Herbert

slightly awkward professional efficient accommodating dutiful

Herbert functions as the Enterprise transporter-room operator who executes routine but narratively consequential movements. He summons Commander Riker over the com, runs the transporter console to materialize Kyle Riker, and holds a quietly awkward, professional beat with the visitor after Riker exits. Herbert’s presence converts technical procedure into an emotionally charged threshold, facilitating the confrontation that forces Riker to choose duty over kin while maintaining protocol and measured courtesy in the face of personal tension.

4 appearances

Starfleet Operations

Also known as: Herbert (Transporter), Ensign Herbert

Herbert's Journey

A timeline through the narrative

4 moments

S2E14 · The Icarus Factor

Picard's Quiet Offer and an Interrupted Choice

Businesslike and neutral; performing standard duty without involvement in the interpersonal stakes.

Not seen on-screen but heard via com: issues the formal transporter summons for Commander Riker, converting the bridge's private exchange into an operational command that requires immediate movement.

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S2E14 · The Icarus Factor

Picard's Provocation — Riker Summoned

Functional neutrality — performing standard shipboard procedure without awareness of its emotional ramifications.

Herbert's voice comes over the comm to call Commander Riker to the Transporter Room — a neutral, procedural intervention that punctuates the conversation and triggers Riker's exit from the bridge.

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S2E14 · The Icarus Factor

Arrival of Kyle Riker — Duty Collides with Blood

Measured professionalism with a hint of awkwardness—he senses the personal charge but remains procedural and polite.

Ensign Herbert operates the transporter console to materialize Kyle, provides an accommodating professional greeting to Riker, and is left to exchange an awkward, small social beat with Kyle after Riker …

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S2E14 · The Icarus Factor

Command Before Kin

Professionally composed with a quietly uncomfortable undertone — aware of the emotional charge but constrained by his role.

Monitors and manipulates the transporter console to materialize the arriving man, acknowledges Riker's arrival, and afterwards shares an awkward, professionally polite beat with Kyle when Riker exits, maintaining procedural decorum.

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