John Burke was a Human scientist, the chief astronomer at the Royal Academy in Old Britain during the mid-21st century.
He was responsible for mapping the area of space that included Sherman's Planet in 2067. (TOS: "The Trouble with Tribbles"; ENT: "In a Mirror, Darkly, Part II")
During a 2268 mission briefing for this incident, Ensign Chekov mistakenly remembered Burke as being a Russian named "Ivan Burkoff." (TOS: "The Trouble with Tribbles")
According to Star Trek: Star Charts (p. 33), John Burke named the system in which the planet Betazed was located Beta Zeta.
The Pocket Books novel Federation revealed that he had a daughter named Monica, while the Pocket TOS novel Prime Directive named one of USS Enterprise's shuttles after him.
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