Welcome back to Character Insight! This week, we review Lieutenant Gabler, a recurring character from The Animated Series.
Gabler is an operations division officer serving aboard Kirk's Enterprise on the five year mission. Gabler is one of the best engineers in Scotty's department, but he also spends time as a security officer. In other words, he gets the most bang for his buck out of the red uniform he wears.
We typically see Gabler serving as an engineering lead when Scotty is on another part of the ship or on another mission. One example of this is in the episode One of Our Planets is Missing, where Gabler must supervise opening a series of doors at the rear of the nacelle to allow Scotty and Kirk to carry a force field box with an antimatter villus into the nacelle. He's also seen receiving orders to operate ship systems in episodes like The Survivor, and Once Upon a Planet, where this quote comes from.
QUOTE (from Once Upon a Planet)
Scotty: Keep trying Lieutenant. Bridge to engineering deck...Gabler, what's the problem down there? We have zero G's on the bridge.
Gabler: I know that sir. The trouble seems to be in the gravity control computer. But the bay door is jammed and I can't get to it.
Other than the 5 appearances in TAS, Lieutenant Gabler is not seen much in Star Trek, with very limited mentions in books and other stories. He is given the first name Frank in one short-story adaptation.
As he is a human officer unlike the other regular recurring characters added in this series, there is likely no compelling reason to re-visit him or add him in, although I would not be surprised to see an Easter Egg about this type of character in a show like Discovery, considering the easter eggs dropped so far in Season 1.
Gabler was another of many characters voiced by James Doohan in this series.
Happy New Year, and I hope the holiday season treated everyone well as we head into a new batch of Discovery episodes.
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