carrot vs. stick theme
Someone must decide, in a given situation, which approach is the better way to get another person to act as they should: the threat of consequence (the stick), or the promise of reward (the carrot).
6 total · 6 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| blackmirror7x04 | minor | Cameron's two interrogators, Kano and Jen, conferred on how to get him to reveal the identity of the murder victim. Kano preferred a direct, and confrontational approach. Jen, on the other hand, advocated for giving Cameron a pen and notebook as he desired, in the hopes that doing so would lead him to open up about his crime. |
| play: Adelphoe (160 BC) | minor | Micio explained that "a man won by kindness... stays the same whether he's with you or not", while a man won by "the threat of punishment alone" will "fall back to his old ways" once they have the chance (p342). |
| tos0x01 | minor | The Talosians tried to get Captain Pike to mate with Vina the easy way (i.e., by using their powers of allusion to present her to Pike in a variety of pleasing guises) before resorting to the hard way (i.e., by using their powers of illusion to torture Pike with fire). |
| tos1x16 | minor | The Talosians tried to get Captain Pike to mate with Vina the easy way (i.e., by using their powers of allusion to present her to Pike in a variety of pleasing guises) before resorting to the hard way (i.e., by using their powers of illusion to torture Pike with fire). |
| voy2x13 | minor | Automated Unit 3947 first tried to get B'Elanna to assist in the construction of a prototype robot by being nice before coercing her into doing it with threats. |
| voy7x19 | minor | Captain Janeway appealed first to the carrot before resorting to the stick when teaching Q Junior some discipline. |