Captain Taggert was a 24th century Human Starfleet officer and commanding officer of the starship USS Repulse. In 2365, Taggert made a rendezvous with the USS Enterprise-D to transfer his chief medical officer, Katherine Pulaski, to the Federation flagship. (TNG: "The Child" ) Taggert believed Pulaski to be an extremely valuable member of the Repulse crew, however when she discovered there was an opening on the Enterprise-D and requested a transfer, he did all he could to make her stay. He even indicated that he would have given her her own shuttle if it would have kept her on board.