Shuttlecraft Thirteen’s Desperate Descent
Plot Beats
The narrative micro-steps within this event
Lieutenant Prieto confirms Counselor Troi is alive but shaken as the shuttle suffers violent buffeting and imminent loss of power, signaling a dire emergency.
Counselor Troi transmits last messages reporting loss of impulse power and uncontrollable spinning as the shuttle falls into the planet's gravity, culminating in the impending crash and the crew's horror.
Who Was There
Characters present in this moment
Calm and confident, with underlying alertness to the unfolding crisis.
At the Aft station on the Enterprise bridge, Lieutenant Natasha Yar engages in routine sensor monitoring and casual conversation with Worf, maintaining composure but alertness. Though not central to the emergency communication, she embodies steadiness and readiness as tension escalates around her.
- • Maintain situational awareness
- • Support the bridge team’s operational needs
- • The crew must remain composed under pressure
- • Preparedness ensures survival in crisis
Unflappable focus with detached concern for crew safety.
Data provides analytical assessment of shuttle trajectory and environmental factors, identifying the gravitational influence of Vagra Two. Calm and methodical, he informs command of critical spatial data despite incomplete information.
- • Provide accurate spatial analysis
- • Assist command with strategic information
- • Data-driven decisions optimize outcomes
- • Facts must guide emergency responses
Highly alert, professionally composed but internally concerned.
Stationed at the Aft console, Worf conducts deep sensor probes and radar confirmations, then alerts command immediately upon receiving the shuttle's emergency transmission. His disciplined focus and cultural warrior mindset drive his rapid and precise communication to the bridge team.
- • Provide accurate sensor data
- • Warn command of imminent dangers
- • Duty to protect the ship and crew
- • Clear communication saves lives
Concerned but maintaining composure to lead effectively.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard commands the bridge with authoritative concern, monitoring all transmissions, issuing orders to Engineering, and providing calm leadership under rising tension as the shuttle spirals toward disaster.
- • Ensure crew safety
- • Coordinate rescue and restoration of warp power
- • Leadership requires calm under pressure
- • Every second counts in emergencies
Calm on surface, with underlying tension and acceptance of danger.
Counselor Deanna Troi remains aboard Shuttlecraft Thirteen, communicating with the Enterprise bridge via intermittent, controlled voice transmissions, showing composure despite the crisis while acknowledging the severity of their predicament.
- • Maintain communication with the Enterprise
- • Support the pilot and prepare for worst-case scenario
- • Composure aids survival
- • The crew will mount a rescue effort
Stressed yet resolutely committed to overcoming technical obstacles swiftly.
Lieutenant Commander Leland T. Lynch leads Engineering’s urgent efforts to realign dilithium crystals manually, working under extreme pressure to restore warp power in a race against time to enable a rescue mission.
- • Restore warp power rapidly
- • Support bridge command's emergency directives
- • Time is critical for mission success
- • Manual intervention can overcome automated failures
Not applicable due to absence.
Wesley Crusher is notably absent from his usual station during the crisis, indicating his limited direct involvement in this specific event’s unfolding on the bridge.
Objects Involved
Significant items in this scene
The Enterprise Bridge's main viewer is activated to attempt visual contact with the shuttlecraft, though only audio transmissions are received, projecting tension and urgency as the crew watches for any sign of the shuttle’s condition.
Shuttlecraft Thirteen is the endangered vehicle carrying Counselor Troi and Lieutenant Prieto. It suffers catastrophic system failures, including a fried flight control computer, uncontrollable spinning, and loss of impulse power, making it helplessly caught in Vagra Two's gravity well and precipitating the emergency rescue.
The flight control computer aboard Shuttlecraft Thirteen fails dramatically mid-flight, its malfunction directly contributing to the shuttle’s uncontrollable spinning and loss of navigation control, intensifying the crisis.
Location Details
Places and their significance in this event
Main Engineering is the critical technical space where the warp drive’s dilithium crystals are being manually realigned under pressure, representing the physical and procedural heartbeat behind the Enterprise’s potential salvation.
The Zed Lapis Sector provides the spatial backdrop for the rendezvous operation and the shuttle’s sudden peril, framing the vast emptiness of space where the Enterprise and shuttlecraft face isolation and imminent disaster.
Planet Vagra Two’s gravity well traps the shuttle in a deadly pull, its barren and uninhabited surface looming as an imminent threat and catalyst for the shuttle’s catastrophic system overloads and eventual crash.
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Key Dialogue
"WORF: "Routine deep sensor probe indicates no obstacles, no vessels within a range of three light years.""
"BEN'S COM VOICE: "Sir, I have an onboard systems failure. You'll have to tell me where I am.""
"TROI'S COM VOICE: "We're spinning around... We're caught in the planet's gravity. We're going to crash.""