obsession with a life-dedicated project theme
Someone is fixated with a project that they have dedicated their life to, to the extent that they notably neglect other concerns.
Examples
Dr. Richard Daystrom made it his life's work to build a computer so powerful that it could replace Kirk as the captain aboard the Enterprise in tos2x24 "The Ultimate Computer".
27 total · 6 choice · 17 major · 4 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| bbf1x15 | choice | Aldous and Jinxo were obsessed with finding the Holy Grail. |
| ent4x10 | choice | Emory Erickson was obsessed with recovering his lost son Quinn. |
| movie: Frankenstein (2025) | choice | Victor Frankenstein was maniacally fixated on "curing" death through science. Because Victor refused to fall in line by ceasing his research in the reanimation of corpses, he was expelled from the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. |
| tng1x09 | choice | Bok :: Bok with killing Picard |
| tng3x01 | choice | Paul Stubbs :: Stubs |
| tos2x24 | choice | Richard Daystrom :: Daystrom |
| ahp1x29 | major | Laurence was so obsessed with collecting antiques that he murdered one wife, then married and tried to murder another, for money. |
| movie: Silent Running (1972) | major | Freeman Lowell has spent 8 years managing the ecosystem of plants on the ark ship on which he was stationed, but then he was suddenly order to destroy the whole thing and return to Earth. He did not take it well. |
| tas1x07 | major | Stavos Keniclius 5 :: Keniclius |
| tftc1989e6x12 | major | Dr. Orloff was convinced that the soul resided as a tiny gland within the human body. His maniacal dedication to validating his theory led him to serially purloin bodies for dissection. |