subversive life form from outer space theme
Aliens, creatures, or some other form of life from outer space, come along and (usually gradually) subvert the civilization on a target planet until the point where it is merely an extension of the invading life form's way of life.
Examples
In tng1x25 "Conspiracy", bug-like aliens from outer space subvert the higher echelons of Starfleet by secretly attaching themselves to the brain stems of its key leaders.
25 total · 9 choice · 16 major
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| ahp5x10 | choice | The grand revelation of the story was evidently that some mushroom-like aliens had seeded Earth with human-co-opting space spores as a prelude to invasion. |
| movie: Body Snatchers (1993) | choice | Spacefaring pod plants hatched a nefarious plot to replace everyone in the world with utterly emotionless replicas. |
| movie: Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) | choice | Alien plant spores have fallen from space grown into large seed pods, each one capable of reproducing a duplicate replacement copy of each human. |
| movie: Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) | choice | Alien plant spores fallen from space grew into large seed pods, each one capable of reproducing a duplicate replacement copy of each human. |
| movie: Seedpeople (1992) | choice | Spacefaring seeds had hitched a ride to the Comet Valley community on a meteor and began to takeover the townspeople. The taken over people acted utterly emotionless thereafter. |
| movie: The Invasion (2007) | choice | An alien virus was turning people into emotionless beings after arriving on Earth on a crashed space shuttle constitutes a main novelty of the film. |
| pkded1x07 | choice | Body snatching aliens were replacing people with physically identical, but oddly behaving duplicates. |
| rbt1985e3x12 | choice | The grand revelation of the story was that some mushroom-like aliens had seeded Earth with human-co-opting space spores as a prelude to invasion. |
| tng1x25 | choice | Federation compromised by bug aliens |
| futurama6x08 | major | Space cats enslaved humanity by means of their cuteness. |