Starbase 313

The Enterprise closes on Starbase 313 at impulse speed for a standard resupply run. Crew prepare to beam aboard Dr. Leah Brahms, Senior Design Engineer, along with her scientific equipment shipment. This orbital Federation outpost hums with docking protocols and transfer ops, its routine efficiency masking the personal stakes for Geordi as his idealized crush materializes from the transporter stream into shipboard reality.