pleasure in violence theme

The embarrassingly human predilection for battle and bloodshed is featured.

Examples

Data confessed that he had taken pleasure in chocking a Borg drone to death in tng6x26 "Descent, Part I". Captain Kirk took full advantage of the opportunity to beat the living tar out of a robot replica of his former tormenter Finnegan in tos1x17 "Shore Leave".

11 total · 1 choice · 5 major · 5 minor

StoryLevelMotivation
ds92x19 choice The Klingons were notably bloodthirsty and reveled in going on a violent and dangerous quest.
ds91x13 major Kira and Oraka had a long discussion about the violence inside Kira and whether or not she took pleasure in all that she had done.
ds93x06 major The Jem'Hadar orphan's were particularly bloodthirsty because they had literally had this attribute encoded into their genes.
rbt1985e1x04 major The weird old man had been waiting about 20 years for an opportunity for the pleasure of brutally murdering someone and throwing their body in the river.
voy4x10 major Guill and his black market of violent thoughts. This was a guilty pleasure certain individuals indulged in. Some subsequently lost control and became violent for real.
voy6x15 major Spectators, Voyager crew included, took pleasure in watvhing a violent combat sport called Tsunkatse. Seven was worried that she nearly lost her humanity in the ring, when she was overcome with bloodlust.
ahh2x03 minor The handyman Bib confided in a totally creeped out Susan of how he enjoyed killing animals, and was adamant that there was nothing wrong with it. He implied a morbid curiosity in what it would be like to kill a human.
ds93x12 minor Biddle Coleridge was violent, bloodthirsty and sadistic. He wanted to harm hostages for no other reason than to cause them harm.
tng6x26 minor It worried Data that he felt pleasure after killing the Borg on Ohniaka III.
tos1x17 minor Kirk got a thrill out of slugging it out with his former tormenter Finnegan.