Shaun Geoffrey Christopher

Earth-Saturn probe mission patch

Colonel Shaun Geoffrey Christopher was a male Human military service member. He was born after 1969 to US Force Captain John Christopher and his wife. Shaun had two older sisters. In the early 21st century, he was the commander of the first successful mission to Saturn. He was accompanied on this mission by the astronauts Fontana and O'Herlihy.

In 1969, the USS Enterprise, which had accidentally traveled back in time from the year 2267, took aboard Shaun's father Captain John Christopher when he attempted to intercept the Enterprise with his F-104 Starfighter. Initially believing that returning Christopher to Earth would be impossible due to the fact that he might inadvertently change history with his new-found knowledge of the future, Lieutenant Commander Spock eventually realized that he had to be returned, or Shaun Geoffrey Christopher would never be born and the Saturn mission would never take place. (TOS: "Tomorrow is Yesterday"; ENT: "First Flight")

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Background information

According to Star Trek Encyclopedia, Shaun Geoffrey Christopher was named after writer John D.F. Black's three sons: Shaun, Geoffrey, and Christopher. According to Star Trek Chronology, the mission to Saturn took place in 2009. According to the Star Trek Spaceflight Chronology, the mission took place in 2020.

Apocrypha

In the short story "Assignment: One" of Strange New Worlds 8, Gary Seven was assigned to prevent Christopher from boarding one of the airplanes that was involved in the September 11th terrorist attack. Christopher played a minor part in Greg Cox's Eugenics Wars novels, where he was meant to be the pilot of the first DY-100-class sleeper ship initially scheduled to go to Saturn. The novel The Rings of Time detailed the Saturn mission that Christopher commanded in 2020. During the mission, he and Captain Kirk switch bodies due to the effects of an alien probe. Christopher appeaed in the Star Trek: Myriad Universes story "Seeds Of Dissent" in Infinity's Prism as the captain of the SS Botany Bay.

Commander Shaun Christopher was the main character of the Star Trek: Live stage show produced by Mad Science Productions and performed at various locations from 2010–2011, including Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. The novelization of the episode "Relics" gave the name of the shuttle "loaned" to Montgomery Scott as the Christopher, named for Shaun Geoffrey Christopher; however in the episode, the name Goddard was legible on the hull.

External link

• Shaun Jeffrey Christopher at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works