if it ain't broke don't fix it theme
A character learns to avoid attempting to correct, fix, or improve what is already sufficient (often with an implication that the attempted improvement is risky and might backfire).
2 total · 1 choice · 1 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| voy3x18 | choice | The Doctor tried to improve his program with disastrous consequences even though he was already a perfectly good doctor by all accounts save for his own. |
| movie: Soldier (1998) | minor | Captain Church quoted this aphorism in response to Colonel Mekum wanting to replace Church's battle-hardened soldiers with untested, genetically-enhanced supersoldiers. |