Brent Lieutenant Brent was a male Human Starfleet officer who lived during the mid - 23rd century . He served in both the sciences and command division s aboard the under Captain James T . Kirk , during a historic five - year mission that starship undertook . From 2265 to 2269 , he served usually as a medical technician or as navigator . History . In 2266 on stardate 1512 . 2 , Brent , in a science division blue shirt , was on the bridge helping at the weapons sub - system station when the " Enterprise " engaged the First Federation . On stardate 1535 . 8 , Brent , again in science blue shirt , was working at the bridge ' s life support station when Charlie Evans , with psionic powers from the non - corporeal Thasian s wreaked havoc with the " Enterprise " and her crew . ( ) Brent was present in a corridor during a few of Kirk ' s ( and one time Commander Spock ' s ) speeches to the crew . ( ) On stardate 1704 . 3 , Brent , in science blue , relieved Lieutenant Uhura at navigation after Spock had her relieve Lieutenant Kevin Riley , on stardate 1704 . 2 because Spock had thought that Riley was inebriated and Spock had relieved him of duties , with Riley leaving the bridge . On stardate 1704 . 4 , while at navigation , Brent plotted a course so the " Enterprise " would not be dragged into the gravity well created by the rapidly deteriorating orbit of the planet Psi 2000 as the planet was destructing naturally for its life span . Brent did not contract the Psi 2000 polywater intoxication . ( ) Near the end of 2266 on stardate 1709 . 1 , Brent , in a command division gold shirt , attended the wedding of Robert Tomlinson and Angela Martine before it was canceled by Romulan sightings . Later on Brent , in a science division blue shirt was seated at the engineering sub system station on the bridge during the investigation of the destruction of Earth outposts by the Romulans . ( ) In 2267 on stardate 2124 . 5 , Brent , in command gold , was on the bridge when Lieutenant Hikaru Sulu then Kirk were abducted by Trelane . On stardate 2125 . 7 , when Chief Medical Officer Leonard McCoy , Lieutenant Carl Jaeger , and Lieutenant DeSalle beam ed down to the rogue planet Gothos to find the missing Kirk and Sulu , Brent replaced DeSalle at navigation . On stardate 2126 . 1 , Brent left the bridge on the turbolift with Lieutenant Leslie , Lieutenant Hadley , and an engineering crewman when Kirk , Sulu , McCoy , DeSalle , and Jaeger returned from Gothos and Brent was not on the bridge when Trelane appeared there suddenly . ( ) On stardate 2821 . 5 , Brent , in science blue , was at the bridge ' s main science station relieving Spock , as Spock was in command of the crew on board the shuttlecraft " " as it was investigating the Murasaki 312 quasar . From stardates 2821 . 7 to 2823 . 1 , Brent was relieved at science when Uhura led the search , and then , acting temporarily as " Enterprise " s main science officer , helped Kirk with the rescue of the crew from the planet Taurus II . But Brent continued to stay on the bridge acting as Uhura ' s main assistant by coordinating all of the efforts of the entire bridge crew in sciences , engineering , environmental and communications . On stardate 2945 . 7 , Brent , in command gold , sat at navigation when the " Enterprise " encountered an ion storm . On stardate 3025 . 3 Brent , in science blue , would again be manning navigation . ( ) On stardate 3087 . 6 , Brent , in command gold , was on the bridge working on repairs at the life support station when the " Enterprise " was preparing to leave the orbit of an iron - silica planet when the whole universe , including the ship , winked out of existence . The shock - wave from this winking - out of the universe caused Brent to be unsteady and he had to kneel and hold on to the control panel at life support to keep from falling . Unfortunately Brent may not have learned his lesson regarding holding on when the " Enterprise " was being rocked or under attack . On stardate 3113 . 2 , Brent , in science blue , was on the bridge at the weapons sub - systems station when the " Enterprise " got dragged into a black star with a high gravitational attraction . To avoid a disaster , Chief Engineer Lieutenant Commander Montgomery Scott used a slingshot effect to try and pull away . Unfortunately it sent both everyone on the bridge falling to the floor , including Kirk , Spock , and Brent , and threw the ship back three centuries to Earth , over Omaha , Nebraska ' s 498th Air Base on July 13 , 1969 , just eight days before the first of the " Apollo " moon landings , " Apollo 11 " . After a memorable and nearly disastrous three days in July 1969 , the " Enterprise " again used the slingshot effect using Sol to return to 2267 . When the ship got to 2247 , the drag again became too much to keep gravitation on the side of most of the bridge crew , but unfortunately this time Brent was the only one to fall to the floor of the bridge . Spock later helped him stand up when they returned to 2267 on stardate 3114 . 1 . Brent apparently learned his lesson about staying up right by holding on to the railing of the bridge . A few weeks later , again in science blue , Brent was manning the life support station when the " Enterprise " was rocked by time displacement wave s as the ship was in orbit around the Guardian of Forever planet . Brent also held on to the railings on stardates 3198 . 4 and 3541 . 9 ( both times in science blue ) when the " Enterprise " engaged the Klingon s and later " Nomad " . ( ) Brent , in science blue , was on the bridge helping out at engineering sub - systems station when Khan Noonien Singh took over the " Enterprise " on stardate 3142 . 8 . Brent passed out after the life support to the bridge was cut , and was seated in a prisoner ' s row with Leslie , Hadley , and others , forced to watch Khan ' s murderous spectacle on the viewscreen . ( ) On stardate 3417 . 4 , Brent , in science blue , was helping Dr . McCoy packing up and beam ing up the possessions of the colonists on the planet Omicron Ceti III due to the bombardment of deadly berthold ray s . But when Lieutenant DeSalle introduced to Dr . McCoy the pod plant s , Brent was one of the first " Enterprise " crew members to be infected by the spore s . This was the first and only time that Brent deserted the " Enterprise " and mutinied against his commanding officer , Kirk . When he and the other crew members were free of the influence of the spores Brent returned to duty . ( ) In 2268 , Brent , in science blue , temporarily relieved Spock at the bridge ' s main science station when Kirk spoke to Bela Okmyx and couldn ' t repress giggling when Kirk tried to explain to Okmyx how he and McCoy and Spock were going to beam down to Sigma Iotia II . Brent ' s giggling was so bad that the rest of the time Spock was on the planet Sigma Iotia II , he had to be relieved of duty at the main science station by Lieutenant Hadley . ( ) On stardate 4307 . 1 , Brent , in science blue , assisted Dr . McCoy and Nurse Christine Chapel in sickbay , when McCoy ordered stimulants administered to the crew , as the " Enterprise " encountered an unexplained " zone of darkness " of space , devoid even of stars . Brent had to keep fellow crew members steady as Chapel administered the stimulants , due to many of them feeling devoid of energy and faint . On stardate 4308 . 8 , Brent continued to assist McCoy and Chapel , in sickbay as even more of his fellow crew members started to feel even more lithe less to the point where McCoy told Kirk that both the whole crew and the ship were dying . On stardate 4309 . 4 , when the " zone of darkness " was discovered to be an enormous single - celled organism , that fed off energy enough to kill , and Spock in a shuttlecraft and the whole ship moved in closer to investigate and then to destroy the organism the " Enterprise " was again rocked violently . Brent , still in science blue , stationed at the bridge ' s life support station was as with the rest of the bridge crew thrown by the rocking . Unfortunately for Brent , he was thrown the worse and farthest as he was thrown all the way from life support station to the floor , on his back , in front of the turbolift . ( ) On stardate 4657 . 5 , Brent , in command gold , was working in environmental engineering when the Kelvan Milky Way Expedition hijacked the " Enterprise " to return to the Andromeda Galaxy . Kelvan Drea suddenly appeared and put Brent into temporary " frozen " and motionless stasis . On stardate 4658 . 9 , the Kelvans neutralized and reduced Brent into a dehydrated porous cuboctahedron solid the size of a Human fist , composed of Brent ' s base minerals which represented the " " distilled " " essence of Brent ' s being . The Kelvans considered Brent one of many non - essential personnel . Brent was reconstituted after Kirk , Spock , McCoy , and Scotty , the only four members of the crew not neutralized , regained control of the " Enterprise " . ( ) On stardate 5423 . 4 , Brent , in science blue , was stationed at main science on the bridge when Spock was in temporary command and Hodin from the planet ' s Council reported that Kirk had not arrived , in beaming down , in the council chambers . On stardate 5423 . 6 , a very somber ( along with McCoy , Scotty , and the rest of the bridge crew ) Brent seemed confused , but persistent , and stubborn , as McCoy , Scotty and Uhura were that Spock stand his ground – with Spock concurring – that the Gideon Council and Hodin ( as well as Admiral not concurring ) , were hiding the truth as to where Kirk had disappeared to and Hodin was too evasive on the subject . ( ) On stardate 5630 . 8 , Brent , in science blue , appeared in the corridor during Captain Kirk ' s announcement the clearance of all ship ' s passageways while Ambassador Kollos was transferred from the transporter room to his quarters . Later that evening , Brent assisted Spock in accompanying Dr . Miranda Jones to the bridge after an insane Larry Marvick , after he looked at Ambassador Kollos directly and unaided , commandered the " Enterprise " " via " engineering and temporarily stranded the ship in an uncharted void in the Milky Way Galaxy . Brent would temporarily man the weapons sub - system station , but wasn ' t on the bridge when Spock mind melded with Kollos to assist Chekov in guiding the ship back to normal space or when Spock - Kollos " forgot " to put back on their visor and Spock went temporarily insane . ( ) Also in 2268 , Brent , in science blue , appeared at Captain Kirk ' s memorial service , and was later on the bridge when Kirk briefly appeared to the crew from the interphase . A few weeks later , on stardate 5730 . 6 , Brent , again in science blue , attended with Sulu , Chekov and Hadley , in the recreation room , the speech by Lokai regarding how his people had been oppressed on his home planet of Cheron for many centuries . In the last few days of 2268 , Brent , in science blue , beamed down to the Federation maintained Elba II asylum , for the criminally insane , to assist Dr . McCoy and an operations division lieutenant to administer a new medicine that potentially could eliminate mental illness . ( ) A few days into 2269 on stardate 5725 . 6 , Brent , in science blue , was walking in a corridor in front of the briefing room when Scotty and Lieutenant Mira Romaine walked in . Later in 2269 , on stardate 5832 . 6 , Brent , in science blue , was stationed at the bridge ' s life support station when Dr . Sevrin , held up in a locked out with his followers from the rest of the ship in Auxiliary Control , applied ultrasonics to the " Enterprise " to knock the crew unconscious so Sevrin and his followers could steal the shuttlecraft " Galileo II " and head into Romulan space to get to the planet of " Eden " . Brent passed out from the ultrasonics in front of the life support station , although he recovered a short time later . ( ) Appendices . Background information . Brent was portrayed by actor Frank da Vinci and was only credited as such in . This was also the only episode where the character of Lieutenant Brent spoke dialogue . The novel " A Choice of Catastrophes " gives him the first name Clifford .