Danar Slips into the Jefferies Tubes
Plot Beats
The narrative micro-steps within this event
Security arrives to find engineering personnel recovering as Danar vanishes into Jefferies tubes, confirming his successful evasion.
Who Was There
Characters present in this moment
Controlled urgency; composed command presence masking the stakes of a politically sensitive containment failure.
Receives Data's reports, acknowledges the successful override, and immediately uses that information to reorient the bridge's operational response and order security assets to intercept where Danar is headed.
- • Contain and apprehend the intruder while minimizing risk to crew and ship.
- • Coordinate bridge, security, and engineering responses based on Data's diagnostics.
- • Prevent the breach from escalating into wider system compromise or diplomatic incident.
- • Clear, accurate sensor information enables targeted, proportionate action.
- • Chain of command and proper deployment of security will minimize casualties and damage.
- • Rapid containment preserves both safety and Starfleet's moral/professional standing.
Impressed by Danar's competence while professionally concerned about the breach and its tactical implications.
At the bridge console Data runs deep diagnostics, explicitly praises Danar's technical skill, reports that Shuttlebay Two's power has been restored by the intruder, and executes an override that neutralizes Danar's bypass.
- • Identify and trace the intruder's system manipulations in real time.
- • Neutralize any unauthorized bypasses to prevent further access points being opened.
- • Provide command with actionable sensor data to direct security deployment.
- • Maintain integrity of critical ship systems through precise overrides.
- • Technical problems can be corrected through precise diagnostics and overrides.
- • Danar's actions are deliberate and skilled, not random — requiring swift technical countermeasures.
- • Providing clear data to command is the most effective way to enable containment.
Focused readiness; restrained impatience to engage the intruder and secure critical areas.
Enters the bridge with two security guards, immediately preparing to lead a physical interception or pursuit based on Data and Picard's directives, representing the ship's kinetic response.
- • Mobilize and deploy security teams to intercept Danar before he reaches vulnerable locations.
- • Protect senior officers and critical systems from the intruder's access.
- • Seal off affected compartments and coordinate entry protocols with engineering.
- • Physical force and trained security teams are necessary to stop a dangerous intruder.
- • Quick, decisive action reduces the chance of further sabotage or escape.
- • Following command directives while asserting security protocols will best protect the ship.
Dazed but determined; still recovering physically while mentally shifting to problem-solving mode.
Slowly coming onto the bridge, recovering from an earlier incapacitation; Geordi is present as a recovering engineer who will support system restoration and damage assessment once stable.
- • Regain situational awareness and assist engineering in restoring and securing systems.
- • Assess how Danar bypassed controls and what remedial steps are required.
- • Support Data and engineering teams to prevent further intrusions.
- • Engineering damage is reparable with focused effort and priority rerouting.
- • Cooperation between engineering and bridge command is vital to successful containment.
- • Identifying the intruder's technical method will enable stronger countermeasures.
Objects Involved
Significant items in this scene
The Bridge Sensor Analysis Console is the control interface Data uses to monitor Danar's manipulations, run diagnostics, and execute a system override that neutralizes the bypass affecting Shuttlebay Two. It functions as the technical eye and hand for command decisions during the breach.
An isolinear bypass module is implied to have been manipulated by Danar in Engineering to reroute control paths and restore power to Shuttlebay Two. Data's override counteracts the bypass's effects, rendering the unauthorized module's action ineffective and closing that access point.
Location Details
Places and their significance in this event
Main Engineering is the staging ground of the intrusion: Danar moves through it, manipulates isolinear modules, and reaches the reactor core. It functions as the technical crucible where the breach becomes tactical movement and where injured engineers recover before heading to the bridge.
Shuttlebay Two is the access point Danar briefly restores power to, presumably to use as an exit strategy. Data reports its reactivation and then, after an override, its deactivation — the contested locus that turns an infiltration into a potential escape route.
The Jefferies Tube is the claustrophobic maintenance conduit the intruder uses to vanish from sight. It is the final visible trace of Danar's movement and the immediate reason the response becomes a shipwide manhunt.
Narrative Connections
How this event relates to others in the story
No narrative connections mapped yet
This event is currently isolated in the narrative graph
Key Dialogue
"DATA: Danar is extremely adept, sir. I am not certain which security measure he is attempting to circumvent."
"DATA: Sir, Danar has succeeded in restoring power to Shuttlebay Two."
"PICARD: Very good, Mister Data. And now we know where he's headed."