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Edward Hagler

dutiful operational vulnerable
Edward Hagler (Lieutenant) serves as a junior officer aboard the USS Enterprise-D, performing standard operational duties alongside Ensign Sariel Rager. His service highlights the constant hazards Starfleet junior officers face, including extraterrestrial threats such as subspace abductions by solanogen-based aliens. Hagler maintains quarters on Deck Seven, Section Nineteen and interacts with senior officers including Captain Picard, Commander Riker, Lieutenant Worf, Data, Kaminer, and Dr. Beverly Crusher. His experiences—ranging from routine ship functions to physiological alterations from alien experiments—embody the human cost of frontier exploration.
7 appearances
Starfleet Operations
Also known as: Hagler, Lieutenant Hagler

Edward Hagler's Journey

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7 moments
S6E5 · Schisms
Crew reconstructs alien experiment table

Not present in the scene; his emotional state is unobservable, though his absence is treated by the command staff as an emergency.

Lieutenant Hagler is likewise reported missing by the ship's computer alongside Ensign Rager, absent since twenty-three thirty-two hours with no known method of departure, implicating him in the same covert …

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S6E5 · Schisms
Alien abduction evidence confirmed

Unspecified (not physically present).

Lieutenant Edward Hagler is one of two crewmembers reported as missing by the computer, having not been present since the previous night. His disappearance alongside Ensign Rager heightens the sense …

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S6E5 · Schisms
Tetryon emissions reveal subspace breach

Unknown from the bridge perspective; he exists only as a sensor reading.

Hagler is not physically present on the bridge during this event. According to Worf's sensor report, he has returned to the Enterprise and is located in his quarters on Deck …

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S6E5 · Schisms
Hagler’s return disrupts bridge investigation

Unknown (not observed).

Lieutenant Hagler is not physically present on the bridge but is mentioned as having returned to the Enterprise, now in his quarters on Deck Seven, Section Nineteen. His return is …

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S6E5 · Schisms
Hagler’s violent alien transformation

In excruciating physical pain and terrified, delirious as he succumbs.

Lieutenant Hagler stumbles out of his darkened quarters in nightclothes, his skin a sickly blue-gray, arms groping air, convulsing in pain. He collapses in Beverly Crusher’s arms as his blood …

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S6E5 · Schisms
Riker challenges Data’s alien analysis

Deceased, referenced as a victim of the alien experiments

Lieutenant Hagler is not present in the scene but is invoked by Riker as the conclusive evidence of the aliens' lethal intent. Riker states bluntly, 'Lieutenant Hagler's dead,' using Hagler's …

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S6E5 · Schisms
Picard confronts the alien threat’s true nature

None (deceased); his memory evokes sorrow and determination in others.

Mentioned as deceased by Riker; his death is used as evidence of the aliens' lethal intent. Hagler's absence hangs over the debrief, underscoring the cost of the encounter.

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Affiliations

USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D)
member
Starfleet Starship Command; Shipboard Governance, Tactical Operations, Crisis Response, and Personnel/Logistics Support in Deep Space

Edward Hagler serves as a junior officer aboard the Enterprise-D, fulfilling operational duties. This indicates membership within the ship's crew.

Starfleet
member
Federation Starship Command, Classified Intelligence, and Hierarchical Operations

Hagler is a Starfleet officer, making him a member of Starfleet. His duties on the Enterprise-D fall under Starfleet's command structure.

Across the Seasons

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Season 6 · asteroid

Edward Hagler (Lieutenant) serves as a junior officer aboard the USS Enterprise-D, performing standard operational duties alongside Ensign Sariel Rager. His service highlights the constant hazards Starfleet junior officers face, including extraterrestrial threats such as subspace abductions by solanogen-based aliens. Hagler maintains quarters on Deck Seven, Section Nineteen and interacts with senior officers including Captain Picard, Commander Riker, Lieutenant Worf, Data, Kaminer, and Dr. Beverly Crusher. His experiences—ranging from routine ship functions to physiological alterations from alien experiments—embody the human cost of frontier exploration.