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Commander  |
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Alive (2165) |
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Elizabeth Tucker (Sister) |
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Elizabeth T'Les Tucker (Daughter) |
- For mirror universe counterpart, see Charles Tucker III (mirror).
Charles Anthony Tucker III was a noted Starfleet officer and chief engineer aboard the Enterprise from 2151 to 2161, excluding a brief stint on the Columbia in 2154.
History[]
Early life[]
He was born in 2121 to Charles and Elaine Tucker and grew up in Panama City, Florida. He had a younger sister, Elizabeth Tucker, who was killed in the Xindi attack of 2153 and a brother, Albert. (ENT: "The Expanse", "The Xindi") When Trip was a teenager, he and his friends had often dared each other to open a hatch door on a grain silo. Trip was the one who eventually accepted the dare and opened the hatch, only to have the contents spill out. When the contents of the silo threatened to bury Trip alive, his brother Albert and a friend dug Trip out.
Early career[]
Tucker's early career in Starfleet saw him working on several projects whose aim was to produce high-warp capability drives. In 2140, Trip served on the Daedalus project under Doctor Victor Brodesser. The Daedalus project was an attempt at creating a Warp-5 engine using a cascading ion drive. On the eve of Daedalus's launch, Trip discovered a flaw in the engine design that he feared would result in a fatal overload. He confronted the doctor about his concerns, but Brodesser calmed Trip's fears and the ship launched on schedule. In the mission control room, Trip could only watch in horror as his worst fears were realized and the ship exploded in an ion-cascading reaction with all hands lost.
By 2143 Tucker had been assigned to the Warp 5 Program, as part of Captain W.M. Jefferies' engineering detail. During this time he was involved in the theft of the NX-Beta craft along with Jonathan Archer and A.G. Robinson, which resulted in the craft breaking the Warp 2.5 Barrier for the first time.
Tucker met Jonathan Archer in the year 2143 and the two quickly became friends. When Archer was given command of the first Warp-5 vessel, the Enterprise NX-01, he requested that Trip be assigned as his engineer. (ENT: "First Flight")
Service on Enterprise[]
Tucker was assigned as chief engineer on Enterprise and stayed with it for its entire ten-year mission, except for a brief reassignment on Enterprise's sister ship, Columbia NX-02, in 2154.