Worf Volunteers; Away Team Assembles
Plot Beats
The narrative micro-steps within this event
Worf requests to join the rescue party, showing his intense determination to save Picard.
Riker grants Worf's request and prepares to leave, assigning Data to the bridge.
Wesley wishes Riker good luck, and Riker reassures him with a promise to bring Picard and Crusher home.
Riker, Alexana, and Worf depart for the rescue mission, solidifying the plan's execution.
Who Was There
Characters present in this moment
Concerned and grief-driven but resolutely focused; outwardly composed while anxiety fuels his determination.
Wesley delivers the pinpoint coordinates for the Ansata base, sums up the plan aloud for the assembled officers, and offers a terse, earnest good-luck to the departing rescue team, his scientific authority sharpened by personal stake.
- • Provide accurate sensor-derived coordinates and actionable intelligence.
- • Support the rescue team by converting analysis into operationally useful data.
- • Offer moral support to the crew and Beverly’s loved ones.
- • Objective data can materially change the outcome of the rescue.
- • His work and precision are morally necessary given the personal stakes.
- • The crew will act decisively if given a sound scientific fix.
Pragmatic and steely; motivated by a mix of professional necessity and personal exhaustion, but ready to act.
Alexana proposes a concrete tactical maneuver—shutting down the Ansata facility's artificial lighting to sow confusion—and signals readiness to accompany Riker, translating municipal counterterror experience into practical battlefield advice.
- • Use tactical advantage (lighting shutdown) to protect and locate hostages.
- • Accompany and assist the rescue team with municipal resources and knowledge.
- • Prevent further civilian casualties through decisive intervention.
- • Aggressive measures can minimize casualties when used intelligently.
- • Her local authority and experience make her an asset on the ground.
- • Delay or indecision will cost lives.
Calm, methodical and composed; externally unemotional but focused on ensuring clarity and continuity of command.
Data presents precise sensor readings confirming the Ansata base is thirty meters underground with no surface passages, then formally accepts temporary command of the bridge when Riker hands it over, anchoring the command structure while the rescue departs.
- • Provide accurate, unambiguous sensor analysis to guide tactical decisions.
- • Maintain bridge operations and command continuity during the rescue.
- • Reduce informational uncertainty for the away team.
- • Empirical sensor data is the correct basis for operational choices.
- • Orderly command transitions preserve mission effectiveness.
- • Reliable analysis lowers risk to the rescue party.
Solemn, duty-bound determination—his outward calm conceals a fierce readiness to act on behalf of Picard and the crew.
Worf enters from the aft turbolift, visibly drawn but determined, requests permission to join the rescue party and cites an obligation to the captain; his physical presence and intensity shift the emotional tenor of the bridge toward action.
- • Join the rescue party to protect and recover hostages, especially out of loyalty to the captain.
- • Fulfill a personal debt of honor by risking himself in action.
- • Provide tactical strength and security for the away team.
- • Personal honor and loyalty obligate direct action.
- • Physical presence and combat capability will materially help the rescue.
- • Command will grant permission if the mission is necessary and urgent.
Resolute and focused with an undercurrent of quiet reassurance—he's aware of the stakes and seeks to steady his crew through action and promise.
Riker synthesizes the intelligence into a decision to act: he accepts Alexana's tactic, grants Worf permission to join, formally hands the bridge to Data, and departs with Alexana toward the turbolift—balancing operational command with compassion and urgency.
- • Lead a timely and effective rescue to recover hostages.
- • Ensure command continuity by delegating the bridge to a competent officer.
- • Reassure and steady junior crew (Wesley) and maintain morale.
- • Immediate, decisive action is needed to rescue the hostages.
- • Trusting skilled subordinates preserves operational effectiveness.
- • Personal promises and leadership steadiness matter to crew confidence.
Objects Involved
Significant items in this scene
The Enterprise aft turbolift car functions as the immediate ingress/egress point: Worf arrives via it, and Riker and Alexana use it to depart toward the away operation, turning a routine transport into a staging threshold for action.
The Ansata Facility Artificial Lighting System is referenced as the critical tactical lever Alexana proposes to disable; its existence explains visibility inside the subterranean cavern and becomes a planned point of intervention to disorient defenders and aid the rescue team.
The Science One console functions as the informational hub where Wesley and Data display sensor overlays, locate the Ansata base, and communicate coordinates to command; it converts raw telemetry into the actionable intelligence that triggers the rescue decision.
Location Details
Places and their significance in this event
The Science One aft station on the main bridge is where the technical verification occurs and where raw data becomes a moral imperative; it serves as the hinge between analytic labor and tactical decision-making in this moment.
The aft turbolift car functions as a tactical threshold—Worf enters from it and Riker and Alexana depart in it—literally carrying decision into motion and turning the bridge's choices into movement toward the rescue site.
The Ansata Base is the confirmed subterranean target of the rescue: described as thirty meters below ground with no surface egress, it frames the tactical problem—no quick extraction route, artificial lighting as a vulnerability—and escalates the moral urgency of the mission.
Narrative Connections
How this event relates to others in the story
"Wesley's connection of the nuclear vibrations to the Elway Theorem eventually enables the team to locate the Ansata base, driving the rescue mission."
"Wesley's connection of the nuclear vibrations to the Elway Theorem eventually enables the team to locate the Ansata base, driving the rescue mission."
"Wesley and Data's pinpointing of the Ansata base enables Riker, Alexana, and Worf to launch the rescue mission."
"Wesley and Data's pinpointing of the Ansata base enables Riker, Alexana, and Worf to launch the rescue mission."
Themes This Exemplifies
Thematic resonance and meaning
Key Dialogue
"WORF: "Request permission to join the rescue party, sir.""
"RIKER: "Mister Data... You have the bridge.""
"RIKER: "We'll bring them home, Wes.""