Engineering/operational race against imminent destruction — a technological/time‑pressure arc where engineering improvisation (Wesley's repulser idea, Data/Geordi execution) averts catastrophe and buys time for medical or tactical solutions.

An urgent beam-out collapses into chaos when transporter interference and collapsing debris cut off the away team's escape. Riker pushes protocol aside, insisting on evacuation while Data and Geordi locate …

Tied to a dying star and a drifting Tsiolkovsky, the Enterprise hurtles toward annihilation while Data and Wesley frantically reassemble control chips in Engineering. Riker, already infected and slipping into …

In a desperate, white‑knuckle rescue the crippled Enterprise survives by brute ingenuity and teamwork. As Riker strains under an infection that weakens him, Data and Wesley rush to reseat isolinear …