The Haunting of Deck Twelve story
As Voyager travels through a nebula, all ship's power is turned off, giving Neelix an opportunity to tell the Borg children a ghost story. Directed by: David Livingston. Story by: Mike Sussman.
11 total · 2 choice · 6 major · 3 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| fear | choice | Neelix telling a space ghost story to the Borg children |
| the nature of fear | choice | Neelix and the Borg children discussed the good and bad aspects of fear |
| facing a ship takeover | major | electromagnetic entity was taking over Voyager in Neelix's story |
| ghost | major | Neelix's space ghost story |
| human vs. inexplicable adversity | major | The Voyager crew, as depicted in Neelix's story, was perplexed by a series of ship-wide malfunctions. |
| incorporeal being | major | electromagnetic space ghost |
| storytelling | major | Neelix told a ghost story while trapped with the ex-Borg children during a power outage. |
| to tell the truth vs. to offer a comforting lie | major | The viewer is left to ponder whether Neelix had told the truth in the end after all. |
| alien origin of a superstition | minor | Neelix portrayed an alien electromagnetic entity as a ghost to the Borg children in his story. |
| duty vs. compassion | minor | Neelix stayed to help Tuvok in spite of Tuvok discarding this as irrational and ordering him to go |