The Omega Glory story
Captain Kirk must battle a deadly virus and a treacherous fellow starship captain to stop a meaningless intertribal war.
18 total · 3 choice · 8 major · 7 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| civilization vs. savagery | choice | Yangs vs. Kohms |
| patriotism | choice | Yangs and the American flag |
| the ethics of interfering in less advanced societies | choice | Ron Tracy :: Captain Tracy violated Prime Directive |
| anti-aging technology | major | Ron Tracy thought he found the secret to immortality on the planet |
| biological weapons | major | Yang and Kohm ancestors engaged in a ruinous biological war |
| communism | major | The Kohms were communists. |
| duty vs. self-preservation | major | Ron Tracy :: Tracy had when attacked |
| greed for riches | major | Ron Tracy wanted to market the cure for aging he thought that he found. |
| human vs. contagious disease | major | Dr. McCoy worked to get to the bottom of a strange plague that quickly reduced those infected to piles of crystalline powder. |
| human-made pandemic | major | A revelation of the story is that biological warfare between the ancestors of the Khoms and the Yangs unleashed a plague that drove their civilization back to a medieval stage of development. |