choosing between job opportunities theme
A character faces that major life decision of which career path to go down.
Examples
Riker was torn between accepting an offer to command the starship Aries and continuing as first officer on his beloved Enterprise-D in tng2x14 "The Icarus Factor".
10 total · 1 choice · 5 major · 4 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| voy6x13 | choice | The Doctor about leaving Voyager to pursue musical career on Qomar homeworld |
| movie: La Dolce Vita (1960) | major | Marcello didn't like his cheap job as a journalist and contemplated being a writer |
| tng1x19 | major | Picard deliberated whether to accept his proposed promotion to head Star Fleet academy. |
| tng2x14 | major | Riker :: Riker about accepting the captain's chair |
| tng3x26 | major | Riker :: Riker |
| tng4x02 | major | Picard :: Picard about Atlantis Project |
| columbo1971e1x02 | minor | After some faux consideration, Columbo declined a lucrative offer to join a high-profile detective agency, citing something to the effect that he wished to follow through on the Lenore Kennicut murder investigation. |
| movie: Double Indemnity (1944) | minor | Walter eventually turned down an opportunity to be an insurance investigator rather than salesman |
| movie: Killer of Sheep (1978) | minor | Stan works in a monotonous slaughterhouse, was asked to go into crime or work in a grocery store |
| tng1x21 | minor | Riker gave up own command in order to serve on the Enterprise, we heard. |