beauty is in the eye of the beholder theme
We are shown that the perception of what is beautiful or not depends on the observer. What is pretty to one may be ugly to another.
Examples
The grotesque looking Horta alien thought that it was the humans that should be pitied for their unsightly appearance in tos1x26 "The Devil in the Dark".
9 total · 4 choice · 2 major · 3 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| as1985e2x21 | choice | A message of the story is that humans and space aliens may have different standards when it come to beauty. This was illustrated in the Miss Stardust beauty pageant in which humans and aliens argued over who was worthy of winning. |
| nightgallery2x14a | choice | Victor was hideous on Earth, but on a far away planet he was an attractive hunk. |
| tz1959e2x06 | choice | While Mrs. Tyler was a bombshell as judged by human standards, she was deemed a hideous deviant by the people of the pig-like race of people to which she belonged. |
| tz2002e1x38 | choice | The beautiful (by human standards) Mrs. Tyler was considered to be hideously disfigured in a society where ugliness (by human standards) was the norm, and beauty (again by human standards) the deviation from that norm. |
| movie: Marty (1955) | major | Marty and Clara each thought the other reasonably attractive, no matter what others said. To that point, Marty said to Clara: "So you see, you're not such a dog as you think you are". |
| tos3x07 | major | Kollos was hideous to some and beautiful to others. |
| ds96x08 | minor | Jadzia appreciated a transparent skull but Kira did not |
| tos1x26 | minor | Horta thinks humans are ugly |
| tz1959e3x30 | minor | Frisby and the aliens agreed that each was mutually bad-looking to the other. |