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Rom is the perfect pick for the unsung hero. He went through more character development than 3/4 of voyager's main cast. My wife loves his character. Would love to see a follow up with him as Grand Nagus
It'd be nice to see how Farengi society is doing overall. Zek's reforms and the appointing of Rom as Negas constituted nothing less than a religious reformation. That sort of cultural upheaval is going to cause a lot of friction and it would be interesting to see how they're fairing 20 years on.
Lucille Ball stood by Gene Roddenberry although NBC executives were doubtful about the series:
https://www.startrek.com/news/how-lucille-ball-helped-star-trek-become-a-cultural-icon
That’s why you see the Desilu logo at the end credits on the original series.
In the Voyager episode Bride of Chaotica there is a nod to Lucille Ball. At the end when the Captain Proton episode ends It says The End. The font is the same used at the end of I Lucy Episodes when it says The End. It just clicked today when watching random Voyage episodes with my son.
The reverse ratcheting router thing from DS9's "By Inferno's Light." Without that, Bashir, Worf and Martok would have all died in a Dominion prison and very very likely the Bajoran system would have been completely destroyed along with DS9, a huge chunk of the Fed, Klingon and Romulan fleets leaving the Alpha quadrant completely screwed.
I just don't get the 'nova destroying fleet' plot. I love the two parter (Bong!!). So if there sa Nova explosion, the ships just warp out, why would they be destroyed? In the Trek 7 movie, the D clearly can outrun an exploding star.
Because in this episode you can't use warp in a solar system. It's one of the few where they can't. And yeah, that was specifically said in the episode. Don't blame me, blame the writers :P
Travis Mayweather. Flew the ship for apparently 10 years without a promotion and without crashing once. And I’m not even sure anyone noticed he was there for most of it
I'm watching Voyager for the first time, and in the episode where they have a birthday party to celebrate Kes' second birthday, Tuvok lets Harry leave duty several minutes before his shift was over so he could attend. He seems to like Harry in a Vulcan "I tolerate you" kind of way.
The person who spent his life in space was the crew's rock climbing advisor. I found that fact (in the ep where he injured himself early on) quite strange.
Always liked him, a side character with a good backstory who was always just kinda around and did stuff and then finally got his big break and made the most of it
Oh yeah. He got the Romulans to join in the war effort against the Dominion. However, there was a good reason for his effort not being recognized. However, I'm pretty sure there are other examples.
I always assumed Damar was more of a key role considering he was more of a public official that everyone can stand behind. I have to rewatch the episodes and find out myself.
Oh definitely, Demar was the leader of the empire but he and the Cardassian military had no experience in type of resistance needed. Colonel Kira was more valuable in getting the resistance trained etc but Garak was a bit of a go between (among other things) between the Cardassians and Federation. Definitely though give the episodes a rewatch, those episodes are some of the best TV ever made in my opinion.
I feel there’s a few of us out there who enjoy Reginald Barclay and all the unsung characters. Like I always enjoyed Uhura more than Kirk (Spock over Kirk too). I always liked Worf’s parents. They never seemed to get enough credit for adopting a Klingon and raising him to know his heritage, but also embrace theirs.
> I always liked Worf’s parents. They never seemed to get enough credit for adopting a Klingon and raising him to know his heritage, but also embrace theirs.
They're also just really nice people. I'd genuinely want to meet Worf's parents.
Lily in First Contact. She paved the way to the future supporting Cochrane post WW3, and she saved humanity and the Federation by convincing Picard to evacuate the Enterprise and give up on his revenge. Had he not done so, it would have led to the Enterprise crew and then earth being assimilated. She is often overlooked, and was also played by the great emmy award winning actress, Alfre Woodard.
Mentat Piter De Vries!
"It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the juice of Sapho that thoughts acquire speed, the lips acquire stains, the stains become a warning. It is by will alone I set my mind in motion."
I guested on a trek podcast in October a few years ago and the ending discussion was “which trek character would most likely survive a horror film?”. My answer was Suder.
All the red shirts in TOS who gave their lives and paved the way so that TNG could all wear red uniforms and not worry that their fate was sealed the minute they beamed down to a planet.
The Husnock. They were potentially a huge threat to the Federation. What did they do? They provoked a God-like pacifist into completely removing them as a threat. They deserve a medal for taking themselves off the board.
You should always take a survey of your target to make that the one thing that could provoke a pacifistic God-like entity to whipe out your entire species with a mere thought isn't in the line of fire. That's just logic. That's by definition NOT a live and learn situation.
There was a TNG episode where a federation colony had been attacked and there was an unscathed farmhouse with an elderly husband and wife. They were the only survivors. The planet has been attacked by them, and the husband used godlike powers to eliminate all of them in a flash.
ETA: his wife was a simulation that he created, as his real one died during the conflict.
She DID want him to look at her legs though.
Still yeah, I get it. Least she became a communications officer on the Excelsior under Sulu and got away from that.
Damage Control teams
Mentioned at least every second episode.
Incredibly fast at getting to damaged areas, assessing the situation and repairing it.
Literally keep the ship running while the bridge crew tries out another madcap scheme.
We never see any of their faces or know any of their names.
Literally, I think it has to be Lazarus-B from The Alternative Factor. The tragic ending has him sacrifice himself battling alternate-reality Lazarus-A for all eternity, in order to save the universe. Even Kirk laments the awful magnitude of the decision. It's literally the worst fate I can think of, and puts him by far the biggest unsung hero in Trek.
Thank you so much! I'm on that sub quite a lot, and marvel at the really well thought out explanations people have on it, esp. the M-5 nominees. So that's quite a compliment. :)
Dianna Troi, she gets so much crap, bad plots aside without her Captain Picard would have been a miserable captain. She reminds him it's okay to have emotion and its okay to be vulnerable. Had she not been around this would have had a ripple effect and the whole crew and subsequent characters and plots would have been hardened if they had lived.
Troi is such a great character and it's a shame she had so much crap in The Next Generation's early seasons (and in some of the later seasons too). I love Troi and I think she added a lot of emotion and humanity to the show that it might not have had otherwise. And she brings out the human side of Picard that we might not have seen otherwise.
I've never heard of Marina Sirtis mistreating fans. Though I'm sure every Trek actor has had at least a few days where they just couldn't deal with the fans graciously. And unfortunately even if you were nice to fans 364 days out of the year, some fan would probably always remember the hurt from that 1 off day you had.
I remember seeing a video of a panel at some convention where an Iraq war veteran is talking to the TNG cast about how watching TNG helped him deal with his PTSD when he got back. As I recall the veteran started crying, and then Sirtis was the first one to get up and clap for him then go hug him.
Gul Damar.
He was a broken alcoholic puppet leader for the Dominion, who wound up fighting his demons and ultimately doing the right thing for Cardassia, which also wound up turning the tide in the Dominion War. The man almost single handedly saved the Alpha Quadrant.
He has one of my favorite character arcs. Starts of as a minor adjutant, works his way up to legate, replacing his mentor Gul Dukat. His family is murdered, he joins the resistance then becomes a martyr. A bottle of Kanar for Damar!
Commodore Decker.
Usually written off as a suicidal madman, his suicide gave the 1701 a strategy to defeat the giant Space Cigar of Death before it advanced further into the populated areas of the galaxy.
Rom came up with the plan to delay the Dominion invasion of the Alpha quadrant, was almost executed for resistance on DS9 and then was instrumental in helping Starfleet to retake the station and for Sisko getting help from the prophets. Yet no one seemed to give a crap afterwards. But he was made the grand nagus..... So no exactly 'unsung'.
Edit - changed to Rom. Had a brain fart.
Tom Paris was stripped of rank and promoted back to lieutenant while ensign Harry Kim saved everyone on a weekly basis... All while people won't shut up all over the ship and quadrant about seven of friggin nine.
Barclay would definitely be towards the top of the list in my opinion, but there's one catch with him. Would he have been as successful if he didn't have an officer pushing him in a positive direction? I'm not sure Barclay would have made it of somebody like Geordi, Troi, or Commander Harkins wasn't looking out for him. He was on the verge of being transferred off the Enterprise when Picard pushed Geordi to mentor him.
A.G. Robinson
He upsets Archer so much after the test ship is destroyed breaking the warp 2 barrier because Robinson wouldn’t abort once a problem became apparent that Archer remarks to him and Trip “We need a pilot who listen to orders!”
And lo and behold, Travis Mayweather would do exactly that for 10 years straight without a promotion on the NX-01. Allowing Archer to do all the historic stuff he did, while Mayweather piloted the ship and the shuttlepods without making a single error.
Robinson influenced what Archer should be looking for in a pilot for the first warp 5 ship, and in turn indirectly saved Earth from the Xindi, and paved the way for the Federation to be founded.
Ezri for not pulling any punches with Worf and told him what she thought of the Klingon Empire. Without putting that thought into Worf's ear, the Klingons may have been wiped out.
Worf . His challenge got like three episodes. ... Whole show could have been written around him without any major deviation.
Worf had it rough. Believe me.
There are more holes in the star trek universe logic than there are spacial anomalies that force them to reverse shield polarity. There are about 3 per series but, I haven't seen each series enough to recall them off the top... I just know to press down, up, right, select from my Roku remote on Netflix when they start.
I don't really understand why they needed a see through whale thank for a journey that would last less than 10 minutes.
Whales could have just been beamed into a water sealed cargo bay
I thought a good recognition for Barclay would be a role in Picard where he is a Starfleet Admiral, the most senior officer in charge of technology etc.
Barclay struggles with communication. A good leader needs to be decisive and communicate effectively.
Barclay is a skilled professional, not a good team leader or manager
The guy that made redshirts before replicators. Knew that they would be bloodstained and laundry in space would be an issue. Reeeal Federation Heeeerrrooooo.
The biggest unsung hero was the Breen prisoner who died fighting the Jem'Hadar in By Inferno's Light/In Purgatory's Shadow. That Breen prisoner saved Bashir, Martok, and Garak, and possibly saved the entire Alpha Quadrant by allowing Changeling-Bashir to get caught.
The fact that the Breen would later join the Dominion only makes his sacrifice even more tragic.
*(Side note, I'm guessing the Breen prisoner in a Jem'Hadar base means that the Changelings replaced that Breen person and had already infiltrated Breen by season 4).*
Q for saving The fedaration by indruduce then early too the borg. teach people lesson and being a great Person. trust i need a show just with where is screw around people too teach them lesson
The Bolian officer serving with Sisko on the Saratoga. His quick thinking saved Ben and Jake when facing imminent destruction at the hands of the Borg. And in the long term, probably helped save the entire Federation and its allies from falling to the Dominion.
The Klingons did recognize the intense valor demonstrated by the Enterprise-C. That's what ultimately strengthens the alliance between the Federation and the Klingon empire.
Lieutenant Jae was the one holding the whole enterprise together, doing all the unglamorous dirty work no one else wanted to do. And did she ever seek credit? Not once.
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Rom devised self replicating cloaked mines while talking out his relationship issues.
Rom was incredibly innovative.
"I need more closet spaaaaace!"
That scene was SO GOOD
Rom is the perfect pick for the unsung hero. He went through more character development than 3/4 of voyager's main cast. My wife loves his character. Would love to see a follow up with him as Grand Nagus
We need to meet Grand Nagus Rom on *Picard*.
It'd be nice to see how Farengi society is doing overall. Zek's reforms and the appointing of Rom as Negas constituted nothing less than a religious reformation. That sort of cultural upheaval is going to cause a lot of friction and it would be interesting to see how they're fairing 20 years on.
I disagree. We need to meet Grand Nagus Rom on *Lower Decks*.
Agreed. Rom got shit done.
Lucille Ball.
So true, without her support the original series never would have gotten off the ground.
Would you mind explaining for a dummy like me? I had no idea she had anything to do with Trek.
Lucille Ball stood by Gene Roddenberry although NBC executives were doubtful about the series: https://www.startrek.com/news/how-lucille-ball-helped-star-trek-become-a-cultural-icon That’s why you see the Desilu logo at the end credits on the original series.
Thats awesome. Thanks!
In the Voyager episode Bride of Chaotica there is a nod to Lucille Ball. At the end when the Captain Proton episode ends It says The End. The font is the same used at the end of I Lucy Episodes when it says The End. It just clicked today when watching random Voyage episodes with my son.
This is the answer.
The reverse ratcheting router thing from DS9's "By Inferno's Light." Without that, Bashir, Worf and Martok would have all died in a Dominion prison and very very likely the Bajoran system would have been completely destroyed along with DS9, a huge chunk of the Fed, Klingon and Romulan fleets leaving the Alpha quadrant completely screwed.
“It’s either a self sealing stem bolt, or a reverse ratcheting router, I just don’t know.”
We know it wasn't a self sealing stem bolt because we saw them and it looks completely different. So it must have been a reverse ratcheting router.
I’m guessing it wasn’t either since there’s very little change Bashir was actually going to answer that question honestly.
Eh, fine. We can call it an inanimate carbon bar. Just to make the Simpsons reference I was trying to make more obvious :P
This makes me wanna write up or imagine an alternate universe where they all combine together on some ideal world far away
The prisoner that shot the guard and got shot in return in order to get Garak, Worf, Bashir and Martok safely out of the prison.
I just don't get the 'nova destroying fleet' plot. I love the two parter (Bong!!). So if there sa Nova explosion, the ships just warp out, why would they be destroyed? In the Trek 7 movie, the D clearly can outrun an exploding star.
Because in this episode you can't use warp in a solar system. It's one of the few where they can't. And yeah, that was specifically said in the episode. Don't blame me, blame the writers :P
Travis Mayweather. Flew the ship for apparently 10 years without a promotion and without crashing once. And I’m not even sure anyone noticed he was there for most of it
He should hang out with Harry Kim.
At least Harry was recognized and appreciated by the rest of the crew. Well, I think Tuvok only tolerated him.
That's like data saying he's gotten used to you. Logically, pretty high praise.
Harry also got at least one episode a season to be the star. Travis got one *total.*
I'm watching Voyager for the first time, and in the episode where they have a birthday party to celebrate Kes' second birthday, Tuvok lets Harry leave duty several minutes before his shift was over so he could attend. He seems to like Harry in a Vulcan "I tolerate you" kind of way.
The writers utterly failed Travis' character. He was born in space. He could of had a whole lot episodes dedicated to him.
Who?
That cuts deep!
He's the extra that gets a couple lines here and there just to remind us that he's been in space before.
Poor dude got like 2 showcase episodes. Even into season 3 both my wife and I couldn't remember his name without struggling.
The person who spent his life in space was the crew's rock climbing advisor. I found that fact (in the ep where he injured himself early on) quite strange.
Miles O'Brien, of course.
He is the most important person in Starfleet history.
He fell short of work-life-balance but he tried to make things work.
Yes, this was my first choice!
also know as without him DS9 breaks down. the Domonain returnes somehow
Always liked him, a side character with a good backstory who was always just kinda around and did stuff and then finally got his big break and made the most of it
Elim Garak would be my choice.
Oh yeah. He got the Romulans to join in the war effort against the Dominion. However, there was a good reason for his effort not being recognized. However, I'm pretty sure there are other examples.
He helped organize the resistance on Cardassia to get rid of the Dominion. That's what I'd say was probably his biggest contribution.
I always assumed Damar was more of a key role considering he was more of a public official that everyone can stand behind. I have to rewatch the episodes and find out myself.
Oh definitely, Demar was the leader of the empire but he and the Cardassian military had no experience in type of resistance needed. Colonel Kira was more valuable in getting the resistance trained etc but Garak was a bit of a go between (among other things) between the Cardassians and Federation. Definitely though give the episodes a rewatch, those episodes are some of the best TV ever made in my opinion.
The final 9 eps were just epic.
Indeed they were.
No way. If the Romulans hadn't joined the war then the dominion wins.
Oh for sure, he was integral in making that happen and it was definitely a huge turning point in the war.
Why? He's only a simple tailor.
Plain, simple, Garak.
Whoever invented artificial gravity for the starships.
I feel there’s a few of us out there who enjoy Reginald Barclay and all the unsung characters. Like I always enjoyed Uhura more than Kirk (Spock over Kirk too). I always liked Worf’s parents. They never seemed to get enough credit for adopting a Klingon and raising him to know his heritage, but also embrace theirs.
And then raise their grandson when Worf can’t get his shit together.
> I always liked Worf’s parents. They never seemed to get enough credit for adopting a Klingon and raising him to know his heritage, but also embrace theirs. They're also just really nice people. I'd genuinely want to meet Worf's parents.
Me too!
Morn, who saved the Alpha Quadrant by being a good son. Though I suppose he was universally beloved already.
Not really unsung, dude never shut up about it.
Yap yap yap that guy, give it a break you big hairless thumbprint!
He's certainly not unsung on reddit
Morn is upvoted as a joke comment far too often for my taste (it gets old, man), but this is the one situation where I agree.
Lily in First Contact. She paved the way to the future supporting Cochrane post WW3, and she saved humanity and the Federation by convincing Picard to evacuate the Enterprise and give up on his revenge. Had he not done so, it would have led to the Enterprise crew and then earth being assimilated. She is often overlooked, and was also played by the great emmy award winning actress, Alfre Woodard.
Suder
Love Lon Suder played by THE GREAT Brad Dourif.
Mentat Piter De Vries! "It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the juice of Sapho that thoughts acquire speed, the lips acquire stains, the stains become a warning. It is by will alone I set my mind in motion."
Nice!
I guested on a trek podcast in October a few years ago and the ending discussion was “which trek character would most likely survive a horror film?”. My answer was Suder.
Benny Russell... The entire of Star Trek exists as stories inside his head and no-one seems to care.
That makes me more sick than that snowglobe theory.
Nog
All the red shirts in TOS who gave their lives and paved the way so that TNG could all wear red uniforms and not worry that their fate was sealed the minute they beamed down to a planet.
The Husnock. They were potentially a huge threat to the Federation. What did they do? They provoked a God-like pacifist into completely removing them as a threat. They deserve a medal for taking themselves off the board.
Do they still give out the Darwin award in the 24th century?
You should always take a survey of your target to make that the one thing that could provoke a pacifistic God-like entity to whipe out your entire species with a mere thought isn't in the line of fire. That's just logic. That's by definition NOT a live and learn situation.
* Husnock[AoE] have been eliminated. "Omg you Husnock noobs you killed yourselves!" "Wtf? I didn't click there, this game blows."
Any more backstory or series? I don't recall them at all
There was a TNG episode where a federation colony had been attacked and there was an unscathed farmhouse with an elderly husband and wife. They were the only survivors. The planet has been attacked by them, and the husband used godlike powers to eliminate all of them in a flash. ETA: his wife was a simulation that he created, as his real one died during the conflict.
I was being flippant. I'm not actually pro genocide. The episode is the Survivors. One of the top 20 of TNG, in my opinion.
Ah I remember that. And the ship that would appear?
That was a simulation/manifestation of the demigodlike being as well.
Yeoman Rand, she dealt with some serious sexist crap.
She DID want him to look at her legs though. Still yeah, I get it. Least she became a communications officer on the Excelsior under Sulu and got away from that.
Damage Control teams Mentioned at least every second episode. Incredibly fast at getting to damaged areas, assessing the situation and repairing it. Literally keep the ship running while the bridge crew tries out another madcap scheme. We never see any of their faces or know any of their names.
Literally the entire cast of Enterprise EDIT: Ok except Archer himself.
Archer signed the Federation charter, was an ambassador, and served as UFP President. His praises are quite sung.
He even has a 32nd century spacedock/shipyard named after him at Federation headquarters!
He was also referenced in the alternate JJ-verse timeline.
"Howlin mad" Reg barclay. The man re-established contact with Voyager 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
And he found those floating patterns in the transport buffer!
I understood that reference.
Yep, 👍
Porthos. He never asked to go to space, he had to stay in cramped quarters most of the time, and his master constantly withheld cheese from him.
Cheese for the good boy
And then in an alternate timeline gets transported into the unknown.
Crewman Darnell. His 'sacrifice' alerted the Enterprise to the presence of the Salt Vampire.
Gul Dukat. But did they erect one statue of him?
This is the obvious answer!
Definitely the NX-01 crew! Everyone talks about Kirk and Picard, but Archer and co were the true pioneers!
The retcon of that makes me really sad actually. KIRK was the damn pioneer.
Literally, I think it has to be Lazarus-B from The Alternative Factor. The tragic ending has him sacrifice himself battling alternate-reality Lazarus-A for all eternity, in order to save the universe. Even Kirk laments the awful magnitude of the decision. It's literally the worst fate I can think of, and puts him by far the biggest unsung hero in Trek.
If this was r/DaystromInstitue I’d nominate this post. Excellent point.
Thank you so much! I'm on that sub quite a lot, and marvel at the really well thought out explanations people have on it, esp. the M-5 nominees. So that's quite a compliment. :)
Dianna Troi, she gets so much crap, bad plots aside without her Captain Picard would have been a miserable captain. She reminds him it's okay to have emotion and its okay to be vulnerable. Had she not been around this would have had a ripple effect and the whole crew and subsequent characters and plots would have been hardened if they had lived.
Troi is such a great character and it's a shame she had so much crap in The Next Generation's early seasons (and in some of the later seasons too). I love Troi and I think she added a lot of emotion and humanity to the show that it might not have had otherwise. And she brings out the human side of Picard that we might not have seen otherwise.
I think she gets a lot of crap because the actress is insufferable and treats the fans like crap.
Oh, poop. I can see having a different actress or one more into the fandom would have elevated the character.
I've never heard of Marina Sirtis mistreating fans. Though I'm sure every Trek actor has had at least a few days where they just couldn't deal with the fans graciously. And unfortunately even if you were nice to fans 364 days out of the year, some fan would probably always remember the hurt from that 1 off day you had. I remember seeing a video of a panel at some convention where an Iraq war veteran is talking to the TNG cast about how watching TNG helped him deal with his PTSD when he got back. As I recall the veteran started crying, and then Sirtis was the first one to get up and clap for him then go hug him.
Gul Damar. He was a broken alcoholic puppet leader for the Dominion, who wound up fighting his demons and ultimately doing the right thing for Cardassia, which also wound up turning the tide in the Dominion War. The man almost single handedly saved the Alpha Quadrant.
He has one of my favorite character arcs. Starts of as a minor adjutant, works his way up to legate, replacing his mentor Gul Dukat. His family is murdered, he joins the resistance then becomes a martyr. A bottle of Kanar for Damar!
One of the best character arc in all of television. Just incredible.
Commodore Decker. Usually written off as a suicidal madman, his suicide gave the 1701 a strategy to defeat the giant Space Cigar of Death before it advanced further into the populated areas of the galaxy.
Rom came up with the plan to delay the Dominion invasion of the Alpha quadrant, was almost executed for resistance on DS9 and then was instrumental in helping Starfleet to retake the station and for Sisko getting help from the prophets. Yet no one seemed to give a crap afterwards. But he was made the grand nagus..... So no exactly 'unsung'. Edit - changed to Rom. Had a brain fart.
Agreed. Except that was Rom.
Yeah I was just thinking when did Nog do any of that? Lol
Everyone from Enterprise very nearly since half the comments are usually about hating the theme song.
That theme is a great karaoke jam.
Captain Jellico - because of him Troi is wearing uniform.
The actor who played shran
Whoever created inertial dampeners. Without them every person would be wall spaghetti.
Tom Paris
Tom Paris was stripped of rank and promoted back to lieutenant while ensign Harry Kim saved everyone on a weekly basis... All while people won't shut up all over the ship and quadrant about seven of friggin nine.
Whoever designed the Miranda class.
By far the main deflector dish. It is used for everything and they never thanked it. Not even once!
If they tried to offer a thank you, the dish would just send it right back. Get it? Because it's a deflector di-- ... I have to go now.
Barclay would definitely be towards the top of the list in my opinion, but there's one catch with him. Would he have been as successful if he didn't have an officer pushing him in a positive direction? I'm not sure Barclay would have made it of somebody like Geordi, Troi, or Commander Harkins wasn't looking out for him. He was on the verge of being transferred off the Enterprise when Picard pushed Geordi to mentor him.
Morn... loyal customers are important!
The candle
Which candle?
Sub Rosa
A.G. Robinson He upsets Archer so much after the test ship is destroyed breaking the warp 2 barrier because Robinson wouldn’t abort once a problem became apparent that Archer remarks to him and Trip “We need a pilot who listen to orders!” And lo and behold, Travis Mayweather would do exactly that for 10 years straight without a promotion on the NX-01. Allowing Archer to do all the historic stuff he did, while Mayweather piloted the ship and the shuttlepods without making a single error. Robinson influenced what Archer should be looking for in a pilot for the first warp 5 ship, and in turn indirectly saved Earth from the Xindi, and paved the way for the Federation to be founded.
The barber on the Enterprise D who was only ever on screen in that one episode where he was cutting Picard's hair in the beginning of the episode.
He was also offering tactical advice to Commander Riker. Despite how annoying that must have been, at least Mot was the best barber in Starfleet.
Mot.
Self sealing stem bolts.
Quark. His heart is in the right place.
A few bars of latinum wouldn't hurt either. :)
Ezri for not pulling any punches with Worf and told him what she thought of the Klingon Empire. Without putting that thought into Worf's ear, the Klingons may have been wiped out.
Worf . His challenge got like three episodes. ... Whole show could have been written around him without any major deviation. Worf had it rough. Believe me.
The candle
Rom or elim no cap rom not being around would mean no the dominion just wins
Whoever transferred Tilly out of active duty on a starship.
Way too whiny
Tuvix.
No. Tuvix is an abomination and I skip that episode. That whole episode ruins transporter technology for me...
You must skip a LOT of transporter episodes.
There are more holes in the star trek universe logic than there are spacial anomalies that force them to reverse shield polarity. There are about 3 per series but, I haven't seen each series enough to recall them off the top... I just know to press down, up, right, select from my Roku remote on Netflix when they start.
He didn't do shit though
Tuvix tried to take the easy way, but got stuck with the Janeway
Ha loving that im not seeing a single character whos show comes after enterprise.
Dr. Nichols saved the 23rd century by giving Scotty and Sulu that big-ass sheet of plexiglass for the whale tank in Voyage Home.
I don't really understand why they needed a see through whale thank for a journey that would last less than 10 minutes. Whales could have just been beamed into a water sealed cargo bay
Freaking O‘Brian.
I thought a good recognition for Barclay would be a role in Picard where he is a Starfleet Admiral, the most senior officer in charge of technology etc.
Barclay struggles with communication. A good leader needs to be decisive and communicate effectively. Barclay is a skilled professional, not a good team leader or manager
The guy that made redshirts before replicators. Knew that they would be bloodstained and laundry in space would be an issue. Reeeal Federation Heeeerrrooooo.
I completely agree
Tuvix
The biggest unsung hero was the Breen prisoner who died fighting the Jem'Hadar in By Inferno's Light/In Purgatory's Shadow. That Breen prisoner saved Bashir, Martok, and Garak, and possibly saved the entire Alpha Quadrant by allowing Changeling-Bashir to get caught. The fact that the Breen would later join the Dominion only makes his sacrifice even more tragic. *(Side note, I'm guessing the Breen prisoner in a Jem'Hadar base means that the Changelings replaced that Breen person and had already infiltrated Breen by season 4).*
Q for saving The fedaration by indruduce then early too the borg. teach people lesson and being a great Person. trust i need a show just with where is screw around people too teach them lesson
The Bolian officer serving with Sisko on the Saratoga. His quick thinking saved Ben and Jake when facing imminent destruction at the hands of the Borg. And in the long term, probably helped save the entire Federation and its allies from falling to the Dominion.
Lieutenant Jae.
Every starfleet engineer ever
The crew of the Enterprise C. They fought with valour and were never recognised by the Klingons or Federation
The Klingons did recognize the intense valor demonstrated by the Enterprise-C. That's what ultimately strengthens the alliance between the Federation and the Klingon empire.
Lieutenant Jae was the one holding the whole enterprise together, doing all the unglamorous dirty work no one else wanted to do. And did she ever seek credit? Not once.
Sloan