Septimis Minor
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Events with rich location context
Septimis Minor is invoked verbally as the Artemis' intended destination, functioning as a geographic clue and emotional cipher — an absent shore that explains the settlers' origin and frames Starfleet's rescue obligations.
Absent and mourned in tone — a referenced place that adds weight and stakes to the briefing despite not being physically present.
Reference point for legal/colonial claims and as motivation for the rescue effort.
Represents lost intention and bureaucratic promise; the vanished goal that sharpens the tragedy of the Artemis' deviation.
Not applicable within the bridge context; it is a remote world only accessible by interstellar travel and mission authority.
Septimis Minor is referenced by Data as the Artemis' intended destination, serving as an absent geographic anchor that legitimizes the Federation's legal claim and contrasts the colonists' lived reality with an official manifest.
Wistful and bureaucratic in reference — the mention carries the weight of lost intention and institutional authority rather than physical presence.
Historical point of origin used to argue legal jurisdiction and to complicate the colony's narrative of rightful ownership.
Represents the lost promise and the competing claims between bureaucratic/legal records and lived ancestral labor.
Septimis Minor is mentioned by Data as the Artemis' intended destination; the reference situates the colony's presence as accidental and serves as an expositional counterpoint to Gosheven's claim of rightful ownership.
Brief, academic, and regret-tinged; the mention undercuts local myth with bureaucratic fact.
Expository origin point used to challenge the colony's territorial certainty and to support Data's evacuation rationale.
Represents a lost, intended home and the bureaucratic truth that delegitimizes the colony's claim to Tau Cygna Five.
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On the Enterprise bridge the command team converts fragmented intelligence into an urgent operational picture. Riker delivers the Artemis' history and the failed contact that launched Starfleet's search, while Picard's …
Data arrives on Tau Cygna Five to invoke the Sheliak–Federation treaty and warn the colonists of imminent annihilation, but Gosheven—anchored in ancestral pride and the colony's hard-won accomplishments—flatly refuses to …
After Data's logical evacuation plea is rebuffed by Gosheven's proud refusal, Ard'rian punctures the stalemate—literally throwing an iron bar to test Data's reflexes. Her curiosity quickly turns into admiration as …