List of Star Trek characters (N–S)

This is a list of characters from the Star Trek franchise and the media in which they appear. It lists both major and minor fictional characters including those not originally created for Star Trek but featured in it, alongside real-life persons appearing in a fictional manner, such as holodeck recreations.

Characters from all series, listed alphabetically

Key

N

Character	Actor	Appearances	Description
	Stephen Davies	Darkling	Mikhal Traveler and owner of a lodge.
	Clyde Kusatsu	The Measure of a Man, Phantasms, All Good Things...	A Starfleet Admiral.
	Darryl Henriques	TUC	Romulan ambassador to the Federation in 2293. Involved in the assassination of Klingon Chancellor Gorkon.
		Masks	A teacher who supervised Eric Burton's art class.
	Natalija Nogulich	Chain of Command, Part I ; The Maquis, Part II	Starfleet Admiral involved in negotiations over the Cardassian Demilitarized Zone. A simulated version of the Admiral was used by the Dominion to test the reaction of Sisko and Starfleet in general to a Dominion attempt to gain a foothold in the Alpha Quadrant.
	Robin Christopher	Duet, In the Hands of the Prophets	Bajoran engineer aboard Deep Space Nine; secretly working for Winn Adami.
Neelix	Ethan Phillips	Caretaker	Talaxian ship's cook, morale officer, and chief ambassador of the.
	Rachen Assapiomonwait	The Schizoid Man	Engineer on the USS Enterprise-D during the 2360s; recurring uncredited background character.
	Eric Bana	ST09	Romulan captain of the 24th-century mining vessel Narada; transported through time on his quest for vengeance for the destruction of his home planet.
	Valerie Wildman	Message in a Bottle	Romulan officer involved in hijacking the USS Prometheus NX-59650, an experimental prototype Federation starship.
Isaac Newton	John Neville Peter Dennis	Descent, Part 1, Death Wish	Famous Earth physicist, recreated in the holodeck for a game of poker with Data. Also summoned by "Q" to the USS Voyager to testify at Quinn's asylum hearing.
	Salli Richardson-Whitfield	Second Sight	Halanan wife of terraformer Gideon Seyetik. By "psychoprojective telepathy", she creates an alter ego, Fenna, who fell in love with Benjamin Sisko.
	Henry Gibson	Profit and Lace	Slug-O-Cola tycoon and commissioner of the Ferengi Commerce Authority.
	Avery Brooks	Our Man Bashir	A mad scientist in Bashir's secret agent program. Temporarily altered by a transporter malfunction to look like Benjamin Sisko.
	Marianna Hill	Dagger of the Mind	A medical officer on the Enterprise, specializing in psychiatry and penology.
Nog	Aron Eisenberg	Emissary	Son of Rom and nephew of Quark; first Ferengi in Starfleet
	Robert DoQui	Sons of Mogh	Old family friend of Worf who takes Kurn into his family.
	None	TMP, books	Starfleet Commanding Admiral and old friend of the Kirk family.
	Vic Perrin	The Changeling	Hybrid of an Earth space probe and an alien probe. Driven to sterilize imperfection.
	Richard Tatro	I, Mudd	An android who infiltrates and hijacks the Enterprise.
	Lori Petty	Gravity	Survives on a Class D planet for several years. Falls in love with Tuvok.
	Scott MacDonald	Face of the Enemy	Romulan subcommander of the IRW Khazara and a member of Ambassador Spock's underground movement on Romulus.

O

Character	Actor	Appearances	Description
Keiko Ishikawa O'Brien	Rosalind Chao	Data's Day ; A Man Alone	Star Fleet botanist; school teacher on Deep Space Nine; wife of Miles O'Brien and mother to Molly and Kirayoshi O'Brien.
	Clara Bravo	The Begotten	Son of Keiko and Miles O'Brien; carried to term by Kira Nerys after Keiko is critically injured, in a plotline developed to explain actress Nana Visitor's real-life pregnancy.
Miles Edward O'Brien	Colm Meaney	Encounter at Farpoint ; Emissary	Transporter chief on the Enterprise-D, Chief of Operations at DS9, professor of engineering at Starfleet Academy; husband of Keiko O'Brien and father to Molly and Kirayoshi O'Brien.
Molly O'Brien	Hana Hatae, Michelle Krusiec	Disaster ; A Man Alone	Daughter of Keiko and Miles O'Brien.
	Kate Mulgrew	Fair Haven	Alias used by Kathryn Janeway while in Fair Haven.
	Concetta Tomei	Distant Origin	Saurian minister.
	Franc Luz	The Host	Trill mediator.
Odo	René Auberjonois	Emissary	Changeling Security Officer on Deep Space Nine.
	Sharon Acker	The Mark of Gideon	Daughter of Ambassador Hodin of the planet Gideon.
	Peter Mark Richman	The Neutral Zone	20th-century human cryogenically frozen and discovered by the Enterprise-D.
Alyssa Ogawa	Patti Yasutake	Future Imperfect , GEN	Nurse aboard the Enterprise-D and -E.
	William O. Campbell	The Outrageous Okona, PRO	Alien captain of the small Class 9 interplanetary cargo carrier Erstwhile.
	Clarence Williams III	To the Death	Jem'Hadar "First"; cooperates with Sisko on a mission to deal with renegade Jem'Hadar soldiers.
	Meg Foster	The Muse	Vampiric being who feeds on creative energy. Claims to have helped artists throughout the quadrant, including Earth's William Butler Yeats.
Kai Opaka	Camille Saviola	Emissary	Kai of Bajor through the latter years of the Cardassian occupation.
	Dexter Clay	Encounter at Farpoint	Junior-grade Lieutenant on the Enterprise-D.
	Jeffrey Hayenga	Ensign Ro	Bajoran terrorist framed by the Cardassians for an attack against a Federation colony.

P

Q

Character	Actor	Appearances	Description
Q	John de Lancie	Encounter at Farpoint ; Q-Less ; Death Wish ; The Star Gazer	The Q played by de Lancie is the most prominently appearing member of the Q Continuum. He puts Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the Enterprise on trial, and meddles in their ongoing adventures.
Q	Corbin Bernsen	Deja Q	Corbin Bernsen plays a Q who visits from the Q Continuum after John de Lancie's character is expelled and made human as a punishment.
Q	Suzie Plakson	The Q and the Grey	Suzie Plakson plays an old friend of John de Lancie's character who fights him in a civil war within the Q continuum. The war is ended when the two of them agree to have a child together.
Q	Harve Presnell	The Q and the Grey	Harve Presnell plays a colonel in the civil war against John de Lancie's character.
Q	Keegan de Lancie	Q2	John de Lancie's son Keegan plays his character's son, who was conceived in "The Q and the Grey".
Q or	Gerrit Graham	Death Wish	Gerrit Graham plays a Q who wishes to leave the Continuum and become a human so that he can commit suicide. As a human he takes the name Quinn.
	W. Morgan Sheppard	Bliss	Man who hunts a large, spacefaring bioplasmic life form for at least 40 years.
	Bill Erwin	Remember Me	Old colleague of Dr. Beverly Crusher.
Quark	Armin Shimerman	Emissary	Ferengi who owns a bar on the Promenade of Deep Space Nine.
	Ward Costello	Coming of Age, Conspiracy	Starfleet admiral and friend of Jean-Luc Picard.

R

S

Character	Actor	Appearances	Description
Saavik	Kirstie Alley, Robin Curtis	WOK, SFS, TVH	Vulcan-Romulan Starfleet lieutenant junior grade; Spock's protege.
	Rocco Sisto	Sarek	Assistant to Sarek during the Legaran negotiations.
	Jaime Hubbard	The Dauphin	Future ruler of Daled IV, ferried to her planet by the Enterprise-D.
Sarek	Mark Lenard, Jonathan Simpson, Ben Cross, James Frain	Journey to Babel, Sarek, Redemption, TMP, SFS, TVH, TFF, TUC, ST09	Vulcan ambassador; father of Spock and Sybok.
	Nikki Cox	Pen Pals	Native of a seismically active planet and friend of Data.
Saru	Doug Jones	DSC, "The Brightest Star"	Kelpien First Officer of the USS Discovery.
	Tarik Ergin	Night	Robot character in The Adventures of Captain Proton holodeck program.
	Jean Simmons	The Drumhead	Starfleet admiral and head of a paranoia-fueled investigation aboard the Enterprise-D.
	Eric Pierpoint	For the Uniform	Captain of the starship Malinche assigned to take up the search for renegade Michael Eddington after the Defiant becomes disabled.
Montgomery Scott	James Doohan, Simon Pegg, Martin Quinn	Hegemony , TOS, TAS, TMP, WOK, SFS, TVH, TFF, TUC, GEN, Relics, ST09, STID, STB	Chief Engineer of the USS Enterprise and Enterprise-A under Captain Kirk.
	Ursaline Bryant	Conspiracy	Starfleet captain; helps warn Picard of an alien takeover of Starfleet.
	Ronald Robinson	Repression	Firstborn son of Tuvok and T'Pel.
	Denise Crosby	The Mind's Eye, Redemption, Part II, Unification, Part II	Romulan commander and hybrid daughter of an alternate timeline version of Tasha Yar. Supervises the "conditioning" of Geordi La Forge aboard her Warbird, provides weapons to the House of Duras in the Klingon Civil War, and coordinates a plan to invade the planet Vulcan.
	Suzie Plakson	The Schizoid Man	Vulcan Starfleet medical officer and lieutenant on the Enterprise-D.
	Sierra Pecheur	Data's Day	Romulan subcommander. In her undercover identity as Vulcan ambassador T'Pel, one of the Federation's most honored diplomats.
	Ian Wolfe	Bread and Circuses	Roman citizen and Sun worshipper on planet 892-IV.
Seska	Martha Hackett	Parallax	Cardassian undercover operative; infiltrates the Maquis posing as a Bajoran and is stranded with the rest of the crew in the Delta Quadrant. Later, joins the Kazon-Nistrim and becomes an enemy of the Voyager crew and Captain Kathryn Janeway.
Seven of Nine	Jeri Ryan	Scorpion Part II ; Absolute Candor	Former Borg drone, liberated by the and thereafter a member of its crew. Later, member of the Fenris Rangers, then Commander and subsequently Captain of the USS Titan/ "Enterprise- G"
	Richard Kiley	Second Sight	Terraformer.
Shakaar Edon	Duncan Regehr	Shakaar ;	Leader of Bajoran resistance during Cardassian occupation; later, First Minister of Bajor.
	Elizabeth Dennehy	The Best of Both Worlds, Võx, Star Trek: New Frontier spin-off novels.	Starfleet Lieutenant Commander assigned to the Enterprise-D to provide assistance against the Borg. Field-promoted to commander and first officer when Picard was assimilated. Becomes fleet admiral before the events of Star Trek: Picard and briefly commands the Enterprise-F before the Borg kill her in 2401.
	Benjamin W.S. Lum	The Naked Now	Assistant chief engineer on the Enterprise-D in 2364. Under the influence of the polywater intoxication, removes all the isolinear chips from the engine control station.
	Tom Hardy	NEM	An imperfect clone of Captain Jean-Luc Picard created by the Romulans with the intent of replacing Picard. This plan is abandoned and Shinzon is exiled to Remus, where he leads soldiers during the Dominion War. Later, seizes control of the Romulan Senate in a coup d'etat, and lures Picard to the planet with peace overtures.
	Jeffrey Combs	The Andorian Incident	Andorian commander of the Andorian Imperial Guard starship Kumari. Assists Jonathan Archer in impeding the Xindi superweapon's deployment against Earth.
	Reggie Nalder	Journey to Babel	Andorian ambassador to the 2267 "Babel" conference regarding the admission of Coridan into the Federation.
	James Cromwell	Birthright	Yridian with information to sell about Klingons captured by Romulans at Khitomer.
	None	Novelisations	Insectoid representative on the Xindi Council.
Khan Noonien Singh	Ricardo Montalbán, Benedict Cumberbatch	Space Seed, WOK, ID	Genetically enhanced superman from the mid-1990s. Attempts to seize control of the Enterprise and is marooned on Ceti Alpha V by James Kirk; 15 years later, takes revenge by hijacking the USS Reliant NCC-1864 and attacking the Enterprise.
	Michael Mack	The Pegasus	Romulan commander of the IRW Terix, assigned to locate and retrieve the USS Pegasus NCC-53847.
Benjamin Lafayette Sisko	Avery Brooks	Emissary	Commanding officer of Starbase Deep Space 9 and Emissary to the Bajoran Prophets. Promoted from commander to captain after nearly three years at DS9. Father of Jake Sisko and widower of Jennifer Sisko.
Jake Sisko	Cirroc Lofton, Thomas Hobson, Tony Todd	Emissary	Son of Benjamin and Jennifer Sisko.
	Felecia M. Bell	Emissary	Wife of Benjamin Sisko and mother of Jake Sisko. Killed at Wolf 359, but survived in the mirror universe.
Joseph Sisko	Brock Peters	Homefront	New Orleans restaurateur and father of Benjamin Sisko.
	Galyn Görg	The Visitor	Bajoran wife of Jake Sisko in an alternate future.
	Shannon Fill	The First Duty, Lower Decks, various novelisations	Bajoran Starfleet officer. While a cadet, implicated in the death of a fellow cadet. As a security ensign aboard the Enterprise-D, killed on a mission to return Cardassian double agent Joret Dal to his home territory.
	Jacqueline Schultz	Extreme Measures	Wife of Section 31 operative Luther Sloan.
Luther Sloan	William Sadler	Inquisition	Section 31 operative who repeatedly attempts to recruit Bashir.
	Alfre Woodard	FCT, Fissure Quest	Twenty-first-century human treated for radiation poisoning on the Enterprise. Assists Zefram Cochrane in building the Phoenix, the first warp-capable ship on Earth. Alternate universe Sloane in LOW, where she assisted Cochrane in building the first quantum reality drive, then commands the Beagle in exploring the multi-verse.
	Andrea Dromm	Where No Man Has Gone Before	Command-division yeoman on the Enterprise; close to Gary Mitchell.
	Isa Briones	Remembrance	Data's daughter.
	James Otis	'Til Death Do Us Part, Strange Bedfellows, The Changing Face of Evil	Bajoran Ranjen who serves as loyal assistant to Kai Winn until she stabs him in the back, killing him.
	Jon Rashad Kamal	TMP	Vulcan Starfleet commander assigned to the Enterprise as science officer during the V'Ger crisis. Killed in a transporter accident while beaming up.
Adam Soong	Brent Spiner	Fly Me to the Moon	Unethical geneticist whose methods cause his research license to be revoked. While looking for a cure for his daughter Kore's genetic disease, he is approached by Q and later by the Borg Queen, who lure him into helping them and opposing Picard. Ancestor of Noonien Soong.
Altan Inigo Soong	Brent Spiner	Et in Arcadia Ego, The Bounty	Son of Noonien Soong, and Data's human "brother". Co-creator of the Asha twins along with Bruce Maddox, and later the developer of the "golem" android. Briefly appears as a hologram in the Daystrom Institute.
Arik Soong	Brent Spiner	Borderland	Criminal creator of genetically engineered humans. Ancestor of Noonien Soong.
	Fionnula Flanagan	Inheritance	Deceased wife of Noonien Soong, whose consciousness was transferred at her death to an identical Soong-type android.
	Brent Spiner	Brothers	Human cyberneticist; father of Altan, husband of Juliana, and creator of Data, Lore, a replica of Juliana, B-4, and two other prototype androids. Like Khan Noonien Singh, named for a friend of Gene Roddenberry's.
	Malcolm McDowell	GEN	El-Aurian scientist desperate to return to the Nexus.
	Max Grodénchik	Captain's Holiday	Ferengi seeking to profit from an archaeological search for the Tox Uthat.
Soval	Gary Graham	Broken Bow	Vulcan ambassador to Earth in the 22nd century.
Spock	Leonard Nimoy, Ethan Peck, Zachary Quinto	TOS, TAS, Unification I & II, DSC, SNW, TMP, WOK, SFS, TVH, TFF, TUC, ST09, STID, STB	Son of Vulcan ambassador Sarek and human Amanda Grayson. Science Officer and First Officer on the and, subsequently, the USS Enterprise-A; Captain at Starfleet Academy; Federation Ambassador.
Spot		Data's Day , GEN, NEM	Data's pet cat.
	John Durbin	Lonely Among Us	Selay delegate to the summit with the Anticans on Parliament.
	Ed Begley, Jr.	Future's End	20th-century pothead-turned-entrepreneur after discovering a 29th-century spacecraft that crash-lands near his campsite.
	Larc Spies	The Forge	Vulcan chief investigator of the Vulcan Security Directorate in 2154. Carries a bomb into the United Earth Embassy on Vulcan.
	Charles Drake	The Deadly Years	Starfleet commodore and bureaucrat. Convenes an extraordinary competency hearing for Kirk, and subsequently assumes command of the Enterprise.
		Q-Less	Cousin of Quark and Rom. Bids 500 bars of gold-pressed latinum for a bejeweled dagger from the Gamma Quadrant during Vash's auction.
	Percy Rodriguez	Court Martial	Starfleet commodore and commanding officer of Starbase 11. Convenes a court-martial of Kirk regarding the death of Lieutenant Commander Benjamin Finney.
	Lawrence Montaigne	Amok Time	Vulcan; T'Pring's lover and Spock's rival for her affections.
	Ken Jenkins	Evolution	Human astrophysicist. Tries to wipe out a race of nanites to further his own research.
	James Sikking	SFS	Starfleet officer; captain of the USS Excelsior.
Lon Suder	Brad Dourif	Meld, Basics Part 1 & 2	Betazoid Maquis brevet ensign. Helps retake Voyager after its commandeering by the Kazon.
	Fintan McKeown	Fair Haven	Holographic character in Tom Paris's Fair Haven, owner of a pub in a quaint Irish village. Becomes romantically involved with Captain Janeway, who makes several modifications to his program.
	Jacqueline Kim, Rihanne Quinn	GEN, STB	Ensign and pilot on the Enterprise-B; daughter of Hikaru Sulu.
Hikaru Sulu	George Takei, John Cho	TOS, TAS, TMP, WOK, SFS, TVH, TFF, TUC, GEN, Flashback, ST09, STID, STB	Helmsman of the USS Enterprise and Enterprise-A under Captain Kirk; Captain of the USS Excelsior.
Surak	Barry Atwater, Bruce Gray	The Savage Curtain, Awakening	Legendary Vulcan philosopher.
	Jude Ciccolella	NEM	Romulan commander who assures Praetor Shinzon of the fleet's allegiance.
	Steve Kehela	Fair Trade	Drug addict who buys his drugs at the Nekrit Supply Depot.
	Laurence Luckinbill	TFF, The Serene Squall	Sarek's son by a Vulcan princess; Spock's half-brother. Hijacks the Enterprise-A in attempt to reach God at the center of the galaxy.
	Michael Nouri	The Forge	Vulcan in possession of Surak's katra. Along with his followers, the Syrrannites, seeking the Kir'Shara, an ancient artifact containing Surak's original writings. Introduces himself as "Arev" to Jonathan Archer and T'Pol.