Object

Casualty List — USS Enterprise (18 deceased)

A shipboard casualty roster listing eighteen deceased crew members, presented as a terse, tightly formatted display used by operations and engineering personnel. The display appears on a rack-mounted engineering monitor and functions both as an operational record and as an emotional catalyst in Main Engineering (Ensign Sonya reacts visibly). The roster's compact columns and terse status flags serve situational awareness, emergency coordination, and narrative pressure that drives command decisions.

3 appearances

Purpose

To record and communicate the names and status of crew casualties to command and engineering staff for situational awareness and operational response.

Significance

Serves as the emotional and narrative trigger that forces leadership to suppress mourning and prioritize technical triage — a turning point where personal loss is converted into urgent duty, reshaping the crew's immediate actions.

Appearances in the Narrative

When this object appears and how it's used

3 moments

S2E16 · Q Who?

Shields Restored at Human Cost

The casualty list functions as both operational report and emotional detonator: once Worf's com voice announces it, the list is displayed on screen, concretizing abstract loss into named lives and triggering grief and command decisions; Picard postpones its public handling to preserve operational focus.

Before: Prepared and queued for display as casualties were confirmed by security and medical reports.

After: Displayed (or queued on screen) but explicitly deferred by Picard for later handling; remains an unresolved administrative and emotional burden.

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S2E16 · Q Who?

Riker's Fury — Q Vanishes; Picard's Moral Reckoning

The Casualty List (Eighteen Deceased Crewmen) functions as an emotional fulcrum: Worf announces its arrival on the screen, Sonya's spoken tally humanizes the list, and Picard elects to defer viewing it until operational matters are addressed, showing the list's power to arrest procedure with grief.

Before: Not yet displayed publicly; casualty data exists in ship systems and is being compiled for command presentation.

After: Prepared and available on command screens but explicitly postponed from immediate review by Picard, who prioritizes response actions.

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S2E16 · Q Who?

Decision to Board — Borg Reality Confirmed

The casualty list is brought to the screen by Worf's report and functions as the brutal, factual artifact that converts abstract danger into human loss — it is the emotional detonator that traumatizes Sonya and precipitates Riker's fury.

Before: Not displayed; casualty data exists in ship logs but has not been foregrounded on engineering/bridge displays.

After: Displayed or queued for display, read as a list of eighteen deceased crew members and serving as a catalyst for command decisions.

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