Location
Projected Landscape (Iconian Gateway)
Grassy Field (Iconian Gateway Projection)
A wide, green expanse unfurls as a brief, remote panorama — a grass‑strewn plain with a low horizon that reads as calm and terrestrial against the Iconian gateway’s spinning aperture. The projection smells of contradiction: pastoral openness compressed into a circulating image, its quiet light washing the control room’s consoles and cutting through the technical hum. The vista functions narratively as an impossible promise of ordinary space, offering emotional contrast to the sterile, dangerous control room and heightening the shock when the gateway cycles to starship bridges moments later.
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S2E11
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Contagion (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
Iconian Gateway Awakens — Data Struck Down
The Grassy Field is one of the gateway's projected destinations; its pastoral image provides emotional contrast to the sterile control room and functions narratively to suggest the Iconians used the system for transit rather than warfare.
Atmosphere
Momentarily serene and incongruous within the control room's urgency.
Functional Role
Projection/destination sample that demonstrates the gateway's range and peaceful potentials.
Symbolic Significance
Suggests alternate fates for the Iconians—escape, refuge, or migration—undermining the 'conqueror' narrative.
Access Restrictions
Not a physical space accessible from the control room without the gateway functioning; presented only as a projection.
Bright pastoral light contrasting the control room's dim metal tones
Circulating image that appears and vanishes with the globe's rotation
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