Haskell

Technically proficient Dutiful Vulnerable to cosmic forces

Ensign Haskell serves as a bridge operations officer aboard the Enterprise during the harrowing encounter with Nagilum. His technical skills are immediately tested during the crisis, struggling to maintain a tractor beam lock on the vanishing USS Yamato—a task made impossible by the cosmic entity's manipulations of reality itself. Haskell's final tragic moments underscore the crew's vulnerability when he becomes Nagilum's first experimental victim, brutally killed mid-task as the entity clinically studies death. His quick death—confirmed by Dr. Pulaski's futile attempts at resuscitation—serves as the chilling turning point where scientific curiosity reveals itself as cosmic cruelty. Though his screen time is brief, Haskell's fate crystallizes the existential threat facing the Enterprise, transforming abstract danger into visceral loss.

7 appearances

Starship operations

Haskell's Journey

A timeline through the narrative

7 moments

S2E2 · Star Trek: The Next Generation - Where Silence Has Lease

Cosmic Betrayal

Mounting frustration undercut by dawning horror

Struggles desperately at the tractor beam controls, his technical efforts growing more frantic as the Yamato slips beyond salvation—embodying Starfleet's can-do ethos facing cosmic indifference.

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S2E2 · Star Trek: The Next Generation - Where Silence Has Lease

Cosmic Disintegration

Urgency undercut by helplessness against cosmic forces

Haskell struggles to establish a tractor beam lock on the Yamato, his technical efforts failing as the void's influence interferes with ship systems.

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S2E2 · Star Trek: The Next Generation - Where Silence Has Lease

The Vanishing of the Yamato

Frustrated determination bordering on desperation

Haskell's fingers fly across tractor beam controls with mounting frustration, his protest ('But, sir, we can get out') revealing both technical confidence and heartbreaking misjudgment of their predicament.

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S2E2 · Star Trek: The Next Generation - Where Silence Has Lease

Clash of Existence with Nagilum

Excruciating pain giving way to lifeless stillness

Haskell collapses in agony mid-task, dying instantly as Nagilum studies death, his body unnaturally cold before hitting the ground.

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S2E2 · Star Trek: The Next Generation - Where Silence Has Lease

Cosmic Specimens

Agonized terror before abrupt cessation

Haskell convulses violently at his station, fingers clawing at his temples before collapsing—a living man turned instantly into Nagilum's first autopsy subject. His death rattle echoes through the silent bridge.

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S2E2 · Star Trek: The Next Generation - Where Silence Has Lease

Nagilum's Omniscient Gaze

Sudden excruciating terror before cessation

Collapses screaming in agony as Nagilum terminates his life mid-task, becoming the literal embodiment of the entity's experiment.

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S2E2 · Star Trek: The Next Generation - Where Silence Has Lease

Nagilum's Quantified Cruelty

Excruciating agony ending in death

Collapses screaming from sudden cerebral trauma, his death throes clinically observed by Nagilum—becoming the first sacrificial victim that transforms abstract threat into visceral atrocity.

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