Trip Tucker
Commander Charles Tucker III, known as Trip (for "triple"), is a fictional character in the television series Star Trek: Enterprise, played by Connor Trinneer. He is Chief Engineer on the NX-01 Enterprise. While a very knowledgeable engineer, he can be rash and "illogical" (to borrow a phrase from T'Pol).
Tucker had the dubious distinction of becoming the first pregnant human male, in the episode "Unexpected".
Trip Tucker lost his sister, Elizabeth, in the Xindi attack on Earth which destroyed his (unidentified) hometown in Florida.
During the Xindi mission, Tucker found himself growing close to T'Pol, and the two briefly became lovers (an event T'Pol later dismissed as being a side-effect of her addiction to the substance Trellium D which affected her emotional judgement). Later, however, the two found themselves continuing a somewhat clandestine relationship. Tucker realized he was in love with T'Pol during a trip to Vulcan with her after the Xindi mission, during which she decided to marry Koss in an arranged marriage. Although T'Pol's mother encouraged Trip to express his feelings to her daughter, Trip chose not to do so.
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