Engineering/technological crisis: Geordi, engineering and damage‑control teams racing to stabilize failing systems (coolant leaks, antimatter containment, power couplings) while tactical choices force the ship to hold under fire—human skill versus fail...
Engineering/technological crisis: Geordi, engineering and damage‑control teams racing to stabilize failing systems (coolant leaks, antimatter containment, power couplings) while tactical choices force the ship to hold under fire—human skill versus failing technology under acute stress.
Events in This Arc
The away-team report arrives: Riker stands on the battered Enterprise‑C bridge, La Forge is patching power, and only 125 of 700 survive. Picard hears the scale of the damage, weighs …
Under the roar of failing systems and smoke-choked consoles, Engineering reports a coolant leak and an imminent warp-core breach while the bridge is pummeled by Klingon fire. With Riker down …
After the bridge snaps back into procedural order—Worf reports a vanished contact, Data warns the temporal rift is closing, and Picard issues routine orders—Guinan's unexpected com cuts through the business-as-usual …