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Location
Federation Starship (unspecified)

Defendant's Ship

A distant Starfleet vessel invoked as an off‑stage presence whose manifest and chain‑of‑command exert decisive legal force within the JAG hearing. The ship itself remains unseen; its identity compresses into a roster of officers and an implied seniority that Phillipa Louvois consults to appoint a prosecutor. Procedurally charged and bureaucratic in effect, the vessel functions as an authoritative source of personnel, hierarchy, and duty—its absent corridors and bridge casting a bureaucratic shadow over the courtroom’s moral and command tensions.
2 events
2 rich involvements

Detailed Involvements

Events with rich location context

S2E9 · The Measure of a Man
Hearing Convened — Duty Against Friendship

The defendant's ship is referenced to determine who will serve as prosecutor—the next most senior officer aboard that vessel—linking Riker's assignment to chain-of-command conventions across ships.

Atmosphere

Procedural and hierarchical by association; the ship exists as a legal reference point rather than a physical presence.

Functional Role

Source of personnel assignment: its roster determines prosecutorial responsibility.

Symbolic Significance

Represents distributed Starfleet authority and how command obligations extend beyond a single vessel.

Referenced as source of the 'next most senior officer' rule Functions off-stage as a rostered authority
S2E9 · The Measure of a Man
Duty Over Friendship: Riker Forced to Prosecute

The defendant's ship is referenced to determine who must serve as prosecutor (the next most senior officer aboard), grounding the staffing decision in chain-of-command and jurisdictional practice.

Atmosphere

An absent but authoritative reference point; its unseen presence exerts bureaucratic influence on personnel assignments.

Functional Role

Jurisdictional reference that determines Riker's selection as prosecutor.

Symbolic Significance

Represents the wider Starfleet machinery that reaches into individual relationships and enforces protocol.

Access Restrictions

Implicitly limited to personnel assigned to that ship; its chain-of-command is used to allocate legal duties.

Mentioned only as a point of personnel origin Used to justify Phillipa's procedural allocation of roles

Events at This Location

Everything that happens here

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S2E9 · The Measure of a Man
Hearing Convened — Duty Against Friendship

In the JAG office Phillipa Louvois coldly rules Data the property of Starfleet under the Acts of Gould, converting a personnel dispute into a legal mandate. Picard instantly challenges her, …

S2E9 · The Measure of a Man
Duty Over Friendship: Riker Forced to Prosecute

In the JAG office Admiral Phillipa invokes the Acts of Gould and declares Data Starfleet property, triggering Picard to demand a hearing. Phillipa, pressed by logistics, orders the hearing be …