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Private Quarters Wall Computer (Room Control & Food Fabrication Interface)

A low-profile, matte-alloy wall console set into Riker's private quarters: narrow touch glyphs, a soft indicator ring, and a compact speaker that hums when queried. The unit accepts terse voice prompts and taps, routing orders to an adjacent food dispenser/replicator and returning short status replies. In the scene Riker calls upon the console to improvise a hybrid Alaskan stew—the computer furnishes a fabricated meat approximation that pours into bowls while the console’s quiet glow underscores the intimacy of the ritual. Pulaski and Geordi accept the served bowls; Worf recoils and refuses the portion, the machine’s efficient provision colliding with cultural revulsion.
7 appearances

Purpose

Provide room control services and interface with shipboard food fabrication systems to summon, configure, and dispense consumables and environmental settings on demand.

Significance

Enables Riker’s reparative domestic ritual: the console’s ability to fabricate a hybrid stew becomes the tangible mechanism for apology, shared comfort, and moral sacrifice (Riker having spent prized eggs). It also spotlights cultural friction—technology normalizes provisioning, but Worf’s refusal exposes limits to technological fixes in healing interpersonal and cultural wounds.

Appearances in the Narrative

When this object appears and how it's used

7 moments
S2E10 · The Dauphin
When Infatuation Meets Fact: Data Defines Salia

Wesley notes the computer lacks information about Salia, prompting Data's verbal briefing; the wall computer's paucity of data catalyzes the need for human (Data) exposition rather than database retrieval.

Before: Available and responsive but containing very little accessible information about Salia.
After: Unchanged physically; its lack of data has been supplemented by Data's knowledge but the terminal itself remains untouched in the scene.
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S2E10 · The Dauphin
Longing Interrupted — Duty Calls

The private quarters wall computer is referenced as the source (or lack) of documentation about Salia. Its paucity of data prompts Wesley to ask Data for verbal context, and thus indirectly catalyzes the informational pivot from crush to political reality.

Before: Contains 'very little' information on Salia when queried or referenced by Wesley; functions as an inadequate source prompting human/Android briefing.
After: Unchanged physically in the scene; the informational deficit remains but has been supplemented by Data's verbal briefing.
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S2E10 · The Dauphin
Thalian Mousse and a Reckless Invitation

The wall computer receives Wesley's verbal instruction and executes the order, translating human desire into material comfort; it functions as an unobtrusive servant that enables intimacy by removing awkward logistics and demonstrating shipboard hospitality.

Before: Online and attentive, waiting to accept verbal commands for room services.
After: Has processed the request and initiated the dispenser; remains active and responsive in the private quarters system.
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S2E10 · The Dauphin
Invitation to Leave

The private quarters wall computer mediates the interaction: Wesley issues the command to prepare the Thalian mousse, the computer executes the request and cues the dispenser. Its quiet responsiveness turns an ordinary appliance into a ritual enabler for intimacy and exposition.

Before: Idle and ready in the quarters' wall—powered, responsive, but awaiting a command.
After: Has processed Wesley's request and signaled the dispenser; remains in the room as a background service device, available for further commands.
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S2E10 · The Dauphin
Formal Arrival — Worf, The Forcefield, and Anya's Farewell

The wall computer (ship interface) receives Aron's spoken command to lower the field and executes the system-level action; it functions as the invisible executor of institutional authority allowing transport and access.

Before: Operational and connected to environmental controls and security systems, awaiting commands.
After: Has executed the 'field off' command and adjusted the doorway's environmental security settings accordingly.
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S2E10 · The Dauphin
Farewell at the Threshold

The private quarters wall computer receives Aron's vocal command ('field off') and executes the deactivation of the forcefield. It functions as the technological arbiter that converts Salia's psychological readiness into a physical capability to leave.

Before: Operational and linked to environmental controls and the forcefield; responsive to authorized voice commands.
After: Remains operational but has just executed a security command to deactivate the field; control returned to standard monitoring.
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S3E9 · The Vengeance Factor
Marouk's Wonder and Yuta's Ritual

The private quarters' wall computer is referenced implicitly when Riker offers technical assistance and to program recipes; it stands for the ship's capacity to integrate alien culinary data and support Yuta's work.

Before: Idle and available as room control and food fabrication interface.
After: Anticipated to be used later to accept recipe programming; remains physically present and ready.
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