Boothby, played by Ray Walston, is the fictional groundskeeper of Starfleet Academy and Starfleet Headquarters in Star Trek. The character is mentioned in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes "Final Mission" and "The Game" and appears in "The First Duty". He also appears in the non-canon Starfleet Academy comic books.
In addition to tending grounds, Boothby offered advice and otherwise acted as a mentor to several Star Trek characters --...
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Boothby, played by Ray Walston, is the fictional groundskeeper of Starfleet Academy and Starfleet Headquarters in Star Trek. The character is mentioned in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes "Final Mission" and "The Game" and appears in "The First Duty". He also appears in the non-canon Starfleet Academy comic books.
In addition to tending grounds, Boothby offered advice and otherwise acted as a mentor to several Star Trek characters -- including Jean-Luc Picard, Kathryn Janeway and Chakotay -- when they were enrolled at Starfleet Academy. Boothby several times gave Janeway a rose -- a habit that a Species 8472 recreation of Boothby mimics in the Star Trek: Voyager episode "In the Flesh". Picard, in whose opinion Boothby "is one of the wisest men he has ever known", calls upon his knowledge of the Nova Squadron cadets while investigating the death of Joshua Albert in "The First Duty".
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