Object
Prosecution's Exhibit A: Plasteel Bar
A solid bar forged from gray plasteel, roughly baton-length and palm-thick, stamped or tagged as "Prosecution's Exhibit A." Matte, scratch-resistant surface catches courtroom light without gleaming. Witnesses handle it with clinical care; Riker presents it at arm's length, Data closes a mechanical hand around it and flexes, and its deliberate yielding becomes an audible pivot in the room's atmosphere.
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Purpose
Physical demonstrative evidence used in court to test and illustrate the mechanical strength and properties of Data by presenting an object for him to bend.
Significance
The bar converts abstract legal argument into palpable proof: bending it dramatizes Data's engineered capacity and sets up Riker's intimate, devastating act of powering Data down. It functions as the trial's pivotal prop—legal strategy made physical—that fractures friendships and escalates the moral stakes about personhood.
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