Charles Tucker III

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For the mirror universe counterpart, see Charles Tucker III (mirror).

Charles 'Trip' Tucker III
Gender:	Male
Species:	Human
Born:	2121
Died:	2161
Father:	Charles Tucker II
Grandfather:	Charles Tucker I
Siblings:	Sister, Elizabeth Tucker and at least one brother.
Marital Status:	Single
Actor:	Connor Trinneer
8 year old Charles Tucker
17 year old Charles Tucker

Charles Tucker III, known affectionately as "Trip", was a 22nd century Starfleet officer. He served for ten years as the chief engineer of Earth's first warp 5-capable starship, NX-01 Enterprise, under the command of his best friend, Captain Jonathan Archer.

Childhood

Born in 2121, Tucker grew up in Panama City, Florida. (ENT: "Fusion") His nickname, "Trip", came from the fact that he was the third Tucker named Charles. Being the third in the line, or the "triple," he acquired the nickname "Trip". (ENT: "First Flight")

As a child, Tucker read The War of the Worlds with his mother. (ENT: "Similitude") Growing up he always wanted to be a starship captain, but his father thought he should be an engineer while his mother thought he should be an architect. (ENT: "Similitude") At the age of seven, Trip's mother bought him a copy of Emory Erickson: Father of the Transporter and he made her read it to him every night for a month. It was his childhood adoration with Emory Erickson that made him finally decide that he wanted to be an engineer. (ENT: "Daedalus") He would recall that he was extremely skilled at taking things apart but not so good at putting them back together. (ENT: "Observer Effect")

He used to take his younger sister, Elizabeth to a movie theatre near their house. He later remembered that she would "scream like a banshee" while watching horror movies. (ENT: "The Expanse") He once put a garden snake in his sister's dollhouse and his family once had a large dog named Bedford. (ENT: "Similitude")

On several occasions, Tucker went on camping trips with his friends. They would spend half the night looking up at the stars and wondering what Earth's sun would look like from a distant planet. (ENT: "Strange New World")

During his early childhood, Tucker had attended Bayshore Elementary. The first dance that Tucker ever attended was at Bayshore Elementary. He knew before the event that a girl who he had a crush on, Melissa Lyles, would be there. Tucker spent weeks practicing dance steps with his brother in preparation for the event. On the night of the dance, Melissa Lyles wore a red dress and Tucker believed she was the prettiest girl there. He desperately wanted to ask her to dance with him, but he was not courageous enough to approach her. Tucker caught the girl looking at him a few times but he eventually ended up standing in a corner with his friends. Twenty years later, he still regretted not asking the girl to dance. (ENT: "Fusion")

In Tucker's tenth grade biology class, a Vulcan scientist who the children referred to as Mr. Velik came to teach the class about life on other worlds. Tucker, who had never seen a Vulcan up close before, was terrified of the teacher. (ENT: "Strange New World")

During the late 2130s, Tucker used to drive his car out to Chatkin Point, park along the shoreline and stare at the moon with his girlfriend. He later compared the size of his first car to that of a Retellian escape pod. (ENT: "Precious Cargo")

According to Tucker, his grandmother taught him to never judge a species by their eating habits. (ENT: "Broken Bow") Tucker's personal favorite food was pan-fried catfish. (ENT: "Unexpected", "Dead Stop", "These Are the Voyages...") Tucker has no allergies that he knows of. (ENT: "Unexpected")

Career

Early Career

Tucker first joined Starfleet in 2139, at which time he lived in Sausalito, a few blocks from the Vulcan Compound. (ENT: "Broken Bow", "Unexpected")

After the destruction of the warp 2 prototype vessel, NX-Alpha, in 2143, Tucker met Jonathan Archer in the 602 Club. Tucker would later assist Archer and A.G. Robinson in stealing the warp-three prototype vessel, NX-Beta, in an attempt to prove to Starfleet Command that the engine design was sound. During this time, Tucker was a member of Captain Jefferies' engineering team with the rank of lieutenant. (ENT: "First Flight")

Shortly thereafter, Tucker taught Archer how to scuba dive off the coast of Florida. (ENT: "These Are the Voyages...")

Tucker did his survival training during two weeks in the Australian outback in a group that included Archer. (ENT: "Desert Crossing") Additional Starfleet training simulations familiarized Tucker with mind-altering agents. (ENT: "Strange New World")

In 2147, Tucker was on Titan as part of the Omega training mission together with Archer. When a malfunction with Tucker's environmental suit occured, Archer saved his life by preventing Tucker from taking off his helmet on Titan's surface. (ENT: "Strange New World", "Unexpected")

Assignment aboard Enterprise

In 2151, Tucker first served aboard the starship Enterprise as chief engineer. He experienced existence in a weightless environment when Ensign Travis Mayweather showed him the sweet spot on Enterprise. Aboard the starship, one of Tucker's self-appointed responsibilities was overseeing movie night. (ENT: "Broken Bow")

Tucker was among the away team that was infected by the pollen of the plant life on a deserted planet the Enterprise was exploring. The pollen caused paranoid and delusional behavior in the away team. Tucker though that each member was trying to kill him. In first contact with the Xyrillians, Tucker boarded their ship to fix their engines. During his stay he developed a relationship with Ah'len, an engineer. After the ship left, Tucker discovered he was pregnant. When the ship is tracked down, the embryo was successfully transferred to another host. (ENT: "Strange New World" and "Unexpected")

While visiting a Vulcan monastery on P'Jem, Tucker along with Archer and T'Pol would become involved in a dispute between the Andorians and Vulcans. He was held hostage along with the others until rescued by Malcolm Reed. It was discovered that the monastery was a front for a spy station operated by the Vulcans. He would give a tour of Enterprise to a group of pilgrims. The group included Silik who was in disguise, and tried to sabotage the ship. (ENT: "The Andorian Incident", "Cold Front")

On a mission to Cordian, Tucker with help from Shran and the Andorians rescue T'Pol and Archer from rebel forces. (ENT: "Shadows of P'Jem")

Tucker and Reed would become stranded on a shuttlepod after an accident. They believe the Enterprise was destroyed when they find debris at the coordinates were they are to meet the ship. The debris were from anthor ship and Enterprise had rescued the crew and was transporting them back to their planet. With their air running out, Tucker would jettison the warp core as a flare, which Enterprise saw and rescued them. (ENT: "Shuttlepod One")

The Ferengi would hijack the Enterpirse, after rendering the crew unconscious. Tucker who was in a sealed compartment was not affected. He would wake T'Pol and both would play each Ferengi against each other, trapping them and regaining control of the ship. He would be captured by a symbiotic creature which had stowed away on Enterprise. The creature was intergrating Tuckers' nervous system along with other crewmembers it captured to its own system. After learning that the creature wished to return home to reunite with its main host, its released Tucker and the others. (ENT: "Acquisition", "Vox Sola")

Tucker as part of an away team to salvage an abandoned ship on a planet, find that there is a settlement on the planet. They are called the Kantare and after their ship crashed, they were stranded on the planet. Tucker would become romantically involved with Liana. It would be discovered that the settlement was a hologram created by Ezral for his daughter Liana. (ENT: "Oasis")

Tucker and Archer after helping to repair an aliens ship are invited to visit his village. Zobral is really a rebel fighting against a oppressive government. When the village is attacked, Tucker and Archer become stranded in a vast desert, after surviving an attack on a rebel camp. They were rescued with help from Zobral. While on shore leave on Risa, Tucker and Reed who think they have dates with two beautiful aliens, are robbed. The ladies turn out to be morphs, who use their disguise to lure their victims. (ENT: "Desert Crossing", "Two Days and Two Nights")

The Enterprise is captured by Silik and the Suliban as part of the Temporal Cold War. Archer is transpored to the future by Daniels, an agent of starfleet temporal division. Tucker would help retake engineering and helps restore the timeline and get Archer back to his own timeline. (ENT: "Shockwave, Part I", "Shockwave, Part II")

In an attempt to discover what powers an automated repair station the Enterprise had entered, Tucker was transported off the station back to the Enterprise to stop him from investigating what he thought were odd happenings on the station. He would later discover that the station was using humanoid life forms to power its computer. Affected by a black hole radiation, he became obsessed with fixing Archer's captain's chair. (ENT: "Dead Stop", "Singularity")

He would train miners in self-defense on a planet that the Klingons were pillaging, and rescue Archer and Reed from a planet that had given them a death sentence. He modified a Suliban cell ship with a cloaking device in order to rescue them. (ENT: "Marauders", "The Communicator")

Tucker would save an alien princess, named Kaitaama, from kidnappers. He would have a romantic relationship with her during the rescue. He became stranded on a barren planet with an Arkonian who had tried to shoot his shuttle down. At first they try to kill each other, but realize that the only way they can survive is to cooperate with each other. (ENT: "Precious Cargo", "Dawn")

During a stop at a medical conference, Tucker would meet Feezal, Phlox's wife. She became attracted to him and tried to seduce him. When he told Phlox about this, Phlox told him he should have taken advantage of her offer. Later he and Reed would discover that a derelict ship the Enterprise salvaged was from the future. (ENT: "Stigma", "Future Tense")

While investigating a alien ship, Tucker's body was invaded by an alien wisp that began to control his actions. Their plan was to take over the bodies of the crew and steal the Enterprise. (ENT: "The Crossing")

The Vulcans and Andorians again would be involved in a dispute over a planet. While Archer tried to mediate the dispute, Tucker, commanding the Enterprise stops the ships of both sides from engaging in battle when he steers the Enterprise between the two fleets, giving Archer time to settle the dispute. (ENT: "Cease Fire")

Tucker and Archer would be sentenced to the penal colony of Canamar unjustly. A prisoneer, named Kuroda, would take over the ship and enlist their help in escaping. His plan was to transport off the ship to another he was meeting, and crash the ship along with the other prisoneers and guards. Tucker and Archer foiled his plan and were rescued by the Enterprise. (ENT: "Canamar")

Tucker's encounter with the Vissians would prove costly. The Vissians used a cogenitor, a third gender, to become pregnant. They are treated as an inferior class with no rights. After meeting with a cogenitor, he finds that it has the same mental capabilities as the other Vissians. Tucker takes it upon himself to convince a cogenitor he meets to fight for her rights. The cogenitor asks for asylum on the Enterprise, which after several meetings is denied. Several days later Tucker is informed that the cogenitor has killed itself. Tucker blames himself for the suicide. (ENT: "Cogenitor")

The year would end on a tragic note for Tucker. Hi sister Elizabeth would be killed in the Xindi attack on Earth. (ENT: "The Expanse")

The Xindi

Tucker had become bitter after his sister's death and was full of hatred and revenge. His mental state leds to many sleepless nights.

His was contact with the Xindi occurred at a mining camp were a Xindi, named Keesick, was rescued. He was killed in the escape, but gave the coordinates of the Xindi homeworld before he died. (ENT: "The Xindi")

An away team was in danger on the homeworld of the Loque'eque, a race that was extinct. A virus left on the planet mutates the party into the lost species. Another alien race lands on the planet determined to exterminate any of these species. Tucker led a MACO team to stop the alien exterminattors and rescue the away team. (ENT: "Extinction")

Tucker and T'Pol tried to replicate trellium-D, a substance that would protect the Enterprise from the expanse's deadly anomalies. The attempt ended in an explosion. (ENT: "Rajiin")

The Enterprise discovers a 19th century Earth settlement in the expanse. These were Humans kidnapped from earth by the Skagarans. The descendents of the earthlings would overthrow the Skagarans. They are treated like slaves and discriminated against. The Enterprise would attempt to rectify the situation. (ENT: "North Star")

In the NX-01's mission into the Delphic Expanse Tucker was badly injured during an encounter with spatial anomalies and cloned using a mimetic simbiot, in an attempt to harvest brain tissue from the clone, in order to save his life. The clone was called Sim, and nearly attempted to escape Enterprise to save his own life, but decided against it at the last minute. (ENT: "Similitude")

After recovering a small craft in the expanse, with an unknown alien in it, Tucker determines that the alien is a test subject to see what effects the atmosphere would have on it. This is the first indication that an alien force is behind the Xindi and their attack on Earth. Later after coming in contact with an Insectoid Xindi ship, Tucker questions Archer's ability to captain Enterprise. He had been infected with a toxin that made him believe he was the caretaker to the eggs of the Xindi, and was endangering the mission. Tucker would lead the crew in a mutiny to retake the ship from Archer until he could be cured. (ENT: "Harbinger", "Hatchery")

Tucker would pilot a captured Insectod shuttle and discover the location of the superweapon. In the battle of Azati Prime, the ship took heavy damage and lost eighteen crewmen. Tucker was terribly affected and it did not help when he had to compose letters to the families of the slain crewmembers. This reminder him of his sister's death. But the experience of consoling others help him deal with his ister's death. (ENT: "Azati Prime", "The Forgotten")

Tucker would help steal the warp core of an Illyrian ship to replace Enterprise's that was damaged in the battle of Azati Prime. (ENT: "Damage")

After an accident using Xindi subspace corridors, the Enterprise meets it future counterpart. The E² is captained by Lorian, son of Tucker and T'Pol. The E² would help Enterprise keep its appointment with Degra, one of the council members of the Xindi, so peace could be discussed. (ENT: "E²")

Tucker would play a large role in the final battle with the Xindi. He would destroy one of the spheres that disrupted the energy field that the aliens who were behind the Xindi attack were using to help the Xindi. This gave time for Archer and the MACOs to board the super weapon, destroy it and save Earth. (ENT: "Countdown", "Zero Hour")

The Return

After traveling back in time to 1944, Tucker is assualted by Silik who steals a shuttle. The time shift is part of the Temporal Cold War. Tucker and Reed would return to Earth to try and rescue Archer but would be captured by the Nazis and their alien allies. The aliens are trying to change history by helping the Nazis win the war. The plot was foiled and the timeline was restored. (ENT: "Storm Front, Part I", "Storm Front, Part II")

On returning home to a hero's welcome, Tucker faces heartbreak, when he travels to Vulcan and witnesses T'Pol's marriage. (ENT: "Home")

In 2154 the augment crisis began. Dr. Arik Soong had geneticially engineered Human embryos. Reaching adulthood, they attacked a Klingon ship and killed the crew. When the Klingons demand justice, the Enterprise is dispatched to capture the augments, with Soong on board to help them. Afer T'Pol is captured by the Orions and sent to a slave market, Tucker is able to decode a neural restraint and free her. He discovers the augments have captured Cold Station 12 where other augment embryos are stored. He takes part in the operation to retake the augments ship and defuse the threat. (ENT: "Borderland", "Cold Station 12", "The Augments")

Following the destruction of Earth's embassy on Vulcan in 2154, Archer and T'Pol searched for the Syrrannites, who were believed to be the perpertrators, on the surface of Vulcan, leaving Tucker temporarily in command of Enterprise. With help from Vulcan Ambassador Soval, he uncovered a conspiricy in which the Vulcan High Command attempted to cover-up the bombing as well as launching a pre-emptive strike against the Andorians, who they believed had constructed a devastating weapon based on Xindi technology. Tucker warned Andorian Commander Shran and participated in the engagement between the Vulcan and Andorian fleets. (ENT: "The Forge", "Awakening", "Kir'Shara")

Shortly afterwards, Tucker was infected with a silicon-based virus while part of a landing party on a planet's surface, looking for salvage amongst Klingon waste. Although Trip initially died due to the virus, he was resurrected by two Organian observers, who were watching the crew's reaction to the virus. (ENT: "Observer Effect")

On November 12, 2154 the Enterprise is escorting a group of Tellarites to a conference with the Andorians to settle long standing disputes. However, the Andorian ship is destroyed by what appears to be a Tellarite ship. Among the survivors is Shran, the head of the Andorian Imperial Guard. The Tellarites deny any involvement, and than the Enterprise is attacked by an Andorian ship. In reality the ship is a Romulan drone ship piloted by a neural interface. This is an attempt by the Romulans to start war among potential allies.

Tucker and Reed would transport over to the ship and discover it is unmanned. They attempt to sabotage the ship and after doing so, eject out into space where they can be transported aboard Enterprise. Tucker would build a telepresence unit for Enterprise in order to prepare it for battle against the drone ships of the Romulans. The plot is foiled with the cooperation of Earth, Tellarites and Andorians. This would be the foundation for a federation of planets. (ENT: "Babel One", "United", "Aenar")

Tucker would transfer off the Enterprise to Columbia due to his feelings for T'Pol. He would return to Enterprise to help them deal with the Klingons who faced extinction due to a genetic virus caused by their experiments with augment DNA. (ENT: "Affliction")

A xenophobic group threatened to disrupte a conference to form a coaliton of planets. Led by John Paxton, they cloned a child of Tucker and T'Pol using their DNA. They were going to use the child to stir anti-alien feelings. When Tucker and T'Pol try to inflitrate the organization they are captured and taken to a secret base on Mars. From there Paxton threatens to attack all alien vessels unless all aliens leave Earth. Tucker tries to sabotage the weapons system of Paxton but is found out and thrown into a cell. He escapes and is able to meet with the crew of the Enterprise who have come to rescue them. He leads them to the complex of Paxton. They are able to deactivate his weapon and the threat is over.

Sadly the child, whom T'Pol named Elizabeth after Tucker deceased sister, would die because of a flaw in the procedure used in creating her (it was initially believed that the causa mortis was an incompatibility between the Vulcan and Human DNA, a hypothesis Dr. Phlox shortly afterwards determined to be wrong). (ENT: "Demons", "Terra Prime")

In 2161, after a mission to Rigel X to save Shran's daughter, the men who had captured Shran's daughter had stormed the Enterprise. Tucker gave his life to save the life of Captain Jonathan Archer, who was to sign the Federation Charter, which will lead to the formation of the United Federation of Planets. {ENT: ("These Are the Voyages...")

Relationships

Ah'len

In mid-2151, Tucker had a brief, unintentional romantic encounter with a Xyrillian female named Ah'len, which resulted in Trip's inadvertant impregnation. He became the first Human male to become pregnant, as well as the first known Human participant in interspecies reproduction. (ENT: "Unexpected")

Liana

Tucker later had a brief encounter with Liana. (ENT: "Oasis")

Kaitaama

Tucker later had a brief encounter with Kaitaama, the newly selected First Monarch of Krios Prime. He rescue her from kidnappers and during the course of the escape they became romantically involved. (ENT: "Precious Cargo")

T'Pol

T'Pol kissing Trip in December 2154, in order to convince him of her desire to have Trip aboard Enterprise.

Tucker's sister Elizabeth died in the 2153 Xindi attack on Earth. Tucker experienced difficulty sleeping due to nightmares about the event. He was assisted in recovering from these difficulties by Sub-Commander T'Pol's application of Vulcan neuropressure. Over the course of their neuropressure sessions, Tucker began to develop romantic feelings for T'Pol. They finally admitted it to one another in January 2154, though T'Pol later denied her emotions. (ENT: "The Xindi", "Harbinger", "E²")

After Enterprise was heavily damaged at Azati Prime in February 2154, Tucker threw himself into repairing the ship, going two straight days with no sleep until Doctor Phlox forced him to take a few hours rest. Tucker was haunted by visions of Crewman Jane Taylor, a member of his engineering team that had died in the attack. He was supposed to be writing a letter of consolation to her parents, but was unable to do so, as she reminded him so much of his sister Elizabeth. Finally, with the help of T'Pol, Tucker was able to work his way through the grief he felt concerning both his sister and Crewman Taylor. (ENT: "The Forgotten")

When Enterprise returned to Earth, Tucker accompanied T'Pol on a visit to Vulcan and her mother, T'Les. While on Vulcan, Tucker was forced to put his emotions aside and watch T'Pol marry Koss for political reasons. Even when Koss later divorced T'Pol, Tucker was torn as she showed no interest in rekindling their relationship. (ENT: "Home", "Kir'Shara")

In November 2154, Tucker decided that his unrequited feelings for T'Pol were interfering in the performance of his duties. He left Enterprise, accepting a request from Captain Erika Hernandez that he join the crew of the new NX-02 Columbia, which was launching behind schedule due to engine trouble. With his help, the ship was ready to go in a few days. (ENT: "The Aenar", "Affliction")

In January of 2155, Tucker and T'Pol discovered that they had a daughter that was created with their stolen DNA by Terra Prime. (ENT: "Demons") After rescuing her from Terra Prime, they decided to call her Elizabeth. But they were heartbroken when it was discovered that there was a flaw in the procedure used in creating her, and she was dying. (ENT: "Terra Prime")

Alternate Timelines

In an alternate timeline where Archer was relieved of command in 2153 due to an infection by interspatial parasites, Tucker became the captain of Enterprise in 2156 when the ship reached Ceti Alpha V with the last surviving Humans. He was killed in 2165 when a Xindi assault destroyed Enterprise's bridge. (ENT: "Twilight")

In a different alternate timeline where Enterprise was stranded in 2037, Tucker eventually married T'Pol. They were wed in a traditional Vulcan ceremony; it took Tucker weeks to learn how to pronounce the vows. Afterwards, they honeymooned in Cargo Bay 3, which had been filled with sand (gathered from an asteroid) and a palm tree (manufactured) by Tucker. They had a son named Lorian, but unfortunately Tucker died when his son was only 14. (ENT: "E²")

Background

Trip was played by actor Connor Trinneer in all 98 episodes of Star Trek: Enterprise. Child actor Adam Taylor Gordon played 8-year-old Trip in a flashback scene in "The Xindi". Originally, Trip's nickname was supposed to be "Spike", but was changed to "Trip" before the pilot aired.de:Charles Tucker III fr:Charles Tucker III