Admiral Haftel's Ship
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Events with rich location context
The defendant's ship is referenced to determine who will serve as prosecutor—the next most senior officer aboard that vessel—linking Riker's assignment to chain-of-command conventions across ships.
Procedural and hierarchical by association; the ship exists as a legal reference point rather than a physical presence.
Source of personnel assignment: its roster determines prosecutorial responsibility.
Represents distributed Starfleet authority and how command obligations extend beyond a single vessel.
The defendant's ship is referenced to determine who must serve as prosecutor (the next most senior officer aboard), grounding the staffing decision in chain-of-command and jurisdictional practice.
An absent but authoritative reference point; its unseen presence exerts bureaucratic influence on personnel assignments.
Jurisdictional reference that determines Riker's selection as prosecutor.
Represents the wider Starfleet machinery that reaches into individual relationships and enforces protocol.
Implicitly limited to personnel assigned to that ship; its chain-of-command is used to allocate legal duties.
Haftel's ship functions as the intended destination for Lal — a secure, clinical annex where Starfleet Research would take custody; it stands as the institutional alternative to Data's home on the Enterprise.
Implied sterile, procedural, and bureaucratically confident — contrasted with the warmth of a familial setting.
Custody vessel / research annex to which Lal would be transported for controlled study.
Represents Starfleet's institutional control and the depersonalizing logic of research custody versus parental continuity.
Under Admiralty control, access controlled by Starfleet protocols and orders; not open to ad hoc guardians.
Admiral Haftel's ship is the cited destination for Lal — imagined as a specialized facility where Starfleet would transfer her for protected study. It functions as the institutional alternative to Data's custody and represents the bureaucratic endpoint of Haftel's order.
Offstage but felt as bureaucratic steel and procedural certainty; a looming administrative presence rather than a physical arrival.
Contested destination for the enforced transfer of Lal and a symbol of centralized Starfleet authority.
Represents institutional custody and the engine of Starfleet oversight; a foil to Data's domestic claim.
Presumably secure and under Admiralty control — not immediately accessible without formal transfer procedures.
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