Object

Data's Medical Sampler Device

Data wields this handheld medical sampler in Sickbay to draw a blood sample from Deanna Troi’s sebaceous glands, isolating her potent Betazoid pheromones amid Worf’s feral assaults on the door. Picard watches closely as Data operates the compact device with precision, its function critical to creating a synthetic lure that diverts the de-evolved Klingon and safeguards the retrovirus cure synthesis.
3 appearances

Purpose

Extract blood samples containing pheromones from sebaceous glands

Significance

Enables synthesis of a pheromone lure that distracts feral Worf, buying Data time to develop the de-evolution retrovirus cure and highlighting the crew's ingenuity against biological chaos

Appearances in the Narrative

When this object appears and how it's used

3 moments