Korris Escapes Security with Lethal Weapon
Plot Beats
The narrative micro-steps within this event
The main bridge crew reacts promptly to the security breach, with Picard ordering to be kept informed and initiating visual on Captain K'Nera to assess Klingon involvement.
Captain K'Nera offers Klingon assistance against the escaped warrior, implying Korris's formidable skill; Picard refuses external help, asserting confidence in Starfleet's ability to manage the situation.
Who Was There
Characters present in this moment
Professional urgency with steady command presence despite the deadly breach.
Lieutenant Tasha Yar arrives promptly with security reinforcements, assesses the situation, and urgently reports the escape and casualties to the Main Bridge, maintaining professionalism amid crisis.
- • Contain or recapture Korris.
- • Maintain situational awareness and inform command promptly.
- • Starfleet security must remain uncompromised.
- • Clear communication is vital during crises.
Calm authoritative control masking awareness of the delicate political stakes.
Captain Picard remains composed on the Main Bridge, receives urgent updates about the breakout, commands to stay informed, and decisively rejects Klingon Captain K'Nera’s offered assistance, asserting confidence and Starfleet sovereignty.
- • Maintain command and control over the crisis.
- • Avoid escalation by managing Klingon relations diplomatically.
- • Starfleet must handle internal threats independently to preserve order.
- • Klingon offers of assistance may complicate political tensions.
Emotionally neutral with steady focus on operational duties.
Data promptly responds to Picard’s request by activating a visual on Klingon Captain K'Nera, facilitating bridge situational awareness during the tense negotiations.
- • Provide accurate and timely visual information to command.
- • Support Picard’s decision-making process.
- • Data’s role is to assist command effectively.
- • Situational awareness is critical in crisis management.
Calmly resolute with controlled aggression enabling strategic escape.
Korris leads the assembly of the weapon using personal uniform parts, calmly initiates the breakout by firing at security guards, and successfully escapes the Security Area after the firefight.
- • Escape captivity at all costs.
- • Maintain Klingon warrior honor through decisive action.
- • Survival and honor justify violent rebellion.
- • Starfleet underestimates Klingon warrior capabilities.
Resolutely aggressive with a willingness to sacrifice himself for the renegade cause.
Konmel actively constructs the deadly weapon by dismantling parts of his uniform and attaching a device to neutralize the security forcefield. He engages in a lethal phaser exchange with security guards but is ultimately killed during the breakout.
- • Disable the forcefield to enable escape.
- • Use the improvised weapon to overpower security forces.
- • The Klingon Empire's peace is corrupted and must be opposed.
- • Honor is upheld through action and sacrifice, even violent rebellion.
Confident and formal with a tone of challenge and honor-bound expectation.
Captain K'Nera challenges Picard by offering Klingon Defense Force assistance to recapture the escaped Korris, asserting Klingon warrior capability and imperial authority.
- • Reassert Klingon imperial control over renegades.
- • Intervene in Federation affairs to maintain Klingon interests.
- • Klingon warriors are best suited to deal with Klingon renegades.
- • Offering assistance enhances Klingon political leverage.
Urgently defensive, caught off-guard but committed to duty.
Security guard Ramos attempts to alert his team to the forcefield breach but is cut off by the breakout. He engages in the firefight and is killed alongside another guard.
- • Prevent the escape of the renegades.
- • Protect the integrity of the Security Area and fellow crew.
- • Security protocols must be upheld to maintain ship safety.
- • The renegades represent a lethal threat that must be contained.
Objects Involved
Significant items in this scene
Phasers are wielded by both the renegades and security guards during the firefight triggered by the breakout, serving as the immediate cause of death and violence in the event.
The assembled Klingon weapon, crafted from belt buckles, boot panels, a stolen device, and a bracelet, becomes the lethal instrument enabling the violent breakout by neutralizing security and firing on guards.
The forcefield surrounding the Security Holding Area is sabotaged by Konmel attaching a device, instantly neutralizing it and allowing the renegades’ escape.
Location Details
Places and their significance in this event
The Main Bridge operates as the command center where Picard receives updates on the breakout and manages Starfleet response, projecting calm authority amid crisis and political friction.
The Enterprise Security Area serves as the confined battleground where the Klingon renegades assemble their weapon, disable the forcefield, and violently break out, symbolizing the vulnerability and tension within Starfleet’s containment.
Narrative Connections
How this event relates to others in the story
"Korris and Konmel’s assembly of a weapon directly causes the violent prison break, killing guards and escalating the crisis onboard."
"Korris and Konmel’s assembly of a weapon directly causes the violent prison break, killing guards and escalating the crisis onboard."
"The escape of Korris heightens the emergency, prompting K’Nera’s offer of aid and Picard’s refusal, showcasing Starfleet’s resolve."
"The escape of Korris heightens the emergency, prompting K’Nera’s offer of aid and Picard’s refusal, showcasing Starfleet’s resolve."
"Korris and Konmel’s assembly of a weapon directly causes the violent prison break, killing guards and escalating the crisis onboard."
"Korris and Konmel’s assembly of a weapon directly causes the violent prison break, killing guards and escalating the crisis onboard."
"The escape of Korris heightens the emergency, prompting K’Nera’s offer of aid and Picard’s refusal, showcasing Starfleet’s resolve."
"The escape of Korris heightens the emergency, prompting K’Nera’s offer of aid and Picard’s refusal, showcasing Starfleet’s resolve."
Key Dialogue
"GUARD: (on communicator) This is Ramos -- the forcefield in Security Three has..."
"TASHA: Lieutenant Yar to bridge. There has been an escape. Two of my security are dead. So is Konmel. Korris is loose -- and armed."
"K'NERA: He is a trained Klingon warrior, perhaps more than you can handle. It is no disgrace to request our assistance."
"PICARD: I think we can handle the situation."