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Bedouin's Tent

An imagined, compact nomadic shelter summoned as metaphor: canvas walls breathing with desert wind, the low glow of a central hearth, woven rugs and the soft scent of tack and animal hair. Picard conjures this tent as a rhetorical refuge — a private, ancestral space that compresses duty, tactile care, and mutual dependence between rider and war mare. The tent functions narratively as an evocative emblem of reciprocal trust, survival, and long-practiced intimacy rather than a physical setting in the episode.
3 events
3 rich involvements

Detailed Involvements

Events with rich location context

S2E15 · Pen Pals
Meadow Confession: Picard's Need for a True Companion

The Bedouin's Tent is invoked rhetorically by Picard to illustrate the reciprocal, survival-based relationship between rider and mare; it is a metaphorical location that grounds his explanation in historical, communal interdependence.

Atmosphere

Imagined warmth and utilitarian intimacy within Picard's metaphor, evoking dependence and shared survival.

Functional Role

Metaphorical backdrop that clarifies Picard's conception of companionship as mutual need.

Symbolic Significance

Symbolizes reciprocal duty and the utilitarian intimacy Picard values over mere domestic pet-keeping.

Referenced hearth-warmth and woven rugs (metaphorical) Sense of shelter and mutual service rather than leisure Evocation of nomadic practicality and trust
S2E15 · Pen Pals
Leave Granted, Duty Interrupted

The Bedouin's Tent appears as a rhetorical location in Picard's speech, invoked to illustrate the war mare's place in human life and to lend cultural depth to his bond with the animal; it is metaphorical rather than literal in this event.

Atmosphere

Evocative and ancestral—conjured by description, not physically present.

Functional Role

Metaphorical device to explain Picard's concept of companionship and mutual need.

Symbolic Significance

Symbolizes reciprocal survival bonds and the dignity of care between human and animal.

Imagined canvas walls and a central hearth (as described) Scent of tack and animal hair implied in the rhetoric
S2E15 · Pen Pals
Interrupted Solace — Duty Intrudes

The Bedouin's Tent is invoked rhetorically by Picard to illustrate the historical, reciprocal bond between rider and war mare; as a referenced location it deepens the metaphor of mutual reliance and frames Picard's idea of companionship as practical and sacrificial.

Atmosphere

Imagined warmth and communal shelter invoked in speech, lending the conversation an anthropological depth.

Functional Role

Metaphorical backdrop used to teach Troi about the practical roots of companionship.

Symbolic Significance

Symbolizes survival-based intimacy and the dignity of interdependence across cultures and time.

Access Restrictions

Not a literal space in this event—no physical entry; purely illustrative.

Reference to canvas walls and shared hearth (implied) Sense of pragmatic, survival-based closeness conveyed by Picard

Events at This Location

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S2E15 · Pen Pals
Meadow Confession: Picard's Need for a True Companion

On the holodeck meadow Picard shares a tactile, unguarded moment with an Arabian mare that exposes his deeper craving: not for a pet, but for a mutual, elemental bond that …

S2E15 · Pen Pals
Leave Granted, Duty Interrupted

On a quiet Holodeck meadow Picard and Troi share a private exchange that lays bare Troi’s need to leave the ship and Picard’s instinctive, humane command. Troi refuses the horse’s …

S2E15 · Pen Pals
Interrupted Solace — Duty Intrudes

Picard and Troi share a rare, intimate moment in the Holodeck meadow: Picard's gentle communion with a horse becomes a quiet lesson about companionship, and Troi reveals a personal need …