one cannot cheat fate theme

The conviction that the future events of one's live are written in the stars, so to speak, and cannot be changed.

8 total · 1 choice · 3 major · 4 minor

Story	Level	Motivation
tz2002e1x22	choice	Gabe found out that his fate was being mediated by a fate bureaucracy which determined what peoples' fates should be, and worked tirelessly to ensure there would be no deviations from them. Gabe successfully arm twisted the bureaucracy into rewriting his fate. The fate bureaucracy was not normally seen by people and was therefore akin to the fates of Greek mythology.
rd1988e8x04	major	Lister and friends debated about whether or not it was possible to change the future. The story concluded with a pointed illustration that the future cannot be changed, when Lister fulfilled the the future event predicting computer Cassandra's prophesy that he would kill her - this happened in spite of his best efforts to avoid doing so.
shortstory: Futility (1929)	major	Tom was resigned to the fact that he was fated to die in an automobile accident on the day of December 10th. Of this he was convinced because his predictograph machine had predicted it. And lo and behold it came to pass.
tz2019e1x03	major	Nina and Dorian always ended up getting confronted by the racist cop no matter what they did to avoid him. The story concluded with Dorian walking out of the house with the possibility that the cop would shoot him dead. It therefore seemed like their fate was to be confronted by the racist cop no matter what they did.
nightgallery2x08a	minor	Holly was convinced it was her fate to kill herself.
rd1988e1x02	minor	Rimmer was adamant that Lister was powerless to prevent his own death as Rimmer had foreseen it.
rd1988e6x06	minor	Future Rimmer insisted that there was noting Lister could do to avoid becoming a disembodied brain in the future.
tng5x26	minor	After having discovered his own severed head, Data considered that he was destined to die and thus reminded Picard that “one cannot cheat fate”.