how to handle a hostage situation theme
Featured is the dilemma of whether and how to negotiate with hostage takers.
Notes
Hostage situations are typically when someone holds innocent people at gunpoint and threatens to execute them unless certain demands are met. Especially in fiction, hostage situations may also arise when terrorists have planted bombs or designed doomsday weapons that threaten buildings, cities, countries, or entire planets.
Examples
Captain Picard negotiated to free Beverly from the clutches of terrorists in tng3x12 "The High Ground", but ended up himself a hostage.
12 total · 2 choice · 2 major · 8 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| tng1x16 | choice | Picard and Jameson negotiated with Governor Karnass for the safe release of a Federation Ambassador and his staff. |
| tng5x15 | choice | Picard negotiated with the disembodied prisoners who held much of his crew hostage in Ten Forward. |
| movie: Alien Raiders (2008) | major | The police tried to handle the hostage situation through negotiation, instead of by the use of force. |
| tng3x12 | major | Captain Picard negotiated to free Beverly from the clutches a militant separatist faction on the planet Rutia IV. |
| ds94x13 | minor | Kira said that one does not capitulate with terrorists. |
| ent1x15 | minor | The crew negotiated with the Coridanite rebels in order to free Archer and T'Pol who were held hostage. |
| movie: Airplane II: The Sequel (1982) | minor | Ted made a desperate effort to talk Joe Seluchi out of blowing himself up, and the crew and passengers of the Mayflower One along with him. |
| movie: Fortress (1992) | minor | The Zed-10 computer informed Brennick that the Men-Tel Corporation does not engage in any negotiations during hostage situations, and proceeded to shoot Brennick's hostage dead on the spot. |
| movie: The Demolitionist (1995) | minor | Police Chief Higgins planned to negotiate the release of some hostages in a bank robbery gone awry, but Alyssa barged in and attempted to free the hostages the old fashioned way. |
| tng1x20 | minor | Tasha was briefly confronted with how to handle a hostage situation. |