Object
Separators (repair components)
A handful of small, modular repair pieces — thin ringed insulators, slotted metal shims, and composite spacer plates — arranged on a technician's tray. Each piece measures a few centimeters across, made from dull-duranium alloys and ceramic‑like dielectric inserts, showing light tool marks and fingerprint smudges. Lieutenant La Forge picks individual separators with steady fingers, seating them into tight junctions as the Pakleds babble admiration nearby; the pieces feel precise and fragile in the tense, improvisational moment.
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Purpose
To isolate, space, and reconfigure electrical and power junctions during hands‑on repairs, enabling controlled reroutes and preventing direct shorting between adjacent conductors.
Significance
They enable Geordi's delicate power reroute on the Mondor and thus carry tactical consequence: their installation creates a moment of technical focus that the Pakleds exploit with flattery, turning a mundane repair kit into a vector for social engineering and a plot pivot toward a later engineered failure and hostage trap.
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