Which Star Trek crew would best handle the titular ship in Event Horizon?

In short, in the 1997’s Event Horizon, the ship disappeared for years while testing an experimental drive that makes wormholes. Then:

The original crew went mad and murdered each other in a frenzy. Now a Trek crew / timeline of your choice is aboard, and their own ship is (at least) temporarily disabled. Only basic life support systems work. How do they fare? Who would do best?

P.S.

Yes, Event Horizon is not a good movie. I know.

Kirk’s crew, obviously.

Seconded. They’ve seen forms of entertainment that make Event Horizon look like a folk dance.

No, we saw several times - The Naked Time, And the Children Shall Lead, Shore Leave, The Cage/Menagerie, Wolf in the Fold, Return of the Archons, and Day of the Dove (and probably others) - that they’re fairly susceptible to mental influence.

The MIRROR universe crew, on the other hand, would do well, given that, you know, they’re already evil.

Wait. Wrong episode. I can’t remember the title of the episode I actually meant, but it wasn’t this one.

Can we just pick the crew we’d prefer to go mad and murder each other?

Voyager

Plato’s Stepchildren?

Thinking on it some more, the Deep Space 9 crew would be one of the more interesting groups to watch in that situation, but the Voyager crew most deserving.

No, though I knew I was missing at least one - that being it.

Checking Memory Alpha, the episode I misidentified was This Side of Paradise - the one with the plants that make everybody docile.

TNG should do well, they have the best trained crew,and Picard will be more calm then Kirk would be.

And how’d that work out for them, in the end, every time?

I’ll kill you. And it goes on, the good old game of war, pawn against pawn! ‘Stopping the bad guys’ while somewhere, something sits back and laughs and starts it all over again … Get off my ship. You’re a dead duck here. You’re powerless. We know about you, and we don’t want to play. Maybe there are others like you around. Maybe you’ve caused a lot of suffering, a lot of history, but that’s all over. We’ll be on guard now, ready for you. So ship out! Come on! Haul it!"

Only a fool fights in a burning house…

TNG has Data, and he at least wouldn’t lose his mind. That might give them an advantage. However, I think the DS9 crew and station workers would make a more entertaining story. I’d love to see what Garak would do, and Rom can be deceivingly resourceful.

There are enough exceptions (“The Naked Now”, “Conundrum”) that I wouldn’t take that as a sure bet.

TNG would have the distinct advantage of having Data on board, who being immune to mental manipulation and temptation, could probably complete the mission all by himself.

Unfortunately, this advantage would be cancelled out by having Troi onboard, who would be even more of a liability than usual, and turn into Linda Blair 2 minutes after arriving.

TNG has Data and DS9 has Odo, both are kind of broken in the way that they wouldn’t be much affected by any of the crap the Hell dimension could throw at them

I disagree on Troi. I think she would have discovered the presence almost immediately and they could have begun taking steps to prevent things well before they got out of hand.

Data would obviously be a huge advantage being completel unsusceptable and would have immediately interpretted the whole Latin thing correctly.

Picard himself is probably the least susceptable of the captains as well and tends to be very calm and deliberate in his actions.

Worf may be susceptable to mental manipulation, but the whole fear aspect would be of no effect on him.

Would Geordi’s visor give him any advantage? Maybe the presence would be visible on some scale that he could see that others wouldn’t.

And, of course, the biggest advantage would be Wesley since he’d just magically save them all at the last moment. :rolleyes:

The Voyager crew would come through unscathed. The evil presence would either be so repelled that it would run howling back to its own dimension, or it would decide that the most evil thing it could do would be to let the crew live.

She went bonkers when everyone’s dreamsleep was being interferred with, though. When the presence/thoughts/vibes is/are more “primordial” as opposed to “conscious thought”, I think she has a hard time processing it.

Her mom was a full telepath, and relied on reading [conscious] thoughts to foil plans. Dianna is not a full telepath because she is half-human.

I think it would effect him in a big way. He knows fear. He just reacts to it with anger. (“Fight” instead of “flight”.) His code of honor, which is a social thing, means you better not call him afraid to his face, or he must push your face in.

Probably, but he might not know what the heck his visor was picking up:

“Captain, there’s a burst of anti-zeta-proton rays coming from the direction of this bulkhead.”

No, Wesley assumes the role of Dr. Weir. :slight_smile:

I’ve always suspected that Troi was some sort of con-artist and a master of cold reading because I never got the impression that she ever picked up anything that a non-telepath couldn’t figure out simply by paying attention to body language, voice inflection, etc.

Blam! Blam! Blam!
“Captaint, I am sensing hostility.”
“No sh!t, counseler.”

I think Captain Janeway would handle the titular ship best, because she already has titulars of her own.

I’d say the Voyager crew. Out of all the captains, Janeway is the one who would be most likely to say, “Screw it. Let’s just blow this thing up and be on our way.”