Charles Tucker III, known as Trip to his friends, is one of the main cast of Star Trek: Enterprise. He served aboard the Enterprise NX-01 for ten years as its chief engineer and was best friends with Captain Jonathan Archer. He was portrayed by Connor Trinneer.
During his time on Enterprise, Tucker experienced a number of incredible and bizarre events, such as finding himself marooned in a damaged shuttlepod with Lt. Malcolm Reed, educating a seemingly primitive alien and even becoming pregnant with alien offspring. He also entered into an awkward romantic relationship with Vulcan science officer T'Pol, a relationship that was terminated when T'Pol was forced to go through with an arranged marriage.
Death[]
Tucker would meet his untimely demise in the show's final episode "These Are The Voyages...". In 2161, while en route to Earth to attend the founding ceremony of the alliance that would give birth to the United Federation of Planets, Enterprise made a detour to Rigel X to rescue Shran's daughter, Talla. Tucker participated in the rescue operation. Knowing Archer's importance to the upcoming ceremony, he attempted to persuade Archer to remain aboard Enterprise, as it was safer, but Archer insisted on joining the mission. Ironically, it was Tucker himself who was nearly killed on the mission when the catwalk he was on was shot out from under him. Fortunately, Archer was there to save him, and the mission was successful.
Unfortunately, the victory ultimately came at the cost of Tucker's life. Shortly after Enterprise left Rigel X, Talla's abductors somehow managed to board the ship. When the alien trespassers threatened Archer, Tucker quickly thought up a plan to lure the aliens away from Archer. Despite orders from Archer to remain quiet, he insisted and persuaded one of the aliens to render Archer unconscious. With his captain safe and no longer in the way, Tucker lured the aliens away to a nearby plasma junction, which he claimed was a communications system which he would use to contact Shran in order to bring him to the aliens. With the intruders fooled, Tucker rigged the junction to explode, killing the alien trespassers. However, Tucker was also critically injured in the explosion and he ultimately died, having sacrificed himself for his captain.