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Rachel Garrett

decisive duty‑bound sacrificial resolute
Rachel Garrett commands the Constitution‑class Enterprise‑C and embodies the ruthless clarity of wartime leadership. Injured and displaced twenty‑two years into her future, she immediately asserts command, prioritizes weapons readiness, and insists on informing and protecting her crew. Garrett faces an excruciating moral calculus when Jean‑Luc Picard reveals that her ship’s historical presence may have prevented a long war; she resolves to restore the timeline even at mortal cost. Her actions anchor themes of duty, sacrifice, and command ethics across the episode.
11 appearances
Starfleet Operations
Also known as: Garrett, Captain Garrett

Rachel Garrett's Journey

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11 moments
S3E15 · Yesterday's Enterprise
The Lost Enterprise Returns — Moral and Tactical Crossroads

Physically strained and desperate; voice conveys pain, exhaustion, and the imperative to protect her crew even while wounded.

Participates off‑screen via a strained audio distress transmission: identifies her ship, reports Romulan attack, requests assistance, and conveys the immediate human suffering aboard her crippled command.

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S3E15 · Yesterday's Enterprise
Distress Call and Imminent Klingon Closure

Pained and desperate, yet maintaining command composure as she broadcasts for aid.

Her voice is heard over the bridge hailing channel, strained and authoritative: reports Romulan attack, lost warp drive, and failing life support while pleading for immediate assistance.

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S3E15 · Yesterday's Enterprise
Boarding the Ravaged Enterprise‑C Bridge — Discovery, Loss, and Duty

Disoriented and in pain, mixing denial and dutiful resignation; a captain still trying to perform command despite mortal injury.

Captain Rachel Garrett is slumped in the captain's chair, barely conscious and in pain; she answers Riker, resists at first, then concedes to being beamed to Sickbay after Beverly's assessment.

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S3E15 · Yesterday's Enterprise
Castillo Thrust into Command on a Shattered Bridge

Disoriented and in pain, mixing confusion with a captain's stubborn clarity — she accepts evacuation with reluctant surrender to duty.

Slumped in the captain's chair, barely conscious and in pain; she resists but ultimately agrees to be beamed to Sickbay when Beverly insists, demonstrating duty‑driven resolve even while mortally vulnerable.

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S3E15 · Yesterday's Enterprise
Awakening: Garrett Learns She's in the Future

Confused and shocked by the temporal displacement, rapidly shifting to resolute duty and protective anxiety about her crew's welfare.

Captain Rachel Garrett awakens on a Sickbay table, inspects unfamiliar instruments and uniforms, tries to sit up, asks pointedly about her ship and crew, and insists on informing her crew …

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S3E15 · Yesterday's Enterprise
The Future Revealed — Picard's Moral Crossroads

Shocked and weary, moving quickly from confusion to resolute determination; anxiety about crew safety underlies a captain's duty-driven calm.

Lying on a Sickbay table, waking to strange instruments and uniforms; presses for information, attempts to sit up, insists on telling her crew and reckons with the implications of being …

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S3E15 · Yesterday's Enterprise
Garrett Refuses Care — Chooses Command

Determined and urgent — masking physical vulnerability with purposeful resolve; accepts personal risk to avert greater loss.

Lying weak on a biobed, Garrett pushes herself up, issues clear operational orders to prioritize weapon systems, names Castillo as liaison to Enterprise‑D, argues with Dr. Crusher, then leaves Sickbay …

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S3E15 · Yesterday's Enterprise
Order to Return — The Choice to Sacrifice

Grief-tinged resolve: stunned by the possibility, privately devastated, but professionally decisive and determined to fulfill perceived duty.

Captain Rachel Garrett receives Picard's argument, processes the catastrophic implication that her arrival altered history, and solemnly orders her crew to return to the doomed past. She gives tactical commands …

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S3E15 · Yesterday's Enterprise
Farewells, Orders, and the First Klingon Strike

Torn and sorrowful under a professional calm; accepting of duty while grieving for her crew's likely fate.

Captain Garrett listens to Picard's assessment, processes the moral cost, then issues the order to inform the crew they will return to their original time; she frames the mission as …

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S3E15 · Yesterday's Enterprise
Bridge Under Fire — Command Struck Down

Urgent and authoritative in the seconds before being hit; rapidly shifted to incapacitated and vulnerable when struck by debris.

Issues an order to ready torpedo bays immediately before being struck by flying debris from the explosion and thrown to the deck, incapacitated and unable to continue commanding the bridge …

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S3E15 · Yesterday's Enterprise
Shimmer, Silence, and the Collapse of Command

Momentarily shocked and incapacitated — a professional leader immobilized by sudden physical trauma, cutting off her ability to enact further decisions.

Captain Rachel Garrett issues an order to load torpedo bays and is actively commanding when a sudden explosion slams the bridge; she is struck by flying debris and knocked down, …

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