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In an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, "Chain of Command," Captain Picard of the Starship Enterprise is tortured by a Cardassian in a manner similar to a torture scene from 1984. During the episode the Cardassian officer tries to coerce Picard to admit seeing five lights when in fact there were only four. Picard valiantly sticks to reality. Near the end when Picard is rescued by his crew, he proudly declares, once again, that "there are [only] four lights!". However, later in a counseling session with Deanna Troi, Picard admits that he believed he could see five lights at the end. This admission is reminiscent of a scene in 1984 when the protagonist Winston Smith is electroshocked into declaring that he saw five fingers when in fact he only saw four ("Four! Five! Six! I don't know!").
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