choosing who dies and who lives theme

A character faces a choice where every alternative leads to someone or other (at least two different people) dying.

38 total · 6 choice · 12 major · 20 minor

Story	Level	Motivation
ds94x05	choice	Dukat had to kill his daughter Ziyal to save his family from suffering persecution at the hands of the Cardassian government
tng3x15	choice	Enterprise-C crew goes back in the past to fight Klingons for the good of future generations
tos3x08	choice	the aliens could save one but only one race, also McCoy and Spock about dying or insanity
tz1959e3x31	choice	Central to the story was the tough decision of who would get to be young again.
tz2002e1x42	choice	Five college students deliberated whom of them should be sacrificed to countermand an ancient Aztec curse.
voy5x11	choice	The Doctor chose Harry's life over Ahni Jetal's
ds91x10	major	Quark was repeatedly forced to make life and death decisions involving his friends
ds92x04	major	Benjamin had to decide whether to shoot his old friend Verad or led his new friend Jadzia die
ent3x10	major	Archer had to choose who between Tucker and the Tucker clone would die.
ftt1982e2x06	major	The family thought they did not have enough food for everyone to survive. It was therefore decided that the children should be left in the woods for dead.