J-453: The Killing Game, Part I — The Invisible Cage Made Literal
Voyager S4E18 — The Hirogen have taken over Voyager, installed neural interfaces, and trapped the crew in infinite simulations without their knowledge. The EMH is forced to triage his own crew back into their cages. Frameworks: The Invisible Cage made literal (control you can't perceive as control), The Devil's Contract embryo (Karr's clean desire for cultural survival routed through extractive means), The Holocaust Allegory (Kapitan's blood-purity ideology as Hirogen ideology without metaphor), Seven's Borg implants as resistance without knowledge.