repressed memories theme
A character is found to have unconsciously suppressed uncomfortable memories.
Examples
Riker was found to have repressed the memory of a vivisection in which his arm was severed in tng6x05 "Schisms".
17 total · 3 choice · 7 major · 7 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| bbf1x08 | choice | Sinclair's interrogators tried to convince him he had suppressed memories of a time in the war when he betrayed his countrymen. |
| movie: Marnie (1964) | choice | A point of the story was that Marnie had a screw loose owing to a traumatic experience in her youth. |
| movie: Rememory (2017) | choice | all and sundry had |
| ahp1x02 | major | Kim was so distressed at having killed his father that he'd completely suppressed any memory of having done the deed. |
| ahp1x34 | major | We gather that Dana couldn't remember the accident well because he felt guilty and didn't want to remember the day of the fatal accident. |
| ent2x07 | major | T'Pol had suppressed her memory of shooting Jossen. |
| movie: It (1990) | major | Each of the seven kids had them to varying extents. |
| movie: The Alligator People (1959) | major | Jane had repressed all memories of her past life as Joyce Webster - wife of a half-human, half-alligator monstrosity. |
| tz1959e1x29 | major | Helen repressed, or blacked out as it was described in the story, the memory of having witnessed the brutal murder of her mother. |
| voy4x17 | major | The Doctor used hypnosis to recover some of Seven's memories of her traumatic experiences with the Borg. |