Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, "Extreme Measures"

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, "Extreme Measures." Season 7, episode 23 (15 May 1999).[1]

See for a brain self-destruct device, brain-probing and probably illicit mind probes from the Romulans. Covered briefly in Anna L. Kaplan's "Deep Space Nine Season Seven Episode Guide," Cinefantastique 32.4/5 (December 2000): ~ 78-79.

Kaplan tells us that Bashir and O'Brien capture and tie down Section 31 agent Sloan and need "to get inside Sloan's brain" before the self-destruct device destroys all of Sloan's brain functions. So note a man tied down and boundaries fairly violently transgressed. "Bashir comes up with some technobabble-y way to get inside Sloan's brain so he and O'Brien are neurally linked to Sloan. They experience his brain activity as if they were in the real world." Kaplan quotes one of the makers of the episode as describing Bashir and O'Brien's entering Sloan's mind and experiencing it so that "'To them it will look like they are going up corridors and streets, and meeting people, but it's just a metaphorical way of showing them looking through Sloan's mind telepathically'" (p. 79). For the holding down and violating, see such films as 1984 and TOTAL RECALL (1990); for a quest inside a brain, note INCEPTION and THE MATRIX.

RDE, finishing, 20Oct22