Object

Apgar's Lambda Field Generator (Krieger Wave Converter)

A bench-mounted laboratory generator in Apgar's lab combining reflective mirror coils, segmented collimation rings and a laminated lambda-field condenser with a small operator console and timing controls. It charges through cyclical recharge periods (visible as faint blue glow and low hum), discharges narrow Krieger-wave pulses when fully charged, and bears scorch marks around its field aperture. Its settings and timing are pivotal to reconstructing the transporter incident and related radiation bursts.

8 appearances

Purpose

To collect and focus ambient lambda/planetary discharges through reflective coils into directed 'Krieger Wave' pulses — effectively converting diffuse environmental energy into a concentrated, high‑energy beam.

Significance

Serves as the forensic fulcrum of the investigation: the converter's demonstrated ability to produce Krieger Waves transforms the explosion from accident to attempted framing/murder, vindicates Riker, exposes Apgar's deceit and ambition, and reframes motive and culpability.

Appearances in the Narrative

When this object appears and how it's used

8 moments

S3E14 · A Matter of Perspective

Holodeck Deposition: The First Meeting Recreated

Apgar's Lambda Field generator is referenced explicitly by Tayna to explain experimental constraints (notably the five-thousand-kilometer collimation requirement), anchoring the technical narrative and undermining simplistic motive or accidental-weapon theories.

Before: Represented holographically or verbally as the central piece of research, not physically present on the station (noted as located on the planet in the simulation).

After: Remains a referenced element in the simulation and in the investigators' mental model; its status unchanged but its logistics noted as evidentiary.

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Holodeck Deposition: The First Meeting Reconstructed

Apgar's Lambda Field Generator is specifically referenced by Tayna as she explains its operational constraint (minimum five-thousand-kilometer collimation), making the device a narrative fulcrum that connects technical limitations to causal reconstruction of the explosion.

Before: Presented in the holodeck simulation as a bench-mounted, slightly scorched apparatus with visible coils and charge indicators, available for inspection.

After: Left as a focal reference in the reconstruction; no physical alteration occurs, but its parameters are now part of the investigative record.

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Domestic Ceremony, Predatory Gaze

Apgar's Lambda Field Generator is the implied centerpiece of the research conversation—its operational constraints (collimation distance) and failure risks are the technical reasons Geordi and Tayna must move to examine records and the field generator's deployment.

Before: Implied to be inoperative for in-lab demonstration (requires planet-side conditions); referenced as situated on the planet.

After: Still located offsite on the planet; the holodeck discussion prompts technical follow-up rather than any change to the generator's physical state.

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Lambda Field Timing — The Technical Exoneration

Apgar's Lambda Field generator is named as the physical source of the five‑hour, twenty‑minute, three‑second phenomenon; Geordi explains its recharge/emission behavior and Wesley suggests it remained active after the lab blast, making it the linchpin connecting the planet event to the ship's radiation bursts.

Before: Located at Apgar's lab on the planet surface, functional but experimental; known in reports as a harmless research generator with prior high‑energy discharges.

After: Remains the principal suspect device on the planet; its periodic emissions are implicated in the station explosion and correlated with the Enterprise's detected radiation bursts.

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Wesley Identifies Apgar's Killer

The Lambda Field generator is identified as the planet‑side device whose recharge cycle precisely matches the ship's radiation bursts. It functions narratively as the causal link between the lab explosion and the Enterprise's anomalous readings, transforming abstract sensor noise into a concrete, testable mechanism.

Before: Located on the planet's surface within Apgar's ruined laboratory; intact though scorch‑marked and capable of cycling to full charge.

After: Marked as the prime suspect mechanism for the bursts and explosion; remains on the planet but now targeted for further forensic analysis and possible shutdown protocols.

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Holodeck Replay — The Setup Unmasked

A recreated Krieger Wave converter is central to the demonstration: Geordi activates its simulated mirror coils so that incoming harmless planetary discharges are focused into Krieger Waves which then strike the holodeck transport effect, illustrating how the device could weaponize ambient energy and trigger the reactor explosion.

Before: Recreated in the holodeck simulation and presented as a working, calibrated experimental device based on Apgar's records.

After: Functioned in the simulation to produce the reflected beam and causal chain; as a physical object, it remains a virtual reconstruction inside the holodeck (no real converter damaged).

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Holodeck Reconstruction: The Converter's Reflection

A faithful holodeck facsimile of Apgar's Krieger Wave converter is used as the experiment's central mechanism: it accepts a timed planetary discharge, converts it via mirrored coils into focused Krieger Waves, and in the simulation emits the beam that strikes the transporter effect and reflects back to the reactor, causing the staged explosion and proving the converter's lethal potential.

Before: Recreated within the holodeck program and presented as operational for demonstration; physically exists only as a holographic simulation in the holodeck.

After: In the simulation it discharges and is implicated in the blast; physically, the holodeck program is halted after the demonstration and the converter remains as recorded evidence in holodeck logs.

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Holodeck Reconstruction — The Fatal Pulse

The Krieger Wave converter—recreated as a holodeck facsimile—functions as the pivot of the demonstration: it converts harmless planetary discharges into focused Krieger Waves by virtue of reflective coils and mirror elements, and is shown firing a pulse that interacts with the transporter effect to cause the explosion.

Before: Simulated and active in the Holodeck reconstruction; visually accurate to Apgar's lab records and ready to process an incoming simulated discharge.

After: In the Holodeck simulation the converter fires and is indirectly implicated in the lab's destruction; physically unchanged aboard the Enterprise (it is the recreation, not the real device).

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