super intelligence theme
A character is "smart" far beyond what any person is or has ever been. I.e., they have enhanced mental faculties.
Notes
Different stories can present quite different ideas of enhanced mental faculties. A character may become able to crunch logic and numbers like a computer. A character may become knowledgeable of arcane facts like an encyclopedia. A character may simply be able to out-think other characters, to an extreme extent.
Examples
Barclay became so smart in tng4x19 "The Nth Degree" that he was able to teach holo-Einstein a thing or two about general relativity.
11 total · 1 choice · 5 major · 5 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| tng4x19 | choice | Barclay acquired super genius level intelligence in the wake of the Enterprise encountering an alien probe. |
| as1985e1x23 | major | Fred inexplicably found himself to be a master of both mathematics and physics. Also French, though that is neither here nor there. It is unclear how well he understood the things his mind recalled, seemingly at random, but from some angle of seeing things he might have been called extraordinarily intelligent. |
| futurama6x25 | major | Bender became super smart after Cubert upgraded him to have more computing power. |
| movie: The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes (1969) | major | An accident with a mainframe computer left Dexter Riley with a computer-like mind. |
| movie: The Lawnmower Man (1992) | major | The intellectually disabled greenskeeper Jobe has his intelligence boosted to superhuman levels. |
| rd1988e4x04 | major | Holly became super intelligent because of an accident, but at the cost of an exponentially reduced life span. |
| futurama3x02 | minor | The parasites made Fry smart. |
| movie: Lucy (2014) | minor | Lucy acquired this ability in spades after an experimental, illicit drug got into her bloodstream. She learned Chinese in an hour, how to drive in an instant, became an expert in neuroscience in a single night, etc. |
| movie: The Power (1968) | minor | Both Jim Tanner and Adam Hart possessed a super-intellect beyond human measurement. |
| tos1x01 | minor | We saw Gary assimilating knowledge at a superhuman rate. |