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| Kevin Riley in 2266 | |
| Species: | Human |
| Gender: | Male |
| Rank: | Lieutenant |
| Actor: | Bruce Hyde |
Kevin Thomas Riley and his family lived at the Tarsus IV colony during the famine of 2246. Riley's parents were 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 with numerous offkey 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 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. 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")
- Kevin Riley was portrayed by Bruce Hyde.
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Apocrypha
Kevin's son has been featured in the novel Crossover, where he releases Captain Scott after Scott steals the USS Yorktown in search of Spock, whom has been captured with a group of Unification believers. He releases Scott on the promise that he will retrieve Spock and bring back the Yorktown to the museum it was in. He does so because he feels that his father owes Spock for his life after the events of "The Naked Time". It is also noted that Kevin must have had children relatively late in his life, and that his son commands a Galaxy-class starship. Kevin Riley has been featured in the novels The Galactic Whirlpool, Recovery, The Lost Years, and Probe. In The Lost Years set after the original series, he was recently-promoted Admiral Kirk's chief of staff; in Probe, set after Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, he was a protégé of Ambassador Sarek, who served as Federation ambassador during discussions with the Romulans..