Object
USS Enterprise Main Power Grid
A ship‑spanning lattice of armored power conduits, nodal capacitors and distribution busses that channels primary electrical energy across the USS Enterprise. In these scenes the grid flickers and hiccups: overhead lamps gutter to dim twilight, status panels strobe amber and red, and localized buses surge or collapse, producing arcs that electrocute and knock systems offline. Crew call up diagnostics and isolate distribution nodes; Picard invokes Protocol B to restrict access to the grid, Data is tasked with sensor sweeps against further disruptions, and Wesley watches in guilt as the grid becomes both victim and possible vector of attack.
4 appearances
Purpose
To generate, regulate, and distribute primary electrical energy throughout the starship, routing power to propulsion, life support, sensors, shields, weapons, and shipboard systems.
Significance
Acts as the immediate cause and evidence of the shipwide outage and a strategic vulnerability—its instability forces Picard to impose Protocol B, reframes a medical incident as a possible deliberate assault, and pivots the crew from rescue to containment and investigation.
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