When I was younger, I watched Star Trek, Next Gen with my family as it went on through the years, and we also watched some of the movies.
I have a very faint and very short memory of Riker (and maybe Picard) being taken out of (or being put back into) dark, small, coffin-like cages with floor-level, half-size doors/grates. The memory has them in a long hallway of similar cages/cells, and he/they were put/kept there by enemies who my mind insists were Romulan, but could easily be Cardassian or ??.
The faint memory feels like he (or they) were there a long time, and were tortured while there, but that’s not part of the actual memory, just the sense I have of it.
My husband and I are currently half-way through Season 5, and it hasn’t come up yet, if it’s even part of the series and not from a movie or a very visual memory of a novel.
I’ve been puzzling over it for a while now, and can’t manage to remember any other context or anything else that would help me nail it down.
Chain of Command is Picard alone, getting mind-fucked by the Cardassians. Unless I’ve forgotten it, he mostly is shown inside that one room where the dude does the four-lights-are-five-lights routine.
Paradise isn’t it because there were more than one confinement cell, and they were all inside - in a long hallway.
Thanks tho - at least I know what ones they aren’t…
Well, there was a story arc in DS9 that featured Ezri and Worf as prisoners of the Jem-Haddar. Nothing comparable from TNG (at least the TV series) comes to mind.
What’s the name of the first episode of that series arc? It’s entirely possible that I have the characters and ST series wrong - like I said, it’s a short-ass memory.
Perhaps the episode where various members of the cast were abducted by aliens from another dimension and experimented on? The survivors got together on the holodeck, and had the computer mock up the alien operating room from their various memories?
“Schisms,” episode 6x05, if you’re having trouble finding it. The aliens were said to be from “subspace” rather than from another dimension, so I thought that might give you trouble.
Since you opened the door on your memory possibly being based on a novel, the book “Imzadi II” has an alternate universe version of Riker being held captive and by the Romulans for many years. I don’t recall anything about half sized doors but I have not read the book in years.
If you want something for the series I have one thought. What was the episode where Riker was tricked by an alien child into thinking that it was 16 years into his future and he had lost his memory of the intervening years. There were simulated Romulans there and I know that at one point Riker and the disguised alien had to escape through a small, low grate set into a wall. Could be that’s what you’re thinking of?
Is that the one where Riker keeps bleeding from his temple? He started off acting in a play or something only to find himself in some sort of mental institution?
I recall an episode where there was a “boy” using images from Riker’s mind to make illusions of him being kidnapped by Romulans. It turned out that he was doing it to Riker because he was lonely and wanted company or something.
That was “Future Imperfect” mentioned above. Good episode, but not the one wanted. I was so mad when the episode ended without someone shoving Riker into a cubicle in the wall, I can’t even tell you!
