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Neutral Custodial Planet

Klavdia Three

Klavdia Three registers as a small, neutral planet whose air and climates closely mirror Daled Four, offering a familiar but sheltered world for its wards. Characters speak of classrooms, guarded upbringing, and a life largely spent learning rather than roaming—an existence of routine study and custodial oversight under neutral protection. The planet functions narratively as Salia's entire experiential horizon: a contained birthplace that smells of institutional kitchens and quiet corridors, frames longing for other worlds, and becomes the diplomatic waypoint that forces the Enterprise to slow, assume caution, and weigh freedom against duty.
9 events
9 rich involvements

Detailed Involvements

Events with rich location context

S2E10 · The Dauphin
Drop to Impulse — Arrival at Klavdia Three

Klavdia Three is the distant destination announced by Riker; its approach triggers Picard's order and reframes the bridge's actions into diplomatic preparation. Though offscreen, the planet functions as the narrative catalyst that forces a tradeoff between speed and caution.

Atmosphere

Absent visually but present as looming diplomatic tension — an offstage pressure that tightens the bridge's tempo.

Functional Role

Destination and narrative catalyst prompting operational and diplomatic posture change.

Symbolic Significance

Represents external political consequence and the constraint that compels Starfleet protocol.

Referenced via sensor readouts rather than physical presence. Serves as an offscreen focal point that alters bridge activity and emotional tenor.
S2E10 · The Dauphin
Thalian Mousse and a Reckless Invitation

Klavdia Three is named as Salia's only home; its mention establishes the emotional and political confinement that the offer to 'come with me' threatens to break, supplying the moral weight behind her decision.

Atmosphere

Evoked as institutional, protected, and limited — a place of routines and custodial oversight rather than adventure.

Functional Role

Origin point that explains Salia's sheltered worldview and the constraints she faces.

Symbolic Significance

Symbolizes safety traded for limited horizons and the obligations that bind her.

Imagined institutional kitchens and quiet corridors suggested in the synopsis and dialogue. A sense of containment and routine contrasted against the openness Wesley describes.
S2E10 · The Dauphin
Invitation to Leave

Klavdia Three is named as Salia's sole lived world, providing the emotional baseline she seeks to escape. Its mention clarifies the stakes: her sheltered background explains her wonder and frames Wesley's invitation as potentially life-altering.

Atmosphere

Recalled as institutional, sheltered, and limited—an origin of routine rather than adventure.

Functional Role

Narrative foil that defines Salia's constraints and justifies the impact of Wesley's offer.

Symbolic Significance

Represents containment, custodial upbringing, and the narrow horizon Salia wants to leave.

Implied institutional smells and routines of a neutral warding planet. Mental image of classrooms and guarded upbringing that contrast with the sensual immediacy of Thalos Seven.
S2E10 · The Dauphin
Rosseau Vista — Promise and Doubt

Klavdia Three is referenced by Salia as the place where she was educated and sheltered; it functions narratively to explain her lack of lived experience and to justify her guardedness in the scene.

Atmosphere

Implied as orderly, sheltered, and quiet—an institutional upbringing rather than a world of adventure.

Functional Role

Source of backstory that motivates Salia's longing and doubt.

Symbolic Significance

Represents protection that became limitation—knowledge without lived freedom.

Access Restrictions

Not physically present; implied to be controlled and governed, limiting Salia's movement in the past.

Institutional classrooms and guarded upbringing (implied) Smell of institutional kitchens and quiet corridors (implied)
S2E10 · The Dauphin
Synchronous Moons — Doubt and Tender Consolation

Klavdia Three is referenced as Salia's origin, supplying the backstory that explains her rich intellectual knowledge but lack of direct experience; it operates offstage as the social constraint shaping her doubts and the emotional friction of the scene.

Atmosphere

Implied as sheltered, institutional, and didactic — a contrast to the holodeck's open wonder.

Functional Role

Narrative source of Salia's limitations and obligation-driven worldview; the remembered origin that complicates her longing.

Symbolic Significance

Symbolizes containment and learned restraint versus the freedom represented by the Rosseau panorama.

Access Restrictions

Not physically present in the scene; a political/sociological constraint on Salia's life.

Mention of classrooms and guarded upbringing (implied institutional smell and routine) Evokes images of contained, studied life rather than lived exploration
S2E10 · The Dauphin
Confession, Offer, and Flight

Klavdia Three is referenced as Salia’s upbringing and the place from which she yearns to escape; it provides backstory that sharpens the contrast between her prior confinement and the even greater restrictions she foresees.

Atmosphere

Implied as sheltered, institutional, and formative—quiet corridors and routine that have shaped Salia's longing.

Functional Role

Contextual origin of Salia’s desire for freedom and a benchmark for how restricted she anticipates her future will be.

Symbolic Significance

Represents a childhood of limited horizons, against which the Enterprise and Ten-Forward symbolize possibility.

Access Restrictions

Neutral ward planet; movement historically restricted for wards like Salia.

S2E10 · The Dauphin
The Offer and the Flight

Klavdia Three is invoked in Salia's telling as the sheltered upbringing she escaped; it provides emotional context for her craving of freedom and explains why the offer to stay feels both tempting and fraught.

Atmosphere

Implied as quiet, institutional, and isolating—shaped by routine rather than adventure.

Functional Role

Explanatory background motivating Salia's yearning for escape and informing Wesley's understanding of her situation.

Symbolic Significance

Represents confinement and a life lived under guardianship, contrasting with the Enterprise's broader freedoms.

Access Restrictions

Not directly relevant in scene; portrayed as a custodial, controlled environment.

Conjures images of classrooms and guarded upbringing Associated with institutional smells and routine
S2E10 · The Dauphin
Approach to Daled Four — Yellow Clouds and Déjà Vu

Klavdia Three is invoked as a comparative reference — a sheltered world selected for Salia that shares Daled Four's atmospheric profile, thereby informing command's understanding of Salia's needs and the political choices behind her upbringing.

Atmosphere

Mentioned indirectly; conjures a quieter, controlled environment against which Daled Four’s hostility is measured.

Functional Role

Contextual benchmark and implied safe haven for Salia's upbringing.

Symbolic Significance

Represents 'home' and the engineered preservation of a life tailored to biological necessity.

Access Restrictions

Not part of the immediate operation; referenced as off-ship sanctuary.

Recalled similarity in atmospheric composition to Daled Four. Evokes institutional, sheltered upbringing rather than a wild native habitat.
S2E10 · The Dauphin
Yellow Clouds — Mirrored Atmospheres

Klavdia Three appears as a narrative counterpart invoked by Data to explain Salia's upbringing; its atmospheric similarity to Daled Four reframes the planet from an alien hazard to a potential ecological homeland for Salia's species.

Atmosphere

Not physically present; invoked as a sheltered, familiar place with climates resembling Daled Four.

Functional Role

Comparative foil and contextual origin point for Salia, providing explanatory scaffolding for Data's claim.

Symbolic Significance

Functions as Salia's formative world, implying institutional protection and shaping her identity.

Access Restrictions

N/A in this scene (referenced only).

Conceptual similarity in atmospheric composition to Daled Four. Framed as a sheltered, neutral planet where Salia was raised.

Events at This Location

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S2E10 · The Dauphin
Drop to Impulse — Arrival at Klavdia Three

The Enterprise slips out of warp and the bridge snaps from transit to readiness. Riker announces their approach to Klavdia Three; Picard immediately shifts into a diplomatic posture, ordering the …

S2E10 · The Dauphin
Thalian Mousse and a Reckless Invitation

A small, sensory moment becomes a catalytic emotional turning point. Over Thalian chocolate mousse—Wesley's patient, hands‑on teaching and Salia's delighted first taste—two guarded people lower their shields. Salia admits, almost …

S2E10 · The Dauphin
Invitation to Leave

A small, intimate moment at the food dispenser becomes a catalytic turning point: nervous, fascinated Salia tastes Thalian chocolate mousse and, through sensory wonder, confesses her hunger for life beyond …

S2E10 · The Dauphin
Rosseau Vista — Promise and Doubt

In the holodeck Wesley and Salia stand transfixed beneath a shower of shooting stars. Their conversation moves from catalogued knowledge to urgent longing: Salia admits she has learned about life …

S2E10 · The Dauphin
Synchronous Moons — Doubt and Tender Consolation

On the holodeck Wesley shifts the program to a breathtaking Rosseau Five to give Salia a taste of the life she longs for. As the moons synchronize and a chord …

S2E10 · The Dauphin
Confession, Offer, and Flight

In Ten-Forward, the romantic mood between Wesley and Salia pivots into a clarifying confession: Salia explains the suffocating duties awaiting her on Daled Four and that her position will strip …

S2E10 · The Dauphin
The Offer and the Flight

In Ten-Forward, Wesley converts a tender, almost-holodeck intimacy into a reckless proposal: he asks Salia to stay on the Enterprise instead of returning to her appointed duties on Daled Four. …

S2E10 · The Dauphin
Approach to Daled Four — Yellow Clouds and Déjà Vu

The Enterprise drops out of warp and assumes a standard orbit above Daled Four. Picard orders hailing frequencies opened even as Data reports the planet's dense, signal‑absorbing yellow troposphere — …

S2E10 · The Dauphin
Yellow Clouds — Mirrored Atmospheres

Coming out of warp above Daled Four, the bridge watches Data reveal that the planet’s troposphere is absorbing signals and visually mirrors Klavdia Three. Picard orders a magnification; yellow, swirling …