Object

Bringloidi Animal Lead (Leash)

A short animal lead used to control Bringloidi livestock (goats): roughly 1.0–1.2 meters (three to four feet) long, constructed from rough-braided leather or heavy hemp/rope with a ringed or snap metal clasp at one end and a looped wrist/handhold at the other. The strap bears embedded straw and flecks of dried waste; sections show fraying and dirt-darkening from repeated use. In transporter-room scenes the lead is gripped to steady a skittish goat — transmitting jerks and panic into the handlers’ hands and serving as a practical prop through which Danilo Odell and Starfleet personnel negotiate cultural and logistical conflict.

3 appearances

Purpose

To physically restrain, tether, and guide a Bringloidi animal during handling and transport.

Significance

Operates as a small but charged emblem of the cultural clash: Danilo treats the lead as essential to his people's survival and care of livestock, and its use during the transporter-room chaos centers the dispute, converting logistical restraint into a test of authority and cultural respect.

Appearances in the Narrative

When this object appears and how it's used

3 moments

S2E18 · STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION — Up the Long Ladder

Transporter Room Stampede — Danilo's Challenge to Authority

The animal lead is actively used to restrain the goat and to transmit the animal's jerks into the human handlers' hands, creating tension and minor physical struggle that underlines the crude, pastoral reality affronting Starfleet order.

Before: Held by a Bringloidi handler, frayed and containing straw flecks.

After: Still in the handler's possession as the group prepares for transport; shows more dirt and strain from the scene's movement.

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S2E18 · STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION — Up the Long Ladder

Containment Order and Danilo's Challenge

The animal lead functions as a crude restraint transferring the goat's tension into human hands; it creaks and transmits animal motion, underscoring the precarious, improvised management of livestock amid ship operations.

Before: Clutched and used by a refugee to control the goat on the transporter pad, frayed and straw-laden.

After: Remains in the refugee's possession as they prepare for transport to the cargo hold.

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S2E18 · STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION — Up the Long Ladder

Corralled Authority: Livestock, Lines, and a Private Challenge

The animal lead transmits the animal's pulls and pushes into human hands—handlers tug to steady livestock on the slick platform, and it becomes a physical vector of the scene's tension when animals lurch near crew.

Before: In the hands of Bringloidi handlers restraining the goat on the transporter platform.

After: Held as the goat and other animals are prepared for transport to Cargo Hold Seven.

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