Object

Rift‑Born Battered Starship

A battered, indistinct starship that bleeds into existence from a jagged temporal rift—hull edges blurred, plating scarred, and faint, intermittent power glows puncturing the dark. The craft lacks identifiable markings; its form solidifies with terrifying slowness until it hangs monstrously close. Guinan watches the coalescence, expression collapsing from puzzled curiosity to raw alarm, whispering a single loaded word: "No."

2 appearances

Significance

Serves as the immediate catalyst for a catastrophic timeline rupture and moral crisis: its unexpected arrival forces the crew into urgent choices, reframes Ten‑Forward from social refuge to crisis locus, and carries heavy emotional weight through Guinan's visceral recognition.

Appearances in the Narrative

When this object appears and how it's used

2 moments

S3E15 · Yesterday's Enterprise

Prune Juice, Prodding, and the Rift

The rift-born battered starship coalesces beyond the observation window, visible as a jagged tear in space; it instantly converts a private Ten-Forward beat into a high-stakes temporal event, acting as the immediate plot catalyst that forces duty to interrupt intimacy.

Before: Absent/unmanifest — space outside the window shows normal warp effects and streaking stars.

After: Partially coalesced and visible beyond the window as a blurred, scarred craft within a color-shifting maelstrom; present as a clear sign of temporal anomaly.

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S3E15 · Yesterday's Enterprise

Prune Juice Interrupted: A Temporal Tear Appears

The rift-born battered starship/object (represented here by the rift) manifests as a jagged tear in space full of churning colors and patterns; its appearance is the triggering visual anomaly that converts Ten-Forward's social scene into a crisis and prompts immediate bridge activity.

Before: Absent from view; space beyond the window showed normal warp stars streaking by.

After: Coalesced into a visible, menacing presence within the rift (or the rift itself is visible), creating tangible wrongness and initiating emergency response procedures.

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