vivisection theme
It is discussed whether dissecting a living creature for the sake of advancing medical knowledge is justified.
Examples
Extradimensional aliens abducted Riker and severed his arm in tng6x05 "Schisms".
9 total · 1 major · 8 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| novel: The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896) | major | The reader is made to ponder the morality of performing torturous experiments on animals in the name of scientific advancement. |
| ahp7x39 | minor | In his sketch, Alfred Hitchcock had to settle for making divinations based on goat X-rays because of anti-vivisectionist efforts to prevent him from doing it by eviscerating goats like the Romans of old. |
| ent4x18 | minor | Phlox was dissecting living animals in sickbay. |
| movie: Annihilator (1986) | minor | Angela wrote an editorial arguing that more experiments ought to be performed on live animals. |
| movie: Hollow Man (2000) | minor | Dr. Sarah Kennedy called Sebastian an "unethical bastard" for his planning to vivisect a gorilla. |
| movie: Island of Lost Souls (1932) | minor | Edward Parker was horrified at the thought that Dr. Moreau was engaging in sadistic vivisections of animals. |
| movie: The Kindred (1987) | minor | We saw Dr. Lloyd hard at work surgically probing a shrieking cat. |
| tng6x05 | minor | Riker had his arm severed and reattached in course of bizarre alien experiment |
| voy5x08 | minor | Moset callously vivisected a holographic alien |