Engineering and technical problem‑solving under existential pressure: Data and Geordi (with engineering team support) race to diagnose alien phase/power incompatibilities, stabilize the anomalous shuttle, and keep the Enterprise's systems from failing ...
Engineering and technical problem‑solving under existential pressure: Data and Geordi (with engineering team support) race to diagnose alien phase/power incompatibilities, stabilize the anomalous shuttle, and keep the Enterprise's systems from failing under extreme load while tactical decisions are made.
Events in This Arc
In Shuttle Bay Two a routine power-up becomes a violent, disorienting failure: sparks fill the craft and the shuttle violently rejects the Enterprise's energy. Data, calm and clinical, diagnoses an …
In Shuttle Bay Two Geordi discovers — to his alarm — that the shuttle’s molecular lattice has radically altered. Data’s scan confirms an active, structural instability rather than a mere …
The Enterprise rams the churning temporal funnel and punches through the vortex core; the maelstrom catastrophically implodes. As the whirlpool collapses, O'Brien watches the shuttle and the dazed duplicate Picard …