Bridge Lockdown — Turbolift as Bait
Plot Beats
The narrative micro-steps within this event
Picard orders the ship into general quarters and clearance of corridors, prioritizing containment and safety.
Picard directs heightened security measures on specific decks to prevent Danar's movement.
Riker proposes reactivating turbolifts as bait to force Danar into a predictable move.
Who Was There
Characters present in this moment
Grim determination — composed command presence overlaying an urgent need to prevent loss of life and diplomatic fallout.
Issues immediate, high-level orders from the bridge: commands Data to sound general quarters and seal decks, expresses explicit concern about hostages, and accepts Riker's tactical recommendation with a grim nod.
- • Secure the ship and prevent Danar from taking hostages
- • Contain the situation while preserving crew and civilian safety
- • Starfleet protocol and decisive containment reduce casualties
- • Delaying action risks hostage situations and political escalation
Calmly dutiful — objective execution of orders with no visible affective modulation.
Complies efficiently with bridge orders: executes the general‑quarters command and activates the requested security containment fields on specified decks via control consoles without hesitation.
- • Implement command decisions correctly and quickly
- • Ensure ship systems reflect tactical decisions to protect crew
- • Following chain-of-command orders ensures best operational outcome
- • Systems will behave predictably when configured correctly
Focused, quietly confident — willing to accept a calculated risk to convert passive containment into capture.
Proposes an active tactic from the bridge: reactivating turbolifts as bait to force Danar into predictable behavior; explains the simple cause/effect rationale to Picard and trusts ship systems to execute it.
- • Entice Danar into a controllable trap
- • Minimize collateral damage while ensuring capture
- • Danar will act on obvious opportunities (predictable behavior)
- • Controlled risks now are preferable to uncontrolled escalation later
Objects Involved
Significant items in this scene
The aft corridor turbolift car is reactivated by order (via bridge systems) and used as deliberate tactical bait. Its doors open in the corridor, presenting the opportunity Roga tests by stepping inside; narratively it converts an inert transport system into a trigger for capture.
Main bridge security containment fields are ordered raised to seal decks thirty‑four through thirty‑six. They serve as immediate physical barriers shaping Danar's options and narrowing escape corridors; the fields materially convert tactical intent into constrained geography.
Handheld energy weapons (security phasers) are implied as the ship moves to general quarters and prepare for enforcement. Their existence raises the specter of lethal force and anchors the contingency that fields, orders, and bait could escalate into deadly confrontation.
Location Details
Places and their significance in this event
The corridor outside the transporter room functions as the tactical chokepoint where Roga prowls, a guard watches near a glowing forcefield rim, and the reopened turbolift door becomes bait. The corridor's narrow geometry concentrates risk and creates a stage for sudden confrontation between hunter and hunted.
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Key Dialogue
"PICARD: Sound general quarters. Clear corridors of all non-essential personnel. I don't want him taking any hostages."
"DATA: General quarters sounded, sir."
"RIKER: Data... put the turbolifts back on line. If Danar sees they're operating, he may try to use one."
"RIKER: Soon as he does, we have him."