human vs. the elements theme
A character's struggle to survive the elements as associated with a specific natural weather condition. This could be about surviving in the blistering cold of an ice storm, in scorching heat during a drought, or in the raging winds of a hurricane.
Examples
Sulu nearly froze to death on Alfa 177 during a geological survey gone wrong in tos1x04 "The Enemy Within".
17 total · 8 major · 9 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| ahp4x02 | major | Mr. Kilmer related a story about the worst thing there was: Freezing in the cold. Underlying a story within the main story, Johnny saw someone outside the window apparently freezing to death. [cold] |
| ent1x04 | major | The landing party fled to a cave to escape a violent windstorm. [storm] |
| ldr2019e2x02 | major | Sedgewick and Fletcher had moved to an ice-covered colony planet. The story took place outside in freezing cold that Fletcher was technologically enhanced to withstand while Sedgewick was not. |
| movie: The Day After Tomorrow (2004) | major | Much of the story concerned the protagonists' efforts to survive the passing of an enormous snow hurricane. [snowstorm] |
| movie: The Illustrated Man (1969) | major | A crew of astronauts were stranded on Venus in perpetual torrential rains in the "The Long Rain" subplot. [torrential rain] |
| movie: The Killer Shrews (1959) | major | The people on the remote island battened down for a hurricane. [storm] |
| tng3x07 | major | Geordi and Bochra worked together to survive on a barren planet that was plagued by intense “radiologic” storms. [storm] |
| tz1959e4x16 | major | Some colonists had been struggling to eek out a living on a blisteringly hot desert planet, away from the Earth with its many wars. They failed miserably. [searing heat] |
| movie: Finch (2021) | minor | Finch and Jeff fled in much haste from a tornado spawning super storm. [storm] |
| movie: In Search of the Castaways (1962) | minor | The expedition party survived a dangerous thunder and lightning storm. [lightning storm] |