Krag Compels 'Tayna — Simulation Three'
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Krag exits the lab and commands the computer to run Tayna Simulation Three, escalating the confrontation.
Who Was There
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Calmly insistent; confident in the law and intent on using institutional mechanisms to produce conclusive, demonstrable evidence.
Krag frames Tayna's deposition as legally sufficient, asserts Tanugan admissibility, directs the holocomputer to run the named simulation, and exits the lab having forced the evidentiary escalation.
- • Use Tanugan legal standards to admit and dramatize Tayna's account
- • Create an unequivocal reconstruction to secure extradition or legal leverage
- • Institutional procedure and demonstrable reconstructions are the most persuasive forms of evidence
- • Political and legal pressure justify aggressive evidentiary tactics
Distressed and tentative; anxious that her recollection will be treated as definitive evidence despite its secondhand nature.
Tayna stands closely observed and delivers a halting, emotional deposition describing Apgar's account; her testimony is the factual seed Krag uses to justify the holoreconstruction.
- • Communicate accurately what Apgar told her about the incident
- • Avoid drawing personal attention or blame while cooperating with investigators
- • What she was told by Apgar is important and must be reported
- • She is obliged to comply with investigators and cannot control how her statement will be used
Concerned and restrained; morally troubled by the conversion of secondhand testimony into demonstrative proof but pragmatic about procedural limits.
Picard interrupts to object on legal and ethical grounds, insisting the deposition is hearsay but concedes to watch the reconstruction while reserving judgment, visibly constrained by duty and protocol.
- • Protect Commander Riker from unfair procedural spectacle
- • Ensure evidence is weighed properly and not mistaken for incontrovertible fact
- • Hearsay should not be elevated to definitive proof without corroboration
- • As commanding officer he must balance loyalty to his first officer with respect for legal process
Anxious but composed; privately threatened by the shift from argument to spectacle and conscious that his reputation and freedom are at stake.
Riker is physically present and implied to be the subject of the simulation; he listens while the legal machinery turns his personal space and actions into evidence, appearing exposed and under pressure.
- • Endure the procedural process without inflaming the situation
- • Rely on Picard and the crew to ensure the reconstruction is not misused
- • He expects Captain Picard to defend him within procedural limits
- • He believes that the truth will ultimately vindicate him despite the show of evidence
Concerned and quietly alarmed; sensitive to how the procedure will affect the crew's psyche and to Tayna's distress.
Troi observes the deposition and the exchange between Picard and Krag, offering empathic presence; she is quietly supportive of Riker and concerned about the psychological toll of turning memory into spectacle.
- • Support Riker and Picard emotionally through the procedure
- • Monitor Tayna and others for signs of trauma or coercion
- • Emotional states of witnesses and accused matter to how events are interpreted
- • Procedural correctness should not blind participants to human cost
Objects Involved
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Tayna's deposition recording functions as the evidentiary seed for the holoreconstruction: Krag cites it aloud, treating its pauses and phrasing as sufficient provenance to instantiate 'Tayna Simulation Three' on the holocomputer.
Location Details
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Commander Riker's quarters are the reconstructed subject of the simulation—the private scene of the alleged incident—whose spatial details will be reanimated to imply sequence and culpability during the holorecreation.
The holodeck-configured space-station laboratory serves as the neutral, clinical stage where private testimony is converted into public evidence; clinical lighting and sealed doors make intimate testimony feel forensic and exposed.
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Key Dialogue
"TAYNA: After the... the fight, Doctor Apgar came to find me... he was very upset..."
"PICARD: (interrupting) Inspector, this is hearsay... She wasn't a witness to this incident..."
"KRAG: Computer, run Tayna Simulation Three."