Object
Royale Suite Telephone (Richey's Room Phone)
Bedside telephone in Richey’s suite at the Royale. The glossy handset on a cradle rings with a clean, mechanical chime; when answered (Worf lifts the receiver) it carries an automated female voice delivering room‑service protocol — notably the line “the kitchen’s open twenty‑four hours.” The device functions narratively to convert hospitality into procedural menace, trigger crew movement (Data, Worf) and reveal the Royale’s ritualized entrapment logic. Appears in scene_b739cc88e7b7edb8 and ep_sea_ser_star_trek_the_next_generation_s02_e12.
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Purpose
To serve as the suite’s room telephone for guest services and automated housekeeping/room-service communications.
Significance
The ringing receiver converts a benign courtesy into a narrative pivot: its automated, courteous phrasing exposes the Royale’s ritualized rules and reframes the hotel as an entrapment mechanism, forcing Riker to refuse engagement and redirecting Data and Worf to the lobby—raising stakes and revealing the construct’s logic.
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