A Small Talent for War story
An alien race that claimed to have invented mankind returns to judge them. Directed by: Claudia Weill. Story by: Carter Scholz & Alan Brennert.
9 total · 6 major · 3 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| attack from outer space by a genocidal enemy | major | An alien interrupted a United Nations meeting to announce that all life on Earth would be destroyed by his armada. |
| extraterrestrial being | major | An alien appeared at a meeting of the United Nations to announce that all life on Earth would be destroyed by his armada. |
| ironic twist of fate | major | The people of Earth scrambled to show that they could make peace and thus deserve to live but, alas, it was in fact a warmongering quality that was sought and so Earth was condemned. |
| peace on Earth | major | The nations of the world came together to end all international conflicts in an effort to placate genocidal aliens, but alas it was to no avail. |
| the instinct for violence | major | Humans were condemned because of their warmongering ways we thought, but then it was just the opposite. |
| transnational institution for peace | major | The United Nations members succeeded in putting an end to all international conflict under the mistaken idea that it would save their hides from an alien assault on Earth. |
| manipulation of evolution on a planet | minor | An alien told some United Nations delegates that his people had seeded Earth, along with millions of other worlds, with life. |
| speculative spaceship | minor | An armada of spherical spaceships descended upon the United Nations headquarters building. |
| the Cold War | minor | We saw a United States delegate quarreling with a delegate of the USSR at the United Nations. |