RIVERSIDE

Before there was Captain James T. Kirk and the famed starship Enterprise NCC-1701, there was Captain Jonathan Archer and the starship Enterprise NX-01.

Connor Trinneer and Dominic Keating, who played major characters on the prequel TV show, “Star Trek: Enterprise,” will be the featured stars in this year’s Trek Fest 40 festival, to be held June 26 through 28 in Riverside.

Trinneer, an American actor from Washington who played Commander Trip Tucker in the TV series that ran for four years beginning in 2001, was a young brash officer and chief engineer (think: Scotty, but 100 years before Scotty) who was the first male Starfleet officer to become, well, pregnant.

Keating, a British actor, played Lieutenant Malcolm Reed, a Brit who was the Enterprise’s armor officer and a friend of Tucker.

“We can travel faster than the speed of light,” Reed once said to the ship’s medical officer during a particularly ill day. “You’d think we could find a cure for the common cold.”

Trinneer and Keating will be among the featured guests in the Saturday, June 28 parade along Highway 22 in Riverside.

Also expected to appear, Riverside Area Community Club President Travis Riggan told The News, is Wyatt Weed, a visual effects artist and actor from St. Louis who appeared as a Rutian police officer in “Star Trek: The Next Generation.”

A full schedule of Trek Fest events has not yet been finalized, but entertainment events will be held June 26 through 28, mostly at Hall Park and also at the Voyage Home Museum.

Trinneer played college football at Pacific Lutheran University and obtained a master’s degree in Fine Arts from the University of Missouri-Kansas City. He also appeared “Stargate Atlantis,” “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles” and TV guest-starring roles in “One Life to Live,” “Sliders” and “Touched by an Angel.”

Trinneer and Keating were co-hosts of a podcast, “The Shuttlepod Show,” from 2022 to 2024.

Oh, about that pregnancy, which came after Commander Tucker visited an alien ship.

“I’m the chief engineer,” Tucker, Trinneer’s character, said on the episode, Unexpected. “I spent years earning that position. I never had any intention of becoming a working mother.”

No, Trip didn’t give birth although he did grow a nipple on his arm.