Technological causation and forensic vindication: the team must identify whether a technological mechanism (Apgar's Krieger‑wave/converter in combination with planetary Lambda Field discharges) produced the reactor detonation and thereby exonerate or i...

Technological causation and forensic vindication: the team must identify whether a technological mechanism (Apgar's Krieger‑wave/converter in combination with planetary Lambda Field discharges) produced the reactor detonation and thereby exonerate or implicate Riker. This is a conflict between emergent evidence and competing narratives.