Toby's private crisis — Technical failure aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia collides with Toby Ziegler's professional duty and personal stake (his brother aboard), forcing him to contain personal panic while preserving institutional messaging and decis...
Toby's private crisis — Technical failure aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia collides with Toby Ziegler's professional duty and personal stake (his brother aboard), forcing him to contain personal panic while preserving institutional messaging and decision‑making.
Events in This Arc
Sam rushes into Toby's office with a terse technical alert: a manual winch operation and subsequent failures have left the shuttle's two OMS engines compromised. The procedural briefing is edged …
In Toby's office at night, President Bartlet cuts through technical jargon and Toby's private terror with a concise, humanizing briefing: redundancy in the shuttle's RCS, Atlantis on the pad, and …