USS Enterprise Tactical / Weapons Systems

Weapon Systems Control is tasked with executing Riker's orders to fire phasers and launch torpedoes; it sustains internal damage from the attack and is reported lost during the barrage, crippling coordinated offensive response.

Weapon Systems Control is brought to readiness and executes Picard's order to fire a warning phaser shot across the alien's nose, an escalation that prompts the enemy to break orbit and feint withdrawal, initiating the subsequent pursuit.

Enterprise Weapon Systems Control is ordered to fire a warning phaser salvo across the warship's nose; it functions as both a defensive deterrent and a tactical feint whose effects prompt the enemy's apparent retreat.

Weapon Systems Control is the bridge subsystem handling firing sequences; it sustains internal damage during the exchange and is reported lost, removing a critical node for offensive and defensive coordination.

Weapons systems control is active at the start, managing phaser and torpedo fire; it sustains internal damage under the enemy's assault and is eventually reported as lost, eliminating coordinated offensive capability.

Enterprise Tactical Systems return to operational status — their restored sensors and tactical readouts provide the factual basis for Picard's sweep order and validate incoming reports; the systems' recovery shifts the bridge from blind triage to informed command decisions.

Enterprise tactical and sensor systems provide the real-time readouts prompting Riker's queries and Worf's sweep order; their partial failure earlier makes Geordi's confirmation crucial, and their restoration shifts command decisions from guesswork to measured action.