Benjamin Finney

Benjamin Finney was a human Starfleet officer and instructor who served during the 23rd century.

In the late 2240s and early 2250s, Lieutenant Finney was serving as an instructor at Starfleet Academy. At the time he was the youngest officer to ever serve as an instructor and often felt isolated from his colleagues. When James T. Kirk entered the Academy in 2250, Finney and Kirk soon became good friends, and Finney even named his daughter, Jamie Finney, after Kirk.

However, that friendship was severely strained in early 2251, when Finney and Kirk was assigned to a training mission aboard the USS Republic. When Kirk relieved Finney of duty when he was monitoring the ship's impulse engines, Kirk discovered that Finney had left the atomic matter piles open. Kirk closed the piles and reported the incident to Captain Rollin Bannock. Bannock reprimanded Finney and made sure he was added to the bottom of the promotions list. (TOS novel: My Brother's Keeper: Republic and episode: "Court Martial").