Shipwide Lockdown: Riker Initiates Containment
Plot Beats
The narrative micro-steps within this event
Riker commands a full security lockdown across the Enterprise, including shuttlebays, transporters, and turbolifts.
Who Was There
Characters present in this moment
Concerned and restrained — a captain feeling the moral weight of ordering force while needing to maintain discipline.
Picard is present on the bridge as Riker issues the lockdown; he listens and absorbs the tactical shift, weighing the human and diplomatic consequences of a militarized response.
- • Ensure crew and civilian safety while preserving diplomatic credibility.
- • Balance tactical necessity with compassion for the fugitive's background and political sensitivities.
- • Starfleet must protect lives and uphold procedure even under political pressure.
- • Military measures are justified in immediate danger but must be tempered by ethical consideration.
Neutral and focused — intellectually engaged and ready to execute directives without evident emotional interference.
Data stands at his station as the lockdown order is given, prepared to supply analytic support, sensor sweeps, and technical overrides to implement and monitor the containment measures.
- • Provide accurate sensor data and technical support to enable effective containment.
- • Ensure transporters and turbolifts are disabled or monitored per orders to prevent unauthorized movement.
- • Precise technical control of ship systems is critical to mission success.
- • Data-driven action reduces risk and improves the probability of safely containing threats.
Urgent, controlled — a calm urgency that masks concern and refuses hesitation.
Riker issues a terse, decisive command into the bridge communications, initiating a shipwide lockdown and placing security on full alert, converting uncertainty into immediate tactical protocol.
- • Prevent the fugitive from escaping the ship or acquiring more weapons.
- • Concentrate security resources to enable a contained, tactical response rather than a chaotic chase.
- • Containment is the fastest way to reduce casualties and regain control.
- • Security protocol must be executed immediately to avoid political and operational catastrophe.
Objects Involved
Significant items in this scene
A bridge com panel (matched to the canonical communications module) is the immediate instrument Riker uses to transmit his orders. It functions as the vocal relay, converting intent into enforceable ship commands that mobilize security resources.
The Transporter Array is explicitly targeted by Riker's order to be shut down; narratively it represents the ship's mobility and the fugitive's primary escape vector, and disabling it centralizes the hunt to physical corridors.
Location Details
Places and their significance in this event
The bridge functions as the command center where the lockdown order is issued; it anchors the crew's collective response, concentrates authority, and converts policy into immediate shipwide action during a diplomatic-security crisis.
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Part of Larger Arcs
Key Dialogue
"RIKER: "Security personnel, full alert. Shut down all shuttlebays, transporters, and turbolifts.""