conspiracy theory theme
The belief that there is a secret and nefarious conspiracy in an institution, often a government.
Examples
Neural parasites hatched a conspiratorial plot to infiltrate Starfleet Command in tng1x25 "Conspiracy".
25 total · 3 choice · 10 major · 12 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| bbf2x06 | choice | Bureau 13 was postulated as the perpetrator of all mischief |
| tng1x25 | choice | discussion on whether or not the conspiracy was real |
| voy6x09 | choice | Seven went wild with dreaming up elaborate conspiracy theories |
| ds97x16 | major | Section 31 was a big conspiracy theory. |
| movie: Capricorn One (1978) | major | NASA faked a manned mission to Mars. |
| movie: Cube (1997) | major | It was speculated that the Cube was a forgotten perpetual public works project that no single individual of a shadow bureaucracy fully comprehended, but rather it kept going on because each person was working on their own little part without understanding the greater whole. |
| movie: Eight Legged Freaks (2002) | major | The raving conspiracy theorist Harland had his own conspiracy-themed pirate radio show, and was trying to get the other townspeople to buy into his far-fetched ideas. |
| movie: Hangar 18 (1980) | major | High-level government officials conspired to keep secret from the public news that NASA had recovered a crashed flying saucer. |
| movie: The Arrival (1996) | major | Zane came off as a stereotypical raving conspiracy theorist at times when he would go on about space aliens trying to raise the Earth's temperature to not only kill off humans but also to make the planet hospitable for themselves. |
| movie: The Astronaut (1972) | major | Eddie Reese was hired by space program officials to impersonate the first man to land on Mars, who died on the mission, in order to cover up that the mission failed to the public. |