Vice Admiral Toddman was a male Human Starfleet flag officer assigned to Starfleet Security.
In 2371, he instructed Deep Space 9 commander Benjamin Sisko to put the USS Defiant on alert in case of a Jem'Hadar attack, following the launch of the Obsidian Order-Tal Shiar invasion of the Gamma Quadrant. He expressly denied Sisko permission to pursue the fleet to rescue Odo and Elim Garak, but Sisko ignored Toddman's orders and went anyway.
As a safeguard, Toddman ordered Michael Eddington to sabotage the Defiant's cloaking device, with the goal of making it impossible for the Defiant to follow the fleet into Dominion space. However, Defiant chief engineer Miles O'Brien managed to repair the cloak much quicker than expected, and the Defiant was ultimately successful in rescuing both people.
Following the incident, Toddman warned Sisko that if he pulled such a stunt again, he would either court martial him, or promote him. (DS9: "The Die is Cast")
Admiral Toddman was played by
Leon Russom, who also played
Bill, the Starfleet
commander in chief in
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. Some game sources have given "Bill's" last name as Toddman as well, intending to give a relation between the two. He has the unique distinction of wearing an
operations division gold admiral's uniform. To date, he, Admiral
Beverly Crusher, Commodore
Geordi LaForge, and Commodore
Oh are the only
24th century era
flag officers to not wear
command red as their division color. However, there is a
23rd century precedent to this practice, as all
TOS flag officers wore command division gold except for two
Commodores,
Stone and
Stocker. Interestingly enough, the background behind Admiral Toddman (with the setting sun on a dark sky) appears to be a partial homage to the set and matte paintings created for
Starbase 11, for the office of the very same Commodore Stone in
TOS: "
Court Martial"
In a line cut from "The Die is Cast", Vice Admiral Toddman noted to
Julian Bashir that he was "in trouble", because the Admiral had bet two cases of
Saurian brandy that he was going to win the
Carrington Award that year. Toddman told Bashir, "
You lost, which means I lost. And I don't like to lose." This comment was originally made in reference to the events in "
Prophet Motive".
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