Muse story
Torres is stranded on a bronze-age planet after a crash in the Delta Flyer, where she helps a playwright adapt the story of Voyager to the stage. Also, Kim is missing in an escape pod. Directed by: Mike Vejar. Story by: Joe Menosky.
11 total · 2 choice · 8 major · 1 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| the power of art to influence people | choice | Kelis wrote an anti-war play in effort to stop an imminent war with a neighboring state. |
| the theater | choice | Classical theater was a mainstay on among Kelis' people. |
| acting | major | The story centered on a group of alien actors trying to produce a play in an amphitheater. |
| coping with a loved one being in peril | major | Tom at his wits end with B'Elanna missing |
| coping with stress at work | major | Kelis had a tight deadline for producing his play; Tuvok stayed awake for days trying to find B'Elanna |
| despotism | major | the ruler of his city decided to send people to war |
| hate begets hate | major | the patron may have learned this life lesson from Kelis's play |
| science as magic to the primitive | major | B'Elanna's technology to Kelis' people |
| social activism | major | Kelis writes anti-war play in effort to stop an imminent war with a neighboring state |
| the Ancient Greek stereotype | major | The Kelis people were patterned on the Ancient Greeks. |