Technological causation and forensic vindication: the team must identify whether a technological mechanism (Apgar's Krieger‑wave/converter in combination with planetary Lambda Field discharges) produced the reactor detonation and thereby exonerate or i...
Technological causation and forensic vindication: the team must identify whether a technological mechanism (Apgar's Krieger‑wave/converter in combination with planetary Lambda Field discharges) produced the reactor detonation and thereby exonerate or implicate Riker. This is a conflict between emergent evidence and competing narratives.
Events in This Arc
On the bridge Geordi and Data's forensic readouts narrow the mysterious discharge to a phaser-like signature that spatially matches Riker's transport position, crystallizing Tanugan suspicions. Wesley erupts in defensive disbelief …
Picard stages a surgical Holodeck reconstruction of the station's last hours to expose a lethal deception: with Geordi's technical set-up the facsimile reproduces Apgar's converter and the planet's repeating discharge. …
On the Holodeck Picard delivers the culmination of the investigation: a cold, surgical reconstruction proving that Apgar's converter generated a lethal Krieger Wave and that the timing of the pulse—engineered …