Holographic Leah — Breakthrough and Temptation
Plot Beats
The narrative micro-steps within this event
Geordi processes the surprise holographic appearance of Leah Brahms, asked for inadvertently, and shifts from confusion to admiration.
Geordi enhances Leah's holographic presence with personality traits and resumes their collaboration, sparking mutual professional respect.
Who Was There
Characters present in this moment
Professional confidence with a flash of personal warmth when the synthesized persona engages — mildly defensive when challenged but ultimately collaborative.
Provides precise technical parameters (identifies L-452 to L-575), defends her lab calculations when Geordi questions them, suggests increasing parallel subspace field processor speed, and — after personality synthesis — responds with feisty, human warmth while remaining technically authoritative.
- • Convey accurate laboratory-derived constraints and solutions to Geordi.
- • Protect the integrity of her design calculations.
- • Help implement a configuration that avoids component burnout.
- • Demonstrate that lab theory can be operationalized safely.
- • Designs validated in controlled conditions are reliable if calibration is preserved.
- • Calculations must be respected and not overridden lightly.
- • A properly synthesized interactive persona can reproduce sufficient judgment for problem solving.
- • Rigorous, incremental changes are safer for complex systems than risky improvisation.
Proud and cautiously optimistic, tempered by concern for crew safety and the broader danger signaled by the Promellian logs.
Oversees bridge operations, receives Geordi's communications, congratulates La Forge's team on progress, and listens as Data and Riker parse the Promellian logs — exercising steady command and moral authority.
- • Support engineering efforts to preserve the ship and crew.
- • Gather intelligence from recovered logs to understand the Promellian trap.
- • Maintain command control and morale during crisis.
- • Expertise from trusted officers should be supported and amplified.
- • Historical/archival records will reveal critical contextual information.
- • A captain's role includes both stewardship of lives and preservation of knowledge.
Objectively focused and informationally driven — no affect but driven to be useful.
Provides forensic analysis of recovered Promellian coils, reports that most logs have decayed while some brief sections may be recoverable; his update informs bridge expectations and tactical theorizing.
- • Extract and verify any usable log data from the recovered coils.
- • Provide factual assessment to command to guide tactical decisions.
- • Support efforts to identify the cause of the Promellian ship's loss.
- • Archived physical artifacts can yield critical data despite degradation.
- • Accurate technical analysis informs safer operational choices.
- • Reporting precise limitations (decay, partial sections) enables realistic planning.
Focused and urgent, balancing skepticism about uncertain fixes with responsibility for crew safety.
Directs bridge activity, questions Geordi about the sufficiency of the energy gain for escape, manages personnel (orders Data to extract usable log sections), and communicates urgency and practicality in command.
- • Determine whether the engineering fix yields sufficient energy to escape the trap.
- • Prioritize actions that preserve shields and crew.
- • Obtain usable log data to clarify the nature of the threat.
- • Time is limited and actions must be measured against immediate survival needs.
- • Partial data may still yield actionable intelligence.
- • Engineering solutions must meet operational thresholds, not just theoretical gains.
Mesmerized and hopeful beneath a surface of professional urgency — lonely and anxious about crew survival, yet proud and quietly elated at the engineering breakthrough.
Summons and interacts with a holographic Leah, runs holodeck simulations, keys insignia to push changes, debates technical limits, flirts with the facsimile, accepts simulation results, instructs the computer to save the program and exits for the bridge.
- • Find a viable engine/reaction configuration to extend matter/antimatter supplies and maintain shields.
- • Translate Leah's lab calculations into a safe, shipboard implementation.
- • Gain enough power margin to enable escape from the trap.
- • Secure emotional connection (momentary) through the simulated Leah.
- • Hands‑on ship knowledge is essential and can override static lab models.
- • Incremental, risky reconfiguration is preferable to inaction when crew lives are at stake.
- • A synthesized Leah can provide both technical and emotional support.
- • Starfleet design data are authoritative but must be adapted to operational realities.
Objects Involved
Significant items in this scene
The Dilithium Crystal Chamber is the direct target of the holodeck reconfiguration: the computer completes adjustments to chamber alignments so that selected crystal facets (L-452 through L-575) can accept accelerated reactants, producing a measurable warp energy increase.
Aceton Assimilators are referenced as the lethal devices described in Galek Sar's log; they are the antagonistic mechanism the team's engineering solution must avoid energizing further while trying to extract power.
Enterprise-D Injector Streams are explicitly discussed as the routing mechanism — Geordi proposes using multiple injector streams to hit several crystal facets simultaneously, redistributing reactant flow to increase usable warp energy without overloading single facets.
Magnetic coils recovered from the Promellian cruiser function as archival log media; Data verifies they contain the captain's logs but most are decayed — the bridge team processes them to extract any usable warnings about the Aceton assimilators.
The Parallel Subspace Field Processor is invoked by Leah as the subsystem whose speed can be increased to improve response time; it is the critical intermediary the team debates to accelerate field response without burning out components.
Location Details
Places and their significance in this event
The USS Enterprise Main Bridge functions as the command center receiving Geordi's comms, processing recovered Promellian coil data, and weighing tactical implications. The bridge sequences mirror and validate holodeck activity through acknowledgment and questioning of Geordi's results.
The Holodeck Drafting Room serves as the intimate technical crucible where Geordi runs Leah's facsimile, manipulates interactive schematics, and emotionally engages with the synthesized persona. It functions as a controlled simulation space that lets Geordi test high‑risk engineering permutations without immediate shipboard consequences.
Narrative Connections
How this event relates to others in the story
"Geordi's professional admiration for Leah Brahms evolves into a deeper collaboration and personal connection."
"Geordi's professional admiration for Leah Brahms evolves into a deeper collaboration and personal connection."
"The discovery of the Aceton assimilators leads to the failed phaser attack that increases radiation levels."
"The discovery of the Aceton assimilators leads to the failed phaser attack that increases radiation levels."
Themes This Exemplifies
Thematic resonance and meaning
Key Dialogue
"LEAH: Systems L-452 through L-575 will accept reactants, providing all other systems are calibrated to an equal factor."
"GEORDI: Then, if we use multiple injector streams, hitting more than one crystal facet, we could do it... we could hold our own. Leah, you're beautiful."
"LEAH: This is my design we're talking about. I did all the calculations myself."