Uninvited Light
Plot Beats
The narrative micro-steps within this event
A pale glow materializes in the empty corridor and slips forward, pursuing a purpose of its own as turbolift doors open and TWO CREWMEMBERS exit; the glow melts into the wall and tails them unseen, its path diverging at an intersection as if searching.
The glow ascends through the overhead and probes a CREWMEMBERS' QUARTERS, lingering above the sleeping form of one of the male crewmembers before withdrawing—testing, then moving on.
Who Was There
Characters present in this moment
Cold, implacable resolve laced with alien curiosity
This incandescent visitation drifts with unjust grace—pausing like a connoisseur of flesh, sliding through hull and bone alike, seeking the precise vessel its biology requires. It lingers over one sleeping crewman, rejects him, then locks onto Troi with chilling deliberation.
- • Locate a genetically suitable host for offspring
- • Breach physical security without detection
- • Biological directives supersede territorial sanctity
- • Human boundaries mean nothing to purpose
Casual end-of-shift relief
Two uniformed figures leave the turbolift in relaxed conversation, footsteps harmonizing with ventilation hiss. They pass within a meter of liquid star, blind to the predator that chooses its mate among the sleeping. Laughter trails off as they vanish down a corridor.
- • Walk to their quarters
- • Synopsize shift report
- • No threat walks within our walls unless the lights are red
- • Our shields guard our dreams
Disoriented certainty—the calm before existential storm
Deanna sleeps peacefully, her empathic senses dormant; then an alien warmth washes over her and dissipates. She jerks awake, pearls of sweat on her skin, eyes searching the empty cabin. In silence she cups her abdomen, knowing invasion has seeded irrevocable change.
- • Understand what just happened
- • Assert agency over her body
- • Her empathic trust in the safety of sleep is now broken
- • The child she feels is already hers to defend
Utter unconsciousness bordering on cosmic irrelevance
Sprawled asleep in his bunk, this unknown male exudes routine exhaustion. The glow passes overhead like scanning light, lingers, turns away. He breathes on in oblivion, unknowingly spared an appointment with destiny his genome could not fulfill.
- • Sleep through shift change
- • This room is secured by standard Starfleet protocols
- • Vulnerability ends at my door
Objects Involved
Significant items in this scene
Seamless beige walling registers no stress when light melts into its molecular joints. The barrier meant for human hands and eyes offers no obstacle to intent born between stars.
An overhead maintenance hatch offers the visitor one final camouflage: it liquifies under incandescent pressure, permitting a shaft of impossible radiance to bathe Troi before solidifying without seam.
The turbolift doors perform their nightly ballet—soundlessly parting for two crewmembers who join the hunt only as scenery. Behind them the energy form masquerades as ambience, rejoining its quiet passage the instant the aperture seals.
Location Details
Places and their significance in this event
This private refuge is decorated with Betazoid warmth, dim gold lighting now stained by intrusive phosphorescence. When the energy dissipates, the room feels subtly colder—an empathic chill that the motherboard sensors can never record.
Dim amber strips carve long shadows along the corridor, sonically vacant save for distant air ducts. The passage presents itself as an artery of calm, unconsciously ushering the menace to its chosen receptor.
Uniform doors glow faintly in sleep mode while cooling hums lull inhabitants into surrender. One anonymous room becomes audition space—the entity briefly extends its gaze before concluding this audition lacks the genetic cadence it seeks.
Narrative Connections
How this event relates to others in the story
"The glowing ball's penetration of the hull is the immediate physical cause for the glow slipping into corridors and entering Troi's quarters."
"The glowing ball's penetration of the hull is the immediate physical cause for the glow slipping into corridors and entering Troi's quarters."
"The glowing ball's penetration of the hull is the immediate physical cause for the glow slipping into corridors and entering Troi's quarters."
"The glowing ball's penetration of the hull is the immediate physical cause for the glow slipping into corridors and entering Troi's quarters."
"The light's deliberate presence over Troi's sleeping form directly precipitates her violent awakening and the recognition that she has been visited and changed."
"The light's deliberate presence over Troi's sleeping form directly precipitates her violent awakening and the recognition that she has been visited and changed."