Deck Thirteen

Deck Thirteen sits bruised and half-dark as life support frays, its corridors washed in intermittent red emergency lighting and the staccato hiss of failing ventilation. Air thins; breath fogs in the cold where once-warm wards and crew quarters now echo with distant alarms and the metallic clack of maintenance panels. The deck functions as a blunt measure of shipwide collapse—an urgent, visible gauge that compresses command decisions, ratchets fear, and forces grim choices about who to save and what to sacrifice.

2 events

2 rich involvements

Detailed Involvements

Events with rich location context

S2E11 · Contagion (Star Trek: The Next Generation)

Choosing the Sacrifice — Picard Claims the Away Mission

Deck Thirteen is also cited as suffering life‑support failure, reinforcing the scope of system collapse and the urgency of finding an external solution — not just internal repairs.

Atmosphere

Implied alarm and danger; a sign that shipwide systems are under threat.

Functional Role

Tangible indicator of the crisis' spread, pressuring command to act rather than wait.

Symbolic Significance

Conveys the moral pressure on command to choose whom and what to save as resources fail.

Access Restrictions

Likely compromised and dangerous to enter without protective measures.

Named explicitly in the report to show multiple failures Serves as a metric for the worsening emergency

S2E11 · Contagion (Star Trek: The Next Generation)

Picard Volunteers for the Away Mission; Riker Assumes Command

Deck Thirteen is the second specifically named zone with collapsed life support; its mention doubles the urgency and reinforces the sense of shipwide systemic threat that justifies an immediate retrieval mission.

Atmosphere

Cold, compromised, and alarming — a concrete location where crew lives are at risk.

Functional Role

Concrete target for rescue and triage, illustrating the spread of damage across the Enterprise.

Symbolic Significance

Amplifies the impression that the ship is in decline and that command must prioritize both crew survival and strategic action.

Access Restrictions

Likely restricted due to environmental failure; rescue operations prioritized over casual access.

Explicit life support failure noted in dialogue. Acts as an urgent justification for decisive leadership and resource allocation.

Events at This Location

Everything that happens here

S2E11 · Contagion (Star Trek: The Next Generation)

Choosing the Sacrifice — Picard Claims the Away Mission

In the captain's ready room Picard and Riker confront a collapsing timeline: life support is already failing on multiple decks and an Iconian program may be actively rewriting ship systems. …

S2E11 · Contagion (Star Trek: The Next Generation)

Picard Volunteers for the Away Mission; Riker Assumes Command

In the captain's ready room, Riker delivers grim news: life support is failing on multiple decks and an Iconian probe may be rewriting the ship's systems. Picard, haunted by the …