Trip Tucker
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| Species | Human |
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| Affiliation | Starfleet |
| Posting | Chief engineer, Enterprise, briefly Columbia |
| Rank | Commander |
| Portrayed by | Connor Trinneer |
Charles "Trip" Tucker III (short for “Triple”, since he is the third generation of his family to be named Charles Tucker), portrayed by Connor Trinneer, is a fictional character in the television series Star Trek: Enterprise, which is the last generation of the Star Trek series.
Tucker was the chief engineer on the Enterprise, and also briefly served as chief engineer aboard Enterprise's sister ship Columbia.
Tucker, born in 2121, first met Jonathan Archer about a decade prior to the launch of Enterprise when the two worked together on an early warp 2 prototype vessel using the warp engine designed by Archer's father, Henry Archer.
While a knowledgeable engineer, Tucker can be rash and “illogical”, a fact that early on causes friction between Enterprise’s Vulcan science officer, T'Pol and him. During the first year of Enterprise's mission, he finds himself coping with situations with which no Starfleet engineer has ever coped, and is a key player in the vessel finally achieving its then-record breaking speed of warp 5. Tucker also has to contend with a more dubious honor when he becomes the first human male to become pregnant.
Tucker also enjoys occasional romantic relationships, including one with an exotic alien princess in the episode "Precious Cargo." When challenged about these relationships, his stock phrase is, "I was a perfect gentleman." He is statistically the greatest charmer aboard the Enterprise and he has gone down in Star Trek history as the first human male ever to be pregnant and the first human male ever to be in a relationship with a member of another species. Before Trip, a woman fell in love with a Vulcan in disguise when he, along with one of T'Pol's ancestors, crashed on planet Earth while studying the first man-made satellite.
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