Nathan Samuels
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Nathan Samuels was a minister in the government of United Earth in the mid-22nd century.
In 2155, Samuels presided over discussions in San Francisco between delegates from several planets regarding membership within a "Coalition of Planets". Samuels' desire to create an alliance of worlds stemmed from the Xindi attack of 2153, wherein seven million Humans were killed; Samuels believed, following the attack, that Earth's survival depended upon creating alliances with other worlds. Samuels' goal proved far more fruitful than anyone could have expected, and helped to lay the groundwork for what would ultimately become the United Federation of Planets in 2161.
In his late teens, Samuels's father died in a cargo ship accident. He joined Terra Prime at age eighteen because he blamed the cargo ship's Denobulan pilot and felt anger towards all alien species. However, Samuels later quit the group.
When approached by Captain Archer during the treaty discussions in 2155, Samuels refused to assist the captain, who had requested a case file on John Frederick Paxton and Terra Prime. Archer informed Samuels that he was aware of the minister's past. When confronted with this, Samuels got the file Archer needed.
Samuels underestimated Archer's investigative skills, and conspicuously failed to mention the Enterprise's contributions to the process of forming an interspecies alliance. However, after a failed attempt by the Terra Prime organization to rid the Earth and the Sol system of alien influence, Samuels amended his error, allowing Archer to convince the other ambassadors to continue discussions for an alliance with Earth. (ENT: "Demons", "Terra Prime")
[edit] Apocrypha
In the non-canonical Star Trek: Enterprise novels published by Pocket Books, Samuels is established to be the United Earth Prime Minister.
[edit] External link
- Nathan Samuels at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works
