Tarod Nine

Tarod Nine sits as a remote planetary outpost that the Enterprise closes on, its sensors returning a single chilling verdict: utterly wiped, everyone and everything gone. The world registers as an absence more than a place — a silent target on the viewscreen whose emptiness reads as threat. That vacuum of life sparks immediate bridge anxiety, driving tactical demands for Red Alert while pulling against diplomatic restraint. Tarod Nine functions as a narrative fulcrum: an annihilated waypoint whose sensor-silence forces agonized choices between safety and measured investigation.

2 events

2 rich involvements

Detailed Involvements

Events with rich location context

S1E26 · STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION — The Neutral Zone

Tarod Nine — The Hollowed Outpost and the Rising Alert

Tarod Nine is the physical absence reported by Data — an annihilated outpost whose sensor silence functions as the incident's core mystery and moral pressure, driving the bridge's debate over how to respond.

Atmosphere

Sensor silence — an eerie absence that reads as violent erasure and demands explanation.

Functional Role

Catalyst site for investigation and the narrative fulcrum triggering operational and diplomatic choices.

Symbolic Significance

Symbolizes the human cost of border vulnerabilities and the precariousness of peace along the Neutral Zone.

Access Restrictions

Remote planetary outpost; approach requires Starfleet authorization and caution.

Empty sensor return with no life signs Void where routine beacon/telemetry should register

S1E26 · STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION — The Neutral Zone

Reason Over Red: Picard Holds the Line

Tarod Nine is the absent presence driving the scene: sensor confirmation of its total destruction turns abstract coordinates into a moral and tactical dilemma demanding a response from command.

Atmosphere

Off-stage silence that radiates dread — the vanished outpost is felt as an ominous omission on the viewscreen.

Functional Role

Catalyst for the bridge debate — the site whose annihilation demands explanation and action.

Symbolic Significance

Symbolizes the stakes of the Neutral Zone crisis — civilian loss, possible provocation, and the fragility of established order.

Access Restrictions

Unreachable in-scene; location is under sensor observation only.

Sensor blips missing where an outpost should be Cold, clinical phrasing in bridge reports Silence on long-range channels implied rather than shown

Events at This Location

Everything that happens here

S1E26 · STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION — The Neutral Zone

Tarod Nine — The Hollowed Outpost and the Rising Alert

The Enterprise arrives at Tarod Nine to discover a perfectly intact outpost that has been terrifyingly 'scooped' of people and possessions. Worf's blunt report and Riker's push for immediate Red …

S1E26 · STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION — The Neutral Zone

Reason Over Red: Picard Holds the Line

As the Enterprise arrives at Tarod Nine, tense evidence — an entire outpost emptied as if 'scooped' — forces a clash between caution and combat. Geordi and Data supply cold …