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#58. Travis Mayweather
I was a main character on all four seasons of Enterprise. No, really, I was!

Of all the characters in Star Trek, I don't think there was one more ultimately pointless and underutilized than poor Travis Mayweather. I almost feel bad putting him this low, but the guy was a credited main cast member for the entire 98-episode run (only not appearing in three of them) and over that entire stretch of time had absolutely no personality or relevance whatsoever. Even the Original Series didn't shaft anyone quite as badly as the writers of Enterprise did Travis Mayweather. His entire function, for four whole years, was to sit there, wide-eyed at the helm, shut up, and drive.


Even in the mirror universe they didn't do shit with him.

Which is a shame, because the concept for the character was halfway decent: Enterprise taking place as it did in the early days of space travel, Archer's Enterprise turned to a guy who was born to cargo runners and grew up his space, ostensibly giving him more relevant first-hand experience than anybody else on the show. Unfortunately, the show went exactly nowhere with this concept, giving us a single subpar highlight episode for the guy in the second-season outing Horizon. Plot synopsis: He visits his family on the ship where he grew up. That's... pretty much it. The writers gave themselves the one chance to further explore his backstory, and by the end of an episode with him, we feel like we don't have any more information than we started with, apart from knowing his family's names. Hell, the most memorable part of the episode is in the B-plot where T'Pol reacts to the movie Frankenstein.

So yeah, that's all there is to say about Travis Mayweather, one of the most useless nothings of a character in franchise history. You have to feel bad for Anthony Montgomery, but it's hard to say if his performance was even good, they gave him so little to even work with. I wouldn't be surprised if even he forgets he was on Enterprise sometimes.