Containment Breach — Danar Heads for Engineering
Plot Beats
The narrative micro-steps within this event
Data reports a containment field failure—Danar's tactical sophistication becomes evident as breaches spread across decks.
Riker's frustration boils over—Starfleet's defensive systems unravel under Danar's relentless sabotage.
Picard's razor-sharp deduction cuts through the chaos—he anticipates Danar's endgame target: Engineering.
Riker's repeated hails to Engineering meet dead air—Danar's silent takeover of critical systems becomes terrifyingly real.
Who Was There
Characters present in this moment
Focused and controlled — a captain who masks alarm with clarity, translating crisis into a single, actionable imperative.
Picard listens to the report and issues a compact tactical assessment: he names Engineering as Danar's likely objective, converting raw data into strategic priority and setting the crew's defensive focus.
- • Direct crew attention and resources toward protecting Engineering.
- • Keep the situation contained and prevent damage to the ship's core systems.
- • The fugitive's behavior will target technical vulnerabilities rather than random destruction.
- • Clear, authoritative direction from command will stabilize the crew's response.
Calm, factual; operating in information-mode with no apparent surprise, serving as the bridge's objective sensor of reality.
Data delivers a precise sensor report: the containment field on Deck 36 is down. He stands on the bridge as the factual anchor, supplying the diagnostic data point that triggers command decisions.
- • Provide accurate sensor status and diagnostics to command.
- • Enable command to make a rapid, informed tactical decision.
- • Ship sensors and diagnostics are the primary means to assess the breach.
- • Clear, unemotional data presentation will best support command response.
Alarmed and urgent — visibly unsettled by the unexplained breach and by the silence from Engineering, which raises fear for ship safety.
Riker reacts verbally and procedurally: he questions the breach, expresses alarm, immediately attempts to contact La Forge by comm and escalates the call when there is no response, transforming concern into urgent action.
- • Re-establish comms with Engineering and La Forge to assess and close the breach.
- • Determine how the containment failed and prevent an attack on critical systems.
- • Engineering and La Forge are essential to diagnosing and fixing containment failures.
- • A missing response from Engineering indicates a more serious, immediate threat.
Unknown due to lack of response; from the bridge perspective his silence creates anxious uncertainty and implies possible incapacitation or system failure.
Geordi La Forge is the intended recipient of Riker's calls but gives no response in this moment; his silence functions narratively as an absence that deepens the crisis and implies Engineering is compromised or unreachable.
- • (Inferred) Restore or manage engineering systems if operational.
- • (Inferred) Respond to command calls to coordinate repairs and containment.
- • (Inferred) Engineering is the logical center for repairing a containment breach.
- • (Inferred) Communication with the bridge is essential for coordinated response.
Objects Involved
Significant items in this scene
The Detention Cell Containment Field on Deck 36 is the immediate point of failure: Data reports it down, which both reveals the escape and provides the causal starting point for the bridge's tactical pivot toward Engineering.
Location Details
Places and their significance in this event
Main Engineering is named by Picard as the fugitive's intended target, shifting the bridge's strategy from passive detection to protecting the reactor and core systems; its integrity is now the principal narrative stake of the event.
Deck Thirty-Six is the physical origin of the crisis: its containment lattice fails, creating the breach. It functions as the tactical touchpoint whose compromised status transforms a localized event into an existential threat to ship systems.
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Key Dialogue
"DATA: "Sir, containment field down on deck thirty-six.""
"RIKER: "How the hell did he manage that?""
"PICARD: "He's headed for Engineering.""