the desire to have children theme
That humans typically need to reproduce and sire offspring in order to feel self-fulfilled is illustrated.
43 total · 1 choice · 15 major · 27 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| voy2x04 | choice | Kes felt pressure to procreate because her fertility window was closing. |
| ldr2019e2x03 | major | Draconian punishments did not stop some people from wanting to have children. |
| movie: Demon Seed (1977) | major | Proteus IV explained that it wanted a child so that it too "could be immortal like any man". |
| movie: Idaho Transfer (1973) | major | Karen went on and on about her desire to have lots of kids to repopulate the world. She was devastated when the others told her sterility is a side effect of time travel. |
| movie: Immortal (2004) | major | The god/alien Horus longed to procreate with a human female. |
| movie: Robot Stories (2003): My Robot Baby | major | Marcia and Ray were looking forward to adopting a child. |
| movie: Species (1995) | major | Sil was driven by an instinct to procreate her kind my mating with a peak physical human male specimen. |
| movie: The Handmaids Tale (1990) | major | Serena Joy, who counted herself among the 99% of females who were infertile, wanted very much to have a child, and permitted her husband to impregnate a concubine to get one. |
| movie: ZPG (1972) | major | Carol McNeil desperately wanted to have a baby, but procreation had been banned for the next 22 years in an effort to control the population. |
| rbt1985e3x10 | major | Willie used his perpetual boyish charm to ingratiate himself with elderly ladies and childless couples, sometimes bereaved, who yearned to have children of their own. |