The Swarm story
Voyager encounters a swarm of ships while trying to take a shortcut through a space belonging to a hostile species, while the Doctor begins to experience memory loss. Directed by: Alexander Singer. Story by: Mike Sussman.
10 total · 2 choice · 2 major · 6 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| AI rights | choice | Kes lectured Zimmerman about it |
| coping with senility | choice | The Doctor |
| incompatible modes of communication | major | Voyager with swarm aliens |
| selfless service | major | first The Doctor offered to reboot, then Zimmerman-tech sacrificed his matrix |
| freezing up in a critical moment | minor | Doc lost his memories just before an important operation |
| friendship | minor | Kes and The Doctor |
| infatuation | minor | some idiot for B'Elanna |
| maker and machine | minor | Zimmerman and The Doctor |
| opera | minor | The Doctor attempted to sing "O, soave fanciulla", a duet from Act 1 of the Earth opera La boheme by Puccini, on the holodeck with a holographic re-creation of Giuseppina Pentangeli. |
| what if I had amnesia | minor | The Doctor experienced a serious memory loss. |