Object
Vehicle Classification Index (Bridge Sensor Module)
A shipboard bridge sensor subsystem rendered as layered scan overlays across the tactical console and main viewscreen. It appears as a virtual, high-resolution telemetry overlay that isolates, magnifies, and flattens returns into readable traces; bridge officers — Data, Geordi and Riker — manipulate its controls while the display stubbornly returns an empty, unclassifiable readout.
2 appearances
Purpose
To ingest, isolate, magnify and classify sensor returns from local and remote systems, producing focused telemetry and layered overlays that let the bridge crew identify contacts, anomalies, or threats.
Significance
Its inability to classify or even retain the Nelvana drive return converts a tactical containment into a crisis: the sensor failure reveals Danar's elusiveness, escalates a pursuit into a political liability for Angosia, and exposes limits in Starfleet detection capabilities.
Appearances in the Narrative
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