The Empath story
While visiting a doomed planet, the landing party is subject to torturous experiments to test an empathic race.
23 total · 5 choice · 11 major · 7 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| choosing who dies and who lives | choice | the aliens could save one but only one race, also McCoy and Spock about dying or insanity |
| compassion | choice | Gem :: Gem was a bundle of compassion toward others |
| compassion vs. self-preservation | choice | Gem :: Gem |
| the calculus of human life | choice | Vians deciding which civilization to save from supernova based on which they valued the most |
| the ethics of valuing human lives | choice | the aliens could save one but only one race, also McCoy and Spock about dying or insanity |
| alien overseers | major | Vian :: Vians of Minarans |
| civilization vs. savagery | major | were Vians civilized for trying to save the Minarans or savages for torturing people? |
| cruelty | major | Thann, Lal (Vian) :: Vians to captives |
| healing ability | major | Gem healed Kirk and McCoy's wounds using her empathic powers. |
| human vs. captivity | major | Kirk, Spock, McCoy :: landing party held captive by Vians |