A Starfleet ensign who operates the transporter aboard the Enterprise-D during the investigation of Tarchannen III and the search for the transformed Geordi La Forge.
Ensign Hedrick is a junior officer of the USS Enterprise-D who appears in the fourth-season episode Identity Crisis, set in 2367.
Hedrick is on transporter duty while the ship investigates why the veterans of a five-year-old USS Victory away mission are deserting their posts and returning to Tarchannen III. The episode's crisis comes when La Forge, himself changing into one of the planet's native lifeforms and all but invisible to sensors, slips away from the ship and beams down to the surface.
Hedrick is one of several minor crew members, like the many relief officers seen at the transporter console when Miles O'Brien is absent, who appear once and are not seen again.