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Probert was a Starfleet officer in the 23rd century. He was a flag officer with the rank of commodore in the 2270s.

In a transmission picked up by Epsilon IX, he had ordered a rendezvous for the starship USS Columbia with the USS Revere. (Star Trek: The Motion Picture)

Commodore Probert's name was an inside reference to Andrew Probert, one of the illustrators who worked on the film and, later, the designer of the USS Enterprise-D. (Star Trek Encyclopedia)

Andrew Probert himself recalled, "The communications station "Epsilon-9" was briefly looked at but the design and building went to John Dykstra's Apogee group. I had a second brush with that station however, when Trumbull asked me to write some appropriate dialogue to run over scenes of the station as background chatter. This introduced the station without a big sign hanfging on it. I wrote several levels of dialogue and even stuck my own name in a lower level, but when Trumbull saw it, he had that level moved to the top, and you can hear a message from Commodore Probert if you listen closely." (Starlog photo guidebook Special Effects, vol. 5, p., 96)

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 In a transmission picked up by [[Epsilon IX]], he had ordered a rendezvous for the [[starship]] {{USS|Columbia}} with the {{USS|Revere}}. ({{film|1}})
+{{bginfo|Commodore Probert's name was an inside reference to [[Andrew Probert]], one of the illustrators who worked on the film and, later, the designer of the {{USS|Enterprise|NCC-1701-D|-D}}. (''[[Star Trek Encyclopedia]]'')|Andrew Probert himself recalled, "''The communications station "[[Epsilon IX station|Epsilon-9]]" was briefly looked at but the design and building went to [[John Dykstra]]'s [[Apogee, Inc.|Apogee]] group. I had a second brush with that station however, when [[Douglas Trumbull|Trumbull]] asked me to write some appropriate dialogue to run over scenes of the station as background chatter. This introduced the station without a big sign hanfging on it. I wrote several levels of dialogue and even stuck my own name in a lower level, but when Trumbull saw it, he had that level moved to the top, and you can hear a message from Commodore Probert if you listen closely.''" (''[[Starlog photo guidebook Special Effects]]'', vol. 5, p., 96)}}
-==Background==
-Commodore Probert's name was an inside reference to [[Andrew Probert]], one of the illustrators who worked on the film and, later, the designer of the {{USS|Enterprise|NCC-1701-D|-D}}. (''[[Star Trek Encyclopedia]]'')
-Andrew Probert himself recalled, "''The communications station "[[Epsilon IX station|Epsilon-9]]" was briefly looked at but the design and building went to [[John Dykstra]]'s [[Apogee, Inc.|Apogee]] group. I had a second brush with that station however, when [[Douglas Trumbull|Trumbull]] asked me to write some appropriate dialogue to run over scenes of the station as background chatter. This introduced the station without a big sign hanfging on it. I wrote several levels of dialogue and even stuck my own name in a lower level, but when Trumbull saw it, he had that level moved to the top, and you can hear a message from Commodore Probert if you listen closely.''" (''[[Starlog photo guidebook Special Effects]]'', vol. 5, p., 96)
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