fivelight

To pressure someone to surrender their senses and memories

Taken from the “Star Trek: The Next Generation” episode “Chain of Command (part II).” Captain Picard is shown four lights and is told that there are five. Every time he says there are only four lights he’s electrocuted. This episode is heavily inspired by George Orwell’s novel “1984.”

Credit to author Alexandra Erin for coining the term.

The fivelighting on him had become see effective that he did not believe anything that debunked the alternate reality he had been made to accept.