Object

Starbase 173 Lounge Pass-Through Alcove

A shallow, open architectural pass-through within the Starbase 173 lounge: an elevated landing/alcove that frames the approach from the corridor into the seating area. Characters step into this compact staging space to exchange words, then descend to the lounge seating. The alcove functions as a focused meeting point — physically modest, plainly finished, and built to facilitate brief, face-to-face confrontations rather than extended gatherings.

2 appearances

Purpose

Serves as an architectural transition and staging area connecting the corridor to the lounge, providing a brief standing platform where arriving characters pause to converse before moving into seated spaces.

Significance

Operates as the dramatic hinge for Picard and Phillipa’s reunion: it concentrates their intimate, barbed exchange and composes their physical choreography so the arrival of Admiral Nakamura and Commander Maddox can abruptly shift the scene’s tone from personal history to institutional threat.

Appearances in the Narrative

When this object appears and how it's used

2 moments

S2E9 · The Measure of a Man

Barbed Reunion — Louvois Returns

The Starbase 173 pass-through alcove functions as the staging ground for Phillipa and Picard's charged exchange: it creates an intimate, framed space for face-to-face confrontation before they descend to the table, literally placing their past between corridor and lounge.

Before: Unoccupied alcove framing the entry from the corridor into the lounge.

After: Recently vacated by Phillipa and Picard after the verbal confrontation; serves as the threshold through which Nakamura and Maddox enter.

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S2E9 · The Measure of a Man

Intrusion: Maddox Introduced, Past and Power Collide

The Starbase 173 Lounge pass-through alcove is the staging ground where Picard and Phillipa first confront one another; it frames their initial encounter, concentrates their body language, and makes their departure and re-entry into the lounge theatrically visible when Nakamura arrives.

Before: Unoccupied staging area adjacent to the lounge; Picard and Phillipa step onto it to speak privately.

After: Remains physically unchanged but now charged as the locus of the reopened personal/institutional conflict; briefly vacated as they move to the table.

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