Russell Russell was a Starfleet engineer who served for five years aboard the as an ensign . In 2371 , he was transferred into the command division and held the rank of a lieutenant aboard the . Service history . 2366 . Russell shared a drink with fellow crewmembers in Ten Forward shortly before the time interruption . " In the following alternate timeline created when the traveled forward in time , Russell also served on the " Enterprise " - D . He passed Tasha Yar and Richard Castillo in a corridor and joined fellow crew members in Ten Forward . " ( ) In late 2366 , he was working at an aft station of the bridge when Captain Jean - Luc Picard was abducted by aliens and replaced by a doppelgänger . ( ) He assisted Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge with repairs to the shields and later the sensor array after both systems were damaged during an encounter with Tin Man . ( ) Russell was doing duty on the bridge when the ship was rendezvousing with a Zalkonian vessel and experienced the suffocating weapon of the Zalkonians . ( ) He was working in engineering when the " Enterprise " - D encountered a Borg cube in late 2366 and Captain Picard was assimilated by the Borg . He was part of the engineering crew who were evacuated from main engineering . ( ) 2367 . In 2367 , Russell was part of the engineering team with Commander Shelby which improved the " Enterprise " - D following the abduction of Captain Picard . ( ) Russell was doing maintenance repair work in main engineering , dressed in a technician jumpsuit , when Worf gave his parents Helena and Sergey Rozhenko a tour through main engineering . ( ) He was one of the engineers on duty in main engineering when the senior staff tried to get the controls of the ship back following Data ' s malfunction . ( ) He was working on the system table in engineering when Commander Riker , Data , Worf , Geordi La Forge and Ishara Yar discussed plans to infiltrate the Alliance territory on Turkana IV . ( ) A holographic duplicate of Russell , created by Barash on Alpha Onias III , passed Captain Riker and Dr . Crusher in the corridor outside of the transporter room . ( ) Russell was working in engineering when the ship was rapidly approaching a cosmic string as it was dragged along by two - dimensional lifeform s . ( ) He was on duty during the encounter of the Paxan s and served in engineering when Data and Nelson performed a scan . ( ) He was also working in engineering when a spaceborne species dubbed " Junior " attached itself to the hull of the " Enterprise " - D . ( ) He was one of the engineers on duty in main engineering when the ship met the Cytherian probe near the Argus Array and was part of the team which couldn ' t start to work because Reginald Barclay was missing . ( ) He was on duty on the bridge when the " Enterprise " - D was in orbit of Tagus III and hosted a banquet for the members of the Federation Archaeology Council . ( ) Russell was working in main engineering when Admiral Norah Satie visited the machine room and inspected the dilithium chamber hatch . ( ) Russell was on duty when Lwaxana Troi and her valet Mr . Homn entered engineering with Mantickian paté s for a small picnic . ( ) Later , he was working in engineering after Geordi La Forge returned from his trip to Risa ; La Forge was very pleased with the work the engineers had done in his absence . ( ) He was one of the crewmembers who honored Worf by standing in a row in the corridor to the transporter room when Worf left the ship and Starfleet to fight in the Klingon Civil War . ( ) 2368 . He was one of the crewmembers assigned to scan the debris of the Vulcan transport " " . ( ) Russell was working on the bridge when the " Enterprise " - D was in orbit of Qualor II and received a subspace message from Captain Picard aboard K ' Vada ' s Bird - of - Prey . ( ) He was one of the engineers on duty when the " Enterprise " - D assisted the scientists on Penthara IV in saving their colony while being observed by Berlinghoff Rasmussen ( ) and when the " Enterprise " - D assisted Doctor Ja ' Dar in testing the soliton wave . ( ) He was also working in main engineering when the " Enterprise " - D investigated the destruction of the in a black cluster . ( ) Sometime between 2366 and 2368 he was one of the engineering crewmembers who were evacuated from the main engineering due to a warp core breach . Commander Riker experienced this event during a telepathic memory invasion by the Ullian Jev and remembered the death of Ensign Keller . ( ) Russell was on duty in main engineering when the " Enterprise " - D approached the Lysian Central Command while their memories were wiped out by the Satarran Kieran MacDuff . ( ) Russell was scanning several containers in a cargo bay when one of the containers fell onto Lieutenant Worf and crushed his spinal cord . ( ) He was working in the shuttlebay when Geordi La Forge finished the repairs on the shuttle " Magellan " and Commander Riker and the J ' naii Soren left the ship for a rescue mission . ( ) Russell was on duty in engineering when the ship was trapped in a temporal distortion ( ) and when Captain Picard and Dr . Crusher got their report from Data and La Forge about the possibilities of the accident caused by the Nova Squadron in 2368 . ( ) He was working in engineering when the " Enterprise " - D went into the FGC 47 nebula and a lifeform came aboard the ship . ( ) He served in main engineering when the " Enterprise " - D supported a Romulan science vessel ( ) and when Data scan ned his own head , found as an artifact from the 19th century in San Francisco . ( ) 2369 . Russell was in Ten Forward and passed Guinan , who talked to Commander Riker , when the " Enterprise " - D was in orbit of Devidia II . ( ) He was also in main engineering when the " Enterprise " - D discovered the dyson sphere and the crash ed on it . He was very busy when Captain Montgomery Scott visited the main engineering , later . ( ) He was on duty in engineering and working with Lieutenant Shipley when Solanogen - based lifeform s were conducting medical experiments on the crew of the " Enterprise " - D . ( ) He was also on duty when Geordi La Forge guided Amanda Rogers through the ship . ( ) Together with an ensign , he scanned the debris of the shuttle " Fermi " in a shuttle bay . Later he was on duty in engineering and among the crewmembers who were beamed to the surface of Ligos VII by the renegade Ferengi . ( ) Russell performed duties in engineering when a malfunction of the connection between Data and the " Enterprise " - D caused problems aboard the ship . ( ) Russell was working in main engineering and received orders from Geordi La Forge regarding the collision of the planet s Detria II and Detria VI . Later , a holographic duplicate of him was created and part of Professor James Moriarty ' s illusory reality . ( ) He was also present in engineering when Data was hit by an energy source from the Gamma Quadrant and experienced his first vision . ( ) Geordi La Forge asked Russell if he could hear the music , which was played by Jean - Luc Picard and Nella Daren in 2369 . They performed in a Jefferies tube and their music sounds through the ship . ( ) In an illusory reality created by the Tilonian s , Russell and Geordi La Forge brought a wounded crewman into sickbay after he burned himself with a plasma torch . ( ) Russell passed Doctor Crusher and the Ferengi scientist Dr . Reyga in a corridor and later worked on the shuttlecraft " Justman " . ( ) Russell was also working in engineering when Counselor Troi searched for her next present puzzle there . ( ) The same year he was on duty in engineering when Lieutenant Commander Data was checked because of his " emotional " behavior on Ohniaka III . ( ) 2370 . Together with Ensign Armstrong , he was part of an away team on a Borg - controlled planet and was ordered by Commander William T . Riker to beam back to the " Enterprise " - D . He later passed the quarters of Lt . Cmdr . Data when Geordi La Forge entered the rooms . ( ) He inspected the Iyaaran shuttle when Captain Picard and Iyaaran Ambassador Voval returned with the shuttlecraft in early 2370 . ( ) Russell passed Lieutenant Commander Data ' s quarters when Geordi La Forge paid a visit to talk about the loss of his mother , Captain Silva La Forge . ( ) He was working in engineering close to the warp core around the time when Data was experiencing his first dreams early in 2370 . ( ) He passed Deanna Troi in front of her office when the Cairn Maques was waiting for her . ( ) Later that year , he was again working in engineering when the " Enterprise " - D was searching for the in the Hekaras Corridor . ( ) " In at least one parallel universe Worf passed , Russell was working in main engineering . " ( ) Russell was one of the officers of the " Enterprise " - D that the Boraalan Vorin encountered when he accidentally left the holodeck . Later , Russell was working in main engineering . ( ) He was on duty in main engineering when La Forge left , after the discussion with Ensign Taurik , and shortly before Sam Lavelle was promoted to lieutenant junior grade . ( ) Russell was again working in main engineering when Data was taken over by various D ' Arsay personalities . ( ) He was on duty in main engineering shortly after Daniel Kwan committed suicide . ( ) He was also on duty at his regular post in main engineering when the crew was beginning to feel the influence of Barclay ' s Protomorphosis Syndrome . ( ) He beamed down to Maranga IV , together with Diana Giddings , Armstrong , Alfonse Pacelli and other members of the " Enterprise " - D crew to attend the Kot ' baval Festival . ( ) He was on duty in engineering when the " Enterprise " - D protected Jason Vigo from the Ferengi Bok and passed Captain Picard later when he entered the transporter room . ( ) Russell was on duty in main engineering when the ship was developing an emergent property in late 2370 . ( ) He was a guest at Lieutenant Ro Laren ' s welcome back party in Ten Forward later that year . ( ) 2371 . Russell was transferred into the command division and promoted to the rank of lieutenant . He signed on for duty on board the , which was lost in the Delta Quadrant . 2372 . In 2372 , Russell was among the Starfleet officers who participated in the bets of Tom Paris ' s Radiogenic Sweepstakes on the holodeck at Chez Sandrine . ( ) 2373 . Russell was among the crewmembers in the mess hall who celebrated the successful mission and the return of the " Voyager " back into the 24th century . ( ) He was also in the mess hall during the absence of Neelix and had problems with the replicator . ( ) He was behind of Neelix , when the crewman McKenzie blew the boatswain ' s whistle , in hallucination the Captain Janeway about your death and funeral . ( ) He was in the mess hall , after that Neelix suggests to Harry Kim would have stayed with the stains , because they were very distinguished . ( ) " In an alternate timeline , he was in a party , having a cup with a pink drink in the holodeck , with , a science division officer , and other crew members . " ( ) 2374 . Russell went into the mess hall for breakfast when Neelix suffered from the medical experiment s of the Srivani and was brought into sickbay . When Seven of Nine ' s ocular implant was modified by The Doctor and she was able to see the Srivani aboard the " Voyager " , she passed Russell in a corridor and later saw him in the mess hall . ( ) 2375 . He was with Lydia Anderson in Voyager ' s corridors , when the Captain demands maximum efficiency to Seven of Nine . ( ) Appendices . Background information . Russell was a nonspeaking role played by regular background actor and stand - in Carl David Burks who received no on - screen credit for his appearances . With the end of " The Next Generation " , Burks signed on with " Star Trek : Voyager " , where he reprised his role . He appeared in many episodes , usually in engineering , and was referred to by name in the episode . According to the ebook " Many Splendors " , his first name was " Dennis " , and he was killed when the Borg attack caused a hull breach in main engineering in .