Starbase Six
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Events with rich location context
Appears in final exterior shot as Enterprise's destination, its promise of sanctuary rendered ominously provisional by the revelation that Graves' consciousness survives within the ship itself.
Remote safety undercut by internal threat
Symbolic endpoint/harbor
False promise of resolution
Starfleet-regulated docking
Starbase Six looms as the Enterprise's destination—its promise of Starfleet security rendered ironically impotent as the true danger has already infiltrated the ship's most trusted systems.
Distant institutional safety (illusory)
False objective
Bureaucratic unpreparedness for non-biological threats
Mentioned in the scene's final shot as the Enterprise's destination—its promise of institutional safety contrasts with the unresolved horror of Graves potentially surviving as code aboard the ship.
Implied bureaucratic remove from immediate trauma
Future refuge (or false security)
Starfleet's authority unable to fully contain Graves' threat
Starbase Three Three Six functions as the intelligence source: it received and relayed the automated transmission from the T'Ong, initiating the Enterprise mission and framing the timeline urgency referenced in the briefing.
Implied procedural efficiency — a sterile, bureaucratic relay point converting raw telemetry into command alerts.
Information originator and early‑warning node that catalyzed the Enterprise's response.
Represents Federation institutional reach and the chain of information that obligates Starfleet action.
Operated by Starbase personnel and accessible to Starfleet command channels; not directly present in the scene.
Starbase three three six is cited as the origin of the automated transmission that exposed the T'Ong; it functions as the informational source that incites the Enterprise's mission and supplies the historical provenance of the distress signal.
Not physically present in scene but implied as a procedural, buttoned-down intelligence source producing terse, consequential telemetry.
Source of intelligence and the inciting report that launched the Enterprise's response.
Represents institutional surveillance and the chain that turns old war artifacts into present danger.
An operational Starbase assumed to only share sensitive transmissions through formal channels.
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The crew bursts into Data's quarters to find him collapsed, fearing Graves has fully usurped his android body. Their relief is palpable when Data awakens with his familiar mannerisms—the dry …
The crew's relief at Data's apparent reawakening curdles into unease as his hyper-literal responses reveal uncanny artificiality. While Riker and Picard initially celebrate his return through familiar banter about jokes …
The crew bursts into Data's quarters to find him inert by the computer. When revived, Data's innocent questions and attempt at humor reassure everyone of his true identity's return—except Kareen, …
During a tense senior briefing at warp, K'Ehleyr reveals an automated transmission from the eighty-year‑lost Klingon battlecruiser T'Ong: its crew will awaken believing the Federation is still the enemy. Data …
In the observation lounge K'Ehleyr delivers grim intelligence: an eighty-year‑lost Klingon battlecruiser, the T'Ong, is due to awaken near thirteen lightly defended Federation colonies. She urges immediate destruction; Picard refuses …