accidental alien destruction of planetary civilization theme
A planetary civilization collapses as a result of some unintended consequence of another civilization's activity.
Examples
An errand, radioactive space garbage scow orbited the planet Gamelan V in tng4x09 "Final Mission" and subjected the inhabitants to critical levels of radiation.
8 total · 1 choice · 5 major · 2 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| rbt1985e4x07 | choice | A point of the story is that humans had once arrived on Mars and, one way or the other, unwittingly destroyed the ecosystem that sustained a native civilization on the Red Planet. |
| futurama7x23 | major | A UFO was sending out a sequence of tones that was destroying any planets it passed by. It was en route to Earth. |
| movie: My Stepmother Is an Alien (1988) | major | Celeste's home world was going to be destroyed unless Steven succeeded in resending the radio transmission he sent to the planet in the first place. The idea, such as it was, is that the radar bean Steven inadvertently sent into the planet's atmosphere made the planet's gravity increase continuously, jeopardizing the civilization thereon; repeating the transmission would somehow reverse the process, and save Celeste's planet from destruction. |
| movie: Space Men (1960) | major | A series of desperate efforts were made to stop an errant spaceship, called Alpha Two, entered the inner solar system and its photon generators were radiating enough heat to destroy the Earth. |
| movie: Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986) | major | An alien probe of unknown origin nearly destroyed the Earth. It turned out to have been sent by whale-like aliens that were merely trying to contact humpback whales on Earth. |
| movie: The Lost Missile (1958) | major | A lost alien spaceship circled round and round in Earth's atmosphere, burning it up. |
| tng4x09 | minor | Gamelan :: A radioactive space garbage scow was on collision course with the Gamelan homeworld. |
| voy1x01/02 | minor | The Caretaker inadvertently destroyed the Ocampa planet atmosphere, leaving the Ocampans to have to live underground. |