Object

Holodeck Klingon Rite Raised Platforms

A ring of gleaming, waist-high raised platforms that materialize from the holodeck floor: stainless-steel surfaces with narrow treads and low guard ridges, arranged around matching stainless troughs. Each platform mounts like a stage—wide enough for a single Klingon to stand or brace, modular seams visible where the simulation snaps components into place. The platforms radiate a clinical, factory-bright light and throw hard reflections that make the surrounding holographic figures feel immediate and menacing. Crew members step onto and around them; the platforms' sudden appearance tightens the room’s focus and converts abstract study into a physically navigable ritual space.

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Purpose

To serve as ceremonial staging and footing within the Klingon Rite of Ascension holodeck reconstruction, providing elevated positions for ritual participants, mounting points for simulated apparatus, and defined spaces for the choreography of the rite.

Significance

The platforms act as the simulation’s pivot: their precise, physical presence forces the crew from observation into participation, heightening the rite’s authenticity and moral stakes. They frame the holographic Klingons and painstiks, making danger tangible and compelling the characters to commit to Worf’s restoration.

Appearances in the Narrative

When this object appears and how it's used

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S2E14 · The Icarus Factor

Holodeck Ascension: Simulation Becomes Threat

Raised platforms materialize on either side of the trough, forming the staging for ritual participants; their sudden appearance structures movement and focus and turns the holodeck into a physically navigable ceremonial arena.

Before: Absent from the vacant holodeck space or existing only as a latent program component.

After: Solidly rendered within the holodeck simulation, occupied (or available for occupation) by holographic Klingons and framing the central trough.

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