Narrative Web
Causal strong strength

Narrative Connection

How these two moments in the story relate


Why These Connect

The narrative assertion

"Worf’s question about whether the inhabitants are machines directly triggers Data’s tricorder revelation that they have no life signs—establishing the universe’s core horror: these beings are corporeal phantoms, not illusions, but hollow shells."

About Causal Connections

A directly causes B. The first event sets forces in motion that produce the second. These are the load-bearing connections of plot—remove one and the story structure collapses.

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