Captain Louvois's Office
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Sector Twenty-Three JAG Office functions as Phillipa's institutional anchor even though the scene takes place on Starbase 173; her authority and the legal perspective she embodies project from that office into the lounge, converting a private encounter into an act with legal and bureaucratic consequences.
Tensed by professional gravity, as Phillipa's JAG affiliation lends an undercurrent of procedural seriousness to otherwise flirtatious banter.
Source of institutional legitimacy and conflict; Phillipa's office explains her posture and foreshadows legal escalation.
Represents the legal apparatus and rule-of-law mindset that will oppose Picard's command instincts.
Administrative and restricted in general; Phillipa's authority originates here though the scene itself is public.
The Sector Twenty-Three JAG Office is the procedural arena where legal authority is articulated and found wanting. Its formality and bureaucratic function frame Phillipa's measured explanation and Picard's emotional appeal, making the office a crucible for the episode's institutional versus personal conflict.
Reserved and professional but inwardly tense — a space where legal language clashes with moral urgency.
Meeting place and legal authority locus where Picard seeks counsel and where procedural limits are declared.
Embodies institutional power and its impotence; represents the boundary between law and moral action.
Institutional office; access limited to officials and visitors (de facto private meeting between Picard and Phillipa).
Sector Twenty-Three's JAG office provides the institutional frame: a restrained, procedural environment where legal realities are spelled out and private histories briefly intrude. The office constrains Picard's appeals with cold legality while also serving as the arena for a vulnerable personal confrontation.
Tense but contained—professional reserve undercut by sudden intimacy; the mood shifts from formal to quietly charged as private emotion surfaces.
Meeting place for legal consultation and the locus where institutional policy meets personal allegiances.
Embodies institutional authority and procedural limits; also becomes a crucible where past intimacy and present duty collide.
Restricted to authorized personnel; a JAG officer's office implies controlled, official access.
The austere Sector Twenty-Three JAG office is the formal, claustrophobic container for this exchange; its procedural atmosphere shifts a private captain's anger into an institutional quarrel, converting emotional stakes into a legal battleground where precedent and procedure are summoned.
Taut, formal, quietly tense—clinical professionalism overlaying personal tension and righteous anger.
Meeting place and procedural crucible where the legal status of Data is tested and where Picard demands formal adjudication.
Embodies institutional authority and the law's cold neutrality; represents the system that will determine personhood's legitimacy.
Restricted to senior officers, JAG personnel, and invited parties; not open public access.
The JAG office serves as the formal adjudicative arena where personal and institutional claims collide: its gray-paneled, procedural interior concentrates legal authority, making the exchange less a private appeal and more a jurisdictional matter with precedent implications.
Oppressively formal, taut with restrained anger and procedural seriousness.
Meeting place and battleground for legal adjudication; the site where an official ruling is demanded and the question of personhood is institutionalized.
Embodies institutional power and the impersonal weight of law—where moral claims must be translated into legal categories.
Restricted to senior officers and legal personnel; not a public forum—constrained by Starfleet/JAG protocol.
Captain Louvois's office is named as the destination where the crew is expected; although offstage, it looms as an institutional locus that will impose formal judgment, converting the private farewell into an administrative summons.
Implied as austere and procedural—authority waiting beyond the social space.
Destination for official business and the immediate site for procedural escalation following the Ten‑Forward interruption.
Embodies Starfleet's bureaucratic arm and the impersonal force that threatens individual autonomy.
By invitation/command; access limited to those summoned.
Captain Louvois's office is invoked by the com summons as the authoritative site expecting Riker and Picard; it stands for the official, adjudicative domain that will formalize the conflict over Data's status.
Implied as stern, procedural, and formal—an institutional counterpoint to Ten-Forward's informality.
Destination for official summons and the place where command-level decisions and expectations are enforced.
Embodies Starfleet's bureaucratic authority and the impending legal framework that will confront personal loyalties.
Privileged; accessed by senior officers or those summoned by command.
Captain Louvois's office is the named destination of Picard's summon; it represents the immediate locus of institutional oversight and the formal theater where the forthcoming contest over Data's fate will be framed.
Coldly formal by implication; the office introduces bureaucratic weight into the crew's intimate circle.
Institutional locus where commanders and evaluators will convert the private incident into official business.
Embodies Starfleet authority and the impersonal procedures that threaten personal bonds.
Restricted to commanded attendees and those summoned by senior officers.
Captain Louvois's office is referenced by the com as the ultimate locus of authority summoning Riker and others; though off‑screen, it functions as the implied seat of procedural threat that converts the farewell into a prelude to legal process.
Implied austere and formal; an atmosphere of institutional scrutiny and private interrogation.
Destination of the summons and the first formal site where institutional power will confront the crew about Data.
Embodies Starfleet's bureaucratic authority and the cold, procedural world that will challenge personal loyalties.
By summons only; access limited to those called by command.
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At Ten-Forward the crew stages a bittersweet farewell for Data that shifts from lighthearted gift-giving to something raw and urgent. Pulaski offers blunt, practical advice about life off-ship; Data politely …
At Data's farewell in Ten-Forward the tone shifts from warm ritual to existential test. Geordi's raw grief and a tender embrace underline what's at stake, then Riker pulls Troi aside: …
At Data's farewell in Ten-Forward tender camaraderie and awkward affection give way to confrontation and duty. Intimate moments (Data and Geordi, Pulaski's advice) are undercut when Riker and Troi quietly …