Mutant on the Bounty story
The crew of the USS Bounty pick up a horribly disfigured jazz musician on their trip to Alpha Centauri.
14 total · 3 major · 11 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| beauty and beast romance | major | The handsome woman Justine and the horribly disfigured Max fell for each other. |
| biological weapons | major | The plot centered around two criminals trying to obtain a virus bomb biological weapon that they planned to use to to coerce the population of some planet to give them immense riches. |
| coping with being disfigured | major | A teleportation mishap left Max with a hideously disfigured face that even had a telephone receiver protruding out of it. |
| android | minor | The crew included a Model 8 android named Lizardo. |
| boredom | minor | Justine explained about how boredom had been the biggest challenge faced by the USS Bounty crew on their interstellar mission up to that point. |
| fusion power | minor | The USS Bounty interstellar spacecraft was fusion powered. |
| gender bending | minor | The male android Lizardo was reprogrammed to have the personality of a flamboyant transvestite. |
| interstellar space travel | minor | The story unfolds on the futuristic spaceship USS Bounty on a research mission to Alpha Centauri 49/B. |
| music | minor | Max was a professional saxophone player. |
| risk taking vs. playing it safe | minor | Captain decided to bring things aboard spaceship after some deliberation |