sleep deprivation theme
A character exhibits the symptoms that come from not having been able to sleep adequately.
Examples
Alien influences prevented the crew from being able to dream which made them angry and violent in tng4x17 "Night Terrors".
14 total · 1 choice · 5 major · 8 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| tng4x17 | choice | Stuck in Tyken’s Rift, Troi had trouble sleeping due to nightmares and the rest of the crew became dysfunctional due to a lack of REM sleep. |
| ahp5x30 | major | Charles was suffering from insomnia because he was haunted by the suspicion that his brother-in-law, Jack, was out to kill him. |
| movie: Hour of the Wolf (1968) | major | Johan couldn't sleep during the night. This is alluded to in the work's title. As a roundabout consequence, Johan suffered from madness. |
| movie: The Alpha Incident (1978) | major | Dr. Sorensen and the other infected people under quarantine drank coffee and took government issued amphetamines in an effort to stay awake for as long as possible, because they would die the moment they fell asleep. |
| tng6x05 | major | Several crew member, but most notably Riker, suffered from insomnia and related problems which caused them to become erratic and underperform. It turned out that extradimensional aliens had been abducting them through artificial space rifts at night in order to perform gruesome experiments on their bodies. |
| tz1959e1x09 | major | Edward kept himself awake because he feared a Cat Girl in his dreams would bring about his death should he dare to fall asleep. Unfortunately an unrelated heart condition meant that Edward’s severe sleep deprivation, in addition to being debilitating, threatened to be fatal. In the end, he was driven to suicide by auto-defenestration. |
| ahp1x08 | minor | Ethel was said to have suffered from insomnia. |
| ds96x18 | minor | Luther Sloan deprived Julian of sleep in order to break him down. |
| ent3x01 | minor | Phlox recommended that Tucker visit T'Pol for treatment regarding his inability to get a good night's sleep. |
| ent3x02 | minor | Tucker consulted Phlox about a treatment for his inability to get to sleep that didn’t involve meditating with T’Pol. |