Energize — Picard's High‑Stakes Command

With the Klingon cruiser Pagh freshly decloaked and moments from delivering a devastating strike, Picard makes an instantaneous, risk-heavy decision: he orders the transporter energized. That single command converts Riker’s desperate bluff — backed by Worf’s clandestine emergency transponder — into an actionable, close‑range lock. O'Brien throws the switches and the die is cast: a daring extraction that will materialize Kargan aboard the Enterprise and pivot the confrontation into its decisive turning point. The moment fuses protocol, trust, and command responsibility into the solution that costs everyone something and forces honor and diplomacy into collision.