Follow The LeaderDoes Admiral James T. Kirk even need an introduction? He's the captain of the USS Enterprise, wooer of green-skinned vixens, and owner of the most distinctive speaking style this s...

Poor Dr. Leonard McCoy. In The Search for Spock, he's a comedic double act without a partner. He has so much emotion, and so many arguments to give. But when it's time for the "Most illogical" punc...

Kruge is played by Christopher Lloyd, everyone's favorite bug-eyed purveyor of odd yet likeable characters. But this Klingon commander is no Dr. Emmett Brown. There's not a Delorean in sight. And w...

David's a brass human man with a drive for adventure; Saavik's a Vulcan lady with a cool logical exterior and an even cooler logical inside. Together they'll travel across the planet of Genesis in...

Sarek is Spock's father and the Vulcan ambassador to the Federation. His role in the story is to present Kirk with his father's lightsaber and help him get off Tatooine, so the aging admiral can fu...

There are two types of Star Trek fans: Those who think Montgomery Scott, a.k.a. Scotty, is the man…and those who think other fans don't love him enough. Scotty's the chief engineer of the Enterpr...

Poor Chekov. He's the Rodney Dangerfield of The Search for Spock. No respect, no respect at all. Originally the navigator and security officer aboard the Enterprise, Pavel Chekov joins the crew in...

The first rule of Fight Club is: You do not pick a fight with Hikaru Sulu. Second rule of Fight Club is: You do not pick a fight with Hikaru Sulu. Third rule of Fight Club: Someone yells stop, goes...

In the Original Series, Nyota Uhura was the communications officer aboard the Enterprise's bridge. While she had her moments, she didn't get to do much in your average episode. Send a communication...

Admiral Harry Morrow is Commander, Starfleet. That means he's the brass, the top dog, the head honcho, the—whoops, we lost our place in our thesaurus. Basically, he's the guy in charge.Morrow's c...

Captain Styles is the commanding officer of the USS Excelsior, a foil for Admiral Kirk…and a professional jerkface. We're going to focus on the foil aspect of his character here.Kirk and Styles b...

Captain J.T. Esteban is the Milhouse of the Star Trek universe. Sorry, buddy, but you know it's true.Esteban is the by-the-books Captain of the USS Grissom. He makes no decision unless it's within...

Valkris and Kruge, sitting in a tree, K-I-L-L-I-N-G…This lady Klingon is not only Kruge's galpal, but the operative who steals the Genesis plans. When she uploads them to the Bird-of-Prey, she le...

What can we say about the T'Lar, the Vulcan high priestess? We're not being rhetorical…we're seriously asking.The character first appears at the end of the film when Sarek requests the ritual of...

Torg and Maltz are Klingons serving under Kruge. It is easy to tell them apart because Torg looks like he got his hair done by a blind, hatchet-wielding grandma while Maltz looks like he had to tra...

This lieutenant may have a name in the extended Trek universe, but he'll always be Mr. Adventure to us. A member of the Old Station personnel, he got his name because he wants adventure in the grea...