delivering bad news theme
Someone has the undesirable duty to deliver very bad news, i.e., to inform of the death of kin.
Examples
Captain Picard had the unpleasant duty of informing Jeremy Aster that his mother Marla had died on an away mission in tng3x05 "The Bonding".
13 total · 1 major · 12 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| ent3x20 | major | Tucker struggled with having to write a letter to Taylor's parents explaining that she was killed in the line of duty. |
| ahp5x02 | minor | Mark regretted to inform Stella that her husband had perished while climbing a glacier covered mountain. |
| as1985e2x20 | minor | Val reluctantly informed his son, Alan, that they would be relocating to a distant city on account of Val finding a new job. |
| ds92x13 | minor | Benjamin telling Keiko about Miles death in the line of duty |
| ent1x26 | minor | Archer lamented having to deliver the bad news to alien homeworld that he had accidentally ignited the atmosphere of one of their colonies, resulting in the deaths of 3600 of their people. |
| ic1976e11 | minor | Calpurnia was tasked with breaking the news to Claudius that Messalina had been unfaithful to him. |
| movie: Stowaway (2021) | minor | David reluctantly broke the news to Michael that Michael would have to die, and considerately left behind a painless lethal injection device. |
| movie: The Astronaut (1972) | minor | Kurt Anderson visited Gail with the intention of informing her of the death of her husband, but he couldn't bring him self to go through with it. |
| pieceofcake1988e1x04 | minor | Squadron Leader Rex prepared a next-of-kin notification letter regarding Trevelyan's death. |
| pieceofcake1988e1x06 | minor | Kellaway made a personal visit to Mary's flat to break the sad news that her husband, Fitz, was missing and almost certainly dead. |