Beata Confronts Away Team with Fugitive Survivors and Cultural Rift
Plot Beats
The narrative micro-steps within this event
Beata demands a solemn promise from the away team to remove the male survivors from Angel One, putting Starfleet's intentions to a formal test.
Beata reveals internal division within the Parliament, acknowledging distrust but affirming a majority's reluctant trust in the away team.
Beata announces the existence of four male survivors led by Ramsey, marking the mission's simple rescue premise as a political confrontation.
Who Was There
Characters present in this moment
Alert and cautious, probing for gaps or risks in the information presented.
Yar questions pointedly about why the survivors are in hiding, demonstrating tactical vigilance and skepticism about the situation’s complexity and potential threats.
- • To uncover the reasons behind the fugitives’ concealment
- • To assess potential security risks to the away team
- • Understanding the fugitives’ motives is key to mission success
- • Hidden threats must be identified before engagement
Composed with a hint of cautious optimism, balancing diplomacy with mission urgency.
Riker responds with respectful pragmatism, acknowledging Beata’s faith but gently probing the rationale behind suspicion, expressing Starfleet’s intent to expedite the survivors’ removal if they are delivered.
- • To gain cooperation in locating and retrieving the fugitives
- • To maintain diplomatic goodwill while advancing Starfleet objectives
- • Trust can be built through respectful dialogue
- • Removing the fugitives quickly will defuse tensions
Measured calm masking apprehension about the political and cultural complexities the mission entails.
Troi responds diplomatically and affirmatively to Beata’s challenge, proposing the use of Enterprise technology to locate the fugitives, while sharing concerned, knowing looks with the away team, acting as emotional and diplomatic mediator.
- • To affirm Starfleet’s intention and build trust with Angel One’s leadership
- • To use all available means to locate the fugitives and ensure their safe removal
- • Diplomatic tact is essential to navigating Angel One’s volatile politics
- • The fugitives’ presence threatens both parties and must be resolved peacefully
Firm and guarded with an undercurrent of suspicion, maintaining control over a fragile political situation.
Beata commands the session with authoritative and stern presence, formally challenging the away team to commit to removing the fugitives, revealing their disruptive nature and insisting on the political necessity of their removal.
- • To secure a binding commitment from the away team to remove the fugitives
- • To protect Angel One’s matriarchal social order from disruption
- • The male survivors are a threat to Angel One’s societal stability
- • Starfleet’s intervention must be constrained to respect Angel One’s sovereignty
Guarded and wary, possibly conflicted between loyalties and political expediency.
Ariel silently expresses suspicion and unease during the parliamentary session, indicating internal dissent and mistrust towards the away team’s assurances, subtly highlighting fissures within Angel One’s political structure.
- • To monitor the away team’s actions closely
- • To maintain political order while protecting personal and societal interests
- • The Federation’s intentions may conceal threats to Angel One
- • Some members of Parliament are resistant to external influence
Objects Involved
Significant items in this scene
The escape pods from the lost freighter Odin are referenced symbolically as the origin point of the four male survivors, anchoring the away team’s mission and the political conflict about their removal.
Location Details
Places and their significance in this event
The Great Hall of Angel One serves as the formal political forum where Beata confronts the away team amidst the Parliament's session. It embodies the planet’s rigid matriarchal power structure and sets the stage for high-stakes dialogue and confrontation.
Narrative Connections
How this event relates to others in the story
"Troi's pressing for permission to search survivors leads to Beata reluctantly admitting the existence of four male survivors led by Ramsey, shifting the mission from hopeful contact to political tension."
"Troi's pressing for permission to search survivors leads to Beata reluctantly admitting the existence of four male survivors led by Ramsey, shifting the mission from hopeful contact to political tension."
"Troi's pressing for permission to search survivors leads to Beata reluctantly admitting the existence of four male survivors led by Ramsey, shifting the mission from hopeful contact to political tension."
Key Dialogue
"BEATA: You claim you intend to remove these survivors from our planet. Are you prepared to give us your solemn word on that?"
"BEATA: There are four survivors from the ship you call the Odin. All male. Their leader is a man who calls himself Ramsey."
"BEATA: Because they are fugitives on Angel One! And the sooner we are rid of them, the better!"