The Armus Hostage Crisis
Away‑team rescue and hostage crisis at the Shroud — Armus (a hostile, quasi‑supernatural/interiorized force) blocks evacuation, inflicts lethal harm, and forces the Enterprise into agonizing tactical and moral choices.
Involved Characters
Arc Timeline
Season 2
3 eventsRiker steps forward to parley with the viscous, sentient Armus, invoking Starfleet's creed—preserving life—to gain passage to an injured shuttle. Armus coldly refuses, declaring the crew unwelcome. Tasha Yar, driven …
During a tense parley with the viscous entity Armus, Riker pleads for safe passage to reach an injured shuttle while Tasha Yar defiantly refuses to abandon their comrades. Armus, cold …
In a brutal, clinical flashback the medical team escalates through every desperate option to revive Tasha Yar. Beverly clamps a neural stimulator over Tasha's head, ratchets voltage higher and higher …