Enterprise command and crew (Riker, Data, Worf, et al.) vs. the Pakleds (Grebnedlog, Reginod): a staged distress call that becomes a hostage-and‑technology theft crisis resolved through deception and tactical bluff.
Enterprise command and crew (Riker, Data, Worf, et al.) vs. the Pakleds (Grebnedlog, Reginod): a staged distress call that becomes a hostage-and‑technology theft crisis resolved through deception and tactical bluff.
Events in This Arc
The Enterprise halts to answer a primitive distress call from the Pakled ship Mondor. On the viewer, Grebnedlog's halting, wistful speech — the repeated refrain "We look for things / …
Under Riker's staged firing countdown, the Mondor bridge is suddenly bathed in a blinding crimson wash while Geordi executes the final step of a covert plan. The Pakleds believe their …
Riker forces the crisis to a quick, nonlethal climax: he issues a final ultimatum, the Pakleds drop shields, and Geordi is beamed back to the bridge. The apparent 'crimson blast' …