Bonestell Recreation Facility

A crossroads-style community recreation facility on Bonestell: an open, intersecting hall where worn flooring and institutional lighting channel foot traffic past games, seating nooks, and low storefronts. Ambient noise — laughter, shouted challenges, and the slap of footwear — fills the air until a single confrontation detonates the room into chaos. Narrow alcoves and intersecting aisles create blind angles and sudden choke points; the tang of sweat and spilled drink lingers as memory of violence. Functionally, the space operates as a public nexus where casual encounters escalate into brutal conflict and where Picard suffered a near-fatal impalement, marking the facility as a site of personal reckoning and community danger.

2 events

2 rich involvements

Detailed Involvements

Events with rich location context

S2E17 · Samaritan Snare

The Bonestell Confession

The Bonestell Recreation Facility is the concrete locus of Picard's violent lesson—a crossroads-style hall where a drunken or opportunistic confrontation escalated into a near-fatal injury. In the narrative it is a compact battleground invoked to strip romanticized meaning from youthful violence.

Atmosphere

Recalled as cramped, noisy, and confrontational—a crossroads where chance encounters could turn dangerous.

Functional Role

Battleground in Picard's memory; a cautionary emblem used to teach Wesley about the costs of pride.

Symbolic Significance

Embodies past trauma and the formative moment where pride met physical consequence—symbolic of moral and bodily vulnerability.

Described as 'nothing more than a crossroads'—a public, intersecting space Conjures the sense of sudden, violent escalation amid ordinary leisure activity

S2E17 · Samaritan Snare

Bonestell Lesson — Picard's Cautionary Confession

The Bonestell Recreation Facility is the concrete site of Picard's violent lesson — a crossroads-style hall where a trio of Nausicaans provoked the fight that culminated in his impalement; it functions narratively as the battleground for hubris and consequence.

Atmosphere

Recounted as crowded, noisy, and suddenly violent — an ordinary public space that becomes deadly when ego takes over.

Functional Role

Battleground and catalyst: the immediate scene of the traumatic incident that teaches Picard humility.

Symbolic Significance

Symbolizes past trauma and the moment where youthful arrogance was permanently corrected.

Described as a crossroads where foot traffic channels past storefronts Ambient noise that explodes into violence Blind angles and choke points implied in the setting

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Everything that happens here

S2E17 · Samaritan Snare

The Bonestell Confession

Alone in the shuttle at impulse speed, Picard sheds his command mask and gives Wesley a blunt, painful account of youthful arrogance and its cost. He admits his career always …

S2E17 · Samaritan Snare

Bonestell Lesson — Picard's Cautionary Confession

Alone in the shuttle with a young, curious Wesley, Picard peels back the captain’s mask to deliver a blunt, personal parable: as a proud, green officer he picked a fight …