human vs. desert environment theme

A character's struggle to survive the elements commonly associated with a (sandy) desert environment is featured. This typically is about surviving in scorching heat and sandstorms with little water.

Notes

For theming purposes, "desert" here only refers to those stereotypically sandy stretches we usually think about in this context. It does, for example, not include Antarctica, which may otherwise be classified as a desert due to its low rate of precipitation.

19 total · 1 choice · 10 major · 8 minor

Story	Level	Motivation
tng4x09	choice	The story follows Captain Picard, Wesley, and Dirgo as they trek across a desert moon with scarcely any provisions.
ahp5x37	major	Two criminals abandoned Andy, Bill, and a young woman in the desert, unaware that Andy was well versed in how to get out of such predicaments.
ent1x24	major	Captain Archer and Tucker trekked through the desert with little water.
ent4x07	major	Archer and T'Pol trekked through a desert, called the Forge, in search of T'Pol’s mother.
ldr2019e1x12	major	Two traveling salesmen were stranded overnight in the Arizona desert when their car's radiator gave out. The two men discussed trekking through the desert back to the last pit stop.
movie: Kindzadza (1986)	major	The story followed Uncle Vova and The Violinist as they crossed the Pluke desert with little provisions with the goal of reaching a place called Downtown.
movie: Lawrence of Arabia (1962)	major	During Lawrence's trek to Faisal, and then Aqaba, the viewer is made to imagine what it'd be like to get lost in the desert.
movie: Pitch Black (2000)	major	The surviving crew and passengers of the Hunter-Gratzner spaceship struggled to survive on the desert planet on which they crash-landed.
tftc1989e3x02	major	The story follows the escaped death row inmate Earl Raymond Diggs on his trek across a desert (much of the way handcuffed to a dead motorcycle cop) to the Mexican border, and freedom.
tz1959e1x15	major	The story follows a trio of astronauts who were stranded without much in the way of supplies on what they presumed to be a barren asteroid.