- For other uses, see Walter.
Dr. Walter Nichols (also known as Marcus Nichols, Brandon Nichols or Jules Nichols) was a male human materials science reseacher in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. He was the inventor (on Earth) of transparent aluminum and a number of other innovations.
Biography[]
Nichols left academia in the early 1980s for the private-sector developer Plexicorp in San Francisco, but grew dissatisfied with the management whom he felt did not use him to the best of his abilities - for instance, using a man with his research qualifications as a plant manager of Plexicorp's Burlingame Industrial Park facility. (TOS novelization: Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home)
In the year 1986, Montgomery Scott, and Leonard McCoy visited the plant - hoping to find material to enclose a tank on board the HMS Bounty. Playing the role of a visiting professor, Scott gave Nichols the formula for transparent aluminum in exchange for the materials needed to enclose a tank. Scott overcame McCoy's objections about tampering with the timeline by informing McCoy that Nichols had invented transparent aluminum. (TOS movie & novelization: Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home)
Several years later, Nichols was approached by Shannon O'Donnel to help with a top secret project at Area 51, namely the development of the DY-100 sleeper ship. (TOS novel: The Rise and Fall of Khan Noonien Singh, Volume 1)
In 1996 Nichols finally invented transparent aluminum. (TOS comic: "The Needs of the One")
Appendices[]
Background[]
- Full name is given as "Brandon Nichols" in DC Comics Spring, 1994 Star Trek Special #1 (story "The Needs of the One," set just prior to Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home), contradicting later sources.
External link[]
- Walter Nichols article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.
This article or section is incomplete |
---|
This article is marked as lacking essential detail, and needs attention. Information regarding expansion requirements may be found on the article's talk page. Feel free to edit this page to assist with this expansion. |