An Enterprise lieutenant in the survey party on the shore leave planet in 2267, whose stray thoughts conjure a tiger and a strafing fighter aircraft.
Lieutenant Esteban Rodriguez appears in the first-season episode Shore Leave. He is one of the first of the crew to beam down to an apparently uninhabited world in the Omicron Delta region, working with Angela Martine.
The planet manufactures whatever its visitors imagine. Rodriguez reports birds where the survey found no animal life, then a tiger, and he and Angela are later chased by a Second World War fighter after he mentions one. She runs into a tree during the attack and appears to be dead.
When the Caretaker explains that the planet is an amusement park and that nothing there is permanent, Angela is restored and Rodriguez stays on for a proper leave. He was played by Perry Lopez.