24 Facts About Trip Tucker

Charles "Trip" Tucker III, portrayed by Connor Trinneer, is a fictional character in the television series Star Trek: Enterprise.

Trip Tucker was the chief engineer on the Enterprise and briefly served in the same role aboard the Enterprise's sister ship Columbia.

Trip Tucker enjoys occasional romantic relationships, including one with an exotic alien engineer in the episode "Unexpected".

At the request of Dr Phlox, Trip Tucker agreed to undergo Vulcan neuropressure treatments with T'Pol.

At a crucial point during the Xindi mission, Trip Tucker suffered a potentially fatal injury, and the only way to save his life was to create a clone to harvest needed brain cells.

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Later, following T'Pol's annulment of her marriage, Trip Tucker considered becoming involved with her again; however.

In 2154, during a mission to prevent a Romulan automated marauder from starting a war, Trip Tucker determined that his attraction to T'Pol was negatively affecting his ability to do his job.

Trip Tucker subsequently submitted a request to Archer return to Enterprise full-time.

Trip Tucker served as Enterprise's chief engineer for a full decade, and prepared to transfer to one of the newly built warp 7-capable starships following the decommissioning of Enterprise in 2161, which was to coincide with the signing of the Federation Charter.

The aliens are about to kill Archer, so Trip Tucker, thinking fast, tells them that he will take them to Shran.

Trip Tucker leads the aliens into what appears to be a harmless utility closet — he tells them it is simply a com station and he is going to get Shran to come to them.

Trip Tucker tells them he just needs to connect a couple of things, but when he brings a pair of conduits together, a massive explosion erupts, taking out both Trip Tucker and the aliens.

In 2153, Trip Tucker lost his sister, Elizabeth, in the Xindi attack on Earth which destroyed her hometown in southern Florida.

Trip Tucker's parents survived the attack and later relocated to Mississippi; they were invited to attend the signing of the United Federation of Planets treaty in 2161, and kept their promise to attend even after Tucker's death.

Trip Tucker is knowledgeable about the ancient board game Go, and actually has a Go board in his cabin .

Trip Tucker has a brief romance with princess Kaitamma from Krios Prime in "Precious Cargo", They enjoy a passionate one-night stand when the pair find themselves alone on an uninhabited planet.

Trip Tucker is killed when Enterprise's bridge is destroyed shortly before Archer resets the timeline.

Trip Tucker is long deceased by the time Lorian's version of Enterprise makes rendezvous with its namesake.

Trip Tucker is subsequently tortured in the agony booth, but vehemently denies any wrongdoing, insisting that he has always been loyal to the Empire and Archer.

Trip Tucker later confronts T'Pol in main engineering and tells her he spent four hours in the booth.

Trip Tucker agrees to an undercover mission into Romulan territory to find and neutralize the Romulans' new warp 7 engine program, which will be faster than almost all other warp drives in existence and would undoubtedly endanger the Coalition.

Trip Tucker is successful, but in the process, he learns that Vulcans and Romulans were once one species.

Trip Tucker reluctantly agrees to remain officially "dead", lest this secret become public and thereby endanger the newly formed coalition.

Also, the novel suggests that Trip Tucker's extended lifespan is partly due to the genetic engineering he receives to pass as a Romulan.