Object

Strategema Move Counter (Ten-Forward Digital Base)

The primary Ten-Forward Strategema move counter: a low, palm‑sized table-mounted digital base with a recessed numeric readout and tactile top where players rest metallic thimbles. Plastic-and-metal construction shows lounge wear; the display increments with each move and, in the pivotal match, jerks through moves before freezing at '23', marking the decisive narrative beat in Peak Performance.

2 appearances

Purpose

To register and display the current move count/progress during a public Strategema match.

Significance

The frozen count at move twenty‑three becomes an objective ledger of Riker's public defeat, converting a private game into a moment of humiliation that intensifies the Kolrami rivalry and destabilizes command standing among the crew.

Appearances in the Narrative

When this object appears and how it's used

2 moments

S2E21 · Peak Performance

Data's Defeat at 133 — The Fracture of Infallibility

The Strategema Move Counter ticks each numbered play and provides the decisive, objective readout that marks the match's endpoint. Its abrupt stall at 133 supplies the incontrovertible proof of outcome and serves narratively as the concrete rupture in Data's reputation.

Before: Operational and incrementing steadily from 001 upward in sync with the board's plays.

After: Digit display frozen at 133, no longer incrementing; functions as frozen evidence of the defeat.

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S2E21 · Peak Performance

The Day Data Lost

The small digital move counter audibly and visually tracks each play; as moves tick upward it creates mounting tension and then abruptly freezes on '133', offering the definitive, unambiguous evidence that Data was outplayed and converting ambiguity into a concrete outcome.

Before: Counting sequential moves, registering rapid increments during the accelerated play.

After: Stalled at move 133; the display blinks no further, marking the moment of Data's defeat.

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