coming to terms with one's past theme
A character has harbored guilt, resentment or other bad feelings with respect to some event in their past, but then comes to peace with all of that.
9 total · 5 choice · 1 major · 3 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| bbf5x02 | choice | Londo had to say sorry |
| blackmirror7x05 | choice | The story concerns Philip confronting memories of an old flame that had dumped him, or so it seemed. He had taken this badly enough to become an alcoholic and it had taken him a decades or so to recover. The grand revelation of the story is that the apparent dumping had actually been a huge misunderstanding. The story concluded with Philip making peace with everything that had happened. |
| ds95x12 | choice | Odo had resented his de facto father's treatment of him when he was young, but came to understand his father's actions |
| theamericanshortstory03 | choice | Spencer pondered to the point of obsession what sort of man he would have become had he stayed in New York instead of spending 33 years abroad as he had done. |
| tng6x15 | choice | Picard was made to reflect on his youthful indiscretions, but in the end he did not regret them. |
| tng1x13 | major | Data :: Data about his past. |
| futurama7x15 | minor | Minx was torn up inside about past verbal abuse she was subjected to by her father. |
| rd1988e7x03 | minor | Lister was heartened to realize that he'd not been abandoned as a baby. |
| sherlock1x01 | minor | John Watson may have been haunted by memories of the war in Afghanistan. |