Enterprise crew vs. an emergent nanite collective that escapes containment and sabotages ship systems — tactical threat meets the question of whether the intruders are merely malfunctioning tools or nascent life.
Enterprise crew vs. an emergent nanite collective that escapes containment and sabotages ship systems — tactical threat meets the question of whether the intruders are merely malfunctioning tools or nascent life.
Events in This Arc
A sudden, violent tremor ripples through the shuttle bay as the experimental unit shudders—the first tangible evidence that Wesley's escaped nanites have begun to act aboard the Enterprise. What was …
On Science One, Picard gives the captain’s order for a ship‑wide gamma pulse — a last‑resort extermination of the nanite swarm. Riker and Worf move to execute the lethal protocol; …
The crisis resolves not by force but by negotiation: Picard brokers a humane truce that relocates the emergent nanite intelligence to Kavis‑Alpha‑Four rather than ordering their extermination. Data volunteers his …