Starbase Six
Detailed Involvements
Events with rich location context
Appears in final exterior shot as Enterprise's destination, its promise of sanctuary rendered ominously provisional by the revelation that Graves' consciousness survives within the ship itself.
Remote safety undercut by internal threat
Symbolic endpoint/harbor
False promise of resolution
Starfleet-regulated docking
Starbase Six looms as the Enterprise's destination—its promise of Starfleet security rendered ironically impotent as the true danger has already infiltrated the ship's most trusted systems.
Distant institutional safety (illusory)
False objective
Bureaucratic unpreparedness for non-biological threats
Mentioned in the scene's final shot as the Enterprise's destination—its promise of institutional safety contrasts with the unresolved horror of Graves potentially surviving as code aboard the ship.
Implied bureaucratic remove from immediate trauma
Future refuge (or false security)
Starfleet's authority unable to fully contain Graves' threat
Events at This Location
Everything that happens here
The crew bursts into Data's quarters to find him collapsed, fearing Graves has fully usurped his android body. Their relief is palpable when Data awakens with his familiar mannerisms—the dry …
The crew's relief at Data's apparent reawakening curdles into unease as his hyper-literal responses reveal uncanny artificiality. While Riker and Picard initially celebrate his return through familiar banter about jokes …
The crew bursts into Data's quarters to find him inert by the computer. When revived, Data's innocent questions and attempt at humor reassure everyone of his true identity's return—except Kareen, …