Blinded and Coerced: Geordi Forced to Build Pakled Weapons
Plot Beats
The narrative micro-steps within this event
The Pakleds keep stunning Geordi; he slams into a bulkhead, pleads for mercy, and Grebnedlog savors the cruelty, cementing their control.
Blinded without his VISOR, Geordi gropes as Reginod and Grebnedlog toy with it, deem him "not smart," then return it—only for Geordi to see his phaser in Grebnedlog’s hand.
Geordi argues he came to help and fixed their systems, but Reginod boasts they can replicate the phaser and Grebnedlog confirms their replicator works, exposing their aim to mass‑produce weapons.
Geordi refuses to arm them, but Grebnedlog levels the phaser and orders him to make more, forcing Geordi into a coerced choice under the barrel.
Who Was There
Characters present in this moment
Clinically curious and approving; shows predatory technical interest rather than empathy, enjoying the discovery and tactical advantage.
Reginod picks up Geordi's VISOR and studies it with clinical curiosity, gestures to demonstrate its effect, confirms the VISOR's capabilities aloud, and participates in the deception by keeping the device out of Geordi's reach while Reginod and Grebnedlog assert control.
- • Understand the function and value of the VISOR
- • Exploit Geordi's skills to extract technological benefits
- • Support Grebnedlog's plan by using his technical role to legitimize coercion
- • The VISOR is an object of power and knowledge worth studying
- • Geordi can be manipulated through deprivation and threat
- • Having technical know-how (and a replicator) confers leverage
Physically disoriented and fearful on the surface; desperate and protective underneath, attempting to maintain dignity and resist collaboration while calculating limited options.
Repeatedly stunned and slammed into a bulkhead, Geordi struggles to his feet, pleads for cessation, gropes for his VISOR when it is taken, briefly reattaches it, and reacts to the sight of a phaser being used to coerce him.
- • Survive the immediate physical threat and avoid further stun shocks
- • Prevent his engineering expertise from being used to create weapons
- • Recover and re-secure his VISOR to regain full sensory function
- • Buy time to find an escape or signal for rescue
- • His presence was intended to help—not to arm—the Pakleds
- • The VISOR is essential to his autonomy and must be retrieved
- • If he complies and builds weapons, others (including the Enterprise) will be endangered
- • He can still stall or reason his way out despite physical impairment
Objects Involved
Significant items in this scene
Geordi's VISOR is forcibly removed, examined by Reginod as an object of technological curiosity and bargaining power, then temporarily returned so Geordi can see the phaser being held against him. The VISOR's seizure converts a personal tool into leverage, an instrument that undercuts Geordi's autonomy and escalates the Pakleds' coercive leverage.
A working handheld phaser is displayed and wielded by Grebnedlog as both an instrument of physical punishment (used to stun Geordi) and a threat. Its presence demonstrates that the Pakleds can produce and use weapons, transforming the encounter from technical aid to forced arms production.
The Mondor main power generator is invoked by Geordi as another system he repaired earlier, providing contextual evidence of his helpful intentions and the technical debt the Pakleds now seek to exploit.
The Mondor's guidance system is referenced by Geordi as a repair he performed earlier; it functions here as narrative proof that he helped the ship, underscoring the betrayal when the Pakleds use his goodwill against him.
The Pakled replicator is revealed by Grebnedlog as functional and capable of producing phasers on demand. It serves narratively as the enabler of escalation—turning a single weapon into a production capability and making Geordi's skills directly valuable to the captors.
The bulkhead is the physical surface Geordi is slammed against after phaser stuns. It functions as an environmental hazard that emphasizes his physical vulnerability and provides a tactile image of the punishment he endures.
Location Details
Places and their significance in this event
The Mondor—represented by its exterior silhouette in broader context—functions as an isolated trap: its position in space and small, jury-rigged systems underscore the crew's vulnerability and make rescue difficult. The exterior's implied inaccessibility heightens the emotional claustrophobia of the interior confrontation.
Narrative Connections
How this event relates to others in the story
"Geordi’s repeated stuns directly inform Pulaski’s medical alarm about his deteriorating condition."
"Geordi’s repeated stuns directly inform Pulaski’s medical alarm about his deteriorating condition."
Part of Larger Arcs
Key Dialogue
"GEORDI: Please... no more."
"REGINOD: This does something."
"GREBNEDLOG: You will make more."