Billy ( Starfleet ) Billy was an operations division engineering and security officer serving as a Crewman and later Ensign aboard the Starfleet starship under Captain Jonathan Archer . 2151 . Billy was helping carrying boxes and stowing cargo shortly before the launch of " Enterprise " . While underway to Rigel X , he visited the mess hall and was chatting with a female crewmember . Later , he served as operator in the launch bay when Captain Archer , T ' Pol , Commander Tucker , and Lieutenant Reed left the ship . ( ) Shortly thereafter he visited the mess hall again when " Enterprise " found a damaged ship with a dead Axanar crew . ( ) The same year , Billy was made responsible for purging the starship ' s aft plasma manifold ( ) and passed Captain Archer in a corridor , carrying a case . ( ) He served as operator of the launchbay when Captain Archer , T ' Pol , and Commander Tucker left the ship to visit the Vulcan monastery P ' Jem ( ) and was working in engineering when Hoshi Sato had a conversation with Trip Tucker . ( ) Billy was part of Lieutenant Reed ' s security team which tried to stop the Suliban Silik but was unable to follow him through a wall . ( ) He was part of the security team which accompanied Captain Archer after the main power went offline . They discovered two crewmembers , scan ned by two unidentified aliens in a corridor on E - deck . Billy was ordered to follow these two aliens when they left for launch bay 2 . ( ) Billy had a meal in the mess hall and visited the same location later for the movie night , watching the film " For Whom the Bell Tolls " . ( ) During the Vulcan confrontation he guarded Captain Sopek and his Vulcan officer on the bridge ( ) and was again on duty in the launch bay when an away team left the ship to explore an uninhabited planet . ( ) Billy was working in engineering when a Ferengi probe was brough aboard and made the crew unconscious . During the Ferengi robbery of the ship he was lying on the ground . ( ) He was later asked by Trip Tucker to finish giving the Kantare Liana a tour of " Enterprise " after Trip was called away for a briefing with Captain Archer . ( ) 2152 . Billy was working in engineering when a symbiotic lifeform took over the control of several crewmembers and settled down in a cargo bay . ( ) Shortly after this first contact , he was on duty on the aft bridge while several crewmembers prepared for shore leave on Risa . ( ) Billy assisted Doctor Phlox in sickbay when a dozen of wounded crewmembers came in , after " Enterprise " hit a mine . ( ) He also assisted Doctor Phlox carrying Travis Mayweather to sickbay after Captain Archer and T ' Pol brought rescued Mayweather from the automated repair station . ( ) Together with another crewmember , he worked in the control booth of the launch bay when an away team returned from an alien planet . ( ) He was working in the launch bay when " " was prepared for a survey of an uninhabited planet . Later , while the senior staff discussed the approaching neutronic storm in the situation room , Billy worked as relief tactical officer on the bridge . Like all other crewmembers he was forced to stay for several day s at the catwalk . There , he was one of the security officers , armed with plasma rifle s , who confronted the Takret deserters and later took part in the week ly movie night . ( ) He visited the mess hall while " Enterprise " was in orbit of Dekendi III , where a conference of the Interspecies Medical Exchange took place . ( ) The same year he served as security officer and guarded Malcolm Reed , who was possessed by a Wisp , to secured quarters after Reed bothered T ' Pol in her quarters . Later he and Crewman Haynem worked as security officers outside the mess hall and took orders from T ' Pol to arrest the possessed Ensign Cole and Crewman Rossi . He was also among the crewmembers who escaped to the catwalk until Doctor Phlox found a way to get rid of the Wisps . ( ) 2153 . Billy brought several wounded aliens into the sickbay during a rescue mission for the Arin ' Sen ( ) and for several aliens from . ( ) He attended the reception for the Vissian s in the mess hall during the first contact with this species . ( ) He was on duty in engineering when Captain Archer sent a distress call to Trip Tucker though the bridge crew was unable to pilot " Enterprise " out of a bunch of spatial anomalies . ( ) 2154 . He conducted repairs in the corridors near " Enterprise " s sickbay following the Xindi attack at Azati Prime . ( ) Billy suffered an injury during the attack by the Xindi near Azati Prime which required him to wear a neck brace . It was in this condition that he attended Captain Archer ' s empassioned speech in honor of the eighteen crewmembers who died in the attack . ( ) He was in the mess hall with fellow crewmembers while the Organian s possessed Reed and Mayweather discuss chess . ( ) Billy was training in the ship ' s gym together with Ensign Mayweather and Lieutenant Reed while the three Orion women D ' Nesh , Maras , and Navaar were aboard . ( ) 2161 . By 2161 , Billy had attained the rank of ensign . That year he informed Archer that it was time to give his speech at the Federation Founding Ceremony . ( ) Appendices . Background information . Billy , who was first referenced by name in " Unexpected " , and was later identified by name in " Oasis , " was played by regular background performer Solomon Burke , Jr . His surname was not given in either reference , nor would he be credited for any of his roles until his final appearance in , where he was simply credited as " Ensign . " Behind the scenes footage of Billy can be seen on the ENT Season 1 DVD special " " Enterprise " Outtakes " . He was also featured in an extended deleted scene in sickbay from the episode .