Causal
strong strength
Narrative Connection
How these two moments in the story relate
From
Data’s Bridge Hallucination and Soong’s Mystery
S6E16
·
Birthright, Part I
To
Data reveals Soong’s hidden programming
S6E16
·
Birthright, Part I
Why These Connect
The narrative assertion
"Data processes his vision which comes to an end, allowing him to then explain to Bashir that his recent visions were the result of dormant circuits in his neural net. It explains how they were triggered prematurely by the plasma shock."
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.