Denius Three

Denius Three registers as a remote planetary digscape: wind-scoured trenches, half-buried strata, and concreted excavation scaffolds encircle a ruin-strewn horizon. Archaeologists pick through millennia of dust where a corroded alien device lay hidden, its metal pitted and whispering ancient trajectories. The site feels politically hot — provenance transforms into leverage — so every footprint and catalog number carries geopolitical weight. Light slants across exposed seams of rock; the air tastes of ozone and old fire, and secrecy hangs as thick as the sediment.

2 events

2 rich involvements

Detailed Involvements

Events with rich location context

S2E11 · Contagion (Star Trek: The Next Generation)

Varley's Last Log — Iconia Identified

Denius Three is referenced as the archaeological digsite where Varley obtained permission (from Doctor Ramsey) to remove the artifact. The planet supplies provenance for the artifact and frames the discovery as scholarly fieldwork with geopolitical consequences.

Atmosphere

Evocative and dusty in narration — a place of excavation, quiet scholarship, and buried danger.

Functional Role

Origin point for the artifact; contextual background that validates Varley's claim of lawful recovery.

Symbolic Significance

Embodies the collision between academic curiosity and strategic leverage.

Access Restrictions

Implied controlled archaeological dig sites—access governed by scientific authority and permits.

Wind-scoured trenches and half-buried strata (implied in Varley's description) The sense of an object dug from deep time and moved into contemporary political space

S2E11 · Contagion (Star Trek: The Next Generation)

Varley's Final Log — Iconia Identified, Yamato's Systems Fail

Denius Three is referenced in Varley's log as the archaeological digsite where the corroded Iconian device was recovered; it anchors the artifact's provenance and suggests scientific legitimacy and political sensitivity.

Atmosphere

Implied as wind-scoured, archaeologically charged, and politically fraught in Varley's account.

Functional Role

Provenance point — the origin of the artifact that sets off the chain of events.

Symbolic Significance

Symbolizes the collision of scientific curiosity with geopolitical consequence.

Access Restrictions

As an excavation site, likely restricted to authorized researchers and controlled removal protocols.

Described as an archaeological digsite Artifact removal involved field researchers and required permission

Events at This Location

Everything that happens here

S2E11 · Contagion (Star Trek: The Next Generation)

Varley's Last Log — Iconia Identified

Reluctantly, Picard orders Varley’s personal log played and watches his old friend’s final, increasingly desperate footage. Varley turns a corroded alien device, identifies it as Iconian after accounting for two …

S2E11 · Contagion (Star Trek: The Next Generation)

Varley's Final Log — Iconia Identified, Yamato's Systems Fail

Picard summons and watches Captain Donald Varley’s desperate personal log: Varley identifies a corroded artifact as Iconian, explains his decision to violate the Neutral Zone to keep the technology from …