Geordi La Forge's ordeal: coerced technical labor and personal endangerment (loss of VISOR, phaser stuns) as he resists being turned into the Pakleds' weapons‑maker and seeks ways to sabotage their efforts.
Geordi La Forge's ordeal: coerced technical labor and personal endangerment (loss of VISOR, phaser stuns) as he resists being turned into the Pakleds' weapons‑maker and seeks ways to sabotage their efforts.
Events in This Arc
Geordi materializes aboard the cramped Pakled ship and immediately defaults to technician's empathy—calming anxious hosts, asking practical questions, and offering to help. The Pakleds answer with repetitive, childlike phrases (“We …
Geordi is repeatedly stunned, slammed against a bulkhead and robbed of his VISOR, leaving him physically disoriented and vulnerable. The Pakleds drop their act of helplessness: Reginod studies the VISOR …
Riker forces the crisis to a quick, nonlethal climax: he issues a final ultimatum, the Pakleds drop shields, and Geordi is beamed back to the bridge. The apparent 'crimson blast' …