Object
Enterprise Navigational Systems
A shipwide lattice of consoles and core processors that coughs up crisp telemetry, ETA readouts, and sensor overlays into the conference room. Pale glyphs and scrolling vectors spill across a central display as Data summons navigation vectors; officers lean forward, fingers hover over armrests, and Picard absorbs a compact stream of numbers that translates threat into options. The system registers no visible hardware in the room—its presence arrives as authoritative, distilled data and routing commands.
22 appearances
Purpose
To aggregate the U.S.S. Enterprise's navigational, sensor, and operational telemetry and present authoritative, real-time data (ETAs, transit vectors, threat diagnostics) to command staff for decision-making and routing.
Significance
Provides the factual backbone for Picard's cautious escalation: its ETAs and sensor summaries allow the captain to commit a single-ship response while calibrating risk. The computer's terse outputs shift debate from speculation to operational choice, anchoring the conference's strategic turning point and foreshadowing downstream medical and ethical consequences.
Appearances in the Narrative
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