Troi's Premonition and Worf's Emergency Beam-Up
Plot Beats
The narrative micro-steps within this event
Troi senses impending danger and urgently warns the captain to beam up the Away Team.
Worf's frantic call for an emergency beam-up signals a crisis, prompting immediate action from Picard and the crew.
The crew waits tensely for word on the Away Team's condition, with Troi sensing the tragedy before it is confirmed.
Who Was There
Characters present in this moment
Calm under pressure—professional focus on completing the beam‑up despite system or field stresses.
Operating at the Transporter Room console (over COM), O'Brien confirms he has the Away Team in the transporter pattern and provides the technical assurance the bridge needs to order a direct beam to Sickbay.
- • Safely recover the Away Team through the transporter
- • Provide timely status updates to command to enable medical response
- • Transporters can execute emergency retrievals reliably with proper commands
- • Clear, concise confirmations prevent delays in medical evacuation
Concentrated and professional—alert to commands though not personally involved in the emotional exchange.
Manning the Forward Conn helm, Wesley is focused on translating immediate helm inputs while the bridge's tempo shifts around him; he remains ready to execute any evasive or course adjustments ordered.
- • Be prepared to execute helm maneuvers
- • Maintain ship control while bridge attention shifts to the emergency
- • Orders from bridge command are to be executed without hesitation
- • Operational stability must be preserved even during sudden crises
Concerned and alert—measured externally but carrying the emotional weight of responsibility for away team safety.
Standing at an access station, Picard receives Troi's urgent warning and immediately converts it into command action: he orders the Transporter Room and redirects incoming casualties to Sickbay, asserting operational control.
- • Protect and recover the Away Team
- • Ensure injured personnel receive immediate medical treatment
- • The captain must act quickly to preserve life and ship responsibility
- • Troi's warning and field reports are actionable and must be balanced with procedure
Clinically curious with a touch of concern—processing facts and the bridge's behavioral shift without alarm.
At Ops, Data provides the historical context about the Koinonians and receives the Away Team report; he remains analytical and calm as the situation escalates from academic inquiry to emergency.
- • Provide accurate contextual data about the Koinonians to inform command decisions
- • Relay and confirm status reports from the field to the bridge
- • Data and history are essential to understanding current risk
- • Clear, accurate communications facilitate correct command responses
Urgent, alarmed, and commanding—straightforward professional alarm mixed with responsibility for the team's fate.
Speaking over the field COM, Worf reports the survey findings then abruptly interrupts with a frantic ‘emergency beam‑up’ call, indicating injuries and forcing the bridge from analysis to rescue mode.
- • Secure immediate evacuation of injured away‑team members
- • Communicate the gravity of the situation to the Enterprise command
- • Field officer duty requires immediate notification and extraction when casualties occur
- • Swift transporter action is the best way to preserve life
Alert and cooperative—ready to execute Picard's orders while absorbing the emotional cue from Troi's premonition.
Near Picard at the access station, Riker solicits and relays field reports, registers Troi's obvious distress, and watches the bridge pivot from analysis to emergency readiness.
- • Help translate sensor and field information into immediate orders
- • Support the captain's decision-making and maintain bridge cohesion
- • Chain of command must convert information into action quickly
- • Troi's empathic impressions are significant and should be heeded
Alarmed and foreboding—emotionally shaken by a strong, involuntary impression of imminent harm to the Away Team.
In the command area, Troi's eyes go wide as she experiences a sudden empathic premonition; she interrupts the briefing to urgently warn Picard to recall the Away Team, then registers the confirmation of her fear when Worf interrupts with the emergency call.
- • Prevent harm to the Away Team by prompting immediate recall
- • Ensure her empathic warning is taken seriously by command
- • Her empathic impressions are reliable indicators of danger
- • Prompt action from command can avert or mitigate tragedy
Unknown directly on the bridge, but the team is implied to be in pain, disoriented, and in urgent need of care.
The Away Team is the subject of the bridge's actions: they are on the planet, have completed the third tunnel survey, and are suddenly reported injured and in need of immediate transport back to the ship.
- • Survive and be evacuated to medical care
- • Allow ship command to effect a rapid rescue
- • Field surveys carry intrinsic risk that command must be ready to address
- • They can rely on Enterprise to extract and treat them when required
Objects Involved
Significant items in this scene
The Enterprise transporter system is the decisive technical instrument in this event: Picard orders an emergency beam, O'Brien locks the pattern, and the system is repurposed from routine survey support to urgent medical evacuation, converting fear into action.
The Bridge Operations Console projects orbital imagery and sensor readouts that reveal the Koinonian markings and away‑team position; officers crowd it to interpret data and coordinate the emergency beam‑up, making it the informational hub for the decision to evacuate.
The Forward Conn helm station (where Wesley is posted) holds the ship's immediate navigational controls and remains ready to execute any orders; its presence underscores that while the bridge reacts to the emergency, ship handling must remain steady.
The Koinonian markings function as the narrative catalyst that prompted the bridge briefing; their identification triggers the survey that places the Away Team in the Third Tunnel and underlies Troi's premonition and the subsequent emergency.
Location Details
Places and their significance in this event
Transporter Room Three is the operational hub that executes O'Brien's beam‑up. It is the technical bridge between the planetary surface and Sickbay, where the transporter matrix is engaged under pressure to recover and relay injured personnel to medical care.
Sickbay is named as the destination for injured personnel; it functions as the immediate medical refuge where Doctor Crusher and medics will receive and triage the beam‑ed casualties, shifting the bridge's concern from retrieval to care.
The Koinonian Ceremonial Chamber is the intended destination of the Away Team and the larger context for their survey; its ritual significance fuels the narrative stakes and casts the emergency as occurring within a culturally charged space.
The Third Tunnel is the field location the Away Team just surveyed; its mention anchors the bridge reports and pinpoints where the emergency originated, implying confined, dangerous subterranean conditions where the incident occurred.
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Key Dialogue
"TROI: "Captain! Beam them up quickly! They---""
"WORF'S COM VOICE: "Emergency beam-up! Enterprise, emergency! Injuries. Away---""
"PICARD: "Transporter Room!""