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==Department Heads==
===Charles Tucker III===
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Chief Engineer
===Malcolm Reed===
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Tactical officer/Armory officer/Security chief
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Archer occasionally acted as a mentor to T'Pol after she decided to stay with the ''Enterprise''. She was often persuaded to interact with the crew, and eventually developed a romantic relationship with "Trip" Tucker, the ship's Chief Engineer. While dining with the crew, T'Pol had to inform them that Vulcans were vegetarians, and did not eat with their hands. She also introduced Vulcan meditation to the crew, which she practiced religiously, and which Charles Tucker used to help him sleep.
It was during meditation instruction where T'Pol and Tucker developed feelings for each other. They had an on-again, off-again relationship, which resulted in an unconventional child. In [[2155]], T'Pol discovered that a terrorist organization had stolen her and Tucker's DNA, using it create a baby. Once the baby was on the ''Enterprise'', it was discovered that the genetically-engineered child was made with fatal flaws, and the child's death forced T'Pol and Tucker apart. Known for being the first alien-Human hybrid was, Delegates from the Conference for the Coalition of Planets asked to attend the child's funeral services.
T'Pol served aboard the ''Enterprise'' well into the [[2160]]s. She stood alongside Captain Archer at the Federation Founding Ceremony in [[2161]], as his [[First Officer]].
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==Department Heads==
===[[Chief Engineer]] [https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Charles_Tucker_III Charles Tucker III]===
[[File:Tucker.jpg|thumb|left|[[Noonian Soong|Dr. Soong]]: "How long can we sustain warp 5?"<br>Trip: "As long as the Captain wants it. <br>Or until we blow up, whichever comes first."]]
Known to his friends and colleagues as "Trip" Tucker, he served for ten years as the [[Chief Engineer]] and [[Second Officer]] on Earth's first warp 5-capable starship. <br>A self-taught engineer from a young age, having learned engineering from working on boat engines, Trip joined Starfleet in [[2139]].
During his tenure on the ''Enterprise'', Trip, like his Captain, also made the history books. In [[2151]], while helping an alien ship fix their engines, he developed a friendly relationship with his counterpart, and became the first Human male to be impregnated with an alien baby. When scanned, Dr. Phlox said the embryo was not technically Tucker's child, with his body acting solely as a host. The child was transferred to another, and Tucker and the mother went their separate ways. Tucker, along with friend Malcom Reed, were also one of the first Starfleet Officers to visit the planet [[Risa]], though on their first trip, they were also lured and robbed.
When Tucker was injured in an engineering accident, Dr. Phlox created a "mimetic simbiot," a type of clone, in order to harvest its brain tissue to save Trip's life. The practice had been banned by the aliens responsible for the technology, due to its ethical ramifications of creating living, sentient beings for the sole purpose of medical recovery or research. The cloned Tucker even tried to escape ''Enterprise'' to save his own life, but ultimately decided to give up his own life in order to save Trip.
After the [[Xindi]] attacked Earth, leaving millions dead, Tucker became bitter. His sister was one of the victims, and the hole she left in Trip's heart was filled with hatred and revenge. Unable to sleep, Tucker turned to Vulcan meditation, and his romantic relationship with T'Pol began to blossom. He was heartbroken when T'Pol married another Vulcan for familial and political reasons, though that marriage was loveless and later annulled. In late [[2154]], Trip transferred off the ''Enterprise'' once he realized his feelings for T'Pol were compromising him. (He transferred back a handful of weeks later.) Though it is unclear if the two ever consummate their feelings, they did have a child. Their DNA was stolen and used to create a Human-Vulcan hybrid baby for terroristic purposes, though the organization who created the child did so poorly: it later died as a result of poor genetic sequencing.
Trip's life ended in sacrifice, while ensuring the safety of his best friend and Captain, Jonathan Archer. Leading alien intruders away from the Captain, Trip fooled them into thinking a plasma junction box was for communications, and connected two wires, causing a plasma explosion. Both the aliens and the Chief Engineering were mortally wounded, though Trip stayed alive long enough to learn that his Captain had been saved.
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===[[Chief of Security|Senior Armory Officer]] [https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Malcolm_Reed Malcolm Reed]===
[[File:Reed.jpg|thumb|left|"Deception and surprise can be just as potent as brute force."]]
Born into an English family with a strong naval tradition, Malcolm knew how to handle a boat before he could ride a bicycle. With a desire to serve in the Navy like his family before him, his extreme aquaphobia led him to starships instead. His outlook on serving, whether in the Navy or in Starfleet, was rather rigid, and he did not think it was "proper" for senior and junior officers to socialize. With the joint position of Tactical and Armory Officer, Malcolm could be both the brains and brawn of a situation, which was needed when dealing with aliens and their superior weapons.
With the stigma of [[transporter]]s and their accidents still fresh in everyone's mind, Reed was most likely its most frequent user, due to a transporter's tactical advantages. He also made great technological strides in [[force field]] technology, as well as devising a ship-wide alert system.
A man who mainly kept to himself, he found it hard to open up to people. When trying to find out Reed's favorite food for an upcoming birthday, the crew of the ''Enterprise'' found that he wasn't even close with any of his family members, parents included. He came to view the crew of Enterprise as his family.
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