Pagh Intercept Sector

A distant, sparsely charted star system (Pheben) where the Klingon cruiser Pagh maneuvers and where the Enterprise plots an intercept. Sensor returns smear against a cold starfield and navigational fixes require precious minutes, forcing bridge crews to convert scientific readings into urgent tactical plotting. The void amplifies spectroscopic alarms, clinical prognoses, and snapped orders as life‑and‑death calculations unfold across consoles; this location has been referred to in tactical context as the 'Pagh Intercept Sector'.

2 events

2 rich involvements

Detailed Involvements

Events with rich location context

S2E8 · A Matter of Honor

Quantified Breach — Biological Threat Declared

The Pheben solar system is the spatial constraint referenced by Data: locating the Klingon Pagh within this system will determine transit time and feasibility of intervention, imposing search and navigational challenges that shape urgency.

Atmosphere

Implied as an indifferent, empty space that amplifies the danger—the vacuum where timing and location determine survival.

Functional Role

Search area and navigational constraint for the intercept mission.

Symbolic Significance

Represents spatial uncertainty and the margin between action and failure.

Access Restrictions

Open starfield but operationally constrained by sensor resolution and available transit time.

Cold starfield offering sparse sensor returns Undesignated Klingon maneuvers complicating immediate localization

S2E8 · A Matter of Honor

Picard Orders Emergency Intercept for Hull‑Eating Organism

The Pheben solar system is identified as the operational area where the Klingon cruiser Pagh is executing undesignated maneuvers; it defines the tactical search space and creates an urgent time/distance problem for the Enterprise's intercept attempt.

Atmosphere

Distant, indifferent, and strategically constraining — an empty backdrop that amplifies urgency because of navigation and sensor limitations.

Functional Role

Target sector for interception and search operations; geographic constraint shaping response time.

Symbolic Significance

Represents the indifferent void that turns microscopic threat into life‑and‑death risk across vast distances.

Access Restrictions

Open space but operationally bounded by sensor ranges and tactical plotting; locating an undesignated vessel increases difficulty.

Sparse starfield offering limited sensor landmarks. Undesignated maneuvers reduce predictive vectoring, complicating intercept. Time/distance constraints implied by the need to 'hope we get there in time.'

Events at This Location

Everything that happens here

S2E8 · A Matter of Honor

Quantified Breach — Biological Threat Declared

Ensign Mendon confirms a fast‑reproducing organism is consuming hull compounds and—after a visible hesitation rooted in his species' procedural caution—reveals the Klingon vessel is far more vulnerable. Data accelerates Mendon's …

S2E8 · A Matter of Honor

Picard Orders Emergency Intercept for Hull‑Eating Organism

After Mendon confirms a hull‑eating organism and hesitates over Klingon vulnerability, Data accelerates the analysis and quantifies the threat — a twelve‑centimeter breach should already exist. Picard instantly converts forensic …