Power Restored — Hologram Reinstated, Liko Becomes Witness
Plot Beats
The narrative micro-steps within this event
Data restores the hologram generator, while Riker and Geordi struggle to stabilize the reactor's power.
The reactor stabilizes just as the hologram generator reactivates, vanishing the duck blind from Oji's sight as she grapples with the inexplicable.
Who Was There
Characters present in this moment
Confused and fearful — semi-conscious agitation born of injury and worry for teammates.
Barron lies semi-conscious, delirious, calling for team members and urging work while Beverly tends him; his fragmented speech underscores the danger the field team is in and propels medical urgency.
- • Ensure the safety of his colleagues (Palmer, Warren)
- • Survive and get medical attention
- • The situation is dangerous and must be fixed quickly
- • Starfleet will provide help if contacted
From stunned fascination to acute pain and disorientation — vulnerability exposed in the face of unfamiliar technology.
Liko approaches the duck blind out of curiosity, pokes a port, is struck by an electrical discharge from the failing systems, falls three meters onto jagged rock, is treated with a hypo by Beverly, then is beamed to Sickbay unconscious.
- • Understand the strange disappearance he witnessed
- • Protect or be near his daughter Oji while investigating
- • The phenomena he observed are meaningful and possibly supernatural
- • Close inspection will reveal the truth about the strangers and their devices
Overwhelmed and awestruck — inner duty to ritual collides with intense confusion and fear about what she witnessed.
Oji hides with her father, watches the dematerializations and later the rockface restoration with wide-eyed bewilderment, holds back from immediate aid until Beverly arrives, then surveys the transformed wall in stunned silence.
- • Stay close enough to protect her father while avoiding drawing attention
- • Understand and record (as recordkeeper) the extraordinary events she has seen
- • These events are linked to powerful, possibly divine forces
- • Her role as recordkeeper requires observing and preserving the truth of what happened
Delirious and in pain — physical trauma overwhelms conscious processing of events around her.
Warren is the injured field scientist under the medic's care; she is delirious and in pain, receives treatment in the blind and is dematerialized to Sickbay with her attendant shortly after Beverly orders the beam.
- • Survive and receive effective medical care
- • Trust the Starfleet medical team to remove her from danger
- • The medical team will do what is necessary to save her
- • Being removed to Sickbay will increase her chances of recovery
Clinically neutral but attentive — focused on accurate reporting and system status rather than emotional reaction.
Data completes console diagnostics, reports the hologram generator functional, looks up when Beverly orders the beam, and serves as the objective sensor voice tying ship systems to field effects witnessed by the natives.
- • Accurately assess and report system functionality
- • Support engineering and medical teams with reliable diagnostics
- • Accurate technical information enables correct operational decisions
- • Objective sensor reports are critical during emergency triage and transport
Concerned, focused — under pressure to support engineering fixes while ensuring crew and team safety.
Riker assists at the reactor with Geordi, voices the practical limitation of insufficient power, and remains focused on immediate operational needs while coordinating with hands-on repair efforts.
- • Help restore reactor power quickly
- • Ensure the safety of the field team and prevent further accidents
- • Swift, practical action is required to avert cascading failure
- • Coordination between engineering and command is essential during field emergencies
Calmly urgent — professional composure masking personal concern and ethical friction about breaching Prime Directive protocol to save life.
Beverly Crusher triages and treats in the cramped duck blind, applies hypos to stabilize patients, radios for an emergency beam, physically tends to Liko at the path, then dematerializes with him to Sickbay to secure urgent care.
- • Stabilize injured Mintakans to save lives immediately
- • Prevent further contamination by removing injured from scene
- • Use ship resources to ensure critical patients reach Sickbay
- • Preservation of life supersedes procedural purity in acute medical emergencies
- • Rapid removal to Sickbay is the best way to minimize both physical harm and cultural contamination
Urgently professional — focused on triage and transport logistics with little visible panic.
The unidentified medic works on Warren, signals readiness to Beverly for transport, assists in the emergency beam procedure that dematerializes Warren and the medic to Sickbay, and facilitates triage under pressure.
- • Stabilize Warren enough for transport
- • Coordinate with Beverly to ensure successful beaming to Sickbay
- • Proper triage and quick transport improve survival odds
- • Following Beverly's orders will best serve the patients
Concentrated and cautiously hopeful — a technician relieved when a risky fix succeeds but aware of wider consequences.
Geordi works hands‑on at the reactor, makes a final mechanical/electrical adjustment which causes the core to hum and restores power to the camouflage systems, directly triggering the duck blind's visual disappearance.
- • Bring the reactor back online to restore life-support and camouflage
- • Stabilize the outpost's systems to protect the observation team and equipment
- • Proper technical repair will re-establish normalcy and concealment
- • A functional reactor is necessary to prevent further accidents and exposure
Objects Involved
Significant items in this scene
Beverly's Sickbay communicator is tapped to call the Enterprise and request emergency transport; it functions as the procedural instrument enabling immediate beaming of patients and ultimately Beverly's own transport with Liko.
Beverly's hypospray is repeatedly used as an immediate life‑saving intervention: applied to Barron earlier, then used to sedate and stabilize Liko after his fall, rendering him unconscious so he can be safely beamed to Sickbay.
The camouflage unit, whose projector nodes stitch photonic lattices into a solid‑looking rock surface, is the narrative trigger: it snaps on once the reactor is stabilized, converting a shabby observation shelter into apparent natural stone and producing the perceived miracle for Oji and other villagers.
The duck blind's compact fusion reactor is the focal technical problem: it has been failing, requiring hands‑on work by Geordi and Riker. Geordi's final mechanical adjustment restores stable output, powering linked systems and enabling the camouflage to re-engage, directly causing the visual transformation witnessed by Oji.
The bridge/field science console serves as Data's diagnostic interface where he confirms the hologram generator's readiness; it links sensor readouts to field operations and anchors the technical voice confirming the equipment's state.
Location Details
Places and their significance in this event
Enterprise Sickbay functions off-scene as the medical refuge and endpoint for emergency transport requests: Beverly calls for direct beaming to this location to remove patients from cultural exposure and provide definitive care.
The camouflaged duck blind is the cramped nexus where medical triage, field engineering, and cultural contamination collide: technicians repair a reactor while clinicians treat injured anthropologists and a native is accidentally electrocuted at its port, making the location both site of accident and stage for the apparent miracles witnessed by locals.
Narrative Connections
How this event relates to others in the story
"Liko's witnessing of the transport and subsequent injury leads to his miraculous healing and the resurgence of ancient beliefs."
"Liko's witnessing of the transport and subsequent injury leads to his miraculous healing and the resurgence of ancient beliefs."
Themes This Exemplifies
Thematic resonance and meaning
Part of Larger Arcs
Key Dialogue
"DATA: The hologram generator is now functional."
"RIKER: Or would be, if we had power..."
"BEVERLY: Crusher to Enterprise. Medical emergency. Two to beam directly to Sickbay."