space colonization theme
A sentient race spreads its civilization to other worlds.
Examples
The Enterprise found an Earth colony flourishing on Omicron Ceti III in tos1x25 "This Side of Paradise" in spite of lethal levels of berthold radiation on their planet.
63 total · 2 choice · 22 major · 39 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| ent1x06 | choice | Enterprise crew stumbled on a lost Earth colony whose inhabitants had disappeared. we were told the story of Earth's first colony |
| tz1959e4x16 | choice | A rescue flying saucer arrived on planet V9-Gamma to pick up its 180 pioneering inhabitants, who had made a failed attempt to establish a flourishing colony there. |
| movie: Alien: Covenant (2017) | major | The whole premise was to colonize the a distant planet. |
| movie: Avatar (2009) | major | Central to the story was that humans had set up a mining colony on a moon in the Alpha Centauri star system and were going about displacing its native inhabitants. |
| movie: Breach (2020) | major | A main premise of the film is that a group of 300,000 people leave a dying Earth on an interstellar ark in the hopes of colonizing a distant habitable planet called New Earth. |
| movie: Chaos Walking (2021) | major | The story is set in and around an all-male colony on the distant planet New World. |
| movie: Contract (1985) | major | A lone space colonist was sent to a strange planet by a company known as "The Firm". |
| movie: Dark Star (1974) | major | The starship Dark Star crew were on a mission to destroy unstable planets in order to help pave the way for future colonization of other planets. |
| movie: Earth II (1971) | major | The space station Earth II was set up as a colony in Earth orbit. |
| movie: Earth Star Voyager (1988) | major | The story premise is that a crew of mostly teenagers are sent on a 26-year long mission to visit a planet in another star system as a prelude to colonization. |