Ordered Away Team Deployment Following Hostile Angel One Contact
Plot Beats
The narrative micro-steps within this event
Picard orders the away team to prepare for deployment; Riker, Data, Troi, and Tasha stand down from stations and move toward the turbolift as Picard returns focus to the planet on the Main Viewer, steeling for the challenges ahead.
Who Was There
Characters present in this moment
Composed but prepared for confrontation.
Commander Riker pragmatically discusses the likelihood of survivors and prepares to lead the away team, demonstrating steady confidence and readiness despite the diplomatic roadblocks anticipated.
- • Lead the away team effectively on Angel One.
- • Advocate for survivor rescue amid cultural resistance.
- • Survivors may still be on Angel One and need rescue.
- • Diplomatic engagement will be challenging but necessary.
Calm and measured, projecting warmth despite rising diplomatic coldness.
Counselor Deanna Troi initiates first contact hailing and engages diplomatically with Beata, employing tact and empathy while managing the increasing chill of the reception with calm professionalism.
- • Establish peaceful dialogue with Angel One’s leadership.
- • Advocate for Federation interests and search for survivors.
- • Empathy can open doors despite cultural barriers.
- • Diplomatic patience is crucial in tense first contact.
Cautiously optimistic but aware of underlying hostility.
Geordi La Forge reports readiness to begin orbit and comments with cautious humor on the cold reception, reflecting his pragmatic but slightly uneasy stance during the escalating diplomatic exchange.
- • Ensure the Enterprise achieves stable orbit for mission success.
- • Support the diplomatic mission with technical precision and readiness.
- • The planet’s cultural hostility may complicate the mission.
- • Technical readiness can mitigate some diplomatic risks.
Alert and cautiously optimistic, ready for possible hostile encounters.
Lieutenant Natasha Yar receives and reports the incoming audio signal, opens the hailing frequencies, and actively prepares for away team deployment, maintaining alertness and operational focus throughout.
- • Ensure secure and effective communication channels with Angel One.
- • Prepare the away team for immediate deployment.
- • Communication lines must remain open and monitored.
- • The away team may face physical and diplomatic threats.
Focused and measured, masking concern over uncertain diplomatic reception and potential survivors.
Captain Picard commands the Enterprise bridge with focused authority, issuing orders to assume orbit, overseeing diplomatic protocols, and directing away team preparations while maintaining composure amid mounting tension.
- • Secure safe and effective first contact with Angel One's government.
- • Initiate rescue efforts for possible survivors from the Odin freighter.
- • Diplomatic relations with Angel One are essential despite cultural differences.
- • Starfleet has a duty to investigate and assist potential survivors.
Neutral and analytical, with curiosity about cultural dynamics.
Data provides clinical factual reports on Angel One's planetary classification, government structure, and the timeline of the last Federation visit, maintaining a neutral and methodical tone throughout the briefing and dialogue.
- • Provide accurate data to support command decisions.
- • Clarify potential challenges posed by Angel One's political structure.
- • Accurate information underpins effective mission planning.
- • The last Federation contact being decades ago increases uncertainty.
Unwelcoming and guarded, masking political calculation.
Beata, The Elected One of Angel One, responds to the Federation’s hailing with cold dismissal and grudging tolerance for a brief visit, reflecting guarded hostility and strict adherence to her matriarchal government's sovereignty.
- • Maintain Angel One’s sovereignty and social order.
- • Limit Federation influence and control the terms of engagement.
- • Federation diplomatic overtures are unnecessary and intrusive.
- • Exposure to external forces threatens Angel One’s cultural stability.
Objects Involved
Significant items in this scene
The Main Viewer on the Enterprise bridge displays a vivid image of Angel One, anchoring the crew’s focus and strategic deliberation throughout the event, symbolizing the distant yet urgent diplomatic frontier.
The Enterprise’s hailing frequencies are opened by Lieutenant Yar under Troi’s instruction, serving as the medium for the tense diplomatic exchange and the critical interface for first contact with Angel One’s government.
The audio signal from Angel One provides the first direct communication channel, enabling the Federation crew to establish contact with Beata and gauge the planet’s diplomatic stance, which proves cold and unwelcoming.
The missing escape pods from the freighter Odin act as the narrative catalyst, their absence discovered during the briefing fueling the suspicion that survivors might exist on Angel One and prompting the diplomatic mission.
The USS Enterprise serves as the operational hub where the event unfolds, orchestrating the spaceship’s orbit, communications, and away team preparation amid rising diplomatic tension with Angel One.
Location Details
Places and their significance in this event
Angel One is the political and cultural focus of the event, representing a distant, matriarchal society that poses diplomatic and ethical challenges to the Federation crew. The planet’s green surface looms symbolically as both a potential refuge for survivors and a bastion of unyielding sovereignty.
Narrative Connections
How this event relates to others in the story
"Troi's pressing for permission to search survivors leads to Beata reluctantly admitting the existence of four male survivors led by Ramsey, shifting the mission from hopeful contact to political tension."
"Troi's pressing for permission to search survivors leads to Beata reluctantly admitting the existence of four male survivors led by Ramsey, shifting the mission from hopeful contact to political tension."
"Troi's pressing for permission to search survivors leads to Beata reluctantly admitting the existence of four male survivors led by Ramsey, shifting the mission from hopeful contact to political tension."
"Troi's pressing for permission to search survivors leads to Beata reluctantly admitting the existence of four male survivors led by Ramsey, shifting the mission from hopeful contact to political tension."
Key Dialogue
"PICARD (V.O.): Captain's log, stardate 41636.9. As feared, our examination of the seven year overdue Federation freighter, Odin -- disabled by an asteroid collision -- revealed no survivors. However, three escape pods were missing, suggesting the possibility of survivors..."
"TROI: This is Counselor Deanna Troi of the USS Enterprise."
"BEATA'S COM VOICE: I am Beata, The Elected One. How may we assist you, Counselor?"
"BEATA'S COM VOICE: We feel in no way neglected, Counselor. A diplomatic courtesy call is neither expected nor required."
"PICARD: Prepare the away team, Number One."
"RIKER: Aye, aye, sir."