orbital weapons theme
Weapons are strategically placed in space, in orbit around a planet, from where they can easily be deployed against any desired target.
Examples
The Enterprise visited the 20th century and found that Earth was about to go down the path of self-obliteration by putting nukes in orbit in tos2x26 "Assignment: Earth".
7 total · 6 major · 1 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| movie: Meteor (1979) | major | The Americans and the Soviets both secretly kept nuclear weapons in orbit in direct violation of international treaties. |
| movie: Post Impact (2004) | major | A main novelty of the film was the microwave shooting satellite weapon SolStar-2. Although originally designed to beam down power from orbit, the film built up to a disgruntled military man trying to use it to annihilate Tangier, Morocco. |
| movie: The Return of Godzilla (1984) | major | The Soviets accidentally shot a nuclear warhead from a satellite in orbit around Earth at Tokyo. It was revealed that both the Soviet Union and the United States maintained nuclear warheads stationed in orbit around Earth. |
| movie: The Space Children (1958) | major | A team of government scientists were working on a project to put hydrogen bombs in orbit around the Earth. |
| tos2x26 | major | The USA was putting nuclear weapons in orbit. |
| tz1985e1x17b | major | There were nuclear weapons in orbit around Earth. |
| movie: The Dark Side of the Moon (1990) | minor | The crew of the maintenance ship SPACECORE 1 ran into trouble while on a mission to repair nuclear-armed satellites orbiting high above the Earth. |