Andrew Probert (Starfleet)

Commodore Probert, Andy was a Starfleet Command senior officer in 2273. Before the V'Ger crisis of this year, he approved the vessels USS Columbia and USS Revere for a rendezvous, scheduled stardate 7412.6. Near Klingon neutral zone sector L-14, space station Epsilon IX relayed the sub-space message from headquarters. (TOS movie: The Motion Picture)

Trivia
The Columbia was the second space shuttle NASA commissioned in 1981, after the Enterprise, in 1976. William Shatner played as American Revolutionary Paul Revere in the televised miniseries "The Bastard", also in 1976.