Nerve‑bonded predatory organism infects Commander Riker — medical, scientific and survival struggle to diagnose, stabilize, and eradicate a parasitic microbe that exploits neural chemistry.
Nerve‑bonded predatory organism infects Commander Riker — medical, scientific and survival struggle to diagnose, stabilize, and eradicate a parasitic microbe that exploits neural chemistry.
Events in This Arc
On a routine surface survey Geordi finds Commander Riker favoring his leg, a small puncture and a speck of blood. Riker jokes to minimize it; Geordi responds with procedural caution, …
Pulaski refuses to accept incremental improvement and forces the neural stimulator past safety margins. Troi's hopeful readouts are drowned by a blinding, rapid-fire barrage of Riker's most violent memories; he …
Riker regains consciousness after the brutal memory-stimulation protocol. Troi’s relieved presence and Pulaski’s clinical steadiness bookend the emotional and medical resolution: diagnostics clear, the parasitic organism has retreated, but Pulaski …