primitive point of view theme
We are shown what things might be like from the point of view of a person that comes from a technologically less advanced culture than the one depicted in the story.
22 total · 2 choice · 10 major · 10 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| tng7x16 | choice | Barkonian :: Barkonians were in the middle ages |
| tos3x03 | choice | Natives of Amerind :: Amerinds |
| movie: Hard to Be a God (1989) | major | Anton, a human from the future planet Earth, witnessed numerous acts of superstition and barbarism while working as an undercover observer on planet full of people in a medieval stage of development. |
| movie: Iceman (1984) | major | The prehistoric man was often bewildered by his modern surroundings. He additionally assumed that a helicopter was a trickster god from his mythology. |
| movie: On the Silver Globe (1988) | major | Two astronauts founded a new society on an unnamed Earth-like planet, but they became as Stone Age people after a generation or two. |
| movie: Unidentified Flying Oddball (1979) | major | The story parodied the superstitious medieval people of Camelot who, among other things, mistook a spacesuit bedecked Tom for a monster of some sort. |
| shortstory: Through the Crater's Rim (1926) | major | We saw a 1920s era depiction of what an uncontacted people living in the Central American jungle might be like. For example, the hidden city dwellers were very curious about Hazen's apparent ability to breathe fire, which was noting more than him smoking his pipe. |
| tng3x04 | major | Mintakan :: Mintakans aboard Enterprise |
| tng7x13 | major | Boraalan :: Boraalans |
| voy3x01 | major | primitive aliens perplexed |