Matthew Sikes

:For the original movie version, please see Matthew Sykes.
Matthew Sikes was a protagonist from the Alien Nation TV series, TV movies, and other media based on the TV series. He was portrayed by the late , who also played Soval, the Vulcan ambassador to Earth on Star Trek: Enterprise as well as Soval's mirror universe counterpart.
By 1991 when the Newcomer slave ship Gruza crashed on Earth, Sikes was a member of the LAPD. By then he had been divorced for some time and had a daughter from that marriage. Suspended for tripping over a Federal government operation, Sykes was called back to duty to assist at the alien quarantine zone with duties that did not require specialized knowledge. Coming across various Newcomers, he was puzzled to find that his name was a source of amusement to the Tectonese. It would be several years until Sykes finally learned why his name was amusing to Tectonese (namely that Sikes's name sounded like two words in Tectonese that meant excrement and cranium). 
Winning a fight against the overseer T'ksam, who refused to cooperate and then attacked him, Sikes gave the beacon to the Newcomer who would come to be called George Francisco. His actions deeply impressed George, who decided that he would strive to wear a uniform and badge like Sykes did.
Several years after the arrival of the Newcomers Sikes was partnered with the Tenctonese George Francisco, who was the first Newcomer LAPD officer to make detective. At the time Sikes was reluctant to be partnered with Francisco after the death of his former partner in a gun battle with another Newcomer. Over time the two men became very close friends, to the point that Sikes was nearly considered part of George's family. George for his part was very patient with Sikes and his misunderstandings of Newcomer culture and biology. When George's daughter Vessna was born, Sikes helped deliver the baby as she arrived two weeks early and they were too far away from a hospital or even an ambulance. Both George and his wife Susan named Sikes as the child's godfather.
Sikes also fell in love with his Newcomer neighbor Cathy, and the two eventually moved in together. Cathy later became pregnant even though normal Newcomer reproduction required a male binnaum to catalyze the woman at about the same time. Unlike normal pregnancies, Cathy carried the baby the entire time instead of transferring the developing fetus to a male. While Kathy was able to carry the child to term the child did not survive long due to incompatibilities between human and Tectonese biology. 
==Trivia==
* In the episode Fifteen With Wanda, when George complained that a "Mr. Spock" parenting book was not helping him or Susan, Sikes remarked that he meant , and that Mr. Spock was one of their guys. This later became humorous in hindsight when Sikes actor Gary Graham was cast as the Vulcan Soval on Star Trek: Enterprise, making Mr. Spock one of his guys. 
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