Object

Royale Hotel Lobby Overhead Ceiling

A soaring atrium ceiling roughly 31.9 meters above the Royale's registration desk, made of layered architectural panels, suspended light fixtures, and recessed service grilles. The vertical expanse creates blind spots and potential concealment ledges; Data's tricorder pins a human DNA signature to a precise point high within this overhead. The team looks up, posture and tempo snapping from investigation to urgent pursuit as Riker and Worf convert the reading into a plan to reach that height via turbolifts.

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Purpose

To enclose and finish the hotel's main lobby while concealing mechanical infrastructure, lighting mounts, and service access points within the atrium overhead.

Significance

Functions as the physical locus of a detected human DNA signature that pivots the scene from theory to mission: the ceiling's vertical space reframes the lobby as a potential crime scene, forces tactical choices (use of turbolifts), and escalates narrative urgency.

Appearances in the Narrative

When this object appears and how it's used

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S2E12 · The Royale

Human DNA Above — Discovery Becomes Pursuit

The lobby's overhead ceiling is elevated from set dressing to the event's focal point once the tricorder pins DNA there; its panels and void become the scene's suspected repository of a body, reframing architecture as a potential crime scene.

Before: Passive architectural feature of the atrium, visually unremarkable aside from height.

After: Designated as the locus of interest — mentally marked by the team as containing evidence and potential danger.

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