Ian Quincy Knapp
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| CHARACTER BIOGRAPHY | |
| Ian Quincy Knapp | |
 Star Trek: Hidden Frontier publicity photo
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| Full Name: | Ian Quincy Knapp |
| Species: | Terran |
| Gender: | Male |
| Eye Color: | Green |
| Hair Color: | Brown |
| Affiliation: | Federation, Starfleet |
| Family | |
| Sibling(s): | John Edward Knapp (twin brother) |
| Children: | Traya Knapp (daughter) |
| Career | |
| Occupation: | Retired Starfleet Officer |
| Previous Assignment: | Commanding Officer, USS Excelsior |
| Final Assignment: | Commanding Officer, Starbase Deep Space 12 |
| Rank: | Rear Admiral |
| Insignia: | 
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| Security Clearance: | Revoked |
 Knapp, as a Commodore, when he was commander of Deep Space 12. Star Trek: Hidden Frontier publicity photo | |
Rear Admiral Ian Quincy Knapp commanded Deep Space 12 and the Starfleet task forces assigned there during the length of the Tholian-Breen Conflict. During the Dominion War, he commanded the USS Devonshire in the Federation's first encounter with the Grey Confederacy. His twin brother, John Knapp, was killed by the Dominion. The death left Knapp scarred and deeply cynical. After the Grey's psionic attack, Knapp took time to recover and to mourn the loss of his brother and family. Since discovering he had a daughter, Traya, he worked hard to raise her aboard the Deep Space 12.
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Personal History
Knapp is a human, with a twin brother, John (now deceased). About 16 years ago, he had a relationship with a woman who became the mother of his daughter, Traya.
Ian would enjoy an occasional Romulan Ale, in which he acquired from his brother's dealer. (HF 2.02 - "Yesterday's Excelsior")
Starfleet Career
At Starfleet Academy
Quincy's classmates at the Academy included his twin brother, John, Jennifer Cole, Janice Willcocks, and Jon Lane. (HF102, "Enemy Unknown, Part 2")
Captain of the Devonshire
In 2375 during the final push of the Dominion War, Knapp, commanding the Devonshire, was ordered to chase two enemy ships into the McAllister C-5 Nebula. Taking two other ships with him, the USS Tiananmen and the USS Rutledge, he pursued the enemy vessels into the nebula, only to run headlong into the Grey Confederacy. After a brief but violent battle, the ship was sacrificed in an effort to prevent the Grey from ambushing the unsuspecting fleet located minutes away in clear space. (HF 1.01 - "Enemy Unknown, Part 1")
During the war, Captain Knapp led an attack on a Cardassian transport. (HF 2.03 - "Old Wound")
Captain of the Excelsior
Eighteen months after the Grey attack, in 2377, Knapp was given command of the USS Excelsior, a Galaxy III-class starship assigned to Deep Space 12. He also relieved his old friend Jennifer Cole of command of DS12, assuming command of Briar Patch operations and the work on Ba'ku. He displeased about the fact the majority of his new crew are mostly green and fresh out of the Academy. (HF 1.02 - "Enemy Unknown, Part 2") Knapp led a Starfleet task force at the Battle of Devron, during which he was captured by the Grey, and his mind was taken over by them until a psionic inhibitor developed by Rayvan, Lieutenant Toby Witczak, and Doctor Henglaar. Knapp was rescued and he led the fleet back to DS12. (HF 1.03 - "Enemy Unknown, Part 3")
Captain Knapp was a part of the Tzenkethi Coalition negotiations at DS12. (HF 1.04 - "Two Hours") Soon thereafter, his first meeting with his new executive officer, Commander Elizabeth Shelby did not go smoothly. Knapp was suspicious of her motivations in accepting the assignment. He also had to remind her that she needed flag experience before getting a command. (HF 1.05 - "Perihelion") At a later conference, Captain Knapp was to give a keynote speech, but instead successfully forced the surrender of a Tzenkethi vessel that attempted to force its way to Ba'ku. Shortly thereafter, after a battle at a Tzenkethi colony world, Captain Knapp field-promoted Wesley Crusher to the rank of Lieutenant and give him the position of Second Officer. (HF 1.06 - "Echoes")
In 2378, Knapp sat in on a meeting between Admiral Alynna Nechayev and Princess Illiana of Tren'La which was about Federation aid to Tren'La. (HF 2.01 - "Refugees") Knapp and Admiral Nechayev held a successful peace accord on the station, and he asked her to have a drink with him in celebration. (HF 2.02 - "Yesterday's Excelsior")
The Excelsior served as his flagship while he acted as commander of DS12, until Admiral Nechayev assumed command. Knapp continued to command Excelsior until Starfleet Command decided it would best serve relations with the Dominion to relieve of command. Earlier in the year, he had been implicated (and later proven innocent of any wrongdoing) in the death of a Dominion Ambassador. (HF 2.03 - "Old Wound")
His first officer, Elizabeth Shelby, took temporary command of Excelsior, which was made permanent after Knapp successfully thwarted a Grey attack on the station by himself. He was then promoted to Commodore and Commanding Officer of Deep Space 12 by Nechayev herself, although she retained her position of Sector Commander.
Commander of Deep Space 12
Although Knapp sometimes finds it difficult being away from the action, he took the assignment in order to spend more time with his daughter, Traya, and develop their relationship, since he realized a starship was not the best environment for that. ("Worst Fears, Part 3") But Nechayev relies on his experience as a commander many a time, and he has commanded various missions on the Saratoga and Antietam in defense of the station and the Briar Patch itself. His relationship with Nechayev changes with his mood, but the two generally work well together, even though he has rubbed several people the wrong way, most notably President Vindenpawl of Vreijheid IV.
Admiral
Knapp was promoted to Admiral in 2382 during the Tholian War. He oversees the task forces assigned to Deep Space 12 during the length of that conflict and is in charge of planning for war operations in and near the Briar Patch. He also helped fortify the alliance between the major Alpha Quadrant powers who have forces located in the Briar Patch, to fight against Siroc's Tholian/Breen forces. Shortly after the kidnap of his daughter by Siroc, he left Starfleet to search for her, although the effort proved unsuccessful. He recruited Lieutenant Jenna McFarland to assist in his search, as well as Pelas, a Cardassian boy who inadvertently helped in Traya's kidnap.
After returning to Deep Space 12, Pelas was arrested by Starfleet authorities. Knapp learned that his daughter had been rescued from Siroc's clutches by personnel from the U.S.S. Helena, under command of Captain Tolian Naros.("The Center Cannot Hold") As Deep Space 12 was evacuated during a Tholian attack, Knapp released Pelas and gave him a ship, as well as the Helena's coordinates at the Grey Dyson Sphere, to find Traya.
With persuasion from McFarland, Knapp took command of a Federation/Grey hybrid ship, built by Cmdr. Will Martinez at the New Grey Research Facility, and managed to destroy the Grey released from fold space, when they ran out of Tholians and turned on DS12. When Knapp and his crew lost control of the hybrid ship, the Admiral ejected the bridge module to save the lives of his crew as the ship itself folded out of the Ba'ku system.
When the Briar Patch disappeared, following the destruction of the Grey and their Dyson Sphere, Knapp was finally reunited with his daughter. Six months later, Knapp attended the wedding of Lt. Cmdr. Ro Nevin and Lt. Cmdr. Corey Aster, and later sent the U.S.S. Excelsior to make contact with new races previously unknown in the Briar Patch. ("Its Hour Come Round At Last")
When the Archein invasion of the galaxy began, Romulan Proconsul Yeshva approached Knapp on DS12 for assistance in dealing with the threat. Knapp dispatched a slipstream-equipped probe to Andromeda to gather information on the Archeins' artificial wormhole. He later dispatched two ships to that distant galaxy to destroy the wormhole - the I.K.S. R'kag, and the USS Odyssey, under command of Captain T'Lek. The mission was successful, but the Odyssey did not return. ('Iliad')
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Production Notes
- This character's middle name is an homage to "Peter Quincy Taggart", the captain of the "NSEA Protector" in the film Galaxy Quest.
Appearances
Rear Admiral Knapp is played by David W. Dial in his appearances on Star Trek: Hidden Frontier, Star Trek: Odyssey and Star Trek: The Helena Chronicles.
| Series/Episode | Episode Title |
| HF 1.01 | "Enemy Unknown, Part 1" |
| HF 1.02 | "Enemy Unknown, Part 2" |
| HF 1.03 | "Enemy Unknown, Part 3" |
| HF 1.04 | "Two Hours" |
| HF 1.05 | "Perihelion" |
| HF 1.06 | "Echoes" |
| HF 2.01 | "Refugees" |
| HF 2.02 | "Yesterday's Excelsior" |
| HF 2.03 | "Old Wound" |
| HF 2.04 | "Great Starship Robbery" |
| HF 2.05 | "Encke" |
| HF 2.06 | "To The Stars" |
| HF 2.07 | "Fire In The Heart" |
| HF 2.08 | "Coward's Death" |
| HF 2.09 | "Worst Fears, Part 1" |
| HF 3.01 | "Worst Fears, Part 2" |
| HF 3.02 | "Worst Fears, Part 3" |
| HF 3.03 | "Heroes" |
| HF 3.05 | "Modus Operandi" |
| HF 3.06 | "Santa Q" |
| HF 3.08 | "Voyage of the Defiant" |
| HF 3.09 | "Hell's Gate, Part 1" |
| HF 4.02 | "Piracy of the Noble" |
| HF 4.04 | "Grave Matters" |
| HF 4.05 | "Crossroads" |
| HF 4.06 | "Entanglement, Part 1" |
| HF 5.01 | "Entanglement, Part 2" |
| HF 5.02 | "Imminent Danger" |
| HF 5.04 | "Security Counsel" |
| HF 5.06 | "The Battle is Joined" |
| HF 6.01 | "Countermeasures" |
| HF 6.02 | "Dancing in the Dark" |
| HF 6.04 | "Beachhead" |
| ODY 1.01 | "Iliad" |
| HC 1.01 | "Sanctuary Lost" |
| HC 1.02 | "Obsessions" |
References
Rear Admiral Knapp is also referred to in the following episodes:
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