Object

Geordi's Communicator Voice Channel (includes Sickbay instance)

A priority, disembodied shipboard voice channel that carries Geordi La Forge's live vocal transmissions through local comm circuitry and fixed panels across multiple ship locations (including Sickbay and Shuttle Bay Two). The channel manifests without visible handheld hardware, arriving with a short tonal alert and Geordi's unmistakable voice. It functions as an operational alarm and rapid summons conduit—piercing private moments, demanding attention, and prompting immediate medical, engineering, or command responses when critical timestamps or technical data must be relayed.

5 appearances

Purpose

To transmit real-time voice communications and priority duty recalls from Geordi to crew aboard the ship, enabling rapid summons, escalation of technical problems, and coordination of medical or security responses.

Significance

Serves as the story's operational alarm — converting technical bafflement into actionable crisis. The channel propels the plot by summoning command after Geordi discovers the anomalous stardate, calling medical aid during emergent encounters, and forcing decisive responses that escalate the temporal threat into a shipwide dilemma.

Appearances in the Narrative

When this object appears and how it's used

5 moments

S2E10 · The Dauphin

Slip-In Kiss and the Shifting Revelation

The communicator channel is activated non-verbally (Wesley touches his communicator) to summon security. It functions as the practical trigger that transitions the scene from private crisis to institutional response, enabling the security team's rapid arrival and escalation to formal containment.

Before: In Wesley's possession or within immediate reach, inactive.

After: Used to issue a security alert; crew response initiated and communicator remains with Wesley or remains engaged by ship systems.

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S2E10 · The Dauphin

Double Transformation — Trust Shattered

Wesley physically uses his communicator during the crisis to summon Security ('Security to crew quarters!'), turning private emotion into an official incident and triggering the Enterprise's procedural response.

Before: In Wesley's possession/within reach and ready for use.

After: Used to transmit a security alert; remains functional and in Wesley's control until security arrives.

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S2E10 · The Dauphin

Intrusion and Exposure — Love Interrupted, Secrets Revealed

Wesley touches his communicator to summon security — a functional, procedural object that converts private danger into institutional response. The communicator is the mechanism by which Starfleet's enforcement is invited into the intimate breach, accelerating the erosion of privacy.

Before: Integrated to Wesley's uniform/quart, inactive but accessible; no external transmission active.

After: Used to transmit a security call; remains functional and returns to standby after security arrives.

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S2E13 · Time Squared

Six Hours Ahead: Picard Meets His Future Self

Geordi's communicator voice channel functions as the active conduit of revelation: it activates in the Sickbay environment to report shuttle activation and the anomalous clock reading. The voice pierces clinical noise and reframes a medical recovery into a tactical-temporal emergency.

Before: Idle but available on shipwide channels; engineers monitoring shuttle telemetry.

After: Active and transmitting urgent temporal information to senior officers; remains the primary information conduit in the moment.

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S2E13 · Time Squared

Six-Hour Displacement — The Future Steps Into Sickbay

Geordi's communicator voice channel functions as the narrative trigger: its clear, priority transmission announces the shuttle activation and clock reading, cuts across Sickbay noise, and forces immediate emotional and tactical consequences by delivering the temporal fact aloud.

Before: Idle shipboard voice channel, available but not transmitting into Sickbay's immediate auditory space.

After: Has delivered the critical message (two transmissions) and shifts from active announcement to either a quiet open channel or a closed acknowledgment pending follow‑up.

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