obstinatecondolement: Deanna Troi from Star Trek: The Next Generation shown from the shoulders up, standing in front of a painting of a planet (0)
Art ([personal profile] obstinatecondolement) wrote in [community profile] worldbuilding_exchange 2023-01-17 01:27 pm (UTC)

I did not participate in nominations, but I assume the Star Trek tag about crewmates being Godlike refers to an episode from The Original Series where Kirk's friend and colleague Gary Mitchell develops psychic and telekinetic abilities and becomes tyrannical and convinced of his own godhood and an episode of Lower Decks where the first officer Jack Ransom is exposed to the same strange energy that Mitchell was and becomes similiarly powerful and autocratic (but describes Mitchell as being like an ant compared to him). There was also multiple episodes of Deep Space Nine where characters became possessed by Pah-wraithes, who are the enemies and former compatriots of the beings the Bajoran people worship, the Prophets. The TNG episode Masks where Data is possessed by, among thousands others, a personality called Ihat may also be relevant here? There is also a pastiche of Masks featured in Lower Decks. B'Elanna Torres' then-unborn daughter Miral Paris was also believed to be a pre-destined Klingon chosen one, the Kuvah'magh by a group of Klingons that the Voyager crew encountered on a generation ship in the Delta Quadrant, but I don't think this one fits this nomination.

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