Failed Treatment and Spreading Infection Seal the Enterprise’s Fate
Plot Beats
The narrative micro-steps within this event
Beverly administers the hypo-spray to Geordi, who lies strapped and awake on the hospital bed, expressing desperate hope that the treatment will help him experience simple joys he's never known.
Beverly realizes with horror that the old Enterprise formula fails to cure the infected; Riker and Troi arrive bearing Deanna, who is also infected and laid next to Geordi, intensifying the crisis.
Who Was There
Characters present in this moment
Pragmatic and urgent, prioritizing ship survival over ideal medical protocols; restrained concern for infected crew, focused on crisis management.
Commander William Riker arrives urgently with an infected Deanna Troi, laying her beside Geordi. He exhibits pragmatic urgency, pushing for immediate restoration of ship systems over quarantine, placing operational survival above medical caution, while attempting to rouse Beverly from despair.
- • To restore command computers and ship systems quickly
- • To prevent the contagion from paralyzing ship operations
- • To motivate medical staff to focus on practical solutions
- • To manage the spreading contagion while keeping command intact
- • Operational control is paramount to crew survival
- • Quarantine measures may slow necessary urgent actions
- • The contagion’s threat is severe but must be balanced with mission priorities
- • The longer the ship is disabled, the higher the risk of catastrophic loss
Horrified by the treatment’s failure, anxious about contagion spread, yet resolute to find a cure; despair briefly surfaces but is countered by professional urgency.
Dr. Beverly Crusher, visibly anxious and desolate, attempts a cutting-edge hypo-spray treatment on Geordi La Forge but quickly recognizes its failure. She expresses horror and urgency, analyzes the contagion's mutating properties, and confronts Commander Riker over the risks of contagion spread, embodying both medical expertise and emotional vulnerability.
- • To stop the contagion by finding an effective treatment
- • To protect the uninfected crew and contain the spread
- • To analyze and understand the mutated pathogen
- • To convince command of the medical urgency and quarantine necessity
- • The pathogen is mutating and unpredictable
- • Medical intervention is critical but currently insufficient
- • Containment is vital to prevent further infection
- • Time is rapidly running out to save the crew
Ill and vulnerable, weakened physically and mentally by the contagion, silently increasing the medical and command crisis.
Deanna Troi is carried into Sickbay by Riker and laid beside Geordi, visibly ill and vulnerable from the contagion’s effects, silently embodying the pathogen’s rapid and ruthless spread into the command crew.
- • To receive medical aid and relief
- • To survive the effects of the contagion
- • The contagion is overwhelming the crew’s defenses
- • Medical intervention is critical yet currently insufficient
Desolate and hopeless, grappling with the possibility of irreversible damage and loss of a normal life.
Geordi La Forge lies strapped to the hospital bed, silent and desolate, questioning faintly if the treatment will help. His expression and words reveal despair and growing hopelessness under the physical and emotional toll of the contagion.
- • To find relief or cure from the contagion's effects
- • To understand his changed physical and mental state
- • The contagion may permanently alter or end his life
- • Medical staff are his only hope
- • His condition is worsening despite efforts
Objects Involved
Significant items in this scene
Dr. Beverly Crusher uses the hypo-spray as a last-ditch medical treatment to administer a spray intended to halt or reverse the contagion’s symptoms in Geordi La Forge. The device represents a hope for a cure but ultimately fails, highlighting the contagion’s mutating and resistant nature and escalating the crisis.
Location Details
Places and their significance in this event
Enterprise Sickbay functions as the critical medical hub where Dr. Crusher executes experimental treatments and confronts the contagion’s spread. It serves as the physical and emotional crucible for the crew’s medical despair and urgent attempts at healing, also becoming a staged setting for conflict between medical caution and command pragmatism.
Narrative Connections
How this event relates to others in the story
"Beverly's despair over the failed cure echoes through her emotional state, underscoring the gravity of the situation and the urgency of a new solution."
"Realizing the historical cure fails against the mutated contagion escalates the crisis as infection spreads to new crew members including Troi."
"Beverly's despair over the failed cure echoes through her emotional state, underscoring the gravity of the situation and the urgency of a new solution."
"Realizing the historical cure fails against the mutated contagion escalates the crisis as infection spreads to new crew members including Troi."
Key Dialogue
"BEVERLY: The medical records we found say this works almost instantly."
"GEORDI: I've never seen a rainbow, Doc. Sunset. Sunrise. None of those. This is going to help me?"
"BEVERLY: The formula from the old Enterprise didn't work."
"RIKER: We don't have that kind of time."
"BEVERLY: You brought Deanna in?"
"RIKER: She's infected with it, too."
"RIKER: If we don't get our command computers back on-line soon, this -- whatever this is -- won't matter. We'll all be dead."