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Starfleet Career Summary
2263 – As ensign, took first posting on U.S.S. Enterprise under Capt.
James T. Kirk as navigator 2269 – Promoted to lieutenant, named security chief to Capt. Will Decker on refit of Enterprise
2277 – Assigned to U.S.S. Reliant under Capt. Clark Terrell
2285 – As commander and Reliant First Officer, witnessed Genesis
incident and captain's death
2286 – Charged and cleared of theft of Enterprise a year earlier with
fellow officers
Chekov was the navigator on the original U.S.S. Enterprise under the
command of James T. Kirk. An only child, his youthful career was so full
of brash pronouncements of Russian ethnic pride and accomplishments he
became a good-natured joke among his superiors.
Although he was always a promising officer with a career to bear it out,
the young Chekov was prone to hot-heated actions and romantic attachments. While attending Starfleet Academy his involvement with fellow cadet Irina Galliulin broke off when she dropped out of the
service before graduation in disdain for its structure. Years later they
met again when she and other Eden-seekers with Dr. Sevrin were aboard.
Following the end of his first five-year mission, Chekov was promoted to
lieutenant when he was assigned as security chief aboard the refit
U.S.S. Enterprise. Assigned to the U.S.S. Reliant in 2377 and promoted
to commander within eight years of that, he was first officer to the
ill-fated Captain Clark Terrell during the Genesis Project incident and
Khan Singh's grab for it. For the next few years he remained one of
Kirk's trusted officers and stood with the group in the theft of the
Enterprise to refuse Spock's body and katra, and then faced the UFP
Council when those charges were dropped.
Chekov suffered serious wounds when time-traveling to 1986 during an
attempted escape from the U.S.S. Enterprise naval aircraft carrier when
suspected of being a Soviet spy of the time. He would have died if left
to contemporary medicine, but was saved thanks to McCoy and went on
to help secure the Khitomer Peace Accords — followed shortly by his
shocked witness to Kirk's apparent death at the christening of the
newest U.S.S. Enterprise, the NCC-1701-B.
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