emotional overwhelm theme
Someone feels overwhelmed by an emotion or impression, for example by the grandeur of an experience or the gravity of a responsibility, to such an extent that they are speechless and come close to fainting or commit suicide because they can't handle it all.
Examples
Troi was shocked to wake up on a Romulan warbird looking like a Romulan in tng6x14 "Face of the Enemy".
14 total · 1 major · 13 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| tng3x23 | major | Sarek, a stoic Vulcan, wept at the Mozart recital. This was interpreted as a telltale sign of his cognitive decline. His condition declined thereafter to such an extent that he had to be sequestered in his quarters. |
| as1985e1x20 | minor | Jane spotted a movie poster announcing that she would be institutionalized in the next episode. She promptly fainted. |
| movie: AI Artificial Intelligence (2001) | minor | David jumped off a skyscraper into the sea, after discovering that he was a prototype of a mass produced android to be sold around the country. |
| movie: Chosen Survivors (1974) | minor | Carrie Draper fainted at the sight of the world ending on the view screen. |
| movie: Quest for Love (1971) | minor | Colin became overwhelmed by his new reality and flipped out at the dinner party. |
| movie: The Eclipse, or the Courtship of the Sun and Moon (1907) | minor | The professor was so overwhelmed by the sight of the eclipse that he fell headlong out of his tower window and into a water-filled barrel. |
| tng1x01/02 | minor | Troi :: Troi on planet |
| tng1x26 | minor | Upon waking up more than 400 years in the future, Claire Raymond, a 20th century housewife, was confronted with the shocking visage of Worf and promptly fainted. |
| tng3x04 | minor | Nuria :: The Mintakan aboard the ship who thought Picard was God |
| tng5x25 | minor | Picard :: Picard upon waking up aboard ship |