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Ligon Guard (Centerplace Sentry)

disciplined professional restrained silent dutiful vigilant trusting responsive reactive emotionally detached alert
The person recorded as the Ligon Guard is one iteration of an anonymous sentinel who appears whenever a threshold must be held. She is first encountered near the Ligonian Centerplace, a disciplined woman who escorts Lieutenant Yar through Lutan's vaccine-exchange protocols, silent and watchful beside Picard and Troi, enforcing customs she will not explain. A later, parallel figure is a Malcorian security guard at the central medical facility, trusted by Nurse Lanel, posted outside Riker's room while xenophobic suspicion grows. Still another is a Starfleet security officer on the Enterprise-D, stationed at guest quarters, who bursts in with a phaser drawn at the first sound of conflict. Rank stops at 'guard'; personality stops at duty. The continuity between these postings is not identity but vocation — a recurring shape of loyalty, vigilance, and restraint, standing at the door and waiting for the next alarm.
7 appearances
Security and Prisoner Escort
Also known as: Female guard, Guard, Centerplace Sentry, Centerplace Guard

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Season 1 · asteroid

An individual Ligonian guard assigned to the Centerplace/ceremonial entrance who tightly escorts Lieutenant Tasha Yar and enforces Ligonian cultural protocols. Disciplined, vigilant and emotionally detached, this guard embodies the austere, watchful enforcement of Lutan's authority during the vaccine-exchange diplomatic rituals. Appears in multiple scenes interacting with Picard, Troi and Yar and functions as the on-scene security/prisoner-escort sentinel.