false flag operation theme
A faction that wants to make war creates an incident and blames it on the enemy. The real warmongerers can then attack while falsely claiming that their targeted enemy started the hostilities.
Examples
The Enterprise-D nearly destroyed a Lysian space station in revenge but then it turned out the whole situation had been orchestrated by the Sataarans in tng5x14 "Conundrum".
3 total · 1 major · 2 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| tng5x14 | major | Satarran's faked a Lysian attack against the Federation |
| futurama7x05 | minor | Zapp's ruse was precisely such an operation by the definition we wrote. |
| movie: V for Vendetta (2005) | minor | The secret police executed a bio-terrorist attack and blamed it on religious extremists so that the elected fascist government could capitalize on the resulting public fear to consolidate power. |