Wesley Asserts Command: Orders the Ico‑Spectrogram
Plot Beats
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Wesley enters the geophysical laboratory with rigid determination and issues a direct, commanding order for the Ico-spectrogram, shattering the lab's casual rhythm and forcing Davies to confront the weight of his authority.
Who Was There
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Relaxed and professional on the surface; obliging and ready to implement orders without resistance or commentary.
Davies is at a console studying test results when Wesley enters; he greets Wesley casually, acknowledges Wesley's order with a light 'You got it,' and immediately moves away to carry out the commanded scan.
- • Maintain lab workflow and execute technical tasks efficiently.
- • Respond to legitimate orders quickly to keep operations moving.
- • Avoid unnecessary debate that would delay data acquisition.
- • He believes following direct orders is the fastest way to get useful results.
- • He believes the Ico‑spectrogram request is routine and not worth contesting.
- • He believes lab efficiency and prompt action are more valuable than prolonged discussion.
Surface command presence masking underlying anxiety and need for validation; immediately followed by astonished relief and brief self-doubt when compliance is granted.
Wesley enters the lab holding himself stiffly, delivers a concise, authoritative order to run the Ico‑spectrogram on the Selcundi Drema system, then freezes in stunned amazement after Davies immediately complies.
- • Assert emergent authority and demonstrate competence as a field officer.
- • Initiate a specific technical scan (Ico‑spectrogram) believed necessary for Drema analysis.
- • Translate private mentorship (Riker's counsel) into visible leadership action.
- • He believes decisive, clear orders will establish his command credibility.
- • He believes the Ico‑spectrogram will produce data that matters to the Drema crisis.
- • He believes senior officers have implicitly sanctioned him to act and that seizing initiative is expected of him.
Objects Involved
Significant items in this scene
The Ico‑spectrogram is invoked by Wesley's order as the specific analytical tool needed to scrutinize the Selcundi Drema system; it operates as the technical means to escalate the lab's activity from casual monitoring to directed investigation, turning a hypothesis into an actionable procedure.
A pulsing spectrogram readout is the immediate focus of Davies's attention at the scene's start; its displayed test results provide the empirical backdrop that prompts Wesley's intervention. The readout functions as both clue and provocation, anchoring Wesley's decision to order a full Ico‑spectrogram on Selcundi Drema.
Location Details
Places and their significance in this event
The Geophysical Laboratory is the confined, instrument‑dense space where technical authority and professional hierarchy play out. It houses the consoles and readouts that produce the data Wesley reacts to, and it serves as the practical arena where a junior officer's assertion is immediately tested and validated.
The Selcundi Drema system is the off‑screen object of study referenced in Wesley's order; it provides the remote focus that motivates the lab's instruments and the narrative urgency behind running an Ico‑spectrogram.
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Key Dialogue
"DAVIES: "Hey, Wes, hi.""
"WESLEY: "Ensign Davies, I want that Ico-spectrogram run on the Selcundi Drema system.""
"DAVIES: "You got it.""