lieutenant Jirelle Kav
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A Betazoid officer who helps co-ordinate the Starfleet Battle Group on Bajor. Right before the final battle of the Dominion Occupation of [=DS9=], she transfers to the U.S.S. ''Enterprise'' to serve as their Chief Operations Officer.

* BusmansHoliday: She was at Deep Space 9 between duty postings, waiting for the USS ''Tempest'' to come by and pick her up, when [[spoiler:time-shifted]] Jem'Hadar appeared through the wormhole.
* CatchPhrase: "I'm here to help."
* JumpedAtTheCall: By her own admission she didn't need much convincing to join the ''Enterprise'' crew.
* MyParentsAreDead: Her parents and brother were killed in a shuttle crash.
* RookieRedRanger: When the player meets her on Bajor she's only an ENSIGN. But apparently she does so well, it impresses Shon.
* TimeyWimeyBall: She tries to explain the events of ''Film/StarTrekFirstContact'' and ends up getting herself confused over it all. [[LampshadeHanging The player character reassures her that time travel is a fickle thing.]]

!Commander Savel
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The ''Enterprise's'' chief medical officer.

* DeadpanSnarker
* {{Jerkass}}: He claims that "the chief medical officer of a starship has no time for coddling or bedside manner." No, seriously, that's a direct quote.
* NotSoStoic: For a Vulcan he barely hides his contempt for pretty much everyone.
* StrawVulcan
* TheMedic
* {{Permastubble}}: See the picture.
* WeWantOurJerkBack: Savel was surprised that ''Shon'' wanted him as his CMO on the ''Enterprise'' after all the fights they had together.

!Commander Phillipa Matthias
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-> Played by Creator/LaniMinella

The ''Enterprise's'' counselor.

* AscendedExtra: From the Literature/StarTrekNovelVerse, in fact. Matthias was a recurring minor character in the ''[[Literature/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineRelaunch DS9 Relaunch]]'' and ''[[Literature/StarTrekTyphonPact Typhon Pact]]'' novels with little development. Ascended further in Kestral's short stories, where she is a major character.
* TheHeart: Notable in that her most important patient is her ''captain'', who won't open up to her. It takes Shon meeting the Mirror version of his dead wife to be open to therapy.
* InterspeciesRomance: Her husband is a Bajoran named Chon Sibias.
* UnevenHybrid: She's mostly human but she has a Vulcan grandfather. She also has two HeinzHybrid children with her husband.
* YouSoundFamiliar: Creator/LaniMinella again. She also plays T'nae, Mivek, and the Federation ComputerVoice.

!Lieutenant Kyona
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-> Played by Creator/ChristineThompson & Adrienne Grady

The Enterprise's tactical and security officer who transferred from the ''Belfast''.

* AscendedExtra: Kyona is seen on the ''Belfast'' briefly in "Facility 4028." She even has a few lines.
* CatFolk: Kyona is the first Caitian ''Enterprise'' bridge officer since [[WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries M'Ress.]]
* CreatorCameo: Voiced by Christine "Kestral" Thompson in "Facility 4028". Thompson is the game's lead writer and also the author of a number of short stories about the ''Enterprise'' crew. [[TheOtherDarrin In later appearances]] she's voiced by Adrienne Grady of [[PromotedFanBoy Priority One Podcast]] courtesy of ''STO'' becoming a SAG project.
* EarlyBirdCameo: Turned up in a couple of cutscenes in "The 2800" arc before she was officially introduced in "First Contact Day".
* MasterSwordsman: Kyona invented a style of melee combat based on Klingon bat'leth, Vulcan lirpa, Andorian ushaan and Human kendo techniques.
* MyGirlIsASlut: One of the only confirmed facts about Kyona's life is that she has been in several high profile relationships.
* MysteriousPast: {{Invoked|Trope}}. Kyona likes to mess with people and typically lies.
* SmallTownBoredom: She was apparently born in a small agricultural community on Cait, and joined Starfleet for the excitement.
* {{Troll}}: See MysteriousPast.
* UndyingLoyalty: To Captain Shon.

!Lieutenant Kirayoshi O'Brien
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Formerly a researcher at Memory Alpha, "Yoshi" is the Chief Engineer of the U.S.S. Enterprise. [[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine He's also the son of Miles and Keiko O'Brien.]]

* AscendedExtra:
** That little baby born in the last half of ''[=DS9=]'' is now the head of the ''Enterprise's'' engineering department.
** In-game as well. Yoshi was just a little continuity nod with a diplomacy mission on Memory Alpha. Now he's the Chief Engineer of the ''Enterprise''.
* AllThereInTheManual: Yoshi being on the ''Enterprise'' initially wasn't ever discussed in-game. Even in the meet-and-greet with the ''Enterprise'' crew, he's absent (justified as they're meeting you during a major overhaul and repair). Finally corrected in "Sphere of Influence" where Worf asks Capt. Shon to give his regards to Yoshi.
* ArtEvolution: Kirayoshi got a brand new face model with Season 9.5. Since Kirayoshi as of that season is only seen in "A Step Between Stars" very few people noticed.
* ContinuityNod: He was a baby on ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine''.
* ADayInTheLimelight: "Chief", a short story printed in ''Star Trek Magazine'' #46.
* GenerationXerox: Like his dad, he's an engineer (though Yoshi is an officer whereas Miles was an enlisted man). His father also served on an ''Enterprise''. He's even called "Chief O'Brien" despite being a commissioned officer.
* MilitaryBrat: Son of a senior Starfleet NCO who happens to be the only major enlisted character in the canon.
* MrFixit:
--> "I spend most of my time with the warp core, but keeping the captain's replicator running can be just as important."
* NostalgiaGoggles: He has this about Jumja Sticks. In fact he gives the player a mission to bring a Jumja Stick from [=DS9=] back to him simply so that he can taste home. Remember that Yoshi left [=DS9=] when he was 3 years old.
* RookieRedRanger: This is his first deep space assignment. He worked on Earth and Memory Alpha previously.

! Officers

[[folder: Lt. Commander Miral Paris]]
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/miral_paris_9995.png]]
--> Played By: Creator/LisaLoCicero
Chief of Security aboard the USS ''Kirk''. The adult daughter of Tom Paris and B'Elanna Torres, she was born aboard the starship ''Voyager'' as it returned to the Alpha Quadrant. Believed by some to be the Kuvah'magh, a messianic figure in Klingon lore.

* ArtEvolution: A recent (circa July 20, 2014) update has changed her look to be more Klingon-like (see right), to be more in accordance with her adult appearance from "Endgame". There was speculation about her playing a role in the ''Delta Rising'' expansion, but this ultimately didn't happen... only for her to play a role in Season Ten: The Iconian War.
* ArtisticLicenseMilitary: She's a security officer, so following the game's uniform conventions her divisional color should be red, but instead she wears yellow, which is for operations and engineering personnel.
* AscendedExtra: She only had two appearances in the live-action canon: The day of her birth and a single scene as an adult and Admiral Janeway's Klingon contact in [[Series/StarTrekVoyager VOY]]: [[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS7E23Endgame "Endgame"]].
* TheBusCameBack: She disappeared from the storyline for a while, despite her purported status as the Kuvah'magh having potential for a plot in ''Delta Rising'' (the concept was introduced by a Klingon faction USS ''Voyager'' encountered in the Delta Quadrant). Instead she made a joint appearance with her father Captain Tom Paris in Season 10's "Delta Flight".
* DistressedDamsel: All three times she is encountered in the Federation leveling missions. She is kidnapped once, and rescued by the player twice. She comes into her own for "Delta Flight", however, commanding the battlecruiser USS ''Bern''.
* FauxActionGirl: During the "Klingon War" storyline. When she appears in "Delta Flight", she proves her chops.
* GenerationXerox: {{Downplayed}}. Though she's a security officer instead of an engineering officer, she takes after her mother somewhat in personality, and Tom Paris complains in "Delta Flight" that he could never win an argument with B'Elanna either.
* IJustWantToBeNormal: In her own words in the "Pirate Radio" mission, when asked by the player if she wants "to lead the Klingon Empire to glory":
--> "All I want is to be a good Starfleet officer. For every Klingon who wants to worship me, there is another who wants to kill me. It makes it hard to have anything resembling a normal life."
* InkSuitActor: Her redone model looks like [=Lisa LoCicero=], who played the adult Miral in the alternate future seen in [[Series/StarTrekVoyager VOY]]: "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS7E23Endgame Endgame]]".
* MilitaryBrat: The daughter of two Starfleet officers, at least one of which (Tom) is still on active duty. (B'Elanna's status hasn't been established yet.) She's also an admiral's granddaughter, and comments in "Delta Flight" that almost her entire extended family is either Starfleet or people like Seven of Nine "who might as well be."
* ProphecyTwist: It is said the Klingons would follow in her footsteps before she had made them. [[spoiler: Because she was abducted and taken into the past.]]
* RankUp: Starts as a Lieutenant in the Klingon War.
* SciFiBobHaircut: In her appearances in the "Klingon War" episode. She's grown her hair out by the time of her next appearance in "Delta Flight", set the next year.
* UnevenHybrid: Her mother was half-Klingon, so Miral is a fourth.

[[folder: The ''Khitomer'' EMH]]
--> Played by: Creator/ZacharyQuinto

An Emergency Medical Hologram running an improvised infirmary on the USS ''Khitomer'' during the Borg attack on Vega Colony. Hands the player objectives for part of the tutorial mission.

* BigDamnHeroes: Pulls this, alongside a small fleet's worth of ships when the player is beset by a ''Borg Cube''.
* DemotedToExtra: In Season 8. Most of the EMH's part of the tutorial was cut for the redesigned tutorial.
* PutOnABus: Neither the ''Khitomer'' EMH, nor any other of the same model of EMH, are ever seen again after the tutorial.

[[folder: Kolez]]

A Saurian security officer serving on Vega Colony when the Borg attacked. He defends Administrator Willa Post until you arrive to rescue them. He sticks with your crew afterwards.

* DemotedToExtra: After the tutorial he is reduced to a generic bridge officer story-wise, due to the backlash over Romulan players getting stuck permanently with Tovan Khev.

[[folder: Commander Ethan Burgess]]
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/2b51608c82423c4898c1c66a364b1b16.png]]
-->Played by Creator/JonStJohn

Second in Command of Starfleet Intelligence under Admiral Chakotay. Burgess assists in the Doomsday Machine incident and takes command of the Starfleet contribution to Operation: Delta Rising.

* BigGood: He's the main mission giver for Federation characters during ''Delta Rising''.
* CommandingCoolness: For Starfleet Intelligence and Operation: Delta Rising.
* InterServiceRivalry: He hates hates HATES Franklin Drake and Section 31 according to his ''Delta Rising'' bio. He's rather justified in this lorewise since Section 31 as an organization has no actual official status: they're a [[RenegadeSplinterFaction rogue group within the Federation military hierarchy]], ''not'' a legally sanctioned intelligence service.

[[folder: Lieutenant Commander Kyla [=VanZyl=]]]
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/d02cc9285b89e26cd12568d34e3e0298.png]]
-->Played by Creator/LauraBailey

Commander Ethan Burgess' right hand girl. A member of Starfleet Intelligence who helps the player stop the Doomsday Machine. In ''Delta Rising'' she's been promoted and assigned to USS ''Voyager'' under Tuvok.

* BrainwashedAndCrazy: [[spoiler:In "Uneasy Allies", it turns out she was infected by a Bluegill by the Iconians in order to kill Sela. Thankfully, she's saved thanks to her Trill physiology making her less vulnerable to the bluegills..]]
* NoNameGiven: She's initially just called "[=VanZyl=]", but her first name is revealed as "Kyla" in "Uneasy Allies".
* PutOnABus[=/=]TheBusCameBack: She disappears from the storyline after "The Doomsday Machine" but reappears aboard USS ''Voyager'' in "Mindscape" and "Alliances".
* RankUp: In "The Doomsday Machine" she's a lieutenant, but by ''Delta Rising'' she's had a promotion offscreen.

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!Captain Harry Kim
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/e3e011d3ddfecef8a20e6f648b503e23.jpg]]
-->Played by Creator/GarrettWang

Formerly a lowly ensign onboard the U.S.S. ''Voyager'', he's finally moved up the ranks, taking up command of the U.S.S. ''Rhode Island''. [[spoiler:He's also the quantum duplicate of the real Harry Kim, who died 34 years ago.]]

* CloningBlues: [[spoiler:He ends up finding the real Harry Kim is still alive and is utterly shocked at it all. However, its the real Harry who's gone nuts about it.]] It does ''not'' help that [[spoiler: the nature of the quantum duplication means that both have ''equal'' claim to be the original and real Harry Kim. The only difference is that the Kim who died 34 years ago was from the same side of the duplication as the Voyager that got back home instead of being destroyed in the Delta Quadrant]].
* DudeWheresMyRespect: Averted. Unlike everybody else, Harry is extremely respectful to the PC and treats them like his superior officer, which includes asking them for their options/orders. He'll still add a few of his own, but he'll always do so with 'If I may'.
* InkSuitActor: Modeled after his actor Garret Wang, although intentionally made to look a bit older, due to Wang having barely visibly aged since ''Voyager.''
* LimitedAdvancementOpportunities: As in the ''Literature/StarTrekVoyagerRelaunch'', ''finally'' averted after he spent seven gorram years as an ensign due to the insistence of the ''Voyager'' writers that there needed to be an EnsignNewbie character for the other officers to talk down to, regardless of whether it made sense anymore or not. ''The Path to 2409'' states that he was security chief of Deep Space K-7 in 2400, and he's now a full-bird captain and C.O. of a starship in his own right.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech[=/=]WhatTheHellHero:
** [[spoiler:Failing the Elite-level Battle of Korfez leads to Harry Kim (in full vocals, no less) telling you that he's disappointed that Joint Command's supposed awesome group of captains couldn't get the job done and that he's gonna hafta go for the bloodier Plan B to save the day.]]
** He also gives this to [[spoiler: the Kobali for reviving the Vaadwaur troops attacking them as Kobali.]]
** He also gives one to [[spoiler:the Prime Directive, pointing out that Kobali for all intents and purposes ARE interfering in Vaadwaur culture by reviving their dead instead of finding another solution to their infertility. The Kobali come to a compromise, which he accepts. He probably wouldn't had he know about the ''real Harry Kim'' that they plan to revive as Kobali!]]
*** [[spoiler:That little bit does come back to bite him as he ''does'' find out about the other Harry and he plans to take them to task over their lies.]]
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: According to the backstory, after Harry got back from the Delta Quadrant and rose up the ranks, he planned to just chain himself around the Alpha Quadrant, afraid of getting lost again. [[ChangedMyMindKid He thought otherwise once Tuvok convinced him to join him.]]
* TalkingToHimself: [[invoked]] Quite literally in the mission "Dust to Dust", as Keten is the original Harry Kim revived as a Kobali, and both him and Harry Kim share the same voice actor, making for some... interesting conversations between the two characters during the missions.

!Dr. Annika "Seven of Nine" Hansen

!Emergency Medical Hologram Mk. I "The Doctor"
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/f2142fcbc63c31b481148e3709553816.jpg]]
-->Played by Creator/RobertPicardo

The ever snarky hologram doctor is back to deal with more problems.

* BecomeARealBoy: Or at least get treated as a normal person. Like Data before him, "The Path to 2409" revealed that he went through a hell of a time trying not to be disassembled and be treated as a normal person. There's still a big legal mess going on with the Soong Foundation regarding self-aware holograms like him. Notable that The Doctor himself does have this right already. But other holograms are having issues with this still. Gein, from "What Lies Beneath" noted in his logs the Ferengi didn't care [[spoiler: before he went crazy thanks to the Devidians]] about his well-being. Holo-Leeta seems kinda sad at her job as a Dabo Girl. Also, the Daystrom Institute is in a massive legal battle over the hologram known as "Moriarty" citing his imprisonment is unethical, while Starfleet points out he nearly destroyed the Enterprise-D twice, which is countered by the Institute that he just wanted to be released from the holodeck (which they can do now with Mobile Emitters).
* InkSuitActor: PlayedWith. His in-game model is based on Picardo as the Doctor, but looks considerably less photo-realistic than anybody else who isn't a hologram.
* YouMonster: Is disgusted with the Vaadwaur sending a false distress signal to get you to meet with them. (Worth noting: in RealLife that's considered a war crime.)

!Neelix

!Nog
-->Played By: Creator/AronEisenberg

Son of Grand Nagus Rom and the first Ferengi in Starfleet, he has risen up the ranks and became captain of the U.S.S. ''Chimera''.

* CoolShip: He flies the prototype ''Chimera''-class starship. That's the 1000-day Veteran ship for subscribers and Lifetime Subscribers.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: Heavily downplayed. He helps the player character in convincing Qwen to fork over the Krenim artifact by using his status as Grand Nagus Rom's son, but he admits that he was here as Starfleet and that the Grand Nagus staff he used was his dad's second-best.

!Captain Thomas Eugene "Tom" Paris
[[quoteright:274:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tom_paris.png]]
-->Played By: Creator/RobertDuncanMcNeill

The ever-maverick, Tom Paris is now a Captain within Starfleet.

* FanOfThePast: Oh yes. He even peppers his speeches with (in-universe) {{Shout Out}}s to 20th century shows and movies.
* FourStarBadass: Sort of. While he's technically a captain rather than an admiral, he's in command of a small task force and leads from the front with aplomb. In RealLife he'd likely be addressed as "commodore" (which in the modern US Navy isn't an official rank anymore, but rather a title given to a non-admiral placed in charge of a flotilla).
* IToldYouSo: In "Tales of the War" #18, this was his reaction when [[spoiler:Everyone finds out about the info in the temporal shielded computer.]]
* InkSuitActor: A pretty good facsimile of an aged-up [=McNeill=].
* MilitaryMaverick: His streak of being busted down in ranks has continued even after returning from the Delta Quadrant.
* NoodleIncident: According to his reintroduction blog, he was either (the phrasing is ambiguous) ''once'' considered for admiralty, but did ''something'' bizarre to get him taken off the list, or like Kirk he was promoted to admiral and then demoted back to captain after something showed he was better suited in that role. The [[http://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/9212923-tales-of-the-war-%231 first "Tales of the War"]] seems to hint that he already ''was'' an admiral, but he did something to gladly get him out of the saddle. Even more so, he was at least a higher rank than Quinn was.
* OverprotectiveDad: He's willing to abort the strike on an Iconian installation because Miral's ship was boarded and slightly damaged, though she talks him out of it. He's also very suspicious of her relationship with the team's computer expert. After learning she'd used one of his tricks to keep the Heralds out of her ship's computers, he has this to say:
--> "Did he teach you anything else that got him sent to a penal colony?"
* RagtagBandOfMisfits: His "Delta Flight" team, including two smugglers, an Academy washout who got sent to a penal colony, an ensign with a penchant for joyriding [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg and Guroth]].
* SpeaksInShoutOuts: {{Downplayed}}. His dialogue is by no means ''completely'' made up of TV references, but he makes far more than anyone else, to the point where Miral {{lampshades}} it before introducing you to him. {{Justified}}: one of his character aspects in ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' was [[FanOfThePast having retro tastes]].

!Captain Pavel Chekov
-->Played by Creator/WalterKoenig

Former member of the USS ''Enterprise'' and a well-recognized member of the Temporal Agents

* GratuitousRussian: Lets loose with "Bozhe moy" (Russian for "oh my god") when Scotty appears unexpectedly aboard the ''Enterprise''-J during "Ragnarok".
* InkSuitActor: Has a very good likeness of Walter Koenig, the actor who played Chekov in the original series and subsequent movies.
* NeverShallTheSelvesMeet: He's forced to hang back for awhile in "Return to Babel" - he doesn't want to explain to his younger self why he's here.
* SoProudOfYou: His younger counterpart (as well as the rest of the ''Enterprise'' crew) compliments you for saving their bacon.

[[folder:Federation Government and Civilians]]

! Captains

[[folder: Captain Masc P. Taggart]]
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/masc_taggart_6057.png]]
A Denobulan Starfleet captain attached to the Academy. In the post-Season 8 Federation tutorial he commands the player's starting ''Miranda''-class starship on a training cruise. Dies in the first hour of the game after being kidnapped from the ship by a Klingon raiding party.

* TheNicknamer: He calls the player his "Number One" and says he picked it up from another captain he served with, suggesting that he served with Captain Picard.
* SacrificialLion: Ends up sacrificing his life to save his crew from invading Klingons.
* ShootTheHostage[=/=]TrialByFriendlyFire: Orders the player to lock onto his combadge and fire on his position after he's captured by the Klingons, though he's killed by the Klingon captain before the player gives the order to fire.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: Dies in the first part of the Tutorial.

[[folder: Lieutenant [[spoiler:Commander]] Miral Paris]]

====

!Lieutenant Commander Kyla [=VanZyl=]

!Rear Admiral, Lower Half Tuvok
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tuvok_2332.png]]
--> Played by Creator/TimRuss

The former security chief of the USS ''Voyager'', now a rear admiral and aiding in the Dyson Sphere alliance. He is also in command of ''Voyager'' now.

* BigGood: As far as the Admiralty of Starfleet goes, he's probably among the most ReasonableAuthorityFigure and most clever.
* BotheringByTheBook: His orders come from Joint Command, which means the orders were signed off by Starfleet, KDF High Command and the Romulan Republic. [[spoiler:If you won't shut it down, he is under orders to do so.]]
* ButThouMust: [[spoiler:When you're told that the only way to stop the Dyson Sphere jump capabilities is to open up ''another'' Iconian gateway, you can flat out refuse. Tuvok will even tell you that if you don't open it, he will. If you continue being stubborn (and with good reason), he ''will'' activate the gateway.]]
* InkSuitActor: Thanks to Tim Russ allowing Cryptic to use his likeness.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler: Thanks to being controlled by the Undine, he's allowed the creatures complete and total access to the Alpha Quadrant. He seeks to make it up through mediating a conference to solve the problem with the Dyson Sphere they recovered.]]
** NiceJobFixingItVillain: He makes up for the above by pulling one of these on [[spoiler: Dr. Cooper when he mind probes Tuvok to taunt him. Tuvok extracts the information on the attack and disconnects, leaving Cooper to rage.]]
* OneBulletLeft: [[spoiler: When the Undine attack Qo'noS and haul out their own Planet Killer]], Tuvok reveals that the ''Voyager'' still has one last remaining Nanite Torpedo and hopes it can do the trick. [[spoiler:It barely damages it, but it's enough for Shon to pilot the ''Aquarius'' through its shields and assault the Planet Killer.]]
* RecurringCharacter: The third canon ''Trek'' character to do so, and the second to promise to return.
* RoleReprisal: Creator/TimRuss returns to voice Tuvok, and his in-game model is an InkSuitActor version of Russ.
* WhatTheHellHero: If you provoke the opposite faction flagship captain, refuse to shut down the station (and be forced to open the gateway) or try to take out the Voth without using the station defenses. The first time he will override you to prevent the situation from turning back into a shooting war with the Klingons/Federation (with the Republic getting split over it). The second time, his orders are to shut down the station from High Command, meaning he doesn't have to accept your orders on it. And the last one... well he'll do it since there is no rule in the book preventing it.

[[folder:The Class of Starfleet Academy, 2409]]
!Elisa Flores

!T'Vrell

!Zarva

!R'rak

[[folder:The Federation Captain (23rd Century)]]

[[folder:General Starfleet Characters]]
!Captain Masc P. Taggart
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/masc_taggart_6057.png]]
A Denobulan Starfleet captain attached to the Academy. In the post-Season 8 Federation tutorial he commands the player's starting ''Miranda''-class starship on a training cruise. Dies in the first hour of the game after being kidnapped from the ship by a Klingon raiding party.

* TheNicknamer: He calls the player his "Number One" and says he picked it up from another captain he served with, suggesting that he served with Captain Picard.
* SacrificialLion: Ends up sacrificing his life to save his crew from invading Klingons.
* ShootTheHostage[=/=]TrialByFriendlyFire: Orders the player to lock onto his combadge and fire on his position after he's captured by the Klingons, though he's killed by the Klingon captain before the player gives the order to fire.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: Dies in the first part of the Tutorial.

!The ''Khitomer'' EMH
--> Played by: Creator/ZacharyQuinto

An Emergency Medical Hologram running an improvised infirmary on the USS ''Khitomer'' during the Borg attack on Vega Colony. Hands the player objectives for part of the tutorial mission.

* BigDamnHeroes: Pulls this, alongside a small fleet's worth of ships when the player is beset by a ''Borg Cube''.
* DemotedToExtra: In Season 8. Most of the EMH's part of the tutorial was cut for the redesigned tutorial.
* PutOnABus: Neither the ''Khitomer'' EMH, nor any other of the same model of EMH, are ever seen again after the tutorial.

!Kolez

A Saurian security officer serving on Vega Colony when the Borg attacked. He defends Administrator Willa Post until you arrive to rescue them. He sticks with your crew afterwards.

* DemotedToExtra: After the tutorial he is reduced to a generic bridge officer story-wise, due to the backlash over Romulan players getting stuck permanently with Tovan Khev.

!Fleet Admiral Jorel Quinn

* BenevolentBoss
* CoolOldGuy

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure

!Admiral T'nae

!Admiral D'Vak

!Captain James Kurland

!Captain Thelin

!Lieutenant [[spoiler:Commander]] Miral Paris
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/miral_paris_9995.png]]
--> Played By: Creator/LisaLoCicero
Chief of Security aboard the USS ''Kirk''. The adult daughter of Tom Paris and B'Elanna Torres, she was born aboard the starship ''Voyager'' as it returned to the Alpha Quadrant. Believed by some to be the Kuvah'magh, a messianic figure in Klingon lore.

* ArtEvolution: A recent (circa July 20, 2014) update has changed her look to be more Klingon-like (see right), to be more in accordance with her adult appearance from "Endgame". There was speculation about her playing a role in the ''Delta Rising'' expansion, but this ultimately didn't happen... only for her to play a role in Season Ten: The Iconian War.
* ArtisticLicenseMilitary: She's a security officer, so following the game's uniform conventions her divisional color should be red, but instead she wears yellow, which is for operations and engineering personnel.
* AscendedExtra: She only had two appearances in the live-action canon: The day of her birth and a single scene as an adult and Admiral Janeway's Klingon contact in [[Series/StarTrekVoyager VOY]]: [[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS7E23Endgame "Endgame"]].
* TheBusCameBack: She disappeared from the storyline for a while, despite her purported status as the Kuvah'magh having potential for a plot in ''Delta Rising'' (the concept was introduced by a Klingon faction USS ''Voyager'' encountered in the Delta Quadrant). Instead she made a joint appearance with her father Captain Tom Paris in Season 10's "Delta Flight".
* DistressedDamsel: All three times she is encountered in the Federation leveling missions. She is kidnapped once, and rescued by the player twice. She comes into her own for "Delta Flight", however, commanding the battlecruiser USS ''Bern''.
* FauxActionGirl: During the "Klingon War" storyline. When she appears in "Delta Flight", she proves her chops.
* GenerationXerox: {{Downplayed}}. Though she's a security officer instead of an engineering officer, she takes after her mother somewhat in personality, and Tom Paris complains in "Delta Flight" that he could never win an argument with B'Elanna either.
* IJustWantToBeNormal: In her own words in the "Pirate Radio" mission, when asked by the player if she wants "to lead the Klingon Empire to glory":
--> "All I want is to be a good Starfleet officer. For every Klingon who wants to worship me, there is another who wants to kill me. It makes it hard to have anything resembling a normal life."
* InkSuitActor: Her redone model looks like [=Lisa LoCicero=], who played the adult Miral in the alternate future seen in [[Series/StarTrekVoyager VOY]]: "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS7E23Endgame Endgame]]".
* MilitaryBrat: The daughter of two Starfleet officers, at least one of which (Tom) is still on active duty. (B'Elanna's status hasn't been established yet.) She's also an admiral's granddaughter, and comments in "Delta Flight" that almost her entire extended family is either Starfleet or people like Seven of Nine "who might as well be."
* ProphecyTwist: It is said the Klingons would follow in her footsteps before she had made them. [[spoiler: Because she was abducted and taken into the past.]]
* SciFiBobHaircut: In her appearances in the "Klingon War" episode. She's grown her hair out by the time of her next appearance in "Delta Flight", set the next year.
* UnevenHybrid: Her mother was half-Klingon, so Miral is a fourth.

! Captain Akira Sulu

!Captain Jay Yim

* ScarsAreForever: He was badly injured at Vega Colony when his ship was hit.

!Commander Ethan Burgess

* AscendedExtra: From the Franchise/StarTrekNovelVerse, in fact. Matthias was a recurring minor character in the ''[[Literature/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineRelaunch DS9 Relaunch]]'' and ''[[Literature/StarTrekTyphonPact Typhon Pact]]'' novels with little development. Ascended further in Kestral's short stories, where she is a major character.

* RoleReprisal: Is voiced by Walter Koenig, the actor who played Chekov in the original series and subsequent movies.

* InvisiblePresident: He appears in ''The Path to 2409'' but doesn't appear in game until the Temporal Cold War arc. He finally had a speaking role in a 2016 story blog titled "In the Purview of Diplomats," complete with an actual in-game screenshot of the character (shown at right), but he's still absent from any actual missions or social maps until the Season 11.5 episode, Temporal Front.

!Franklin Drake
[[quoteright:183:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/franklin_drake_7544.png]]
->Played by Creator/AdamHarrington

The main member of Section 31 the player encounters. And what seems to be the only cynic in the Federation.

* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: Is fully aware that no one likes Section 31.
* ComplexityAddiction: His plan in the House of Torg arc is stupidly over-complicated considering its objective was "tell Worf that the House of Torg plans to exterminate the House of Martok". Apparently [[StatingTheSimpleSolution email]] is LostTechnology in the 25th century.
* GrumpyBear: In a weird kinda of way.
* GuileHero: Section 31 seems to have mellowed out a bit since the Dominion War, and Drake, for all his shadiness, is a tremendous help who's mostly on the side of the good guys.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Ever since the events of the previous century, Section 31 has had a deservedly poor reputation which Drake cheerfully embraces. Despite that, he takes care of his operatives and does little (if any) of the evil his organisation is infamous for, though let's not forget that his plan in the KDF storyline resulted in the destruction of several Federation capital ships by the KDF player character.
* ManipulativeBastard: He likes turning the player characters into his own personal catspaws and gets minimum ''thousands'' of Starfleet personnel killed to advance his agenda in the KDF storyline.
* OvertOperative. A variant. The circumstances always makes it clear that he's a spy, but he's remarkably open about the fact that he works for Section 31 (the rogue group that is so secret that almost no-one knows it exists) rather than Starfleet Intelligence proper.
* ProtagonistCenteredMorality: He sends a false DistressSignal to delay the KDF PC dealing when they get onto his trail faster than he expected, which is a war crime.
* RuggedScar: Has a big ropy scar on his right cheek for apparently no other reason than that it looks threatening.
* WeHaveReserves: Uses Starfleet as his own personal RedshirtArmy, getting a ''Galaxy''-class starship and several frigates and battleships destroyed, as well as getting a Starfleet Intelligence safehouse on Qo'noS captured, in the process of putting the KDF player character onto the House of Torg's EvilPlan. [[SarcasmMode But they're just nameless NPCs so it's okay, apparently.]]

* ComplexityAddiction: His plan in the House of Torg arc is stupidly over-complicated considering its objective was "tell Worf that the House of Torg plans to exterminate the House of Martok".

!!'''Characters.StarTrekOnline: United Federation of Planets''' • [[Characters/StarTrekOnlineKlingonEmpire Klingon Empire]] • [[Characters/StarTrekOnlineRomulansAndRemans Romulans and Remans]]

* DistressedDamsel: All three times she is encountered. She is kidnapped once, and rescued by the player twice.

* PutOnABus: Never seen again after the Klingon War storyline.
** TheBusCameBack: Until season 10.

* FailureHero: Deep Space 9 is boarded and taken over no fewer than four times over the course of the Cardassian storyline. In the fandom it's a RunningGag almost as much as [[MemeticMutation "KURLAND HERE"]] is.

* ArtisticLicenseMilitary[=/=]OverrankedSoldier: Regardless of the player's competence, they're still less than a year out of the Academy and yet a full fleet admiral by the end of the ''Delta Rising'' story. Even giving permanent command to a cadet who hadn't even finished their senior midshipman cruise is quite frankly ''ridiculous'', even with the {{handwave}} in the backstory that Admiral Quinn had started a policy of fast-tracking the promotions of promising junior officers.

The new flagship of the Federation, replacing the ''Enterprise''-E, which was [[TheWorfEffect destroyed by the Undine]] according to the background literature.

* HeroOfAnotherStory: [[WeirdnessMagnet It's the ]]''[[WeirdnessMagnet Enterprise]]'', so naturally they're all but guaranteed to be having their own wacky adventures offscreen. Some of these are recounted in short stories in ''Star Trek Magazine''.

* TokenNonhuman: The first nonhuman to ever command an [[spoiler:''Enterprise'']] (apart from Spock when it was assigned to Starfleet Academy at the start of ''Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan''). InUniverse, this appointment was taken by the Andorians as a sign that their species was returning to prominence in the Federation.

** However this is consistent with 24th century and beyond Starfleet where Operations Gold contains Operations, Engineering, and Security. Normally Tactical and Command are separate from security.

* TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything: He has unique dialogue in "Surface Tension" if he's talking to a Federation character who went through the new tutorial (and therefore was an Academy classmate) as opposed to the old one.

* FantasticRacism: She openly dislikes the Romulans. But she goes through some CharacterDevelopment after working with the Romulan PC during the "Freedom" episode, admitting to xir that her hatred was illogical. {{Justified}} according to WordOfGod: Lead writer Christine Thompson stated during an [[[[http://starbaseugc.com/FoundryRoundtable/episode19audio.mp3 interview]] with the fan podcast ''The Foundry Roundtable'' that she was aboard one of the Starfleet relief vessels attacked by Nero in the immediate aftermath of Hobus.