- For other uses, see Williams.
Marcus Williams was an Earth Starfleet officer in the 22nd century, later he became the member of the Federation Starfleet when it was founded in 2161.
History
Earth Starfleet
By 2151 he held the rank of commander and served at Starfleet Command. He was the attaché to Vice admiral Maxwell Forrest.
He accompanied Admirals Forest and Leonard to Starfleet Medical, where the group, along with Captain Jonathan Archer confronted Ambassador Soval and his staff about Klaang how crash-landed on Earth. Williams was greatly frustrated with the Vulcans effort to take away control from Starfleet in the matter. (ENT episode & novelization: Broken Bow)
In 2153 he placed a bet with Drake, an archaeologist, about the existence of a crashed spaceship an the Arctic Circle. Shortly after the team found the ship, Starfleet Command lost contact with them. After three days without, Williams and Forest along with a security team, traveled to Arctic. They found no trace of the researchers. (ENT episode: "Regeneration")
In 2154, after Enterprise's return from the Xindi mission, Williams was one of the persons how debriefed Captain Archer. (ENT episode: "Home")
Federation Starfleet
He served as aide of Admiral Samuel Gardner, but when Archer was promoted to admiral, Williams requested his transfer to him. By 2162, he held the rank of captain and still served under Archer, when he learned that his daughter, Valeria, had become the armory officer of the USS Pioneer under the command of Captain Malcolm Reed.
He was a friend of Doctor Phlox, whom he had first met during his service with the Interspecies Medical Exchange prior to Enterprise's launch. (ENT - Rise of the Federation novel: A Choice of Futures)
Appendices
Appearances
- ENT episode & novelization: Broken Bow
- ENT episode & novelization: Shockwave
- ENT episode: "Regeneration"
- ENT episode: "Home"
- ENT - Rise of the Federation novel: A Choice of Futures
External link
- Marcus Williams article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.