Anya Revealed — Command, Contagion, and the Ethics of Protection
Plot Beats
The narrative micro-steps within this event
THE MONSTER sheds its terrors and transmutes back into its governess form, Anya, leaving the sickbay stunned as PULASKI immediately moves to tend the patient and the room scrambles to process the revelation.
Pulaski and Anya clash in a rapid-fire moral fight—Pulaski screams that there is no contagion and demands Anya be kept away while Anya insists Hennesey's disease threatens SALIA—Picard moves to assert command and calm the fray, declaring the situation under control.
Who Was There
Characters present in this moment
Furious and protective—aggressive maternal instinct dominates, with a deep conviction that her intervention is necessary to protect Salia.
The attacking creature transmutes into this governess figure, vocally challenges Picard and Pulaski, insists Hennesey is a threat to Salia, glares with fury, refuses interference, but ultimately is outwardly compliant and is escorted from Sickbay under guard.
- • remove or neutralize the perceived threat to Salia
- • refuse external control and maintain autonomy over her ward's safety
- • resist Starfleet's attempts to confine or dismiss her authority
- • Her powers and duty to Salia supersede Starfleet jurisdiction
- • The patient's disease genuinely endangers Salia and justifies lethal action
- • Obedience to Starfleet orders is negotiable when it conflicts with her protective mandate
Implied fear and helplessness (patient unconscious), dependent entirely on Starfleet personnel for protection and care.
Lies vulnerable and unconscious on the Sickbay bed; becomes the focal point of Pulaski's protective actions and the justification for both Anya's aggression and Starfleet's protective measures.
- • survive and receive medical treatment
- • not be harmed by external forces (monster/Anya) or by misapplied security measures
- • Implicit trust in Starfleet medical care (by virtue of being in Sickbay)
- • Cannot actively influence events; survival depends on the actions of caregivers
Frightened and frantic but professionally centered; fear for the patient's safety drives an insistence on medical fact and procedure.
Shields the unconscious patient by physically placing herself and the bed between Hennesey and the attacker, calls for security, pushes the bed away from the struggle, checks the patient's condition, and argues forcefully with both Anya and Picard about contagion risk and medical protocol.
- • ensure Hennesey receives appropriate medical care and is not needlessly endangered
- • secure containment and medical protocol rather than summary destruction
- • prevent panic and preserve medical integrity aboard Sickbay
- • Medical ethics require treatment and containment rather than immediate destruction
- • There is no recorded contagious risk from this patient per existing medical records
- • Institutional knowledge (the catalog) should guide decisions about unknown life-forms
Controlled and authoritative on the surface, barely containing an undercurrent of anger and personal affront at being defied by a sovereign protector.
Enters Sickbay at the height of the struggle, commands guards to hold fire, addresses Anya authoritatively, issues orders to confine her to quarters and to post security outside Sickbay, containing both the immediate physical threat and the ship's moral response.
- • de-escalate the violent confrontation and protect the patient and crew
- • reassert Starfleet command and legal authority aboard the Enterprise
- • prevent further transformations or casualties by imposing confinement and security
- • Starfleet command structure must be enforced to preserve order
- • Containment and oversight are the appropriate responses to an unknown, potentially dangerous entity
- • Medical and security issues aboard the ship must be balanced by command decisions
Tense, focused, and ready to use force if necessary; a steady professionalism overlaying concern for the patient and crew safety.
Physically engages the monster, drawing and attempting to fire his phaser, is grappled and pulled off balance, then follows Picard's orders—motions to the security personnel and helps oversee Anya being led out under guard while preparing to post guards outside Sickbay.
- • protect Hennesey and the medical staff from physical harm
- • carry out Picard's orders to secure and restrain Anya
- • prevent further transformations or escalation by maintaining a security presence
- • Use of force is justified to protect lives aboard the ship
- • Chain of command must be obeyed and enacted swiftly
- • An unknown shapeshifter is an immediate security hazard
Objects Involved
Significant items in this scene
Doors on both sides of Sickbay slide open to admit three security personnel whose arrival changes the dynamic of the struggle; the opening doors act as the physical threshold through which enforcement enters and containment becomes possible.
The medical bed cradles the unconscious patient and is physically pushed by Dr. Pulaski to create distance between Hennesey and the combatants. It functions as a mobile barrier and visual anchor for Pulaski's protective efforts, framing the medical-staff-versus-security stakes.
Invoked verbally by Pulaski as the scientific authority that contains no record of the creature; functions narratively as the institutional foil to Anya's claim and as the immediate source for the 'allasomorph' hypothesis.
Worf pulls this heavy-duty phaser to engage the monster; the creature seizes it from him mid-struggle, using the weapon as both leverage and a signifier of threatened violence. The phaser's seizure raises the stakes, placing Worf in the line of fire and forcing Picard's intervention.
Location Details
Places and their significance in this event
Admiralty Quarters is named by Picard as the mandated place of confinement for Anya; it functions as the institutional solution to neutralize her presence while preserving her personhood and the ship's order.
The Patients' Quarters of Sickbay is the staged battleground where medical duty collides with security enforcement. The cramped, clinical space focuses action onto the bed and the people around it, forcing decisions that collapse ethics, authority, and primal protection into a single, intense confrontation.
Narrative Connections
How this event relates to others in the story
"Picard's recognition in the Ready Room of a dangerous life-form logically leads to the order to keep Anya confined — command-level concern translates into immediate containment policy."
"Anya's violent transformation is immediately followed by reversion and the crew's classification attempt (Pulaski invoking 'allasomorphs') — the incident reveals Anya's true nature and forces Starfleet response."
"Anya's violent transformation is immediately followed by reversion and the crew's classification attempt (Pulaski invoking 'allasomorphs') — the incident reveals Anya's true nature and forces Starfleet response."
"Picard's orders to confine Anya and restrict transformations set the emotional and physical conditions that drive Salia to confront Anya in her quarters about friendship and agency."
"Picard's orders to confine Anya and restrict transformations set the emotional and physical conditions that drive Salia to confront Anya in her quarters about friendship and agency."
Themes This Exemplifies
Thematic resonance and meaning
Part of Larger Arcs
Key Dialogue
"Pulaski: She wants to kill Hennesey!"
"Anya: His disease threatens Salia!"
"Picard: It will have to be."