A boy aboard the Enterprise in Brothers whose practical joke frightens his younger brother Willie into hiding and eating a parasite-infested fruit that leaves him gravely ill.
Jake Potts is a child living on the Enterprise in 2367 while his parents are away on sabbatical. He appears in the fourth-season episode Brothers.
During a game he tricks his younger brother Willie into believing that Willie has killed him. The terrified boy runs off and eats the fruit of a cove palm, which carries dangerous parasites. Willie has to be kept in isolation, and can only be cured at a starbase.
That journey is interrupted when Data, answering a signal from Noonien Soong, takes over the ship. A subdued Jake is made to face what his joke has caused, and Beverly Crusher encourages the brothers to talk through the quarantine barrier. Willie forgives him, and the Enterprise reaches the starbase in time.