BIOGRAPHY
Ralston
Species:	Human
Gender:	male
Born:	23rd century
Died:	2273
Affiliation:	Federation Starfleet
Career
Occupation:	security
Final Assignment:	USS Enterprise
Rank:	lieutenant
Insignia:

Ralston was a 23rd century Human man who served Starfleet as a security officer, assigned to Federation starship USS Enterprise in the 2270s.

Lieutenant Ralston was a member of a security detail that accompanied a landing party to Zeta Reticuli II, a planet with a civilization similar to that of ancient Egypt. When a statue of a sphinx began to move and attacked the landing party, Lieutenant Pavel Chekov ordered the security team to scatter and take cover, but Ralston said he could handle the creature. The sphinx immediately killed Ralston with beams of phased light from its eyes.

Because it was standard operating procedure to retrieve Starfleet-issue equipment from casualties, Dr. Leonard McCoy took Ralston's communicator. Commander Spock was later able to contact McCoy on Ralston's frequency after the mentally-controlled Captain Kirk destroyed the communicators of the other landing party members. (TOS comic: "We Are Dying, Egypt, Dying!")

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