Engineering and tactical conflict against a parasitic energy phenomenon that exploits ship systems (transporters, antimatter containment): the crew must diagnose, sever, and contain the link while balancing the human crisis onboard.
Engineering and tactical conflict against a parasitic energy phenomenon that exploits ship systems (transporters, antimatter containment): the crew must diagnose, sever, and contain the link while balancing the human crisis onboard.
Events in This Arc
On the bridge Picard demands hard data but the ship's instruments fail to deliver. Data's full scan returns "inconclusive," while Troi reports a vague empathic presence on the planet — …
On the bridge the crew confirms a chilling discovery: the seductive apparition is parasitically siphoning the Enterprise's antimatter power to sustain itself and is trying to exploit that link to …
On the bridge the crew moves from diagnosis to decisive action: Data confirms the alien manifestation is parasitically drawing on the ship's antimatter, Geordi proposes a precise engineering countermeasure—tuning shield …