divide and conquer theme

The well known strategy of gaining and maintaining power by breaking up larger concentrations of power into pieces that individually have less power than the one implementing the strategy, is demonstrated.

9 total · 2 choice · 4 major · 3 minor

StoryLevelMotivation
bbf3x15 choice the shadows sowed chaos
ent4x13 choice The Romulans were trying to destabilize the emerging alliance of planets by provoking a war between the Andorians and the Tellarites.
ds93x02 major Dominion played a divide and conquer strategy against the Alpha Quadrant alien races
ds93x26 major Changelings tried to turn factions against each others in the Alpha Quadrant
ds94x01/02 major The Dominion tried to turn the Klingons against the Cardassians and Federation
ent4x12 major It became apparent at the end that Romulans trying to sow discord between the Tellarites and the Andorians.
bbf2x19 minor this expression was used to explain what was going on
ds95x25 minor Benjamin explained how the Dominion was employing a divide and conquer strategy with Bajor
ent4x09 minor It became apparent at the end that Romulans were playing a clandestine divide and conquer game.