Phaser Decoy Foiled — Danar's Misdirection Escalates
Plot Beats
The narrative micro-steps within this event
Worf and a security guard prepare to ambush Danar at the turbolift, phasers drawn, only to find the lift empty with an overloaded phaser inside.
Worf prevents the phaser overload with quick adjustments, demonstrating Klingon reflexes while analyzing Danar's tactical genius.
Who Was There
Characters present in this moment
Neutral and informative; fulfills operational function without affective modulation.
Data does not appear physically but supplies the bridge/comms timing cue — a precise countdown delivery ("Four seconds to arrival") that frames Worf's window for action and the security team's expectations.
- • Provide accurate temporal information to aid the ambush/response.
- • Support ship operations by maintaining clear, timely sensor/comms feedback.
- • Accurate data reduces risk and enables effective tactical response.
- • Maintaining objective, timely reporting is his primary duty in this moment.
Focused, urgently calm — a professional concentration that masks awareness of a larger tactical threat.
Worf stands at a turbolift with a security guard, taps his insignia to signal, reacts instantly to a phaser shriek, kneels, picks up the overloaded weapon, opens and adjusts its internals to stop the overload, then inspects the device and reports the situation to the Captain.
- • Prevent the phaser overload from detaching or detonating and harming the ship or crew.
- • Maintain the security integrity of the deck by ordering immediate containment and informing command.
- • Immediate, decisive action can avert catastrophic damage.
- • His training and practical skill are sufficient to neutralize an engineered threat quickly.
Objects Involved
Significant items in this scene
The ship computer receives and executes a voice command ('Drop force field on deck thirty-six') transmitted via a personal communicator, demonstrating how centralized systems respond to authenticated vocal directives and enabling the tactical exploit.
The aft turbolift car functions as the physical container for the planted phaser and as the bait for the ambush; it arrives empty of passengers but with the explosive device left on its floor, turning a routine transit vehicle into a tactical staging ground.
The localized Deck 36 force field is the intended security barrier preventing movement off that tier. Roga—by using a crew member's communicator—issues a voice command to the ship computer which causes this field to collapse, converting the security measure into an exploited vulnerability.
A personal Starfleet communicator (represented by the canonical Riker unit) is pressed against a fallen guard's communicator by Roga, using the personal device as an authentication medium to transmit a spoken command to the ship computer and trigger subsystem changes.
A Starfleet handheld phaser is used as an engineered decoy: planted in the arriving turbolift and deliberately set to overload to scream and distract. Its audible shriek forces an immediate security reaction and serves as the false focal point while the real breach occurs elsewhere.
Location Details
Places and their significance in this event
The aft turbolift car (sliding into place on the bridge corridor) is used narratively as the bait: its cramped interior hides the planted phaser which functions as a timed diversion, converting the ordinary transit space into a focal point of urgency.
A nearby corridor (the one where Roga previously appeared) becomes the actual site of the human breach: a posted guard is struck down and his communicator pressed into service. The corridor functions as the place where the deception's true mechanism—physical incapacitation to gain voice access—takes place.
Deck Thirty-Six is the secured tier whose force-field lattice is momentarily cancelled by the spoken command; the deck's security posture is directly altered, turning a previously sealed area into a passageway for the escape.
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Key Dialogue
"WORF: "Phaser on overload! Seal this deck --""
"WORF: "Captain, the overload's been averted.""
"ROGA: "Drop force field on deck thirty-six.""