Home Soil story
The crew of the Enterprise discovers a crystalline lifeform with murderous intelligence that has been killing the scientists on a terraforming project.
18 total · 4 choice · 7 major · 7 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| alien point of view | choice | The Microbrains of Velara III saw people as ugly sacks of water that were destroying the microbrain's planet. |
| colonization | choice | Federation terraformers were preparing a seemingly lifeless planet for colonization, but it turned out to harbor microscopic sentient life forms. |
| indigenous rights | choice | Were the Federation terraformers justified in wiping out a race of tiny, sentient organisms to pave the way for humanoid colonization? |
| microscopic being | choice | The story is about a team of terraformers who inadvertently stumble on a species of sentient, microscopic, crystalline organisms, known as “the microbrains”, while terraforming Velara III. |
| crystalline being | major | The Microbrains of Velara III. |
| incompatible modes of communication | major | Enterprise crew trying to communicate with the microbrains. |
| obsession with a life-dedicated project | major | Kurt Mundl was obsessed about his terraforming project to the extent that he was prepared to wipe out an intelligent life form. |
| sentient rights | major | The story upholds the inorganic but intelligent microbrains' right to keep their own planet. |
| speculative terraforming | major | A team of Federation scientists was terraforming microbrain homeworld. |
| the ethics of interfering in less advanced societies | major | Picard warned Mandi that he may have violated the Prime Directive if he knew life existed on the planet. |