Away‑team tactical contact and extraction: Enterprise field team (Riker, Worf, Data, Geordi) vs. Gatherer ambush — a pitched, material contest that converts diplomacy into immediate survival and shapes subsequent bargaining leverage.
Away‑team tactical contact and extraction: Enterprise field team (Riker, Worf, Data, Geordi) vs. Gatherer ambush — a pitched, material contest that converts diplomacy into immediate survival and shapes subsequent bargaining leverage.
Events in This Arc
The Enterprise away team materializes in a ruined 'junkyard' of stolen technology and immediately reads the scene: indiscriminate plunder, exotic weaponry and a crude, predatory economy. Worf's tricorder and instincts …
Riker's attempt at diplomacy is cut short when concealed Gatherers open phaser fire. Thinking fast, Riker rigs a noranium pile to vaporize, creating a choking smoke screen that allows him, …
After a failed parley, Riker improvises a tactical withdrawal by vaporizing a pile of noranium to create a smoke screen. Under that cover the away team slips back into the …