Angosia's Admission — Picard Assembles the Away Team
Plot Beats
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Data interrupts with a priority-one hail from Prime Minister Nayrok, escalating the urgency.
Nayrok reveals Danar's attack on Lunar Five and the ensuing riots, exposing Angosia's vulnerability and desperation.
Nayrok admits Angosia's culpability in creating the super-soldiers, forcing Picard to confront the moral implications.
Picard assembles an away team to beam down to Angosia, signaling the shift from observation to direct intervention.
Who Was There
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Fearful, defensive, anxious about political and moral exposure; shame mixed with urgent plea for help.
Appears on-screen as Prime Minister, initially angry while delivering the report of attack, then fearful and defensive as he admits Angosia created the soldiers — his confession shifts the moment from tactical to political.
- • Solicit Starfleet assistance to control the immediate crisis and wounded civilians.
- • Limit the political and reputational damage to Angosia by framing the request as urgent need.
- • Angosia lacks the capacity to manage this engineered threat alone.
- • Confessing partial responsibility might compel external assistance while attempting to control the narrative.
Restrained moral outrage — outwardly controlled but privately conflicted and troubled by Nayrok's admission.
Receives the Prime Minister's urgent hail, masks immediate moral anger with command restraint, orders a tactical sweep, and assembles and dispatches an away team including Troi, Data and Worf to the planet.
- • Contain and locate the escaped prisoner and rioters to protect lives.
- • Gather facts on Angosia's confession while avoiding premature political escalation.
- • Starfleet has a duty to protect life and investigate wrongdoing.
- • Diplomatic restraint is necessary until facts are confirmed and lives are secured.
Neutral, analytically engaged — focused on relaying facts and supporting operational needs.
Flags the incoming priority hail to the captain, relays factual information without judgment, and is named to accompany the away team to assist with technical analysis and objective observation.
- • Provide objective sensor- and systems-analysis on-site at Lunar Five.
- • Record and preserve technical evidence about the breakout and any engineered conditioning.
- • Accurate data and observation are essential to understanding the situation.
- • Logical, dispassionate assessment will serve command better than speculation.
Alert, taut readiness; primed for action and protective of ship and captain.
Has returned to the bridge and mans Tactical; follows Picard's order to sweep the area, preparing shipboard defenses and readying security posture for a possible transport or attack vector.
- • Execute a sensor and weapons sweep to detect threats immediately.
- • Prepare security teams to respond to the fugitive or any boardings.
- • Immediate, robust security measures reduce risk to the crew.
- • A disciplined Tactical response is the first line of defense.
Purposeful concentration, professionally steady and ready to convert diplomatic orders into tactical action.
At Tactical, dictating a supplemental log and actively coordinating sensor checks; engages comms by keying his insignia to query Engineering and verify sensor restoration for operational decisions.
- • Restore accurate sensor capability to support containment and away team operations.
- • Ensure bridge has reliable tactical data to execute Picard's orders.
- • Reliable sensor data is critical to any safe away-team deployment.
- • Quick, organized responses prevent escalation and protect the ship.
Concerned and attentive; she senses the human cost beneath political language and is ready to argue for psychological assessment over punitive measures.
Present on the bridge, acknowledged by Picard as part of the away team; poised to provide empathic assessment and counsel during the planet-side mission.
- • Provide emotional and psychological assessment of Danar and rioters on-site.
- • Advocate for interventions that prioritize rehabilitation and minimize cruelty.
- • Understanding emotional drivers is essential to resolving violence.
- • Even dangerous individuals deserve humane treatment and assessment.
Objects Involved
Significant items in this scene
Mentioned as the means of attack — an Angosian police shuttle was commandeered or used by Danar to assault Lunar Five, making it both the instrument of breakout and an evidentiary clue linking state resources to the incident.
Enterprise tactical and sensor systems provide the real-time readouts prompting Riker's queries and Worf's sweep order; their partial failure earlier makes Geordi's confirmation crucial, and their restoration shifts command decisions from guesswork to measured action.
Riker taps his Starfleet insignia to open a short-range com channel to Engineering, initiating the exchange that confirms sensor functionality; the badge is a practical communication prop bridging bridge-to-engine dialogue during crisis.
Location Details
Places and their significance in this event
The Main Bridge Tactical Station is the operational heart of this event: where the hail is received, tactical readouts are monitored, and Picard translates a political confession into decisive orders. It frames the moment as both a command decision and an ethical dilemma.
Main Engineering is implicated indirectly when Geordi's com voice confirms sensor restoration; the compartment's repair efforts enable Tactical to resume accurate readings and therefore underpin Picard's operational decisions.
Capitol City is invoked as the reported destination for escaping prisoners and Danar, raising the specter of a politically explosive attack on the heart of Angosian government and increasing the urgency of Starfleet's response.
Lunar Five Penal Colony is named as the site of Danar's attack and the riot; it functions as the immediate crime scene and humanitarian disaster that compels Starfleet intervention and raises questions about Angosia's penal practices and experimentation.
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Key Dialogue
"NAYROK: "Captain, I've just been informed that Roga Danar has attacked the penal colony on Lunar Five...""
"NAYROK: "Captain, we are not suited to handle situations like this... that's why we created them...""
"PICARD: "We'll send an away team, Prime Minister... Picard out.""