Object

Rana IV House (Recreated — Six‑Acre Green Patch)

A solitary, intact domestic dwelling located at the center of a six‑acre emerald patch on otherwise charred Rana IV. The structure appears as a fully formed private house with habitable rooms and furnishings, but behaves as an instantiated recreation/projection that can be created and destroyed at will. It shelters the occupants Kevin and Rishon and functions narratively as a fabricated locus of personhood and deception that converts the reconnaissance mission into an urgent investigation by the Enterprise crew.

5 appearances

Purpose

Residential dwelling / artificial habitat used to simulate a domestic life and house its occupants (in this event, to present recreated, emotionally convincing presences).

Significance

Serves as the central physical clue and moral fulcrum: its perfection exposes Kevin's power to fabricate life and reality, precipitates Rishon's dissolution, reveals Kevin's culpability, and forces Picard into a fraught decision about justice versus mercy.

Appearances in the Narrative

When this object appears and how it's used

5 moments

S3E3 · The Survivors

Observation Lounge: The Uxbridge Enigma

The intact Uxbridge house functions as the central puzzle piece discussed in the debrief: its survival amid planetary devastation drives every hypothesis and informs operational choices about aid and surveillance.

Before: Physically intact at the center of a six-acre green patch on Rana Four; occupied by the two elderly Uxbridges and power/food systems intact.

After: Remains intact and occupied; placed implicitly under Enterprise surveillance and becomes the target of assistance planning.

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S3E3 · The Survivors

Counselor's Dissonant Waltz

The intact Rana IV house is the debrief's central mystery: the crew discusses its existence, condition and the occupants' choices as concrete evidence demanding explanation. It functions narratively as the silent locus around which moral and tactical questions spin.

Before: Intact dwelling sitting in a six-acre green patch on an otherwise razed Rana IV; subject of away-team reconnaissance.

After: Remains intact and under the Enterprise's agreed surveillance as Picard instructs continued monitoring.

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S3E3 · The Survivors

Bridge Confrontation — The Uxbridges Unmade

The Rana IV house functions as the central clue and the physical locus of the recreations: it reappears on sensors and the Main Viewer, contains life-signs, and its materialization precipitates the decision to beam occupants to the bridge for confrontation.

Before: Absent or destroyed on the actual planet surface; its existence had been a mystery prior to Geordi's detection.

After: Visible again on the Main Viewer as an unexplained anomaly; its occupants have been beamed to the bridge and one (Rishon) vanishes there.

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S3E3 · The Survivors

When the Illusion Breaks

The Rana IV House is the recreated domestic locus transported into the bridge via sensors and the crew's imagination; Picard's exposure collapses its ontological authority and demonstrates that tactile realism can mask non‑existence.

Before: Absent from sensors (destroyed) then suddenly present as a convincing recreation on the planet surface.

After: Perceptually dissolved when Rishon vanishes and Kevin disappears; its status again becomes ambiguous and non‑enduring.

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S3E3 · The Survivors

Douwd Revealed — Rishon Dissolves

The Rana IV house functions as the visual and emotional focal point that reappears on sensors; it is beamed as the excuse for summoning Kevin and Rishon and is revealed by Picard to be a manufactured recreation — tactile and convincing but not ontologically continuous with the destroyed colony.

Before: Visible as an impossible six-acre green patch on Rana IV and registered by sensors as an intact dwelling.

After: Remains visible on the planet view but has been identified as a recreated construct subject to Kevin's will; its ontological falsity has been exposed.

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