Kyle
Mister Kyle was a male Starfleet officer who served during the latter half of the 23rd century.

Starfleet career

USS Shenzhou 
Kyle had served on the  prior to its destruction at the Battle of the Binary Stars in 2256. He honored those lost on that ship on Starfleet Remembrance Day in 2259. ()

USS Enterprise

2259 
By 2259, he was assigned to the operations division as a transporter chief aboard the  under Captain Christopher Pike.

Kyle was on duty in the transporter room when Pike transported aboard the Enterprise from the Stamets. He later worked out a way to beam a gene therapy salve directly into Spock's eye so he could pass a retinal scan, something transporters had previously never been used for. ()

During the Enterprises mission to the Persephone system, he transported Lieutenant Spock, Lieutenants George Samuel Kirk, La'an Noonien-Singh and Cadet Nyota Uhura down to the comet C/2260-Quentin. ()

Kyle rescued most of the landing party from the Illyrian colony of Hetemit IX despite an incoming ion storm, although when it became too strong, he refused to try bringing Pike and Spock back, fearing they'd be lost. ()

During the Gorn attack, Kyle was present on deck 22 before it collapsed, but was saved by an unnamed crew-member. (SNW: "Memento Mori")

When Ensigns  and Zier were caught doing Enterprise bingo, by Commander Chin-Riley and Lt. Noonien-Singh, their punishment was to micro-clean the transporter pads under Chief Kyle's supervision. Both ensigns claimed that he was "mean". () 

Kyle was in the transporter room when Elder Gamal left sick bay with the First Servant to be transported off of the Enterprise. Pike intercepted Gamal in the transporter room, but before the two could argue the point, Gamal and the First servant were beamed off the ship. Pike confronted Kyle about the sudden transport, but Kyle stated that he had not transported the pair, and that someone else had locked on to the signal. 

He attended Lieutenant Hemmer's funeral following the Enterprises mission to Valeo Beta V. ()

He was on duty when Captain Batel beamed aboard with a couple of security officers to take Commander Chin-Riley into custody. ()

2267 

Eight years later, Kyle had become a Starfleet officer. As a lieutenant, he served under Captain James T. Kirk, where he worked in both the operations and sciences division as a transporter chief. 

After the Enterprise was accidentally hurled back in time to the year 1969, Kyle was threatened in the transporter room by John Christopher when he, a United States Air Force pilot, pointed a phaser at Kyle and demanded to be beamed down to Earth. Captain Kirk disarmed Christopher and prevented the escape. After an airbase staff sergeant was inadvertently beamed aboard, Kyle served him chicken soup from a food synthesizer in the transporter room, before the Enterprise made a return voyage to 2267. ()

Kyle was in the same room when Lieutenant Marla McGivers threatened him with a phaser on stardate 3141.9. He was rendered unconscious by Khan Noonien Singh while Khan, a 20th century despot, enacted a plan to hijack the Enterprise. Kyle later recovered from this ordeal. () 

Later that year, he was assaulted in the transporter room by a cordrazine-crazed Doctor Leonard McCoy. After Lieutenant Galloway discovered Kyle unconscious on the floor, he was revived. ()

Kyle beamed aboard a dead Lieutenant  during a mission to Pyris VII. () 

He later assisted First Officer Spock in finding a weakness in Apollo's force field, on stardate 3468.1. () 

He beamed a damage control party over to the  and returned them safely to the Enterprise during battle with a "planet killer" on stardate 4202.1. () 

He was later too sedated to work the transporter controls, so Kirk and Spock had to beam a Redjac-possessed Hengist out into deep space themselves. ()

Kyle aided Lieutenant Commander Montgomery Scott in loosening Vaal's hold on the Enterprise on stardate 3715.3. () 

He inadvertently beamed aboard the mirror universe counterparts of , ,  and Lieutenant  when an ion storm on the Halkan homeworld disrupted the transporting process. ()

2268 

In 2268, Kyle served in the command division, when on stardate 4307.1, he served as the Enterprises helmsman when the ship investigated the loss of the  and discovered a giant space amoeba. ()

2269 
The next year, he returned to operations, when he sent a landing party over to planetoid Memory Alpha. He later beamed them safely back after the planetoid was attacked by non-corporeal Zetarians. ()

Later that year, Kyle grew a mustache. 

He transported Kirk, Spock, McCoy and Scott over to an insectoid ship on stardate 5221.3. He locked onto them when explosions erupted aboard the alien vessel and returned them safely to the Enterprise. () 

He transported a cosmic cloud's villi into Scott's force field box to regenerate the ship's antimatter reserves on stardate 5371.3. () 

He also beamed aboard an alien disguised as long-lost philanthropist Carter Winston, not realizing that the newcomer was, in fact, . ()

After temporarily succumbing to the effects of Harry Mudd's love crystals, Kyle transported Kirk and Spock down to a planetoid to rescue Nurse Christine Chapel. () 

He assisted the bridge crew on stardate 5577.3, when Lieutenant Hikaru Sulu broke a leg in a fall. () 

On stardate 7403.6, in 2270, he beamed down a landing party, with Pandronian representative Ari bn Bem, on a scouting mission to Delta Theta III. ()

USS Reliant 
By 2285, Kyle, who now sported a goatee, rose to the rank of commander when he served aboard the , under the command of Captain Clark Terrell, as the ship's communications officer. 

While in orbit around Ceti Alpha V, on stardate 8130.4, he was unable to communicate with Terrell and Commander Pavel Chekov on the planet surface, not realizing that they had encountered Khan and his followers. 

Kyle was ultimately stranded on the planet when they hijacked the Reliant. After Khan was defeated in the Battle of the Mutara Nebula, Kyle and the rest of the Reliant crew, on stardate 8141.6, were rescued by the Enterprise when the ship arrived at Ceti Alpha V and recovered them. ()

Alternate timelines and realities 
In an alternate timeline where Captain Christopher Pike remained in command of the Enterprise and avoided the accident that exposed him to delta radiation, Kyle was still transporter chief in 2266. ()

Key dates 
 Prior to 2256: Assigned to the 
 2259: Assigned to the 
 Between 2259 and 2267: Achieves the rank of Lieutenant
 2285: 
 Promoted to Commander
 Assigned to the  as Communications officer
 Marooned on Ceti Alpha V by Khan Noonien Singh

Appendices

Appearances

Background information 
Kyle was a recurring character played first by English-born actor John Winston in , and later by André Dae Kim in . He first appeared in "Tomorrow is Yesterday" and was given onscreen credit as "Transporter Chief". He had no set identity until Spock addressed him as "Lieutenant Kyle" in "Who Mourns for Adonais?". 

Kyle was originally set to appear in , but Winston was not available at the time the episode was filmed, so the character was replaced by O'Neil (Sean Morgan). (These Are the Voyages: TOS Season Three, p. 499)

For the Animated Series, he had a mustache and was voiced by James Doohan. The script for  mentioned that the character had to be voiced with a British accent. Winston wore a goatee when he reprised the role of Kyle for .

Apocrypha 
Kyle was born on Earth. According to the  "Who's Who in Star Trek 1", he was born in Adelaide, Australia and his father was a sales representative for one of Earth's largest transportation companies. The novel Traitor Winds established his birthplace as Sydney, Australia. The video game Star Trek: Starship Creator mentioned that he was born in Sheffield, England in 2241. 

"Who's Who in Star Trek" stated that he attended Perth Engineering College. His personnel file in Star Trek: Starship Creator noted that he graduated from Starfleet Academy in 2263. He was assigned to the USS Bull Run as a transporter technician. He was promoted to lieutenant junior grade after receiving his starship pilot certificate in 2264. He was transferred to the Enterprise as a lieutenant and was estranged from his wife, Rebecca, and his two daughters, Susan and Dawn, who lived in New Berlin, Luna. 

According to Star Trek: Starship Creator, he was assigned to the  in 2278 and became the senior helmsman. He was awarded the Citation for Bravery in 2280 for piloting a shuttle and clearing a safe path for the Bozeman out of a Tholian minefield. He was promoted to lieutenant commander in 2281 and named second officer of the Bozeman. He was transferred to the USS Reliant in 2284 at the request of Chekov and became second officer. 

"Who's Who in Star Trek" stated that he was assigned to the  after his service aboard the Reliant. 

The novel The Fire and the Rose mentioned that he attended Kirk's memorial service at Starfleet Academy in 2293 during the events of . 

There were disagreements with regards to Kyle's first name. In "Who's Who in Star Trek", his first name was Thomas. The novels Present Tense and The Fire and the Rose state that it was John – another apparent tribute to the actor who portrayed him. According to FASA's , it was Winston – an apparent reference to John Winston.

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