USS Horatio

The USS Horatio is a Federation starship, now revealed as a wrecked and drifting debris field in orbit around the hostile mining planet Dytallix B. Its shattered hull fragments scatter across sector sixty-three, embodying the brutal finality of its destruction. Detected by the USS Enterprise's sensors, the Horatio’s remains evoke somber silence among the crew, triggering a charged atmosphere thick with grief and dread. The ship’s loss serves as a tangible marker of the covert threat infiltrating Starfleet and heightens emotional stakes for Captain Picard and the officers, who confront the harsh reality of betrayal and loss within their own ranks.

4 appearances

Purpose

To serve as a Federation starship tasked with exploration, patrol, and defense missions within Federation space prior to its destruction.

Significance

The Horatio symbolizes the hidden menace eroding Starfleet’s integrity, transforming abstract suspicion into undeniable tragedy. Its destruction confirms the lethal stakes of the parasitic infiltration crisis, deepens personal loss for Captain Picard connected to Captain Walker Keel, and galvanizes the Enterprise crew’s urgent resolve to uncover and confront the threat.

Appearances in the Narrative

When this object appears and how it's used

4 moments

S1E25 · Conspiracy

Covert Diversion to Dytallix B and Silent Mission Briefing

The USS Horatio, detected by Enterprise sensors in orbit around Dytallix B, emerges as a source of intrigue and possible threat, its presence raising questions about Federation complicity or corruption in the conspiracy.

Before: Stationed stealthily in orbit around Dytallix B alongside two other Federation vessels.

After: Continues to remain in orbit, unresponsive to communications, heightening suspicion.

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S1E25 · Conspiracy

Beverly Confronts Picard as Enterprise Finds Horatio Wreckage

The USS Horatio's wreckage is detected by Enterprise sensors and identified through Worf's analysis as the source of the spatial disturbance. It symbolizes catastrophic loss and concretizes the otherwise abstract threat facing the Federation, deeply affecting the crew's emotional state.

Before: Drifting in orbit around Dytallix, shattered and scattered as a debris field.

After: Remains drifting in the same location; now a confirmed symbol of destruction, its discovery triggering urgent investigation.

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S1E25 · Conspiracy

Enterprise Discovers the Wreckage of the USS Horatio

The wreckage of the USS Horatio is detected by the Enterprise’s sensors as a scattered debris field in Sector Sixty-Three. It serves as a tangible, physical confirmation of loss, transforming the abstract threat into a brutal reality that emotionally impacts the crew and escalates the crisis.

Before: Orbiting Dytallix in an unknown operational state, presumed intact but out of contact.

After: Scattered as floating debris confirming total destruction in Sector Sixty-Three.

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S1E25 · Conspiracy

Worf Confirms the Devastating Destruction of the USS Horatio

The USS Horatio is referenced as the source of the detected debris field, transforming from a mere sensor blip to a symbol of catastrophic loss. Its destruction represents the tangible consequences of the Starfleet-wide parasitic infiltration and raises the stakes for the Enterprise crew.

Before: Operational but missing, last known position orbiting Dytallix

After: Destroyed, reduced to drifting debris in Sector Sixty-Three

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