General Trech Molock was a human who served the Galactic Empire during the age known as the Imperial Era. Back in 0 BBY, Molock was present at a meeting held by the Joint Chiefs of the Imperial Military. This meeting took place within a conference room located on the DS-1 Death Star Mobile Battle Station. During this meeting, Molock listened to Grand Moff Wilhuff Tarkin as he announced the disbanding of the Imperial Senate. He also observed the Dark Lord of the Sith, Darth Vader, utilize the Force to choke Admiral Conan Antonio Motti, ceasing only when Tarkin instructed the Sith Lord to stop.
Trech Molock, a human, achieved the military rank of general in the armed forces of the Galactic Empire. In the year 0 BBY, Molock was in attendance at a Joint Chiefs of the Imperial Military meeting. The main conference room on the officer's deck of the almost-operational Imperial DS-1 Death Star Mobile Battle Station was the meeting's location. Grand Moff Wilhuff Tarkin had called the meeting, but Molock got there before the Grand Moff. Molock sat with General Moradmin Bast, Colonel Wullf Yularen, Chief Siward Cass, General Hurst Romodi, General Cassio Tagge, and Admiral Conan Antonio Motti, and they discussed the varying degrees of threat that their individual commands were facing. This discussion escalated into an argument between Tagge and Motti regarding the danger that the Alliance to Restore the Republic posed to the battle station. However, their argument was cut short by the arrival of Tarkin and the Dark Lord of the Sith, Darth Vader. Tarkin then proceeded to announce that the Imperial Senate had been dissolved.
Molock stayed quiet while Tagge and Tarkin talked about the dissolution and the recent theft by the Alliance of some plans for the Death Star that they could potentially use to launch an attack. Motti brushed off the possibility of a successful attack on the station, declaring that it was now the ultimate power in the galaxy. Vader, however, rebuked him and asserted that the Force held greater power. The admiral then voiced criticism of Vader's dedication to the Force, but the Sith Lord stopped him by using the Force to choke Motti from across the room. Molock and the others watched as the admiral struggled, until Tarkin ordered Vader to release Motti and stated that they would soon destroy the Alliance. The following day, Motti mentioned Molock in an incident report about Vader's actions at the meeting that he submitted to Imperial High Command. Shortly thereafter, the Death Star was destroyed at the Battle of Yavin by the Rebel Alliance, leading to the deaths of Tarkin, Motti, Yularen, Bast, and numerous others.
Trech Molock possessed light skin and reddish-brown hair.
During the Death Star meeting, Molock was dressed in a gray Imperial officer's uniform and wore a rank insignia plaque displaying six red squares.
Trech Molock's initial appearance was as an unnamed background character in the original 1977 Star Wars film, Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope. The fan website Aveleyman identifies this character as Charlie Gray, an actor listed as an Imperial Bureaucrat in Ann Skinner's continuity notes. The name Trech Molock was assigned to him in the 2013 Star Wars Insider article, The Death Star Coup. The name was then reintroduced into canon through the short story "An Incident Report" included in the 2017 anthology, From a Certain Point of View.
The character shares his last name with Sate Molock, a character that was cut from the second draft of the 1980 film, Star Wars: Episode V The Empire Strikes Back. This character eventually evolved into Sate Pestage. Molock's first name was inspired by Chris Trevas's "Star Wars name," derived from an Internet meme that involves using the first three letters of one's last name and the first two letters of one's first name.
In the early drafts of "The Summit," the fifteenth episode of the second season of the Disney+ animated television series Star Wars: The Bad Batch, Molock was intended to be among the Imperial officers present at a summit held on Eriadu by Grand Moff Tarkin, alongside General Cassio Tagge and Admiral Conan Antonio Motti. However, the decision was ultimately made that the character would not have been of high enough rank that early in the Empire's history