Object

Transporter Room Seven

A clinical, high-tech chamber aboard the USS Enterprise, Transporter Room Seven hums with latent energy as a strategic staging area and transporter access point. Its gleaming floor panels and advanced consoles glow faintly with operational readiness, embodying the urgent tension of a ship under siege. Captain Picard and Commander Riker converge here amid the microbrain crisis to coordinate a daring dual transporter beam infiltration of the locked Medical Lab. The room radiates a tactical anchor’s presence, serving as a lifeline for rapid personnel deployment under extreme time pressure during the containment and negotiation with the inorganic silicon-based life form.

7 appearances

Purpose

To serve as a secure, operational transporter access point enabling rapid personnel deployment and strategic infiltration aboard the USS Enterprise during critical mission operations, especially in emergency and crisis scenarios.

Significance

The transporter room acts as a pivotal tactical hub in the microbrain crisis, enabling Starfleet officers to mount a high-stakes response to the alien life form's takeover of the Medical Lab. It symbolizes the cutting-edge technological edge and rapid adaptability of the Enterprise crew when confronting existential threats, underscoring the tension between human command and alien disruption.

Appearances in the Narrative

When this object appears and how it's used

7 moments

S1E16 · 11001001

Starbase Realizes Enterprise Missing with Picard and Riker Aboard

Transporter Room Seven is invoked by Data as the key facility from which he intends to beam back to the Enterprise to attempt rescue of Picard and Riker, symbolizing hope and a tangible means to intervene in the crisis remotely.

Before: Fully operational at Starbase 74, ready to be utilized for emergency transporter operations.

After: Prepared for immediate activation pending authorization to beam personnel back to the Enterprise.

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S1E16 · 11001001

Enterprise Hijacked: Captains Stranded as Ship Flees Starbase

Transporter Room Seven is referenced as the vital staging area for potential rescue operations, with Data and others discussing the need to beam back to the Enterprise to retrieve Picard and Riker.

Before: Active and ready aboard Starbase 74, awaiting deployment commands.

After: Standing by as a critical access point for attempted transport back to the Enterprise.

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S1E17 · Home Soil

Darkness Calms the Microbrain: From Hostility to Understanding

Transporter Room Seven functions as the staging area where coordination for beaming the microbrain back to Velara III is executed, symbolizing the culmination of negotiation and containment efforts.

Before: Ready and operational, awaiting transporter coordinates.

After: Used successfully to dematerialize the microbrain cluster to Velara III.

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S1E17 · Home Soil

Revelation of Microbrain’s Sentience and Terraformers’ Deception

Transporter Room Seven stands ready as the strategic staging area for the attempted removal of the microbrain from the Medical Lab, highlighting the crew's tactical efforts to relocate and neutralize the threat.

Before: Operational and prepared for transporter use

After: Activated to attempt beaming microbrain back to Velara III, initially failing

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S1E17 · Home Soil

Picard Confronts and Parleys with the Intelligent Microbrain

Transporter Room Seven functions as the staging area where the crew coordinates the attempt to beam the microbrain back to Velara III. It represents the tactical interface between containment and resolution, underscoring the tension between technological capability and alien resistance to transport.

Before: Ready for personnel transport and containment operations.

After: Coordinates for microbrain transport are set; initial beam fails due to power redirection by the microbrain.

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S2E17 · Samaritan Snare

Crimson Bluff and the Clean Rescue

Functions as the physical instrument of rescue: Transporter operations are activated to lock onto La Forge and beam him from the Pakled vessel to the bridge, executing a rapid and risky dematerialization/rematerialization.

Before: Standby/engaged — crew prepare and lock onto a transporter signal to retrieve La Forge.

After: Transport cycle complete — La Forge has been successfully rematerialized on the bridge and the transporter cycle has ended.

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S2E17 · Samaritan Snare

Restraint and Rescue: Riker's Moral Bluff

The transporter system is the literal instrument of rescue: Riker authorizes a one‑to‑bridge lock and Geordi is beamed from the Pakled ship into the bridge, turning the crisis into a clean extraction.

Before: Ready and available in Transporter Room One, awaiting lock acquisition; engaged by command shortly after shields drop.

After: Transport completed successfully; system returns to standby after beaming Geordi aboard.

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