Earth's Atlantic Ocean

Salt-laden horizon and endless swell form a weather-beaten corridor where twentieth‑ and early twenty‑first‑century liners once carved steady wakes. Data invokes Earth's Atlantic Ocean to pinpoint the Q‑E‑Two's historical operating area, summoning shipping lanes, crowded transatlantic traffic, and the layered memory of civilian voyages. The ocean operates as a distant, nostalgic, and forensic referent—vast, wind-scoured, and quietly freighted with human routes and logistical patterns that shape the crew's tactical understanding.

2 events

2 rich involvements

Detailed Involvements

Events with rich location context

S1E26 · The Neutral Zone

Testing Romulan Intent — Strategy Interrupted

Earth's Atlantic Ocean functions as a historical reference point invoked by Data to explain the Q-E-Two; it anchors Offenhouse's complaint in recognizable twentieth/early‑twenty‑first century travel culture and emphasizes the cultural dissonance aboard the starship.

Atmosphere

Evocative and nostalgic in mention — not present physically but invoked to contrast prior commercial efficiencies with Starfleet protocols.

Functional Role

Cultural and historical touchstone used to translate Offenhouse's complaint for the crew and to highlight differences in expectation.

Symbolic Significance

Signals the gulf between civilian consumer expectations and institutional, post‑scarcity responsibilities.

Salt-scented, open water imagery Rolling swells and maritime memory associated with passenger liners Dense historical human traffic implicit in the reference

S1E26 · The Neutral Zone

Offenhouse Hijacks the Comms — Ideology Interrupts Strategy

Earth's Atlantic Ocean is invoked by Data to place the historical Q‑E‑Two in context; the reference collapses Offenhouse's cultural touchstone into anachronism and deflates its rhetorical power within the Ready Room.

Atmosphere

Nostalgic referent used clinically; it jars against the technological present.

Functional Role

Historical/geographical anchor for Data's identification of the Q‑E‑Two.

Symbolic Significance

Represents the survivor's clinging to a vanished world and norms.

Mental image of crowded transatlantic liners invoked Contrast between oceanic nostalgia and starship operations

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Everything that happens here

S1E26 · The Neutral Zone

Testing Romulan Intent — Strategy Interrupted

In the ready room the senior staff confronts a cold tactical puzzle: nine outposts near the Neutral Zone have gone silent, and Riker and Worf press for a proactive, even …

S1E26 · The Neutral Zone

Offenhouse Hijacks the Comms — Ideology Interrupts Strategy

During a high‑stakes senior staff strategy session six hours from the Neutral Zone, twenty‑first‑century passenger Ralph Offenhouse audibly commandeers the ready room intercom, shoving his material anxieties into the ship's …