Object

Anastazine (incapacitating agent)

Anastazine — a ship-deployed nonlethal incapacitating agent released as an airborne gas via environmental controls or localized dispersal to flood a compartment (notably Cargo Bay 38). Sensors register concentrations in parts per million (reported up to ~70 ppm during deployment). Bridge officers (Picard, Data, security) monitor dispersion and coordinate containment and assault while exposed targets are temporarily incapacitated.

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Purpose

To incapacitate personnel nonlethally by flooding an enclosed space with a measurable gaseous agent, enabling safe capture or neutralization of threats.

Significance

Acts as a tactical turning point and ethical pressure point: used as a morally cautious ambush that shifts battlefield advantage, tests the target's predictability, and heightens tension about whether the target will evade capture.

Appearances in the Narrative

When this object appears and how it's used

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S3E11 · The Hunted

Anastazine Trap on Deck 38 — Flood and Contain

Anastazine is introduced into the cargo bays via the ship's environmental controls as a deliberate, nonlethal ambush agent. Data monitors its concentration until it reaches seventy parts per million, converting the ship's atmosphere into a tactical tool intended to incapacitate the fugitive without bloodshed.

Before: Stored in environmental control reserves/not present in the cargo bay atmosphere; available for controlled release.

After: Actively saturating the cargo bays at roughly seventy parts per million, deployed as an incapacitating agent and awaiting Picard's order to restore normal conditions.

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