The Fate of the USS Brattain

[Bry_Sinclair]

So at the end of “Night Terrors” the Brattain looks to be intact but adrift and abandoned, could the ship have been salvaged at a later date? It would safeguard her technology and computer access, and prevent anyone else from getting trapped in the Tyken’s Rift.

Especially with the Dominion War just 6 years later, Starfleet might need to get their hands on every ship they can to put into the fight.

 

[Takeru]

After knowing how to get out of the rift it would have been easy for starfleet to send two or three properly equipped ships in to get the Brattain out, she was most likely salvaged after the episode.

 

[Jedi Marso]

After knowing how to get out of the rift it would have been easy for starfleet to send two or three properly equipped ships in to get the Brattain out, she was most likely salvaged after the episode.

This. I find it unlikely that Starfleet would leave a perfectly intact vessel adrift like this when it was well within their capability to recover her and place her back in service with a new crew.

 

[Bry_Sinclair]

After knowing how to get out of the rift it would have been easy for starfleet to send two or three properly equipped ships in to get the Brattain out, she was most likely salvaged after the episode.

This. I find it unlikely that Starfleet would leave a perfectly intact vessel adrift like this when it was well within their capability to recover her and place her back in service with a new crew.

That is what I was thinking, but just wanted to see if there was any sort of consensus on the topic.

 

[matthunter]

"Enlightened" TNG era officers might be different, but I think many people would be pretty weirded/creeped out by serving on a ship where the entire previous crew went insane and died.

 

[Tango]

"Enlightened" TNG era officers might be different, but I think many people would be pretty weirded/creeped out by serving on a ship where the entire previous crew went insane and died.

Do a deep clean, change the name and number, and away you go!

 

[Ithekro]

Likely it was exploded during Operation Return, or part of the Seventh Fleet.

 

[somebuddyX]

It gained sentience and took off for deep space.

 

[Bry_Sinclair]

"Enlightened" TNG era officers might be different, but I think many people would be pretty weirded/creeped out by serving on a ship where the entire previous crew went insane and died.

Why do you think I posed the question? Muwhahahahahahahaha

 

[at Quark's]

'Welcome aboard the newest vessel in the fleet, the Insanity G. You wonder why it's the G? Well, on board the original Insanity, the entire crew went berserk and they killed each other off. The last one standing then set the autodestruct and committed suicide. The cause was never cleared up. Same happened on the Insanity A. And on the Insanity B. And ... well, long story short, it happened on all the seven Insanity's before this one. That's why we're already down to the G in barely more than three years. Does this bother anyone?

<All new transfers just shrug their shoulders: No, why? Should it bother us?>

 

[Takeru]

"Enlightened" TNG era officers might be different, but I think many people would be pretty weirded/creeped out by serving on a ship where the entire previous crew went insane and died.

I don't think they'd be creeped out. They know why it happened, the Brattain was stuck in the rift and the aliens attempting to communicate made the crew go insane, it was an unfortunate accident that had nothing to do with the ship itself.

 

[Verteron]

Hopefully they got all the blood out the carpets.

Maybe give her a new name and never speak of what happened again.

Kinda like how the crew of the Yorktown all suffocated to death due to the Whale Probe so they cleaned her up and renamed as the Ent-A once they febrezed out the musty smell.

 

[JoseNoodles]

I was always under the impression the Brattain was caught in the explosion created by the E-D and the aliens the Tyken's Rift, and likely lost.

 

[Mojochi]

I don't think they'd be creeped out. They know why it happened, the Brattain was stuck in the rift and the aliens attempting to communicate made the crew go insane, it was an unfortunate accident that had nothing to do with the ship itself.

Yeah. I mean, in such a circumstance one might even imagine it to be a respectful courtesy to have a standing memorial like a plaque on board to commemorate the 34 tragically lost in the line of duty. Starfleet loses crews under all kinds of oddball circumstances, & this probably wouldn't be any more oddballlier. That's what they're out there risking it all for. You wouldn't just sweep a whole crew under the rug imho.

However, there is a strong possibility that @JoseNoodles is right & the Brattain was destroyed in the explosion, hence why there's no mention of towing it, or sending word to retrieve it, after they escape. Just setting course for starbase, & ordering everyone to bed. They were right alongside her for the whole episode, & she's nowhere to be seen in the final moments of escape.

 

[Takeru]

However, there is a strong possibility that @JoseNoodles is right & the Brattain was destroyed in the explosion, hence why there's no mention of towing it, or sending word to retrieve it, after they escape. Just setting course for starbase, & ordering everyone to bed. They were right alongside her for the whole episode, & she's nowhere to be seen in the final moments of escape.

But if the explosion was close enough that it would destroy the Brattain wouldn't it also affect the Enterprise? And if the Brattain was far enough away that it exploding wasn't a risk why not just set it to self destruct to get out of the rift?

 

[Dukhat]

Everyone, including the writers and the cast, simply forgot about the Brattain. At the beginning of the episode it's there for a few scenes, and then it just inexplicably vanishes for the rest of the episode.

 

[Richard S. Ta]

Am I crazy? My foggy memory remembers the ship as the Brittain?

 

[DonIago]

Am I crazy? My foggy memory remembers the ship as the Brittain?

You're crazy.

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/USS_Brattain

 

[Richard S. Ta]

You're crazy.

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/USS_Brattain

Ah, but they got it wrong on the model!

That explains what I'm misremembering!

 

[Herbert]

"Enlightened" TNG era officers might be different, but I think many people would be pretty weirded/creeped out by serving on a ship where the entire previous crew went insane and died.

A haunted USS Brittain with a new crew could be a very cool idea for a sequel episode to Night Terrors.