what if I found out I was a different person than I thought I was theme
It is revealed to someone that their background is very different from what they believed it was.
Examples
In ds93x05 "Second Skin", Kira was told that she is in fact a Cardassian spy who has been mentally conditioned to think herself Bajoran in order to make infiltration more believable.
13 total · 4 choice · 6 major · 2 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| as1985e2x20 | choice | Not only did Alan find out that he was moving across the galaxy to a planet named Alturus, but soon after he also realized that he was, in fact, not even an Earthling himself. |
| ds93x05 | choice | Cardassians concocted elaborate plot to convince Kira she was really an undercover Cardassian agent who had lost all her memories |
| movie: Megaville (1990) | choice | While we are led to believe that Palinov had assumed Jensen's identity, it turned out that it was actually Jensen and that he's been implanted with Palinov's memories. |
| movie: Suspect Device (1995) | choice | The mild mannered office worker Dan Jericho was dumbfounded upon finding out that he was a nuclear weapon implanted cyborg. |
| bbf3x04 | major | monk found out he was a convicted murderer |
| movie: Cypher (2002) | major | The hero of the story Morgan Sullivan came to understand that his identity and memories were false, and that he was actually another man named Sebastian Rooks. |
| rd1988e5x06 | major | The crew woke up from a virtual reality game to find that they were not who they thought they were. |
| tz1959e1x34 | major | Marsha found out that she was actually a department store mannequin come to life for a month. |
| tz1985e2x04a | major | Marsha found out that she was actually an escaped mannequin from a local shopping mall. |
| tz2019e1x08 | major | Eve was shocked to discover that she was actually a space alien from another dimension. |