Episode 02: Whatever Gods May Be (Season 1)

The USS Theurgy was visited by an omnipotent alien entity, and it was only through divine intervention – literally – that the crew could continue their mission. During the time, this entity visited the ship and cast things into chaos, it became evident that it might have been a figure that shaped mankind's early history, not to mention all other planets in the galaxy. To various extents, the entity was once the figurehead of all religious beliefs pertaining to love, sexuality, and war. It was known by many names, yet on Earth, she was most popularly known as Ishtar, Inanna, Aphroditie, Venus, or Freya. The alien life-form was attracted to the elevated sexual pheromone-levels that the collective crew emanated during the Niga Incident. It had made its way aboard the ship, expecting the same levels to await her. However, with the outbreak over and the crew cured from the Niga virus, Ishtar was disappointed and tried to coerce the crew to once again enjoy themselves in carnal ways. Ishtar started to subject the crew to more lustful feelings towards others, and also forced the Starfleet personnel to interact in ways and in places that would lead to further sexual activities on board. She did this to keep her new home hospitable, and to gain the energy she needed in order to break free of the prison in her own dimension. When the Ishtar Entity was forced to reveal herself, the present crew on the Main Bridge was taken to the entity's true universe. Trying to force her visitors to empower her through sexual displays, her endeavours were noticed by her captors. These aliens released the crew of the Theurgy after sending the Ishtar Entity into a deeper and more remote realm of existence. Having been returned to their own time and place, the effects of the Ishtar Entity’s actions on the ship was nullified, since they were all returned to a point of time before she affected the crew. Still, the crew was allowed to remember what transpired while they had suffered the attentions of the visitor. After being returned to their ship in this fashion, Captain Ives called for a Senior Staff meeting for the evening the next day. Before this meeting, the crew was given time to reflect upon what happened to them, and to come to terms with certain revelations about themselves and their religious views. While some had a crisis of faith, others found solace in the fact that the entities they encountered once started out as themselves were – travelling space in search for the meaning of life.