sacrifice to prevent mass death theme
A character does a self-sacrificial thing in order to save a large number of people from death.
Examples
In voy5x25 "Warhead" the eponymous warhead (a sentient bomb) decides to detonate to destroy a number of other bombs instead of letting them complete their missing, thereby saving countless innocent lives.
23 total · 4 choice · 6 major · 13 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| bbf1x19 | choice | Draal willingly merged with the planetary-scale machine to prevent the planet it was in from destroying itself and Babylon 5 with it. Delenn explained the important of making a self-sacrifice when she bid farewell to her mentor Draal. |
| bbf3x22 | choice | Sheridan jumped to his death in order to change a disastrous timeline |
| ldr2019e3x02 | choice | Torrin could have taken the easy route by giving into the giant man-eating crab monster's demand to be transported to a nearby populated island, where the crab monster and its brood would presumably feast on the local inhabitants. Instead, Torrin executed a plan, at great personal risk to himself, that culminated with the crab monster and its brood being fricasseed in shark oil. |
| tos1x20 | choice | Lazarus-A :: Lazarus-A |
| as1985e2x05 | major | Earl risked life-and-limb to prevent the vision he had seen in his dreams of a Boeing 787 crashing, coming to pass. |
| shortstory: The Comet Doom (1928) | major | In the end, Coburn and Hanley gave their lives to stop the cyborgs from completing their plan to whisk the Earth away out of the solar system and use it as a source of natural resources. |
| tas1x03 | major | Captain Kirk risked the Enterprise to save the colonists on Mantilles from being killed by a vast, planet-eating space cloud. |
| tz2002e1x35 | major | Dr. Paul Thorson killed everyone involved, and then himself, in order to prevent his "Gemini device" to be completed as he believed it would destroy the world. |
| voy5x25 | major | sentient alien missile blew it self up along with other 32 other sentient missiles to prevent them from hitting their targets |
| voy6x26 | major | Janeway went through hell and high waters to try and save the unimatrix zero Borg drones from being killed |