Counter-Reaction Diagnosed & Brahms' Voice Unearthed
Plot Beats
The narrative micro-steps within this event
Geordi monitors circuits but remains baffled despite all tests showing normal conditions, intensifying his frustration as the Enterprise remains powerless.
Geordi interrogates the computer and discovers the trap's proportional counter-reaction, confirming the dire mechanics sabotaging the warp drive.
Who Was There
Characters present in this moment
Recorded neutrality — professional, detached — which paradoxically creates an emotional tether for Geordi; the voice is informative rather than intimate.
Although not live, Dr. Leah Brahms participates through her archived dictation: a neutral, clinical voice that labels and frames subspace propulsion logs. Her recording provides authoritative metadata and the technical language Geordi needs to proceed.
- • Preserve accurate theoretical propulsion knowledge for future engineers.
- • Document subspace system behavior and configurations to standardize Galaxy‑class troubleshooting.
- • Comprehensive documentation and voice logs are essential for operational integrity of Galaxy‑class vessels.
- • Subspace propulsion phenomena can and should be categorized systematically so that later engineers can reproduce and fix issues.
Concentration edged with puzzled determination; quietly relieved to have an actionable lead, and faintly awkward/alone when addressing recorded voice logs as if speaking to a colleague.
Geordi runs sequential diagnostics on engineering monitors, inputs targeted queries via the engineering keypad, interprets the computer's report that an opposing force scales with power output, scrolls the Subspace Field Menu, and elects to play archived voice entries by L. Brahms.
- • Diagnose why the Enterprise cannot form a subspace field and isolate the mechanism preventing warp.
- • Find authoritative technical material or a design lead that explains or offers a workaround for the counter‑reaction.
- • Anchor himself emotionally by connecting with a human author of the archived files to combat isolation under stress.
- • The warp failure is a solvable engineering problem if he can find the right data or theory.
- • Archived Galaxy‑class design logs and voice recordings contain actionable diagnostics and commands.
- • An institutional author (Leah Brahms) will have designed or documented the subspace systems in sufficient detail to offer a solution.
Objects Involved
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The Starfleet identification card for Dr. Leah Brahms is displayed on the computer screen to identify the author of the files. Narratively it converts a faceless technical entry into a person, supplying an emotional tether and legitimacy to the archived logs Geordi accesses.
The Main Engineering Computer Keypad is Geordi's tactile interface for running diagnostics, entering queries about counter‑reactions, and navigating the databank. It functions as the practical tool that converts Geordi's hypotheses into searchable queries, enabling the discovery of Brahms' files and the playback command for voice entries.
The Subspace Field Menu is the UI overlay that returns a dense list of Galaxy‑class subspace design files. It surfaces repeated authorship (L. Brahms), turning a technical search into a narrative clue and channel for the archived voice recording Geordi elects to play. Functionally, it reframes the problem by revealing provenance and possible solutions.
Narrative Connections
How this event relates to others in the story
"Geordi's romantic failure with Christy leads him to seek connection elsewhere, eventually finding it with the holographic Leah Brahms."
Key Dialogue
"GEORDI: "So why can't we move?""
"COMPUTER VOICE: "Affirmative. The opposing force grew in direct proportion to the power output of the Enterprise.""
"LEAH: "Theoretical propulsion logs, Federation Starship Enterprise, Galaxy class. Heading: Subspace. Author: Leah Brahms.""