Suddenly Human story
Picard must help a human boy, raised by aliens, to decide his fate.
32 total · 7 choice · 16 major · 9 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| alien point of view | choice | Talarian :: the Talarians had a strange and severe attitude to child rearing |
| belonging | choice | Jono :: Jono feels more at home with aliens than with humans |
| choosing between conflicting loyalties | choice | Jono was torn about whether to return to life with his adoptive father or stay with his fellow humans aboard the Enterprise. |
| conflict of cultural norms | choice | The humans could not stand idly by and let Jono be abused, as they saw it, by his rough-and-tumble alien foster parents. Jono had trouble getting along with Picard because the latter did not approve of obnoxious loud music, hammocks, and high pitched alien humming. |
| custody battle | choice | Picard, Endar :: Picard and Endar battle for custody of Jono |
| father and son | choice | Endar/Jono :: Endar and Jono |
| human parenting | choice | Picard :: Picard struggles with how to raise Jono |
| adolescence | major | Jono :: Jono |
| adoption of a child | major | Endar had adopted the human boy Jono. |
| children's rights | major | Can Jono be allowed to choose for himself? |