Object

Child's Skipping Rope

A slim, child-sized skipping rope with short wooden handles and a brightly colored braided cord roughly five to six feet long. The cord shows light fraying and smudges from frequent use. A young girl rhythmically swings it in the crowded cargo bay, her steady motion punctuating heated debate and drawing quiet attention from nearby adults.

2 appearances

Purpose

A simple children's toy used for jump-rope play and light exercise, enabling rhythmic jumping and coordination through a swung cord and handles.

Significance

Functions as a humanizing prop in a tense recruitment confrontation: the rope's ordinary playfulness contrasts with moral and practical crisis talk, underscoring civilian presence, everyday vulnerability, and the emotional stakes that motivate characters' decisions.

Appearances in the Narrative

When this object appears and how it's used

2 moments

S2E18 · STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION — Up the Long Ladder

Eve or Exile — Brenna's Reckoning

A child's skipping rope continues its rhythmic motion through the confrontation, grounding the scene in ordinary life and contrasting the political gravity of the adults' exchange; it reminds viewers that decisions affect everyday routines.

Before: In a child's hands, swung rhythmically as people mill around.

After: Still being used by the girl; the rope's continuity heightens the emotional contrast with the adults' fraught conversation.

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S2E18 · STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION — Up the Long Ladder

Brenna Claims Granger — Sealing the Alliance

A child's skipping rope swings rhythmically in the crowded hold, its steady sound punctuating the heated exchange and reminding observers of ordinary life continuing under duress.

Before: In active use by a young girl, handles in hand and cord in motion.

After: Remains in use; the rhythmic motion continues to provide ambient contrast to the adult conversation.

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