Galloway Lieutenant Galloway was a male Human Starfleet officer who lived during the mid - 23rd century . He served in the operations division aboard the under Captain James T . Kirk during the mid - 2260s . Starfleet service . As an officer of the operations division , Galloway was assigned as a security officer on the " Enterprise " , but also served briefly as one of the ship ' s transporter chief s . ( ) As a security officer , he referred to himself by the identification " Security 054 " . ( ) His first assignment happened on stardate 2713 . 5 , when the starship encountered Earth Two . He was a member of the landing party and was unknowingly exposed to a viral infection . He escorted First Officer Spock during an attack by the inhabitants . He also guard ed a hospital lab where Doctor Leonard McCoy conducted his medical research . He was cured of the virus after McCoy discovered a vaccine . ( ) On stardate 2821 . 5 , he beam ed in the survivors of the " " before the shuttlecraft incinerated around Taurus II . ( ) He was a member of the Beta III landing party on stardate 3156 . 2 and was temporarily absorbed into the Body of Landru . ( ) He was imprisoned on Eminiar VII with the landing party on stardate 3192 . 1 and escaped with them while disguised as an Eminian guard . He assisted Spock in rescuing Ambassador Robert Fox from death in a disintegration station and guarded the Eminian High Council chamber as Kirk and Spock ended Eminiar ' s war with Vendikar . ( ) Later that year , he discovered an unconscious Lieutenant Kyle in the transporter room after a cordrazine - crazed McCoy beamed down to the surface of the time planet . He joined the landing party in search of the doctor . ( ) The following year , he guarded the quadrotriticale storage compartment aboard Deep Space Station K - 7 and witnessed an avalanche of tribble s falling on Kirk . ( ; ) He was kill ed on Omega IV by Captain Ronald Tracey in 2268 . After exposure to the Omega IV virus and injured from an attack by a hostile tribe , he was vaporized by phaser fire at the hands of the captain . ( ) Returning to duty in 2269 , one of his later assignments was guarding the holding cell of Doctor Janice Lester , who was actually Kirk through a switch by a life - energy transfer machine . He witnessed Spock performing a Vulcan mind meld and was the victim of a Vulcan nerve pinch when he resisted the first officer ' s attempts to convince him of the truth . ( ) Appendices . Background information . Galloway was played by David L . Ross . The redshirt character did not have a set identity until Kirk referred to him as " Lieutenant Galloway " in his fourth appearance in " A Taste of Armageddon " . The shooting script for " The City on the Edge of Forever " called him Davis . Galloway was the second " Star Trek " , after Leslie , to return from the dead without explanation . Captain Tracey killed him with a phaser blast in " The Omega Glory " . Ross appeared in in the role of Lieutenant Johnson . He appeared again in " Turnabout Intruder " with the onscreen credit spelled as " Lt . Galoway " . Apocrypha . In " " , Galloway was born and raised on Mars . He attended Starfleet Security Forces School for training as a security guard . After graduation , he served aboard Federation starships USS " Leo " , USS " Jassan " , USS " Nelson " and USS " Thelonii " before joining the " Enterprise " . By 2277 , he was the security chief on the " Enterprise " and held the rank of sergeant . James Blish ' s adaptations explained his demise and return . In the novelization of " The Omega Glory " , Captain Tracey killed Lieutenant Raintree with his phaser , not Galloway . In the novelization of " Day of the Dove " , the Beta XII - A entity restored an injured Galloway from his sword wounds , not Lieutenant Johnson . According to the novel " Provenance of Shadows " , his full name was David L . Galloway ; an apparent tribute to David L . Ross , the actor who portrayed him on the original series .