Recurring Characters

Nurse Angela Vanson:
Nurse Vanson will be the first registered nurse and a non-commissioned officer of Starfleet to have a permanent post on the Enterprise, after someone at Starfleet thought it might be a good idea to have more medical staff.

Angela is young (27 or so) and very beautiful, and when she comes aboard she will quickly come to the attention of the men on Enterprise, who will always be talking about her and feigning illness just so they can go to sickbay. Despite all this, Angela is a very smart and headstrong (and somewhat of an overly emotional person too).

When she first sees Trip she knows she wants him but can see that his attentions lay elsewhere (T'pol). Angela will try some subtle things to gets Trip's attention, which does get noticed buy T'pol, and will cause some awkward situations.

We will also see Angela arguing with Phlox over matters in sickbay, and she will try to confide in Hoshi. The two women will be seen talking in the mess hall discussing relationships, Angela about Trip and Hoshi about Fenton Mudd, but they will also discuss men in general.

Fenton Mudd:
As you might have guessed from the name, Fenton (or 'Fen' as Hoshi calls him) Mudd is the grandfather of Harcourt Fenton Mudd (See TOS). Fenton is a bold, handsome, young (about 35 or so) and brash freelance trader and sometimes con man. He has a weakness for the ladies; he has been married twice and already has three children (that he knows about anyway). Fenton has been infatuated with Hoshi since they met on Risa year and half or so ago.

The two went out for a brief time, but Hoshi was a bit put of be some of Fentons amoral ways and broke it off. Needless to say Hoshi is still very attracted to him (and talks to Angela about how passionate he is), even though there ethics do not quite match. Fenton will be in two scheduled episodes this season and may meet a tragic fate (or will he?) at the end of one of them.


Leroy:
Leroy is a new steward who joins the crew this season. He will work for chef (who will remain unseen), and is very charismatic, friendly and talkative. Leroy will be somewhat of a nuisance to Malcolm, as he is always coming up to Malcolm and is quite a bit 'friendly' with him throughout this season. Malcolm will finds ways to brush Leroy off, but finds that he cannot be mad at Leroy and may even learn to actually get along with him.

Leroy is an 'implied' gay character, which means we will really never know if he is even though his mannerisms may 'imply' that he is. So this will be a mystery that surrounds him and you will have to draw your own conclusions.

Admiral Gardner:
Admiral Gardner is a rough no nonsense type of guy that will not have as good of a relationship with Archer as Admiral Forrest did. Gardner will during the season eventually sympathize with Archer’s plight. Gardner has an ulcer that he will always complain about and will constantly tell Archer that he does not want to make it any bigger. Gardner’s character is very similar to Admiral Hanson from TNG's 'best of both world's'.