Star Crystal story

movie: Star Crystal (1986) · 1986-04

In 2032, an expedition on Mars finds a buried egg and make the mistake of taking it back to their ship.

10 total · 7 major · 3 minor

ThemeLevelMotivation
alien point of view major GAR and the crew members had trouble understanding each other on account that GAR was a strange slime alien. Only after it learned English, did it become apparent that GAR had only killed because it was acting in self-defense, at which point GAR and the surviving crew members worked together.
cooperation major In the end the surviving crew members worked together with the strange alien GAR for their mutual benefit.
extraterrestrial being major A strange alien creature, named GAR, was killing everyone aboard a ship en route to Alpha 7.
human vs. monster major A mysterious, alien creature was killing everyone aboard a spaceship whose crew was trying to make it back to Alpha 7.
interplanetary space travel major A mysterious, alien creature was killing everyone aboard a spaceship whose crew was trying to make it back to Alpha 7.
speculative spaceship major The story largely unfolds aboard a futuristic spaceship whose crew are trying reach Alpha 7 before a strange, alien creature kills them all first.
what if people connected to me started dying one by one major An alien creature, named GAR, was killing the crew members of a spaceship one by one.
Christianity minor GAR read an electronic Bible after hacking into the ship computer.
hysterical woman stereotype minor Sherrie had a habit of completely losing her nerve in times of danger. She screamed "We're all going to die!" when it became apparent that the space station was going to explode, and later went into a near catatonic state upon finding the dessicated body of a fellow crew member.
space station minor A small contingent escaped from an expansive, rotating wheel type space station just in the nick of time before it blew up.