Lieutenant Shipley is one of the Enterprise-D crew members secretly taken from their beds by solanogen-based aliens in Schisms, who helps reconstruct the examination room from fragments of shared memory.
Shipley appears in the sixth-season episode Schisms. Like William Riker, Worf, Geordi La Forge and Kaminer, he has been suffering unexplained tiredness and odd reactions to ordinary objects.
Deanna Troi brings the group together on the holodeck, where they pool what little each recalls: a cold metal table, a restraint, a hinged instrument, darkness and a clicking sound. Shipley contributes his own details as the frightening room takes shape around them.
The reconstruction convinces the crew that they are being abducted into a subspace domain and experimented upon, and leads to Riker allowing himself to be taken again with a homing device so that the intrusion can be closed.