Character Star Trek: Enterprise · 2154

Jane Taylor

Engineering crewman killed in the Xindi attack

A member of Trip Tucker's engineering staff killed when Xindi ships cripple Enterprise at Azati Prime, whose death Trip struggles to put into words in a letter to her parents.

Crewman Jane Taylor is one of eighteen crew members lost in the Xindi assault on Enterprise at Azati Prime in 2154. She features in the episode The Forgotten, which deals with the aftermath.
Jonathan Archer asks Trip Tucker to write to Taylor's family. Trip, exhausted and still unable to grieve for his sister Elizabeth, who died in the Xindi attack on Earth, cannot find the words and puts the task off.
Taylor appears to him in a dream, asking why he is avoiding it. With T'Pol's help Trip finally admits how much his sister's death has affected him, and he completes the letter, paying tribute to Taylor as a fine engineer.