Object

Ripped Instrumentation Panels (Federation Outpost)

Thin metal access and instrumentation faceplates torn from the outpost walls, roughly hand‑sized to panel‑sized plates. Edges gape where fasteners snapped free; some plates lie bent, scratched and scorched, others hang by frayed wiring. One jagged shard carries a fresh smear of non‑human blood that Dr. Beverly Crusher recognizes, turning the debris from vandalism into a forensic clue. Riker, Worf and Data move around the scattered panels as tactile evidence of violent stripping, using exposed openings to confirm reactors and comms were ripped out.

2 appearances

Purpose

Cover and provide maintenance access to embedded instrumentation, communications and reactor service ports; when intact they protect circuitry and conceal connection arrays and diagnostic ports.

Significance

Serve as primary physical evidence that the outpost was violently looted rather than merely vandalized; the blood on a jagged panel shard escalates the situation from salvage to criminal/hostile intrusion, catalyzing the away team's immediate investigative and life‑saving response.

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When this object appears and how it's used

2 moments

S3E9 · The Vengeance Factor

Looted Outpost — Blood, Silent Victims, and a Jammed Door

Ripped instrumentation panels and dangling wave guides visually establish the looting and forced removal of communications and sensor equipment; they physically obstruct movement and provide tactile proof that panels were pried from the walls during the theft.

Before: Bolted into the outpost walls and functioning as part of the outpost's instrumentation array.

After: Torn from walls, lying scattered across the floor, some hanging by frayed wiring and showing scuffing and scorch marks.

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S3E9 · The Vengeance Factor

Non‑Human Blood at the Ransacked Outpost

Instrumentation panels ripped from the walls serve as visceral proof of looting; the away team navigates around these panels as they clear a path toward the jammed door, using exposed openings to confirm that critical systems were removed.

Before: Bolted to outpost walls, operational and integral to communications and instrumentation.

After: Torn free, bent or lying on the floor; functionally destroyed and now treated as forensic debris.

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