virgin birth theme
A religious doctrine holding that someone, i.e., Christ, was conceived in the absence of sexual intercourse.
Examples
While it is unlikely that Troi was a virgin at the time, her intercourse-free pregnancy in tng2x01 "The Child" nevertheless fits the bill.
7 total · 2 major · 5 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| movie: Babylon AD (2008) | major | Toorop and Sister Rebeka were floored when Aurora revealed that she was pregnant with twins despite being a virgin. Her virgin pregnancy was subsequently key to the plot. |
| movie: God Told Me To (1976) | major | Peter discovered that he had been born of a virgin. It was also mentioned that Jesus and Moses had been born of virgins. |
| movie: Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) | minor | Anikin was conceived without any male involvement, we heard. Fans suggest that Darth Sidius conceived him through the force somehow but this is left unclear. |
| movie: Village of the Damned (1995) | minor | A virgin gave birth to a stillborn alien baby. |
| novel: Herland (1915) | minor | The genesis of Herland is this: All the men in a certain society perished in a volcanic cataclysm. Being unable to reproduce, the surviving women thought their society was at an end. That is until one special woman gave birth to everyone's astonishment. It was later determined that she had a mutation that enabled her to reproduce asexually. As if this in itself is not enough to justify this theme, let it be known that Ellador was told the story of the Mary's miraculous virgin birth by Van. |
| rd1988e1x01 | minor | The Virgin Birth of Jesus was mocked. |
| tng2x01 | minor | alien entity impregnated Troi |