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Duck Blind Battery Backup

A compact, purpose-built emergency battery pack installed to sustain the duck blind observation post after primary power loss. Housed in a ruggedized casing with status indicators and power-conduit connections, it supplies limited life‑support, sensor, and camouflage electronics. Crew audio/telemetry notes it provides roughly three hours of runtime before depletion; temporary repairs fail and the unit is stressed during an explosion that damages the outpost and injures personnel.
2 appearances

Purpose

Provide temporary electrical power to the duck blind observation post—maintaining essential environmental controls, surveillance feeds, and camouflage systems after the primary reactor fails.

Significance

Acts as the ticking clock that converts a technical malfunction into immediate crisis: its limited three‑hour capacity forces urgent rescue, escalates risk of exposure and a Prime Directive breach, and its failure precipitates an explosion that injures scientists and heightens dramatic stakes.

Appearances in the Narrative

When this object appears and how it's used

2 moments
S3E4 · Who Watches the Watchers
Duck‑Blind Failure — Reactor Explosion & Race to Mintaka Three

The Duck Blind Battery Backup is referenced as the outpost's three‑hour contingency power source; it frames the temporal window the team has before external help arrives and thus anchors the urgency of the bridge's warp calculation.

Before: Online but limited: supplying roughly three hours of auxiliary power after temporary repairs failed.
After: Still available but insufficient in the face of a reactor short and subsequent system damage; its runtime now uncertain given the overload and system failures.
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S3E4 · Who Watches the Watchers
Duck Blind Failure — Camouflage Down, Exposure Imminent

The outpost's battery backup is referenced as the team's immediate contingency — ‘‘three hours' worth at best’’ — framing the time pressure that turns the Enterprise ETA into a critical deadline for rescue and containment.

Before: Connected and providing limited auxiliary power; assessed to have roughly three hours of capacity during transient failure.
After: Still available but now the only immediate source of survivable power; its finite duration increases the urgency of rescue though its integrity post‑explosion is unknown.
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