Object

Royale Lobby Elevators

A bank of passenger elevators set into the far wall of the Royale's gaudy lobby, framed by an ostentatious registration area. They present conventional sliding doors and illuminated call buttons (mirrored interiors and brass trim implied by the hotel's decor). Characters pivot toward these elevators as a practical vertical access point; Worf explicitly converts the tricorder reading into a plan to use them to reach the level where human DNA registers above.

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Purpose

Provide vertical transport between the Royale's lobby and its upper floors, serving as the primary internal access route to locations above the registration level.

Significance

Act as the immediate tactical objective that converts Data's scientific detection into action: the elevators become the route of pursuit after a human DNA signature is found 31.9 meters above, escalating the scene from curiosity to urgent investigation and trapping the team inside the construct's sealed environment.

Appearances in the Narrative

When this object appears and how it's used

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S2E12 · The Royale

Human DNA Above — Discovery Becomes Pursuit

The passenger elevators (elevator bank) are visually indicated by crew as an obvious vertical access point; they momentarily attract attention as one of the mechanical options to reach the overhead area before turbolifts are proposed.

Before: Idle structural element in the lobby, doors closed and static.

After: Considered as a potential route; crew attention shifts toward elevators as part of planning though they may not be the chosen method.

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