J-473: Bride of Chaotica! — You Are the Illusion
Voyager S5E12 — A subspace sandbar strands the ship while photonic aliens mistake Captain Proton's holodeck serial for reality and declare war on Chaotica. Janeway plays Arachnia; the Doctor plays President of Earth. Frameworks: The Inhabited Fiction (genre as contract), The Effort Paradox (trying too hard), The Photonic Boundary (incommensurable ontologies), The Role as Register, The Common Enemy, The Serial's Question Mark.