Bliss story

voy5x14 · 1999-02-10

A large organism telepathically deceives the Voyager crew into flying into its digestive chamber. Directed by: Cliff Bole. Story by: Bill Prady.

15 total · 3 choice · 8 major · 4 minor

ThemeLevelMotivation
if it sounds too good to be true it probably isn't true choice crew quick to believe wormhole was real
self-deception choice The crew was quick to believe they'd found a wormhole back to Earth, but it turned out to be a siren-like ship eating space monster.
spaceborne being choice telepathic wormhole entity
coping with being separated from someone you love major Voyager crew homesick
dealing with children major Seven with Naomi
duty vs. self-preservation major Seven disobeyed various commands and Naomi had an incident with Chakotay
hope major crew of getting home using the wormhole
human vs. beast major Qatai's stated his life mission to kill wormhole entity
human vs. inexplicable adversity major Seven was at a loss to explain why her fellow crew members were so eagerly sending themselves to almost certain doom by flying Voyager into a wormhole.
what if I couldn't trust the veracity of my senses major Qatai didn't trust his senses inside the wormhole entity; Seven at the end also