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Kevin Riley was also featured in the ''[[Star Trek: The Lost Years]]'' series, set between the end of TOS and {{film|1}}. Promoted to [[Lieutenant Commander]], Riley became [[chief of staff]] to Admiral Kirk at [[Starfleet Command]]. Flashbacks in ''[[The Lost Years]]'' also revealed [[Kodos]]' reign of terror from Riley's perspective, including a memory in which a teenage Kirk hid the then four-year-old Riley from execution. |
Kevin Riley was also featured in the ''[[Star Trek: The Lost Years]]'' series, set between the end of TOS and {{film|1}}. Promoted to [[Lieutenant Commander]], Riley became [[chief of staff]] to Admiral Kirk at [[Starfleet Command]]. Flashbacks in ''[[The Lost Years]]'' also revealed [[Kodos]]' reign of terror from Riley's perspective, including a memory in which a teenage Kirk hid the then four-year-old Riley from execution. |
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| − | Riley also appears in the novels ''[[The Galactic Whirlpool]]'' and ''[[Probe (novel)|Probe]]''. In ''Probe'', set after {{film|4}}, he was a protégé of Ambassador [[Sarek]] and later became an ambassador himself during negotiations with the Romulans. |
+ | Riley also appears in the novels ''[[The Galactic Whirlpool]]'' and ''[[Probe (novel)|Probe]]''. In ''Probe'', set after {{film|4}}, he was a protégé of Ambassador [[Sarek]] and later became an ambassador himself during negotiations with the Romulans. According to the book ''Probe'', his father was executed when he was very young. |
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Kevin Thomas Riley and his family lived at the Tarsus IV colony during the famine of 2246. Riley's father was among the 4,000 colonists murdered by order of Governor Kodos. Riley was one of nine surviving witnesses to Kodos' order.
In 2266, Riley was a lieutenant, and served aboard the USS Enterprise. Early in the year, he served as a navigator. While on duty, he was intoxicated by the "polywater" infection brought back from Psi 2000, and became irrational. During this period, he took over engineering and regaled the crew, much against the wills of many hands, with numerous off-key renditions of "I'll Take You Home Again, Kathleen". He also turned off the engines, causing the ship's orbit to spiral into the planet. (TOS: "The Naked Time") Sometime after that incident Riley was transferred down to engineering.
Later in the year, the Enterprise ferried the Karidian Company of Players to Benecia. By this point, Riley had been promoted to the communications section. Kirk moved him back to engineering, to protect him from a killer who had already murdered Dr. Thomas Leighton, one of the three remaining eyewitnesses. While he was there, Lenore Karidian attempted to poison him, and might have succeeded had he not been talking to off-duty personnel at the moment the poison took effect, allowing them to realize that Riley was in peril and send help. Recovering in sickbay, Riley discovered that Anton Karidian was really Kodos the Executioner. Riley approached Karidian with murder on his mind, but James T. Kirk was able to talk him out of his vengeance. (TOS: "The Conscience of the King")
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Kevin's son was featured in the novel Crossover, where he released Captain Scott after Scott stole the USS Yorktown in search of Spock, who had been captured with a group of Unification believers. He released Scott on the promise that he would retrieve Spock and bring back the Yorktown to the museum it was in. He did so because he felt that his father owes Spock for his life after the events of "The Naked Time". It was also noted that Kevin must have had children relatively late in his life, and that his son commanded a Template:ShipClass starship.
Kevin Riley was also featured in the Star Trek: The Lost Years series, set between the end of TOS and Star Trek: The Motion Picture. Promoted to Lieutenant Commander, Riley became chief of staff to Admiral Kirk at Starfleet Command. Flashbacks in The Lost Years also revealed Kodos' reign of terror from Riley's perspective, including a memory in which a teenage Kirk hid the then four-year-old Riley from execution.
Riley also appears in the novels The Galactic Whirlpool and Probe. In Probe, set after Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, he was a protégé of Ambassador Sarek and later became an ambassador himself during negotiations with the Romulans. According to the book Probe, his father was executed when he was very young.