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Star Trek: Enterprise Character
Charles "Trip" Tucker III
Status	Dead at the end of series
Gender	Male
Species	Human
Origin	Earth - North America
Portrayed by	Connor Trinneer
First Appearance	" Broken Bow, Part 1"
Profession	Starfleet Officer - Chief Engineer, Enterprise
Relatives	Charles Tucker II (father)
Special Features

Charles "Trip" Tucker III is a character on the TV series Star Trek: Enterprise

Trip (his father and grandfather were both Charles, so "Trip" is short for "triple") has been in Starfleet for 12 years, and has known Jonathan Archer for eight of them. The two officers met back when Archer was involved with the NX-Test Program & Trip was a lieutenant on Captain Jefferies' engineering team. Trip and Archer teamed up with Commander A.G. Robinson to convince Starfleet and its Vulcan advisors that the NX program was worth keeping. Though they resorted to unorthodox means, launching an NX vessel without permission, they were successful. From then on, the duo shared a bond, and once endured harsh survival training in the Australian outback together. The captain describes his chief engineer as "tough as nails," and has saved Trip's life many times. During an Omega training mission on Titan, Trip's EV pack froze up and he got nitrogen narcosis and tried to remove his helmet — Archer ordered him to keep it on. Likewise, when the two were stranded on a brutal desert planet, Archer saved a delirious Trip from succumbing entirely to heatstroke. For his part, Trip is always there when the captain needs cheering up.

As he has proved time and time again, Trip is an ace engineer. Attacks from an unknown race prompted Trip & Lieutenant Reed to lead the crew in building a complement of phase cannons from scratch while in mid-space, effectively upgrading Enterprise's weapons. They accomplished in two days what would have taken the armory team at Jupiter Station at least a week. He was key in saving the ship from some strange, large-lobed alien thieves, and has been left in command of Enterprise on several occasions — one time, he even successfully impersonated Captain Archer.

Memorable Quotes

after being cursed at by a Klingon and not understanding him Well I don't particularly like the way you smell, either.

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about flying an alien vessel How difficult can it be? Up, down, forward, reverse. I'll figure it out.

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in a tent on an alien world

Tucker: Where did you put the phase pistols?

Reed: You're going to shoot a bug?

Tucker: I'm just going to stun it.

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after having trouble with the computer at an alien repair station Where can someone go to file a grievance around here?