Star Trek The Next Generation
Object

Felodesine Chip

A tiny, sealed bioelectronic implant roughly the size of a grain of rice: a smooth, non-reflective casing encasing a compact reservoir of Felodesine. Concealed on Admiral Jarok’s person and ingested to avoid detection, it appears inert until activated; Dr. Beverly Crusher identifies it post-mortem, and the crew reacts to it as the decisive physical trace of Jarok’s death.
2 appearances

Purpose

To deliver a fatal dose of the narcotic/poison Felodesine as a concealed suicide device.

Significance

Functions as the critical forensic proof that Admiral Jarok chose death rather than capture or exposure; it converts a tactical espionage victory into a profound moral crisis for Picard and the crew and seals the narrative consequence of Jarok’s lonely, principled despair.

Appearances in the Narrative

When this object appears and how it's used

2 moments
S3E10 · The Defector
Jarok's Suicide — The Human Cost of Deception

The Felodesine chip is the physical cause of death: concealed on Jarok and ingested to avoid detection. Crusher cites it as conclusive medical evidence, converting ambiguity into irreversible fact and making the death both forensic and symbolic.

Before: Concealed on Jarok's person prior to discovery; ingested and pharmacologically active.
After: Identified by Dr. Crusher as the cause of death; its presence is recorded as evidence though biologically consumed and thus not a removable intact prop.
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S3E10 · The Defector
The Unsent Letter

A palm-sized bioelectronic Felodesine chip had been concealed on Admiral Jarok and was ingested to avoid detection; Beverly identifies it as the cause of death, converting a mysterious death into an intentional suicide and a forensic clue central to the scene's moral calculus.

Before: Concealed on Jarok's person, undetected by the ship's medical/security search prior to examination.
After: Identified by Dr. Crusher as the cause of death and thereby logged as medical evidence; presumably removed and catalogued for the ship's records.
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