Energize — Away Team Beamed Into Borg Vessel
Plot Beats
The narrative micro-steps within this event
Riker gives the final command to energize—his voice cuts through silence like a blade, sealing their fate as the transporter beam rips them from safety into the Borg’s incorporeal domain.
Who Was There
Characters present in this moment
Focused and professional — quietly aware of the technical risks and committed to reliable execution of the transport.
O'Brien reports he has 'laid in coordinates' to place the team in the least damaged section of the Borg ship; he is the technical guarantor of the team's insertion and stands prepared to effect immediate extraction if necessary.
- • Deliver the away team to the safest possible landing vector.
- • Maintain readiness to recall or extract the team instantly if required.
- • Precise transporter coordinates minimize risk in hostile insertions.
- • His technical competence materially affects crew survival.
Clinically neutral and focused — methodical readiness without emotional fluctuation, oriented toward data collection.
Data accompanies the team, armed and composed; he is present as a sensor and analytical asset who will gather information aboard the Borg vessel and follow command protocols.
- • Collect reliable sensor and forensic data from the Borg ship.
- • Support mission objectives through analysis and adherence to orders.
- • Objective data will clarify the nature of the threat and guide decisions.
- • Following command structure is the most efficient way to achieve mission goals.
Grim, focused — duty-first resolve with restrained readiness for violence if ordered.
Worf reports sensor results ('no life sign readings'), stands armed and ready as part of the away team, and joins Riker on the pad prepared to carry out reconnaissance or combat if necessary.
- • Protect the away team and secure tactical advantage on arrival.
- • Verify the status of targets and be prepared to neutralize threats quickly.
- • Duty to follow orders and protect fellow officers is paramount.
- • Hostile environments require readiness to escalate force.
Resolute and tense — externally controlled authority carrying the private weight of the team's risk and possible loss.
Riker gives the final marching orders, sets rules of engagement (phasers to stun), leads the away team onto the transporter pad, and speaks the command 'Energize,' physically initiating the beam‑out.
- • Execute a disciplined, survivable reconnaissance on the Borg ship.
- • Maintain command responsibility and minimize casualties through rules of engagement.
- • Chain of command and protocol reduce chaos and protect the crew.
- • The mission demands risk; controlled escalation (stun to higher power) preserves options.
Objects Involved
Significant items in this scene
The circular transporter pad is the physical and ritual platform for the away team's transition; the officers climb onto it, it cycles through its shimmer, and it dematerializes them — moving the drama from preparation to active exposure aboard the Borg vessel.
Encoded beam‑down coordinates (the carrier signal / coordinate data) function as the navigational linchpin: O'Brien has entered these vectors so the transporters will place the team in the least damaged section of the Borg ship, directly shaping tactical risk and landing location.
Location Details
Places and their significance in this event
Transporter Room Three serves as the staging arena where tactical decision-making compresses into action: officers assemble, technicians confirm vectors, orders are given, and the transporter pad executes the beam. It concentrates procedure, grief, and urgency into a single mechanical ritual.
The Borg ship's Great Chamber is the away team's intended destination — an implied, foreboding battleground described as clinical, densely packed with assimilated life‑slots; it functions narratively as the hostile unknown that the team is entering and must survive.
Narrative Connections
How this event relates to others in the story
"The away team’s step onto the Borg ship triggers their harrowing discoveries — including the nursery and regeneration — which directly cause Picard to order immediate extraction, making their physical entry the causal pivot of the entire mission."
"The away team’s step onto the Borg ship triggers their harrowing discoveries — including the nursery and regeneration — which directly cause Picard to order immediate extraction, making their physical entry the causal pivot of the entire mission."
Key Dialogue
"WORF: There are no life sign readings."
"O'BRIEN: I have laid in coordinates which should set you down in the least damaged section of the Borg ship."
"RIKER: Energize."