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List of Star Trek characters (N–S)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 21, 2026
Entity authorityQ7341051 ↗
Source-derived summary

This is a list of characters from the Star Trek franchise and the media in which they appear. It lists both major and minor fictional characters including those not originally created for Star Trek but featured in it, alongside real-life persons appearing in a fictional manner, such as holodeck recreations.

Characters from all series, listed alphabetically

Key

Bajoran characters are listed by family name, which is stated first.

Joined Trills are listed by the name of the symbiont, which replaces the family name.

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The public source identifies “List of Star Trek characters (N–S)” as wikimedia list article. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around List, Star and Trek.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 83-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with List, Star and Trek providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “List of Star Trek characters (N–S)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.