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Castillo

dedicated competent trusted vulnerable dutiful resilient calm under pressure reluctant leader
Richard Castillo serves as a helmsman aboard the ravaged Enterprise‑C who emerges from beneath collapsed bulkhead wreckage to find himself the highest‑ranking officer left on the bridge. Dazed but lucid, he surveys catastrophic damage, accepts reluctant command in a moment of crisis, and anchors immediate triage and decision‑making alongside Riker, Geordi, Beverly, Tasha, and the wounded Captain Rachel Garrett. Castillo embodies shipboard duty and the human cost of combat, offering a living bridge between frontline survival and Starfleet chain‑of‑command responsibilities.
15 appearances
Starfleet Operations
Also known as: Officer Castillo, Richard, Castillo, Ensign Castillo, Castillo (Enterprise‑C)

Castillo's Journey

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15 moments
S3E15 · Yesterday's Enterprise
Boarding the Ravaged Enterprise‑C Bridge — Discovery, Loss, and Duty

Shocked and quietly resigned; attempting to orient himself while feeling the weight of sudden command responsibility.

Castillo is extricated from rubble by Tasha and Riker; dazed, he identifies himself as helmsman and quietly accepts that he is now the senior officer aboard the wrecked bridge.

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S3E15 · Yesterday's Enterprise
Castillo Thrust into Command on a Shattered Bridge

Dazed and stunned by loss, moving quickly toward sober acceptance of responsibility and the weight of surviving when others did not.

Pulled free from under a collapsed bulkhead, shaken but uninjured; he exchanges terse identification with Riker and slowly accepts that, as helmsman and now highest‑ranking survivor, responsibility falls to him.

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S3E15 · Yesterday's Enterprise
Grief and Duty on the Enterprise‑C Bridge

Stunned, grieving, and disoriented — trying to perform duty while privately mourning an irretrievable past.

Castillo stands at an aft station checking data while repeatedly articulating the shock of having lost twenty‑two years. He alternates between reading tactical numbers (emitters, shields) and sinking into disbelief …

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S3E15 · Yesterday's Enterprise
First Eyes on the Galaxy: Arrival and Orientation

Awed and slightly overwhelmed on the surface; underneath, a rapid formation of belonging and pride as he aligns his identity with the ship.

Castillo materializes visibly awed and disoriented, utters a single-word reaction, follows Tasha, drinks in corridor details, asks questions, and ultimately claims the Enterprise as 'his', signaling attachment and immediate identification …

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S3E15 · Yesterday's Enterprise
Garrett Refuses Care — Chooses Command

Nervous deference mixed with steady resolve — concerned about the ship's condition but ready to follow orders.

Reports the ship's systems status concisely (minimal shields and forward phasers restored; photon launchers and warp down), acknowledges Garrett's orders, and receives appointment as liaison to the Enterprise‑D with respectful …

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S3E15 · Yesterday's Enterprise
Tenderness Interrupted by Duty

Shy optimism and affectionate hopefulness, buoyed by attention from a respected senior officer and briefly emboldened to risk intimacy.

Castillo listens avidly to Tasha's technical explanation, banters lightly about names, reveals a shy vulnerability by asking to be called 'Richard,' and basks briefly in the reciprocal attention before the …

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S3E15 · Yesterday's Enterprise
Guinan's Quiet Aversion — Intimacy Interrupted

Warmly hopeful and flattered; slightly anxious but encouraged by Tasha's attention.

Lieutenant Castillo sits at the bar, attentive and a little shy; he listens eagerly to Tasha's tactical explanations, flirts by asking to be called Richard, and reacts with warm, boyish …

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S3E15 · Yesterday's Enterprise
Order to Return — The Choice to Sacrifice

Apprehensive but steady: outwardly obedient and composed while internally confronting fear and the pain of imminent separation.

Castillo hears the captain's order, acknowledges it, exchanges a private, tender farewell with Tasha at an aft station, then rushes to the helm to initiate evasive maneuvers when a Klingon …

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S3E15 · Yesterday's Enterprise
Farewells, Orders, and the First Klingon Strike

Nervous but composed; earnest about duty while emotionally affected by the goodbye.

Castillo reports shields status, acknowledges Garrett's order to inform the crew, exchanges an earnest, slightly playful farewell with Yar, then rushes to the helm and initiates evasive maneuvers when the …

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S3E15 · Yesterday's Enterprise
Castillo's Silent Passing: Garrett's Death Seals a Sacrifice

Overwhelmed by acute grief and disbelief at Garrett's death, shifting toward a hardening, duty-driven stoicism as the reality of responsibility settles in.

Castillo is physically kneeling beside Captain Garrett's body, stunned and immobilized at first, then gathering a quiet, grieving resolve; his posture and silence communicate immediate bereavement and the first movement …

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S3E15 · Yesterday's Enterprise
Voluntary Sacrifice and the Unstable Rift

Calmly determined — a courageous acceptance of duty that underlies a private gravity rather than bravado.

Castillo steps forward and volunteers to helm the crippled Enterprise‑C back through the temporal rift, stating his intention plainly, saluting Picard, and exiting alongside Tasha to prepare the ship.

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S3E15 · Yesterday's Enterprise
A Volunteer’s Sacrifice; Picard Commits Cover

Calmly resolute — accepts near-certain sacrifice with a soldier's clarity and filial loyalty to his captain's memory.

Volunteers boldly to lead his crippled ship back into the rift, invokes Captain Garrett's wishes as justification, declares intention to return unless forbidden, renders a crisp salute and departs with …

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S3E15 · Yesterday's Enterprise
Last Kiss on the Pad

Calm, quietly accepting — tender toward Tasha but resolved to fulfill what he sees as his duty despite personal cost.

Castillo confirms the transport order, shares a resigned, tender exchange and kiss with Tasha, steps onto the pad and gives the transport command, then dematerializes with quiet acceptance.

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S3E15 · Yesterday's Enterprise
Tasha's Tactical Resolve

Conflicted and heavy with responsibility; outward firmness covers fear for his crew and the inevitability of sacrifice.

Commands the crippled bridge, issues station assignments to his crew, reacts with surprise and protective reluctance to Yar's presence, then concedes leadership to her privately and acknowledges her competence before …

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S3E15 · Yesterday's Enterprise
Shields Up, Silent Farewell

Resolute and outwardly controlled, with an undercurrent of tension and sorrow; accepts the moral weight of command despite personal cost.

Serves as acting commanding officer, registers the formal address with a slight reaction, then composes himself and issues the critical order 'Raise shields.' He follows with a hushed 'Good luck, …

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