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** Series writer Theodore Sturgeon and DeForest Kelley came up with a scenario in which McCoy would give Spock a prostate massage, to ease the tensions between both men. The whole thing is even kinkier, given the differences in Vulcan anatomy.[[https://web.archive.org/web/20220829234225/https://sci-hub.3800808.com/https://doi.org/10.3828/sfftv.2016.9.15]]
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** Series writer Theodore Sturgeon and DeForest [=DeForest=] Kelley came up with a scenario in which McCoy would give Spock a prostate massage, to ease the tensions between both men. The whole thing is even kinkier, given the differences in Vulcan anatomy.[[https://web.archive.org/web/20220829234225/https://sci-hub.3800808.com/https://doi.org/10.3828/sfftv.2016.9.15]]15 scenario]] in which [=McCoy=] would give Spock a prostate massage, to ease the tensions between both men. The whole thing is even kinkier, given the differences in Vulcan anatomy.
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* DemotedToExtra: He has a much smaller role in ''The Undiscovered Country'' due to being busy commanding his own ship for most of the movie.
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* MeaningfulName: In addition to "Bones" recalling the old-fashion slang for a doctor ("Sawbones") it also reflects a character who relies on intuition over logic, i.e. he doesn't go by other people think, but by what he feels down to his ''bones.''
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!!Harcourt Fenton "Harry" Mudd
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!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/RogerCCarmel
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!!Harcourt Fenton "Harry" Mudd
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!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/RogerCCarmel
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!!Harcourt Fenton "Harry" Mudd
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!! Captain Koloth
!!!'''Played by:'''
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The second major Klingon antagonist to appear in the Original Series; he is one of the many problems Kirk has to contend with in "The Trouble With Tribbles". He is a boisterous and devious captain, cheerfully exploiting the terms of the Organian peace treaty for his benefit while scheming to advance the Klingon Empire's interests. Koloth proved extremely popular with fans and reappeared in the Animated Series and [=DS9=] alongside his fellow Klingons Kor and Kang, as well as starring in several novels and short stories.
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* AffablyEvil: He's a shameless crook and totally unrepentant scam artist, but he's friendly, cheerful, easy-going, and surprisingly likable, so long as you remember never to trust him with anything, especially anything worth money. Basically, he's a proto-Ferengi.
%%* TheAggressiveDrugDealer: In "Mudd's Women."
* ConMan: His first appearance is based on his scam to marry gorgeous women [[spoiler:secretly modified with drugs to be super-beautiful]] to lonely, wealthy space-workers for a huge payout. In ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries'', it's mentioned he once tricked an alien species by selling them the Starfleet Academy building.
* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: This gets visited upon him by Kirk at the end of "I, Mudd."
* EvilIsPetty: While downplayed as Mudd is mostly just a dick, but his role as Kirk’s antagonist just seems to be wanting to see him squirm and take Mudd’s orders.
* FullNameUltimatum:
-->'''Stella:''' Harcourt! Harcourt Fenton Mudd!...
-->'''Mudd:''' [[PhraseCatcher Shut UP, Stella!]]
* HenpeckedHusband: It turns out in "I, Mudd" that he had a harridan of a wife named Stella; part of the reason he became a crook was to run away from her to the ends of the galaxy.
-->'''Mudd:''' You see, gentlemen, behind every great man there is a woman urging him on. And so it was with my Stella. She urged me on into outer space. Not that she meant to, but with her continual, eternal, confounded nagging. Well, I think of her constantly, and every time I do, I go further out into space.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: By the Stella androids at the end of "I, Mudd."
* HonestJohnsDealership: The first storyline involving him is his plan to sell brides to lonely space-miners ([[spoiler:after giving them illegal "Venus Drugs" to make them super-beautiful]]). He'd also been convicted as a smuggler prior to his first appearance. In his second appearance, he describes how he escaped Deneb V after being sentenced to death for fraud.
* LovableRogue: He's a money-grubber and irresponsible, but he's affable and rarely trying to commit "truly evil" crimes.
* {{Recurrer}}: He holds the distinction of being the ''only'' non-Starfleet character in the entire series to appear in more than one episode. He returns for an episode of the Animated Series, as well. (He was also planned to make a third appearance on the show, but the proposed story was dropped.)
%%* TheAggressiveDrugDealer: In "Mudd's Women."
* ConMan: His first appearance is based on his scam to marry gorgeous women [[spoiler:secretly modified with drugs to be super-beautiful]] to lonely, wealthy space-workers for a huge payout. In ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries'', it's mentioned he once tricked an alien species by selling them the Starfleet Academy building.
* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: This gets visited upon him by Kirk at the end of "I, Mudd."
* EvilIsPetty: While downplayed as Mudd is mostly just a dick, but his role as Kirk’s antagonist just seems to be wanting to see him squirm and take Mudd’s orders.
* FullNameUltimatum:
-->'''Stella:''' Harcourt! Harcourt Fenton Mudd!...
-->'''Mudd:''' [[PhraseCatcher Shut UP, Stella!]]
* HenpeckedHusband: It turns out in "I, Mudd" that he had a harridan of a wife named Stella; part of the reason he became a crook was to run away from her to the ends of the galaxy.
-->'''Mudd:''' You see, gentlemen, behind every great man there is a woman urging him on. And so it was with my Stella. She urged me on into outer space. Not that she meant to, but with her continual, eternal, confounded nagging. Well, I think of her constantly, and every time I do, I go further out into space.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: By the Stella androids at the end of "I, Mudd."
* HonestJohnsDealership: The first storyline involving him is his plan to sell brides to lonely space-miners ([[spoiler:after giving them illegal "Venus Drugs" to make them super-beautiful]]). He'd also been convicted as a smuggler prior to his first appearance. In his second appearance, he describes how he escaped Deneb V after being sentenced to death for fraud.
* LovableRogue: He's a money-grubber and irresponsible, but he's affable and rarely trying to commit "truly evil" crimes.
* {{Recurrer}}: He holds the distinction of being the ''only'' non-Starfleet character in the entire series to appear in more than one episode. He returns for an episode of the Animated Series, as well. (He was also planned to make a third appearance on the show, but the proposed story was dropped.)
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* AffablyEvil: He's a shameless crook and totally unrepentant scam artist, but he's friendly, cheerful, easy-going, and surprisingly likable, so long as you remember never to trust him with anything, especially anything worth money. Basically, he's a proto-Ferengi.
%%* TheAggressiveDrugDealer: In "Mudd's Women."
EvilCounterpart: Koloth
*ConMan: His first appearance is based on his scam to marry gorgeous women [[spoiler:secretly modified with drugs to be super-beautiful]] to lonely, wealthy space-workers for a huge payout. In ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries'', it's mentioned he once tricked an alien species by selling them the Starfleet Academy building.
* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: This gets visited upon him byFriendlyEnemy: Kirk at the end of "I, Mudd."
* EvilIsPetty: While downplayed as Mudd is mostly just a dick, but his role as Kirk’s antagonist just seems to be wanting to see him squirmand take Mudd’s orders.
* FullNameUltimatum:
-->'''Stella:''' Harcourt! Harcourt Fenton Mudd!...
-->'''Mudd:''' [[PhraseCatcher Shut UP, Stella!]]
* HenpeckedHusband: It turns out in "I, Mudd" that he had a harridan of a wife named Stella; part of the reason he became a crook was to run away from her to the ends of the galaxy.
-->'''Mudd:''' You see, gentlemen, behind every great man there is a woman urging him on. And so it was with my Stella. She urged meKoloth (somewhat sarcastically) greet each other as "my dear captain" when they meet on into outer space. Not that she meant to, but with her continual, eternal, confounded nagging. Well, I think of her constantly, and every time I do, I go further out into space.K-7.
*HoistByHisOwnPetard: By the Stella androids at the end of "I, Mudd."
* HonestJohnsDealership: The first storyline involving himLargeHam: William Campbell is his plan to sell brides to lonely space-miners ([[spoiler:after giving them illegal "Venus Drugs" to make them super-beautiful]]). He'd also been convicted as a smuggler prior to his first appearance. In his second appearance, he describes how he escaped Deneb V after being sentenced to death for fraud.
* LovableRogue: He's a money-grubber and irresponsible, but he's affable and rarely trying to commit "truly evil" crimes.
* {{Recurrer}}: He holds the distinction of being the ''only'' non-Starfleet character in the entire series to appear inchanneling more than a little of his performance as Trelane into Koloth.
* NoodleIncident: Koloth and Kirk's first meeting prior to the episode.
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: [[WordOfSaintPaul According to William Campbell]], Koloth wanted to be the oneepisode. He returns for an episode to defeat Kirk and would have happily fought anyone who tried to take that opportunity away from him.
* RulesLawyer: Koloth uses the terms of theAnimated Series, as well. (He was also planned Organian peace treaty to make a third appearance get his men shore leave on K-7 over Kirk's protests.
* SmugSnake: Koloth is clearly enjoying theshow, but opportunity to tweak Kirk's nose while advancing the proposed story was dropped.)Empire's plot to poison the quadrotriticale shipment.
* WorthyOpponent: Koloth is clearly happy to be involved in verbal sparring matches with Kirk; decades later, Jadzia Dax tells Ben Sisko that Koloth always regretted never getting to face Kirk in battle.
%%* TheAggressiveDrugDealer: In "Mudd's Women."
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* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: This gets visited upon him by
* EvilIsPetty: While downplayed as Mudd is mostly just a dick, but his role as Kirk’s antagonist just seems to be wanting to see him squirm
* FullNameUltimatum:
-->'''Stella:''' Harcourt! Harcourt Fenton Mudd!...
-->'''Mudd:''' [[PhraseCatcher Shut UP, Stella!]]
* HenpeckedHusband: It turns out in "I, Mudd" that he had a harridan of a wife named Stella; part of the reason he became a crook was to run away from her to the ends of the galaxy.
-->'''Mudd:''' You see, gentlemen, behind every great man there is a woman urging him on. And so it was with my Stella. She urged me
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* HonestJohnsDealership: The first storyline involving him
* LovableRogue: He's a money-grubber and irresponsible, but he's affable and rarely trying to commit "truly evil" crimes.
* {{Recurrer}}: He holds the distinction of being the ''only'' non-Starfleet character in the entire series to appear in
* NoodleIncident: Koloth and Kirk's first meeting prior to the episode.
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: [[WordOfSaintPaul According to William Campbell]], Koloth wanted to be the one
* RulesLawyer: Koloth uses the terms of the
* SmugSnake: Koloth is clearly enjoying the
* WorthyOpponent: Koloth is clearly happy to be involved in verbal sparring matches with Kirk; decades later, Jadzia Dax tells Ben Sisko that Koloth always regretted never getting to face Kirk in battle.
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!!Tribbles
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Harmless little fuzzballs featured in three episodes -- "The Trouble with Tribbles" (TOS), "More Tribbles, More Troubles" (TAS), and "Trials and Tribble-ations" ([=DS9=]); and cameos in ''Film/StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock'', ''Film/StarTrek2009'', and ''Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness''.
!!Tribbles
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' | ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries'' | ''Film/StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock'' | ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' | ''Film/{{Star Trek|2009}}'' | ''Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness''
Harmless little fuzzballs featured in three episodes -- "The Trouble with Tribbles" (TOS), "More Tribbles, More Troubles" (TAS), and "Trials and Tribble-ations" ([=DS9=]); and cameos in ''Film/StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock'', ''Film/StarTrek2009'', and ''Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness''.
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!!Tribbles
!! Commander Kang
!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/MichaelAnsara
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' |
Harmless little fuzzballs featured in three episodes -- "The Trouble
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* BornAsAnAdult: And pregnant. Which is quite a time-saver.
* CutenessProximity: For some reason, people tend to enjoy cooing over the fluffy, purring fuzzballs. Well, unless you're a Klingon.
* ExplosiveBreeder: {{Exaggerated|Trope}}. In three days, one tribble will become 1,771,561. (Assuming that tribbles reproduce every twelve hours with an average litter of ten.)
* NowYouTellMe: "We stop feeding the tribbles and they stop breeding!"
* SitcomArchNemesis: The only species that the Tribbles do not like are the Klingons, and the feeling is very mutual.
* ThrownOutTheAirlock: Where they'll be no tribble at all.
* CutenessProximity: For some reason, people tend to enjoy cooing over the fluffy, purring fuzzballs. Well, unless you're a Klingon.
* ExplosiveBreeder: {{Exaggerated|Trope}}. In three days, one tribble will become 1,771,561. (Assuming that tribbles reproduce every twelve hours with an average litter of ten.)
* NowYouTellMe: "We stop feeding the tribbles and they stop breeding!"
* SitcomArchNemesis: The only species that the Tribbles do not like are the Klingons, and the feeling is very mutual.
* ThrownOutTheAirlock: Where they'll be no tribble at all.
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* CutenessProximity: For some reason, people tend
* ExplosiveBreeder: {{Exaggerated|Trope}}. In three days,
* NowYouTellMe: "We stop feeding the tribbles and they stop breeding!"
* SitcomArchNemesis: The only species that the Tribbles do not like are the Klingons, and the feeling is very mutual.
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-->'''Kor: Most interesting. The bulk of your crew trapped? Your ship racing from this galaxy at wild speeds? Delightful.
* EnemyMine: When Kang finally accepts that the Klingons and the ''Enterprise'' crew are being manipulated by the Beta-XII A entity, he teams up with Kirk to defeat the energy being.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: His wife, Mara, is his science officer, and he clearly cares for her, though he also won't let her be
* AFatherToHisMen: Kang is ''pissed'' at
* IHaveYourWife: Kirk tries threatening to kill Mara if Kang doesn't agree to a truce. Kang just shrugs it off as the inevitable result of war.
* SheatheYourSword: Kang lays down his arms when he realizes that he's being manipulated by the Beta-XII A entity.
* YellowPeril: Like Kor, Kang's appearance takes a lot of cues from Genghis Khan.
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!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/GaryLockwood
The antagonist of "Where No Man Has Gone Before." Mitchell was Kirk's best friend until contact with the great barrier at the edge of the galaxy gave him extra-sensory perception and psionic powers, leading him to believe that he was becoming a god.
!!Lieutenant Commander Gary Mitchell
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!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/GaryLockwood
The antagonist of "Where No Man Has Gone Before." Mitchell was Kirk's best friend until contact with the great barrier at the edge of the galaxy gave him extra-sensory perception and psionic powers, leading him to believe that he was becoming a god.
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The antagonist of "Where No Man Has Gone Before." Mitchell was Kirk's best friend until contact with the great barrier at the edge of the galaxy gave him extra-sensory perception and psionic powers, leading him to believe that he was becoming a god.
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' | ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries''
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* AntiVillain: At first. His initial acts of villainy are simply attempts to stop Kirk and Spock from killing him out of fear for his power. He gradually becomes more evil over the course of the episode and by the end he's left this trope far behind.
* AGodAmI: He frequently refers to himself as such. During the final confrontation he uses his telekinesis to force Kirk to kneel and pray to him.
* TheCharmer: In Kirk’s bio, the female crewmembers all miss him when he dies, mostly because he flirted with them constantly by making them laugh.
* ChivalrousPervert: He’s the one that pushed girlfriends on Kirk in the academy days, and apparently flirts a lot (the bio has Kirk be annoyed that he’s hitting on the female crew too much), but he’s a nice guy until his run-in with the galactic barrier causes him to mutate into a PhysicalGod and go insane as a result.
* ForgottenFallenFriend: The end of the pilot does give the crew a little time to grieve over him, but he's never mentioned again (the for-some-time-ambiguous canonicity probably didn't help), with his role as Kirk's close trusted friend getting transplanted onto Spock and [=McCoy=] (in fact, some fans watching the pilot get the impression that Mitchell was supposed to be first officer before Spock). He's there in the novel versions of the movies (and in one of Kirk's Nexus fantasies), with the implication that Kirk is trying very hard to forget about him.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: After the accident, his eyes start to glow silver. His eyes return to normal when he's injured or is otherwise prevented from using his powers.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:He is killed when he is crushed by rocks while standing in the grave he created for Kirk.]]
* HotBlooded: Kirk’s bio has him making a lot of impulsive, rash choices. Sometimes they work out, sometimes they don’t, and he admits to Kirk at one point that he doesn’t think things through.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Prior to his transformation.
* PhysicalGod: He starts out gaining telepathy and telekinesis (powerful enough to deflect phaser fire and take control of the Enterprise through thought alone), and eventually evolves to nearly Q and Trelane's level, being able to will matter into existence through thought alone. Being crushed by rocks still kills him, though it takes being weakened in a psychic fight with another god-like being to get to that point.
* PositiveFriendInfluence: Kirk’s bio posits that he would still play it safe and just be another face in the academy if it hadn’t been for Gary’s charm and showing his friend that he needs to take risks. This is what makes his transformation into an insane god-like being even more tragic.
* PowerEchoes: He eventually gains this.
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: Tells Kirk in more than one prequel book that leaving people to die under the guise of the Prime Directive is a shitty thing to do.
* ShadowArchetype: Nearly every later official book involving him has him as what Kirk is considered to be in popular culture; too reckless, doesn’t think and overly flirty. He’s a decent person despite this though, and is a PositiveFriendInfluence when younger Kirk wants to be a ByTheBookCop.
* ShockAndAwe: After Kirk manages to convince Dr. Dehner to pull a HeelFaceTurn, she and Mitchell blast each other repeatedly with lightning, resulting in a DoubleKnockout; unfortunately Mitchell recovers relatively quickly, while Dehner is fatally wounded.
* TheStoic: He quickly loses all traces of human emotion.
* SuperStrength: After being briefly BroughtDownToNormal after a psychic duel with Dr. Dehner, Mitchell gets into a fist-fight with Kirk in which Kirk initially has the upper hand, until Mitchell starts regaining his powers; even without his telekinesis, he's strong enough to flip Kirk with an OffHandBackHand and lift a huge boulder and toss it at Kirk.
* TragicMonster: As Kirk says, Mitchell never wanted this to happen to him.
* {{Ubermensch}}: He believes that he has become a higher being who is destined to change mankind forever.
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: After he starts mutating, he's initially relatively normal and only attacks the crew because they're considering killing him out of fear he'll evolve to the point where he starts to see human beings as insects. Pretty soon, though, he evolves to the point where he sees human beings as insects, losing all empathy for them and even demanding to be worshipped as a god.
* AGodAmI: He frequently refers to himself as such. During the final confrontation he uses his telekinesis to force Kirk to kneel and pray to him.
* TheCharmer: In Kirk’s bio, the female crewmembers all miss him when he dies, mostly because he flirted with them constantly by making them laugh.
* ChivalrousPervert: He’s the one that pushed girlfriends on Kirk in the academy days, and apparently flirts a lot (the bio has Kirk be annoyed that he’s hitting on the female crew too much), but he’s a nice guy until his run-in with the galactic barrier causes him to mutate into a PhysicalGod and go insane as a result.
* ForgottenFallenFriend: The end of the pilot does give the crew a little time to grieve over him, but he's never mentioned again (the for-some-time-ambiguous canonicity probably didn't help), with his role as Kirk's close trusted friend getting transplanted onto Spock and [=McCoy=] (in fact, some fans watching the pilot get the impression that Mitchell was supposed to be first officer before Spock). He's there in the novel versions of the movies (and in one of Kirk's Nexus fantasies), with the implication that Kirk is trying very hard to forget about him.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: After the accident, his eyes start to glow silver. His eyes return to normal when he's injured or is otherwise prevented from using his powers.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:He is killed when he is crushed by rocks while standing in the grave he created for Kirk.]]
* HotBlooded: Kirk’s bio has him making a lot of impulsive, rash choices. Sometimes they work out, sometimes they don’t, and he admits to Kirk at one point that he doesn’t think things through.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Prior to his transformation.
* PhysicalGod: He starts out gaining telepathy and telekinesis (powerful enough to deflect phaser fire and take control of the Enterprise through thought alone), and eventually evolves to nearly Q and Trelane's level, being able to will matter into existence through thought alone. Being crushed by rocks still kills him, though it takes being weakened in a psychic fight with another god-like being to get to that point.
* PositiveFriendInfluence: Kirk’s bio posits that he would still play it safe and just be another face in the academy if it hadn’t been for Gary’s charm and showing his friend that he needs to take risks. This is what makes his transformation into an insane god-like being even more tragic.
* PowerEchoes: He eventually gains this.
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: Tells Kirk in more than one prequel book that leaving people to die under the guise of the Prime Directive is a shitty thing to do.
* ShadowArchetype: Nearly every later official book involving him has him as what Kirk is considered to be in popular culture; too reckless, doesn’t think and overly flirty. He’s a decent person despite this though, and is a PositiveFriendInfluence when younger Kirk wants to be a ByTheBookCop.
* ShockAndAwe: After Kirk manages to convince Dr. Dehner to pull a HeelFaceTurn, she and Mitchell blast each other repeatedly with lightning, resulting in a DoubleKnockout; unfortunately Mitchell recovers relatively quickly, while Dehner is fatally wounded.
* TheStoic: He quickly loses all traces of human emotion.
* SuperStrength: After being briefly BroughtDownToNormal after a psychic duel with Dr. Dehner, Mitchell gets into a fist-fight with Kirk in which Kirk initially has the upper hand, until Mitchell starts regaining his powers; even without his telekinesis, he's strong enough to flip Kirk with an OffHandBackHand and lift a huge boulder and toss it at Kirk.
* TragicMonster: As Kirk says, Mitchell never wanted this to happen to him.
* {{Ubermensch}}: He believes that he has become a higher being who is destined to change mankind forever.
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: After he starts mutating, he's initially relatively normal and only attacks the crew because they're considering killing him out of fear he'll evolve to the point where he starts to see human beings as insects. Pretty soon, though, he evolves to the point where he sees human beings as insects, losing all empathy for them and even demanding to be worshipped as a god.
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* AntiVillain: At first. His initial acts of villainy are simply attempts to stop Kirk AffablyEvil: He's a shameless crook and Spock from killing him out of fear for his power. He gradually becomes more evil over the course of the episode and by the end totally unrepentant scam artist, but he's left this trope far behind.
* AGodAmI: He frequently refersfriendly, cheerful, easy-going, and surprisingly likable, so long as you remember never to himself as such. During trust him with anything, especially anything worth money. Basically, he's a proto-Ferengi.
%%* TheAggressiveDrugDealer: In "Mudd's Women."
* ConMan: His first appearance is based on his scam to marry gorgeous women [[spoiler:secretly modified with drugs to be super-beautiful]] to lonely, wealthy space-workers for a huge payout. In ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries'', it's mentioned he once tricked an alien species by selling them thefinal confrontation he uses his telekinesis to force Starfleet Academy building.
* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: This gets visited upon him by Kirkto kneel and pray to him.
at the end of "I, Mudd."
*TheCharmer: In EvilIsPetty: While downplayed as Mudd is mostly just a dick, but his role as Kirk’s bio, antagonist just seems to be wanting to see him squirm and take Mudd’s orders.
* FullNameUltimatum:
-->'''Stella:''' Harcourt! Harcourt Fenton Mudd!...
-->'''Mudd:''' [[PhraseCatcher Shut UP, Stella!]]
* HenpeckedHusband: It turns out in "I, Mudd" that he had a harridan of a wife named Stella; part of thefemale crewmembers all miss reason he became a crook was to run away from her to the ends of the galaxy.
-->'''Mudd:''' You see, gentlemen, behind every great man there is a woman urging himwhen he dies, mostly because he flirted on. And so it was with them constantly by making them laugh.my Stella. She urged me on into outer space. Not that she meant to, but with her continual, eternal, confounded nagging. Well, I think of her constantly, and every time I do, I go further out into space.
* ChivalrousPervert: He’s the one that pushed girlfriends on Kirk in the academy days, and apparently flirts a lot (the bio has Kirk be annoyed that he’s hitting on the female crew too much), but he’s a nice guy until his run-in with the galactic barrier causes him to mutate into a PhysicalGod and go insane as a result.
* ForgottenFallenFriend: The end of the pilot does give the crew a little time to grieve over him, but he's never mentioned again (the for-some-time-ambiguous canonicity probably didn't help), with his role as Kirk's close trusted friend getting transplanted onto Spock and [=McCoy=] (in fact, some fans watching the pilot get the impression that Mitchell was supposed to be first officer before Spock). He's there in the novel versions of the movies (and in one of Kirk's Nexus fantasies), with the implication that Kirk is trying very hard to forget about him.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: After the accident, his eyes start to glow silver. His eyes return to normal when he's injured or is otherwise prevented from using his powers.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:He By the Stella androids at the end of "I, Mudd."
* HonestJohnsDealership: The first storyline involving him iskilled when his plan to sell brides to lonely space-miners ([[spoiler:after giving them illegal "Venus Drugs" to make them super-beautiful]]). He'd also been convicted as a smuggler prior to his first appearance. In his second appearance, he is crushed by rocks while standing describes how he escaped Deneb V after being sentenced to death for fraud.
* LovableRogue: He's a money-grubber and irresponsible, but he's affable and rarely trying to commit "truly evil" crimes.
* {{Recurrer}}: He holds the distinction of being the ''only'' non-Starfleet character in thegrave he created for Kirk.]]
* HotBlooded: Kirk’s bio has him making a lot of impulsive, rash choices. Sometimes they work out, sometimes they don’t, and he admitsentire series to Kirk at one point that he doesn’t think things through.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Prior to his transformation.
* PhysicalGod: He starts out gaining telepathy and telekinesis (powerful enough to deflect phaser fire and take control of the Enterprise through thought alone), and eventually evolves to nearly Q and Trelane's level, being able to will matter into existence through thought alone. Being crushed by rocks still kills him, though it takes being weakened in a psychic fight with another god-like being to get to that point.
* PositiveFriendInfluence: Kirk’s bio posits that he would still play it safe and just be another face in the academy if it hadn’t been for Gary’s charm and showing his friend that he needs to take risks. This is what makes his transformation into an insane god-like being even more tragic.
* PowerEchoes: He eventually gains this.
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: Tells Kirkappear in more than one prequel book that leaving people to die under the guise episode. He returns for an episode of the Prime Directive is a shitty thing Animated Series, as well. (He was also planned to do.
* ShadowArchetype: Nearly every later official book involving him has him as what Kirk is considered to be in popular culture; too reckless, doesn’t think and overly flirty. He’smake a decent person despite this though, and is a PositiveFriendInfluence when younger Kirk wants to be a ByTheBookCop.
* ShockAndAwe: After Kirk manages to convince Dr. Dehner to pull a HeelFaceTurn, she and Mitchell blast each other repeatedly with lightning, resulting in a DoubleKnockout; unfortunately Mitchell recovers relatively quickly, while Dehner is fatally wounded.
* TheStoic: He quickly loses all traces of human emotion.
* SuperStrength: After being briefly BroughtDownToNormal after a psychic duel with Dr. Dehner, Mitchell gets into a fist-fight with Kirk in which Kirk initially hasthird appearance on the upper hand, until Mitchell starts regaining his powers; even without his telekinesis, he's strong enough to flip Kirk with an OffHandBackHand and lift a huge boulder and toss it at Kirk.
* TragicMonster: As Kirk says, Mitchell never wanted this to happen to him.
* {{Ubermensch}}: He believes that he has become a higher being who is destined to change mankind forever.
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: After he starts mutating, he's initially relatively normal and only attacksshow, but the crew because they're considering killing him out of fear he'll evolve to the point where he starts to see human beings as insects. Pretty soon, though, he evolves to the point where he sees human beings as insects, losing all empathy for them and even demanding to be worshipped as a god.proposed story was dropped.)
* AGodAmI: He frequently refers
%%* TheAggressiveDrugDealer: In "Mudd's Women."
* ConMan: His first appearance is based on his scam to marry gorgeous women [[spoiler:secretly modified with drugs to be super-beautiful]] to lonely, wealthy space-workers for a huge payout. In ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries'', it's mentioned he once tricked an alien species by selling them the
* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: This gets visited upon him by Kirk
*
* FullNameUltimatum:
-->'''Stella:''' Harcourt! Harcourt Fenton Mudd!...
-->'''Mudd:''' [[PhraseCatcher Shut UP, Stella!]]
* HenpeckedHusband: It turns out in "I, Mudd" that he had a harridan of a wife named Stella; part of the
-->'''Mudd:''' You see, gentlemen, behind every great man there is a woman urging him
* ForgottenFallenFriend: The end of the pilot does give the crew a little time to grieve over him, but he's never mentioned again (the for-some-time-ambiguous canonicity probably didn't help), with his role as Kirk's close trusted friend getting transplanted onto Spock and [=McCoy=] (in fact, some fans watching the pilot get the impression that Mitchell was supposed to be first officer before Spock). He's there in the novel versions of the movies (and in one of Kirk's Nexus fantasies), with the implication that Kirk is trying very hard to forget about him.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: After the accident, his eyes start to glow silver. His eyes return to normal when he's injured or is otherwise prevented from using his powers.
* HonestJohnsDealership: The first storyline involving him is
* LovableRogue: He's a money-grubber and irresponsible, but he's affable and rarely trying to commit "truly evil" crimes.
* {{Recurrer}}: He holds the distinction of being the ''only'' non-Starfleet character in the
* HotBlooded: Kirk’s bio has him making a lot of impulsive, rash choices. Sometimes they work out, sometimes they don’t, and he admits
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Prior to his transformation.
* PhysicalGod: He starts out gaining telepathy and telekinesis (powerful enough to deflect phaser fire and take control of the Enterprise through thought alone), and eventually evolves to nearly Q and Trelane's level, being able to will matter into existence through thought alone. Being crushed by rocks still kills him, though it takes being weakened in a psychic fight with another god-like being to get to that point.
* PositiveFriendInfluence: Kirk’s bio posits that he would still play it safe and just be another face in the academy if it hadn’t been for Gary’s charm and showing his friend that he needs to take risks. This is what makes his transformation into an insane god-like being even more tragic.
* PowerEchoes: He eventually gains this.
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: Tells Kirk
* ShadowArchetype: Nearly every later official book involving him has him as what Kirk is considered to be in popular culture; too reckless, doesn’t think and overly flirty. He’s
* ShockAndAwe: After Kirk manages to convince Dr. Dehner to pull a HeelFaceTurn, she and Mitchell blast each other repeatedly with lightning, resulting in a DoubleKnockout; unfortunately Mitchell recovers relatively quickly, while Dehner is fatally wounded.
* TheStoic: He quickly loses all traces of human emotion.
* SuperStrength: After being briefly BroughtDownToNormal after a psychic duel with Dr. Dehner, Mitchell gets into a fist-fight with Kirk in which Kirk initially has
* TragicMonster: As Kirk says, Mitchell never wanted this to happen to him.
* {{Ubermensch}}: He believes that he has become a higher being who is destined to change mankind forever.
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: After he starts mutating, he's initially relatively normal and only attacks
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!!The Gorn Captain
The captain of a vessel that attacked a Federation colony and lured the Enterprise to the ruins of it for an ambush, before being forced to battle Kirk to the death by aliens called the Metrons, where it is revealed that the Gorn only attacked because they considered the colony to be the prelude to Federation conquest.
!!The Gorn Captain
The captain of a vessel that attacked a Federation colony and lured the Enterprise to the ruins of it for an ambush, before being forced to battle Kirk to the death by aliens called the Metrons, where it is revealed that the Gorn only attacked because they considered the colony to be the prelude to Federation conquest.
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!!The Gorn Captain
The captain
!! Trelane, Squire of
!!!'''Played by:''' William Campbell
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries''
A flamboyant, childlike, and
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* AntiVillain: While utterly ruthless about how they went about dealing with it, the Enterprise crew concedes that they had no clue the colony was infringing on Gorn territory and that such a thing ''would'' look like an act of aggression if things were reversed. In the mind of the Gorn, they are acting in self-defence.
* AttackItsWeakPoint: During their initial fight, Kirk manages to briefly stun him by slamming the ear-like nodes on his head. It looks like Kirk managed to hit a vulnerable spot, because the Gorn is otherwise tough enough to NoSell a microwave-sized rock to the clavicle.
* GeniusBruiser: It looks like a brutish lizard monster that Kirk can't put down, yet it repeatedly outsmarts both Kirk personally and the ''Enterprise'' as a whole. Also, instead of relying on his superior natural strength, he takes the time to fashion a weapon from the location environment, just like Kirk does; however, he made a flint knife while Kirk made ''a cannon''.
* ImplacableMan: The Gorn Captain shrugs off every physical attack Kirk hits him with and even gets back up when Kirk drops a boulder on him.
* MadeOfIron: As Kirk himself notes during the episode, the Gorn Captain easily takes attacks from Kirk that would kill a human being. Even Kirk dropping a boulder on him only knocked him out for no more than a minute, and didn't injure him at all.
* MightyGlacier: Much more powerful and durable than Kirk, yet moves about as fast as molasses in January.
* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: Implied, since their first response to finding a Federation colony on their territory is to utterly destroy it and set a trap for the nearest Federation starship, and they prove to be superior both tactically and in terms of firepower.
* SuperStrength: Kirk manages to pick up a large rock (maybe 60-80 pounds) and throw it at the Gorn Captain, hitting him square in the chest and accomplishing nothing. In response, the Gorn Captain ''easily'' picks up and lifts over his head a boulder that has to weigh at least a ton, and throws it (judging by the arc and how much time Kirk had to see it coming and dodge) probably fifty feet.
* AttackItsWeakPoint: During their initial fight, Kirk manages to briefly stun him by slamming the ear-like nodes on his head. It looks like Kirk managed to hit a vulnerable spot, because the Gorn is otherwise tough enough to NoSell a microwave-sized rock to the clavicle.
* GeniusBruiser: It looks like a brutish lizard monster that Kirk can't put down, yet it repeatedly outsmarts both Kirk personally and the ''Enterprise'' as a whole. Also, instead of relying on his superior natural strength, he takes the time to fashion a weapon from the location environment, just like Kirk does; however, he made a flint knife while Kirk made ''a cannon''.
* ImplacableMan: The Gorn Captain shrugs off every physical attack Kirk hits him with and even gets back up when Kirk drops a boulder on him.
* MadeOfIron: As Kirk himself notes during the episode, the Gorn Captain easily takes attacks from Kirk that would kill a human being. Even Kirk dropping a boulder on him only knocked him out for no more than a minute, and didn't injure him at all.
* MightyGlacier: Much more powerful and durable than Kirk, yet moves about as fast as molasses in January.
* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: Implied, since their first response to finding a Federation colony on their territory is to utterly destroy it and set a trap for the nearest Federation starship, and they prove to be superior both tactically and in terms of firepower.
* SuperStrength: Kirk manages to pick up a large rock (maybe 60-80 pounds) and throw it at the Gorn Captain, hitting him square in the chest and accomplishing nothing. In response, the Gorn Captain ''easily'' picks up and lifts over his head a boulder that has to weigh at least a ton, and throws it (judging by the arc and how much time Kirk had to see it coming and dodge) probably fifty feet.
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*
* AttackItsWeakPoint: During their initial fight, Kirk manages to briefly stun him by slamming the ear-like nodes on his head. It looks like Kirk managed to hit a vulnerable spot, because the Gorn is otherwise tough enough to NoSell a microwave-sized rock to the clavicle.
* GeniusBruiser: It looks like a brutish lizard monster that Kirk can't put down, yet it repeatedly outsmarts both Kirk personally
* ImplacableMan: The Gorn Captain shrugs off every physical attack Kirk hits him with and even gets back up when Kirk drops a boulder on him.
* MadeOfIron: As Kirk himself notes during the episode, the Gorn Captain easily takes attacks from Kirk that would kill a human being. Even Kirk dropping a boulder on him only knocked him out for no more than a minute, and didn't injure him at all.
* MightyGlacier: Much more powerful and durable than Kirk, yet moves about as fast as molasses in January.
* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: Implied, since their first response to finding a Federation colony on their territory is to utterly destroy it and set a trap for the nearest Federation starship, and they prove to be superior both tactically and in terms of firepower.
*
* BewareTheSillyOnes: Trelane spends the first half of the episode being a vaguely threatening cornball. Then he decides to hunt Kirk
* {{Expy}}: Trelane's attitude and manner of interacting with the
* GratuitousForeignLanguage: He switches into French and German to
* KlingonsLoveShakespeare: Trelane seems enthralled by human history, specifically its martial aspects; he introduces himself as a retired general and asks Kirk to tell him about his battles and missions of conquest.
* PsychopathicManchild: He is fascinated by Kirk's phaser, vaporizing several objects in his house before declaring that one could kill millions with it. He later throws a tantrum when Kirk and the others won't cooperate with him and ultimately decides to hunt the captain for sport, gloating and cackling all the while. Then it turns out he actually is a child, at least
* RealityWarper: He can twist space and
* SoreLoser: He doesn't take it at all well when Kirk
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!!Janice Lester
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!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/SandraSmith
Kirk's PsychoExGirlfriend, stealing his body in "Turnabout Intruder" so he can finally know the "indignity of being a woman" and she can get the Captain status she's always craved.
!!Janice Lester
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!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/SandraSmith
Kirk's PsychoExGirlfriend, stealing his body in "Turnabout Intruder" so he can finally know the "indignity of being a woman" and she can get the Captain status she's always craved.
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!!Janice Lester
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/janice_lester.jpg]]
!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/SandraSmith
Kirk's PsychoExGirlfriend, stealing his body
!!Tribbles
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' | ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries'' | ''Film/StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock'' | ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' | ''Film/{{Star Trek|2009}}'' | ''Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness''
Harmless little fuzzballs featured in
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* AmbiguousGenderIdentity: Maybe she would have had an easier time if she just transitioned into being a man.
* BlatantLies: Delivered the infamous claim that women in the liberal utopia that is the Federation are barred from commanding starships. Regardless of whether Gene meant that literally or not, several decades and many female captains later and we are able to put this down to the fact that she is just making up excuses for the fact that there is no way anyone would promote someone this mentally unstable to the rank of captain.
* BrokenBird: A manipulative DeathSeeker who finds it easy to hit her ex boyfriend and hates herself.
* EasilyForgiven: Kirk has a habit of doing so to people who treat him awfully, but even Shatner complained that nothing in the episode actually got resolved.
* DeathSeeker: Kirk points out that her “love” for him was actually torturing and punishing, and that they would have killed each other. She responds with “that might have been better”.
* DomesticAbuse: She's a little too happy to be finally stronger than her ex boyfriend, mocking him for being scared all the time and punches him out to shut him up.
* FinalBoss: The villain of the original series' final episode, though due to the show's episodic nature there was no plot-related significance to this other than the fact it just happened to be the last episode filmed.
* IJustWantToBeYou: She vehemently denies loving Kirk, telling Coleman that she just loves and wants the life he leads of being Captain.
* ManIFeelLikeAWoman: Inverted. Sure she hates Kirk, but still takes the time to grope his abs when she's finally in him.
* MirrorCharacter: For Kirk, as she seduces her assistant the way he seduces villains of the week, plays {{wounded gazelle gambit}}s well like how he’s got the Enterprise to play dead multiple times, both have DeathSeeker inclinations and while he’s an AgentPeacock comfortable in his gender, she’s rigid in gender norms and is a TroubledAbuser because of it.
* NeverMyFault: In their conversation, Kirk is of the opinion that their relationship was a toxic mess, yet she blames Kirk for leaving, claiming he abandoned her when it got serious.
* PsychopathicWomanchild: She’s positively giggling when she manages to trap Kirk in her former body, and snuggles with him in her arms while talking about how he should have killed her.
* TooCleverByHalf: Aside from being an HystericalWoman, she partly fucks up because she thinks being a Captain means you’re formal with everyone, and shows no affection for the crew that Kirk does (like calling Bones “Doctor [=McCoy=]” constantly.)
* TroubledAbuser: According to the hearing, she hated being a woman, and took it out on Kirk, making it hell to be with her.
* WoundedGazelleGambit: She fakes having deadly serious radiation poisoning to get her ChronicHeroSyndrome ex alone with her and sympathetic.
* BlatantLies: Delivered the infamous claim that women in the liberal utopia that is the Federation are barred from commanding starships. Regardless of whether Gene meant that literally or not, several decades and many female captains later and we are able to put this down to the fact that she is just making up excuses for the fact that there is no way anyone would promote someone this mentally unstable to the rank of captain.
* BrokenBird: A manipulative DeathSeeker who finds it easy to hit her ex boyfriend and hates herself.
* EasilyForgiven: Kirk has a habit of doing so to people who treat him awfully, but even Shatner complained that nothing in the episode actually got resolved.
* DeathSeeker: Kirk points out that her “love” for him was actually torturing and punishing, and that they would have killed each other. She responds with “that might have been better”.
* DomesticAbuse: She's a little too happy to be finally stronger than her ex boyfriend, mocking him for being scared all the time and punches him out to shut him up.
* FinalBoss: The villain of the original series' final episode, though due to the show's episodic nature there was no plot-related significance to this other than the fact it just happened to be the last episode filmed.
* IJustWantToBeYou: She vehemently denies loving Kirk, telling Coleman that she just loves and wants the life he leads of being Captain.
* ManIFeelLikeAWoman: Inverted. Sure she hates Kirk, but still takes the time to grope his abs when she's finally in him.
* MirrorCharacter: For Kirk, as she seduces her assistant the way he seduces villains of the week, plays {{wounded gazelle gambit}}s well like how he’s got the Enterprise to play dead multiple times, both have DeathSeeker inclinations and while he’s an AgentPeacock comfortable in his gender, she’s rigid in gender norms and is a TroubledAbuser because of it.
* NeverMyFault: In their conversation, Kirk is of the opinion that their relationship was a toxic mess, yet she blames Kirk for leaving, claiming he abandoned her when it got serious.
* PsychopathicWomanchild: She’s positively giggling when she manages to trap Kirk in her former body, and snuggles with him in her arms while talking about how he should have killed her.
* TooCleverByHalf: Aside from being an HystericalWoman, she partly fucks up because she thinks being a Captain means you’re formal with everyone, and shows no affection for the crew that Kirk does (like calling Bones “Doctor [=McCoy=]” constantly.)
* TroubledAbuser: According to the hearing, she hated being a woman, and took it out on Kirk, making it hell to be with her.
* WoundedGazelleGambit: She fakes having deadly serious radiation poisoning to get her ChronicHeroSyndrome ex alone with her and sympathetic.
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* AmbiguousGenderIdentity: Maybe she would have had an easier time if she just transitioned into being a man.
* BlatantLies: Delivered the infamous claim that women in the liberal utopia thatBornAsAnAdult: And pregnant. Which is the Federation are barred from commanding starships. Regardless of whether Gene meant that literally or not, several decades and many female captains later and we are able to put this down to the fact that she is just making up excuses for the fact that there is no way anyone would promote someone this mentally unstable to the rank of captain.
quite a time-saver.
*BrokenBird: A manipulative DeathSeeker who finds it easy to hit her ex boyfriend and hates herself.
* EasilyForgiven: Kirk has a habit of doing so toCutenessProximity: For some reason, people who treat him awfully, but even Shatner complained tend to enjoy cooing over the fluffy, purring fuzzballs. Well, unless you're a Klingon.
* ExplosiveBreeder: {{Exaggerated|Trope}}. In three days, one tribble will become 1,771,561. (Assuming thatnothing in the episode actually got resolved.
* DeathSeeker: Kirk points out that her “love” for him was actually torturing and punishing, and that they would have killed each other. She respondstribbles reproduce every twelve hours with “that might have been better”.
* DomesticAbuse: She's a little too happy to be finally stronger than her ex boyfriend, mocking him for being scared all the time and punches him out to shut him up.
* FinalBoss: The villainan average litter of the original series' final episode, though due to the show's episodic nature there was no plot-related significance to this other than the fact it just happened to be the last episode filmed.
* IJustWantToBeYou: She vehemently denies loving Kirk, telling Coleman that she just loves and wants the life he leads of being Captain.
* ManIFeelLikeAWoman: Inverted. Sure she hates Kirk, but still takes the time to grope his abs when she's finally in him.
* MirrorCharacter: For Kirk, as she seduces her assistant the way he seduces villains of the week, plays {{wounded gazelle gambit}}s well like how he’s got the Enterprise to play dead multiple times, both have DeathSeeker inclinations and while he’s an AgentPeacock comfortable in his gender, she’s rigid in gender norms and is a TroubledAbuser because of it.
* NeverMyFault: In their conversation, Kirk is of the opinion that their relationship was a toxic mess, yet she blames Kirk for leaving, claiming he abandoned her when it got serious.
* PsychopathicWomanchild: She’s positively giggling when she manages to trap Kirk in her former body, and snuggles with him in her arms while talking about how he should have killed her.
* TooCleverByHalf: Aside from being an HystericalWoman, she partly fucks up because she thinks being a Captain means you’re formal with everyone, and shows no affection for the crew that Kirk does (like calling Bones “Doctor [=McCoy=]” constantly.ten.)
*TroubledAbuser: According to NowYouTellMe: "We stop feeding the hearing, she hated being a woman, tribbles and took it out on Kirk, making it hell to be with her.
they stop breeding!"
*WoundedGazelleGambit: She fakes having deadly serious radiation poisoning to get her ChronicHeroSyndrome ex alone with her SitcomArchNemesis: The only species that the Tribbles do not like are the Klingons, and sympathetic.
the feeling is very mutual.
* ThrownOutTheAirlock: Where they'll be no tribble at all.
* BlatantLies: Delivered the infamous claim that women in the liberal utopia that
*
* EasilyForgiven: Kirk has a habit of doing so to
* ExplosiveBreeder: {{Exaggerated|Trope}}. In three days, one tribble will become 1,771,561. (Assuming that
* DeathSeeker: Kirk points out that her “love” for him was actually torturing and punishing, and that they would have killed each other. She responds
* DomesticAbuse: She's a little too happy to be finally stronger than her ex boyfriend, mocking him for being scared all the time and punches him out to shut him up.
* FinalBoss: The villain
* IJustWantToBeYou: She vehemently denies loving Kirk, telling Coleman that she just loves and wants the life he leads of being Captain.
* ManIFeelLikeAWoman: Inverted. Sure she hates Kirk, but still takes the time to grope his abs when she's finally in him.
* MirrorCharacter: For Kirk, as she seduces her assistant the way he seduces villains of the week, plays {{wounded gazelle gambit}}s well like how he’s got the Enterprise to play dead multiple times, both have DeathSeeker inclinations and while he’s an AgentPeacock comfortable in his gender, she’s rigid in gender norms and is a TroubledAbuser because of it.
* NeverMyFault: In their conversation, Kirk is of the opinion that their relationship was a toxic mess, yet she blames Kirk for leaving, claiming he abandoned her when it got serious.
* PsychopathicWomanchild: She’s positively giggling when she manages to trap Kirk in her former body, and snuggles with him in her arms while talking about how he should have killed her.
* TooCleverByHalf: Aside from being an HystericalWoman, she partly fucks up because she thinks being a Captain means you’re formal with everyone, and shows no affection for the crew that Kirk does (like calling Bones “Doctor [=McCoy=]” constantly.
*
*
* ThrownOutTheAirlock: Where they'll be no tribble at all.
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!!Others
[[folder:Ambassador Sarek]]
!!Ambassador Sarek
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!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/MarkLenard
!!!'''Dubbed in French by:''' Roger Rudel (Star Trek III), Georges Berthomieu (Star Trek IV), Mario Santini (Star Trek VI)
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' | ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries'' | ''Film/StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock'' | ''Film/StarTrekIVTheVoyageHome'' | ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' | ''Film/StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry''
Father of Spock. A distinguished Vulcan Diplomat, he and Spock were not on speaking terms for some time prior to the former's first appearance in "Journey to Babel" (to the point where Spock never even mentioned to Kirk or Bones that they were related). Sarek had wanted his son to follow him in his footsteps by attending the Vulcan Science Academy, but instead, Spock chose to join Starfleet. Appears in only one episode of the Original Series, but returns in the films, the Animated Series, and even ''Star Trek: The Next Generation.''
[[folder:Ambassador Sarek]]
!!Ambassador Sarek
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sarek.jpg]]
!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/MarkLenard
!!!'''Dubbed in French by:''' Roger Rudel (Star Trek III), Georges Berthomieu (Star Trek IV), Mario Santini (Star Trek VI)
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' | ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries'' | ''Film/StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock'' | ''Film/StarTrekIVTheVoyageHome'' | ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' | ''Film/StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry''
Father of Spock. A distinguished Vulcan Diplomat, he and Spock were not on speaking terms for some time prior to the former's first appearance in "Journey to Babel" (to the point where Spock never even mentioned to Kirk or Bones that they were related). Sarek had wanted his son to follow him in his footsteps by attending the Vulcan Science Academy, but instead, Spock chose to join Starfleet. Appears in only one episode of the Original Series, but returns in the films, the Animated Series, and even ''Star Trek: The Next Generation.''
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[[folder:Ambassador Sarek]]
!!Ambassador Sarek
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!!Lieutenant Commander Gary Mitchell
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!!!'''Played by:'''
!!!'''Dubbed in French by:''' Roger Rudel (Star Trek III), Georges Berthomieu (Star Trek IV), Mario Santini (Star Trek VI)
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' | ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries'' | ''Film/StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock'' | ''Film/StarTrekIVTheVoyageHome'' | ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' | ''Film/StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry''
Father
The antagonist of
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* AbusiveParents: Not intentionally, but cold Vulcan logic means he was emotionally distant toward Spock when he was a kid, and it's helped cause a lot of Spock's anti-human attitude. Sort of tells you what his parenting styles are like when Spock's reaction to being told Sarek's at threat of dying is "meh". Fortunately, they manage to repair their relationship.
* {{Ambadassador}}: He's proficient in Vulcan martial arts. Spock points out that he could be a plausible suspect in the Tellarite ambassador's murder since Sarek knows the technique that killed him.
* AntiquatedLinguistics: Introduces Amanda as "she who is my wife" rather than just "my wife". He does the same thing decades later with Perrin.
* BlueBlood: Or at least he comes from good family, in so far as Vulcans count such things, and behaves in a courtly manner.
* GentlemanAndAScholar: A cut line indicated that Sarek was an astrophysicist before he turned to politics.
* HappilyMarried: Though Sarek and his human wife, Amanda, have their differences (as seen in "Journey to Babel"), and though he's culturally inhibited from expressing his emotions, it's clear the couple love each other very much.
* HasAType: When he resurfaces in Next Generation, he has remarried after the death of his human wife Amanda... to another human woman.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: For all his stern, no-nonsense traits and his differences with his son, he is a loving father and proud to represent his planet for the Federation.
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Died in the ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode [[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS5E7Unification1 "Unification I"]].]]
* MarryForLove: Marrying Amanda was... logical. Obviously. (Well, if you love them, marrying them ''is'' pretty logical.)
* MyGreatestFailure: Based on the emotions Picard feels during their mind meld, Sarek feels extreme disappointment and regret over his emotional detachment towards both his human wives. He also regrets never expressing his pride and love towards Spock appropriately.
-->''"Perrin. Amanda. I wanted to give you so much more. I wanted to show you such tenderness. But that is not our way. Spock, Amanda, did you know? Perrin, can you know how much I love you? I do love you!"''
* NotSoStoic:
** He teases Amanda in public at the end of "The Way to Babel".
** With a side order of OOCIsSeriousBusiness. In ''[[Film/StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock Star Trek III]]'', he's visibly angry when he confronts Kirk about the latter's supposed failure to return Spock's ''katra'' to Vulcan. This only escalates when he figures out Kirk has no idea what the hell he's talking about. This is [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] later at the foot of Mount Seleya, when Sarek requests the ''Fal-tor-pan'' ritual be performed to reunite Spock's body and mind. High Priestess T'Lar protests that the ceremony is dangerous and its outcome uncertain, making his request illogical. Sarek replies "''Forgive me, T'Lar. My logic is uncertain... where my son is concerned.''"
* OutOfCharacterMoment: In ''Sarek'', Picard is shocked to see him moved to tears by a musical performance. [[spoiler:This is because he has Bendii syndrome, which is analogous to Alzheimer's in a human.]]
* ParentsAsPeople: He has the unfortunate task of being a full Vulcan parent to three messed up main characters: Spock, Sybok and Michael. Part of his issue is overconfidence in the Vulcan ways, and not really knowing what his children need.
* SoProudOfYou: He admits this to Spock in ''[[Film/StarTrekIVTheVoyageHome Star Trek IV]]'', and in TNG's "Unification: Part II," Spock learns from mind-melding with Picard that he was even ''prouder'', which almost moves him to tears.
* SuperStrength: Like all Vulcans. That Tellarite ambassador mentioned earlier tried to manhandle Sarek during an argument. Sarek effortlessly knocks away his hands with just a ''[[FingerPokeOfDoom flick of two fingers each]]'' sending him reeling quite some distance '''as an aftereffect'''. He's lucky Sarek didn't actually hit him.
* YouLookFamiliar: In addition to Sarek, Lenard also played the Romulan commander in "Balance of Terror" and a Klingon captain in the first movie. He is the only actor to portray representatives of all three major galactic powers in the TOS continuity.
* {{Ambadassador}}: He's proficient in Vulcan martial arts. Spock points out that he could be a plausible suspect in the Tellarite ambassador's murder since Sarek knows the technique that killed him.
* AntiquatedLinguistics: Introduces Amanda as "she who is my wife" rather than just "my wife". He does the same thing decades later with Perrin.
* BlueBlood: Or at least he comes from good family, in so far as Vulcans count such things, and behaves in a courtly manner.
* GentlemanAndAScholar: A cut line indicated that Sarek was an astrophysicist before he turned to politics.
* HappilyMarried: Though Sarek and his human wife, Amanda, have their differences (as seen in "Journey to Babel"), and though he's culturally inhibited from expressing his emotions, it's clear the couple love each other very much.
* HasAType: When he resurfaces in Next Generation, he has remarried after the death of his human wife Amanda... to another human woman.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: For all his stern, no-nonsense traits and his differences with his son, he is a loving father and proud to represent his planet for the Federation.
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Died in the ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode [[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS5E7Unification1 "Unification I"]].]]
* MarryForLove: Marrying Amanda was... logical. Obviously. (Well, if you love them, marrying them ''is'' pretty logical.)
* MyGreatestFailure: Based on the emotions Picard feels during their mind meld, Sarek feels extreme disappointment and regret over his emotional detachment towards both his human wives. He also regrets never expressing his pride and love towards Spock appropriately.
-->''"Perrin. Amanda. I wanted to give you so much more. I wanted to show you such tenderness. But that is not our way. Spock, Amanda, did you know? Perrin, can you know how much I love you? I do love you!"''
* NotSoStoic:
** He teases Amanda in public at the end of "The Way to Babel".
** With a side order of OOCIsSeriousBusiness. In ''[[Film/StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock Star Trek III]]'', he's visibly angry when he confronts Kirk about the latter's supposed failure to return Spock's ''katra'' to Vulcan. This only escalates when he figures out Kirk has no idea what the hell he's talking about. This is [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] later at the foot of Mount Seleya, when Sarek requests the ''Fal-tor-pan'' ritual be performed to reunite Spock's body and mind. High Priestess T'Lar protests that the ceremony is dangerous and its outcome uncertain, making his request illogical. Sarek replies "''Forgive me, T'Lar. My logic is uncertain... where my son is concerned.''"
* OutOfCharacterMoment: In ''Sarek'', Picard is shocked to see him moved to tears by a musical performance. [[spoiler:This is because he has Bendii syndrome, which is analogous to Alzheimer's in a human.]]
* ParentsAsPeople: He has the unfortunate task of being a full Vulcan parent to three messed up main characters: Spock, Sybok and Michael. Part of his issue is overconfidence in the Vulcan ways, and not really knowing what his children need.
* SoProudOfYou: He admits this to Spock in ''[[Film/StarTrekIVTheVoyageHome Star Trek IV]]'', and in TNG's "Unification: Part II," Spock learns from mind-melding with Picard that he was even ''prouder'', which almost moves him to tears.
* SuperStrength: Like all Vulcans. That Tellarite ambassador mentioned earlier tried to manhandle Sarek during an argument. Sarek effortlessly knocks away his hands with just a ''[[FingerPokeOfDoom flick of two fingers each]]'' sending him reeling quite some distance '''as an aftereffect'''. He's lucky Sarek didn't actually hit him.
* YouLookFamiliar: In addition to Sarek, Lenard also played the Romulan commander in "Balance of Terror" and a Klingon captain in the first movie. He is the only actor to portray representatives of all three major galactic powers in the TOS continuity.
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* AbusiveParents: Not intentionally, but cold Vulcan logic means he was emotionally distant toward AntiVillain: At first. His initial acts of villainy are simply attempts to stop Kirk and Spock from killing him out of fear for his power. He gradually becomes more evil over the course of the episode and by the end he's left this trope far behind.
* AGodAmI: He frequently refers to himself as such. During the final confrontation he uses his telekinesis to force Kirk to kneel and pray to him.
* TheCharmer: In Kirk’s bio, the female crewmembers all miss him when hewas a kid, dies, mostly because he flirted with them constantly by making them laugh.
* ChivalrousPervert: He’s the one that pushed girlfriends on Kirk in the academy days, andit's helped cause apparently flirts a lot of Spock's anti-human attitude. Sort of tells you what (the bio has Kirk be annoyed that he’s hitting on the female crew too much), but he’s a nice guy until his parenting styles are like when Spock's reaction run-in with the galactic barrier causes him to being told Sarek's at threat mutate into a PhysicalGod and go insane as a result.
* ForgottenFallenFriend: The end ofdying is "meh". Fortunately, they manage the pilot does give the crew a little time to repair their relationship.
* {{Ambadassador}}:grieve over him, but he's never mentioned again (the for-some-time-ambiguous canonicity probably didn't help), with his role as Kirk's close trusted friend getting transplanted onto Spock and [=McCoy=] (in fact, some fans watching the pilot get the impression that Mitchell was supposed to be first officer before Spock). He's proficient in Vulcan martial arts. Spock points out that he could be a plausible suspect there in the Tellarite ambassador's murder since Sarek knows novel versions of the technique movies (and in one of Kirk's Nexus fantasies), with the implication that killed Kirk is trying very hard to forget about him.
*AntiquatedLinguistics: Introduces Amanda as "she who is my wife" rather than just "my wife". He does GlowingEyesOfDoom: After the same thing decades later with Perrin.
* BlueBlood: Or at least he comes from good family, in so far as Vulcans count such things, and behaves in a courtly manner.
* GentlemanAndAScholar: A cut line indicated that Sarek was an astrophysicist before he turned to politics.
* HappilyMarried: Though Sarek andaccident, his human wife, Amanda, have their differences (as seen in "Journey eyes start to Babel"), and though glow silver. His eyes return to normal when he's culturally inhibited injured or is otherwise prevented from expressing using his emotions, it's clear the couple love each other very much.
powers.
*HasAType: When he resurfaces in Next Generation, he has remarried after the death of his human wife Amanda... to another human woman.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: For all his stern, no-nonsense traits and his differences with his son,HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:He is killed when he is a loving father and proud to represent his planet for the Federation.
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Diedcrushed by rocks while standing in the ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode [[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS5E7Unification1 "Unification I"]].grave he created for Kirk.]]
*MarryForLove: Marrying Amanda was... logical. Obviously. (Well, if you love them, marrying them ''is'' pretty logical.)
* MyGreatestFailure: Based on the emotions Picard feels during their mind meld, Sarek feels extreme disappointmentHotBlooded: Kirk’s bio has him making a lot of impulsive, rash choices. Sometimes they work out, sometimes they don’t, and regret over his emotional detachment towards both his human wives. He also regrets never expressing his pride and love towards Spock appropriately.
-->''"Perrin. Amanda. I wantedhe admits to give you so much more. I wanted to show you such tenderness. But Kirk at one point that is not our way. Spock, Amanda, did you know? Perrin, can you know how much I love you? I do love you!"''
he doesn’t think things through.
*NotSoStoic:
**JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Prior to his transformation.
* PhysicalGod: Heteases Amanda in public at starts out gaining telepathy and telekinesis (powerful enough to deflect phaser fire and take control of the end of "The Way Enterprise through thought alone), and eventually evolves to Babel".
** Withnearly Q and Trelane's level, being able to will matter into existence through thought alone. Being crushed by rocks still kills him, though it takes being weakened in a side order of OOCIsSeriousBusiness. In ''[[Film/StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock Star Trek III]]'', he's visibly angry when psychic fight with another god-like being to get to that point.
* PositiveFriendInfluence: Kirk’s bio posits that heconfronts Kirk about would still play it safe and just be another face in the latter's supposed failure academy if it hadn’t been for Gary’s charm and showing his friend that he needs to return Spock's ''katra'' to Vulcan. This only escalates when he figures out Kirk has no idea what the hell he's talking about. take risks. This is [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] what makes his transformation into an insane god-like being even more tragic.
* PowerEchoes: He eventually gains this.
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: Tells Kirk in more than one prequel book that leaving people to die under the guise of the Prime Directive is a shitty thing to do.
* ShadowArchetype: Nearly every laterat the foot of Mount Seleya, official book involving him has him as what Kirk is considered to be in popular culture; too reckless, doesn’t think and overly flirty. He’s a decent person despite this though, and is a PositiveFriendInfluence when Sarek requests the ''Fal-tor-pan'' ritual younger Kirk wants to be performed a ByTheBookCop.
* ShockAndAwe: After Kirk manages toreunite Spock's body convince Dr. Dehner to pull a HeelFaceTurn, she and mind. High Priestess T'Lar protests that the ceremony is dangerous and its outcome uncertain, making his request illogical. Sarek replies "''Forgive me, T'Lar. My logic is uncertain... where my son is concerned.''"
* OutOfCharacterMoment: In ''Sarek'', Picard is shocked to see him moved to tears by a musical performance. [[spoiler:This is because he has Bendii syndrome, which is analogous to Alzheimer'sMitchell blast each other repeatedly with lightning, resulting in a human.]]
DoubleKnockout; unfortunately Mitchell recovers relatively quickly, while Dehner is fatally wounded.
*ParentsAsPeople: TheStoic: He has the unfortunate task quickly loses all traces of being a full Vulcan parent to three messed up main characters: Spock, Sybok and Michael. Part of his issue is overconfidence in the Vulcan ways, and not really knowing what his children need.
* SoProudOfYou: He admits this to Spock in ''[[Film/StarTrekIVTheVoyageHome Star Trek IV]]'', and in TNG's "Unification: Part II," Spock learns from mind-melding with Picard that he was even ''prouder'', which almost moves him to tears.
human emotion.
* SuperStrength:Like all Vulcans. That Tellarite ambassador mentioned earlier tried to manhandle Sarek during an argument. Sarek effortlessly knocks away his hands After being briefly BroughtDownToNormal after a psychic duel with just Dr. Dehner, Mitchell gets into a ''[[FingerPokeOfDoom flick of two fingers each]]'' sending him reeling quite some distance '''as fist-fight with Kirk in which Kirk initially has the upper hand, until Mitchell starts regaining his powers; even without his telekinesis, he's strong enough to flip Kirk with an aftereffect'''. He's lucky Sarek didn't actually hit OffHandBackHand and lift a huge boulder and toss it at Kirk.
* TragicMonster: As Kirk says, Mitchell never wanted this to happen to him.
*YouLookFamiliar: In addition {{Ubermensch}}: He believes that he has become a higher being who is destined to Sarek, Lenard also played the Romulan commander in "Balance of Terror" change mankind forever.
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: After he starts mutating, he's initially relatively normal anda Klingon captain in the first movie. He is the only actor attacks the crew because they're considering killing him out of fear he'll evolve to portray representatives of the point where he starts to see human beings as insects. Pretty soon, though, he evolves to the point where he sees human beings as insects, losing all three major galactic powers in the TOS continuity.empathy for them and even demanding to be worshipped as a god.
* AGodAmI: He frequently refers to himself as such. During the final confrontation he uses his telekinesis to force Kirk to kneel and pray to him.
* TheCharmer: In Kirk’s bio, the female crewmembers all miss him when he
* ChivalrousPervert: He’s the one that pushed girlfriends on Kirk in the academy days, and
* ForgottenFallenFriend: The end of
* {{Ambadassador}}:
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* BlueBlood: Or at least he comes from good family, in so far as Vulcans count such things, and behaves in a courtly manner.
* GentlemanAndAScholar: A cut line indicated that Sarek was an astrophysicist before he turned to politics.
* HappilyMarried: Though Sarek and
*
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: For all his stern, no-nonsense traits and his differences with his son,
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Died
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* MyGreatestFailure: Based on the emotions Picard feels during their mind meld, Sarek feels extreme disappointment
-->''"Perrin. Amanda. I wanted
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* PhysicalGod: He
** With
* PositiveFriendInfluence: Kirk’s bio posits that he
* PowerEchoes: He eventually gains this.
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: Tells Kirk in more than one prequel book that leaving people to die under the guise of the Prime Directive is a shitty thing to do.
* ShadowArchetype: Nearly every later
* ShockAndAwe: After Kirk manages to
* OutOfCharacterMoment: In ''Sarek'', Picard is shocked to see him moved to tears by a musical performance. [[spoiler:This is because he has Bendii syndrome, which is analogous to Alzheimer's
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* SoProudOfYou: He admits this to Spock in ''[[Film/StarTrekIVTheVoyageHome Star Trek IV]]'', and in TNG's "Unification: Part II," Spock learns from mind-melding with Picard that he was even ''prouder'', which almost moves him to tears.
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!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/SusanOliver
A human woman living among the alien Talosians, who falls in love with Captain Pike.
!!Vina
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A human woman living among the alien Talosians, who falls in love with Captain Pike.
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!!Vina
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* AnatomicallyIgnorantHealing: She turns out to have been left disabled and disfigured by the Talosians' well-intentioned efforts to heal her -- they were able to successfully restore her to physical health, but their unfamiliarity with human anatomy led to them putting her back together as a scarred hunchback.
* BodyHorror: Downplayed, but she has been left scarred, withered and exaggeratedly hunchbacked as a result of her ship's crash.
* FacePalm: She does this when Pike gets punished for thinking wrong thoughts.
* GlamorFailure: Her beautiful appearance is an illusion; she's really an ineptly reassembled ''[[BodyHorror mess]]''.
* IWillWaitForYou: Enforced. She has to wait many years for the real Pike to return to Talos IV as she cannot leave the planet. The Talosians were at least kind enough to provide an illusion of Pike to keep her company.
* LoveAtFirstSight: Pike and Vina are attracted to each other from their first meeting and explicitly say so.
* LovingAShadow: The Talosians provided her with an illusory version of Pike to keep her company while she waited for the real Pike to return.
* SpaceClothes: Like the Talosians, she wears shiny, silvery clothes.
* BodyHorror: Downplayed, but she has been left scarred, withered and exaggeratedly hunchbacked as a result of her ship's crash.
* FacePalm: She does this when Pike gets punished for thinking wrong thoughts.
* GlamorFailure: Her beautiful appearance is an illusion; she's really an ineptly reassembled ''[[BodyHorror mess]]''.
* IWillWaitForYou: Enforced. She has to wait many years for the real Pike to return to Talos IV as she cannot leave the planet. The Talosians were at least kind enough to provide an illusion of Pike to keep her company.
* LoveAtFirstSight: Pike and Vina are attracted to each other from their first meeting and explicitly say so.
* LovingAShadow: The Talosians provided her with an illusory version of Pike to keep her company while she waited for the real Pike to return.
* SpaceClothes: Like the Talosians, she wears shiny, silvery clothes.
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* AnatomicallyIgnorantHealing: She turns out to have been left disabled and disfigured by the Talosians' well-intentioned efforts to heal her -- AntiVillain: While utterly ruthless about how they went about dealing with it, the Enterprise crew concedes that they had no clue the colony was infringing on Gorn territory and that such a thing ''would'' look like an act of aggression if things were able to successfully restore her to physical health, but reversed. In the mind of the Gorn, they are acting in self-defence.
* AttackItsWeakPoint: During theirunfamiliarity with human anatomy led initial fight, Kirk manages to them putting her back together as a scarred hunchback.
* BodyHorror: Downplayed, but she has been left scarred, withered and exaggeratedly hunchbacked as a result of her ship's crash.
* FacePalm: She does this when Pike gets punished for thinking wrong thoughts.
* GlamorFailure: Her beautiful appearance is an illusion; she's really an ineptly reassembled ''[[BodyHorror mess]]''.
* IWillWaitForYou: Enforced. She has to wait many years forbriefly stun him by slamming the real Pike ear-like nodes on his head. It looks like Kirk managed to return to Talos IV as she cannot leave hit a vulnerable spot, because the planet. The Talosians were at least kind Gorn is otherwise tough enough to provide an illusion of Pike NoSell a microwave-sized rock to keep her company.
the clavicle.
*LoveAtFirstSight: Pike GeniusBruiser: It looks like a brutish lizard monster that Kirk can't put down, yet it repeatedly outsmarts both Kirk personally and Vina are attracted the ''Enterprise'' as a whole. Also, instead of relying on his superior natural strength, he takes the time to each other fashion a weapon from the location environment, just like Kirk does; however, he made a flint knife while Kirk made ''a cannon''.
* ImplacableMan: The Gorn Captain shrugs off every physical attack Kirk hits him with and even gets back up when Kirk drops a boulder on him.
* MadeOfIron: As Kirk himself notes during the episode, the Gorn Captain easily takes attacks from Kirk that would kill a human being. Even Kirk dropping a boulder on him only knocked him out for no more than a minute, and didn't injure him at all.
* MightyGlacier: Much more powerful and durable than Kirk, yet moves about as fast as molasses in January.
* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: Implied, since their firstmeeting response to finding a Federation colony on their territory is to utterly destroy it and explicitly say so.
* LovingAShadow: The Talosians provided her with an illusory version of Pike to keep her company while she waitedset a trap for the real Pike nearest Federation starship, and they prove to return.
be superior both tactically and in terms of firepower.
*SpaceClothes: Like SuperStrength: Kirk manages to pick up a large rock (maybe 60-80 pounds) and throw it at the Talosians, she wears shiny, silvery clothes.Gorn Captain, hitting him square in the chest and accomplishing nothing. In response, the Gorn Captain ''easily'' picks up and lifts over his head a boulder that has to weigh at least a ton, and throws it (judging by the arc and how much time Kirk had to see it coming and dodge) probably fifty feet.
* AttackItsWeakPoint: During their
* BodyHorror: Downplayed, but she has been left scarred, withered and exaggeratedly hunchbacked as a result of her ship's crash.
* FacePalm: She does this when Pike gets punished for thinking wrong thoughts.
* GlamorFailure: Her beautiful appearance is an illusion; she's really an ineptly reassembled ''[[BodyHorror mess]]''.
* IWillWaitForYou: Enforced. She has to wait many years for
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* ImplacableMan: The Gorn Captain shrugs off every physical attack Kirk hits him with and even gets back up when Kirk drops a boulder on him.
* MadeOfIron: As Kirk himself notes during the episode, the Gorn Captain easily takes attacks from Kirk that would kill a human being. Even Kirk dropping a boulder on him only knocked him out for no more than a minute, and didn't injure him at all.
* MightyGlacier: Much more powerful and durable than Kirk, yet moves about as fast as molasses in January.
* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: Implied, since their first
* LovingAShadow: The Talosians provided her with an illusory version of Pike to keep her company while she waited
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!!Janice Lester
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!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/SandraSmith
Kirk's PsychoExGirlfriend, stealing his body in "Turnabout Intruder" so he can finally know the "indignity of being a woman" and she can get the Captain status she's always craved.
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* AmbiguousGenderIdentity: Maybe she would have had an easier time if she just transitioned into being a man.
* BlatantLies: Delivered the infamous claim that women in the liberal utopia that is the Federation are barred from commanding starships. Regardless of whether Gene meant that literally or not, several decades and many female captains later and we are able to put this down to the fact that she is just making up excuses for the fact that there is no way anyone would promote someone this mentally unstable to the rank of captain.
* BrokenBird: A manipulative DeathSeeker who finds it easy to hit her ex boyfriend and hates herself.
* EasilyForgiven: Kirk has a habit of doing so to people who treat him awfully, but even Shatner complained that nothing in the episode actually got resolved.
* DeathSeeker: Kirk points out that her “love” for him was actually torturing and punishing, and that they would have killed each other. She responds with “that might have been better”.
* DomesticAbuse: She's a little too happy to be finally stronger than her ex boyfriend, mocking him for being scared all the time and punches him out to shut him up.
* FinalBoss: The villain of the original series' final episode, though due to the show's episodic nature there was no plot-related significance to this other than the fact it just happened to be the last episode filmed.
* IJustWantToBeYou: She vehemently denies loving Kirk, telling Coleman that she just loves and wants the life he leads of being Captain.
* ManIFeelLikeAWoman: Inverted. Sure she hates Kirk, but still takes the time to grope his abs when she's finally in him.
* MirrorCharacter: For Kirk, as she seduces her assistant the way he seduces villains of the week, plays {{wounded gazelle gambit}}s well like how he’s got the Enterprise to play dead multiple times, both have DeathSeeker inclinations and while he’s an AgentPeacock comfortable in his gender, she’s rigid in gender norms and is a TroubledAbuser because of it.
* NeverMyFault: In their conversation, Kirk is of the opinion that their relationship was a toxic mess, yet she blames Kirk for leaving, claiming he abandoned her when it got serious.
* PsychopathicWomanchild: She’s positively giggling when she manages to trap Kirk in her former body, and snuggles with him in her arms while talking about how he should have killed her.
* TooCleverByHalf: Aside from being an HystericalWoman, she partly fucks up because she thinks being a Captain means you’re formal with everyone, and shows no affection for the crew that Kirk does (like calling Bones “Doctor [=McCoy=]” constantly.)
* TroubledAbuser: According to the hearing, she hated being a woman, and took it out on Kirk, making it hell to be with her.
* WoundedGazelleGambit: She fakes having deadly serious radiation poisoning to get her ChronicHeroSyndrome ex alone with her and sympathetic.
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!!Ambassador Sarek
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!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/MarkLenard
!!!'''Dubbed in French by:''' Roger Rudel (Star Trek III), Georges Berthomieu (Star Trek IV), Mario Santini (Star Trek VI)
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' | ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries'' | ''Film/StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock'' | ''Film/StarTrekIVTheVoyageHome'' | ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' | ''Film/StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry''
Father of Spock. A distinguished Vulcan Diplomat, he and Spock were not on speaking terms for some time prior to the former's first appearance in "Journey to Babel" (to the point where Spock never even mentioned to Kirk or Bones that they were related). Sarek had wanted his son to follow him in his footsteps by attending the Vulcan Science Academy, but instead, Spock chose to join Starfleet. Appears in only one episode of the Original Series, but returns in the films, the Animated Series, and even ''Star Trek: The Next Generation.''
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* AbusiveParents: Not intentionally, but cold Vulcan logic means he was emotionally distant toward Spock when he was a kid, and it's helped cause a lot of Spock's anti-human attitude. Sort of tells you what his parenting styles are like when Spock's reaction to being told Sarek's at threat of dying is "meh". Fortunately, they manage to repair their relationship.
* {{Ambadassador}}: He's proficient in Vulcan martial arts. Spock points out that he could be a plausible suspect in the Tellarite ambassador's murder since Sarek knows the technique that killed him.
* AntiquatedLinguistics: Introduces Amanda as "she who is my wife" rather than just "my wife". He does the same thing decades later with Perrin.
* BlueBlood: Or at least he comes from good family, in so far as Vulcans count such things, and behaves in a courtly manner.
* GentlemanAndAScholar: A cut line indicated that Sarek was an astrophysicist before he turned to politics.
* HappilyMarried: Though Sarek and his human wife, Amanda, have their differences (as seen in "Journey to Babel"), and though he's culturally inhibited from expressing his emotions, it's clear the couple love each other very much.
* HasAType: When he resurfaces in Next Generation, he has remarried after the death of his human wife Amanda... to another human woman.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: For all his stern, no-nonsense traits and his differences with his son, he is a loving father and proud to represent his planet for the Federation.
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Died in the ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode [[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS5E7Unification1 "Unification I"]].]]
* MarryForLove: Marrying Amanda was... logical. Obviously. (Well, if you love them, marrying them ''is'' pretty logical.)
* MyGreatestFailure: Based on the emotions Picard feels during their mind meld, Sarek feels extreme disappointment and regret over his emotional detachment towards both his human wives. He also regrets never expressing his pride and love towards Spock appropriately.
-->''"Perrin. Amanda. I wanted to give you so much more. I wanted to show you such tenderness. But that is not our way. Spock, Amanda, did you know? Perrin, can you know how much I love you? I do love you!"''
* NotSoStoic:
** He teases Amanda in public at the end of "The Way to Babel".
** With a side order of OOCIsSeriousBusiness. In ''[[Film/StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock Star Trek III]]'', he's visibly angry when he confronts Kirk about the latter's supposed failure to return Spock's ''katra'' to Vulcan. This only escalates when he figures out Kirk has no idea what the hell he's talking about. This is [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] later at the foot of Mount Seleya, when Sarek requests the ''Fal-tor-pan'' ritual be performed to reunite Spock's body and mind. High Priestess T'Lar protests that the ceremony is dangerous and its outcome uncertain, making his request illogical. Sarek replies "''Forgive me, T'Lar. My logic is uncertain... where my son is concerned.''"
* OutOfCharacterMoment: In ''Sarek'', Picard is shocked to see him moved to tears by a musical performance. [[spoiler:This is because he has Bendii syndrome, which is analogous to Alzheimer's in a human.]]
* ParentsAsPeople: He has the unfortunate task of being a full Vulcan parent to three messed up main characters: Spock, Sybok and Michael. Part of his issue is overconfidence in the Vulcan ways, and not really knowing what his children need.
* SoProudOfYou: He admits this to Spock in ''[[Film/StarTrekIVTheVoyageHome Star Trek IV]]'', and in TNG's "Unification: Part II," Spock learns from mind-melding with Picard that he was even ''prouder'', which almost moves him to tears.
* SuperStrength: Like all Vulcans. That Tellarite ambassador mentioned earlier tried to manhandle Sarek during an argument. Sarek effortlessly knocks away his hands with just a ''[[FingerPokeOfDoom flick of two fingers each]]'' sending him reeling quite some distance '''as an aftereffect'''. He's lucky Sarek didn't actually hit him.
* YouLookFamiliar: In addition to Sarek, Lenard also played the Romulan commander in "Balance of Terror" and a Klingon captain in the first movie. He is the only actor to portray representatives of all three major galactic powers in the TOS continuity.
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!!Vina
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!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/SusanOliver
A human woman living among the alien Talosians, who falls in love with Captain Pike.
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* AnatomicallyIgnorantHealing: She turns out to have been left disabled and disfigured by the Talosians' well-intentioned efforts to heal her -- they were able to successfully restore her to physical health, but their unfamiliarity with human anatomy led to them putting her back together as a scarred hunchback.
* BodyHorror: Downplayed, but she has been left scarred, withered and exaggeratedly hunchbacked as a result of her ship's crash.
* FacePalm: She does this when Pike gets punished for thinking wrong thoughts.
* GlamorFailure: Her beautiful appearance is an illusion; she's really an ineptly reassembled ''[[BodyHorror mess]]''.
* IWillWaitForYou: Enforced. She has to wait many years for the real Pike to return to Talos IV as she cannot leave the planet. The Talosians were at least kind enough to provide an illusion of Pike to keep her company.
* LoveAtFirstSight: Pike and Vina are attracted to each other from their first meeting and explicitly say so.
* LovingAShadow: The Talosians provided her with an illusory version of Pike to keep her company while she waited for the real Pike to return.
* SpaceClothes: Like the Talosians, she wears shiny, silvery clothes.
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!!Ambassador Sarek
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!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/MarkLenard
!!!'''Dubbed in French by:''' Roger Rudel (Star Trek III), Georges Berthomieu (Star Trek IV), Mario Santini (Star Trek VI)
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' | ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries'' | ''Film/StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock'' | ''Film/StarTrekIVTheVoyageHome'' | ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' | ''Film/StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry''
Father of Spock. A distinguished Vulcan Diplomat, he and Spock were not on speaking terms for some time prior to the former's first appearance in "Journey to Babel" (to the point where Spock never even mentioned to Kirk or Bones that they were related). Sarek had wanted his son to follow him in his footsteps by attending the Vulcan Science Academy, but instead, Spock chose to join Starfleet. Appears in only one episode of the Original Series, but returns in the films, the Animated Series, and even ''Star Trek: The Next Generation.''
!!Ambassador Sarek
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!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/MarkLenard
!!!'''Dubbed in French by:''' Roger Rudel (Star Trek III), Georges Berthomieu (Star Trek IV), Mario Santini (Star Trek VI)
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' | ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries'' | ''Film/StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock'' | ''Film/StarTrekIVTheVoyageHome'' | ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' | ''Film/StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry''
Father of Spock. A distinguished Vulcan Diplomat, he and Spock were not on speaking terms for some time prior to the former's first appearance in "Journey to Babel" (to the point where Spock never even mentioned to Kirk or Bones that they were related). Sarek had wanted his son to follow him in his footsteps by attending the Vulcan Science Academy, but instead, Spock chose to join Starfleet. Appears in only one episode of the Original Series, but returns in the films, the Animated Series, and even ''Star Trek: The Next Generation.''
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* AbusiveParents: Not intentionally, but cold Vulcan logic means he was emotionally distant toward Spock when he was a kid, and it's helped cause a lot of Spock's anti-human attitude. Sort of tells you what his parenting styles are like when Spock's reaction to being told Sarek's at threat of dying is "meh". Fortunately, they manage to repair their relationship.
* {{Ambadassador}}: He's proficient in Vulcan martial arts. Spock points out that he could be a plausible suspect in the Tellarite ambassador's murder since Sarek knows the technique that killed him.
* AntiquatedLinguistics: Introduces Amanda as "she who is my wife" rather than just "my wife". He does the same thing decades later with Perrin.
* BlueBlood: Or at least he comes from good family, in so far as Vulcans count such things, and behaves in a courtly manner.
* GentlemanAndAScholar: A cut line indicated that Sarek was an astrophysicist before he turned to politics.
* HappilyMarried: Though Sarek and his human wife, Amanda, have their differences (as seen in "Journey to Babel"), and though he's culturally inhibited from expressing his emotions, it's clear the couple love each other very much.
* HasAType: When he resurfaces in Next Generation, he has remarried after the death of his human wife Amanda... to another human woman.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: For all his stern, no-nonsense traits and his differences with his son, he is a loving father and proud to represent his planet for the Federation.
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Died in the ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode [[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS5E7Unification1 "Unification I"]].]]
* MarryForLove: Marrying Amanda was... logical. Obviously. (Well, if you love them, marrying them ''is'' pretty logical.)
* MyGreatestFailure: Based on the emotions Picard feels during their mind meld, Sarek feels extreme disappointment and regret over his emotional detachment towards both his human wives. He also regrets never expressing his pride and love towards Spock appropriately.
-->''"Perrin. Amanda. I wanted to give you so much more. I wanted to show you such tenderness. But that is not our way. Spock, Amanda, did you know? Perrin, can you know how much I love you? I do love you!"''
* NotSoStoic:
** He teases Amanda in public at the end of "The Way to Babel".
** With a side order of OOCIsSeriousBusiness. In ''[[Film/StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock Star Trek III]]'', he's visibly angry when he confronts Kirk about the latter's supposed failure to return Spock's ''katra'' to Vulcan. This only escalates when he figures out Kirk has no idea what the hell he's talking about. This is [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] later at the foot of Mount Seleya, when Sarek requests the ''Fal-tor-pan'' ritual be performed to reunite Spock's body and mind. High Priestess T'Lar protests that the ceremony is dangerous and its outcome uncertain, making his request illogical. Sarek replies "''Forgive me, T'Lar. My logic is uncertain... where my son is concerned.''"
* OutOfCharacterMoment: In ''Sarek'', Picard is shocked to see him moved to tears by a musical performance. [[spoiler:This is because he has Bendii syndrome, which is analogous to Alzheimer's in a human.]]
* ParentsAsPeople: He has the unfortunate task of being a full Vulcan parent to three messed up main characters: Spock, Sybok and Michael. Part of his issue is overconfidence in the Vulcan ways, and not really knowing what his children need.
* SoProudOfYou: He admits this to Spock in ''[[Film/StarTrekIVTheVoyageHome Star Trek IV]]'', and in TNG's "Unification: Part II," Spock learns from mind-melding with Picard that he was even ''prouder'', which almost moves him to tears.
* SuperStrength: Like all Vulcans. That Tellarite ambassador mentioned earlier tried to manhandle Sarek during an argument. Sarek effortlessly knocks away his hands with just a ''[[FingerPokeOfDoom flick of two fingers each]]'' sending him reeling quite some distance '''as an aftereffect'''. He's lucky Sarek didn't actually hit him.
* YouLookFamiliar: In addition to Sarek, Lenard also played the Romulan commander in "Balance of Terror" and a Klingon captain in the first movie. He is the only actor to portray representatives of all three major galactic powers in the TOS continuity.
* {{Ambadassador}}: He's proficient in Vulcan martial arts. Spock points out that he could be a plausible suspect in the Tellarite ambassador's murder since Sarek knows the technique that killed him.
* AntiquatedLinguistics: Introduces Amanda as "she who is my wife" rather than just "my wife". He does the same thing decades later with Perrin.
* BlueBlood: Or at least he comes from good family, in so far as Vulcans count such things, and behaves in a courtly manner.
* GentlemanAndAScholar: A cut line indicated that Sarek was an astrophysicist before he turned to politics.
* HappilyMarried: Though Sarek and his human wife, Amanda, have their differences (as seen in "Journey to Babel"), and though he's culturally inhibited from expressing his emotions, it's clear the couple love each other very much.
* HasAType: When he resurfaces in Next Generation, he has remarried after the death of his human wife Amanda... to another human woman.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: For all his stern, no-nonsense traits and his differences with his son, he is a loving father and proud to represent his planet for the Federation.
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Died in the ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode [[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS5E7Unification1 "Unification I"]].]]
* MarryForLove: Marrying Amanda was... logical. Obviously. (Well, if you love them, marrying them ''is'' pretty logical.)
* MyGreatestFailure: Based on the emotions Picard feels during their mind meld, Sarek feels extreme disappointment and regret over his emotional detachment towards both his human wives. He also regrets never expressing his pride and love towards Spock appropriately.
-->''"Perrin. Amanda. I wanted to give you so much more. I wanted to show you such tenderness. But that is not our way. Spock, Amanda, did you know? Perrin, can you know how much I love you? I do love you!"''
* NotSoStoic:
** He teases Amanda in public at the end of "The Way to Babel".
** With a side order of OOCIsSeriousBusiness. In ''[[Film/StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock Star Trek III]]'', he's visibly angry when he confronts Kirk about the latter's supposed failure to return Spock's ''katra'' to Vulcan. This only escalates when he figures out Kirk has no idea what the hell he's talking about. This is [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] later at the foot of Mount Seleya, when Sarek requests the ''Fal-tor-pan'' ritual be performed to reunite Spock's body and mind. High Priestess T'Lar protests that the ceremony is dangerous and its outcome uncertain, making his request illogical. Sarek replies "''Forgive me, T'Lar. My logic is uncertain... where my son is concerned.''"
* OutOfCharacterMoment: In ''Sarek'', Picard is shocked to see him moved to tears by a musical performance. [[spoiler:This is because he has Bendii syndrome, which is analogous to Alzheimer's in a human.]]
* ParentsAsPeople: He has the unfortunate task of being a full Vulcan parent to three messed up main characters: Spock, Sybok and Michael. Part of his issue is overconfidence in the Vulcan ways, and not really knowing what his children need.
* SoProudOfYou: He admits this to Spock in ''[[Film/StarTrekIVTheVoyageHome Star Trek IV]]'', and in TNG's "Unification: Part II," Spock learns from mind-melding with Picard that he was even ''prouder'', which almost moves him to tears.
* SuperStrength: Like all Vulcans. That Tellarite ambassador mentioned earlier tried to manhandle Sarek during an argument. Sarek effortlessly knocks away his hands with just a ''[[FingerPokeOfDoom flick of two fingers each]]'' sending him reeling quite some distance '''as an aftereffect'''. He's lucky Sarek didn't actually hit him.
* YouLookFamiliar: In addition to Sarek, Lenard also played the Romulan commander in "Balance of Terror" and a Klingon captain in the first movie. He is the only actor to portray representatives of all three major galactic powers in the TOS continuity.
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* AbusiveParents: Not intentionally, but cold Vulcan logic means AndIMustScream: The training accident he was emotionally distant toward Spock in gave him a huge dose of delta radiation, bad enough that he's completely immobilized. [=McCoy=] notes his brain is working as much as anyone else's, but he can't even speak. And when he was a kid, and it's helped cause a lot of realises what Spock's anti-human attitude. Sort of tells you what his parenting styles are like when Spock's reaction to being told Sarek's at threat of dying doing, all can he do is "meh". Fortunately, they manage to repair their relationship.
repeat "no" over and over again.
*{{Ambadassador}}: He's proficient BodyHorror: What we see isn't pretty. His face is covered in Vulcan martial arts. Spock points out that he could be a plausible suspect in the Tellarite ambassador's murder since Sarek knows the technique that killed him.
* AntiquatedLinguistics: Introduces Amanda as "she who is my wife" rather than just "my wife". He does the same thing decades later with Perrin.
* BlueBlood: Or at least he comesscarring, and one massive burn going from good family, in so far as Vulcans count such things, and behaves in a courtly manner.
* GentlemanAndAScholar: A cut line indicated that Sarek was an astrophysicist before he turnedchin to politics.
* HappilyMarried: Though Sarek andtemple on the right side of his human wife, Amanda, have their differences (as seen in "Journey to Babel"), and though he's culturally inhibited from expressing his emotions, face. And it's clear hinted the couple love each radiation did a lot of other very much.
* HasAType: When he resurfaces in Next Generation, he has remarried after the deathdamage, given mention is made of his human heart being kept operated by battery. Even getting agitated nearly puts him into a coma from the strain.
* TheCaptain: The ''original'' captain, preceding even Kirk. He later became a fleet captain.
* CelibateHero: Especially when compared to [[FemmeFatale Kirk]]. While he’s had fantasies of Orion slave girls, he runs out disgusted, calls out Boyce for being a DirtyOldMan and shows little interest in any husband and wifeAmanda... dreams cooked up for him.
* TheDeterminator: The Talosians expected Pike toanother human woman.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: For all his stern, no-nonsense traitsquietly accept captivity. Pike had other ideas and his differences with his son, didn't stop until he is a loving father and proud to represent his planet for the Federation.
escaped.
*KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Died in the ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode [[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS5E7Unification1 "Unification I"]].]]
* MarryForLove: Marrying Amanda was... logical. Obviously. (Well, if you love them, marrying them ''is'' pretty logical.)
* MyGreatestFailure: Based on the emotions Picard feels duringDueToTheDead: ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' revealed that Starfleet named one of their mind meld, Sarek feels extreme disappointment and regret over combat decorations in his emotional detachment towards both his human wives. He also regrets never expressing his pride and love towards honor, the Christopher Pike Medal of Valor.
* AFatherToHisMen: Implied from how Spockappropriately.
-->''"Perrin. Amanda. I wantedwas willing to give you so much more. I wanted risk his career and life to show you such tenderness. But that is not our way. Spock, Amanda, did you know? Perrin, can you know how much I love you? I do love you!"''
help his former CO.
*NotSoStoic:
** He teases Amanda in public at theHappilyEverAfter: The end of "The Way Menagerie" implies this for him and Vina, as they get to Babel".
** With a side orderspend their remaining years together in an illusion of OOCIsSeriousBusiness. In ''[[Film/StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock Star Trek III]]'', he's visibly angry good health.
* HollywoodMidLifeCrisis: "The Cage" can be interpreted as an extended metaphor for a man going through a mid-life crisis. (Creator/GeneRoddenberry was well into his forties when heconfronts Kirk about wrote the latter's pilot, and even cast his mistress as the female lead.) Pike's character is clearly supposed failure to return Spock's ''katra'' to Vulcan. This only escalates when he figures out Kirk has no idea what be older than Kirk, even ''before'' the hell he's talking about. This is [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] later at eleven-year TimeSkip in "The Menagerie", although Hunter was a relatively young man (he turned 38 during filming of "The Cage"). Subsequent depictions of the foot of character clearly portray him as middle-aged even during his prime (played by 53-year-old Bruce Greenwood in ''Film/StarTrek2009'' and 45-year-old Anson Mount Seleya, when Sarek requests in ''Series/StarTrekDiscovery'', both set some years before the ''Fal-tor-pan'' ritual be performed to reunite Spock's body and mind. High Priestess T'Lar protests that the ceremony is dangerous and its outcome uncertain, making his request illogical. Sarek replies "''Forgive me, T'Lar. My logic is uncertain... where my son is concerned.''"
TOS era).
*OutOfCharacterMoment: In ''Sarek'', Picard is shocked to see him moved to tears by {{Mangst}}: He’s having a musical performance. [[spoiler:This is because he has Bendii syndrome, which is analogous to Alzheimer's in a human.]]
* ParentsAsPeople: He has the unfortunate task of being a full Vulcan parent to three messed up main characters: Spock, Sybok and Michael. PartHeroicBSOD over getting some of his issue is overconfidence in the Vulcan ways, crew killed, and not really knowing what his children need.
* SoProudOfYou: He admits this to Spock in ''[[Film/StarTrekIVTheVoyageHome Star Trek IV]]'', and in TNG's "Unification: Part II," Spock learns from mind-melding with Picard that he was even ''prouder'', which almost movesit takes drinking for him to tears.
* SuperStrength: Like all Vulcans. That Tellarite ambassador mentioned earlier triedadmit he’s tired and wants to manhandle Sarek during an argument. Sarek effortlessly knocks away retire.
* OnceForYesTwiceForNo: Following the accident, Pike is left in a state where hishands with just a ''[[FingerPokeOfDoom flick only form of communication is a light on his elaborate wheelchair, which he can light once for "yes" and twice in a row for "no".
* SmallRoleBigImpact: He only appeared in twofingers each]]'' sending him reeling quite some distance '''as an aftereffect'''. He's lucky Sarek episodes, one of which didn't actually hit him.
* YouLookFamiliar: In addition to Sarek, Lenard also playedair until decades after the Romulan commander in "Balance show ended, yet is easily one of Terror" the most recognizable things from TOS. His blinking lights and a Klingon captain wheelchair have been been parodied and paid homage to in numerous other works.
* StayInTheKitchen: Can’t get used to having women on the bridge, and when Number One is offended, he tells her she’s different, offending her again.
* UnresolvedSexualTension: The Talosians noted that both Pike's firstmovie. He is officer, the only actor original Number One, and his yeoman were attracted to portray representatives him, but since we never saw anything further of all three major galactic powers Pike's adventures, we don't know if anything came of it. He was apparently still in love with Vina, as he later accepted retirement with the TOS continuity.Talosians to be with her.
* TheVoiceless: The training accident left him unable to speak, so he had to communicate via blinking lights on his wheelchair. One blink for yes, two for no.
*
* AntiquatedLinguistics: Introduces Amanda as "she who is my wife" rather than just "my wife". He does the same thing decades later with Perrin.
* BlueBlood: Or at least he comes
* GentlemanAndAScholar: A cut line indicated that Sarek was an astrophysicist before he turned
* HappilyMarried: Though Sarek and
* HasAType: When he resurfaces in Next Generation, he has remarried after the death
* TheCaptain: The ''original'' captain, preceding even Kirk. He later became a fleet captain.
* CelibateHero: Especially when compared to [[FemmeFatale Kirk]]. While he’s had fantasies of Orion slave girls, he runs out disgusted, calls out Boyce for being a DirtyOldMan and shows little interest in any husband and wife
* TheDeterminator: The Talosians expected Pike to
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: For all his stern, no-nonsense traits
*
* MarryForLove: Marrying Amanda was... logical. Obviously. (Well, if you love them, marrying them ''is'' pretty logical.)
* MyGreatestFailure: Based on the emotions Picard feels during
* AFatherToHisMen: Implied from how Spock
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** He teases Amanda in public at the
** With a side order
* HollywoodMidLifeCrisis: "The Cage" can be interpreted as an extended metaphor for a man going through a mid-life crisis. (Creator/GeneRoddenberry was well into his forties when he
*
* ParentsAsPeople: He has the unfortunate task of being a full Vulcan parent to three messed up main characters: Spock, Sybok and Michael. Part
* SoProudOfYou: He admits this to Spock in ''[[Film/StarTrekIVTheVoyageHome Star Trek IV]]'', and in TNG's "Unification: Part II," Spock learns from mind-melding with Picard that he was even ''prouder'', which almost moves
* SuperStrength: Like all Vulcans. That Tellarite ambassador mentioned earlier tried
* OnceForYesTwiceForNo: Following the accident, Pike is left in a state where his
* SmallRoleBigImpact: He only appeared in two
* YouLookFamiliar: In addition to Sarek, Lenard also played
* StayInTheKitchen: Can’t get used to having women on the bridge, and when Number One is offended, he tells her she’s different, offending her again.
* UnresolvedSexualTension: The Talosians noted that both Pike's first
* TheVoiceless: The training accident left him unable to speak, so he had to communicate via blinking lights on his wheelchair. One blink for yes, two for no.
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!!Harcourt Fenton "Harry" Mudd
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!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/RogerCCarmel
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' | ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries''
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* AffablyEvil: He's a shameless crook and totally unrepentant scam artist, but he's friendly, cheerful, easy-going, and surprisingly likable, so long as you remember never to trust him with anything, especially anything worth money. Basically, he's a proto-Ferengi.
%%* TheAggressiveDrugDealer: In "Mudd's Women."
* ConMan: His first appearance is based on his scam to marry gorgeous women [[spoiler:secretly modified with drugs to be super-beautiful]] to lonely, wealthy space-workers for a huge payout. In ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries'', it's mentioned he once tricked an alien species by selling them the Starfleet Academy building.
* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: This gets visited upon him by Kirk at the end of "I, Mudd."
* EvilIsPetty: While downplayed as Mudd is mostly just a dick, but his role as Kirk’s antagonist just seems to be wanting to see him squirm and take Mudd’s orders.
* FullNameUltimatum:
-->'''Stella:''' Harcourt! Harcourt Fenton Mudd!...
-->'''Mudd:''' [[PhraseCatcher Shut UP, Stella!]]
* HenpeckedHusband: It turns out in "I, Mudd" that he had a harridan of a wife named Stella; part of the reason he became a crook was to run away from her to the ends of the galaxy.
-->'''Mudd:''' You see, gentlemen, behind every great man there is a woman urging him on. And so it was with my Stella. She urged me on into outer space. Not that she meant to, but with her continual, eternal, confounded nagging. Well, I think of her constantly, and every time I do, I go further out into space.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: By the Stella androids at the end of "I, Mudd."
* HonestJohnsDealership: The first storyline involving him is his plan to sell brides to lonely space-miners ([[spoiler:after giving them illegal "Venus Drugs" to make them super-beautiful]]). He'd also been convicted as a smuggler prior to his first appearance. In his second appearance, he describes how he escaped Deneb V after being sentenced to death for fraud.
* LovableRogue: He's a money-grubber and irresponsible, but he's affable and rarely trying to commit "truly evil" crimes.
* {{Recurrer}}: He holds the distinction of being the ''only'' non-Starfleet character in the entire series to appear in more than one episode. He returns for an episode of the Animated Series, as well. (He was also planned to make a third appearance on the show, but the proposed story was dropped.)
%%* TheAggressiveDrugDealer: In "Mudd's Women."
* ConMan: His first appearance is based on his scam to marry gorgeous women [[spoiler:secretly modified with drugs to be super-beautiful]] to lonely, wealthy space-workers for a huge payout. In ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries'', it's mentioned he once tricked an alien species by selling them the Starfleet Academy building.
* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: This gets visited upon him by Kirk at the end of "I, Mudd."
* EvilIsPetty: While downplayed as Mudd is mostly just a dick, but his role as Kirk’s antagonist just seems to be wanting to see him squirm and take Mudd’s orders.
* FullNameUltimatum:
-->'''Stella:''' Harcourt! Harcourt Fenton Mudd!...
-->'''Mudd:''' [[PhraseCatcher Shut UP, Stella!]]
* HenpeckedHusband: It turns out in "I, Mudd" that he had a harridan of a wife named Stella; part of the reason he became a crook was to run away from her to the ends of the galaxy.
-->'''Mudd:''' You see, gentlemen, behind every great man there is a woman urging him on. And so it was with my Stella. She urged me on into outer space. Not that she meant to, but with her continual, eternal, confounded nagging. Well, I think of her constantly, and every time I do, I go further out into space.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: By the Stella androids at the end of "I, Mudd."
* HonestJohnsDealership: The first storyline involving him is his plan to sell brides to lonely space-miners ([[spoiler:after giving them illegal "Venus Drugs" to make them super-beautiful]]). He'd also been convicted as a smuggler prior to his first appearance. In his second appearance, he describes how he escaped Deneb V after being sentenced to death for fraud.
* LovableRogue: He's a money-grubber and irresponsible, but he's affable and rarely trying to commit "truly evil" crimes.
* {{Recurrer}}: He holds the distinction of being the ''only'' non-Starfleet character in the entire series to appear in more than one episode. He returns for an episode of the Animated Series, as well. (He was also planned to make a third appearance on the show, but the proposed story was dropped.)
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%%* ConsummateProfessional:
* EverybodyCallsHimBarkeep: Everyone calls her Number One, all the time.
* NotSoStoic: When Pike remarks that he "can't get used to having a woman on the bridge", she looks openly surprised before he excludes her as "different, of course."
* OnlyOneName: She's only referred to
*
* EvilIsPetty: While downplayed as Mudd is mostly just a dick, but his role as Kirk’s antagonist just seems to be wanting to see him squirm
* FullNameUltimatum:
-->'''Stella:''' Harcourt! Harcourt Fenton Mudd!...
-->'''Mudd:''' [[PhraseCatcher Shut UP, Stella!]]
* HenpeckedHusband: It turns out in "I, Mudd" that he had a harridan of a
-->'''Mudd:''' You see, gentlemen, behind every great man there is a woman urging him on. And so it was with my Stella. She urged me on into outer space. Not
* UnresolvedSexualTension: The Talosians noted that she
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: By
* HonestJohnsDealership: The first storyline involving him is his plan
* YouLookFamiliar: Majel Barrett was later cast as
* LovableRogue: He's a money-grubber
* {{Recurrer}}: He holds
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[[folder:Fleet Captain Christopher Pike]]
!!Fleet Captain Christopher Pike
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!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/JeffreyHunter ("[[Recap/StarTrekS1E0TheCage The Cage]]"), Sean Kenney (Disfigured Pike in "The Menagerie")
!!!'''Dubbed in French by:''' Yvon Bouchard
The previous captain of the Starship ''Enterprise'' and Spock's prior commanding officer. A celebrated space explorer, much like Kirk, he was later horribly disfigured in a training accident. Spock's loyalty to Pike was too much to allow Pike to remain a disabled wreck, so he returned Pike to the [[SufficientlyAdvancedAliens Talosians]] to live out his days in an illusion of good health with his love Vina.
For tropes relating to his other appearances, see ''[[Characters/StarTrekDiscoveryFederation Discovery]]'' and ''[[Characters/StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds Strange New Worlds]]''.
For tropes relating to his appearances in the Kelvin Timeline, see [[Characters/StarTrekKelvinTimeline here]].
!!Fleet Captain Christopher Pike
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!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/JeffreyHunter ("[[Recap/StarTrekS1E0TheCage The Cage]]"), Sean Kenney (Disfigured Pike in "The Menagerie")
!!!'''Dubbed in French by:''' Yvon Bouchard
The previous captain of the Starship ''Enterprise'' and Spock's prior commanding officer. A celebrated space explorer, much like Kirk, he was later horribly disfigured in a training accident. Spock's loyalty to Pike was too much to allow Pike to remain a disabled wreck, so he returned Pike to the [[SufficientlyAdvancedAliens Talosians]] to live out his days in an illusion of good health with his love Vina.
For tropes relating to his other appearances, see ''[[Characters/StarTrekDiscoveryFederation Discovery]]'' and ''[[Characters/StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds Strange New Worlds]]''.
For tropes relating to his appearances in the Kelvin Timeline, see [[Characters/StarTrekKelvinTimeline here]].
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!!Fleet Captain Christopher Pike
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[[folder:Khan Noonien Singh]]
--> See [[Characters/StarTrekTheOriginalSeriesKhanNoonienSingh his page]].
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Commander Kor]]
!!Commander Kor
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!!!'''Played by:'''
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' | ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries'' | ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine''
The
!!!'''Dubbed in French by:''' Yvon Bouchard
The previous captain
For tropes relating to his other appearances, see ''[[Characters/StarTrekDiscoveryFederation Discovery]]''
For tropes relating to his appearances in the Kelvin Timeline, see [[Characters/StarTrekKelvinTimeline here]].
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* AndIMustScream: The training accident he was in gave him a huge dose of delta radiation, bad enough that he's completely immobilized. [=McCoy=] notes his brain is working as much as anyone else's, but he can't even speak. And when he realises what Spock's doing, all can he do is repeat "no" over and over again.
* BodyHorror: What we see isn't pretty. His face is covered in scarring, and one massive burn going from chin to temple on the right side of his face. And it's hinted the radiation did a lot of other damage, given mention is made of his heart being kept operated by battery. Even getting agitated nearly puts him into a coma from the strain.
* TheCaptain: The ''original'' captain, preceding even Kirk. He later became a fleet captain.
* CelibateHero: Especially when compared to [[FemmeFatale Kirk]]. While he’s had fantasies of Orion slave girls, he runs out disgusted, calls out Boyce for being a DirtyOldMan and shows little interest in any husband and wife dreams cooked up for him.
* TheDeterminator: The Talosians expected Pike to quietly accept captivity. Pike had other ideas and didn't stop until he escaped.
* DueToTheDead: ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' revealed that Starfleet named one of their combat decorations in his honor, the Christopher Pike Medal of Valor.
* AFatherToHisMen: Implied from how Spock was willing to risk his career and life to help his former CO.
* HappilyEverAfter: The end of "The Menagerie" implies this for him and Vina, as they get to spend their remaining years together in an illusion of good health.
* HollywoodMidLifeCrisis: "The Cage" can be interpreted as an extended metaphor for a man going through a mid-life crisis. (Creator/GeneRoddenberry was well into his forties when he wrote the pilot, and even cast his mistress as the female lead.) Pike's character is clearly supposed to be older than Kirk, even ''before'' the eleven-year TimeSkip in "The Menagerie", although Hunter was a relatively young man (he turned 38 during filming of "The Cage"). Subsequent depictions of the character clearly portray him as middle-aged even during his prime (played by 53-year-old Bruce Greenwood in ''Film/StarTrek2009'' and 45-year-old Anson Mount in ''Series/StarTrekDiscovery'', both set some years before the TOS era).
* {{Mangst}}: He’s having a HeroicBSOD over getting some of his crew killed, and it takes drinking for him to admit he’s tired and wants to retire.
* OnceForYesTwiceForNo: Following the accident, Pike is left in a state where his only form of communication is a light on his elaborate wheelchair, which he can light once for "yes" and twice in a row for "no".
* SmallRoleBigImpact: He only appeared in two episodes, one of which didn't air until decades after the show ended, yet is easily one of the most recognizable things from TOS. His blinking lights and wheelchair have been been parodied and paid homage to in numerous other works.
* StayInTheKitchen: Can’t get used to having women on the bridge, and when Number One is offended, he tells her she’s different, offending her again.
* UnresolvedSexualTension: The Talosians noted that both Pike's first officer, the original Number One, and his yeoman were attracted to him, but since we never saw anything further of Pike's adventures, we don't know if anything came of it. He was apparently still in love with Vina, as he later accepted retirement with the Talosians to be with her.
* TheVoiceless: The training accident left him unable to speak, so he had to communicate via blinking lights on his wheelchair. One blink for yes, two for no.
* BodyHorror: What we see isn't pretty. His face is covered in scarring, and one massive burn going from chin to temple on the right side of his face. And it's hinted the radiation did a lot of other damage, given mention is made of his heart being kept operated by battery. Even getting agitated nearly puts him into a coma from the strain.
* TheCaptain: The ''original'' captain, preceding even Kirk. He later became a fleet captain.
* CelibateHero: Especially when compared to [[FemmeFatale Kirk]]. While he’s had fantasies of Orion slave girls, he runs out disgusted, calls out Boyce for being a DirtyOldMan and shows little interest in any husband and wife dreams cooked up for him.
* TheDeterminator: The Talosians expected Pike to quietly accept captivity. Pike had other ideas and didn't stop until he escaped.
* DueToTheDead: ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' revealed that Starfleet named one of their combat decorations in his honor, the Christopher Pike Medal of Valor.
* AFatherToHisMen: Implied from how Spock was willing to risk his career and life to help his former CO.
* HappilyEverAfter: The end of "The Menagerie" implies this for him and Vina, as they get to spend their remaining years together in an illusion of good health.
* HollywoodMidLifeCrisis: "The Cage" can be interpreted as an extended metaphor for a man going through a mid-life crisis. (Creator/GeneRoddenberry was well into his forties when he wrote the pilot, and even cast his mistress as the female lead.) Pike's character is clearly supposed to be older than Kirk, even ''before'' the eleven-year TimeSkip in "The Menagerie", although Hunter was a relatively young man (he turned 38 during filming of "The Cage"). Subsequent depictions of the character clearly portray him as middle-aged even during his prime (played by 53-year-old Bruce Greenwood in ''Film/StarTrek2009'' and 45-year-old Anson Mount in ''Series/StarTrekDiscovery'', both set some years before the TOS era).
* {{Mangst}}: He’s having a HeroicBSOD over getting some of his crew killed, and it takes drinking for him to admit he’s tired and wants to retire.
* OnceForYesTwiceForNo: Following the accident, Pike is left in a state where his only form of communication is a light on his elaborate wheelchair, which he can light once for "yes" and twice in a row for "no".
* SmallRoleBigImpact: He only appeared in two episodes, one of which didn't air until decades after the show ended, yet is easily one of the most recognizable things from TOS. His blinking lights and wheelchair have been been parodied and paid homage to in numerous other works.
* StayInTheKitchen: Can’t get used to having women on the bridge, and when Number One is offended, he tells her she’s different, offending her again.
* UnresolvedSexualTension: The Talosians noted that both Pike's first officer, the original Number One, and his yeoman were attracted to him, but since we never saw anything further of Pike's adventures, we don't know if anything came of it. He was apparently still in love with Vina, as he later accepted retirement with the Talosians to be with her.
* TheVoiceless: The training accident left him unable to speak, so he had to communicate via blinking lights on his wheelchair. One blink for yes, two for no.
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* AndIMustScream: The training accident AffablyEvil: Despite intending to execute Kirk once he was in gave discovers his identity, he has a drink with him a huge dose of delta radiation, bad enough first and is generally hard to dislike.
* ColdHam: Dominates everyone in his first scene, not raising his voice in his command, but is shaking with barely contained power.
* EnemyMine: When the Organians demonstrate their powers and use nonlethal force on both sides, Kor is quick to whisper to Kirk thathe's completely immobilized. [=McCoy=] notes his brain they should team up to take them on.
* EvilCounterpart: Like Kirk, Kor isworking as much as anyone else's, a senior field officer, but he can't even speak. And when he realises what Spock's doing, all can he do is repeat "no" over with the military dictatorship of the Klingon Empire rather than the democracy of the Federation.
* ANaziByAnyOtherName: Kor's control of Organia involves restriction of personal freedoms, mass executions, andover again.
constant surveillance.
*BodyHorror: What we see isn't pretty. His face is covered in scarring, NoSenseOfPersonalSpace: As well as the famous “you’ll be taught how to use your tongue” line, he sees Kirk and one massive burn going from chin to temple on the right side immediately circles him like prey, along with a blatant check out of his face. And it's hinted the radiation did a lot of other damage, given mention is made of his heart being kept operated by battery. Even getting agitated nearly puts him into a coma from the strain.
ass.
*TheCaptain: The ''original'' captain, preceding even Kirk. He later became a fleet captain.
* CelibateHero: Especially when comparedNotSoDifferentRemark: Kor tries to [[FemmeFatale Kirk]]. While he’s had fantasies of Orion slave girls, he runs out disgusted, calls out Boyce for being a DirtyOldMan and shows little interest in any husband and wife dreams cooked up for him.
* TheDeterminator: The Talosians expected Pike to quietly accept captivity. Pike had other ideas and didn't stop until he escaped.
* DueToTheDead: ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' revealed that Starfleet namedpull one of their combat decorations in his honor, these on Kirk, saying they are both warriors on a world of cowards. However, he is horrified when the Christopher Pike Medal of Valor.
* AFatherToHisMen: Implied from how Spock was willing to risk his career and life to help his former CO.
* HappilyEverAfter: The end of "The Menagerie" implies this forOrganians pull one on him and Vina, as they get to spend their remaining years together in an illusion of good health.
* HollywoodMidLifeCrisis: "The Cage" can be interpreted as an extended metaphor for a man going through a mid-life crisis. (Creator/GeneRoddenberry was well into his forties when he wrote the pilot,say one day humans and even cast his mistress as the female lead.) Pike's character is clearly supposed to Klingons will be older than Kirk, even ''before'' the eleven-year TimeSkip in "The Menagerie", although Hunter was a relatively young man (he turned 38 during filming of "The Cage"). Subsequent depictions of the character clearly portray him as middle-aged even during his prime (played by 53-year-old Bruce Greenwood in ''Film/StarTrek2009'' and 45-year-old Anson Mount in ''Series/StarTrekDiscovery'', both set some years before the friends.
* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: Unlike many TOSera).
* {{Mangst}}: He’s having a HeroicBSOD over getting some of his crew killed, and it takes drinking for himKlingons, Kor does seem to admit he’s tired and wants to retire.
* OnceForYesTwiceForNo: Following the accident, Pike is left in a state where his only form of communication is a light on his elaborate wheelchair, which he can light once for "yes" and twice in a row for "no".
embody this trope.
* SmallRoleBigImpact:He John Colicos played Kor only appeared in two episodes, one of which didn't air until once on TOS before reprising the role decades after the show ended, yet is easily one of the most recognizable things from TOS. His blinking lights and wheelchair have been been parodied and paid homage to in numerous other works.
* StayInTheKitchen: Can’t get used to having women on the bridge, and when Number One is offended, he tells her she’s different, offending her again.
* UnresolvedSexualTension: The Talosians noted that both Pike's first officer, the original Number One, and his yeoman were attracted to him, but since we never saw anything further of Pike's adventures, we don't know if anything came of it. He was apparently still in love with Vina, as helater accepted retirement with on [=DS9=], but his Genghis Khan-inspired performance set the Talosians to be with her.
* TheVoiceless: The training accident left him unable to speak, so he had to communicate via blinking lights on his wheelchair. One blinkstandard for yes, two for no.all Klingons.
* YellowPeril: Kor's look was based on UsefulNotes/GenghisKhan.
* ColdHam: Dominates everyone in his first scene, not raising his voice in his command, but is shaking with barely contained power.
* EnemyMine: When the Organians demonstrate their powers and use nonlethal force on both sides, Kor is quick to whisper to Kirk that
* EvilCounterpart: Like Kirk, Kor is
* ANaziByAnyOtherName: Kor's control of Organia involves restriction of personal freedoms, mass executions, and
*
*
* CelibateHero: Especially when compared
* TheDeterminator: The Talosians expected Pike to quietly accept captivity. Pike had other ideas and didn't stop until he escaped.
* DueToTheDead: ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' revealed that Starfleet named
* AFatherToHisMen: Implied from how Spock was willing to risk his career and life to help his former CO.
* HappilyEverAfter: The end of "The Menagerie" implies this for
* HollywoodMidLifeCrisis: "The Cage" can be interpreted as an extended metaphor for a man going through a mid-life crisis. (Creator/GeneRoddenberry was well into his forties when he wrote the pilot,
* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: Unlike many TOS
* {{Mangst}}: He’s having a HeroicBSOD over getting some of his crew killed, and it takes drinking for him
* OnceForYesTwiceForNo: Following the accident, Pike is left in a state where his only form of communication is a light on his elaborate wheelchair, which he can light once for "yes" and twice in a row for "no".
* SmallRoleBigImpact:
* StayInTheKitchen: Can’t get used to having women on the bridge, and when Number One is offended, he tells her she’s different, offending her again.
* UnresolvedSexualTension: The Talosians noted that both Pike's first officer, the original Number One, and his yeoman were attracted to him, but since we never saw anything further of Pike's adventures, we don't know if anything came of it. He was apparently still in love with Vina, as he
* TheVoiceless: The training accident left him unable to speak, so he had to communicate via blinking lights on his wheelchair. One blink
* YellowPeril: Kor's look was based on UsefulNotes/GenghisKhan.
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!!"Number One"
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!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/MajelBarrett
The first officer of the ''Enterprise'' and the second-in-command to Captain Pike, originally filling the cold, logical first officer role that would later go to Spock. She only appeared in "The Cage" and footage reused in "The Mengerie".
!!"Number One"
[[quoteright:320:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/number_one_tos.png]]
!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/MajelBarrett
The first officer of the ''Enterprise'' and the second-in-command to Captain Pike, originally filling the cold, logical first officer role that would later go to Spock. She only appeared in "The Cage" and footage reused in "The Mengerie".
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!!Harcourt Fenton "Harry" Mudd
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!!!'''Played by:'''
The first officer of the ''Enterprise'' and the second-in-command to Captain Pike, originally filling the cold, logical first officer role that would later go to Spock. She only appeared in "The Cage" and footage reused in "The Mengerie".
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' | ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries''
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%%* CommandingCoolness: As per her rank as first officer.
%%* ConsummateProfessional:
* EverybodyCallsHimBarkeep: Everyone calls her Number One, all the time.
* NotSoStoic: When Pike remarks that he "can't get used to having a woman on the bridge", she looks openly surprised before he excludes her as "different, of course."
%%* NumberTwo: As the ''Enterprise''[='=]s first officer.
* OnlyOneName: She's only referred to as "Number One" in "The Cage". A variety of apocrypha over the years either confirmed this as a given name or title on her homeworld, or suggested various real names, such as Una.
* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Majel Barrett was the girlfriend and eventual wife of Creator/GeneRoddenberry, which caused suspicion among NBC executives when they viewed "The Cage". She was removed from the show and not acknowledged again for decades.
* UnresolvedSexualTension: The Talosians noted that she was attracted to Pike, and her official biography confirms this, but we don't know if anything came of it. He was apparently still in love with Vina, as he later accepted retirement with the Talosians to be with her.
* YouLookFamiliar: Majel Barrett was later cast as Christine Chapel after Number One was removed from the show (which NBC executives were not informed about) and, much later, she also played Lwaxana Troi in ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', and was the official computer voice in most ''Star Trek'' productions over the years. She also played most of the female characters except for Uhura in ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries''.
%%* ConsummateProfessional:
* EverybodyCallsHimBarkeep: Everyone calls her Number One, all the time.
* NotSoStoic: When Pike remarks that he "can't get used to having a woman on the bridge", she looks openly surprised before he excludes her as "different, of course."
%%* NumberTwo: As the ''Enterprise''[='=]s first officer.
* OnlyOneName: She's only referred to as "Number One" in "The Cage". A variety of apocrypha over the years either confirmed this as a given name or title on her homeworld, or suggested various real names, such as Una.
* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Majel Barrett was the girlfriend and eventual wife of Creator/GeneRoddenberry, which caused suspicion among NBC executives when they viewed "The Cage". She was removed from the show and not acknowledged again for decades.
* UnresolvedSexualTension: The Talosians noted that she was attracted to Pike, and her official biography confirms this, but we don't know if anything came of it. He was apparently still in love with Vina, as he later accepted retirement with the Talosians to be with her.
* YouLookFamiliar: Majel Barrett was later cast as Christine Chapel after Number One was removed from the show (which NBC executives were not informed about) and, much later, she also played Lwaxana Troi in ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', and was the official computer voice in most ''Star Trek'' productions over the years. She also played most of the female characters except for Uhura in ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries''.
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* AffablyEvil: He's a shameless crook and totally unrepentant scam artist, but he's friendly, cheerful, easy-going, and surprisingly likable, so long as you remember never to trust him with anything, especially anything worth money. Basically, he's a proto-Ferengi.
%%*CommandingCoolness: As per her rank as first officer.
%%* ConsummateProfessional:
* EverybodyCallsHimBarkeep: Everyone calls her Number One, all the time.
* NotSoStoic: When Pike remarks that he "can't get used to having a woman on the bridge", she looks openly surprised before he excludes her as "different, of course.TheAggressiveDrugDealer: In "Mudd's Women."
%%* NumberTwo: As the ''Enterprise''[='=]s * ConMan: His first officer.
* OnlyOneName: She's only referredappearance is based on his scam to as "Number One" in "The Cage". A variety of apocrypha over marry gorgeous women [[spoiler:secretly modified with drugs to be super-beautiful]] to lonely, wealthy space-workers for a huge payout. In ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries'', it's mentioned he once tricked an alien species by selling them the years either confirmed this as a given name or title on her homeworld, or suggested various real names, such as Una.
Starfleet Academy building.
*RealLifeWritesThePlot: Majel Barrett was CoolAndUnusualPunishment: This gets visited upon him by Kirk at the girlfriend end of "I, Mudd."
* EvilIsPetty: While downplayed as Mudd is mostly just a dick, but his role as Kirk’s antagonist just seems to be wanting to see him squirm andeventual take Mudd’s orders.
* FullNameUltimatum:
-->'''Stella:''' Harcourt! Harcourt Fenton Mudd!...
-->'''Mudd:''' [[PhraseCatcher Shut UP, Stella!]]
* HenpeckedHusband: It turns out in "I, Mudd" that he had a harridan of a wife named Stella; part ofCreator/GeneRoddenberry, which caused suspicion among NBC executives when they viewed "The Cage". She the reason he became a crook was removed to run away from her to the show and not acknowledged again for decades.
* UnresolvedSexualTension: The Talosians notedends of the galaxy.
-->'''Mudd:''' You see, gentlemen, behind every great man there is a woman urging him on. And so it was with my Stella. She urged me on into outer space. Not that shewas attracted to Pike, and her official biography confirms this, meant to, but we don't know if anything came of it. He was apparently still in love with Vina, as he later accepted retirement with her continual, eternal, confounded nagging. Well, I think of her constantly, and every time I do, I go further out into space.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: By theTalosians Stella androids at the end of "I, Mudd."
* HonestJohnsDealership: The first storyline involving him is his plan tobe with her.
* YouLookFamiliar: Majel Barrett was later castsell brides to lonely space-miners ([[spoiler:after giving them illegal "Venus Drugs" to make them super-beautiful]]). He'd also been convicted as Christine Chapel a smuggler prior to his first appearance. In his second appearance, he describes how he escaped Deneb V after Number One was removed from being sentenced to death for fraud.
* LovableRogue: He's a money-grubber and irresponsible, but he's affable and rarely trying to commit "truly evil" crimes.
* {{Recurrer}}: He holds theshow (which NBC executives were not informed about) and, much later, she also played Lwaxana Troi in ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', and was distinction of being the official computer voice ''only'' non-Starfleet character in most ''Star Trek'' productions over the years. She also played most entire series to appear in more than one episode. He returns for an episode of the female characters except for Uhura in ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries''.Animated Series, as well. (He was also planned to make a third appearance on the show, but the proposed story was dropped.)
%%*
%%* ConsummateProfessional:
* EverybodyCallsHimBarkeep: Everyone calls her Number One, all the time.
* NotSoStoic: When Pike remarks that he "can't get used to having a woman on the bridge", she looks openly surprised before he excludes her as "different, of course.
* OnlyOneName: She's only referred
*
* EvilIsPetty: While downplayed as Mudd is mostly just a dick, but his role as Kirk’s antagonist just seems to be wanting to see him squirm and
* FullNameUltimatum:
-->'''Stella:''' Harcourt! Harcourt Fenton Mudd!...
-->'''Mudd:''' [[PhraseCatcher Shut UP, Stella!]]
* HenpeckedHusband: It turns out in "I, Mudd" that he had a harridan of a wife named Stella; part of
* UnresolvedSexualTension: The Talosians noted
-->'''Mudd:''' You see, gentlemen, behind every great man there is a woman urging him on. And so it was with my Stella. She urged me on into outer space. Not that she
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: By the
* HonestJohnsDealership: The first storyline involving him is his plan to
* YouLookFamiliar: Majel Barrett was later cast
* LovableRogue: He's a money-grubber and irresponsible, but he's affable and rarely trying to commit "truly evil" crimes.
* {{Recurrer}}: He holds the
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!!Antagonists:
[[folder:Khan Noonien Singh]]
--> See [[Characters/StarTrekTheOriginalSeriesKhanNoonienSingh his page]].
[[folder:Khan Noonien Singh]]
--> See [[Characters/StarTrekTheOriginalSeriesKhanNoonienSingh his page]].
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[[folder:Khan Noonien Singh]]
--> See [[Characters/StarTrekTheOriginalSeriesKhanNoonienSingh his page]].
!!Tribbles
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' | ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries'' | ''Film/StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock'' | ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' | ''Film/{{Star Trek|2009}}'' | ''Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness''
Harmless little fuzzballs featured in three episodes -- "The Trouble with Tribbles" (TOS), "More Tribbles, More Troubles" (TAS), and "Trials and Tribble-ations" ([=DS9=]); and cameos in ''Film/StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock'', ''Film/StarTrek2009'', and ''Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness''.
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* BornAsAnAdult: And pregnant. Which is quite a time-saver.
* CutenessProximity: For some reason, people tend to enjoy cooing over the fluffy, purring fuzzballs. Well, unless you're a Klingon.
* ExplosiveBreeder: {{Exaggerated|Trope}}. In three days, one tribble will become 1,771,561. (Assuming that tribbles reproduce every twelve hours with an average litter of ten.)
* NowYouTellMe: "We stop feeding the tribbles and they stop breeding!"
* SitcomArchNemesis: The only species that the Tribbles do not like are the Klingons, and the feeling is very mutual.
* ThrownOutTheAirlock: Where they'll be no tribble at all.
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!!Commander Kor
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!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/JohnColicos
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' | ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries'' | ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine''
The main antagonist of "Errand of Mercy" and Kirk's first Klingon opponent. ''Technically'' he isn't ''Star Trek'''s [[MonsterProgenitor first Klingon]] since several troopers are seen before him, but he is the primary Klingon in the episode which introduces the race. He returned in one episode of ''[[WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries The Animated Series]]'', three episodes of ''[[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Deep Space Nine]]'' (undergoing a HeelFaceTurn with the rest of the Klingons), and more [[Franchise/StarTrekExpandedUniverse novels and comics]] than you can shake a stick at.
!!Commander Kor
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!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/JohnColicos
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' | ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries'' | ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine''
The main antagonist of "Errand of Mercy" and Kirk's first Klingon opponent. ''Technically'' he isn't ''Star Trek'''s [[MonsterProgenitor first Klingon]] since several troopers are seen before him, but he is the primary Klingon in the episode which introduces the race. He returned in one episode of ''[[WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries The Animated Series]]'', three episodes of ''[[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Deep Space Nine]]'' (undergoing a HeelFaceTurn with the rest of the Klingons), and more [[Franchise/StarTrekExpandedUniverse novels and comics]] than you can shake a stick at.
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!!Lieutenant Commander Gary Mitchell
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* AffablyEvil: Despite intending to execute Kirk once he discovers his identity, he has a drink with him first and is generally hard to dislike.
* ColdHam: Dominates everyone in his first scene, not raising his voice in his command, but is shaking with barely contained power.
* EnemyMine: When the Organians demonstrate their powers and use nonlethal force on both sides, Kor is quick to whisper to Kirk that they should team up to take them on.
* EvilCounterpart: Like Kirk, Kor is a senior field officer, but with the military dictatorship of the Klingon Empire rather than the democracy of the Federation.
* ANaziByAnyOtherName: Kor's control of Organia involves restriction of personal freedoms, mass executions, and constant surveillance.
* NoSenseOfPersonalSpace: As well as the famous “you’ll be taught how to use your tongue” line, he sees Kirk and immediately circles him like prey, along with a blatant check out of his ass.
* NotSoDifferentRemark: Kor tries to pull one of these on Kirk, saying they are both warriors on a world of cowards. However, he is horrified when the Organians pull one on him and say one day humans and Klingons will be friends.
* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: Unlike many TOS Klingons, Kor does seem to embody this trope.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: John Colicos played Kor only once on TOS before reprising the role decades later on [=DS9=], but his Genghis Khan-inspired performance set the standard for all Klingons.
* YellowPeril: Kor's look was based on UsefulNotes/GenghisKhan.
* ColdHam: Dominates everyone in his first scene, not raising his voice in his command, but is shaking with barely contained power.
* EnemyMine: When the Organians demonstrate their powers and use nonlethal force on both sides, Kor is quick to whisper to Kirk that they should team up to take them on.
* EvilCounterpart: Like Kirk, Kor is a senior field officer, but with the military dictatorship of the Klingon Empire rather than the democracy of the Federation.
* ANaziByAnyOtherName: Kor's control of Organia involves restriction of personal freedoms, mass executions, and constant surveillance.
* NoSenseOfPersonalSpace: As well as the famous “you’ll be taught how to use your tongue” line, he sees Kirk and immediately circles him like prey, along with a blatant check out of his ass.
* NotSoDifferentRemark: Kor tries to pull one of these on Kirk, saying they are both warriors on a world of cowards. However, he is horrified when the Organians pull one on him and say one day humans and Klingons will be friends.
* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: Unlike many TOS Klingons, Kor does seem to embody this trope.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: John Colicos played Kor only once on TOS before reprising the role decades later on [=DS9=], but his Genghis Khan-inspired performance set the standard for all Klingons.
* YellowPeril: Kor's look was based on UsefulNotes/GenghisKhan.
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* AffablyEvil: Despite intending AntiVillain: At first. His initial acts of villainy are simply attempts to execute stop Kirk once he discovers and Spock from killing him out of fear for his identity, he has a drink with him first power. He gradually becomes more evil over the course of the episode and is generally hard by the end he's left this trope far behind.
* AGodAmI: He frequently refers todislike.
* ColdHam: Dominates everyone inhimself as such. During the final confrontation he uses his first scene, not raising his voice in his command, but is shaking with barely contained power.
* EnemyMine: When the Organians demonstrate their powers and use nonlethaltelekinesis to force on both sides, Kor is quick to whisper to Kirk to kneel and pray to him.
* TheCharmer: In Kirk’s bio, the female crewmembers all miss him when he dies, mostly because he flirted with them constantly by making them laugh.
* ChivalrousPervert: He’s the one thatthey should team up to take them on.
* EvilCounterpart: Like Kirk, Kor ispushed girlfriends on Kirk in the academy days, and apparently flirts a senior field officer, lot (the bio has Kirk be annoyed that he’s hitting on the female crew too much), but he’s a nice guy until his run-in with the military dictatorship galactic barrier causes him to mutate into a PhysicalGod and go insane as a result.
* ForgottenFallenFriend: The end of theKlingon Empire rather than pilot does give the democracy crew a little time to grieve over him, but he's never mentioned again (the for-some-time-ambiguous canonicity probably didn't help), with his role as Kirk's close trusted friend getting transplanted onto Spock and [=McCoy=] (in fact, some fans watching the pilot get the impression that Mitchell was supposed to be first officer before Spock). He's there in the novel versions of the Federation.
movies (and in one of Kirk's Nexus fantasies), with the implication that Kirk is trying very hard to forget about him.
*ANaziByAnyOtherName: Kor's GlowingEyesOfDoom: After the accident, his eyes start to glow silver. His eyes return to normal when he's injured or is otherwise prevented from using his powers.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:He is killed when he is crushed by rocks while standing in the grave he created for Kirk.]]
* HotBlooded: Kirk’s bio has him making a lot of impulsive, rash choices. Sometimes they work out, sometimes they don’t, and he admits to Kirk at one point that he doesn’t think things through.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Prior to his transformation.
* PhysicalGod: He starts out gaining telepathy and telekinesis (powerful enough to deflect phaser fire and take control ofOrgania involves restriction of personal freedoms, mass executions, the Enterprise through thought alone), and constant surveillance.
eventually evolves to nearly Q and Trelane's level, being able to will matter into existence through thought alone. Being crushed by rocks still kills him, though it takes being weakened in a psychic fight with another god-like being to get to that point.
*NoSenseOfPersonalSpace: As well as PositiveFriendInfluence: Kirk’s bio posits that he would still play it safe and just be another face in the famous “you’ll academy if it hadn’t been for Gary’s charm and showing his friend that he needs to take risks. This is what makes his transformation into an insane god-like being even more tragic.
* PowerEchoes: He eventually gains this.
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: Tells Kirk in more than one prequel book that leaving people to die under the guise of the Prime Directive is a shitty thing to do.
* ShadowArchetype: Nearly every later official book involving him has him as what Kirk is considered to betaught how in popular culture; too reckless, doesn’t think and overly flirty. He’s a decent person despite this though, and is a PositiveFriendInfluence when younger Kirk wants to use your tongue” line, be a ByTheBookCop.
* ShockAndAwe: After Kirk manages to convince Dr. Dehner to pull a HeelFaceTurn, she and Mitchell blast each other repeatedly with lightning, resulting in a DoubleKnockout; unfortunately Mitchell recovers relatively quickly, while Dehner is fatally wounded.
* TheStoic: He quickly loses all traces of human emotion.
* SuperStrength: After being briefly BroughtDownToNormal after a psychic duel with Dr. Dehner, Mitchell gets into a fist-fight with Kirk in which Kirk initially has the upper hand, until Mitchell starts regaining his powers; even without his telekinesis, he's strong enough to flip Kirk with an OffHandBackHand and lift a huge boulder and toss it at Kirk.
* TragicMonster: As Kirk says, Mitchell never wanted this to happen to him.
* {{Ubermensch}}: He believes that he has become a higher being who is destined to change mankind forever.
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: After he starts mutating, he's initially relatively normal and only attacks the crew because they're considering killing him out of fear he'll evolve to the point where he starts to see human beings as insects. Pretty soon, though, he evolves to the point where he seesKirk human beings as insects, losing all empathy for them and immediately circles him like prey, along with a blatant check out of his ass.
* NotSoDifferentRemark: Kor trieseven demanding to pull one of these on Kirk, saying they are both warriors on a world of cowards. However, he is horrified when the Organians pull one on him and say one day humans and Klingons will be friends.
* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: Unlike many TOS Klingons, Kor does seem to embody this trope.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: John Colicos played Kor only once on TOS before reprising the role decades later on [=DS9=], but his Genghis Khan-inspired performance set the standard for all Klingons.
* YellowPeril: Kor's look was based on UsefulNotes/GenghisKhan.worshipped as a god.
* AGodAmI: He frequently refers to
* ColdHam: Dominates everyone in
* EnemyMine: When the Organians demonstrate their powers and use nonlethal
* TheCharmer: In Kirk’s bio, the female crewmembers all miss him when he dies, mostly because he flirted with them constantly by making them laugh.
* ChivalrousPervert: He’s the one that
* EvilCounterpart: Like Kirk, Kor is
* ForgottenFallenFriend: The end of the
*
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:He is killed when he is crushed by rocks while standing in the grave he created for Kirk.]]
* HotBlooded: Kirk’s bio has him making a lot of impulsive, rash choices. Sometimes they work out, sometimes they don’t, and he admits to Kirk at one point that he doesn’t think things through.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Prior to his transformation.
* PhysicalGod: He starts out gaining telepathy and telekinesis (powerful enough to deflect phaser fire and take control of
*
* PowerEchoes: He eventually gains this.
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: Tells Kirk in more than one prequel book that leaving people to die under the guise of the Prime Directive is a shitty thing to do.
* ShadowArchetype: Nearly every later official book involving him has him as what Kirk is considered to be
* ShockAndAwe: After Kirk manages to convince Dr. Dehner to pull a HeelFaceTurn, she and Mitchell blast each other repeatedly with lightning, resulting in a DoubleKnockout; unfortunately Mitchell recovers relatively quickly, while Dehner is fatally wounded.
* TheStoic: He quickly loses all traces of human emotion.
* SuperStrength: After being briefly BroughtDownToNormal after a psychic duel with Dr. Dehner, Mitchell gets into a fist-fight with Kirk in which Kirk initially has the upper hand, until Mitchell starts regaining his powers; even without his telekinesis, he's strong enough to flip Kirk with an OffHandBackHand and lift a huge boulder and toss it at Kirk.
* TragicMonster: As Kirk says, Mitchell never wanted this to happen to him.
* {{Ubermensch}}: He believes that he has become a higher being who is destined to change mankind forever.
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: After he starts mutating, he's initially relatively normal and only attacks the crew because they're considering killing him out of fear he'll evolve to the point where he starts to see human beings as insects. Pretty soon, though, he evolves to the point where he sees
* NotSoDifferentRemark: Kor tries
* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: Unlike many TOS Klingons, Kor does seem to embody this trope.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: John Colicos played Kor only once on TOS before reprising the role decades later on [=DS9=], but his Genghis Khan-inspired performance set the standard for all Klingons.
* YellowPeril: Kor's look was based on UsefulNotes/GenghisKhan.
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!!Tribbles
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' | ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries'' | ''Film/StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock'' | ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' | ''Film/{{Star Trek|2009}}'' | ''Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness''
Harmless little fuzzballs featured in three episodes -- "The Trouble with Tribbles" (TOS), "More Tribbles, More Troubles" (TAS), and "Trials and Tribble-ations" ([=DS9=]); and cameos in ''Film/StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock'', ''Film/StarTrek2009'', and ''Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness''.
!!Tribbles
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' | ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries'' | ''Film/StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock'' | ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' | ''Film/{{Star Trek|2009}}'' | ''Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness''
Harmless little fuzzballs featured in three episodes -- "The Trouble with Tribbles" (TOS), "More Tribbles, More Troubles" (TAS), and "Trials and Tribble-ations" ([=DS9=]); and cameos in ''Film/StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock'', ''Film/StarTrek2009'', and ''Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness''.
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!!Tribbles
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' | ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries'' | ''Film/StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock'' | ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' | ''Film/{{Star Trek|2009}}'' | ''Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness''
Harmless little fuzzballs featured in three episodes -- "The Trouble with Tribbles" (TOS), "More Tribbles, More Troubles" (TAS),
!!The Gorn Captain
The captain of a vessel that attacked a Federation colony and
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* BornAsAnAdult: And pregnant. Which is quite a time-saver.
* CutenessProximity: For some reason, people tend to enjoy cooing over the fluffy, purring fuzzballs. Well, unless you're a Klingon.
* ExplosiveBreeder: {{Exaggerated|Trope}}. In three days, one tribble will become 1,771,561. (Assuming that tribbles reproduce every twelve hours with an average litter of ten.)
* NowYouTellMe: "We stop feeding the tribbles and they stop breeding!"
* SitcomArchNemesis: The only species that the Tribbles do not like are the Klingons, and the feeling is very mutual.
* ThrownOutTheAirlock: Where they'll be no tribble at all.
* CutenessProximity: For some reason, people tend to enjoy cooing over the fluffy, purring fuzzballs. Well, unless you're a Klingon.
* ExplosiveBreeder: {{Exaggerated|Trope}}. In three days, one tribble will become 1,771,561. (Assuming that tribbles reproduce every twelve hours with an average litter of ten.)
* NowYouTellMe: "We stop feeding the tribbles and they stop breeding!"
* SitcomArchNemesis: The only species that the Tribbles do not like are the Klingons, and the feeling is very mutual.
* ThrownOutTheAirlock: Where they'll be no tribble at all.
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* BornAsAnAdult: And pregnant. Which is quite a time-saver.
* CutenessProximity: For some reason, people tend to enjoy cooing overAntiVillain: While utterly ruthless about how they went about dealing with it, the fluffy, purring fuzzballs. Well, unless you're a Klingon.
* ExplosiveBreeder: {{Exaggerated|Trope}}. In three days, one tribble will become 1,771,561. (AssumingEnterprise crew concedes that tribbles reproduce they had no clue the colony was infringing on Gorn territory and that such a thing ''would'' look like an act of aggression if things were reversed. In the mind of the Gorn, they are acting in self-defence.
* AttackItsWeakPoint: During their initial fight, Kirk manages to briefly stun him by slamming the ear-like nodes on his head. It looks like Kirk managed to hit a vulnerable spot, because the Gorn is otherwise tough enough to NoSell a microwave-sized rock to the clavicle.
* GeniusBruiser: It looks like a brutish lizard monster that Kirk can't put down, yet it repeatedly outsmarts both Kirk personally and the ''Enterprise'' as a whole. Also, instead of relying on his superior natural strength, he takes the time to fashion a weapon from the location environment, just like Kirk does; however, he made a flint knife while Kirk made ''a cannon''.
* ImplacableMan: The Gorn Captain shrugs off everytwelve hours physical attack Kirk hits him with an average litter of ten.)
and even gets back up when Kirk drops a boulder on him.
*NowYouTellMe: "We stop feeding MadeOfIron: As Kirk himself notes during the tribbles episode, the Gorn Captain easily takes attacks from Kirk that would kill a human being. Even Kirk dropping a boulder on him only knocked him out for no more than a minute, and didn't injure him at all.
* MightyGlacier: Much more powerful and durable than Kirk, yet moves about as fast as molasses in January.
* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: Implied, since their first response to finding a Federation colony on their territory is to utterly destroy it and set a trap for the nearest Federation starship, and theystop breeding!"
* SitcomArchNemesis: The only species that the Tribbles do not like are the Klingons,prove to be superior both tactically and the feeling is very mutual.in terms of firepower.
*ThrownOutTheAirlock: Where they'll be no tribble SuperStrength: Kirk manages to pick up a large rock (maybe 60-80 pounds) and throw it at all.the Gorn Captain, hitting him square in the chest and accomplishing nothing. In response, the Gorn Captain ''easily'' picks up and lifts over his head a boulder that has to weigh at least a ton, and throws it (judging by the arc and how much time Kirk had to see it coming and dodge) probably fifty feet.
* CutenessProximity: For some reason, people tend to enjoy cooing over
* ExplosiveBreeder: {{Exaggerated|Trope}}. In three days, one tribble will become 1,771,561. (Assuming
* AttackItsWeakPoint: During their initial fight, Kirk manages to briefly stun him by slamming the ear-like nodes on his head. It looks like Kirk managed to hit a vulnerable spot, because the Gorn is otherwise tough enough to NoSell a microwave-sized rock to the clavicle.
* GeniusBruiser: It looks like a brutish lizard monster that Kirk can't put down, yet it repeatedly outsmarts both Kirk personally and the ''Enterprise'' as a whole. Also, instead of relying on his superior natural strength, he takes the time to fashion a weapon from the location environment, just like Kirk does; however, he made a flint knife while Kirk made ''a cannon''.
* ImplacableMan: The Gorn Captain shrugs off every
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* MightyGlacier: Much more powerful and durable than Kirk, yet moves about as fast as molasses in January.
* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: Implied, since their first response to finding a Federation colony on their territory is to utterly destroy it and set a trap for the nearest Federation starship, and they
* SitcomArchNemesis: The only species that the Tribbles do not like are the Klingons,
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!!Lieutenant Commander Gary Mitchell
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!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/GaryLockwood
The antagonist of "Where No Man Has Gone Before." Mitchell was Kirk's best friend until contact with the great barrier at the edge of the galaxy gave him extra-sensory perception and psionic powers, leading him to believe that he was becoming a god.
!!Lieutenant Commander Gary Mitchell
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!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/GaryLockwood
The antagonist of "Where No Man Has Gone Before." Mitchell was Kirk's best friend until contact with the great barrier at the edge of the galaxy gave him extra-sensory perception and psionic powers, leading him to believe that he was becoming a god.
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!!Lieutenant Commander Gary Mitchell
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* AntiVillain: At first. His initial acts of villainy are simply attempts to stop Kirk and Spock from killing him out of fear for his power. He gradually becomes more evil over the course of the episode and by the end he's left this trope far behind.
* AGodAmI: He frequently refers to himself as such. During the final confrontation he uses his telekinesis to force Kirk to kneel and pray to him.
* TheCharmer: In Kirk’s bio, the female crewmembers all miss him when he dies, mostly because he flirted with them constantly by making them laugh.
* ChivalrousPervert: He’s the one that pushed girlfriends on Kirk in the academy days, and apparently flirts a lot (the bio has Kirk be annoyed that he’s hitting on the female crew too much), but he’s a nice guy until his run-in with the galactic barrier causes him to mutate into a PhysicalGod and go insane as a result.
* ForgottenFallenFriend: The end of the pilot does give the crew a little time to grieve over him, but he's never mentioned again (the for-some-time-ambiguous canonicity probably didn't help), with his role as Kirk's close trusted friend getting transplanted onto Spock and [=McCoy=] (in fact, some fans watching the pilot get the impression that Mitchell was supposed to be first officer before Spock). He's there in the novel versions of the movies (and in one of Kirk's Nexus fantasies), with the implication that Kirk is trying very hard to forget about him.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: After the accident, his eyes start to glow silver. His eyes return to normal when he's injured or is otherwise prevented from using his powers.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:He is killed when he is crushed by rocks while standing in the grave he created for Kirk.]]
* HotBlooded: Kirk’s bio has him making a lot of impulsive, rash choices. Sometimes they work out, sometimes they don’t, and he admits to Kirk at one point that he doesn’t think things through.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Prior to his transformation.
* PhysicalGod: He starts out gaining telepathy and telekinesis (powerful enough to deflect phaser fire and take control of the Enterprise through thought alone), and eventually evolves to nearly Q and Trelane's level, being able to will matter into existence through thought alone. Being crushed by rocks still kills him, though it takes being weakened in a psychic fight with another god-like being to get to that point.
* PositiveFriendInfluence: Kirk’s bio posits that he would still play it safe and just be another face in the academy if it hadn’t been for Gary’s charm and showing his friend that he needs to take risks. This is what makes his transformation into an insane god-like being even more tragic.
* PowerEchoes: He eventually gains this.
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: Tells Kirk in more than one prequel book that leaving people to die under the guise of the Prime Directive is a shitty thing to do.
* ShadowArchetype: Nearly every later official book involving him has him as what Kirk is considered to be in popular culture; too reckless, doesn’t think and overly flirty. He’s a decent person despite this though, and is a PositiveFriendInfluence when younger Kirk wants to be a ByTheBookCop.
* ShockAndAwe: After Kirk manages to convince Dr. Dehner to pull a HeelFaceTurn, she and Mitchell blast each other repeatedly with lightning, resulting in a DoubleKnockout; unfortunately Mitchell recovers relatively quickly, while Dehner is fatally wounded.
* TheStoic: He quickly loses all traces of human emotion.
* SuperStrength: After being briefly BroughtDownToNormal after a psychic duel with Dr. Dehner, Mitchell gets into a fist-fight with Kirk in which Kirk initially has the upper hand, until Mitchell starts regaining his powers; even without his telekinesis, he's strong enough to flip Kirk with an OffHandBackHand and lift a huge boulder and toss it at Kirk.
* TragicMonster: As Kirk says, Mitchell never wanted this to happen to him.
* {{Ubermensch}}: He believes that he has become a higher being who is destined to change mankind forever.
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: After he starts mutating, he's initially relatively normal and only attacks the crew because they're considering killing him out of fear he'll evolve to the point where he starts to see human beings as insects. Pretty soon, though, he evolves to the point where he sees human beings as insects, losing all empathy for them and even demanding to be worshipped as a god.
* AGodAmI: He frequently refers to himself as such. During the final confrontation he uses his telekinesis to force Kirk to kneel and pray to him.
* TheCharmer: In Kirk’s bio, the female crewmembers all miss him when he dies, mostly because he flirted with them constantly by making them laugh.
* ChivalrousPervert: He’s the one that pushed girlfriends on Kirk in the academy days, and apparently flirts a lot (the bio has Kirk be annoyed that he’s hitting on the female crew too much), but he’s a nice guy until his run-in with the galactic barrier causes him to mutate into a PhysicalGod and go insane as a result.
* ForgottenFallenFriend: The end of the pilot does give the crew a little time to grieve over him, but he's never mentioned again (the for-some-time-ambiguous canonicity probably didn't help), with his role as Kirk's close trusted friend getting transplanted onto Spock and [=McCoy=] (in fact, some fans watching the pilot get the impression that Mitchell was supposed to be first officer before Spock). He's there in the novel versions of the movies (and in one of Kirk's Nexus fantasies), with the implication that Kirk is trying very hard to forget about him.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: After the accident, his eyes start to glow silver. His eyes return to normal when he's injured or is otherwise prevented from using his powers.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:He is killed when he is crushed by rocks while standing in the grave he created for Kirk.]]
* HotBlooded: Kirk’s bio has him making a lot of impulsive, rash choices. Sometimes they work out, sometimes they don’t, and he admits to Kirk at one point that he doesn’t think things through.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Prior to his transformation.
* PhysicalGod: He starts out gaining telepathy and telekinesis (powerful enough to deflect phaser fire and take control of the Enterprise through thought alone), and eventually evolves to nearly Q and Trelane's level, being able to will matter into existence through thought alone. Being crushed by rocks still kills him, though it takes being weakened in a psychic fight with another god-like being to get to that point.
* PositiveFriendInfluence: Kirk’s bio posits that he would still play it safe and just be another face in the academy if it hadn’t been for Gary’s charm and showing his friend that he needs to take risks. This is what makes his transformation into an insane god-like being even more tragic.
* PowerEchoes: He eventually gains this.
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: Tells Kirk in more than one prequel book that leaving people to die under the guise of the Prime Directive is a shitty thing to do.
* ShadowArchetype: Nearly every later official book involving him has him as what Kirk is considered to be in popular culture; too reckless, doesn’t think and overly flirty. He’s a decent person despite this though, and is a PositiveFriendInfluence when younger Kirk wants to be a ByTheBookCop.
* ShockAndAwe: After Kirk manages to convince Dr. Dehner to pull a HeelFaceTurn, she and Mitchell blast each other repeatedly with lightning, resulting in a DoubleKnockout; unfortunately Mitchell recovers relatively quickly, while Dehner is fatally wounded.
* TheStoic: He quickly loses all traces of human emotion.
* SuperStrength: After being briefly BroughtDownToNormal after a psychic duel with Dr. Dehner, Mitchell gets into a fist-fight with Kirk in which Kirk initially has the upper hand, until Mitchell starts regaining his powers; even without his telekinesis, he's strong enough to flip Kirk with an OffHandBackHand and lift a huge boulder and toss it at Kirk.
* TragicMonster: As Kirk says, Mitchell never wanted this to happen to him.
* {{Ubermensch}}: He believes that he has become a higher being who is destined to change mankind forever.
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: After he starts mutating, he's initially relatively normal and only attacks the crew because they're considering killing him out of fear he'll evolve to the point where he starts to see human beings as insects. Pretty soon, though, he evolves to the point where he sees human beings as insects, losing all empathy for them and even demanding to be worshipped as a god.
to:
* AntiVillain: At first. His initial acts of villainy AmbiguousGenderIdentity: Maybe she would have had an easier time if she just transitioned into being a man.
* BlatantLies: Delivered the infamous claim that women in the liberal utopia that is the Federation aresimply attempts barred from commanding starships. Regardless of whether Gene meant that literally or not, several decades and many female captains later and we are able to stop put this down to the fact that she is just making up excuses for the fact that there is no way anyone would promote someone this mentally unstable to the rank of captain.
* BrokenBird: A manipulative DeathSeeker who finds it easy to hit her ex boyfriend and hates herself.
* EasilyForgiven: Kirkand Spock from killing has a habit of doing so to people who treat him out of fear for his power. He gradually becomes more evil over the course of awfully, but even Shatner complained that nothing in the episode actually got resolved.
* DeathSeeker: Kirk points out that her “love” for him was actually torturing andby punishing, and that they would have killed each other. She responds with “that might have been better”.
* DomesticAbuse: She's a little too happy to be finally stronger than her ex boyfriend, mocking him for being scared all theend he's left this trope far behind.
* AGodAmI: He frequently referstime and punches him out to himself as such. During shut him up.
* FinalBoss: The villain of the original series' finalconfrontation episode, though due to the show's episodic nature there was no plot-related significance to this other than the fact it just happened to be the last episode filmed.
* IJustWantToBeYou: She vehemently denies loving Kirk, telling Coleman that she just loves and wants the life heuses leads of being Captain.
* ManIFeelLikeAWoman: Inverted. Sure she hates Kirk, but still takes the time to grope histelekinesis to force Kirk to kneel and pray to abs when she's finally in him.
*TheCharmer: In Kirk’s bio, MirrorCharacter: For Kirk, as she seduces her assistant the female crewmembers all miss him when way he dies, mostly because he flirted with them constantly by making them laugh.
* ChivalrousPervert: He’sseduces villains of the one that pushed girlfriends on Kirk in the academy days, and apparently flirts a lot (the bio has Kirk be annoyed that week, plays {{wounded gazelle gambit}}s well like how he’s hitting on the female crew too much), but he’s a nice guy until his run-in with the galactic barrier causes him to mutate into a PhysicalGod and go insane as a result.
* ForgottenFallenFriend: The end of the pilot does give the crew a little time to grieve over him, but he's never mentioned again (the for-some-time-ambiguous canonicity probably didn't help), with his role as Kirk's close trusted friend getting transplanted onto Spock and [=McCoy=] (in fact, some fans watching the pilot get the impression that Mitchell was supposed to be first officer before Spock). He's there in the novel versions of the movies (and in one of Kirk's Nexus fantasies), with the implication that Kirk is trying very hard to forget about him.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: After the accident, his eyes start to glow silver. His eyes return to normal when he's injured or is otherwise prevented from using his powers.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:He is killed when he is crushed by rocks while standing in the grave he created for Kirk.]]
* HotBlooded: Kirk’s bio has him making a lot of impulsive, rash choices. Sometimes they work out, sometimes they don’t, and he admits to Kirk at one point that he doesn’t think things through.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Prior to his transformation.
* PhysicalGod: He starts out gaining telepathy and telekinesis (powerful enough to deflect phaser fire and take control ofgot the Enterprise through thought alone), and eventually evolves to nearly Q and Trelane's level, being able to will matter into existence through thought alone. Being crushed by rocks still kills him, though it takes being weakened in a psychic fight with another god-like being to get to that point.
* PositiveFriendInfluence: Kirk’s bio posits that he would stillplay it safe dead multiple times, both have DeathSeeker inclinations and just be another face while he’s an AgentPeacock comfortable in the academy if it hadn’t been for Gary’s charm and showing his friend that he needs to take risks. This is what makes his transformation into an insane god-like being even more tragic.
* PowerEchoes: He eventually gains this.
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: Tells Kirkgender, she’s rigid in more than one prequel book that leaving people to die under the guise of the Prime Directive is a shitty thing to do.
* ShadowArchetype: Nearly every later official book involving him has him as what Kirk is considered to be in popular culture; too reckless, doesn’t think and overly flirty. He’s a decent person despite this though,gender norms and is a PositiveFriendInfluence TroubledAbuser because of it.
* NeverMyFault: In their conversation, Kirk is of the opinion that their relationship was a toxic mess, yet she blames Kirk for leaving, claiming he abandoned her whenyounger Kirk wants to be a ByTheBookCop.
it got serious.
*ShockAndAwe: After Kirk PsychopathicWomanchild: She’s positively giggling when she manages to convince Dr. Dehner to pull a HeelFaceTurn, she and Mitchell blast each other repeatedly with lightning, resulting in a DoubleKnockout; unfortunately Mitchell recovers relatively quickly, while Dehner is fatally wounded.
* TheStoic: He quickly loses all traces of human emotion.
* SuperStrength: After being briefly BroughtDownToNormal after a psychic duel with Dr. Dehner, Mitchell gets into a fist-fight withtrap Kirk in which Kirk initially has the upper hand, until Mitchell starts regaining his powers; even without his telekinesis, he's strong enough to flip Kirk her former body, and snuggles with an OffHandBackHand and lift a huge boulder and toss it at Kirk.
* TragicMonster: As Kirk says, Mitchell never wanted this to happen to him.
* {{Ubermensch}}: He believes thathim in her arms while talking about how he has become a higher should have killed her.
* TooCleverByHalf: Aside from beingwho is destined to change mankind forever.
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: After he starts mutating, he's initially relatively normalan HystericalWoman, she partly fucks up because she thinks being a Captain means you’re formal with everyone, and only attacks shows no affection for the crew because they're considering killing him out of fear he'll evolve that Kirk does (like calling Bones “Doctor [=McCoy=]” constantly.)
* TroubledAbuser: According to thepoint where he starts to see human beings as insects. Pretty soon, though, he evolves to the point where he sees human beings as insects, losing all empathy for them hearing, she hated being a woman, and even demanding took it out on Kirk, making it hell to be worshipped as a god.with her.
* WoundedGazelleGambit: She fakes having deadly serious radiation poisoning to get her ChronicHeroSyndrome ex alone with her and sympathetic.
* BlatantLies: Delivered the infamous claim that women in the liberal utopia that is the Federation are
* BrokenBird: A manipulative DeathSeeker who finds it easy to hit her ex boyfriend and hates herself.
* EasilyForgiven: Kirk
* DeathSeeker: Kirk points out that her “love” for him was actually torturing and
* DomesticAbuse: She's a little too happy to be finally stronger than her ex boyfriend, mocking him for being scared all the
* AGodAmI: He frequently refers
* FinalBoss: The villain of the original series' final
* IJustWantToBeYou: She vehemently denies loving Kirk, telling Coleman that she just loves and wants the life he
* ManIFeelLikeAWoman: Inverted. Sure she hates Kirk, but still takes the time to grope his
*
* ChivalrousPervert: He’s
* ForgottenFallenFriend: The end of the pilot does give the crew a little time to grieve over him, but he's never mentioned again (the for-some-time-ambiguous canonicity probably didn't help), with his role as Kirk's close trusted friend getting transplanted onto Spock and [=McCoy=] (in fact, some fans watching the pilot get the impression that Mitchell was supposed to be first officer before Spock). He's there in the novel versions of the movies (and in one of Kirk's Nexus fantasies), with the implication that Kirk is trying very hard to forget about him.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: After the accident, his eyes start to glow silver. His eyes return to normal when he's injured or is otherwise prevented from using his powers.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:He is killed when he is crushed by rocks while standing in the grave he created for Kirk.]]
* HotBlooded: Kirk’s bio has him making a lot of impulsive, rash choices. Sometimes they work out, sometimes they don’t, and he admits to Kirk at one point that he doesn’t think things through.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Prior to his transformation.
* PhysicalGod: He starts out gaining telepathy and telekinesis (powerful enough to deflect phaser fire and take control of
* PositiveFriendInfluence: Kirk’s bio posits that he would still
* PowerEchoes: He eventually gains this.
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: Tells Kirk
* ShadowArchetype: Nearly every later official book involving him has him as what Kirk is considered to be in popular culture; too reckless, doesn’t think and overly flirty. He’s a decent person despite this though,
* NeverMyFault: In their conversation, Kirk is of the opinion that their relationship was a toxic mess, yet she blames Kirk for leaving, claiming he abandoned her when
*
* TheStoic: He quickly loses all traces of human emotion.
* SuperStrength: After being briefly BroughtDownToNormal after a psychic duel with Dr. Dehner, Mitchell gets into a fist-fight with
* TragicMonster: As Kirk says, Mitchell never wanted this to happen to him.
* {{Ubermensch}}: He believes that
* TooCleverByHalf: Aside from being
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: After he starts mutating, he's initially relatively normal
* TroubledAbuser: According to the
* WoundedGazelleGambit: She fakes having deadly serious radiation poisoning to get her ChronicHeroSyndrome ex alone with her and sympathetic.
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!!The Gorn Captain
The captain of a vessel that attacked a Federation colony and lured the Enterprise to the ruins of it for an ambush, before being forced to battle Kirk to the death by aliens called the Metrons, where it is revealed that the Gorn only attacked because they considered the colony to be the prelude to Federation conquest.
!!The Gorn Captain
The captain of a vessel that attacked a Federation colony and lured the Enterprise to the ruins of it for an ambush, before being forced to battle Kirk to the death by aliens called the Metrons, where it is revealed that the Gorn only attacked because they considered the colony to be the prelude to Federation conquest.
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!!The Gorn Captain
The captain
[[folder:Ambassador Sarek]]
!!Ambassador Sarek
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sarek.jpg]]
!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/MarkLenard
!!!'''Dubbed in French by:''' Roger Rudel (Star Trek III), Georges Berthomieu (Star Trek IV), Mario Santini (Star Trek VI)
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' | ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries'' | ''Film/StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock'' | ''Film/StarTrekIVTheVoyageHome'' | ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' | ''Film/StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry''
Father of
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* AntiVillain: While utterly ruthless about how they went about dealing with it, the Enterprise crew concedes that they had no clue the colony was infringing on Gorn territory and that such a thing ''would'' look like an act of aggression if things were reversed. In the mind of the Gorn, they are acting in self-defence.
* AttackItsWeakPoint: During their initial fight, Kirk manages to briefly stun him by slamming the ear-like nodes on his head. It looks like Kirk managed to hit a vulnerable spot, because the Gorn is otherwise tough enough to NoSell a microwave-sized rock to the clavicle.
* GeniusBruiser: It looks like a brutish lizard monster that Kirk can't put down, yet it repeatedly outsmarts both Kirk personally and the ''Enterprise'' as a whole. Also, instead of relying on his superior natural strength, he takes the time to fashion a weapon from the location environment, just like Kirk does; however, he made a flint knife while Kirk made ''a cannon''.
* ImplacableMan: The Gorn Captain shrugs off every physical attack Kirk hits him with and even gets back up when Kirk drops a boulder on him.
* MadeOfIron: As Kirk himself notes during the episode, the Gorn Captain easily takes attacks from Kirk that would kill a human being. Even Kirk dropping a boulder on him only knocked him out for no more than a minute, and didn't injure him at all.
* MightyGlacier: Much more powerful and durable than Kirk, yet moves about as fast as molasses in January.
* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: Implied, since their first response to finding a Federation colony on their territory is to utterly destroy it and set a trap for the nearest Federation starship, and they prove to be superior both tactically and in terms of firepower.
* SuperStrength: Kirk manages to pick up a large rock (maybe 60-80 pounds) and throw it at the Gorn Captain, hitting him square in the chest and accomplishing nothing. In response, the Gorn Captain ''easily'' picks up and lifts over his head a boulder that has to weigh at least a ton, and throws it (judging by the arc and how much time Kirk had to see it coming and dodge) probably fifty feet.
* AttackItsWeakPoint: During their initial fight, Kirk manages to briefly stun him by slamming the ear-like nodes on his head. It looks like Kirk managed to hit a vulnerable spot, because the Gorn is otherwise tough enough to NoSell a microwave-sized rock to the clavicle.
* GeniusBruiser: It looks like a brutish lizard monster that Kirk can't put down, yet it repeatedly outsmarts both Kirk personally and the ''Enterprise'' as a whole. Also, instead of relying on his superior natural strength, he takes the time to fashion a weapon from the location environment, just like Kirk does; however, he made a flint knife while Kirk made ''a cannon''.
* ImplacableMan: The Gorn Captain shrugs off every physical attack Kirk hits him with and even gets back up when Kirk drops a boulder on him.
* MadeOfIron: As Kirk himself notes during the episode, the Gorn Captain easily takes attacks from Kirk that would kill a human being. Even Kirk dropping a boulder on him only knocked him out for no more than a minute, and didn't injure him at all.
* MightyGlacier: Much more powerful and durable than Kirk, yet moves about as fast as molasses in January.
* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: Implied, since their first response to finding a Federation colony on their territory is to utterly destroy it and set a trap for the nearest Federation starship, and they prove to be superior both tactically and in terms of firepower.
* SuperStrength: Kirk manages to pick up a large rock (maybe 60-80 pounds) and throw it at the Gorn Captain, hitting him square in the chest and accomplishing nothing. In response, the Gorn Captain ''easily'' picks up and lifts over his head a boulder that has to weigh at least a ton, and throws it (judging by the arc and how much time Kirk had to see it coming and dodge) probably fifty feet.
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* AntiVillain: While utterly ruthless about how AbusiveParents: Not intentionally, but cold Vulcan logic means he was emotionally distant toward Spock when he was a kid, and it's helped cause a lot of Spock's anti-human attitude. Sort of tells you what his parenting styles are like when Spock's reaction to being told Sarek's at threat of dying is "meh". Fortunately, they went about dealing with it, the Enterprise crew concedes that they had no clue the colony was infringing on Gorn territory and that such a thing ''would'' look like an act of aggression if things were reversed. In the mind of the Gorn, they are acting in self-defence.
* AttackItsWeakPoint: Duringmanage to repair their initial fight, Kirk manages to briefly stun him by slamming the ear-like nodes on his head. It looks like Kirk managed to hit a vulnerable spot, because the Gorn is otherwise tough enough to NoSell a microwave-sized rock to the clavicle.
relationship.
*GeniusBruiser: It looks like a brutish lizard monster {{Ambadassador}}: He's proficient in Vulcan martial arts. Spock points out that Kirk can't put down, yet it repeatedly outsmarts both Kirk personally and he could be a plausible suspect in the ''Enterprise'' as a whole. Also, instead of relying on his superior natural strength, he takes Tellarite ambassador's murder since Sarek knows the time to fashion a weapon from the location environment, just like Kirk does; however, he made a flint knife while Kirk made ''a cannon''.
* ImplacableMan: The Gorn Captain shrugs off every physical attack Kirk hits him with and even gets back up when Kirk drops a boulder ontechnique that killed him.
*MadeOfIron: As Kirk himself notes during AntiquatedLinguistics: Introduces Amanda as "she who is my wife" rather than just "my wife". He does the episode, the Gorn Captain easily takes attacks same thing decades later with Perrin.
* BlueBlood: Or at least he comes fromKirk good family, in so far as Vulcans count such things, and behaves in a courtly manner.
* GentlemanAndAScholar: A cut line indicated thatwould kill a Sarek was an astrophysicist before he turned to politics.
* HappilyMarried: Though Sarek and his humanbeing. Even Kirk dropping a boulder on him only knocked him out for no more than a minute, and didn't injure him at all.
* MightyGlacier: Much more powerful and durable than Kirk, yet moves about as fast as molasses in January.
* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: Implied, sincewife, Amanda, have their first response differences (as seen in "Journey to finding a Federation colony on their territory is to utterly destroy it Babel"), and set though he's culturally inhibited from expressing his emotions, it's clear the couple love each other very much.
* HasAType: When he resurfaces in Next Generation, he has remarried after the death of his human wife Amanda... to another human woman.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: For all his stern, no-nonsense traits and his differences with his son, he is atrap loving father and proud to represent his planet for the nearest Federation starship, Federation.
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Died in the ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode [[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS5E7Unification1 "Unification I"]].]]
* MarryForLove: Marrying Amanda was... logical. Obviously. (Well, if you love them, marrying them ''is'' pretty logical.)
* MyGreatestFailure: Based on the emotions Picard feels during their mind meld, Sarek feels extreme disappointment andthey prove to be superior regret over his emotional detachment towards both tactically his human wives. He also regrets never expressing his pride and in terms of firepower.love towards Spock appropriately.
-->''"Perrin. Amanda. I wanted to give you so much more. I wanted to show you such tenderness. But that is not our way. Spock, Amanda, did you know? Perrin, can you know how much I love you? I do love you!"''
* NotSoStoic:
** He teases Amanda in public at the end of "The Way to Babel".
** With a side order of OOCIsSeriousBusiness. In ''[[Film/StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock Star Trek III]]'', he's visibly angry when he confronts Kirk about the latter's supposed failure to return Spock's ''katra'' to Vulcan. This only escalates when he figures out Kirk has no idea what the hell he's talking about. This is [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] later at the foot of Mount Seleya, when Sarek requests the ''Fal-tor-pan'' ritual be performed to reunite Spock's body and mind. High Priestess T'Lar protests that the ceremony is dangerous and its outcome uncertain, making his request illogical. Sarek replies "''Forgive me, T'Lar. My logic is uncertain... where my son is concerned.''"
* OutOfCharacterMoment: In ''Sarek'', Picard is shocked to see him moved to tears by a musical performance. [[spoiler:This is because he has Bendii syndrome, which is analogous to Alzheimer's in a human.]]
* ParentsAsPeople: He has the unfortunate task of being a full Vulcan parent to three messed up main characters: Spock, Sybok and Michael. Part of his issue is overconfidence in the Vulcan ways, and not really knowing what his children need.
* SoProudOfYou: He admits this to Spock in ''[[Film/StarTrekIVTheVoyageHome Star Trek IV]]'', and in TNG's "Unification: Part II," Spock learns from mind-melding with Picard that he was even ''prouder'', which almost moves him to tears.
* SuperStrength:Kirk manages Like all Vulcans. That Tellarite ambassador mentioned earlier tried to pick up manhandle Sarek during an argument. Sarek effortlessly knocks away his hands with just a large rock (maybe 60-80 pounds) ''[[FingerPokeOfDoom flick of two fingers each]]'' sending him reeling quite some distance '''as an aftereffect'''. He's lucky Sarek didn't actually hit him.
* YouLookFamiliar: In addition to Sarek, Lenard also played the Romulan commander in "Balance of Terror" andthrow it at the Gorn Captain, hitting him square a Klingon captain in the chest and accomplishing nothing. In response, first movie. He is the Gorn Captain ''easily'' picks up and lifts over his head a boulder that has only actor to weigh at least a ton, and throws it (judging by portray representatives of all three major galactic powers in the arc and how much time Kirk had to see it coming and dodge) probably fifty feet.TOS continuity.
* AttackItsWeakPoint: During
*
* ImplacableMan: The Gorn Captain shrugs off every physical attack Kirk hits him with and even gets back up when Kirk drops a boulder on
*
* BlueBlood: Or at least he comes from
* GentlemanAndAScholar: A cut line indicated that
* HappilyMarried: Though Sarek and his human
* MightyGlacier: Much more powerful and durable than Kirk, yet moves about as fast as molasses in January.
* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: Implied, since
* HasAType: When he resurfaces in Next Generation, he has remarried after the death of his human wife Amanda... to another human woman.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: For all his stern, no-nonsense traits and his differences with his son, he is a
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Died in the ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode [[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS5E7Unification1 "Unification I"]].]]
* MarryForLove: Marrying Amanda was... logical. Obviously. (Well, if you love them, marrying them ''is'' pretty logical.)
* MyGreatestFailure: Based on the emotions Picard feels during their mind meld, Sarek feels extreme disappointment and
-->''"Perrin. Amanda. I wanted to give you so much more. I wanted to show you such tenderness. But that is not our way. Spock, Amanda, did you know? Perrin, can you know how much I love you? I do love you!"''
* NotSoStoic:
** He teases Amanda in public at the end of "The Way to Babel".
** With a side order of OOCIsSeriousBusiness. In ''[[Film/StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock Star Trek III]]'', he's visibly angry when he confronts Kirk about the latter's supposed failure to return Spock's ''katra'' to Vulcan. This only escalates when he figures out Kirk has no idea what the hell he's talking about. This is [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] later at the foot of Mount Seleya, when Sarek requests the ''Fal-tor-pan'' ritual be performed to reunite Spock's body and mind. High Priestess T'Lar protests that the ceremony is dangerous and its outcome uncertain, making his request illogical. Sarek replies "''Forgive me, T'Lar. My logic is uncertain... where my son is concerned.''"
* OutOfCharacterMoment: In ''Sarek'', Picard is shocked to see him moved to tears by a musical performance. [[spoiler:This is because he has Bendii syndrome, which is analogous to Alzheimer's in a human.]]
* ParentsAsPeople: He has the unfortunate task of being a full Vulcan parent to three messed up main characters: Spock, Sybok and Michael. Part of his issue is overconfidence in the Vulcan ways, and not really knowing what his children need.
* SoProudOfYou: He admits this to Spock in ''[[Film/StarTrekIVTheVoyageHome Star Trek IV]]'', and in TNG's "Unification: Part II," Spock learns from mind-melding with Picard that he was even ''prouder'', which almost moves him to tears.
* SuperStrength:
* YouLookFamiliar: In addition to Sarek, Lenard also played the Romulan commander in "Balance of Terror" and
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!!Janice Lester
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!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/SandraSmith
Kirk's PsychoExGirlfriend, stealing his body in "Turnabout Intruder" so he can finally know the "indignity of being a woman" and she can get the Captain status she's always craved.
!!Janice Lester
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/janice_lester.jpg]]
!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/SandraSmith
Kirk's PsychoExGirlfriend, stealing his body in "Turnabout Intruder" so he can finally know the "indignity of being a woman" and she can get the Captain status she's always craved.
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!!Janice Lester
!!Vina
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!!!'''Played by:'''
Kirk's PsychoExGirlfriend, stealing his body in "Turnabout Intruder" so he can finally know
A human woman living among the
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* AmbiguousGenderIdentity: Maybe she would have had an easier time if she just transitioned into being a man.
* BlatantLies: Delivered the infamous claim that women in the liberal utopia that is the Federation are barred from commanding starships. Regardless of whether Gene meant that literally or not, several decades and many female captains later and we are able to put this down to the fact that she is just making up excuses for the fact that there is no way anyone would promote someone this mentally unstable to the rank of captain.
* BrokenBird: A manipulative DeathSeeker who finds it easy to hit her ex boyfriend and hates herself.
* EasilyForgiven: Kirk has a habit of doing so to people who treat him awfully, but even Shatner complained that nothing in the episode actually got resolved.
* DeathSeeker: Kirk points out that her “love” for him was actually torturing and punishing, and that they would have killed each other. She responds with “that might have been better”.
* DomesticAbuse: She's a little too happy to be finally stronger than her ex boyfriend, mocking him for being scared all the time and punches him out to shut him up.
* FinalBoss: The villain of the original series' final episode, though due to the show's episodic nature there was no plot-related significance to this other than the fact it just happened to be the last episode filmed.
* IJustWantToBeYou: She vehemently denies loving Kirk, telling Coleman that she just loves and wants the life he leads of being Captain.
* ManIFeelLikeAWoman: Inverted. Sure she hates Kirk, but still takes the time to grope his abs when she's finally in him.
* MirrorCharacter: For Kirk, as she seduces her assistant the way he seduces villains of the week, plays {{wounded gazelle gambit}}s well like how he’s got the Enterprise to play dead multiple times, both have DeathSeeker inclinations and while he’s an AgentPeacock comfortable in his gender, she’s rigid in gender norms and is a TroubledAbuser because of it.
* NeverMyFault: In their conversation, Kirk is of the opinion that their relationship was a toxic mess, yet she blames Kirk for leaving, claiming he abandoned her when it got serious.
* PsychopathicWomanchild: She’s positively giggling when she manages to trap Kirk in her former body, and snuggles with him in her arms while talking about how he should have killed her.
* TooCleverByHalf: Aside from being an HystericalWoman, she partly fucks up because she thinks being a Captain means you’re formal with everyone, and shows no affection for the crew that Kirk does (like calling Bones “Doctor [=McCoy=]” constantly.)
* TroubledAbuser: According to the hearing, she hated being a woman, and took it out on Kirk, making it hell to be with her.
* WoundedGazelleGambit: She fakes having deadly serious radiation poisoning to get her ChronicHeroSyndrome ex alone with her and sympathetic.
* BlatantLies: Delivered the infamous claim that women in the liberal utopia that is the Federation are barred from commanding starships. Regardless of whether Gene meant that literally or not, several decades and many female captains later and we are able to put this down to the fact that she is just making up excuses for the fact that there is no way anyone would promote someone this mentally unstable to the rank of captain.
* BrokenBird: A manipulative DeathSeeker who finds it easy to hit her ex boyfriend and hates herself.
* EasilyForgiven: Kirk has a habit of doing so to people who treat him awfully, but even Shatner complained that nothing in the episode actually got resolved.
* DeathSeeker: Kirk points out that her “love” for him was actually torturing and punishing, and that they would have killed each other. She responds with “that might have been better”.
* DomesticAbuse: She's a little too happy to be finally stronger than her ex boyfriend, mocking him for being scared all the time and punches him out to shut him up.
* FinalBoss: The villain of the original series' final episode, though due to the show's episodic nature there was no plot-related significance to this other than the fact it just happened to be the last episode filmed.
* IJustWantToBeYou: She vehemently denies loving Kirk, telling Coleman that she just loves and wants the life he leads of being Captain.
* ManIFeelLikeAWoman: Inverted. Sure she hates Kirk, but still takes the time to grope his abs when she's finally in him.
* MirrorCharacter: For Kirk, as she seduces her assistant the way he seduces villains of the week, plays {{wounded gazelle gambit}}s well like how he’s got the Enterprise to play dead multiple times, both have DeathSeeker inclinations and while he’s an AgentPeacock comfortable in his gender, she’s rigid in gender norms and is a TroubledAbuser because of it.
* NeverMyFault: In their conversation, Kirk is of the opinion that their relationship was a toxic mess, yet she blames Kirk for leaving, claiming he abandoned her when it got serious.
* PsychopathicWomanchild: She’s positively giggling when she manages to trap Kirk in her former body, and snuggles with him in her arms while talking about how he should have killed her.
* TooCleverByHalf: Aside from being an HystericalWoman, she partly fucks up because she thinks being a Captain means you’re formal with everyone, and shows no affection for the crew that Kirk does (like calling Bones “Doctor [=McCoy=]” constantly.)
* TroubledAbuser: According to the hearing, she hated being a woman, and took it out on Kirk, making it hell to be with her.
* WoundedGazelleGambit: She fakes having deadly serious radiation poisoning to get her ChronicHeroSyndrome ex alone with her and sympathetic.
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* AmbiguousGenderIdentity: Maybe she would have had an easier time if she just transitioned into being a man.
* BlatantLies: Delivered the infamous claim that women in the liberal utopia that is the Federation are barred from commanding starships. Regardless of whether Gene meant that literally or not, several decades and many female captains later and we are able to put this down to the fact that she is just making up excuses for the fact that there is no way anyone would promote someone this mentally unstable to the rank of captain.
* BrokenBird: A manipulative DeathSeeker who finds it easy to hit her ex boyfriend and hates herself.
* EasilyForgiven: Kirk has a habit of doing so to people who treat him awfully, but even Shatner complained that nothing in the episode actually got resolved.
* DeathSeeker: Kirk pointsAnatomicallyIgnorantHealing: She turns out that her “love” for him was actually torturing and punishing, and that they would have killed each other. She responds with “that might to have been better”.
* DomesticAbuse: She's a little too happyleft disabled and disfigured by the Talosians' well-intentioned efforts to be finally stronger than heal her ex boyfriend, mocking him for being scared all the time -- they were able to successfully restore her to physical health, but their unfamiliarity with human anatomy led to them putting her back together as a scarred hunchback.
* BodyHorror: Downplayed, but she has been left scarred, withered andpunches him out to shut him up.
* FinalBoss: The villainexaggeratedly hunchbacked as a result of the original series' final episode, though due to the show's episodic nature there was no plot-related significance to her ship's crash.
* FacePalm: She does thisother than the fact it just happened to be the last episode filmed.
* IJustWantToBeYou: She vehemently denies loving Kirk, telling Coleman that she just loves and wants the life he leads of being Captain.
* ManIFeelLikeAWoman: Inverted. Sure she hates Kirk, but still takes the time to grope his abswhen Pike gets punished for thinking wrong thoughts.
* GlamorFailure: Her beautiful appearance is an illusion; she'sfinally in him.
really an ineptly reassembled ''[[BodyHorror mess]]''.
*MirrorCharacter: For Kirk, as she seduces her assistant the way he seduces villains of the week, plays {{wounded gazelle gambit}}s well like how he’s got the Enterprise IWillWaitForYou: Enforced. She has to play dead multiple times, both have DeathSeeker inclinations and while he’s an AgentPeacock comfortable in his gender, she’s rigid in gender norms and is a TroubledAbuser because of it.
* NeverMyFault: In their conversation, Kirk is of the opinion that their relationship was a toxic mess, yet she blames Kirk for leaving, claiming he abandoned her when it got serious.
* PsychopathicWomanchild: She’s positively giggling when she manages to trap Kirk in her former body, and snuggles with him in her arms while talking about how he should have killed her.
* TooCleverByHalf: Aside from being an HystericalWoman, she partly fucks up because she thinks being a Captain means you’re formal with everyone, and shows no affectionwait many years for the crew that Kirk does (like calling Bones “Doctor [=McCoy=]” constantly.)
* TroubledAbuser: Accordingreal Pike to return to Talos IV as she cannot leave the hearing, she hated being a woman, planet. The Talosians were at least kind enough to provide an illusion of Pike to keep her company.
* LoveAtFirstSight: Pike andtook it out on Kirk, making it hell Vina are attracted to be each other from their first meeting and explicitly say so.
* LovingAShadow: The Talosians provided her withher.
* WoundedGazelleGambit: She fakes having deadly serious radiation poisoningan illusory version of Pike to get keep her ChronicHeroSyndrome ex alone with her and sympathetic.
company while she waited for the real Pike to return.
* SpaceClothes: Like the Talosians, she wears shiny, silvery clothes.
* BlatantLies: Delivered the infamous claim that women in the liberal utopia that is the Federation are barred from commanding starships. Regardless of whether Gene meant that literally or not, several decades and many female captains later and we are able to put this down to the fact that she is just making up excuses for the fact that there is no way anyone would promote someone this mentally unstable to the rank of captain.
* BrokenBird: A manipulative DeathSeeker who finds it easy to hit her ex boyfriend and hates herself.
* EasilyForgiven: Kirk has a habit of doing so to people who treat him awfully, but even Shatner complained that nothing in the episode actually got resolved.
* DeathSeeker: Kirk points
* DomesticAbuse: She's a little too happy
* BodyHorror: Downplayed, but she has been left scarred, withered and
* FinalBoss: The villain
* FacePalm: She does this
* IJustWantToBeYou: She vehemently denies loving Kirk, telling Coleman that she just loves and wants the life he leads of being Captain.
* ManIFeelLikeAWoman: Inverted. Sure she hates Kirk, but still takes the time to grope his abs
* GlamorFailure: Her beautiful appearance is an illusion; she's
*
* NeverMyFault: In their conversation, Kirk is of the opinion that their relationship was a toxic mess, yet she blames Kirk for leaving, claiming he abandoned her when it got serious.
* PsychopathicWomanchild: She’s positively giggling when she manages to trap Kirk in her former body, and snuggles with him in her arms while talking about how he should have killed her.
* TooCleverByHalf: Aside from being an HystericalWoman, she partly fucks up because she thinks being a Captain means you’re formal with everyone, and shows no affection
* TroubledAbuser: According
* LoveAtFirstSight: Pike and
* LovingAShadow: The Talosians provided her with
* WoundedGazelleGambit: She fakes having deadly serious radiation poisoning
* SpaceClothes: Like the Talosians, she wears shiny, silvery clothes.
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[[folder:Vina]]
!!Vina
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A human woman living among the alien Talosians, who falls in love with Captain Pike.
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* AnatomicallyIgnorantHealing: She turns out to have been left disabled and disfigured by the Talosians' well-intentioned efforts to heal her -- they were able to successfully restore her to physical health, but their unfamiliarity with human anatomy led to them putting her back together as a scarred hunchback.
* BodyHorror: Downplayed, but she has been left scarred, withered and exaggeratedly hunchbacked as a result of her ship's crash.
* FacePalm: She does this when Pike gets punished for thinking wrong thoughts.
* GlamorFailure: Her beautiful appearance is an illusion; she's really an ineptly reassembled ''[[BodyHorror mess]]''.
* IWillWaitForYou: Enforced. She has to wait many years for the real Pike to return to Talos IV as she cannot leave the planet. The Talosians were at least kind enough to provide an illusion of Pike to keep her company.
* LoveAtFirstSight: Pike and Vina are attracted to each other from their first meeting and explicitly say so.
* LovingAShadow: The Talosians provided her with an illusory version of Pike to keep her company while she waited for the real Pike to return.
* SpaceClothes: Like the Talosians, she wears shiny, silvery clothes.
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!!Lieutenant Kyle
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!!!'''Dubbed in French by:''' Roger Rudel (Star Trek III), Georges Berthomieu (Star Trek IV), Mario Santini (Star Trek VI)
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' | ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries'' | ''Film/StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock'' | ''Film/StarTrekIVTheVoyageHome'' | ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' | ''Film/StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry''
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!!Harcourt Fenton "Harry"
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!!Fleet Captain Christopher Pike
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!!Commander Kor
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!!Tribbles
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!!Janice Lester
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!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' | ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries'' | ''Film/StarTrekTheMotionPicture'' | ''Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan'' | ''Film/StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock'' | ''Film/StarTrekIVTheVoyageHome'' | ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' | ''Film/StarTrekVTheFinalFrontier'' | ''Film/StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry'' | ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' | ''Film/StarTrekBeyond'' [[note]]Photograph[[/note]]
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* AmbiguouslyChristian: He frequently swears in the name of God, or Heaven. He explicitly mentions Jesus in ''Film/StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry'', one of only two times in the history of the entire franchise He is mentioned by name[[note]]a bit character in the ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'' episode "Storm Front" also mentions him[[/note]]. When he is about to [[spoiler: kill the salt vampire]] in "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E1TheManTrap The Man Trap]]", he asks the Lord to forgive him. He teases Scotty once for "not believing in God." He remarks in "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E24ThisSideOfParadise This Side of Paradise]]" how their rejection of the spores is the ''second'' time Man's been thrown out of Paradise[[note]]Kirk, another Ambiguous Christian, corrects him by saying that '''this time''' they walked out on their own[[/note]]. His staunch pacifism is certainly consistent with the tradition of Christian pacifism, and many conscientious objectors have served as medical personnel. However, the character never came out and professed a belief in the divinity of Christ (or in any other religion).
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* AmbiguouslyChristian: He frequently swears in the name of God, or Heaven. He explicitly mentions Jesus in ''Film/StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry'', one of only two three times in the history of the entire franchise He is mentioned by name[[note]]a name[[note]]Uhura directly alludes to Him as the "Son of God" at the end of "Bread and Circuses", and a bit character in the ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'' episode "Storm Front" also mentions him[[/note]].Him[[/note]]. When he is about to [[spoiler: kill the salt vampire]] in "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E1TheManTrap The Man Trap]]", he asks the Lord to forgive him. He teases Scotty once for "not believing in God." He remarks in "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E24ThisSideOfParadise This Side of Paradise]]" how their rejection of the spores is the ''second'' time Man's been thrown out of Paradise[[note]]Kirk, another Ambiguous Christian, corrects him by saying that '''this time''' they walked out on their own[[/note]]. His staunch pacifism is certainly consistent with the tradition of Christian pacifism, and many conscientious objectors have served as medical personnel. However, the character never came out and professed a belief in the divinity of Christ (or in any other religion).
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* {{Retirony}}: The ''Enterprise'' had been taken off front-line duty and reassigned to academy training when Khan nearly blasted her into scrap metal: after that, she was scheduled for total decommissioning. Then Kirk took her on one more (unauthorized) mission...
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* DeaderThanDead: [[spoiler: Unlike the ''D'' or her alternate timeline counterpart, the original ''Enterprise'' has no chance of being rebuilt. After the saucer exploded, she is last seen burning up in the atmosphere of the Genesis planet. Anything that survived would have slammed into the surface at high velocity. Then the Genesis planet exploded. sadly, you'd need a replicator to stitch her atoms back together.]]
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* DeaderThanDead: [[spoiler: Unlike the ''D'' or her alternate timeline counterpart, the original ''Enterprise'' has no chance of being rebuilt. After the saucer exploded, she is last seen burning up in the atmosphere of the Genesis planet. Anything that survived would have slammed into the surface at high velocity. Then the Genesis planet exploded. sadly, Sadly, you'd need a replicator to stitch her atoms back together.]]
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** Series writer Theodore Sturgeon and DeForest Kelley came up with a scenario in which McCoy would give Spock a prostate massage, to ease the tensions between both men. The whole thing is even kinkier, given the differences in Vulcan anatomy.[[https://trekkiefeminist.com/theodore-sturgeon-and-slash-fic/]]
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** Series writer Theodore Sturgeon and DeForest Kelley came up with a scenario in which McCoy would give Spock a prostate massage, to ease the tensions between both men. The whole thing is even kinkier, given the differences in Vulcan anatomy.[[https://trekkiefeminist.com/theodore-sturgeon-and-slash-fic/]][[https://web.archive.org/web/20220829234225/https://sci-hub.3800808.com/https://doi.org/10.3828/sfftv.2016.9.15]]
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** The same goes for Kirk, as he’ll regularly tease the man for being a charmer or AccidentalPornomancer, but looks out for him when he’s in a bad way, and will be first to get angry on his behalf when Sargon shows off the new body, or Elaan has drugged him into kissing her and worse. “Wrath Of Khan” has him actually apologise when Kirk tells him bluntly that Carol is an old wound, and to not make jokes about it.
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** The same goes for Kirk, as he’ll he'll regularly tease the man for being a charmer or AccidentalPornomancer, but looks out for him when he’s in a bad way, and will be first to get angry on his behalf when Sargon shows off the new body, or Elaan has drugged him into kissing her and worse. “Wrath Of Khan” ''Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan'' has him actually apologise when Kirk tells him bluntly that Carol is an old wound, and to not make jokes about it.
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* MeaningfulName: ''Uhura'' is derived from ''Uhuru'', which means "freedom" (which carried a strong RealitySubtext in the 1960s), while ''Nyota'' means "star."
* MyBelovedSmother: According to “Catalyst Of Sorrows”, the only time she felt free as a child was the month where she got to be with her grandparents, and not in a strictly regimented routine of after school activities.
* MyGreatestFailure: In a minor TakeThat towards the [[Film/StarTrekVI film]], “Catalyst Of Sorrows” has her call not being able to speak enough Klingon when it was needed as the most embarrassing moment of her career.
* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: She is African and her first language is Swahili, yet she sounds American. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in that she is a linguist.
* PassiveAggressiveKombat: When trying to make conversation with Spock, it ends up with her telling him super politely that he’s predictable.
* PluckyGirl: Attempted in “Plato’s Stepchildren”, as she tries to protect Kirk as he protected her, and tells herself and him that she’s not scared of being forced to kiss him, She’s lying, they’re both afraid.
* MyBelovedSmother: According to “Catalyst Of Sorrows”, the only time she felt free as a child was the month where she got to be with her grandparents, and not in a strictly regimented routine of after school activities.
* MyGreatestFailure: In a minor TakeThat towards the [[Film/StarTrekVI film]], “Catalyst Of Sorrows” has her call not being able to speak enough Klingon when it was needed as the most embarrassing moment of her career.
* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: She is African and her first language is Swahili, yet she sounds American. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in that she is a linguist.
* PassiveAggressiveKombat: When trying to make conversation with Spock, it ends up with her telling him super politely that he’s predictable.
* PluckyGirl: Attempted in “Plato’s Stepchildren”, as she tries to protect Kirk as he protected her, and tells herself and him that she’s not scared of being forced to kiss him, She’s lying, they’re both afraid.
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* MeaningfulName: ''Uhura'' is derived from ''Uhuru'', which means "freedom" (which carried a strong RealitySubtext in the 1960s), while ''Nyota'' means "star."
"star".
* MyBelovedSmother: According to“Catalyst Of Sorrows”, "Catalyst of Sorrows", the only time she felt free as a child was the month where she got to be with her grandparents, and not in a strictly regimented routine of after school activities.
* MyGreatestFailure: In a minor TakeThat towards the[[Film/StarTrekVI [[Film/StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry film]], “Catalyst Of Sorrows” "Catalyst of Sorrows" has her call not being able to speak enough Klingon when it was needed as the most embarrassing moment of her career.
* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: She is African and her first language is Swahili, yet she sounds American.[[JustifiedTrope Justified]] {{Justified|Trope}} in that she is a linguist.
* PassiveAggressiveKombat: When trying to make conversation with Spock, it ends up with her telling him super politely thathe’s he's predictable.
* PluckyGirl: Attempted in“Plato’s Stepchildren”, "Plato's Stepchildren", as she tries to protect Kirk as he protected her, and tells herself and him that she’s she's not scared of being forced to kiss him, She’s lying, they’re him. She's lying -- they're both afraid.
* MyBelovedSmother: According to
* MyGreatestFailure: In a minor TakeThat towards the
* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: She is African and her first language is Swahili, yet she sounds American.
* PassiveAggressiveKombat: When trying to make conversation with Spock, it ends up with her telling him super politely that
* PluckyGirl: Attempted in
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* ShellShockedVeteran: In “Catalyst Of Sorrows”, she tells Crusher that the worst part of being a communication officer is having to listen to screams, and she keeps going in the service so she can finally make it stop.
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* ShellShockedVeteran: In “Catalyst Of Sorrows”, "Catalyst of Sorrows", she tells Crusher that the worst part of being a communication officer is having to listen to screams, and she keeps going in the service so she can finally make it stop.
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** She appears to show an interest in Spock in a few episodes. ([[Film/StarTrek2009 Yes, long before the reboot.]]) According to Nichols, this was largely her own idea, that it was a one-sided relationship.
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** She appears to show an interest in Spock in a few episodes. ([[Film/StarTrek2009 Yes, (Yes, long before [[Film/StarTrek2009 the reboot.]]) reboot]].) According to Nichols, this was largely her own idea, that it was a one-sided relationship.
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** She shares a kiss with Kirk in "Plato's Stepchildren," although given that it was under alien MindControl and both were [[MindRape rather traumatized]]; if anything, it may be closer to ShipSinking.
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** She shares a kiss with Kirk in "Plato's Stepchildren," Stepchildren", although given that it was under alien MindControl and both were [[MindRape rather traumatized]]; if anything, it may be closer to ShipSinking.
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* StepfordSmiler: She’s the worst of all of them in “This Side Of Paradise”, and in the novel version of the fifth film, she tries her best to tell herself that the Enterprise will be fine because everyone else is grumpy about it.
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* StepfordSmiler: She’s She's the worst of all of them in “This "This Side Of Paradise”, of Paradise", and in the novel version of the fifth film, she tries her best to tell herself that the Enterprise ''Enterprise'' will be fine because everyone else is grumpy about it.
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** This trend continues into the films: In ''[[Film/StarTrekTheMotionPicture The Motion Picture]]'' Chekov gets electrocuted by one of V'ger's energy blasts. In ''[[Film/StarTrekTheWrathOfKhan Wrath of Khan]]'' he gets a Ceti Eel in the ear; ''[[Film/StarTrekIVTheVoyageHome The Voyage Home]]'' sees him nearly fatally injured when he falls off a ship onto the dock below. Walter Koenig jokingly subtitled the second film ''Star Trek II: Chekov Screams Again''.
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** This trend continues into the films: In ''[[Film/StarTrekTheMotionPicture The Motion Picture]]'' Chekov gets electrocuted by one of V'ger's energy blasts. In ''[[Film/StarTrekTheWrathOfKhan ''[[Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan Wrath of Khan]]'' he gets a Ceti Eel in the ear; ''[[Film/StarTrekIVTheVoyageHome The Voyage Home]]'' sees him nearly fatally injured when he falls off a ship onto the dock below. Walter Koenig jokingly subtitled the second film ''Star Trek II: Chekov Screams Again''.
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* PositiveFriendInfluence: Kirk’s bio posits that he would still play it safe and just be another face in the academy if it hadn’t been for Gary’s charm and showing his friend that he needs to take risks.
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* PositiveFriendInfluence: Kirk’s bio posits that he would still play it safe and just be another face in the academy if it hadn’t been for Gary’s charm and showing his friend that he needs to take risks. This is what makes his transformation into an insane god-like being even more tragic.
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[[caption-width-right:350:[[https://youtube.com/watch?v=FCARADb9asE Star Trekkin', across the universe...]][[note]]Main cast from left to right: [[TheEngineer Lt. Cmr. Montgomery "Scotty" Scott]], [[FunnyForeigner Ensign Pavel Chekov]], [[DrJerk Dr. Leonard]] [[TheMcCoy "Bones" McCoy]], [[HospitalHottie Nurse Christine Chapel]], [[TheKirk Cpn. James T. Kirk]], [[MissionControl Lt. Nyota Uhura]], [[TheSpock Lt. Cmr. Spock]] and [[GuyInBack Lt. Hikaru Sulu]], all aboard [[CompanionCube the]] ''[[CoolShip Enterprise]]''. [[/note]]]]
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* [[Characters/StarTrekTheOriginalSeriesJamesTiberiusKirk James Tiberius "Jim" Kirk]]
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* [[Characters/StarTrekTheOriginalSeriesJamesTiberiusKirk Captain James Tiberius "Jim" Kirk]]
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For tropes relating to his other appearances, see [[Characters/StarTrekDiscoveryFederation Discovery]] and [[Characters/StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds Strange New Worlds]].
For tropes relating to his appearances in the Kelvin Timeline, see [[Characters/StarTrekKelvinTimeline here]].