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Lieutenant Hawk was a Starfleet flight controller assigned to the USS Enterprise-E.
Hawk was at the conn during the Battle of Sector 001 in 2373, and also flew the ship in chase of the Borg sphere through the temporal vortex. When the Borg began to assimilate the Enterprise-E, Hawk was part of the command post on the bridge alongside Dr. Crusher and Lt. Commander Worf.
Hawk joined Captain Picard and Worf on their spacewalk to prevent the Borg from building an interplexing beacon on the ship's main deflector dish. However, Hawk was unable to finish releasing his maglock, as he was caught by a Borg drone and assimilated. Picard attempted to finish releasing the maglock, but was set upon by the newly-assimilated Hawk. While attempting to shatter the faceplate of Picard's environmental suit, Hawk was shot by Worf, throwing him into space. (Star Trek: First Contact)
- His body is never shown recovered, but it is presumed he died.
- Hawk was portrayed by actor Neal McDonough. The bios in Star Trek: Starship Creator written by Mike Okuda and Denise Okuda speculate Hawk's first name was Neal, while the Pocket Books TNG novel Rogue, part of the Star Trek: Section 31 series of novels, gives him the name of Sean Liam Hawk. Moreover, the story 'Seeing Forever' in Strange New Worlds IV establishes his first name as Ren.
- While rumors have persisted that Lt. Hawk was originally intended to be Star Trek's first openly gay character, the producers of Star Trek: First Contact and actor Neal McDonough have denied this. However, Hawk is indeed depicted as being gay in the novel Section 31: Rogue, which has been referenced again in the Star Trek: Titan novel series, where his partner, an unjoined Trill male named Ranul Keru, serves as the Titan's Chief of Security.
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