Who is Lt. Takkata-Jim from Startide Rising and what is their importance? Startide_Rising English & Literature Lt. Takkata-Jim | Startide Rising

An unusually large, thick-bodied, muscular Stenos neo-dolphin, with irregular gray coloring, a shrewd, sullen eye, and jagged teeth, Takkata-Jim serves as Vice-Captain and Executive Officer aboard the exploration vessel Streaker until he leads a mutiny against Capt. Creideiki, whom he considers brilliant. Takkata-Jim is "coldly logical" and "primly correct" (pg. 50), able to speak the Anglic language almost exclusively, without falling back on Trinary, and seems "impervious to the Whale Dream." Since the debacle at the encounter with the Derelict Fleet, Takkata-Jim has been in charge of placing in new jobs those crewfen who revert to atavistic ways. Assisted by Bosun K'tha-Jon, he does a fine job, but his own attitude puts him at odds with the captain, and Creideiki begins thinking about replacing him as Executive Officer.