Object

Wesley Crusher's Textbook on Advanced Genetics

A heavy hardcover textbook titled on advanced genetics, its navy cloth cover softened at the spine and thumbed edges. Pages bloom with dense diagrams, margin notes in pencil, and colored sticky tabs marking key sections. A faint crescent of pizza grease blots one corner and a smear of coffee darkens several pages; a microscope slide and spare pencil rest atop an open page. The book lies abandoned amid microscopes and diagnostic paraphernalia in Sickbay, its worn condition signaling long hours of study and recent, frantic use by the nearby student.

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Purpose

Reference and study material for advanced genetics used by a student-scientist to consult theory, protocols, and diagrams during intensive lab work and exam preparation.

Significance

Functions as a visual clue of Wesley's all-night cram session and exhaustion, grounding his personal vulnerability in the crisis and acting as a narrative hinge that contrasts private fatigue with the sudden demands of shipboard duty.

Appearances in the Narrative

When this object appears and how it's used

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S3E1 · Evolution

Riker's Comm Jolts Wesley Awake

The advanced genetics textbook lies open and prominently on the table, functioning as the visible evidence of Wesley's all-night study and the proximate cause for his collapse. It frames his youthful ambition and explains why he is exhausted when the comm interrupts him.

Before: Flat on the lab tabletop, open, pages thumbed and stained with pizza grease and coffee, marked with tabs and a microscope slide and pencil resting on it.

After: Remains in place on the table, unchanged; its presence now carries added narrative weight as proof of Wesley's exhaustion and recent activity.

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