Starbase 515
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Events with rich location context
Starbase 515 is named as Wesley's diversion destination; while the canonical location entry is the Starbase 515 Surgical Suite, in this event the base functions narratively as the institutional site where Wesley will take exams and later as a connective node to medical plotlines.
Referenced as a procedural institutional site—impersonal, administrative, and efficient in tone.
Destination for Wesley's exams; a logistics node that removes him from the ship for a time.
Represents the larger Starfleet bureaucracy and formal credentialing that sit alongside experiential shipboard learning.
Starbase facilities are regulated and require appropriate authorization; access generally restricted to personnel and scheduled visitors.
Starbase 515 (surgical suite referenced elsewhere) functions as the urgent destination Riker orders the ship toward — it is the narrative reason the rescue must be swift and nonlethal so the Enterprise can reach medical aid.
Implied urgency and clinical gravity — a looming medical necessity that compresses the timeline for decisions.
Destination and safe haven for Captain Picard's urgent surgery.
Represents the moral imperative and ticking clock motivating Riker's decisive, restrained approach.
Accessible as a planned rendezvous destination; constrained by Starfleet protocols.
Starbase 515 functions as the intended destination and implied sanctuary — the warp heading Riker gives frames the rescue as urgent because of the captain's offstage medical crisis and signals a race toward specialized aid.
Projected urgency — the destination is a locus of needed medical intervention and implicit hope.
Refuge/destination for rapid medical care and a narrative next step following extraction.
Represents institutional support and the thin margin between life and death for Picard's surgery.
Not physically present in scene; access will be governed by Starfleet protocols on arrival.
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Picard frames the scene with a terse Captain's Log announcing course to the Epsilon Nine sector while quietly arranging Ensign Wesley Crusher's diversion to Starbase 515 for Academy examinations. On …
Riker forces the crisis to a quick, nonlethal climax: he issues a final ultimatum, the Pakleds drop shields, and Geordi is beamed back to the bridge. The apparent 'crimson blast' …
Riker completes a tense, non‑lethal rescue: after forcing the Pakleds to drop shields, he beams a battered Geordi back to the bridge and puts the ship to warp for Starbase …