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#69. Travis Mayweather

Travis Mayweather is what happens when you cast someone to play a lead character and then forget to actually write the character he's playing. Of every credited “lead” on this list, even including the supporting players from TOS, this guy is the one who's most void of personality. He grew up on a cargo freighter and he can fly spaceships. That's literally it. Anthony Montgomery tries to inject Travis with a little personality at first, and he even gets a decent feature episode in Season 1's “Fortunate Son” – but after that point it's pretty clear the writers have no good ideas for this character, nor do they have any interest in coming up with any good ideas. The result is a discarded character who hangs out in the background of scenes sometimes. Even the performance gets worse and worse every season as Montgomery (understandably) checks out. By Season 3, the editing is visibly cutting around him. What a sad waste of a character. They should have killed him off and added Shran to the main cast, damn it.

Best Episode: Fortunate Son
Worst Episode: Twilight (okay, so this is actually a pretty great episode of Enterprise, but it's also the source of one of the series' absolute worst "we don't give a shit about Travis" moments: he dies at the beginning of the episode in an explosion that barely even happens on screen, and then no one even says his name after he's dead. The show's treatment of this kid was never more blatant than in this episode.)