government secrecy theme
The pros and cons of government secrecy to society are explored.
Examples
The Ressikan community on Kataan were kept in the dark about the impending doom of their civilization in tng5x25 "The Inner Light".
72 total · 39 major · 33 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| as2020e05 | major | The story concerns a special group of secret government agents whose job is to deal with time rifts that sometimes appear and spit out people from the past. Somehow the government was covering up that time rifts appeared from time to time, sometimes devastating everything within a 10 mile radius. |
| ds93x04 | major | Renhol was willing to let Jadzia die in order to cover up that her hospital transplanted a Trill into the wrong host many years ago in the past. |
| movie: Alien Nation: Body and Soul (1995) | major | Matt and George uncovered a secret CIA enabled program to develop an implosion weapon that was said to be 100 times more dangerous than nuclear warheads. |
| movie: Alien Terminator (1988) | major | The grand revelation of the film is that the governments of the United States and Soviet Union were actively hiding from their peoples that space aliens were on Earth and pulling all the strings. |
| movie: Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) | major | The S.H.I.E.L.D. secret government organization. |
| movie: Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) | major | The government kept information about UFOs from the public and faked an industrial accident in order to get people to evacuate from the Devils Tower region of Wyoming in anticipation of a UFO encounter there. |
| movie: Dead by Midnight (1997) | major | A secret government agency revived Sam Ellis from the dead, turning him into 38 percent machine in the process, replaced his memories with false ones, called him John Larkin and set him up with a fake family. |
| movie: Fatal Sky (1990) | major | NATO was covering up a flying saucer crash in Norway. |
| movie: Firestarter (1984) | major | A secret government agency known as the Shop sought to capture Charlie. |
| movie: Godzilla (2014) | major | Much was made of the various governments of the world having kept the existence of Godzilla and the MUTO monsters secret from the public. It was revealed that the nuclear tests of the 1950s were actually secret attempts to kill Godzilla. That a multinational coalition had been formed to search for and study Godzilla was being kept secret from the public. The Japanese government covered up the MUTO attack, telling the press it was a 6.3 magnitude earthquake. |