Hadley

Lieutenant Hadley.

For the mirror universe counterpart, please see Hadley (mirror).

Hadley was a Starfleet officer aboard the Federation starship Enterprise between 2266 and 2269 during Captain Kirk's five-year mission. He was a shift navigator and helmsman, but also served on security detachments aboard that ship. When assigned to the bridge, he usually wore a command division gold uniform.

Hadley was referred to as "lieutenant" on multiple occasions, but sometimes he wore an ensign's uniform (no insignia). His gold costume included the full lieutenant braid up until TOS Season 3, except for his brief appearance in "The Naked Time". It might be possible he was a lieutenant junior grade in the anomalous appearances, as this situation occurred with several other lieutenants in TOS, but speculation also exists the officer might have been demoted or only temporarily promoted.

Before Hadley was a shift navigator and helmsman, he was a command division assistant to chief engineer Scott. In 2266 on stardate 1512.2, he was running in a corridor to report to Scott when the Enterprise went to red alert and engaged the First Federation. On stardate 1704.4, he assisted Scott when the Enterprise was trying to break away from planet Psi 2000. (TOS: "The Corbomite Maneuver", "The Naked Time")

2267 was the first time Hadley worked on the bridge, starting at the Environmental Systems Station. This was also the first time he temporarily manned the helm. On stardate 2125.7, after Kirk and Lieutenant Hikaru Sulu vanished from the bridge while they were briefly investigating a rogue planet composed of iron-silica, Hadley walked from the Environmental Systems Station down the steps and took the helm station after Lieutenant Karl Jaeger, Dr. Leonard McCoy and Lieutenant DeSalle beamed down to the planet to investigate and encountered the being known as Trelane. When Kirk, Sulu, Jaeger, McCoy and DeSalle returned from the surface, Hadley left the bridge, via the turbolift with Lieutenant Brent, Lieutenant Leslie and an unnamed engineering crewman. Hadley would not be on the bridge when Trelane suddenly appeared on the bridge a few minutes later. (TOS: "The Squire of Gothos")

The first time Hadley was stationed as a navigator was from stardate 2821.5 to 2823.1 when the shuttlecraft Galileo was lost in the Murasaki 312 quasar. This was also one of the few times when Hadley was seen laughing, when Spock wouldn't admit that the flare he used to draw attention to the Galileo was a purely emotional response. Hadley laughed with the rest of the bridge crew at Spock's non-committal of an answer. From stardate 3087.6 to 3088.7, in security red uniform, he was involved in the search for Lazarus. (TOS: "The Galileo Seven", "The Alternative Factor")

Hadley (far right), captured by Khan.

On stadate 3142.8, Hadley was on the bridge when Khan Noonien Singh took over the Enterprise; he passed out after the life support to the bridge was cut, and was seated in a prisoner's row with Leslie, Brent, and others, forced to watch Khan's murderous spectacle on the viewscreen. (TOS: "Space Seed")

Brent, Leslie, and Hadley were not mentioned as receiving commendations like Uhura, Thule, Harrison, Spinelli, Spock. It is possible that Kirk ran out of air before being able to list the entire bridge crew.

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Hadley (second from left), and the security team.

On stardate 3196.9, Hadley was wearing a red operations division uniform, serving on a security team ordered by Lieutenant Commander Giotto to hunt for the Horta, on Janus VI. (TOS: "The Devil in the Dark")

On stardate 3417.5, Hadley was assisting Dr. McCoy in helping to pack up and beam up the Omicron Ceti III colonist's possessions to have them relocate due to the deadly berthold rays when Lieutenant DeSalle introduced to everyone the pod plants. Just as with the rest of the crew, Hadley became infected with the spores and for the first and only time he mutinied and left the Enterprise. Hadley would return to duty on stardate 3417.7 once he and the rest of the crew were free of the spores influence. (TOS: "This Side of Paradise")

On stardate 3541.9, Hadley was working on the upper level of main engineering when Nomad burst in. On stardate 3615.4, Hadley was at navigation when Kirk ordered the whole crew to have tranquilizer's administered by hypospray to keep them calm when the Jack the Ripper entity took control of the Enterprise computer. Again Hadley was seen for only a second time laughing at Sulu's saying the entity sounded very gloomy. (TOS: "The Changeling", "Wolf in the Fold")

On stardate 4202.9, Hadley, again at navigation, usually one to not fall (unlike most of the bridge crew) during attacks, took an unusual fall from navigation when the Enterprise engaged the planet killer and it attacked back. Hadley fell from navigation towards the railing of the bridge going down on the floor stomach and head first. Hadley had to pick himself up by kneeling. (TOS: "The Doomsday Machine")

In 2268, Scott relied on Hadley to look up the meaning of the word heater in the ship's language banks. (TOS: "A Piece of the Action")

This was the only occasion in which Hadley was referred to by name.

On stardate 4525.6, Hadley allowed tribbles to nest on the helm station while he was manning the helm, not making Kirk happy one-bit. (TOS: "The Trouble with Tribbles"DS9: "Trials and Tribble-ations")

A yeoman, Hadley and Leslie on the bridge in 2268

On stardate 4657.5, Hadley was on the bridge at the helm when Kelvan Hanar transported himself onto the bridge of the Enterprise. Along with the rest of the bridge crew, Hadley was temporarily put into "frozen" and motionless stasis by Hanar. The Kelvan Milky Way Expedition were attempting to hijack the Enterprise so they could return to the Kelvan home world in the Andromeda Galaxy. On stardate 4658.9, Kelvan Drea neutralized Hadley, while he was sitting at Engineering Sub-Systems Checkout Station, into a porous dehydrated cuboctahedron solid, the size of a human fist, consisting of Hadley's essential chemical elements and that represented the "distilled" essence of Hadley's being, along with much of the rest of the crew because the Kelvans considered Hadley one of many non-essential personnel. Hadley was restored to normal when Kirk, Spock, McCoy and Scotty, the only four of the crew who were not neutralized, regained control of the ship. (TOS: "By Any Other Name")

Hadley, in the middle, as a porous dehydrated cuboctahedron solid

On stardate 4729.4, when Dr. Richard Daystrom suffered a nervous breakdown Hadley and Leslie took him off the bridge. (TOS: "The Ultimate Computer")

On stardate 5029.5, Hadley replaced Ensign Pavel Chekov at the navigation station when Tommy Starnes of the Starnes Exploration Party children, with mind-control 'powers' from Gorgan, planted a suggestion in Chekov, Security Chief Freeman and another Security Guard redshirt's brains, to go to Engineering to arrest Kirk and Spock on "orders" of Starfleet command. Hadley also fell under the influence of the mind-control "powers" of the Starnes Exploration Party children, although it is unclear what suggestion they planted in Hadley's brain, although one could assume, correctly, it was something similar to what was planted in Sulu's brain of impending danger to the Enterprise if the ship did not continue to where the children and Gorgan wanted to go, Marcus XII. Hadley recovered from the mind-control and obeyed Kirk's orders once the children were freed from the influence of Gorgan. (TOS: "And the Children Shall Lead")

In late 2268 on stardate 5431.4, Hadley was present on the bridge during the hunt for Spock's stolen brain. (TOS: "Spock's Brain")

Hadley began wearing no rank insignia in this episode.

Hadley enjoyed socializing with visitors aboard the ship, like Ambassador Petri. (TOS: "Elaan of Troyius")

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Appendices

Appearances

• TOS:
  • "The Corbomite Maneuver"
  • "The Man Trap"
  • "The Naked Time"
  • "Charlie X"
  • "The Galileo Seven"
  • "Court Martial"
  • "The Menagerie, Part I"
  • "Shore Leave"
  • "The Squire of Gothos"
  • "Arena"
  • "The Alternative Factor"
  • "Tomorrow is Yesterday"
  • "The Return of the Archons"
  • "A Taste of Armageddon"
  • "Space Seed"
  • "This Side of Paradise"
  • "The Devil in the Dark"
  • "The City on the Edge of Forever"
  • "Operation -- Annihilate!"
  • "Catspaw"
  • "Metamorphosis" (stock footage)
  • "Friday's Child"
  • "Who Mourns for Adonais?"
  • "Amok Time"
  • "The Doomsday Machine"
  • "Wolf in the Fold"
  • "The Changeling"
  • "The Apple"
  • "Mirror, Mirror"
  • "The Trouble with Tribbles"
  • "Bread and Circuses"
  • "Journey to Babel"
  • "A Private Little War"
  • "The Gamesters of Triskelion"
  • "Obsession"
  • "The Immunity Syndrome"
  • "A Piece of the Action"
  • "By Any Other Name"
  • "Return to Tomorrow"
  • "Patterns of Force"
  • "The Ultimate Computer"
  • "The Omega Glory"
  • "Assignment: Earth"
  • "Spectre of the Gun"
  • "Elaan of Troyius"
  • "The Paradise Syndrome"
  • "And the Children Shall Lead"
  • "Spock's Brain"
  • "Is There in Truth No Beauty?"
  • "The Empath"
  • "The Tholian Web"
  • "Plato's Stepchildren"
  • "Wink of an Eye"
  • "That Which Survives"
  • "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield"
  • "Whom Gods Destroy"
  • "The Lights of Zetar"
  • "The Cloud Minders" (stock footage)
  • "The Way to Eden"
  • "Requiem for Methuselah"
  • "The Savage Curtain"
  • "Turnabout Intruder" (stock footage)
• DS9:
  • "Trials and Tribble-ations" (archive footage)

Background information

Hadley was played by William Blackburn, a regular extra on TOS. He was not named until "A Piece of the Action", when he was called Hadley (while manning the science station in a gold command division tunic). He appeared many times on the original series as this Starfleet officer, the most times of any extra. In wide shots of the Enterprise bridge, Hadley usually appeared, since many of the angle shots used were reuses of master shots filmed while he was on the set of TOS Season 1. (Sometimes, in a continuity gaffe, the back of Hadley's head would appear in wide shots, even though Chekov was supposedly sitting there, in later seasons). He has lieutenant rank when he is in gold, but ensign when in red uniform. Starting with season 3, he was always an ensign, but still often seen wearing lieutenant braid in stock footage.

Apocrypha

Hadley was mentioned in Kevin Lauderdale's short story "Devices and Desires" from the anthology Constellations. In the story, Spock was contemplating a transfer from the Enterprise to a top secret Starfleet science station and told Kirk that Lieutenant Hadley would make an "excellent" science officer.

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