Family trees and lineages of Star Trek characters

[FederationHistorian]

There's been a large number of character either shown on screen or referenced as to being a part of a family lineage. Several family trees below confirm quite a few of them in the franchise, and are quite varied.

• Thaddius Riker – Kyle Riker - William Riker/Thomas Riker (duplicate) – Thad Troi-Riker/Kestra Troi-Riker
• Lwaxana Troi – Kestra Troi/Deanna Troi – Thad Troi-Riker/Kestra Troi-Riker
• Skon – Sarek – Spock/Sybok/Michael Burnham (adopted)
• Phlox – Mettus/Sim (adopted)
• Colonel Worf – Mogh – Kurn/Worf/Nikolai (adoptive) – Alexander
• Toral – Duras – Ja’rod -Duras/Lursa/B’Etor - Toral
• Ishara Yar/Tasha Yar- Sela
• Arik Soong – Augments (adoptive) - Noonien Soong – Alton Soong/B4/Lore/Data -Lal/Dahj Asha/Soji Asha/Coppelius androids
• Shran – Talla
• T’Mir-T’Les-T’Pol-Elizabeth (binary clone)
• Rihanna Mayweather – Paul Mayweather/Travis Mayweather/unknown sister
• Owen Paris – Tom Paris – salamander offspring/Miral Paris
• Krelik- L’Naan - Miral – B’Elanna Torres – Miral Paris
• Carol Freeman – Beckett Mariner
• Samantha Wildman – Naomi Wildman
• Beverly Crusher – Wesley Crusher
• Sven Hansen – Magnus Hansen – Annika Hansen aka Seven of Nine – Icheb (legal ward)
• Sean O’Brien - Miles O’Brien – Molly O’Brien/Kirayoshi O’Brien
• Dukat – Ziyal
• Ishka - Quark/Rom – Nog
• Shannon O’Donnell – Kathryn Janeway

There’s many, many more.

There are also a number of characters in Trek that might be possibly related to one another that has not been confirmed, with the parties of concern in bold.

• Henry Archer - Jonathan Archer – Valerie Archer
• Buck Bokai – Mr Sato – Hoshi Sato/2 unnamed siblings
• John Fredrick Paxton - Admiral Marcus – Carol Marcus – David Marcus
• NX-01 Chef – Tiberius Kirk - George Kirk - James Kirk – David Marcus
• Admiral Cartwright – Joseph Sisko – Ben Sisko – Jake Sisko
• Kolos – Martok
• Steve Tucker (name seen in "Up The Long Ladder) - Elizabeth Tucker/Charles Tucker III - Elizabeth (binary clone)
• Owen Paris – Tom Paris/Nick Locarno (half sibling) – salamander offspring/Miral Paris

Do you think its possible that those in bold are related to the characters? Or does it suffer from small universe syndrome?

 

[Henoch]

Kirk has brother George Samuel "Sam" Kirk with three sons, one named Peter.

 

[Oddish]

T'Meni - Tuvok - Sek & 2 other sons, 1 daughter - T'Meni

 

[MAGolding]

There's been a large number of character either shown on screen or referenced as to being a part of a family lineage. Several family trees below confirm quite a few of them in the franchise, and are quite varied.

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• Skon – Sarek – Spock/Sybok/Michael Burnham (adopted)

Do you think its possible that those in bold are related to the characters? Or does it suffer from small universe syndrome?

I quote from Star Trek III: The Search for Spock:

PRIESTESS: Sarek, ...child of Skon, ...child of Solkar, the body of your son breathes still. What is your wish?

http://www.chakoteya.net/movies/movie3.html

So either the priestess mentins both parents of Sarek, male and female, or she mentins one of Sarek's parents and one o fhe parents of that parent.

Here is a link to Memory Alpha's article on Skon:

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Skon

And here is a link to the article on Solkar:

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Solkar

 

[Tim Thomason]

I quote from Star Trek III: The Search for Spock:



http://www.chakoteya.net/movies/movie3.html

So either the priestess mentins both parents of Sarek, male and female, or she mentins one of Sarek's parents and one o fhe parents of that parent.

Here is a link to Memory Alpha's article on Skon:



And here is a link to the article on Solkar:

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Solkar

Yeah, they've since specified Solkar as the first Ambassador to Earth (c. 2063) and Skon as a Vulcan author/translator (v. 2153), with the intention that these two would be Sarek's male-line ancestors.

 

[BK613]

Hikaru Sulu -> Demora Sulu

 

[Nerys Myk]

Colonel Worf – Mogh – Kurn/Worf/Nikolai (adoptive) – Alexander

While Nikolai is Worf's adoptive brother, I don't think he's in the House of Mogh

Do you think its possible that those in bold are related to the characters? Or does it suffer from small universe syndrome?

It does.. No reason to link characters played by the same actor.

 

[Oddish]

While Nikolai is Worf's adoptive brother, I don't think he's in the House of Worf.

There is no House of Worf. Worf was of the House of Mogh, then later the House of Martok.

 

[Nerys Myk]

There is no House of Worf. Worf was of the House of Mogh, then later the House of Martok.

Correct.

 

[Oddish]

Henry Janeway should be listed as an ancestor of Kathryn's, too.

Was her sister's name mentioned in canon?

 

[Locutus of Bored]

• Owen Paris – Tom Paris – salamander offspring/Miral Paris
• Krelik- L’Naan - Miral – B’Elanna Torres – Miral Paris
• Beverly Crusher – Wesley Crusher
• Sven Hansen – Magnus Hansen – Annika Hansen aka Seven of Nine – Icheb (legal ward)
• Shannon O’Donnell – Kathryn Janeway

• Owen Paris – Tom Paris/Nick Locarno (half sibling) – salamander offspring/Miral Paris

Nick Locarno is a pretty dead ringer for Tom for a half-brother. Might as well be his twin brother.

Personally, I always just played it as Nick actually being Tom, and he just changed his name (with the Academy's permission) so he wouldn't get any special treatment for being Admiral Paris' son, since Paris was teaching at the Academy at the time. When he got kicked out of the Academy for the Kolvoort Starburst incident that got a cadet killed, the Admiral arranged to get him readmitted a year later with the rest of the suspended cadets, but this time he had to enter under his real name, both because he needed the special treatment just to remain in school and to distance himself from the tainted Nick Locarno name.

Captain Janeway might have had a sister who served as a science officer on the Enterprise-D:
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Janeway_(Ensign)

B'Ellana Torres might have had an uncle who served on the Enterprise-D (possibly named "Graham" Torres):
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Torres

And Harry Kim might have had an aunt or a cousin named Luisa Kim who was a Federation Terraformer:
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Luisa_Kim

Captain Picard mentioned attending the marriage of Sarek's son. I always liked to think that was Spock and he was finally marrying Saavik decades after knocking her up on the Genesis Planet, which is why she stayed behind on Vulcan in ST:IV and waved them off. So Spock might have a child or two or more out there with Saavik.

I also like to think that Wesley is actually Picard's son from an affair with Dr. Crusher, and his guilt over the affair and Jack's death while under his command is why they never spoke of it. He slips up and calls Wesley "son" a couple times, and the way he reacts once he finds out who Wesley is in Farpoint makes me think that they might have planned to reveal he was Picard's son early on but changed their minds. I have no evidence of that obviously, just a vibe from the awkwardness between Picard and Beverly and the way Picard takes Wesley under his wing despite being terrible around kids.

It's spelled differently (though I don't think we ever saw the name spelled out onscreen, just said in dialogue with the spelling coming from the script), but I like to think that Admiral JP Hanson was the father of Magnus Hansen and grandfather of Annika Hanson / 7 of 9 and that Starfleet secretly knew about the Borg threat prior to the incident at J-25 in Q-Who? (from Zefram Cochrane's accounts, the crashed Borg sphere in the Arctic, and the surviving El-Aurian refugees) and that Hanson had his scientist son and daughter-in-law pitch the Federation Council on Exobiology about approving a fact-finding mission about the Borg in 2253. Hanson later became head of the official Borg Task Force when they stopped keeping it a secret to prevent a panic after the Borg started attacking outposts along the Neutral Zone.

The Starfleet Borg Database has the stardate 9521.6 on it, which corresponds to the the date of Sulu's Captain's Log aboard Excelsior when Praxis exploded in 2293, so it's safe to assume Starfleet had been welcoming some earlier El-Aurian refugee transports before Guinan and Soren's who told them about the Borg.
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/2293

And before anyone says anything, yes, I am aware it's stretching and small universe syndrome to connect all these characters, but it's just for fun, so no canonistas jump down my back about it being non-canon.

ETA: Oh, and Magnus Hansen had a sister named Irene, Seven's aunt.

 

[FederationHistorian]

Yeah, they've since specified Solkar as the first Ambassador to Earth (c. 2063) and Skon as a Vulcan author/translator (v. 2153), with the intention that these two would be Sarek's male-line ancestors.

At the same time, if you weren’t a hardcore fan, you wouldn’t put two and two together that Solkar is the same Vulcan captain that greeted Zefram Cochrane, since its not explicitly said on screen. Even Archer goes “I think” when naming the first Vulcan ambassador to Earth. Not what you’d expect for such a significant figure and moment in history.

While Nikolai is Worf's adoptive brother, I don't think he's in the House of Mogh

Never claimed he was in the House of Mogh.

It does.. No reason to link characters played by the same actor.

Fair point. But since there is precedent for actors to play an ancestor before, its understandable to try and connect the dots.

Admiral Cartwright being related to the Siskos is a stretch. At the same time, it was established that Buck Bokai did briefly play a couple of seasons in Seibu, so he may have had a fling over there with a Sato ancestor before playing for the London Kings. And “Judgment” was a homage to TUC; since Colonel Worf is related to Worf, then no reason that Kolos isn’t related to Martok.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Never claimed he was in the House of Mogh.

The lineage seems to imply House of Mogh. No mention of Sergey and Helena

 

[Orphalesion]

And Harry Kim might have had an aunt or a cousin named Luisa Kim who was a Federation Terraformer:

Kim is an extremely common Korean last name though, like over 20% of the population of South Korea has it as their family name.

 

[Vger23]

 

[Nerys Myk]

Looks more like Vir from B5.

 

[Locutus of Bored]

Kim is an extremely common Korean last name though, like over 20% of the population of South Korea has it as their family name.

Yeah, and? I don't know how many more qualifiers I could possibly add to the premise to say that this is a total stretch, small-universe syndrome, and just a fun non-serious exercise to find possible links, so poking holes in it by stating the obvious that two people named Kim don't have to be related seems to be missing the point. Obviously the fact that the same actor played Admiral Cartwright and Joseph Sisko or Nick Locarno and Tom Paris doesn't mean they were related either, it's just an actor being recast.

 

[Tim Thomason]

Clearly, Nick Locarno must be related to Owen Paris in some way, as he kept a photo of Locarno on his desk at Starfleet HQ for some reason.

 

[FederationHistorian]

it's just an actor being recast.

You're right. But you have admit, there’s something poetic about Paxton being related to the Marcus’s.

- Admiral Marcus joins Starfleet and looks out for it, instead of seeking to destroying it

- Carol Marcus uses science for good instead of for nefarious political goals, and set the precedence that the Marcus have changed their names prior (using her mother’s maiden name).

All that’s needed now is to be confirmed that Davis Marcus had a child with Saavik, to explain her absence for the rest of the TOS films, and Paxton’s failure will be complete.

 

[Locutus of Bored]

You're right. But you have admit, there’s something poetic about Paxton being related to the Marcus’s.

I wasn't correcting you, I was defending the premise of the topic as just a fun "What if?" that ignores real world explantions. Look at the context of what I was replying to.