The Final Countdown story
A modern aircraft carrier travels through time to the day before the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor.
8 total · 4 major · 4 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| time travel | major | A strange storm-like vortex sent the USS supercarrier and its crew were sent back in time to the day before the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor. |
| time traveler's dilemma | major | It was in the hands of Captain Matthew Yelland to decide whether or not to prevent the Japanese from destroying the US fleet stationed at Pearl Harbor, dramatically changing the course of history in the process. |
| what if I found myself in the past | major | A strange storm-like vortex sent the USS supercarrier and its crew were sent back in time to the day before the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor. |
| World War II | major | A strange storm-like vortex sent the USS supercarrier and its crew were sent back in time to the day before the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor. |
| grandfather paradox | minor | Warren Lasky sketched out this paradox to the higher ups on the USS supercarrier. |
| master and pet | minor | Laurel Scott kept a pet dog that she beloved. |
| sexism in society | minor | Senator Samuel S. Chapman's colleague assumed he was only employing his beautiful political assistant Laurel Scott because he wanted to sleep with her, but she was in fact highly skilled at her job. |
| World War III | minor | Some crewmen, including Captain Yelland, entertained the theory that they were only apparently sent back in time and that it was all some sort of elaborate deception that marked the start of a third world war. |