Arex

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Arex

Playing a lute.

In command.

Lieutenant Arex served as a navigator aboard the USS Enterprise in 2269 and 2270. He was an Edosian.

When the Enterprise entered a negative universe in 2270, Arex began to grow younger, eventually becoming a child. His condition was reversed by Dr. McCoy using the ship's transporter. (TAS: "The Counter-Clock Incident")

While under the influence of Harry Mudd's love potion, Arex sat at the navigator's station playing a lute, instead of attending to his duties. (TAS: "Mudd's Passion")

While the rest of the command crew was having a staff lunch, Arex was temporarily in command of the Enterprise. He later took his lunch break with M'Ress. (TAS: "The Practical Joker")

Appendices

Appearances

• TAS:
  • "One of Our Planets Is Missing"
  • "The Survivor"
  • "The Lorelei Signal"
  • "The Infinite Vulcan"
  • "Once Upon a Planet"
  • "Mudd's Passion"
  • "The Terratin Incident"
  • "The Ambergris Element"
  • "The Eye of the Beholder"
  • "The Pirates of Orion"
  • "Bem"
  • "The Practical Joker"
  • "Albatross"
  • "How Sharper Than a Serpent's Tooth"
  • "The Counter-Clock Incident"

Background

The voice of Arex was provided by James Doohan. Including Arex in the animated series accomplished two goals: it provided variety with yet another "alien" crew-member that an animated series could afford, and it replaced Pavel Chekov without employing an additional actor.

Apocrypha

According to StarTrek.com [1], Arex was Pavel Chekov's navigation instructor at Starfleet Academy.

Arex appeared briefly in the novels The Galactic Whirlpool, Time for Yesterday, The Fire and the Rose and the graphic novel version of The Ashes of Eden. He made several appearances in the first volume of DC's Star Trek comics, which were set after Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home.

He has become a minor character in the Star Trek: New Frontier series, where he serves as a security officer on the Trident under Captain Shelby. In these novels, his full name is given as Arex Na Eth.

Arex's homeworld Edos was first mentioned in Lincoln Enterprises publicity material in 1974. Arex is referred to as an 'Edoan' in Alan Dean Foster's Star Trek Log series of novelizations; according the Star Trek: New Frontier novels, however, this is a misconception, and Arex is actually a Triexian, and evidently the two species are frequently confused with each other.

In IDW Publishing's comics, Arex is telepathic.

See also

• TAS recurring characters

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External links

• The Lincoln Enterprises biography of Arex at Curt Danhauser's Guide to the Animated Star Trek.
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