Object

Pulaski's Sickbay Restraint Forcefield

A localized, translucent energy plane snaps into place around the gurney in Sickbay: faintly shimmering with a steady hum and a thin luminous edge where it meets the deck. The field forms a compact enclosure sized to the duplicate's body, calibrated for medical containment rather than ship‑wide security. Pulaski engages and adjusts it at the console; the barrier prevents physical egress, arrests the duplicate's movements, and frames the medical team as they run baffling diagnostics while Picard interrogates the enclosed double.

3 appearances

Purpose

To restrain and protect a disoriented patient duplicate in Sickbay—preventing movement or escape while permitting controlled medical evaluation and shielding staff and the subject during unpredictable physiological events.

Significance

Serves as the story's clinical fulcrum: Pulaski's activation of the barrier asserts medical authority, isolates an inexplicable physiology for study, and crystallizes the episode's turning point by physically containing the looped duplicate and ratcheting the existential stakes for Picard.

Appearances in the Narrative

When this object appears and how it's used

3 moments

S2E13 · Time Squared

Face to Face with Future Picard

Pulaski's restraining forcefield encloses the duplicate's gurney as a medical containment device; she toggles it during interrogation and then deactivates it at Picard's command, allowing P2 to stand and attempt to leave—the field functions as both literal restraint and symbolic barrier between self‑preservation and sacrificial compulsion.

Before: Active, engaged around the gurney restraining P2 in Sickbay.

After: Deactivated by Pulaski; P2 is released and able to stand and exit.

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S2E13 · Time Squared

Breaking Protocol — Confronting the Inevitable

Pulaski has the restraining medical forcefield engaged around P2's biobed; Picard orders the field released so he can confront and physically escort the duplicate. The field's brief reappearance and deactivation dramatize the tug between medical containment and command prerogative.

Before: Engaged around the duplicate's gurney in Sickbay, containing P2 and limiting his movement.

After: Deactivated at Picard's command, permitting P2 to be escorted out of Sickbay toward the turbolift.

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S2E13 · Time Squared

Shattering the Sacrificial Loop

Pulaski's restraining medical forcefield encloses P2 on the biobed, containing his agitation until Picard orders his release; it visually and physically frames the duplicate as a patient and plot object whose removal signals a transition from forensic containment to moral confrontation.

Before: Active around P2's gurney in Sickbay, engaged for containment and diagnostic stability.

After: Deactivated by Pulaski at Picard's command, briefly reappears then remains inactive as P2 stands and exits toward the turbolift.

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