Turbolift Ruse — Deck 36 Force Field Breach
Plot Beats
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Danar executes misdirection by knocking out a security guard and using his communicator to disable the force field on deck thirty-six.
Danar escapes through the disabled force field, proving his superior understanding of Starfleet systems and escape tactics.
Who Was There
Characters present in this moment
Neutral and analytical — offering exact timing without affect, enabling tactical choices by others.
Data's voice is heard over communications announcing 'Four seconds to arrival,' providing a clinical, timed cue that frames Worf's immediate response; he functions as the sensor/operations node rather than a physical actor in the corridor segment.
- • Provide accurate sensor/timing information to bridge and security officers.
- • Support the containment operation by supplying actionable data.
- • Maintain system integrity and continuous situational awareness for command.
- • Timely, precise information reduces operational risk.
- • His informational role should remain objective and available to command.
- • Sensor guidance is central to coordinating shipboard security responses.
Focused and urgent — calm in execution but tense beneath the surface; professional concentration masking the recognition of imminent risk.
Worf stands at a turbolift with a security posture, identifies and physically retrieves an overloading phaser from the lift, opens and makes a rapid technical adjustment that stops the overload, then issues orders to seal the deck and reports the successful neutralization to command.
- • Prevent the phaser from detonating and protect nearby personnel and infrastructure.
- • Maintain shipboard order by isolating and containing the threat (seal the deck).
- • Gather evidence about the device and report status to the Captain.
- • Preserve the integrity of the security operation and avoid panic.
- • Duty and protocol are primary responses to immediate threats.
- • Technical know-how plus decisive action can avert catastrophe.
- • That the source of the trap must be contained and that preventing casualties is paramount.
- • Chain-of-command must be kept informed to coordinate further action.
Objects Involved
Significant items in this scene
The localized Deck 36 security force field serves as a barrier preventing access; it shimmers and then collapses in response to a remote command, converting an impenetrable obstacle into an open route. Narratively, its removal is the pivotal mechanical action that transforms Roga's ambush into an actual escape corridor.
The ship computer functions as the authoritative controller of security subsystems: it accepts a vocal command (issued by Roga through a communicator) and executes the instruction to collapse the Deck 36 force field, instantly changing the ship's defensive posture and enabling Danar's escape route.
The aft turbolift car serves as the baited delivery mechanism for the trap. It arrives empty except for the armed phaser on its floor; its doors open to reveal the device and trigger the security team's response, making the lift itself the stage for the attempted blast.
A standard-issue Starfleet personal communicator (represented in the canonical list by Riker's unit) is used as the interface through which a voice command is issued to the ship computer. Roga presses the incapacitated guard's communicator and speaks the order that causes the Deck 36 force field to drop, demonstrating the communicator's dual role as personal device and system-access interface.
A handheld Starfleet phaser functions here as a booby-trap: discovered in an arriving turbolift, it is set to overload and emits a piercing shriek that constitutes an impending timed explosive threat. Worf physically handles, opens, and modifies the unit so the overload ceases, converting a lethal device into evidence and neutralized hardware.
Location Details
Places and their significance in this event
The aft turbolift car delivers the trap and functions as a compact battleground: its arrival and opened doors reveal the overloading phaser and create the immediate site for Worf's disarmament. Its confined geometry concentrates threat and response, forcing split-second physical intervention.
The corridor outside the transporter room is the stage for Roga's silent assault: a utilitarian passage where a posted guard is quietly posted, then felled. The corridor's narrowness and routine silence make it ideal for an unseen attacker to quickly incapacitate a single defender and use his device to manipulate ship systems.
Deck Thirty-Six exists as the objective whose security lattice is the tactical fulcrum of the scene: when the force field protecting it is dropped, the deck's corridors become passable, creating the precise route Danar needs to flee and raising the stakes of the ship-wide manhunt.
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Key Dialogue
"WORF: "Phaser on overload! Seal this deck --""
"DATA'S COM VOICE: "Four seconds to arrival.""
"ROGA: "Drop force field on deck thirty-six.""