Causal
medium strength
Narrative Connection
How these two moments in the story relate
From
Picard orders sensor safeguards against archive
S7E17
·
Masks
To
Data confesses alien intrusion symptoms
S7E17
·
Masks
Why These Connect
The narrative assertion
"Picard orders a diagnostic of Data's positronic net because he is concerned that the alien archive is impacting Data directly, leading to the actual diagnostic performanced when Data starts seeing the alien symbols."
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.