Children
Children's Journey
A timeline through the narrative
Affiliation
Across the Seasons
How this character reads at season scale
A cohort of normal civilian children residing aboard the USS Enterprise, serving as the peer group and social baseline for newly arrived Bringloidi youngsters. They are not genetically engineered and represent the typical human child population of the ship, used to enforce educational and social norms.
A largely anonymous collective of civilian schoolchildren who operate as a social cohort and recurring narrative touchstone. In earlier episodes their collective tragedy (the shuttlebus massacre) becomes a political fulcrum; in the current episode they appear as the classroom peer group into which Lal is initially placed. Their normative social behavior both highlights Lal's acute social alienation and propels Data's emergent parental responsibilities. They function less as individualized characters than as a social mirror and emotional catalyst within the series' moral and institutional conflicts.
Unnamed civilian children aboard the USS Enterprise-D who form the school's student body. They cluster in the schoolroom during crises, exhibiting communal fear that amplifies tension. Gathered with peers like Alexander Rozhenko, they wait out threats under adult supervision from figures like Young Keiko. Their vulnerability highlights risks to non-combatants and contrasts with the transformed senior crew. Includes references to 'other children' and 'several N.D. Children' in the same narrative context. Communal and reactive, they embody shipboard family life amid Starfleet dangers.
A specific group of young students on Barkon IV (from Star Trek: Discovery, S1E15, 'The War Without, The War Within') who attend lessons under the elder Talur in the town square. Their education focuses on classical elements (fire, rock, sky, water) and reflects Barkon IV’s pre-warp, agrarian society. They are not interchangeable with Bajoran children, who hail from a different planet with a distinct cultural and technological history.