Half a Life story
Lwaxana Troi finally finds love, but discovers her man must undergo a ritualistic suicide. Guest star David Ogden Stiers as Timicin.
27 total · 5 choice · 10 major · 12 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| contemplating suicide | choice | Timicin :: Timicin |
| dying sun | choice | Timicin's life work was to revive his people's dying sun |
| euthanasia | choice | Timicin was expected and pressured to commit suicide at the age of 65. |
| infatuation | choice | Lwaxana, Timicin :: Lwaxana and Timicin |
| society with a maximum age limit | choice | Timicin's society had an age limit of 65, upon which people were expected and required to kill themselves |
| conflict of cultural norms | major | Lwaxana and the humans thought Timicin’s people’s habit of ritual suicide at 65 was both peculiar and offensive. And Lwaxana nearly convinced the humans that they could not stand idly by while Timicin was pressured, as they saw it, into committing ritual suicide as per the customs of his people. |
| conservative vs. liberal | major | Timicin vs. Lwaxana |
| coping with aging | major | Lwaxana, Timicin :: Lwaxana and Timicin |
| coping with personal failure | major | Timicin :: Timicin's life work to revive a star unfulfillled |
| cross cultural romance | major | Lwaxana/Timicin :: Lwaxana and Timicin |