Jealousy Ignites — Apgar's Violent Confrontation
Plot Beats
The narrative micro-steps within this event
Apgar discovers Riker and Manua in a passionate embrace, triggering a violent confrontation.
Apgar attacks Riker, who retaliates but is overpowered and left on the floor.
Riker threatens Apgar's life from the floor as the confrontation escalates.
Who Was There
Characters present in this moment
Clinically composed and controlled; his detachment underscores his role as investigator rather than participant, focused on evidence-gathering over empathy.
Offscreen, Krag exercises procedural control: he commands the holoprogram to freeze, narrates the sequence for the record, and immediately orders the Tayna simulation—treating the confrontation as curated evidence rather than a private drama.
- • Preserve the moment as immutable evidence for the extradition case.
- • Control the narrative by sequencing additional reconstructions that corroborate witness testimony.
- • Use the frozen tableau to increase pressure on Riker and frame the magistrate's charges.
- • He believes that a frozen, curated holographic moment has greater juridical value than subjective recollection.
- • He believes that systematic presentation of corroborating simulations will secure jurisdictional leverage.
- • He trusts procedural formality to compel cooperation or confession.
Startled and humiliated; emotionally exposed and caught between desire and the social/legal consequences of being discovered.
Manua is the passive center of the confrontation: discovered in an intimate embrace, likely shocked and embarrassed by Apgar's entrance and the sudden violence, present but not intervening as the fight unfolds around her.
- • Avoid further public humiliation and de-escalate the situation.
- • Protect herself from becoming the sole focus of blame or spectacle.
- • Minimize harm to her relationship (or reputation) by not escalating physically.
- • She believes the encounter was private and should remain so.
- • She believes active intervention could worsen the scene or her culpability.
- • She expects others to react; she may hope for rescue or suppression of the incident.
Outwardly enraged and jealous but with a focused, almost clinical violence—rage channeled into effective physical control rather than chaotic flailing.
Apgar bursts through the door into the holodeck reconstruction, quickly assesses the embrace, evades Riker's wild punch, then executes a precise, forceful flurry to Riker's stomach and jaw before calmly declaring he will report the incident.
- • Confront the perceived betrayal and assert his grievance publicly.
- • Dominate and neutralize Riker physically to prevent further escalation and to gather leverage for formal complaint.
- • Create a provable incident he can report to authorities, whether out of wounded pride or procedural recourse.
- • He believes he has been humiliated and that exposing the encounter will restore or vindicate him.
- • He believes physical dominance will either deter Riker or substantiate his complaint to investigators.
- • He trusts that documenting or reporting the scene will have institutional consequences for Riker.
Transitioning from sexual passion to sudden rage and humiliated indignation; his threatened violence masks fear of exposure and consequences.
Riker is caught in a passionate embrace, reacts with fury when confronted, throws a reckless punch, is taken down by Apgar's precise counterattacks, and, from the floor, utters a menacing death threat that exposes his immediate violent impulse.
- • Stop Apgar from interfering and maintain the private nature of the encounter.
- • Intimidate Apgar into silence or retreat through a threat of violence.
- • Protect his reputation by preventing the situation from becoming formalized evidence.
- • He believes that force or threat can reassert control over the situation.
- • He believes exposure would damage his career and must be prevented or punished.
- • He assumes Apgar's reaction is performative and can be countered through intimidation.
Objects Involved
Significant items in this scene
The Investigative Reconstruction holodeck program is actively rendering the guest quarters scenario, providing the visual and physical fidelity that allows Apgar's entrance and the subsequent fight to be recorded, paused, and converted into evidentiary display by Krag's commands.
The holodeck doors serve as the physical threshold for the confrontation: Apgar's entrance through the doors initiates the encounter, signaling the abrupt transition from private intimacy to public disclosure within the reconstruction.
Tayna Simulation Four is invoked by Krag after the freeze; while not physically present in the room, the simulation is called as corroborating evidence to contextualize or validate the frozen confrontation—it functions as a follow-up reconstruction meant to corroborate witness testimony.
Location Details
Places and their significance in this event
The holodeck-generated space station guest quarters functions as the intimate setting that is violently interrupted; its warm lamplight and staged privacy make the discovery more damning while the artifice ensures the moment can be paused and weaponized by authorities.
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Key Dialogue
"APGAR: "I knew I'd find the two of you together. Do you think I didn't notice how you were looking at each other? I'm not the fool you take me for...""
"APGAR: "I'm going to report this, Riker. You can count on that.""
"RIKER: "You're a dead man, Apgar. A dead man.""
"KRAG (O.S.): "Freeze program.""