Jaradan Probe

At Picard’s command, the Enterprise sensor probe is launched to investigate the mysterious forcefield imprisoning both starships. This investigative tool provides critical data that confirms the shared predicament, symbolizing a shift from isolation to mutual awareness and catalyzing the push toward diplomacy and cooperation.

The Enterprise Sensor Probe is launched by Picard’s command to investigate the mysterious forcefield trapping both vessels. Its deployment represents a strategic response to gather critical data confirming the shared predicament and providing leverage for negotiations.

Picard orders the launch of a sensor probe to investigate the source of the mysterious planetary forcefield that holds both starships captive, shifting the event dynamic from confrontation to investigation and cooperative survival.

The Enterprise Sensor Probe is launched on Captain Picard's orders to investigate and pinpoint the source of the mysterious planetary forcefield imprisoning both the Enterprise and the Ferengi vessel. Functionally, it serves as an investigative tool that enables the crew to gather critical data, facilitating strategic insights and compelling the Ferengi to agree to visual communication, thus breaking the diplomatic deadlock.

The Enterprise sensor probe is launched under Picard’s command to investigate the mysterious forcefield entrapping both ships, initiating the search for the unknown entity holding them captive and fostering a shared investigative effort.

The Enterprise Sensor Probe is launched by Picard’s order to investigate the mysterious forcefield entrapping both ships, seeking the source of the immobilizing phenomenon that traps them in shared peril, thus supporting the tactical and diplomatic efforts.

The Enterprise Sensor Probe was launched as a tactical measure to collect data about the mysterious planetary forcefield imprisoning the Enterprise and the Ferengi vessel. Its signal reception is announced during the event, providing critical visual information that shifts the crew’s understanding from speculation to concrete evidence.

The Enterprise Sensor Probe is launched to investigate the planetary forcefield. It transmits critical sensor data back to the Enterprise, providing visual confirmation of the eerie green forcefield trapping both ships and enabling Picard’s team to reassess their tactical situation.

The Enterprise sensor probe is deployed to penetrate the enigmatic green forcefield, transmitting critical images and data back to the Enterprise. Its signal provides the crew with visual confirmation of the forcefield's origin on the planet’s surface and the entrapment of both the Enterprise and the Ferengi ship, catalyzing the urgent analysis and strategic planning in the lounge.

The Enterprise Sensor Probe is launched and begins transmitting critical data back to the Enterprise, including visual confirmation of the eerie green forcefield emanating from Gamma Tauri IV that ensnares both the Enterprise and Ferengi vessels. This real-time data shifts the crew’s understanding from speculation to concrete evidence, escalating the urgency and setting the stage for tactical decisions.

The Enterprise sensor probe is launched and transmits critical real-time imagery showing the planetary forcefield enveloping both the Enterprise and the Ferengi vessel, providing vital intelligence for Picard and his officers’ strategic assessment.

While not directly deployed here, the Enterprise Sensor Probe is alluded to as part of the mutual investigation to understand the planet's mysterious forcefield, underscoring the scientific approach to unraveling their shared predicament.

The Enterprise Sensor Probe is cited by DaiMon Taar as evidence of Federation trickery, fueling mistrust. Its presence underscores the fragile trust and contested narratives pivotal in the negotiation’s emotional and strategic tension.

The Enterprise transporter device is offered by Picard as a proven means to beam the joint science team to the planet surface. It acts as a key enabler for the cooperative exploration mission proposed to DaiMon Taar, underscoring Federation technological reliability.

The Enterprise Sensor Probe is indirectly referenced as part of the exchange of information about the planet. While not explicitly launched in this dialogue, its data underpins the negotiation, representing the Federation’s scientific advantage and trust offered to the Ferengi.

The Jaradan Probe is hypothesized by engineering as the covert source of the Enterprise's technical malfunctions, representing an unseen external threat complicating the diplomatic standoff and intensifying internal crisis resolution efforts.

The Jaradan probe is identified by Geordi and his team as the hidden source causing the Enterprise’s technical malfunctions, establishing a direct link between external alien interference and the ship's internal crises, significantly raising the narrative stakes.

An Iconian probe — evidenced by a bright flash and identified by Data — is launched from the planet's surface; its telemetry matches the probe that scanned the Yamato, making it the immediate kinetic threat the bridge must intercept and study.

The Iconian probe (as characterized by Varley's recovered specimen) is the identified match for the projectile launched from Iconia; Data's recognition transforms it from a forensic curiosity into an active threat and a candidate for capture rather than avoidance.

The Iconian probe approaches the Enterprise, emits hostile energy, and constitutes the immediate existential threat prompting bridge action. It is the target of Picard's ordered phaser volley and its destruction ends the immediate danger while confirming La Forge's assessment that the device could have scanned or corrupted the ship.

The Iconian probe closes dangerously on the Enterprise, emits hostile energy and threatens to perform a lethal scan. It serves as the immediate antagonist whose potential to 'read' the ship forces an instant kinetic response; it is struck by phasers and explodes, ending the immediate danger.

Varley's Iconian Probe is invoked as the physical transmitter that sent the alien program. In this event it functions narratively as the provenance for the contagion: the crew trace the program's origin to the probe and use that linkage to explain the Yamato's fate and the nature of the threat aboard the Enterprise.

Varley's Iconian Probe functions narratively as the vector: it transmitted the alien computer program that now exists in Federation systems. In this event it is referenced as the originating transmitter whose payload (the program) was propagated via the Yamato log and subsequently embedded in the Enterprise mainframe.

Varley's Iconian probe is not physically present in the room but is referenced by observation: the dome is flecked with the same reflective material, linking the probe to Iconian technology and allowing Picard and Data to correlate debris from the probe with control-room artifacts.

Varley's Iconian probe is referenced as a forensic comparator: the dome's flecked reflective material matches the probe's surface, linking the probe's origin to this control room and justifying the team's hypothesis about a common technological source.