Object

Testing Room Entry Door / Environmental Lab Door Wallplate Access Panel

A sturdy metal door embedded within Manheim's shadowy laboratory on Vandor, marked by a compact wall-mounted access panel featuring tactile buttons and an indicator light. This panel, concealed within the grimy industrial surroundings, serves as a trigger mechanism that Data activates to initiate a tense ten-minute countdown, instantly immersing the away team in a race against an audible alarm. The panel’s functional design contrasts with the laboratory’s foreboding atmosphere, underscoring the security and danger intrinsic to Manheim’s volatile experiments. Worf and Riker respond with urgency as the alarm blares, highlighting the panel’s pivotal role in escalating the mission’s peril.

3 appearances

Purpose

To serve as a manual control and trigger panel for the laboratory’s alarm and countdown security system, enabling activation or override within the Environmental Maintenance Laboratory.

Significance

By activating this panel, Data inadvertently triggers a high-stakes countdown alarm that heightens tension and threat levels within Manheim’s lab, driving the narrative’s urgent race to disable the security system before disaster strikes. It embodies both the physical and procedural barriers the crew must overcome amid the volatile environment.

Appearances in the Narrative

When this object appears and how it's used

3 moments

S1E19 · Coming of Age

Wesley’s Life-or-Death Decision in the Environmental Lab

The Environmental Lab Door Wallplate Access Panel functions as the critical interface Wesley uses to override the locked door’s controls. By pressing it amid blaring alarms and explosions, Wesley mechanically triggers the door’s release, physically enabling entry into the life-threatening environment to attempt rescue.

Before: Mounted beside the locked Environmental Maintenance Laboratory door on Relva 7; inactive but ready for use.

After: Activated by Wesley’s touch, it granted access by unlocking and opening the laboratory door, facilitating emergency entry.

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S1E24 · We'll Always Have Paris

Countdown Initiation Heightens Stakes in Manheim’s Lab

The wallplate serves as the activation trigger for the laboratory’s hidden alarm system. Data physically touches this compact control panel embedded in the wall, causing the laboratory lights to switch on and initiating the countdown sequence on the alarm clock, setting the stage for the ensuing urgency.

Before: Dormant, unlit, and unactivated within the shadowed laboratory wall.

After: Activated by Data’s touch, triggering illumination and the countdown alarm system.

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S1E24 · We'll Always Have Paris

Countdown Alarm Ignites Tension in Manheim’s Lab

The wallplate serves as the trigger mechanism that Data physically activates, causing the laboratory lights to illuminate and initiating the alarm system’s countdown sequence. This concealed panel embodies the high-security measures Manheim employed, transforming the entering crew’s presence into a catalyst for immediate danger.

Before: Inactive, unlit, and unengaged within Manheim’s shadowy lab wall.

After: Activated, illuminated, and triggering a ten-minute countdown alarm.

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