Reginald Barclay

Lieutenant Reginald Endicott Barclay III is a recurring character in the Star Trek fictional universe, created by Sally Caves and played by Dwight Schultz. Reg is named after Clayton Endicott III, a character in the TV series Benson.

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Recurring character - Star Trek - Fictional universe - Sally Caves - Dwight Schultz - Clayton Endicott III - Benson

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He first appeared in the television series ' during the third season episode "Hollow Pursuits" as a "diagnostic technician". During the sixth season episode Realm of Fear he is mentioned as being a "systems engineer", in which capacity he also appeared on the USS Enterprise-E in the movie '. He also had a recurring role in the later seasons of '.

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Television series - Hollow Pursuits - Realm of Fear - USS ''Enterprise''-E

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Perhaps the most human character known aboard the Enterprise, Barclay had many flaws that he was forced to overcome. He was shy and insular with a tendency to stutter, was fearful of being transported, had a holofiction problem, and was a hypochondriac.

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Stutter - Transported - Holofiction - Hypochondriac

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His holofiction problem was first seen in the episode "Hollow Pursuits", in which he created simulacrum of the ship's bridge officers who behaved very differently than their "real life" counterparts; for example, his version of Captain Picard was a weakling who cowered before him, while Deanna Troi was in love with Barclay.

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Captain Picard - Deanna Troi

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In the episode "Realm of Fear", Barclay dealt with transporter phobia when assigned to an away team. Though he was capable of allowing himself to be transported, he believed that he saw large worm-like creatures while in transit. When no evidence of a problem was found, Barclay believed himself to be going mad; however, Data and Geordi La Forge afterwards discovered that these were human patterns in the device's pattern buffer, thought lost in transit. With Barclay's help, these people were materialized, alive and whole.

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Realm of Fear - Worm - Data - Geordi La Forge

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In "Genesis", Barclay's T-cells had a bizarre reaction to a medicine, creating an airborne virus which caused Barclay to de-evolve into a spider and its other victims to revert to various earlier forms.

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Genesis - T-cell - Medicine - Virus - Evolve - Spider

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Barclay remained under Picard's command after the destruction of the Enterprise-D, for a few years on the Enterprise-E until being re-assigned to Starfleet Headquarters circa 2375. Working on the "Pathfinder" project, Barclay became obsessed with the crew of the lost USS Voyager, which had been stranded in the Delta Quadrant for about four years. He created simulacrum of the Voyager crew on a holodeck based on the facts available to him. With the help of those holograms and Deanna Troi—with whom he developed a close friendship—he devised a clever way to use a tiny wormhole to establish two-way communication with Voyager. Barclay's work on the Pathfinder project earned him a promotion to full lieutenant (previously he had been a lieutenant junior grade).

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Starfleet Headquarters - USS ''Voyager'' - Delta Quadrant - Wormhole - Lieutenant - Lieutenant junior grade

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In an early episode of Voyager it was revealed that Barclay was involved in the creation of the Emergency Medical Hologram program.

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An alternate future in the Voyager series finale "Endgame" showed Barclay teaching at Starfleet Academy, with the rank of Commander. By that point, Barclay had long since conquered his habit of stuttering and was much more confident and assertive.

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Finale - Endgame - Starfleet Academy - Commander - Stuttering

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Barclay also appears in the First Person Shooter video game Star Trek Elite Force II, where he fills in as Chief Engineer for Geordi LaForge because LaForge and several others have gone onto other assignments. Barclay seems much more competent and confident in the game, and even helps the player fight off a terrorist attack on the ship's engine room.

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First Person Shooter - Video game - Star Trek Elite Force II - Geordi LaForge

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