Station-Salem Four
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Station‑Salem Four is referenced hypothetically by Picard to stress the difficulty and ethical complexity of choosing which historical wrongs to right; its invocation compresses operational distance into a moral test-case.
Evoked rather than present; adds technical, procedural implications to Picard's argument about chains of causality.
Hypothetical target used as a counter‑argument to Guinan's moral certainty.
Functions as an institutional/operational proxy for the unpredictable consequences of temporal interference.
Station‑Salem Four is named by Picard as another hypothetical target: its mention underscores operational and ethical complexities of warning or protecting past assets and the unforeseeable consequences of intervention.
Imagined as technical and consequential, its citation adds a procedural dimension to the moral debate.
Hypothetical location invoked to dramatize the difficulty of using history as a lever for present decisions.
Acts as a proxy for the practical unknowns of altering timelines—distance, procedure, and unpredictable outcomes.
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In the observation lounge, converted into a tense war room, Picard confronts Guinan over whether to send the battered Enterprise‑C back into its doomed past. Data is absent as proof; …
In the Observation Lounge converted into a war-room, Guinan abandons argument for an urgent, personal appeal: she cannot prove the timeline is wrong, but every instinct screams that the Enterprise‑C …