Crisis Point II: Paradoxus title card
Crisis Point II: Paradoxus was a holo-novel program patterned after a blockbuster movie. The program was based on the program Boimler Seven, created by Ensign Brad Boimler to help him prepare for a diplomacy workshop interview with Captain Carol Freeman, and hijacked by Ensign Beckett Mariner.
The program was written by Boimler with the idea of being even better than the original Crisis Point: The Rise of Vindicta holo-novel and was even considered part of the "Vindictaverse" by both Boimler and Mariner. However, Boimler's depression caused by the news that his transporter duplicate, Lieutenant junior grade William Boimler, was seemingly killed by a freak gas leak accident on the USS Titan led to him becoming sidetracked by a random background character rambling about "Ki-ty-ha", creating an unrelated "B-plot" in which he tried to seek out the meaning of life. As D'Vana Tendi and Sam Rutherford followed the intended narrative, Boimler and Mariner followed an increasingly bizarre and incoherent secondary narrative the holodeck was forced to generate on the fly due to its unplanned nature, ending in a nonsensical plot twist that revealed "Ki-ty-ha" to be the Wright Flyer. (LD: "Crisis Point 2: Paradoxus")