Mariposa Cloning Laboratory
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The Mariposa Cloning Laboratory is named as the immediate target Riker rushes toward after Pulaski's diagnosis; as the likely site of tissue harvesting, it becomes the prospective battleground of ethical and physical confrontation prompted by the revelations in Pulaski's office.
Implied cold, clinical and menacing — the kind of sterile environment that can hide physiological violence.
Source of violation and the locus for the next escalatory action: investigation, confrontation, and evidence collection.
Embodies the technological hub of the clones' survival strategy and the moral vacancy that permitted nonconsensual harvesting.
Scientific/medical facility that may be restricted but is accessible to colony medical staff and technicians — contested in practice by the clones' control.
The Mariposa cloning laboratory is not on stage but is invoked as the immediate destination: the suspected site of nonconsensual tissue harvesting and the next battleground. The revelation in Pulaski's office reframes the lab from theoretical violation to an actionable crime scene.
Conjured as cold, clinical, and potentially violated — a place where ethics have been subverted into survival mechanics.
Target of pursuit; suspected location of evidence and perpetrators.
Represents the technological means of the colony's moral corruption — where bodily autonomy is commodified.
Presumably restricted and monitored by colony staff and clone technicians; not freely accessible to outsiders.
Mariposan Laboratories are referenced as the material and symbolic origin of the cloning program and the alleged stolen tissue; they are the evidence site whose inspection is demanded and whose equipment Picard threatens to transport to the Enterprise.
Implied clinical, secretive, and morally fraught — a place of science that also anchors cultural identity and shame.
Target for forensic inspection and possible seizure; the physical locus of the dispute over cloning and identity.
Represents Mariposa's technological mastery and the fragile center of their social continuity.
Controlled by Granger and Mariposan authorities; subject to Starfleet inspection only under duress.
The Mariposan Laboratories are the off‑stage but active locus of suspicion and leverage: they contain the cloning rigs, tissue samples, and alleged stolen material that precipitate Picard's threat to transport equipment and compel compliance.
Clinical, secretive, and legally fraught — the lab is simultaneously scientific resource and potential contraband repository.
Source of evidence and bargaining chip; the labs represent the material basis for Mariposa's reproductive program.
Embodies the tension between technological survival and moral legitimacy — the machinery of identity becomes evidence and leverage.
Normally under Mariposan control; subject to Starfleet inspection and possible seizure.
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Geordi bursts into Pulaski's office and, using his VISOR, exposes that Mariposan clones have lied about the away team's whereabouts. As Pulaski runs diagnostic scans she discovers missing epithelial/stomach‑lining cells …
Geordi's VISOR and Pulaski's tricorder transform a fuzzy suspicion into a moral emergency: the Mariposans lied and Riker and Pulaski are missing epithelial (stomach‑lining) cells — the optimal material for …
In a raw, decisive bargaining session in the Observation Lounge, Pulaski drops a medical deadline: Mariposa's clone line is collapsing and survival now requires radical sociobiological change. Picard leverages Riker's …
In the Observation Lounge Picard brokers a brutal compromise: Pulaski lays out a clinical sociobiological plan to save the dying Mariposan clone society — abandon exclusive cloning and rapidly broaden …