human-made pandemic theme
People create a dangerous pathogen, typically for the purpose of war, but it gets out of control and kills everyone.
Examples
The inhabitants of Earth Two sought to increase their lifespan but instead released an infectious virus that quickly killed off all adults in tos1x11 "Miri".
24 total · 3 choice · 20 major · 1 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| movie: 12 Monkeys (1995) | choice | A human-made virus was destined to wipe out 5 billion people and render the surface of the Earth uninhabitable. |
| movie: The Terror Within II (1991) | choice | The story follows what is perhaps the last human colony as they seek to produce a vaccine for a deadly covert biological war released virus, while simultaneously trying to not all get killed by wasteland roaming murderous mutants. |
| tos1x11 | choice | The story turns on the Enterprise crew responding to a distress call from a planet where the entire adult population had been wiped out by a man-made plague that was unintentionally unleashed by scientists who were pursuing life-extension research. |
| ahh3x11 | major | Jane was convinced that every last man on Earth would perish from a mutation of the virus strain that Dr. Perrigan was developing to make brown rats go extinct. |
| ent3x03 | major | Tret explained how a virus genetically engineered by the Loque'eque would wipe out his civilization, if the virus ever made it to their planet. |
| ent4x15 | major | Klingon scientists had attempted to create "super-soldiers" by injecting themselves with human Augment DNA (from the era of Khan Noonien Singh). The DNA self-mutated into a highly contagious, airborne plague, which spread from colony to colony. Dr. Phlox was kidnapped by the Klingons to find a cure. |
| ent4x16 | major | Klingon scientists had attempted to create "super-soldiers" by injecting themselves with human Augment DNA (from the era of Khan Noonien Singh). The DNA self-mutated into a highly contagious, airborne plague, which spread from colony to colony. Dr. Phlox was kidnapped by the Klingons to find a cure. |
| movie: 28 Days Later (2002) | major | The story is set in the immediate aftermath of a highly contagious, aggression-inducing virus called "Rage" having utterly decimated the population of Great Britain, and in all likelihood the entire world. |
| movie: 28 Weeks Later (2007) | major | It was understood that the highly contagious virus that turned people into voracious zombies was human-made. |
| movie: Carnosaur (1993) | major | The brilliant but troubled scientist Dr. Jane Tiptree engineered a lethal airborne virus that impregnated its female hosts with dinosaur embryos. Her objective was to eliminate the human race by unleashing the virus. |