A Starfleet admiral who in 2268 orders Kirk to give Undersecretary Nilz Baris every assistance in protecting the grain shipment held at Deep Space Station K-7.
Admiral Fitzpatrick appears in the second-season episode The Trouble with Tribbles. Kirk has reached K-7 in a temper, having answered a priority one distress call only to find that Baris wants guards put on some storage bins.
Fitzpatrick calls shortly afterwards to make matters clear. The quadrotriticale is the key to the Federation's claim on Sherman's Planet, which is disputed with the Klingons under the Organian Peace Treaty, and the grain must reach it safely. Kirk is to regard the project and Baris's wishes as his responsibility.
The order leaves Kirk stuck at the station while tribbles and Klingons multiply around him. Fitzpatrick was played by Ed Reimers.