U.S.S. BRATTAIN...

[Farscape One]

I had a random thought while thinking about DS9 and the Dominion War. With all the losses Starfleet suffered, I wonder if they ever tried to salvage the Brattain.

Knowing that it was stuck in a Tyken's Rift, they could send a ship with the proper materials and tow the Brattain out and have one more ship for the lines.

Thoughts, anyone?

 

[Mutai Sho-Rin]

Thoughts??? I think I'll move this to the DS9 forum.
Whoooosh!

 

[Paradise City]

Sure.

 

[Cyke101]

I'd like to imagine that there's a division in Starfleet designed just for weird starship retrieval that has to be common in such a chaotic galaxy.

"Stardate 73012. We are en route to salvage the USS Dakota from the belly of a giant illusion-inducing space whale."

"Stardate 69238.7. We have suffered major hull damage and lost many good lives today. Nevertheless, we were successful in towing the USS Statesman from a black hole that induced vastly accelerated aging due to time dilation."

"Stardate 87461.8. Our mission to stabilize a gateway and salvage the USS Mucinex from Fluidic Space was a success, but my god, THIS SHIT IS EVERYWHERE."

"Stardate 41800.2. While we will continue our search, reports of a Starship Lollipop seem to have been a rumor at best, a complete lie at worst."

Bonus Kelvinverse edition: "Hey, remember the USS Franklin? How she was reported lost a hundred years ago? Get this, we just pulled her out of the middle of a state-of-the-art space station."

Kelvinverse Klingon edition: "We have discovered a massive mining vessel of Romulan origin. The crew says they are from the future. And from another timeline. The paperwork would be terrible, if we were Starfleet. Thankfully, we are Klingons, and we'll just put them on Rura Penthe."

 

[Farscape One]

The Brattain only appeared in TNG, which is why I started the thread there. I suppose it belongs here, given what started my thought on this.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

If the rift had a temporal aspect, they could tow multiple versions of the ship out.
Sort of a spatial replicator, just add a bloody A, B, C, etc. to the registry.
As fast as we saw Soyuz and Miranda class ships being destroyed, the confusion would be minimal.

 

[Richard Baker]

I am sure they did not scrap a completely intact and functional Constitution class ship (USS Exeter) so and mentioned above there probably was a specialist division in Star Fleet whose primary task would be ship salvage and recovery from weird situations. In the episodes where we see these ships being abandoned the focus in the story is to simply survive the situation.
The USS Lantree is still out there too and they know what had happened to it- find a way to purge that aging thing (which may not even happen without the presence of the genetically enhanced children) and you another Miranda class ready to come to battle.
Another (and rather mean) solution would be to have some of these weirdly affected ships be flown into battle by remote and let he enemy capture them, problems and all

 

[Richard Baker]

I am sure they did not scrap a completely intact and functional Constitution class ship (USS Exeter) so as mentioned above there probably was a specialist division in Star Fleet whose primary task would be ship salvage and recovery from weird situations. In the episodes where we see these ships being abandoned the focus in the story is to simply survive the situation.
The USS Lantree is still out there too and they know what had happened to it- find a way to purge that aging thing (which may not even happen without the presence of the genetically enhanced children) and you another Miranda class ready to come to battle.
Another (and rather mean) solution would be to have some of these weirdly affected ships be flown into battle by remote and let he enemy capture them, problems and all

 

[Avro Arrow]

The USS Lantree is still out there too and they know what had happened to it- find a way to purge that aging thing

Umm, Picard *did* purge it... with a photon torpedo!

 

[Richard Baker]

I forgot that he destroyed it- I was thinking they just activated it's warning strobes so no one would approach it later...

 

[Dukhat]

I had a random thought while thinking about DS9 and the Dominion War. With all the losses Starfleet suffered, I wonder if they ever tried to salvage the Brattain.

Knowing that it was stuck in a Tyken's Rift, they could send a ship with the proper materials and tow the Brattain out and have one more ship for the lines.

Thoughts, anyone?

The problem with "Night Terrors" was that halfway through the episode, everyone (even the writers) forgot that the Brattain even existed. And they didn't bother to explain what happened to it afterwards. Did the Tyken's Rift get destroyed when the Enterprise and the alien ship escaped the rift? I mean, there was this huge explosion, and the Brattain was hovering right next to the Enterprise all through the episode, and then all of a sudden it's gone, out of sight and out of mind. Did it blow up in the explosion? Did its engines come back online? Did it just sit there doing nothing? Was it still there at the end of the episode? If so, why did the Enterprise just leave a completely empty Starfleet vessel for anyone to find? And if the Tyken's Rift was still there, why didn't the Enterprise activate the Brattain's warning beacons like they did for the Lantree?