a danger shared can bring people together theme
It is observed how a shared danger to a group of people can work to forge unity and cooperation within that group.
Examples
By facing a ferocious electromagnetic beast together, Captain Picard and the Tamarian Captain Dathon finally figured out how to communicate in tng5x02 "Darmok".
17 total · 4 choice · 9 major · 4 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| ahp3x21 | choice | The point of the story was to show how being threatened by a desperate murderer could make a married couple who hated each other suddenly reconcile. |
| ds93x01 | choice | Federation and Romulans united to confront the Dominion |
| ds93x02 | choice | Federation and major Alpha Quadrant races united to confront the Dominion |
| ds94x23 | choice | Humans and Jem'Hadar made common cause to destroy take-you-anywhere gateway rather than let it fall into the hands of Jem'Hadar rebels |
| ds92x15 | major | The threat of starvation and cruel punishment knit the community together. |
| ftt1982e4x01 | major | The three pig brothers faced the mutual danger of Big Bad Wolf and in the end they had to cooperate to foist this pig craving antagonist. |
| futurama7x24 | major | Professor Farnsworth subjected his employees to danger in order to make them put their differences aside and cooperate. |
| movie: Enemy Mine (1985) | major | Sworn enemies Willis and Jeriba set aside that their peoples were mired in an interstellar war and worked together to survive while stranded together on an inhospitable planet. |
| movie: Meteor (1979) | major | The Americans and Soviets, two Cold Warring nations, cooperated together to stop the meteor from hitting Earth by knocking it off course with the combined power of their combined orbital nuclear weapons. |
| movie: Seven Samurai (1954) | major | the ronin threat forced the farmers to cooperate and seems to have brought them closer to each other |