Danar's Transporter Breakout — The Beam Fails
Plot Beats
The narrative micro-steps within this event
Worf receives confirmation that the transporter is ready for Roga Danar's transfer, signaling the start of the forced relocation.
Troi and Roga exchange a significant look as the forcefield drops, revealing their mutual understanding of the dire situation.
Roga seizes the momentary vulnerability in the system to resist the transporter beam with all his strength, risking fatal injury to escape.
Troi pleads with Roga to stop his dangerous resistance, while Worf and security raise their phasers, escalating the immediate threat.
O'Brien reports losing Roga in the transporter beam, highlighting Roga's extraordinary strength and tactical skill.
Roga successfully escapes the transporter beam in a violent explosion, leaving the security team dazed and confirming his unmatched will to survive.
Who Was There
Characters present in this moment
Alarmed and frustrated—confident in equipment but rapidly losing control as the transporter destabilizes.
Manages the transporter from Transporter Room One, reports readiness, energizes the beam, then frantically tells the com panel he is losing the lock as pattern integrity fails.
- • Maintain a secure transporter lock on the subject
- • Complete the scheduled transfer safely and according to protocol
- • The transporter system is controllable and reliable under normal conditions
- • Timely technical response can prevent escapes or accidents
Tactically focused and ready for violence, then abruptly shocked and stunned when containment fails.
Commands the transport proceed, positions himself with three security officers and raises his phaser in strict readiness; is knocked into dazed confusion by the explosion and falls to the deck.
- • Ensure the secure transfer of a dangerous prisoner
- • Protect the counselor and security team from harm
- • Following transporter protocol will maintain safe custody
- • Immediate, decisive use of force is justified if the prisoner breaches containment
Distressed and urgently compassionate—fearful for Danar's life while frustrated by the limits of protocol.
Leans toward the prisoner and pleads aloud for restraint; attempts emotional de-escalation and is rendered dazed by the explosion, left physically disoriented on the cell floor.
- • Prevent Danar from injuring himself or others during transport
- • De-escalate the situation and secure a non-lethal outcome
- • Danar can be reached mentally and may respond to empathy
- • Use of lethal force is a last resort and can be avoided with intervention
Objects Involved
Significant items in this scene
The cargo/transfer transporter console is actively operated by O'Brien to lock and energize the pattern; readouts degrade as the subject resists and O'Brien calls out 'I'm losing him,' signifying a technical failure under unexpected strain.
The detention cell com panel functions as the transmission conduit for O'Brien's urgent telemetry and status calls; it relays the 'I'm losing him' warning to Worf and marks the technical line between transporter room and cell during the crisis.
The detention cell's containment forcefield briefly shimmers as engineers power it down to allow transporter access; its removal exposes the prisoner to the beam and then the room to chaos when the beam is disrupted, making the field's deactivation the proximate cause of the physical confrontation.
The transporter containment beam holds Danar in a materialization pattern as O'Brien energizes the system; Danar strains against it, ruptures its integrity, and the beam collapses in a violent release of energy and smoke which facilitates his disappearance from the pad.
Handheld security phasers are raised by Worf and the guards as a deterrent and immediate defensive option; they remain unused as the explosion renders the security team dazed, leaving weapons ineffective in the decisive moment.
Location Details
Places and their significance in this event
Transporter Room One is the remote control hub where O'Brien operates the transporter, relays telemetry to the cell, and ultimately reports loss of pattern lock; its technical function and procedural authority are central to the event's escalation and failure.
The high-security detention cell is the physical stage for the transfer: its contained, clinical space becomes the site of an abrupt rupture when the forcefield is lowered and Danar breaks the transporter pattern, turning the cell into a battleground of procedure versus physiological anomaly.
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Key Dialogue
"O'BRIEN: "I'm losing him... what the hell...?""
"WORF: "Proceed.""
"TROI: "Roga, don't, you'll be killed...""