Sarjenka's Room

A small private bedroom on Drema Four: a comb-like cluster of hexagonal cells forming a child's chamber choked with ash, littered with broken toys, star pictures, a ruined transmitter, and a battered lute. The room is dim and hushed, a sleeping child beneath thin covers with an Elanin Singer Stone in small fingers. One wall can slide open to the planet beyond, revealing shifting volcanic conditions (from molten rivers and immediate volcanic threat to a quieter, smoke-thinning vista), and the space smells of smoke and dust while trembling with seismic urgency. The location is the site of an intimate, fragile human moment and an unauthorized rescue that links technological action with private consequence.

3 events

3 rich involvements

Detailed Involvements

Events with rich location context

S2E15 · Pen Pals

Ash, Recognition, and the Decision to Beam Up

Sarjenka's room is the intimate, domestic stage where childhood artifacts collide with planetary catastrophe. It shelters the child briefly, frames the personal connection between child and android, and becomes the threshold across which Data must convert ethical analysis into protective action.

Atmosphere

Hushed, tense, and mournful with sudden spikes of terror as tremors and ash intrude upon domestic quiet.

Functional Role

Refuge for the child; narrative crucible that personalizes the broader planetary crisis.

Symbolic Significance

Embodies the fragility of innocence and the personal stakes that convert abstract policy into human obligation.

Lurid red light filters through hexagonal cells. High-pitched tricorder beeps shift in tone while scanning doorways. Ash rains outside and tremors intermittently shake the room. Childhood detritus present: transmitter on floor, lute, pictures, ribbons and tumbled furs.

S2E15 · Pen Pals

The Child's Plea and Data's Reckless Rescue

Sarjenka's private bedroom is the intimate stage where global ethical issues become personal: domestic detritus, a lute, pictures, and a cracked transmitter frame childhood lost to geological catastrophe. The room's vanishing wall provides both a literal portal to danger and a dramaturgical reveal that heightens urgency and intimacy.

Atmosphere

Tense, mournful, and claustrophobic — an intimate hush punctured by tremors and ash, shifting quickly to desperate urgency when the volcano is revealed.

Functional Role

Refuge turned battleground — the immediate site of decision, rescue, and the conversion of abstract policy into personal obligation.

Symbolic Significance

The room symbolizes innocence threatened by external forces and the private stakes that make institutional ethics painfully concrete.

Lurid red light filtering through hexagonal cells Occasional tremors and ash raining outside A wall that vanishes to reveal an active volcano and advancing lava Child's belongings: a lute, ribbons, pictures, and a transmitter on the floor

S2E15 · Pen Pals

Data's Defiant Rescue: Beaming Sarjenka to the Enterprise

Sarjenka's private bedroom acts as the intimate arena for the emotional reunion and the moral turning point: childhood artifacts, a vanished wall revealing volcanic devastation, and trembling floors turn a domestic refuge into a staging ground for rescue and a witness to Data's compassionate choice.

Atmosphere

Hushed, tense and intimate — childhood stillness intermittently broken by tremors and ash, shifting quickly into urgent peril.

Functional Role

Staging ground for child/android reunion and immediate evacuation decision; a private space made public by crisis.

Symbolic Significance

Represents lost innocence and the fragile border between private childhood wonder and planetary catastrophe; the room makes abstract ethical questions unbearably personal.

Access Restrictions

None explicit — physically accessible but endangered by environmental collapse; effectively inaccessible once exterior becomes lethal.

Lurid red light filtering through hexagonal cells High‑pitched tricorder beeps and recurring tremors Vanishing wall that reveals a volcano spurting molten lava Child's detritus: lute‑like instrument, ribbons, pictures, raised fur platform

Events at This Location

Everything that happens here

S2E15 · Pen Pals

Ash, Recognition, and the Decision to Beam Up

Data materializes in Sarjenka's ash-choked room and methodically surveys the ruined childhood detritus—star pictures, a broken transmitter, a lute. Tremors and a molten river outside make the danger immediate. When …

S2E15 · Pen Pals

The Child's Plea and Data's Reckless Rescue

Data materializes in Sarjenka's ash-choked bedroom, discovering the wreckage of a child's life and the transmitter she saved. When the luminous, terrified girl recognizes him and collapses into his arms, …

S2E15 · Pen Pals

Data's Defiant Rescue: Beaming Sarjenka to the Enterprise

Data materializes in an abandoned child's room on Drema Four, reads catastrophic seismic activity outside and encounters Sarjenka — a luminous, terrified child who has returned for her transmitter. Their …