However “Yesterday’s Enterprise” tells a a lot richer onscreen story in regards to the Enterprise-C. Destroyed 20 years earlier than the episode’s setting, the Enterprise-C goes via a time distillation and arrives in a modified future. Within the authentic timeline, the -C was destroyed whereas making an attempt to rescue a Klingon outpost. When the time shift prevents the -C from finishing its mission prior to now, the longer term modifications and the Federation is immediately within the midst of a protracted struggle in opposition to the Klingons. On this actuality, the Enterprise-D is a battleship, led by an embittered Picard and his military-focused crew, together with Denise Crosby’s Tasha Yar.
Directed by David Carson and based mostly on a narrative by Trent Christopher Ganino & Eric A. Stillwell, “Yesterday’s Enterprise” serves as a correct send-off for Tasha Yar, an authentic crew member who died an ignoble loss of life on the “palms” of a blob monster within the season one episode “Pores and skin of Evil.” Yar, and the crew of the Enterprise-C, select to ship the time-displaced ship again into the previous and full its lethal mission, sacrificing themselves to stop the Federation/Klingon struggle from ever occurring.
It’s an excellent episode, top-of-the-line within the collection, and a becoming finish for Yar. Nevertheless, Garrett places in an ideal displaying as a mannequin Starfleet Captain too, embodying the braveness and selflessness that marks one of the best captains. Though she suffers a surprisingly gnarly loss of life earlier than her ship can return to the previous and full its mission, Garrett stays a compelling determine from Star Trek lore.
Garrett later obtained a nod in Star Trek: Picard, which revealed her statue stood on M’talas Prime. However that’s all we presently learn about Garrett, except you depend the non-canonical Misplaced Period novels The Artwork of the Unimaginable and Nicely of Souls, which flesh out her character. In canon, although, Garrett stays a compelling thriller.
As she demonstrated on the collection Hannibal, Rohl is aware of a factor or two about portraying under-explored fan-favorites. On that Bryan Fuller-created adaptation of Thomas Harris’ novels, Rohl performed Abigail Hobbes, the daughter of Garret Jacob Hobbs aka the Minnesota Shrike, a serial killer solely talked about in passing in Harris’ books.
Coincidentally, in Part 31, Rohl’s Rachel Garrett will seem alongside one other Fuller creation: Philippa Georgiou, performed by Michelle Yeoh. As the unique creator of Discovery, Fuller launched Georgiou as Michael Burnham’s commanding officer, who dies within the Battle of the Binary Stars, just for her Mirror Universe equal to reach and take her place.
