Richard Castillo
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| Richard Castillo | |
|---|---|
| Species: | human |
| Gender: | male |
| Hair color: | brown |
| Eye color: | blue |
| Home planet: | Earth |
| Affiliation: | Starfleet |
| Posting: | USS Enterprise-C helmsman, commanding officer |
| Rank: | Lieutenant junior grade |
| Portrayed by: | Christopher McDonald |
In the Star Trek fictional universe, Lieutenant Junior Grade Richard Castillo, played by Christopher McDonald in Star Trek: The Next Generation's "Yesterday's Enterprise", is the helmsman and, eventually, commanding officer of the starship USS Enterprise-C.
The Enterprise-C entered into battle against four Romulan warbirds to defend the Klingon's Narendra III outpost. During the fighting, the Enterprise-C is transported to an alternate future in which the Klingon Empire and the United Federation of Planets are at war. The ship's crew encounters their successor vessel, the Enterprise-D. Castillo becomes friends with and falls for that ship's tactical officer, Lieutenant Tasha Yar, as she tries to acclimate him to life in the 24th century.
However, the Enterprise-D's commanding officer, Captain Jean-Luc Picard, becomes convinced that the Enterprise-C's destruction while defending Narendra III from a Romulan attack could have prevented the Federation-Klingon war; he orders the Enterprise-C's return through the temporal disturbance that brought them to the future. When the Enterprise-C's commanding officer, Captain Rachel Garrett, is killed by a Klingon attack, Castillo assumes command and leads his ship back in time.
Although there were survivors of the Enterprise-C's destruction (TNG: "Redemption, Part II"), it is unknown whether Castillo was among them.
[edit] External links
- Richard Castillo article at Memory Alpha, the Star Trek wiki.
