Wesley Crusher's coming‑of‑age / engineering initiative arc — the junior officer's impulse to act (unauthorized experiments, risky improvisation) collides with engineering limits and command priorities, culminating in a successful but hazardous technic...
Wesley Crusher's coming‑of‑age / engineering initiative arc — the junior officer's impulse to act (unauthorized experiments, risky improvisation) collides with engineering limits and command priorities, culminating in a successful but hazardous technical solution that earns adult validation.
Events in This Arc
Geordi and Wesley step into the Hathaway's engine room and confront devastation: impulse assemblies ripped apart, warp cores stripped of dilithium. Wesley stands open‑mouthed — youthful awe colliding with dread …
Riker imposes a hard one‑hour deadline and forces Geordi and Wesley to disclose a desperate, improvised fix: a micro‑burst warp that can propel the Hathaway for just under two seconds. …
Picard refuses to sacrifice the crippled Hathaway and executes a high-stakes ruse: the Enterprise fires four photon torpedoes while a Klingon feint convinces the Ferengi they've been outmaneuvered. Bractor panics …