Object
Bridge Telemetry System
A shipboard telemetry suite originating from the Charybdis and presented through Enterprise bridge consoles: flickering columns of timestamps, waveform traces, frozen packet previews, and compact archival headers. The external feed appears fragmentary on the bridge, with metadata blooms and abrupt dropout, and is interrogated by Wesley and Geordi as a partial dossier that links the Charybdis to narrative events.
2 appearances
Purpose
To collect, aggregate and transmit the Charybdis’s onboard sensor and diagnostic data (engineering, environmental, and navigational telemetry) to allied ships or monitoring stations for status, forensics, and situational awareness.
Significance
Functions as a narrative clue that reframes the operation from a pure rescue into an investigation: the Charybdis telemetry supplies anomalous correlations with the twentieth‑century hotel’s data, escalating stakes, isolating command, and forcing Picard and his officers to treat technical readouts as moral and forensic evidence.
Appearances in the Narrative
When this object appears and how it's used