VISOR Revelation — Missing Tissue and the Theft of Time
Plot Beats
The narrative micro-steps within this event
Geordi strides in, alarm sharpening his voice as he checks on Riker and Pulaski; Riker parries with defensive cool, masking unease.
Geordi exposes that the clones lied about their whereabouts and cites his VISOR-enhanced lie detection, spiking suspicion.
Pulaski recounts heading to Granger's office as her last clear memory; Geordi reports Granger denied seeing them, and Riker admits a blank, spotlighting missing time.
Pulaski snaps open her tricorder, scans all three, and confirms epithelial cells missing from herself and Riker; she explains stomach lining cells are ideal for cloning, exposing a nonconsensual tissue harvest.
Who Was There
Characters present in this moment
Concerned and focused — professional detachment layered with personal alarm upon discovering her own tissue is missing.
Clinically composed, she unclips and uses her tricorder to scan Geordi, Riker and herself; announces that Riker and she are missing epithelial cells and explains the cloning relevance, turning a mystery of memory into medical evidence of violation.
- • Diagnose the physiological anomaly responsible for memory gaps or missing tissue.
- • Provide clear medical evidence to inform command decisions.
- • Ensure immediate protection and medical follow-up for affected personnel.
- • Objective medical scans will reveal the cause and shape the response.
- • Missing stomach‑lining epithelial cells are clinically significant and point to cloning-related harvesting.
- • Duty to both patient care and truth-telling requires prompt investigation and disclosure.
Righteously indignant and furious — anger at the violation overriding procedural caution and personal confusion about memory gaps.
Seated and initially defensive, admits he cannot remember reaching Granger's office; upon learning from Pulaski that both she and he are missing epithelial cells he becomes furiously angry and storms toward the cloning lab to confront the source.
- • Confront whomever is responsible for nonconsensual tissue harvesting.
- • Secure the cloning lab and protect remaining crew/civilians.
- • Obtain immediate answers and evidence to hold perpetrators accountable.
- • The disappearance of stomach‑lining cells indicates a deliberate, unethical procedure.
- • Those responsible must be confronted immediately rather than merely investigated later.
- • Preserving crew bodily autonomy and safety outweighs delaying action for bureaucratic process.
Suspicious and urgent — calm professional skepticism surfacing into alarm at the implication of crew endangerment.
Bursts into Pulaski's office, questions the pair about Mariposa, removes his VISOR to demonstrate lie-detection capability and accuses the clones of deception, provoking Pulaski to run immediate scans and catalyzing Riker's reaction.
- • Determine where Riker and Pulaski actually were on Mariposa.
- • Expose deceptive behavior by the Mariposan clones using his VISOR-derived evidence.
- • Protect fellow crew members by prompting medical verification.
- • Physiological signals the VISOR reads are reliable indicators of deception for humans.
- • The clones' inconsistent reports indicate intentional concealment or malfeasance.
- • Immediate disclosure of findings will prevent further harm to the crew.
Objects Involved
Significant items in this scene
Pulaski unlimbers and employs her medical tricorder to scan Geordi, Riker and herself, producing biometric readouts revealing missing epithelial (stomach‑lining) cells. The tricorder transforms Geordi's behavioral claim into medically verifiable evidence, pivoting the scene from suspicion to forensic reality.
Geordi removes his VISOR and cites its ability to read subtle physiological cues (blush, pupil dilation, pulse and breath variations) to assert that the clones lied about the away team's whereabouts. The VISOR functions narratively as the instrument that converts suspicion into actionable proof of deception, triggering medical verification and moral outrage.
Location Details
Places and their significance in this event
Prime Minister Granger's office is referenced as the alleged destination Pulaski and Riker were summoned to; its absence (Granger having not seen them) functions as the contradictory anchor that prompts Geordi's suspicion and Pulaski's memory-checking scans.
The Mariposa Cloning Laboratory is named as the immediate target Riker rushes toward after Pulaski's diagnosis; as the likely site of tissue harvesting, it becomes the prospective battleground of ethical and physical confrontation prompted by the revelations in Pulaski's office.
Pulaski's office serves as the private, clinical setting where revelation and verification occur: Geordi's sudden entrance, the VISOR demonstration, and Pulaski's tricorder scans all happen here, converting a conversational check-in into a charged forensic moment.
Narrative Connections
How this event relates to others in the story
"Geordi’s suspicion after Granger lies sends him to verify Riker and Pulaski’s status, initiating the investigation."
"Geordi’s VISOR-based lie detection and the inconsistencies catalyze the urgent move to the cloning lab."
"Geordi’s VISOR-based lie detection and the inconsistencies catalyze the urgent move to the cloning lab."
"Pulaski’s confirmation of stolen epithelial cells triggers Riker’s furious destruction of his developing clones."
"Pulaski’s confirmation of stolen epithelial cells triggers Riker’s furious destruction of his developing clones."
Part of Larger Arcs
Key Dialogue
"GEORDI: Yeah, every time I asked where you were, some clone lied to me."
"GEORDI: (removes his VISOR) Commander, with this I can see a lot more than your average person. When people lie there are certain physical manifestations; variations in blush response, pupil dilation, pulse and breath rate. I can't use the VISOR on aliens, but humans -- I've got them nailed."
"PULASKI: Will and I, however, are."