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** During the briefing for Riker's mission to Tilonus IV, Worf nicks Riker in the side of his head with the nisroh. When Crusher fixes the wound, Riker notes that it still hurts. That wound would play a significant role towards the latter part of the episode.
** The same briefing has Worf give Riker a communicator concealed in a Tilonian pendant. Said pendant is able to help Riker escape his capture at the end of the episode.
** The same briefing has Worf give Riker a communicator concealed in a Tilonian pendant. Said pendant is able to help Riker escape his capture at the end of the episode.
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** During the briefing for Riker's mission to Tilonus IV, Worf nicks Riker in the side of his head with the nisroh. When Crusher fixes the wound, Riker notes that it still hurts. That wound would play a significant role towards the latter part of the episode.
episode, while the nisroh itself would help Riker escape his captors after he awakes.
** The same briefing has Worf give Riker a communicator concealed in a Tilonian pendant. Said pendantis able to would also help Riker escape his capture at the end of the episode.
** The same briefing has Worf give Riker a communicator concealed in a Tilonian pendant. Said pendant
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* AllJustADream: Not the cop-out it usually is, because we learn Riker has been taken prisoner and is being subjected to a brainwashing procedure. He may have been "dreaming" in a narrow technical sense, but his choices still matter.
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* AllJustADream: Not the cop-out it usually is, because we learn Riker has been taken prisoner and is being subjected to a brainwashing procedure. He may have been "dreaming" in a narrow technical sense, but his choices still matter.mattered, and in fact were key to his mental self-defense against what's really happening.
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* ChewingTheScenery: Riker, big time.
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* ChewingTheScenery: Riker, big time.time, when he's acting in-universe.
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* CuckooNest: A textbook example.
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* CuckooNest: A textbook example. Commander Riker unexpectedly finds himself in a mental asylum where his experience aboard the Enterprise fades away like memories of a dream, and the asylum personnel treat him like a mental patient and tell him that his life in Starfleet is a delusion. At times, Riker himself seems to believe it is true.
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* ShatteringTheIllusion: At the climax of the story.
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* ShatteringTheIllusion: At the climax of the story.story, Riker realizes his recent experiences haven't been real. This culminates with some characters and scenery literally appearing to shatter into small pieces as Riker manages to escape the dream has become trapped in.
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* DramaticallyMissingThePoint: During the "reflection therapy" scene, in which the holograms of Troi, Worf and Picard describe what is later confirmed to be Riker's abduction during the mission, the Picard hologram states that Riker saw the face of one of his captors. Riker asks what he looked like, and a fourth hologram appears -- that of "Lt. Suna". This is, of course, his own subconscious directly answering the question, but he fails to pick up on this at the time, instead asking an equally baffled Syrus what part of his mind Suna represents.
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* DiagnosisKnowingTooMuch: Subverted once as a shipboard play, then later played completely straight. Riker's role is playing a frazzled asylum patient who is seemingly being abused. Riker's character thinks that he has made enough progress to finally go home and leave the asylum. The doctors there (one being played by Lt. Cmdr Data) drug him (also seemingly) whenever he shows a glimmer of independent thought. Later in the episode, Riker starts to seemingly have hallucinations that suggest that he is not actually a commander aboard a starship, and that he has been delusional in a similar mental asylum this whole time, with an equally-abusive staff.
* DramaticallyMissingThePoint: During the "reflection therapy" scene, in which the holograms of Troi, Worf and Picard describe what is later confirmed to be Riker's abduction during the mission, the Picard hologram states that Riker saw the face of one of his captors. Riker asks what he looked like, and a fourth hologram appears -- that of "Lt. Suna". This is, of course, his own subconscious directly answering the question, but he fails to pick up on this at the time, having already been mentally and physically brow-beat into submission, instead asking an equally baffled Syrus what part of his mind Suna represents.
* DramaticallyMissingThePoint: During the "reflection therapy" scene, in which the holograms of Troi, Worf and Picard describe what is later confirmed to be Riker's abduction during the mission, the Picard hologram states that Riker saw the face of one of his captors. Riker asks what he looked like, and a fourth hologram appears -- that of "Lt. Suna". This is, of course, his own subconscious directly answering the question, but he fails to pick up on this at the time, having already been mentally and physically brow-beat into submission, instead asking an equally baffled Syrus what part of his mind Suna represents.
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** One thing that gives this away prematurely is that the voice os his 'abductor' is clearly Data.
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** One thing that gives this away prematurely is that the voice os of his 'abductor' is clearly Data.
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** One thing that gives this away prematurely is that the voice os his 'abductor' is clearly Data
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** One thing that gives this away prematurely is that the voice os his 'abductor' is clearly DataData.
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** One thing that gives this away prematurely is that the voice os his 'abductor' is clearly Data
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* ShowWithinAShow[=/=]StylisticSuck : The play. Riker's actually not that bad, it's just kind of cheesy. In particular, the play appears to end at what would normally be considered an Act Two cliffhanger: Data insisting that they’ll talk more tomorrow and Riker shouting that he’s not mad. A real play would have more of a sense of resolution.
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* ShowWithinAShow[=/=]StylisticSuck : ShowWithinAShow: The play. Riker's actually not that bad, it's just kind plot of cheesy. In particular, the episode is interwoven with the play appears to end at what would normally be considered an Act Two cliffhanger: Data insisting that they’ll talk more tomorrow and Riker shouting that he’s not mad. A real play would have more of a sense of resolution.the characters are putting on.
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* TrashTheSet: At the end of the episode, Riker tears down the set for the play by hand, to make sure he's no longer in a hallucination. As he put it, he wouldn't be able to sleep knowing it was still up.
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* TrashTheSet: At the end of the episode, Riker tears down the set for the play by hand, hand to make sure he's no longer in a hallucination. As he put it, he wouldn't be able to sleep knowing it was still up.
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* BaitAndSwitch: In the cold open, Riker is seen arguing with a figure while in some sort of prison. One would think (based on the preview of the episode) that he was already captured, but we then cut to see Dr. Crusher and realize that Riker is only acting.
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* FakeOutOpening: In the cold open, Riker is seen arguing with a figure while in some sort of prison. One would think (based on the preview of the episode) that he was already captured, but we then cut to see Dr. Crusher and realize that Riker is only acting.
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* DramaticallyMissingThePoint: During the "reflection therapy" scene, in which the holograms of Troi, Worf and Picard describe what is later confirmed to be Riker's abduction during the mission, the Picard hologram states that Riker saw the face of one of his captors. Riker asks what he looked like, and a fourth hologram appears -- that of "Lt. Suna". This is, of course, his own subconscious directly answering the question, but he fails to pick up on this at the time, instead asking an equally baffled Syrus what part of his mind Suna represents.
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Once back aboard the real ''Enterprise'', they piece together what happened. Riker was abducted during his mission to Tilonus IV by one of the hostile factions mentioned at the start, who were trying to forcibly extract information directly from his brain. His entire experience, Troi believes, was his mind attempting to resist and wake itself up, fastening on the recent memory of the play, but interposed with details from the present: his abductor's face, the device on his temple.
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Once back aboard the real ''Enterprise'', they piece together what happened. Riker was abducted during During his mission to on Tilonus IV IV, Riker was attacked in an alley and abducted by one of the hostile factions mentioned at the start, who were trying to forcibly extract information directly from his brain. His entire experience, Troi believes, was his mind attempting to resist and wake itself up, fastening on the recent memory of the play, but interposed with details from the present: his abductor's face, the device on his temple.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Though we get to see several variations of Data and Riker's ''Frame of Mind'' performance, the ending reveals that they were all part of his subconscious delusion. The actual play happened before Riker's capture, so the audience never finds out how it really went. It's implied that Riker's first representation of the play seen in the episode is the correct one, as Troi explains that his subconscious used the elements of the play to allow Riker to figure out what was real or not.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: WhatHappenedToTheMouse:
** Though we get to see several variations of Data and Riker's ''Frame of Mind'' performance, the ending reveals that they were all part of his subconscious delusion. The actual play happened before Riker's capture, so the audience never finds out how it really went. It's implied that Riker's first representation of the play seen in the episode is the correct one, as Troi explains that his subconscious used the elements of the play to allow Riker to figure out what was real ornot.not.
** In addition, it's never revealed what happened with the missing team of Federation scientists who Riker was sent in to rescue in the first place, as the last time they come up is when the delusional inmate makes Riker think she might be one of them. Presumably they were rescued offscreen, though how and when is unknown.
** Though we get to see several variations of Data and Riker's ''Frame of Mind'' performance, the ending reveals that they were all part of his subconscious delusion. The actual play happened before Riker's capture, so the audience never finds out how it really went. It's implied that Riker's first representation of the play seen in the episode is the correct one, as Troi explains that his subconscious used the elements of the play to allow Riker to figure out what was real or
** In addition, it's never revealed what happened with the missing team of Federation scientists who Riker was sent in to rescue in the first place, as the last time they come up is when the delusional inmate makes Riker think she might be one of them. Presumably they were rescued offscreen, though how and when is unknown.
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* DreamEmergencyExit: When Riker realizes that neither world is reality, he first shoots a barrier in one and then smashes the wall of the second, which wakes him up and he escapes.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Though we get to see several variations of Data and Riker's ''Frame of Mind'' performance, the ending reveals that they were all part of his subconscious delusion. The actual play happened before Riker's capture, so the audience never finds out how it really went. It's implied that Riker's first representation of the play seen in the episode is the correct one, as Troi explains that his subconscious used the elements of the play to allow Riker to figure out what was real or not.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Though we get to see several variations of Data and Riker's ''Frame of Mind'' performance, the ending reveals that they were all part of his subconscious delusion. The actual play happened before Riker's capture, so the audience never finds out how it really went. It's implied that Riker's first representation of the play seen in the episode is the correct one, as Troi explains that his subconscious used the elements of the play to allow Riker to figure out what was real or not.not.
* WrongfullyCommitted: Played with. Riker joins a presentation of a theatre play on the Enterprise where his in-play character is committed to a mental asylum. His character is increasingly agitated at his treatment in the mental asylum, where he claims he is being abused (saying they were controlling his meals and his speaking and thinking habits, as well as suppressed his free will with drugs and confinement when he shows it). The in-play doctor, portrayed by Data, brushes it off as a delusion. Throughout the episode, Riker himself is bombarded with multiple delusions that make him question whether he really is himself, or his experiences on the Enterprise have all been a fantasy.
* WrongfullyCommitted: Played with. Riker joins a presentation of a theatre play on the Enterprise where his in-play character is committed to a mental asylum. His character is increasingly agitated at his treatment in the mental asylum, where he claims he is being abused (saying they were controlling his meals and his speaking and thinking habits, as well as suppressed his free will with drugs and confinement when he shows it). The in-play doctor, portrayed by Data, brushes it off as a delusion. Throughout the episode, Riker himself is bombarded with multiple delusions that make him question whether he really is himself, or his experiences on the Enterprise have all been a fantasy.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: The fact that the ''Enterprise'' just happens to have a new Lieutenant who is the same species as the planet they are visiting is exactly the kind of FridgeLogic one might encounter in a dream.
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* ChekhovsGun: In the first act, Worf nicks Riker in the side of his head with the nisroh. When Crusher fixes the wound, Riker notes that it still hurts. That wound would play a significant role towards the latter part of the episode.
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* ChekhovsGun: In ChekhovsGun:
** During thefirst act, briefing for Riker's mission to Tilonus IV, Worf nicks Riker in the side of his head with the nisroh. When Crusher fixes the wound, Riker notes that it still hurts. That wound would play a significant role towards the latter part of the episode.
** The same briefing has Worf give Riker a communicator concealed in a Tilonian pendant. Said pendant is able to help Riker escape his capture at the end of the episode.
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** The same briefing has Worf give Riker a communicator concealed in a Tilonian pendant. Said pendant is able to help Riker escape his capture at the end of the episode.
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* ShowWithinAShow[=/=]StylisticSuck : The play. Riker's actually not that bad, it's just kind of cheesy.
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* ShowWithinAShow[=/=]StylisticSuck : The play. Riker's actually not that bad, it's just kind of cheesy. In particular, the play appears to end at what would normally be considered an Act Two cliffhanger: Data insisting that they’ll talk more tomorrow and Riker shouting that he’s not mad. A real play would have more of a sense of resolution.
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Worf briefs Riker on the details of his mission, including the latest intelligence and the disguise he will be using to blend in with the locals. Riker's flippant sense of humor doesn't get any laughs from Worf, who chides him for not taking things seriously. Then as Worf is demonstrating how to use a ritual dagger that will be part the disguise, he accidentally nicks Riker across the temple.
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Worf briefs Riker on the details of his mission, including the latest intelligence and the disguise he will be using to blend in with the locals. Riker's flippant sense of humor doesn't get any laughs from Worf, who chides him for not taking things seriously. Then as Worf is demonstrating how to use a ritual dagger that will be part of the disguise, he accidentally nicks Riker across the temple.
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* ShoutOut: The entire episode is one big one to Film/TheCabinetOfDrCaligari.
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* ShoutOut: The entire episode is one big one to Film/TheCabinetOfDrCaligari.''Film/TheCabinetOfDrCaligari''.
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* PercussiveTherapy: Variation. Originally, Dr. Crusher was going to have a crew take down the set the morning after Riker's return. But considering what Riker had just gone through, she allows Riker to do it himself as a means to provide closure. The fact that Riker decides to take on this task without any tools suggest that this may actually be a form of therapeutic relief for him.
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* PercussiveTherapy: Variation. Two different variations occur here.
** An inside-your-mind example: Riker's repeated shoving of Suna and the audience reacting are a form of therapy to restore Riker's mind from the Tilonian's influence. It works and allows Riker to wake up.
** Originally, Dr. Crusher was going to have a crew take down the set the morning after Riker's return. But considering what Riker had just gone through, she allows Riker to do it himself as a means to provide closure. The fact that Riker decides He does proceed to take on this task do so, albeit with his bare hands and without any tools suggest that this may actually be a form of therapeutic relief for him.tools.
** An inside-your-mind example: Riker's repeated shoving of Suna and the audience reacting are a form of therapy to restore Riker's mind from the Tilonian's influence. It works and allows Riker to wake up.
** Originally, Dr. Crusher was going to have a crew take down the set the morning after Riker's return. But considering what Riker had just gone through, she allows Riker to do it himself as a means to provide closure.
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Suna makes some vague remarks to try to calm Riker, but he's not having any of it. He shoves Suna with a BigNo, earning him applause from the audience. He shoves Suna again, and the applause from the audience intensifies with cheering. He strikes the set with his bare hands and finally, ''finally'' the real world returns.
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Suna makes some vague remarks to try to calm Riker, but he's not having any of it. He shoves Suna with a BigNo, earning him applause from the audience. He shoves Suna again, and the applause from the audience intensifies with cheering. cheering. He strikes the set with his bare hands and finally, ''finally'' the real world returns.
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Before he gets some rest, for his own peace of mind, Riker goes to the set of the now-finished ''Frame of Mind'' play. Dr. Crusher tells Riker that her and a crew were going to take down the set in the morning, but considering what Riker had gone through, he would not be able to sleep knowing it was up. Crusher departs, and Riker begins his recovery from his ordeal by taking down the set with his bare hands.
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Before he gets some rest, for his own peace of mind, Riker goes to the set of the now-finished ''Frame of Mind'' play. Dr. Crusher tells Riker that her and a crew were going to take down the set in the morning, but considering what Riker had gone through, he would not be able to sleep knowing it was up. Crusher departs, and Riker begins his recovery from his ordeal by taking down the set with his bare hands.
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* CatharsisFactor: Originally, Dr. Crusher was going to have a crew take down the set the morning after Riker's return. But considering what Riker had just gone through, she allows Riker to do it himself as a means to provide closure. The fact that Riker decides to take on this task without any tools suggest that this may actually be a form of therapeutic relief for him.
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