Editing Reginald Barclay (section)

==Character history==
===Canon===
In the [[Star Trek canon|''Star Trek'' canon]], Barclay has appeared in twelve discrete productions from 1990 to 2001.

====Lieutenant, junior grade====
In his inaugural appearance in ''The Next Generation''{{'}}s [[Star Trek: The Next Generation season 3|third season]] episode "[[Hollow Pursuits]]", Lieutenant Junior Grade Barclay is addicted to using the holodeck and recreates the crew of the [[USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D)|''Enterprise''-D]] on the [[holodeck]] with attributes and in settings which allow him to more easily interact with them. Crewmembers find him difficult to work with, and Wesley calls him "Broccoli" behind his back.<ref name="1990-04-30 Hollow Pursuits" /> Counselor [[Deanna Troi]] ([[Marina Sirtis]]) and [[Guinan (Star Trek)|Guinan]] ([[Whoopi Goldberg]]) both support Barclay in escaping to his fantasies, though Troi is annoyed to later find herself recreated as "the Goddess of Empathy",<ref name="1990-04-30 Hollow Pursuits" /> in what Dr. Lynne Joyrich&mdash;[[Brown University]] professor of modern culture and media<ref name="Brown: Joyrich" />&mdash;described as "a clear sexual invitation".<ref name="1996 Cinema Journal" />  Despite his embarrassment, Barclay saves the ''Enterprise'', "gaining both [[self-confidence]] and a newfound respect from his peers as a result."<ref name="1991-09 official TNG mag" />

For [[Star Trek: The Next Generation season 4|the fourth season]], bringing back Barclay was on [[executive producer]] [[Michael Piller]]'s to-do list, but they were having trouble finding a vehicle for the character; they did not want to return to the well again for the "nervous chap in the holodeck".  [[Joe Menosky]] wrote "[[The Nth Degree (Star Trek: The Next Generation)|The Nth Degree]]" about a crew member who becomes [[superintelligence|superintelligent]], and it was suggested that they could slot Barclay into that role.<ref name="1995 Captains' Logs: Season Four" /><ref>{{cite magazine |title=Interview: Joe Menosky |url=https://archive.org/details/startrekmagazine03unse_6/page/87/mode/1up |magazine=Star Trek the Magazine 8 Collector's Edition 2 of 2 |pages=87, 88 |quote=The essence of Barclay is that he is incompetent at almost everything he tries to do, so I wondered what would happen if he started to become MORE competent - to excel beyond his own fantasies.}}</ref> Barclay is affected by an [[extraterrestrial life|alien]] [[space probe]] which induces the superintelligence.  Under the influence of the probe, he modifies the ship extensively and propels it to the center of the [[Milky Way]].  After losing his heightened intelligence, Barclay explains that it was the probe's creators who impelled his actions as a way of meeting new species.<ref name="1991-04-01 Nth Degree" />

Barclay returns in the [[Star Trek: The Next Generation season 6|season six]] episode "[[Realm of Fear]]".  It is revealed that Barclay is [[phobia|phobic]] about using the [[transporter (Star Trek)|transporter]], an aspect of the character that was derived from episode writer [[Brannon Braga]]'s own [[fear of flying]].  After transporting back from another vessel (the USS ''Yosemite''), Barclay insists he sees creatures in the matter stream.  Overcoming his fears, Barclay is repeatedly transported until he grabs hold of one of the creatures which turns out to be a missing crew member from the ''Yosemite''.<ref name="1995 Captains' Logs: Season Six" />

In [[Star Trek: The Next Generation season 2|the second season]]'s "[[Elementary, Dear Data]]", a troublemaking [[sentience|self-aware]] holoprogram of [[Professor Moriarty]] ([[Daniel Davis (actor)|Daniel Davis]]) was accidentally created and then stored in long-term memory at the end of the episode.  That episode's sequel, season six's "[[Ship in a Bottle (Star Trek: The Next Generation)|Ship in a Bottle]]", finds Barclay inadvertently releasing Moriarty, who wrests control of the ''Enterprise'' by trapping Picard, Data, and Barclay inside nested holodecks.  Barclay was included because it was initially felt that the episode needed a character ignorant of season two events.  Though this characteristic was ultimately unnecessary, episode writer [[René Echevarria]] opined that only Barclay could have pulled off the episode's final moment where Barclay momentarily questions whether he was still in a [[simulated reality]].<ref name="1992 STTNG Companion" />

[[Star Trek: The Next Generation season 7|Season seven]]'s "[[Genesis (Star Trek: The Next Generation)|Genesis]]" was Barclay's last episodic appearance on ''The Next Generation''.  After Barclay comes down with the Urodelan flu, the attempted cure accidentally becomes a virus, spreading among and [[devolution (biology)|devolving]] the crew.  Episode writer Brannon Braga described choosing to devolve Barclay into a [[spider]] as the natural choice: "I just thought it would be fun to make Barclay a spider because I can't imagine anything more awful to become.  It just seemed natural since he's a kind of nervous and wiry guy, that maybe he would have had more [[arachnid]] ancestors than" other crewmembers.<ref name="1995 Captains' Logs: Season Seven" />  After Captain [[Jean-Luc Picard]] ([[Patrick Stewart]]) and [[Data (Star Trek)|Data]] ([[Brent Spiner]]) cure the afflicted, Doctor [[Beverly Crusher]] ([[Gates McFadden]]) names the virus "Barclay's Protomorphosis Syndrome".<ref name="1994-03-19 Genesis" />

Schultz next appeared as Barclay in ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]''{{'s}} [[Star Trek: Voyager season 2|second season]] episode "[[Projections (Star Trek: Voyager)|Projections]]".  Originally, the [[guest appearance|guest star]] was going to be ''The Next Generation''{{'s}} [[LeVar Burton]] as [[Geordi La Forge]], but episode writer Brannon Braga decided it would be much more fun to couple Barclay with [[The Doctor (Star Trek: Voyager)|the Doctor]] ([[Robert Picardo]]), holographic software called the [[Emergency Medical Hologram]] (EMH).  In "Projections", Barclay is a [[delusion]] of the Doctor's program, trying to convince the Doctor that he was not a [[hologram]] but instead a flesh-and-blood being running a simulation of the {{USS|Voyager|Star Trek|2}} and its crew.<ref name="1995 Captains' Logs Supplemental: VOY Season Two" />  According to the ''Star Trek: Voyager Companion'', Barclay was a part of the original engineering team at the Jupiter Station Holoprogramming Center that developed the [[Emergency Medical Hologram]] (EMH), and that Barclay himself was in charge of testing the program's [[social skills]].  The ''Companion'' further infers that Barclay took a leave of absence from the [[Starship Enterprise|''Enterprise'']] to work on the EMH because the character is aboard the [[USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-E)|''Enterprise''-E]] in the 1996 film, ''[[Star Trek: First Contact]]''.<ref name="2003-05 VOY Companion" />

Barclay was not originally supposed to be in the feature film ''[[Star Trek: First Contact]]''; it was [[film director|director]] [[Jonathan Frakes]] who suggested including Barclay as opposed to "a new lieutenant character".  Schultz was contacted on a Tuesday, asked if he could come in that Friday, and the actor said, "Sure."<ref name="2001 TV Zone" />  In his only scene, Barclay uses an interaction with La Forge as an excuse to meet [[Zefram Cochrane]] ([[James Cromwell]]) and shake his hand.<ref name="1996-11-22 Star Trek: First Contact" />

====Lieutenant====
Following the events of ''First Contact'', in ''Star Trek: Voyager''{{'s}} [[Star Trek: Voyager season 6|sixth season]] episode "[[Pathfinder (Star Trek: Voyager)|Pathfinder]]", now-[[Star Trek ranks|Lieutenant]] Barclay has been stationed on [[Earth]] for two years.  He is assigned to [[Starfleet]] Communications' Pathfinder Project, the mission of which is reestablishing contact with the lost {{USS|Voyager|Star Trek|6}}.  After becoming obsessed with his holographic recreation of the ''Voyager'' and her crew, Barclay seeks counseling with the visiting Deanna Troi.  Despite her urgings, Barclay disobeys orders from his supervisor ([[Richard McGonagle]]) to test an unproven theory.  After being caught by security officers, Barclay's theory pans out, and all is forgiven as Starfleet briefly communicates with ''Voyager'' personnel for the first time since the [[Star Trek: Voyager season 4|fourth season]] episode "[[Message in a Bottle (Star Trek: Voyager)|Message in a Bottle]]".<ref name="1999-12-01 Pathfinder" />

Barclay returns to the Jupiter Station Holoprogramming Center in "[[Life Line (Star Trek: Voyager)|Life Line]]" to liaise between the Doctor and his programmer, Lewis Zimmerman (also portrayed by [[Robert Picardo]]).  Barclay again enlists Counselor Troi's help to convince Zimmerman to allow the Doctor to treat him for an as-yet untreatable illness; Zimmerman is dismissive of the Doctor's abilities and expertise because that generation of the EMH software was decommissioned by [[Starfleet]] as unfit.  When psychotherapy fails, Barclay [[sabotage]]s the Doctor's program to force Zimmerman to come to terms with his creation; though Zimmerman uncovers Barclay's subterfuge, he successfully repairs the holoprogram and consents to treatment.<ref name="2000-05-10 Life Line" />

Prior to the events of [[Star Trek: Voyager season 7|season seven]]'s "[[Inside Man (Star Trek: Voyager)|Inside Man]]", Barclay has been tinkering with holography again, developing interactive holograms of himself to send to the ''Voyager''.  After it appears that the holographic program has failed to reach ''Voyager'' for a second month in a row, Barclay intrudes on Troi's vacation to confide in her that he believes his ex-[[girlfriend]] ([[Sharisse Baker-Bernard]]) may have something to do with it.  It is uncovered that Barclay was a patsy and that [[Ferengi]] have commandeered his holoprogram to lead the ''Voyager'' to its doom so that they can profit from [[Seven of Nine]]'s ([[Jeri Ryan]]) [[Borg (Star Trek)|Borg]] technology.  Barclay tricks the Ferengi in the guise of his hologram and defuses the situation.<ref name="2000-11-08 Inside Man" />

Schultz appears as Barclay again in the ''Voyager'' episode "[[Author, Author (Star Trek: Voyager)|Author, Author]]".  With the help of [[Harry Kim (Star Trek)|Harry Kim]] ([[Garrett Wang]]) and Seven of Nine, Barclay achieves live communication between Earth and the ''Voyager'' for eleven minutes a day.  Later, Barclay alerts [[Owen Paris|Admiral Paris]] ([[Richard Herd]]) to the distribution of the Doctor's holonovel.<ref name="2001-04-18 Author, Author" />

In the ''Star Trek: Voyager'' [[series finale]] "[[Endgame (Star Trek: Voyager)|Endgame]]", Schultz appears as Barclay both in the series' future ([[25th century|2404]]) and in the series' present ([[24th century|2378]]).  In the future he is [[Star Trek ranks|Commander]] Barclay, and a [[lecturer]] at [[Starfleet Academy]] who provides an aged [[Kathryn Janeway|Admiral Janeway]] ([[Kate Mulgrew]]) with data and a [[shuttlecraft (Star Trek)|shuttlecraft]] she will need to [[time travel|travel back in time]].  In this future, Barclay has overcome his [[stuttering]] except when under stress.  In the present, Barclay is present alongside Admiral Paris at Starfleet Communications when the ''Voyager'' returns home to Earth.<ref name="2001-05-23 Endgame" />

===Non-canon appearances===
Barclay also appears in several officially-licensed, [[Star Trek canon|non-canon]], [[List of Star Trek novels|''Star Trek'' novels]], [[e-book]]s, [[short story|short stories]], and [[Star Trek (comics)|comics]]:

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====''Star Trek''====
* "[[Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (short story collection)|Doctors Three]]" by Charles Skaggs (<!-- May -->1999)

====''Star Trek: The Next Generation''====
* "[[List of comic books based on Star Trek: The Next Generation#Volume 2|The Way of the Warrior]]" by [[Michael Jan Friedman]] (<!-- July -->1992)
* ''[[Imzadi]]'' by [[Peter David]] (<!-- August -->1992)
* [[Dark Mirror (Star Trek novel)|''Dark Mirror'']] by [[Diane Duane]] (<!-- December -->1993)
* [[List of Star Trek novels#The Next Generation (1988–2021)|''Here There Be Dragons'']] by [[John Peel (writer)|John Peel]] (<!-- December -->1993)
* [[List of Star Trek novels#The Next Generation (1988–2021)|''Sins of Commission'']] by Susan Wright (<!-- March -->1994)
* ''[[Q-Squared]]'' by [[Peter David]] (<!-- July -->1994)
* [[List of Star Trek novels#The Next Generation (1988–2021)|''Requiem'']] by Michael Jan Friedman and Kevin Ryan (<!-- October -->1994)
* "[[List of comic books based on Star Trek: The Next Generation#Volume 2|Suspect]]" by Michael Jan Friedman (<!-- October -->1995)
* [[List of Star Trek novels#The Next Generation (1988–2021)|''Crossover'']] by Michael Jan Friedman (<!-- December -->1995)
* [[List of Star Trek novels#The Next Generation (1988–2021)|''Infiltrator'']] by W.R. Thompson (<!-- September -->1996)
* [[List of Star Trek novels#The Next Generation (1988–2021)|''The Death of Princes'']] by John Peel (<!-- no month -->1997)
* [[Planet X (Star Trek)|''Planet X'']] by Michael Jan Friedman (<!-- no month -->1998)
* [[List of Star Trek novels#The Next Generation (1988–2021)|''The Best and the Brightest'']] by Susan Wright (<!-- February -->1998)
* "[[Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (short story collection)|The Naked Truth]]" by Jerry M. Wolfe (<!-- July -->1998)
* "[[Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (short story collection)|See Spot Run]]" by Kathy Oltion (<!-- July -->1998)
* "[[Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (short story collection)|What Went Through Data's Mind 0.68 Seconds Before the Satellite Hit]]" by Dylan Otto Krider (<!-- July -->1998)
* [[Star Trek: The Q Continuum|''Q-Space'']] by [[Greg Cox (writer)|Greg Cox]] (<!-- August-->1998)
* "[[Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (short story collection)|Calculated Risk]]" by Christina F. York (<!-- May -->1999)
* [[List of Star Trek novels#The Next Generation (1988–2021)|''Gemworld'']] by [[John Vornholt]] (<!-- February -->2000)
* "[[Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (short story collection)|Out of the Box, Thinking]]" by Jerry M. Wolfe (<!-- May -->2000)
* [[List of comic books based on Star Trek: The Next Generation|''The Killing Shadows'']] (November 2000 – February 2001)
* [[List of Star Trek novels#The Next Generation (1988–2021)|''Tooth and Claw'']] by Doranna Durgin (<!-- February -->2001)
* [[Rogue (Star Trek)|''Rogue'']] by Michael A. Martin and [[Andy Mangels]] (<!-- June -->2001)
* ''[[Immortal Coil]]'' by Jeffrey Lang (<!-- February -->2002)
* "[[List of Star Trek novels#The Next Generation (1988–2021)|Thinking of You]]" by Greg Cox (<!-- October -->2007)
* [[List of Star Trek novels#E-books|''The Oppressor's Wrong'']] by Phaedra M. Weldon (<!-- November -->2007)
* [[List of Star Trek novels#E-books|''That Sleep of Death'']] by Terri Osborne (<!-- January -->2008)
* "[[List of comic books based on Star Trek: The Next Generation|Valued Intelligence]]" by Scott & David Tipton (<!-- January -->2008)
* [[List of Star Trek novels#The Next Generation (1988–2021)|''Indistinguishable from Magic'']] by [[David A. McIntee]] (2011)
* [[List of Star Trek novels#The Next Generation (1988–2021)|''The Light Fantastic'']] by Jeffrey Lang (2014)

====''Star Trek: Voyager''====
* [[List of Star Trek: Voyager novels#Relaunch novels|''Homecoming'']] by [[Christie Golden]] (<!-- June -->2003)
* [[List of Star Trek: Voyager novels#Relaunch novels|''The Farther Shore'']] by Christie Golden (<!-- July -->2003)
* [[List of Star Trek: Voyager novels#Relaunch novels|''Full Circle'']] by Kirsten Beyer (<!-- April -->2009)
* [[List of Star Trek: Voyager novels#Relaunch novels|''Unworthy'']] by Kirsten Beyer (<!-- October -->2009)
* [[List of Star Trek: Voyager novels#Relaunch novels|''Children of the Storm'']] by Kirsten Beyer (<!-- June -->2011)
* [[List of Star Trek: Voyager novels#Relaunch novels|''The Eternal Tide'']] by Kirsten Beyer (<!-- August -->2012)
* [[List of Star Trek: Voyager novels#Relaunch novels|''Protectors'']] by Kirsten Beyer (<!-- January -->2014)
* [[List of Star Trek: Voyager novels#Relaunch novels|''Acts of Contrition'']] by Kirsten Beyer (<!-- September -->2014)
* [[List of Star Trek: Voyager novels#Relaunch novels|''Atonement'']] by Kirsten Beyer (<!-- August -->2015)
* [[List of Star Trek: Voyager novels#Relaunch novels|''A Pocket Full of Lies'']] by Kirsten Beyer (<!-- January -->2016)
* [[List of Star Trek: Voyager novels#Relaunch novels|''Architects of Infinity'']] by Kirsten Beyer (<!-- 27 March -->2018)
* [[List of Star Trek: Voyager novels#Relaunch novels|''To Lose the Earth'']] by Kirsten Beyer (2018)

====''Starfleet Corps of Engineers''====
* [[List of Star Trek novels#Corps of Engineers (2000–2010)|''Enigma Ship'']] by [[J. Steven York]] and Christina F. York (2002)
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Barclay also appears in the [[list of Star Trek games#Video games|''Star Trek'' video game]] ''[[Star Trek: Elite Force II]]'' (2003), where he is voiced by Schultz.<ref name="Metacritic: Star Trek: Elite Force II" />