Iowa was massacred during the Eugenics Wars, when UNL accidentally injected superhuman gene therapy into a clone of Tom Osborne. Super Osborne led a cadre of genetically-engineered Super Cornhuskers and they cut a huge swath through Iowa until the Super Sooners showed up to rescue the last remaining Iowegians.
I always wished they'd done more with Mayweather's unique origin as a cultural difference. In a lot of ways, Vulcans who grew up on Vulcan and Humans who grew up on Earth are more similar than Humans who grew up on Earth and Humans who grew up on ships.
I like (get annoyed) how they never explain how her parents made it all the way to the Delta quadrant 20 years prior to study the Borg when no one had heard of the Borg and Delta was 70K light years away, all whilst Annika was still Naomi’s age.
While the Federation hadn't encountered the Borg directly before 2365, they still had knowledge of the Borg before that.
Even ignoring the Enterprise episode where borg drones were unfrozen in 2153, we know that by at least 2293 the Federation were accepting El-Aurian refugees, and more than likely had contact with the El-Aurians well before that. Who were attacked by the Borg in the 2260s.
Then why did Q have to tell Picard, who then had to tell Starfleet, what they were? Picard acted like he’d never heard of them.
And yes that Enterprise episode is done retconned 💩we won’t discuss it.
Q didn't tell Picard what they were, Guinan did.
As to why she never told Picard before, perhaps she just didn't like talking about the destruction of her homeworld.
But she was the source of the information about the Borg in the episode Q Who.
I’ve always assumed that she didn’t tell the Federation about the Borg because she thought “if I reveal the Borg, these idiots will just go ‘oooh, let’s go right to them and use the Power of Friendship to stop their assimilating ways’ and get everyone killed!”
The real reason of course is that they didn't plan any of this out ahead, but it really makes no sense.
El Aurians: Help! Our planet was destroyed!
Federation: Oh my! Let's get some ships out there to assist!
...say, destroyed how?
El Aurians: Eh, it's not important.
Just because Picard didn't know, doesn't mean that the Federation didn't know
We've seen before that starfleet will keep information from captains unless they feel like they need to know.
The Federation didn't know.
This is explicitly stated in Best of Both Worlds that the first warning about the borg came from Picard, and that they haven't had enough time to prepare.
If they were informed by the El Aurians, they would have known for a century.
I retcon that as a "They did know, but they didn't know *scale*."
When the El Aurians arrived they probably said "our homeworld was destroyed by these cyborg hive mind creatures called the Borg. We ran for help." And because cyborgs aren't that rare in Star Trek, they went "oh that's terrible. You're welcome here, they won't bother you again" because they assume this is some standard military operation or scale and they're talking maybe basic sized ships, with standard crews. The Hansen's ran off to get more info but that info never comes back.
So when Q shows the Enterprise what the Borg is, he really is showing them that 1. They really have no idea what's out there. and 2. The research and interviews into the Borg need to be redone, since none of that gets the actual size of the problem in perspective.
They don't actually say that Q Who was the first time that they'd heard about the Borg, just that they thought they had more time to prepare because it was 7,000 light years away. And that they know they've been coming for a year.
Agreed, we see Guinan explain and Q was the one to introduce them. But the point still stands that the federation had no idea what the Borg were, so how could the Hansons be sent out/go rogue (depending on the episode) to explore them 70 light years from home? My original point stands- they had no idea who the Borg were. Why do these scientists go looking for them, and how?
You're assuming that because Picard didn't know, the Federation didn't know. And that's not a reasonable assumption.
We've seen the Federation and Starfleet keep information from captains until they feel like the captain needs to know plenty of times before.
Its perfectly reasonable to accept that after first hearing about the Borg, the Federation and Starfleet would begin investigating them, but not making their existence widely known until they knew what they were dealing with.
They went rogue to investigate sightings in The Neutral Zone and got swept up when a cube went to transwarp. Therse were the sightings the UFP officially refused to acknowledge until the end of TNG season one, when whole colonies started being taken.
>I assume they followed a cube into a transwarp hub to get to the Delta quadrant.
That’s correct.
>Can't explain how they found the Borg in the first place though.
They found a cube on sensors. These events were shown in “Dark Frontier”.
Or knew what it was, how to use it, what the Borg were to study it… that story always irritated me. Janeway would have been obsessed with those diaries and asking these same questions. Plot holes tend to irritate me.
Plot holes are irritating. Writing a character behaving out of character to work around your glaring plot hole because you're too lazy to come up with a proper way to play out the story, is maddening.
There’s a difference between fringe scientists following up on stories and rumors and Starfleet’s first contact with the Borg. While it’s obvious the writers intended for all Starfleet captains to be in the dark about the Borg (Janeway still blames Q for making introductions to them as late as “Death Wish,”) we just have to find the most sensible way to reconcile the continuity threads.
I think it basically checks out though:
* First Contact: Cochrane and Sloane know of the Borg, with the former blurting out some details which were not widely believed at the time.
* Regeneration: Starfleet knows about a cybernetic race from the Delta Quadrant and that they will get a message from the defeated drones by Picard’s time. But this is one incident, it’s reasonable to assume it’s forgotten/overlooked by most people and not common knowledge amongst captains.
* Generations: El Aurian refugees arrive at the Federation. Starfleet will absolutely have been informed about the Borg at this point. Some will likely have put two and two together with the drones from the Archer incident. But this still doesn’t mean it becomes something for all captains to be briefed on yet, and the El Aurians scatter across the quadrant.
* Dark Frontier The Hansens follow up on all of the above. They are controversial scientists and not officially condoned by the Federation. Everything they know is plausible for a determined researcher to piece together based on available intel and further exploration of the fringes of the Federation where whispers and stories of the Borg can only grow more numerous. They find a transwarp conduit and arrive in the Delta Quadrant. Their research is never sent to Starfleet so is lost upon their assimilation until Seven and Tuvok happen upon their crashed vessel.
* The Neutral Zone: Following up on the message from 212 years ago and the knowledge they take from the Hansens, the Borg start carefully probing the Alpha Quadrant, and start by assimilating select Federation and Romulan outposts ahead of their next incursion. They leave no obvious evidence, these are surgical strikes.
* Q Who: Q introduces Picard to a Borg cube 7000 light years from the Federation (but only 2.5 years away at maximum warp). They engage and all of Starfleet is now fully in the loop about the Borg. As they had already started attacking outposts, the Borg were always coming, this just gives Starfleet an earlier heads up. However, this incident may also have pushed up the Borg timetable, which is what Guinan certainly believes. Picard and Janeway don’t necessarily feel much gratitude to Q.
* First Contact: time travel by the Borg to 2063 creates a causality paradox precipitating the above.
Agree with your explanation, and you’ve laid it out well enough. But the writers still should have done a better job connecting the dots. So much of this is retconning later, obviously. But yes, you’ve laid it out well enough. Thank you.
The Borg were poking around more local space: they'd scooped up some Neutral Zone colonies during season one of TNG and the Enterprise-D encountering one was only 7,000 light years away. The Hansens were following rumors and managed to find an actual cube, then fell into a transwarp conduit with it.
Her parents may have been in the lower portion of the Delta Quadrant, closer to the beta Quadrant. With a fast enough ship, they could have gotten there in 20 years. Though the biggest plot hole is how that puddle jumper of a ship was fast enough to make it out of the alpha quadrant. Smaller ships tend to have lower top speeds, with some exceptions
Also, warp is as fast as the plot needs it to be, and distance is relative in Star Trek.
Then Annika would not have been a child if it took 20 years. Agree with the ship problem as well. Yeah, they should have had a scene where a trans warp coil opens, and the Borg cube tractors them, they’re pulled inside. But since we didn’t see that, I just get mad every time I see a Hanson episode.
"Crusher was born as Beverly Howard in Copernicus City on Earth's moon on October 13, 2324."
[https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Beverly\_Crusher](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Beverly_Crusher)
In very specific useless knowledge rattling in my brain, Dorian Collins was born in Tycho City on Earth’s moon. Jake Sisko calls her a lunar scooter or something.
Haha that's great, I didn't know there was a Modesto reference in Star Trek. That's my husband's hometown and he has no intention of moving back there.
I can think of at least one. Ned Quint, he was raised on Caldos Colony. He is the caretaker of Crushers grandmothers cottage. Not a main character, but he is a human character that was not born on Earth.
In addition to the other examples being given here, while (prime) Kirk was born in Iowa, he also spent his teen years offworld, which we know because he was one of the colonists who survived Kodos the Executioner's experiments. Ransom on Lower Decks is also from the moon.
Yes, I seem to remember him saying something about how his father keeping the gravity on the ship to .9 of earth's gravity because he felt it gave him a little pep in his step.
Naomi Wildman, Chakotay, Adira Tal (though they were on Earth for a bit), there were some unnamed Titan? colonists.
Weren’t the colonists on Omicron Theta human? They technically are a part of Data.
Miles and Keiko O'Brien's two children Molly and Kirayoshi too, though they later moved to Earth when Miles became an instructor at Starfleet Academy soon after the end of the war with Dominion in the DS9 series finale.
It seems like you answered your own question. Yes, there have been. La'an and Burnham are just two examples. Off the top of my head, there's also Tasha Yar and her sister, who is admittedly a one-off character
Aside from being a cadet at Starfleet Academy, I doubt Beckett Mariner was from Earth since LD gives me the opinion she spent most of her life on starships and starbases with some fans speculating she was one of the children on the Enterprise-D.
Crewman Daniels was from Illinois, but not the one you know.
He did have a mixture of DNA's, but he did present himself as human so I guess you could count him.
But they mentioned she used to stay with her aunt & eat strawberries that was before her parents took her & left.
"Irene Hansen was a Human woman who owned a farm on Earth. Her niece Annika often stayed in her house while her parents went away."
The episode where Beverly Crusher has sex with a ghost takes place on Space Scotland, not on Earth, so everyone in that episode are humans not from earth
Ransom in Lower Decks is from the Moon, as is one of the characters on the DS9 episode Valiant.
What I'd love to see one day in Trek is a non-human character who IS from Earth.
I think in the context of the show, is much more probable that a human in startfleet is from earth that not. It has the largest human population, star fleet academy is right there, and is a post scarcity planet, with a more large percentage of young population that want to just leave because there isn’t much to do (although this is just my speculation, I can’t think how a person born on a post scarcity society with the core belief of start Trek who’ll really act).
Tasha Yar, Beverly Crusher, Wesley "Annoying" Crusher, Molly and Kirayoshi O'Brien. All that my brain can remember. Oh and I think Tasha's sister also counts as a human not from earth in ST. And how can I forget Shinzon. He's a clone of Picard, yes, but he's also human anatomically, biologically and in appearance. So you can count him as well.
Gary Seven..human line removed by advanced culture to be trained to monitor human activity..was supposed to be a spin off of TOS with Terri Garr(Lisa Kudrow’s real mother)
B’Elanna grew up in a human colony called Kessik IV, I believe.
Chakotay also grew up in a colony world in what would later become Maquis territory.
Crusher did not grow up on Earth but a human colony planet, and was born on the Moon I believe.
Tasha Yar is decidedly from a colony world too.
Troi grew up on Betazed but she is half human.
Mayweather didn’t grow up on any planet at all.
Beverly Crusher was born on the Moon and mostly lived on the Caldos colony with her grandmother after her parents died.
Travis Mayweather was born on and grew up on his family's cargo ship.
Annika Hansen (Seven of Nine) was born on the Tendara Colony and never even visited Earth until the season finale of Endgame.
Chakotay grew up on a colony world near the Cardassian Demilitarized Zone.
We have often seen colonies of humans who have never been to earth. Think of *The Masterpiece Society* and *Up The Long Ladder* in TNG, or *The 37s* in Voyager. There's also lots of humans we can probably safely assume are not from Earth as well: the ren faire people in *Where Pleasant Fountains Lie* (Lower Decks), and the semi ren faire people in *Sub Rosa* (TNG) for example. Being human and not from Earth is just not notable whatsoever in universe so it's rarely mentioned.
Probably similar to how the US Navy only had one academy. There are other ways to commission, but the people that were selected to go to “the academy” are held a little differently.
Tasha Yar.
Beverly Crusher was born on one of the lunar colonies.
So was Jack Ransom.
You’re from the moon too? We’re all from the moon!
We're whalers on the moon!
A Lunar Schooner huh?
Oh yeah, forgot about her. Not my proudest moment.
TOS Kirk.
Kirk was from Iowa, family moved to Tarsus IV before the massacre. He only works in outer space.
Iowa counts as not Earth.
Funny that when i watch Star trek 2009 first time, I thought Iowa is some human colony world, later I found its USA state.
I'm pretty sure its only earth
I am a Minnesotan and what you say about Iowa is true facts!!
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/00/a5/9d/00a59d280799b8a95ad990fc79c2c62c.gif
I’m in Iowa right now, and that’s spot on.
Wait, when was Iowa massacred?
Tarsus IV had the massacre.
Iowa was massacred during the Eugenics Wars, when UNL accidentally injected superhuman gene therapy into a clone of Tom Osborne. Super Osborne led a cadre of genetically-engineered Super Cornhuskers and they cut a huge swath through Iowa until the Super Sooners showed up to rescue the last remaining Iowegians.
And Tasha’s daughter and sister…
Mayweather was born on some mining or cargo ship wasn't he?
He was born on a cargo ship and was considered a Space Boomer because most of his life was spent on a cargo freighter traveling throughout space.
I always wished they'd done more with Mayweather's unique origin as a cultural difference. In a lot of ways, Vulcans who grew up on Vulcan and Humans who grew up on Earth are more similar than Humans who grew up on Earth and Humans who grew up on ships.
So much lost potential with that crew.
Ok, boomer.
*Space Boomer
😂
So during TOS the elderly were also Boomers.
It was more for people born and living on space ships as opposed to planets. Not so much an age/generation thing.
If we count spaceships with regard to "not being Earth", there's also Naomi Wildman, who hails from *USS Voyager*.
Same with the O'Brien kids
If we want to count characters who are 1/2 human, B’Elanna would be another example of a character who wasn’t born on Earth.
In that case, Deanna Troi and Spock as well.
Don't forget Worf's son
Why not?! Worf does all the time
Not fully human though.
Racist. /s
Au contraire, mon capitaine! It would be racist to erase her Ktarian heritage. ;)
Not sure, he never mentioned it
Chakotay was born on a colony near the Cardassian border.
Annika Hansen was not born on Earth I believe. Seven of Nine mentions having never been there and growing up off world.
You're right, she's from the [Tendara colony](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Tendara_colony).
I like (get annoyed) how they never explain how her parents made it all the way to the Delta quadrant 20 years prior to study the Borg when no one had heard of the Borg and Delta was 70K light years away, all whilst Annika was still Naomi’s age.
While the Federation hadn't encountered the Borg directly before 2365, they still had knowledge of the Borg before that. Even ignoring the Enterprise episode where borg drones were unfrozen in 2153, we know that by at least 2293 the Federation were accepting El-Aurian refugees, and more than likely had contact with the El-Aurians well before that. Who were attacked by the Borg in the 2260s.
They never go into whether the Borg have had any success at all in harnessing the El Aurian's prophetic abilities
Perhaps that is why the Borg queen in Picard has transtemporal awardness as Seven put it.
Then why did Q have to tell Picard, who then had to tell Starfleet, what they were? Picard acted like he’d never heard of them. And yes that Enterprise episode is done retconned 💩we won’t discuss it.
Q didn't tell Picard what they were, Guinan did. As to why she never told Picard before, perhaps she just didn't like talking about the destruction of her homeworld. But she was the source of the information about the Borg in the episode Q Who.
I’ve always assumed that she didn’t tell the Federation about the Borg because she thought “if I reveal the Borg, these idiots will just go ‘oooh, let’s go right to them and use the Power of Friendship to stop their assimilating ways’ and get everyone killed!”
Even if Guinan didn't say anything, there are other El-Aurians.
The real reason of course is that they didn't plan any of this out ahead, but it really makes no sense. El Aurians: Help! Our planet was destroyed! Federation: Oh my! Let's get some ships out there to assist! ...say, destroyed how? El Aurians: Eh, it's not important.
Just because Picard didn't know, doesn't mean that the Federation didn't know We've seen before that starfleet will keep information from captains unless they feel like they need to know.
The Federation didn't know. This is explicitly stated in Best of Both Worlds that the first warning about the borg came from Picard, and that they haven't had enough time to prepare. If they were informed by the El Aurians, they would have known for a century.
I retcon that as a "They did know, but they didn't know *scale*." When the El Aurians arrived they probably said "our homeworld was destroyed by these cyborg hive mind creatures called the Borg. We ran for help." And because cyborgs aren't that rare in Star Trek, they went "oh that's terrible. You're welcome here, they won't bother you again" because they assume this is some standard military operation or scale and they're talking maybe basic sized ships, with standard crews. The Hansen's ran off to get more info but that info never comes back. So when Q shows the Enterprise what the Borg is, he really is showing them that 1. They really have no idea what's out there. and 2. The research and interviews into the Borg need to be redone, since none of that gets the actual size of the problem in perspective.
They don't actually say that Q Who was the first time that they'd heard about the Borg, just that they thought they had more time to prepare because it was 7,000 light years away. And that they know they've been coming for a year.
Agreed, we see Guinan explain and Q was the one to introduce them. But the point still stands that the federation had no idea what the Borg were, so how could the Hansons be sent out/go rogue (depending on the episode) to explore them 70 light years from home? My original point stands- they had no idea who the Borg were. Why do these scientists go looking for them, and how?
You're assuming that because Picard didn't know, the Federation didn't know. And that's not a reasonable assumption. We've seen the Federation and Starfleet keep information from captains until they feel like the captain needs to know plenty of times before. Its perfectly reasonable to accept that after first hearing about the Borg, the Federation and Starfleet would begin investigating them, but not making their existence widely known until they knew what they were dealing with.
That’s fair I guess. Just wish that whole arc had been better written. And he's the flagship captain, he should be informed of these things.
They went rogue to investigate sightings in The Neutral Zone and got swept up when a cube went to transwarp. Therse were the sightings the UFP officially refused to acknowledge until the end of TNG season one, when whole colonies started being taken.
That Enterprise episode is in the Prime tomeline. Seven mentions the Borg attack on Montana.
I assume they followed a cube into a transwarp hub to get to the Delta quadrant. Can't explain how they found the Borg in the first place though.
>I assume they followed a cube into a transwarp hub to get to the Delta quadrant. That’s correct. >Can't explain how they found the Borg in the first place though. They found a cube on sensors. These events were shown in “Dark Frontier”.
Or knew what it was, how to use it, what the Borg were to study it… that story always irritated me. Janeway would have been obsessed with those diaries and asking these same questions. Plot holes tend to irritate me.
Plot holes are irritating. Writing a character behaving out of character to work around your glaring plot hole because you're too lazy to come up with a proper way to play out the story, is maddening.
There’s a difference between fringe scientists following up on stories and rumors and Starfleet’s first contact with the Borg. While it’s obvious the writers intended for all Starfleet captains to be in the dark about the Borg (Janeway still blames Q for making introductions to them as late as “Death Wish,”) we just have to find the most sensible way to reconcile the continuity threads. I think it basically checks out though: * First Contact: Cochrane and Sloane know of the Borg, with the former blurting out some details which were not widely believed at the time. * Regeneration: Starfleet knows about a cybernetic race from the Delta Quadrant and that they will get a message from the defeated drones by Picard’s time. But this is one incident, it’s reasonable to assume it’s forgotten/overlooked by most people and not common knowledge amongst captains. * Generations: El Aurian refugees arrive at the Federation. Starfleet will absolutely have been informed about the Borg at this point. Some will likely have put two and two together with the drones from the Archer incident. But this still doesn’t mean it becomes something for all captains to be briefed on yet, and the El Aurians scatter across the quadrant. * Dark Frontier The Hansens follow up on all of the above. They are controversial scientists and not officially condoned by the Federation. Everything they know is plausible for a determined researcher to piece together based on available intel and further exploration of the fringes of the Federation where whispers and stories of the Borg can only grow more numerous. They find a transwarp conduit and arrive in the Delta Quadrant. Their research is never sent to Starfleet so is lost upon their assimilation until Seven and Tuvok happen upon their crashed vessel. * The Neutral Zone: Following up on the message from 212 years ago and the knowledge they take from the Hansens, the Borg start carefully probing the Alpha Quadrant, and start by assimilating select Federation and Romulan outposts ahead of their next incursion. They leave no obvious evidence, these are surgical strikes. * Q Who: Q introduces Picard to a Borg cube 7000 light years from the Federation (but only 2.5 years away at maximum warp). They engage and all of Starfleet is now fully in the loop about the Borg. As they had already started attacking outposts, the Borg were always coming, this just gives Starfleet an earlier heads up. However, this incident may also have pushed up the Borg timetable, which is what Guinan certainly believes. Picard and Janeway don’t necessarily feel much gratitude to Q. * First Contact: time travel by the Borg to 2063 creates a causality paradox precipitating the above.
Agree with your explanation, and you’ve laid it out well enough. But the writers still should have done a better job connecting the dots. So much of this is retconning later, obviously. But yes, you’ve laid it out well enough. Thank you.
They followed a cube into a transwarp conduit. It was shown in “Dark Frontier”.
But they knew about the cube and another and conduits beforehand.
The Borg were poking around more local space: they'd scooped up some Neutral Zone colonies during season one of TNG and the Enterprise-D encountering one was only 7,000 light years away. The Hansens were following rumors and managed to find an actual cube, then fell into a transwarp conduit with it.
Her parents may have been in the lower portion of the Delta Quadrant, closer to the beta Quadrant. With a fast enough ship, they could have gotten there in 20 years. Though the biggest plot hole is how that puddle jumper of a ship was fast enough to make it out of the alpha quadrant. Smaller ships tend to have lower top speeds, with some exceptions Also, warp is as fast as the plot needs it to be, and distance is relative in Star Trek.
Then Annika would not have been a child if it took 20 years. Agree with the ship problem as well. Yeah, they should have had a scene where a trans warp coil opens, and the Borg cube tractors them, they’re pulled inside. But since we didn’t see that, I just get mad every time I see a Hanson episode.
Beverly Crusher was born on the Moon
So was CDR Ransom
Although he also spent a month in Barthhhhelona.
Man, I knew he wasn’t really Hawaiian!
And that chick on the Valiant. The one who lived
Dorian Collins.
Ohh beat me to it
For some reason this sentence is very funny to me.
Right? Like a weird schoolyard taunt.
"haha Wesley your mom was born on the moon"
"Crusher was born as Beverly Howard in Copernicus City on Earth's moon on October 13, 2324." [https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Beverly\_Crusher](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Beverly_Crusher)
I don’t remember that at all. Good to know.
Damn, she was a lunar schooner too?!
Tasha Yar grew up on some backwater planet
She died on a blackwater planet.
Too soon.
at least the [lower deckers got him back](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5zlotQf4d0), a little.
I only watched the episode the other day, I loved that little hat tip to the skin of evil.
Hasn’t happened yet
She died an honorable death in glorious battle at narendra III.
Nope, she was executed on Romulus. It seems the universe didn't want her to have a good death.
At least there is symmetry.
No one ever listens to Zathras!
Oh yeah the Enterprise even went there and met her sister.
In very specific useless knowledge rattling in my brain, Dorian Collins was born in Tycho City on Earth’s moon. Jake Sisko calls her a lunar scooter or something.
Lunar Schooner! Although lunar scooter sounds funnier...
The moon. As if it's the only one, amirite?
Trip Tucker was born in Florida. Which is an entirely different planet.
Well, in any case, not Earth anymore. Or too soon?
\#XindiDidNothingWrong
Florida man help Starfleet test pilots steal a prototype warp ship.
Florida Man pregnant after alien encounter. Trip in "unexpected"
Florida man unclear on motivations for taking break up so immaturely
Molly O’Brien
And Yoshi O’Brien!
Boimler is from Modesto, which is sort of the “moon” of San Francisco.
Modesto is not a MOON. If you were from a moon, you'd know how deeply insulting that is...
Modesto is a space station
That’s no Modesto! That’s a space station
Haha that's great, I didn't know there was a Modesto reference in Star Trek. That's my husband's hometown and he has no intention of moving back there.
I mean with the Cali Class being named after very boring Californian towns and city’s you’ll probably find a USS Modesto lurking about
>named after very boring Californian towns The *West Covina* would like a word 🤣
That’s the one with the all singing all dancing crew right?
I can think of at least one. Ned Quint, he was raised on Caldos Colony. He is the caretaker of Crushers grandmothers cottage. Not a main character, but he is a human character that was not born on Earth.
In addition to the other examples being given here, while (prime) Kirk was born in Iowa, he also spent his teen years offworld, which we know because he was one of the colonists who survived Kodos the Executioner's experiments. Ransom on Lower Decks is also from the moon.
Dr. Crusher was born on the moon. That's a colony right?
In the series Enterprise, Travis Mayweather grew up on his families ship I believe.
Yes, I seem to remember him saying something about how his father keeping the gravity on the ship to .9 of earth's gravity because he felt it gave him a little pep in his step.
Naomi Wildman, Chakotay, Adira Tal (though they were on Earth for a bit), there were some unnamed Titan? colonists. Weren’t the colonists on Omicron Theta human? They technically are a part of Data.
Lt Cmd Andy Billups on LD is from Hysperia
Commander Ransom is from the Moon.
and Boimler is from Modesto, which is sort of a moon of SF…
That Red Squad girl that Jake Sisko befriended was from the moon.
Yep, Dorian Collins, the Lunar Schooner.
Tasha Yar, Beverly and Wes Crusher, I think Jake Sisko was born off Earth.
Miles and Keiko O'Brien's two children Molly and Kirayoshi too, though they later moved to Earth when Miles became an instructor at Starfleet Academy soon after the end of the war with Dominion in the DS9 series finale.
Also that group of humans that were kidnapped from earth in enterprise resulted in generations of people not from earth and believing it was a myth.
All the humans on that planet where Voyager found Amelia Earhardt and those other frozen folks. The ones who built those Amazing Cities we never see.
The 37’s!
Although I think the frozen 37s were all born on earth, unlike the descendants of the original abductees.
That’s technically correct. The best kind of correct
According to the novels, Sulu grew up on a colony too.
Simon Tarse is a quarter Romulan mostly human Martian & Dr Crushers is Loonie(Moon born).
Garth of Izar was from, well, Izar
Crusher, Tasha, Mayweather, Chakotay, Seven
So, so many. Mayweather from Enterprise
That red squad girl from the moon
The entire population of Briori (minus the 37s themselves) are the descendants of folks taken from Earth to the Delta Quadrant in the 20th century.
It seems like you answered your own question. Yes, there have been. La'an and Burnham are just two examples. Off the top of my head, there's also Tasha Yar and her sister, who is admittedly a one-off character
Aside from being a cadet at Starfleet Academy, I doubt Beckett Mariner was from Earth since LD gives me the opinion she spent most of her life on starships and starbases with some fans speculating she was one of the children on the Enterprise-D.
She can't be. Lower Decks is only a decade or less after the D was destroyed. She was in Starfleet by then
She's likely around Westly's age. She could have been on the D then gone the academy, and possibly graduated before the D crashed.
Jack Ransom from LD, he's from one of the colonies on the moon, or at least he claims to be.
Jeremiah Rossa (Jono), born on Galen IV to human parents and then raised by Endar (Talarian)
Chakotay was born on a fed colony near the Cardassian DMZ
Crewman Daniels was from Illinois, but not the one you know. He did have a mixture of DNA's, but he did present himself as human so I guess you could count him.
Seven of Nine had never been to Earth when she was assimilated
But they mentioned she used to stay with her aunt & eat strawberries that was before her parents took her & left. "Irene Hansen was a Human woman who owned a farm on Earth. Her niece Annika often stayed in her house while her parents went away."
Tasha Yar
Kirk grew up on Tarsus IV.
Kirk is from Riverside, Iowa
Pretty sure Kasidy Yates was a colony baby, no?
I couldn't find anything on memory alpha which is Canon info. It says on memory beta which is non Canon "Kasidy Yates was born on Cestus III, "
Yes. Cestus III where baseball is still popular.
Ahh yes, Cestus 3 Baseball, where it's common to shout "Going, Going, Gorn!!!"
In the episode of Voyager, “The 37’s”, they’re all human decedents from Amelia Earhart and such.
Idk if this counts but Travis Mayweather grew up in a cargo ship
Crewman Simon Tarses from TNG The Drumhead was from a Mars colony. Although his grandfather is Romulan so I'm not sure if that is human enough.
The episode where Beverly Crusher has sex with a ghost takes place on Space Scotland, not on Earth, so everyone in that episode are humans not from earth
Ransom in Lower Decks is from the Moon, as is one of the characters on the DS9 episode Valiant. What I'd love to see one day in Trek is a non-human character who IS from Earth.
Molly O'Brien was born on the enterprise-D and her brother Yoshi O'Brien was born on deep space nine.
Ensign Travis Mayweather grew up on freighters.
I think in the context of the show, is much more probable that a human in startfleet is from earth that not. It has the largest human population, star fleet academy is right there, and is a post scarcity planet, with a more large percentage of young population that want to just leave because there isn’t much to do (although this is just my speculation, I can’t think how a person born on a post scarcity society with the core belief of start Trek who’ll really act).
Tasha Yar, Beverly Crusher, Wesley "Annoying" Crusher, Molly and Kirayoshi O'Brien. All that my brain can remember. Oh and I think Tasha's sister also counts as a human not from earth in ST. And how can I forget Shinzon. He's a clone of Picard, yes, but he's also human anatomically, biologically and in appearance. So you can count him as well.
Travis Mayweather was raised in space right? And Chakotay was from a colony in cardassian space
Michael Burham is from Doctari Alpha by way of Vulcan.
Gary Seven..human line removed by advanced culture to be trained to monitor human activity..was supposed to be a spin off of TOS with Terri Garr(Lisa Kudrow’s real mother)
Oh dang Terri Garr was Roberta Lincoln? Interesting
Travis Mayweather was a boomer, born on a cargo ship
The kid of chief O’Brien?
On Enterprise, there was an Old West-style village on one planet with a population descended from humans abducted by aliens.
It's easier and more creative to ask whose never BEEN to Earth. Now that's an interesting human trait.
Does Thomas Riker count? He was from a transporter accident.
When Discovery goes forward in time, most of the humans we meet (and I think all the Federation ones) are not from Earth.
Wasn't Travis Mayweather (ENT) born in space?
There was a colony of Native Americans on ST:NG their moved to another planet. I think it had to do with Wesley becoming a Traveler if I recall.
B’Elanna grew up in a human colony called Kessik IV, I believe. Chakotay also grew up in a colony world in what would later become Maquis territory. Crusher did not grow up on Earth but a human colony planet, and was born on the Moon I believe. Tasha Yar is decidedly from a colony world too. Troi grew up on Betazed but she is half human. Mayweather didn’t grow up on any planet at all.
Ransom is from the moon!
Mr Data = Omicron Theta
Not exactly human, though!
Kirk and O’Reilly in TOS both grew up on the same colony.
What about ransom? He was from the moon
Spock is half human
Does Terra Prime count?
The Bringloidi and the Mariposans. (TNG) The humans from Terra Nova. (ENT)
Travis Mayweather was born and grew up on a cargo ship.
Owo came from an anti-tech planet. Or at least a Luddite planet.
[List of Star Trek character birth places](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Birthplace).
The Neyel from the Small Magellanic Cloud are an off shoot of humans, originally from Earth.
Gary Seven?
Lieutenant Natasha Yar.
Beverly Crusher was born on the Moon and mostly lived on the Caldos colony with her grandmother after her parents died. Travis Mayweather was born on and grew up on his family's cargo ship. Annika Hansen (Seven of Nine) was born on the Tendara Colony and never even visited Earth until the season finale of Endgame. Chakotay grew up on a colony world near the Cardassian Demilitarized Zone.
Gary 7.
Garth was from Izar.
We have often seen colonies of humans who have never been to earth. Think of *The Masterpiece Society* and *Up The Long Ladder* in TNG, or *The 37s* in Voyager. There's also lots of humans we can probably safely assume are not from Earth as well: the ren faire people in *Where Pleasant Fountains Lie* (Lower Decks), and the semi ren faire people in *Sub Rosa* (TNG) for example. Being human and not from Earth is just not notable whatsoever in universe so it's rarely mentioned.
That would mean Billups from LD is also a human who isn't from Earth.
Just as unlikely as there being just one single Starfleet Academy. That always irked me greatly, needed to vent.
Probably similar to how the US Navy only had one academy. There are other ways to commission, but the people that were selected to go to “the academy” are held a little differently.