Lieutenant Patten was a Starfleet officer who served as a security officer aboard the USS Enterprise in the 2260s.

In 2268, Patten took part in the Board of Inquiry convened aboard the Enterprise to review the charges of misconduct against Ensign Pavel Chekov while he was infected by the Alnathian jewel. (TOS novel: The Klingon Gambit)

USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) security & tactical personnel
under Robert April	F.D. Reed	under Christopher Pike	Bryce • Collins • Endel • Hardin • Orloff • D. Reed • Ross • Smith • Takahara • Tuval • Valdini
under James T. Kirk (first five-year mission)	Abrams • al Auriga • al-Baslama • Alan • Ames • Anderson • Anderson's impostor • Apple • Archer • Aristeides • Arrunja • Atete • Autry • Bailey • Bardoli • Baxter • Beason • Beltre • Berengaria • Boggs • Borido • Bounds • Brennan • Brentano • Brickston • Buchert • Butterfield • Carlisle • Carlucci • Carver • Chavez • Chekov • Chevalier • Ching • Collier • Collins • Compton • Corcoran • Cordova • Creighton • Cruz • Darnell • Davison • Davoff • DeCamp • DeCastro • Devereaux • Dickerson • Digard • Doyle • Dunhill • Endercott • Esswein • Evans • Everts • Ferris • Fields • Fitzgerald • Freeman • Flynn • Franklin • Friedman • Fuller • Gabler • Gallagher • Galloway • Garrovick • Gary • Gemas • Giotto • Gomez • Grant • Hacker • Hadley • Hallie • Hanashiro • Harrison • Hasmid • Hendorff • Herring • Hevelin • Hilambo • Hixon • Hrolfson • Huff • Inciviglia • Jakobs • Jameson • Jamison • Johnson • Johnstone • Josephs • Kaplan • A. Kaplan • Kasuki • Kelly • Kellum • Lamia • Lemli • Leskanich • Leslie • Lewis • Lindenbaum • Lindsay • Ling • Lopez • Lowry • Mallory • Manning • Marple • Masaryk • Masters • Mathews • Matthews • McGaren • Montgomery • Meyers • Michaels • Mocre • Moore • Mosley • Nairobi • Namura • Ndugu • Neal • Nelson • Neon • Nguyen • Nored • O'Herlihy • O'Hyr • Olag • Olaus • O'Neill • Onorax • Ordover • Organa • Osborne • O'Shay • Oyama • Paikert • Patten • Pauli • Phillips • Ragsdale • Rainer • Rayburn • Reems • Reichert • Rivera • Rizzo • Robinson • Rowe • Sanders • Schang • Shanti • Shea • Sheckley • Shimada • Silverman • Snnanagfashtalli • Spencer • Stanger • Steib • Steinberg • Stragey • Suarez • Swensen • Tamura • Tanka • Thomas • Thorton • Timmons • Tomson • Trancas • Trucco • Tuan • Ush • Valdini • van Dreenan • Van Pelt • Vinci • Vorozh • Wein • Wheeler • Williams • Wilson • Wodsworth • Wolfman • Wood • Worsley
subsequent missions under Kirk & Spock	Aragonés • Arrunja • Anderson • Barnes • Barrasso • Bergstresser • Byrnes • Carver • Chavez • Chekov • th'Clane • Coffey • Collins • Corey • Davidson • Dobius • Emigh • Estano • Fox • Friedman • Galloway • Howard • Hrdina • Jaffe • Jagr • Kelowitz • Keth • Kinitz • Lemieux • Leno • Markson • Matlock • Mendoza • Merlino • Mosley • Mullen • Murphy • Nizhoni • Ohara • Padilla • Paek • Pearson • Perez • Pfeiffer • Phillips • Mark Publicker • Pulaski • Ralston • Ramirez • Randall • Recchi • Richardson • R'leez • Robinson • Samuelsson • Santana • Sternbach • St. John • Sweeny • Tanka • Tate • Tenzing • Tiilson • Tocchet • Trottier • Vlastikovich • Wagner • Worene • Workman
see also: administrative personnel • communications personnel • engineering personnel • medical personnel • pilots & flight control personnel • sciences personnel • senior staff • unnamed