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        {
            "name": "a common enemy unites",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The tendency humans have of putting differences aside and collaborating when a common enemy appears is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human idea about life"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "a common interest unites",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The tendency humans have of putting differences aside and collaborating when something of mutual interest appears is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human idea about life"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "a danger shared can bring people together",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "It is observed how a shared danger to a group of people can work to forge unity and cooperation within that group.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "humans in group",
                "human idea about life"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-the-stress-of-disaster-brings-people-together/"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "By facing a ferocious electromagnetic beast together, Captain Picard and the Tamarian Captain Dathon finally figured out how to communicate in tng5x02 \"Darmok\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "a leopard can't change its spots",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "That it is often hard, or impossible, for humans to change such habits as are long ingrained or inborn, is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human idea about life"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/a_leopard_cannot_change_its_spots"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "a person and their clone",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The relationship between a person and a clone of the same person is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "humans in pairs"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Riker learned first hand that he was not wholly easy to get along with in tng6x24 \"Second Chances\" when he came across his own exact duplicate."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "a person's true character is revealed in a time of crisis",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The idea is explicitly voiced or pointedly illustrated, that it is in moments of extreme pressure we learn what people are really made of.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human idea about life"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In tz1959e3x03 \"The Shelter\", we saw how a previously friendly group of neighborhood friends and families turned on each other and behaved  with selfishness and spite when they thought a nuclear apocalypse was impending."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "abandoning someone to save one's self",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character contemplates leaving someone they care about in a tight spot to save their own skin.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "personal ethical dilemma"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "abandonment",
            "aliases": [
                "coping with being abandoned"
            ],
            "description": "A character, typically a child, who has been dependent on another character, typically a parent, for guidance and/or sustenance must come to terms with the situation when that aid is suddenly and deliberately withdrawn.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "coping with life issues"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abandonment_(emotional)",
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_abandonment"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "A mother drove her android boy to the forest and abandoned him there in \"A.I. Artificial Intelligence\" (2001)."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "ability to communicate with animals",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is able to communicate with animals in a way that resembles and is comparable to how we humans communicate with each other.",
            "notes": [
                "This theme almost certainly requires the likely fallacious assumption that some animals have the cognitive ability to process the ideas humans express."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative communication"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "ability to communicate with plants",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is able to communicate with plants (for this purpose including fungi and other non-animal eukaryota should it ever become topical) in a way that resembles and is comparable to how we humans communicate with each other.",
            "notes": [
                "This theme almost certainly requires the likely fallacious assumption that some plants have the cognitive ability to process the ideas humans express."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative communication"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In talesoftheunexpected4x07 \"The Sound Machine\", botanist Klausner invented a machine that translates the high frequency waves plants (supposedly) make into human audible sound, and found that they scream in recognizable anguish when assaulted."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "ability to see through solid objects",
            "aliases": [
                "X-ray vision"
            ],
            "description": "A character is able to see right through physical objects at their discretion.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculatively magnified ordinary personal ability"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-ray_vision"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Superman uses his X-ray vision to check Lois Lane's lungs for signs of cancer in the eponymously named film \"Superman\" (1978)."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "abortion",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are asked to what extent, i.e., at what time in the gestation process and by what manner, if any, abortion should be permitted.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "sexual norms in society"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Troi was quite taken aback when Worf indelicately suggested that she should terminate her pregnancy in tng2x01 \"The Child\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "absentee father",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A father is away from their child for an extended period of time such that the child's development is adversely affected, perhaps because of a remote work assignment.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human parenting"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Father_absence"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "absolute monarchy",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Featured is the workings and idiosyncrasies of a state apparatus that is by law and tradition ruled by a sovereign king, queen, or person of comparable title. The monarch's authority is largely unconstrained by law.",
            "notes": [
                "Monarchies are said to fall on a sliding scale from \"constitutional\" to \"absolute\". This theme is meant to encompass monarchies that are clearly not constitutional, even when they are not technically absolute."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "form of government"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "abuse of authority",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Vested authority is used by someone to illegitimately pursuit their own private goals.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "political issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abuse_of_authority"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "abuse of real power",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone has actual power over others, e.g. by muscle, weaponry or magic powers, and use these in a morally contentious way.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "political issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abuse_of_power"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "academic occupation",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character working in an academic institution is engaged in their chosen profession.",
            "notes": [
                "This includes studies at the higher levels of learning, e.g. doctoral students, as as such is generally considered to be training for an academic career."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human regular activity"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "accelerated growth rate therapy",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Technology, for example genetic engineering, is employed to make a person grow and develop faster than normal human development.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human enhancement technology"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "accepting reliance on others",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character has to come to terms with the fact that they are not entirely self-reliant but do in fact rely on friends and colleagues for practical and emotional support.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human self improvement"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "accidental alien destruction of planetary civilization",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A planetary civilization collapses as a result of some unintended consequence of another civilization's activity.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "threat from extraterrestrial life"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "An errand, radioactive space garbage scow orbited the planet Gamelan V in tng4x09 \"Final Mission\" and subjected the inhabitants to critical levels of radiation."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "acting",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character reflects on how to play a role in theatre, film, etc.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "the fine arts and the humanities"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acting"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Data played Henry V in Shakespeare's play of the same name on the holodeck in tng3x10 \"The Defector\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "actions have consequences",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone is, more or less explicitly, told that they should consider their actions carefully because actions have consequences.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human idea about life"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Moses in \"Attack the Block\" (2011) learned this in various ways."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "acupuncture",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A form of alternative medicine in which thin needles are inserted into the body.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "medicine"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acupuncture"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "acute anxiety",
            "aliases": [
                "anxiety"
            ],
            "description": "A character exhibits general nervousness, fear, and paranoia.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human mental condition"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_attack"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In ent3x16 \"Doctor's Orders\", due to a trans-dimensional disturbance Doctor Phlox becomes paranoid and suffers from various delusions and hallucinations, while the remaining Enterprise crew lies in hibernation."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "Adam and Eve creation myth",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Feature is one variation or another of the story from Abrahemic religions regarding the first man and woman, known as Adam and Eve in English.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "organized religion"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_and_Eve"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "adapting to life in a foreign culture",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone experiences what it is like to live in a culture very different from their own for an extended period of time.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "foreign point of view"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "addiction to sensation",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone is addicted to a sensation such as pain or fear to the extent that they suffer withdrawal symptoms if they do not experience said sensations.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human addiction"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "adolescence",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Problems associated with people during the period from puberty to legal adulthood.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human childhood"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolescence"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "adoption of a child",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The relationship between a parent and their adopted child is featured significantly.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human parenting"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adoption"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Worf ritually adopted Jeremy Aster into the House of Mogh after the boy's mother died in the line of duty in tng3x05 \"The Bonding\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "advertising in society",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are made to ponder the place of advertisements in society and whether they are sometimes too intrusive and ubiquitous.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "socioeconomic issue"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "aerial bombing of cities",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The military strategy of bombing cities which first became widespread in World War I is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "war"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerial_bombing_of_cities"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "aesthetics",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Aesthetics is the branch of philosophy dealing with the nature of art, beauty, taste, as well as with the creation and appreciation of beauty. The theme is used whenever an aspect of this branch of philosophy is featured in the story.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "philosophy"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aesthetics"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "agent and client",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Featured is the relationship between a client, and someone the client has enlisted to act as their agent, more or less formally on an extended basis. Notably, this type of relationship is found in the entertainment industry, for example, when an actor hires a personal talent agent to find them jobs.",
            "notes": [
                "This theme is used only if the expressions of the relationship go beyond what is required and expected in such a business arrangement. I.e., it is used if some familiarity and intimacy is noted, but not if the interaction is merely formal and transactional."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "humans in pairs"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_agency"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "agility vs. strength",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "An quick and spry person is pitched against a physically powerful opponent in a fight and we wonder which of these qualities is more important for victory.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "the art of war"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Captain Kirk was pitted in an epic battle of agility and brains vs. strength against a Gorn captain in tos1x19 \"The Arena\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "agoraphobia",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "An anxiety disorder characterized by symptoms of anxiety in situations where a person perceives their environment to be unsafe with no easy way to escape, is featured. Such situations can include open spaces, public transit, shopping centers, or simply being outside one's home.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human phobia"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agoraphobia"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "AI assistant",
            "aliases": [
                "virtual assistant"
            ],
            "description": "There is an artificial intelligence that acts as a personal assistant to a real person.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "artificial intelligence"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_assistant"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "AI companion",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is an artifact imbued with artificial intelligence, to some extent, that serves as a friend and companion to some human character, perhaps in lieu of flesh-and-blood friends.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "artificial intelligence"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_human_companion"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "AI point of view",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are shown what things might be like from the point of view of a sentient machine.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "alien point of view"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "AI prejudice in society",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The issue of a large portion of society having a prejudice against artificial intelligences (or their forerunners) is discussed.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "prejudice in society"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "AI rights",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are made to ponder what intrinsic rights we feel should belong to any human-like sentient being that happens to be artificially constructed.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human rights issue"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Data was granted parental rights over his android creation Lal when Admiral Haftel attempted to separate the father and daughter in tng3x16 \"The Offspring\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "AI risk to civilization",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Artificial intelligence becomes the dominant form of intelligence on a world, with computers or robots effectively taking control of the world away from its native inhabitants.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "technological risk to civilization",
                "out of control AI"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_takeover"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "AI safeguards",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Ways in which AI can be made safe from becoming kill-all-human machines are discussed. Isaac Asimov's three laws of robotics is a popular example.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "artificial intelligence"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "aircraft hijacking",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "One or more people unlawfully seize control of an aircraft, typically for the purpose of extortion or terrorism.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "crime against property",
                "violent crime"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft_hijacking"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In talesoftheunexpected4x17 \"Hijack\", a lone aircraft passenger barricades himself mid-flight with a stewardess in the lavatory and threatens to set off an explosive unless he gets a million dollars and leave to parachute to safety at a suitable location."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "alchemy",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Alchemy was an ancient branch of natural philosophy with the aim of purifying or perfecting various materials. In particular, the transmutation of base metals into gold is a hallmark of alchemist endeavors.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "superseded scientific theory"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alchemy"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "alcohol abuse",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character imbues alcohol to such an extent and frequency that it becomes a problem for them and others.",
            "notes": [
                "This theme is not applied just because a character on screen is seen to have a drink or two, unless the drinking is commented on or it is somehow obvious that it causes a problem."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "drug abuse"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcoholism"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "alcohol in society",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Prohibition, or some other societal reaction to the pervasive use of alcohol, is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "public health issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prohibition_in_the_United_States"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "alien abduction",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The abduction of someone against their will by space aliens.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "crackpot theory"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_abduction"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Captain Picard was abducted from the Enterprise-D by a pair of unnamed aliens and replaced with a replica in tng3x18 \"Allegiance\".",
                "Aliens abducted Fry and took his nose in futurama4x17 \"Spanish Fry\".",
                "In the widely lampooned film \"Santa Clause Conquers the Martians\" (1964), mean-spirited Martians abducted Santa Clause at ray-gun point and hightailed it home, not knowing that the jolly old man would bring the spirit of Christmas to the Red Planet. Thus featuring the crackpot theory theme \"alien abduction\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "alien brought pandemic",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Aliens from outer space bring with then an infectious disease that threatens life on your planet.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "threat from extraterrestrial life"
            ],
            "references": [
                "http://bigthink.com/paul-ratner/could-alien-diseases-wipe-out-humanity"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "The plant-like Phylosians were brought to the brink of extinction by an alien brought pandemic in tas1x07 \"The Infinite Vulcan\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "alien experiment",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The performing of experiments on human subjects by aliens.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "crackpot theory"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Riker was abducted by subspace aliens and used as the subject in a bizarre series experiments in tng6x05 \"Schisms\". In one such experiment, the aliens amputated Riker's arm and then had it surgically reattached."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "alien impregnation of human females",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The impregnation of a woman by an alien, typically without her consent and sometimes without her knowledge.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "crackpot theory"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_abduction"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Troi was impregnated by an incorporeal entity that sought to experience the world as a humanoid in tng2x01 \"The Child\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "alien living secretly among us",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "An extraterrestrial being covertly lives as an impostor amongst normal people in a community",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "impostor living secretly among us"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Commander Riker is sent to live secretly among the Malcorians in preparation for a possible first contact scenario in tng4x15 \"First Contact\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "alien origin of a superstition",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A popular superstition is explained as having originated because of the activities of extraterrestrials.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "alien origin of an aspect of human civilization"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In tng7x14 \"Sub Rosa\" we are given to understand that the incorporeal alien known as Ronin had once lived on Earth and been mistaken there for a ghost, thus causing a proliferation of ghost stories."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "alien origin of a technology",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The idea that an everyday technology we take for granted is of extraterrestrial origin is featured. This typically occurs when an alien technology is discovered and reverse-engineered by humans.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "alien origin of an aspect of human civilization"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In \"Transformers\" (2007), it was revealed that the microchip, among other things, was invented by studying the design of a Transformer that was discovered frozen in the Arctic by 19th century explorers."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "alien origin of an aspect of human civilization",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A technology, religious claim, superstition, or something else of note in human civilization, possibly civilization itself, is postulated to have come about as the result of the activities of extraterrestrial beings.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "crackpot theory"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "alien origin of religious claims",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The theory that aliens were behind some aspect of religions on Earth is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "alien origin of an aspect of human civilization"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In bbf2x22 \"The Fall of Night\" it is revealed that the Vorlon appear to us as angels and that they were present on Earth a long time ago."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "alien origin of the human race",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The crackpot notion that aliens came to Earth and created the human race.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "alien origin of an aspect of human civilization"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "The renown Federation archaeologist Richard Galen was hot on the trail of an extinct race of primordial humanoids in tng6x20 \"The Chase\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "alien overseers",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is an advanced race of beings that for one reason or another have chosen to become the guardians of a less advanced race.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "extraterrestrial being"
            ],
            "references": [
                "http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/secret_masters"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "alien point of view",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone struggles to understand someone else because they  are physiologically different kinds of beings.",
            "notes": [
                "There are a lot of stories that feature beings that are said to be alien, or otherwise non-human, but that for all intents and purposes act just like humans. This theme should only be applied if a point is  being made about a physiological difference. The motivation should indicate what it was."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "cross cultural issue"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "aliens eating people",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Featured is the idea that extraterrestrials may visit Earth with the purpose of devouring people as a gourmet delicacy.",
            "notes": [
                "This does not apply when the visitors are animal-like and driven mostly by instinct."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "crackpot theory"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In tz2019e2x10 \"You Might Also Like\", the Kanamits came back to Earth to turn it into a hatchery with lots of delicious humans at hand as snacks for the newborn alien babes."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "aliens inspiring great people",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The notion that aliens influenced historically significant thinkers and artists to come up with their famous ideas, is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "crackpot theory"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "aliens meddling in ancient history",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The theory that intelligent extraterrestrial beings visited humans in antiquity or prehistoric times is featured. In the version of this theory popularized by Erich von Däniken, the technologies and religions of our ancient civilizations were given to them by aliens whom they welcomed as gods.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "crackpot theory"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_astronauts"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Ensign Dawson Walking Bear recognized a winged, serpentine alien as the Mayan god Kulkulkan in tas2x05 \"How Sharper Than a Serpant's Tooth\". Walking Bear recounted how Kulkulkan gave the Mayans an accurate calendar and instructed them in the science of city building."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "aliens meddling in history",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The idea that aliens have been directly and deliberately involved in setting the course of human history here on Earth is featured. It may, for example, be suggested that the outcome of some pivotal event, say Germany's defeat in WW2, was orchestrated by extraterrestrials.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "crackpot theory",
                "people meddling in history"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_astronauts"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "aliens talking to us in our dreams",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The crackpot notion aliens communicate with people in their dreams.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "crackpot theory"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Troi was contacted in her dreams by telepathic aliens trapped in Tykan's Rift in tng4x17 \"Night Terrors\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "alternate history",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A hypothetical society that exists as a result of historical events having occurred differently, is explored.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative society"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternate_history",
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_alternate_history_fiction",
                "http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/alternate_history"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "alternate points of view",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are shown how something in particular may appear quite different from the respective perspectives of two different people.",
            "notes": [
                "This theme is typically used when the story switches between two character's perspectives. Other \"point of view\" themes often feature an unusual perspective which is implicitly compared with the viewers assumed normal perspective."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "humans in group"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "alternative medicine",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Alternative medicine or fringe medicine are practices claimed to have the healing effects of medicine but which are disproven, unproven, impossible to prove, or are excessively harmful in relation to their effect.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "superseded scientific theory"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_medicine"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "The Kahn-ut-to woman Nona cured Captain Kirk of the poisonous effects of a Mugato bite by rubbing a mahko root over his chest in tos2x16 \"A Private Little War\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "amateur radio",
            "aliases": [
                "passion for ham radio"
            ],
            "description": "A character is enthusiastic about the use of radio frequency spectrum transmission for non-commercial purposes.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "recreational activity"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amateur_radio"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Neighbors Bromley Cranston and Howard Marsden shared an interest in amateur radio in \"Radio Mates\" (1927)."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "amazement at a new technology",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is astonished by the effects of a technology that is new, or at least unfamiliar, to them.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "awe"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "American Civil War",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Featured is the civil war that was fought in the United States from 1861 to 1865.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "historical event",
                "civil war"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "American football",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "This team sport, played by two teams on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end, is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "sports"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_football"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "amphibian-like being",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a being patterned after amphibians.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "animal and plant patterned being"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "anarchy",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is lawless anarchy due to the absence of a functioning government.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "form of government"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchy"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "anarchy vs. rule of law",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "An anarchist philosophy of life is contrasted with a philosophy of life that emphasizes law and order. Anarchist usually means a distaste or disregard for rules.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "contraposed political ideologies"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "ancient alien archive",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a cache of ancient alien knowledge, be it in the form of books, digital records, or some other form of storage.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "crackpot theory"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "A well-known archaeologist discovered a 3D illustrated encyclopedia set inside an abandoned Martian rocketship in \"The Retreat to Mars\" (1926)."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "Ancient Aztec mythology",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Narratives of creation, gods, demigods, spirits etc. that are fundamental to the Mesoamerican culture that flourished in central Mexico in the post-classic period from around 1300 to 1521 are featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "organized religion"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aztec_religion"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Popoca the Aztec Mummy nearly succeeded in sacrificing a mad scientist's wife to its gods in \"The Robot vs. The Aztec Mummy\" (1958)."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "Ancient Egyptian mythology",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Narratives of creation, gods, demigods, spirits etc. that are fundamental to pre-Christian Egyptian culture (that is, until ca. 380 AD when Christianity became the official faith of the Roman Empire) are featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "organized religion"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_mythology"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Though not known to be connected, the culture and mythology of the D'Arsay was reminiscent of Ancient Egypt in tng7x17 \"Masks\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "Ancient Greek mythology",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Narratives of creation, gods, demigods, spirits etc. that are fundamental to ancient Greek society are featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "organized religion"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_mythology"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "The Greek god Apollo appears in tos2x04 \"Who Mourns for Adonais?\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "Ancient Mayan mythology",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Narratives of creation, gods, demigods, spirits etc. that are fundamental to the classical or post-classic Mayan civilization (c. 250-1539 AD) are featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "organized religion"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_mythology"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "The Mayan god Kulkulkan appears in tas2x05 \"How Sharper Than a Serpent's Tooth\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "Ancient Mesopotamian mythology",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Narratives of creation, gods, demigods, spirits etc. that are fundamental to to the ancient societies of Sumer, Akkad, and Assyria (c. 3000 BC-400 AD) are featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "organized religion"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumerian_religion",
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesopotamian_myths"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "A race of Sumerian albinos living deep under the Earth were depicted worshiping the god Ishtar in \"The Mole People\" (1956)."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "Ancient Norse mythology",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Narratives of creation, gods, demigods, spirits etc. that are fundamental to Norse paganism are featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "organized religion"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norse_mythology",
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Norse_religion"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Donald Blake could summon the Norse god Thor at will by using a magical hammer in \"The Incredible Hulk Returns\" (1988)."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "ancient puzzle",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "An ancient civilization has constructed an large, ingenious, and elaborate puzzle that has lasted for thousands of years. Typically, this is featured when we see complicated machinery protecting an ancient tomb.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "crackpot theory"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_relationship"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "Ancient Roman mythology",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Narratives of creation, gods, demigods, spirits etc. that are fundamental to ancient Roman society are featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "organized religion"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_mythology"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Unsurprisingly in light of Hodkin's Law of Parallel Planetary Development, these gods were also worshiped by the Space Romans of planet 892-IV in tos2x14 \"Bread and Circuses\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "android",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A robot designed to look and act like a human.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "artificial being",
                "humanoid robot"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_(robot)",
                "http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/androids"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "android clone of a person",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is an android (a robot designed to look and act like a human) which is physically and mentally a copy (to some extent) of a real person.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "artificial intelligence",
                "android",
                "duplicate of a person"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "angel",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is an agent of a god that looks like a winged human being.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "legendary being"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Barbarella bedded a blind angel who had lost his ability to fly in \"Barbarella\" (1968)."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "anger",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character exhibits displeasure or vexation to a point that rises above mere \"annoyance\", but is not quite so intense that they fall into a \"rage\", loose control of themself, and start smashing glass tables.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human emotion"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anger",
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contrasting_and_categorization_of_emotions#Plutchik.27s_wheel_of_emotions"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Leah Brahms was aghast to find that Geordi had simulated her on the holodeck in tng4x16 \"Galaxy's Child\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "anger management issues",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character struggles consciously to handle their inner anger.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human mental condition",
                "anger"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anger_management"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "animal and plant patterned being",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a being inspired by Earth animal and plant wildlife. These include cat-like being, dog-like beings, fish-like beings and other mind-boggling hybrids of humans with well known Earth wildlife.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "biologically distinguished being"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "animal behavior",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Ethology is the scientific and objective study of animal behavior, usually with a focus on behavior under natural conditions, and viewing behavior as an evolutionarily adaptive trait.",
            "notes": [
                "This theme is used in, for example, nature documentaries that explain how various animals act and why."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "zoology"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethology"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "animal cruelty",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The infliction by omission (animal neglect) or by commission by humans of suffering or harm upon any non-human animal is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human rights issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cruelty_to_animals"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "animal point of view",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are shown what things might be like from the point of view of an animal.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "alien point of view"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "animal rights",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are made to ponder what rights, if any, various animals should have vis-à- vis human society.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human rights issue"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "animal sacrifice",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The ritual killing and offering of an animal usually as part of a religious ritual or to appease or maintain favor with a deity is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "organized religion"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_sacrifice"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "animal testing",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The controversy surrounding the use of non-human animals in experiments is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human rights issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_testing"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "ankle bracelet",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A device used to control prisoners.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative wearable device",
                "once speculative device"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ankle_monitor"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "annihilation by a device that stops fusion in a star",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A single device capable of stopping the fusion process in a star is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "annihilation by WMDs"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_device"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Captain Picard destroyed the Tox Uthat, a devise capable of stopping nuclear fusion in a star, rather than risk letting it fall into the hands of the Vorgons in tng3x19 \"Captain's Holiday\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "annihilation by a planet busting device",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A device capable of utterly destroying a planet (or worse) is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "annihilation by WMDs"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_device"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "annihilation by WMDs",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "People employ weapons of mass destruction, a.k.a. WMDs, and threaten planetary civilization.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "institutional risk to civilization"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weapon_of_mass_destruction",
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_catastrophic_risk"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "anthropogenic existential risk to civilization",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a way in which life on Earth (or some inhabited planet) could end as a consequence of what the inhabitants on the planet choose to do. When will the self-replicating, self-aware killer robots be unleashed?",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "existential risk to civilization"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_catastrophic_risk"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "anthropomorphic object come to life",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a doll, puppet, mannequin, or suchlike human-shaped object that is ordinarily inanimate but now moves and acts on its own accord like a sentient human being.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "inanimate object come to life"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In tz1985e2x04a \"The After Hours\", we saw how a woman named Marsha discovered that she was, in fact, a store mannequin that had been granted the opportunity to experience real life for a short while, but must now revert to her former inanimate state."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "anti-aging technology",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Technology that undoes aging and takes years of your face!",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "life extension technology"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_extension"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "anti-gravity",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is an effect that causes a place or object to be free from the forces of gravity to some extent.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative effect"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-gravity",
                "http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/antigravity"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "anti-gravity technology",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A device that creates a place or object that is free from the force of gravity.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "gravity manipulating technology",
                "anti-gravity"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-gravity",
                "http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/antigravity"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "anti-intellectualism in society",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The ramifications of hostility to and mistrust of intellectuals in society are explored.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "hatred of exceptional people"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-intellectualism"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Daystrom was harassed by philistines like Captain Kirk who didn't understand is his great achievements in duotronic computing in tos2x24 \"The Ultimate Computer\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "anti-technology way of life",
            "aliases": [
                "luddism"
            ],
            "description": "Someone holds the belief that life is better without machines and that mechanization (relative to some intuitive reference point) is altogether undesirable.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human sentiment"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-Luddism"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "anti-war activism",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A group of people organizes in opposition to a government's decision to begin or carry on an armed conflict.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "political issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-war_movement"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "antigovernment militia movement",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A militant rebel movement that strives to overthrow the sitting government is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "military issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Militia_organizations_in_the_United_States"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "antimatter",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Antimatter is a form of matter composed of particles with the same mass, but opposite quantum properties (e.g. charge) to those of corresponding particles of ordinary matter. This theme is used whenever a property of antimatter is explicitly touched on in the story.",
            "notes": [
                "The typical use case occurs when somebody explains that matter and antimatter go boom when brought into contact. In more scientifically accurate treatments of the subject, however, we may learn that a collision between a particle and its anti-particle partner leads to their mutual annihilation, giving rise to a release of energy in the form of radiation."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "physics"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimatter"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "The danger of trying to mix matter with antimatter was explained in tos1x20 \"The Alternative Factor\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "antimatter power",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The harnessing of matter-antimatter annihilations as a source of power for technology is explored. This theme does not apply when energy from matter- antimatter annihilations is released in a huge explosion.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative energy generation technology"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimatter"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In \"Alita: Battle Angel\" (2019), the cyborg Alita was kept alive by means of an antimatter powered heart."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "antiscience in society",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The opposition between adherents of a scientific way of thinking with people who feel threatened by it is discussed.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "sociocultural issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiscience"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "antisemitism in society",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is notable prejudice against Jewish people.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "racism in society"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitism"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "ape-like being",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A being patterned after apes.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "animal and plant patterned being"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mammalian_alien_species#Simians"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "The Taurus II Anthropoids of tos1x13 \"The Galileo Seven\" were a giant ape-like species that menaced the shuttlecraft Galileo crew."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "apostacy",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The crime of abandoning a state mandated religion, or challenging such a religion's beliefs, is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "crime against the public"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heresy",
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostasy"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "apotheosis",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A mortal character is transformed into a being of godlike stature.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "what if I underwent a physical metamorphosis"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apotheosis"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "appearance altering technology",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is technology by which someone can be physically altered to look notably different. Typically this means that the shape of their face is changed. Application of makeup does not count.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human enhancement technology"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "appearances can be deceiving",
            "aliases": [
                "don't judge a book by its cover"
            ],
            "description": "We are shown that people may not always be quite what they appear to be.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human idea about life"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/looks%20can%20be%20deceiving/deceptive",
                "https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/appearances+can+be+deceiving",
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_judge_a_book_by_its_cover"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "appeasement policy",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Diplomats from one faction make political or material concessions to an aggressive other faction in order to avoid conflict.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "international issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeasement"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "approaching astronomical object event",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A planet has a potentially world ending encounter with a passing celestial body, like a large asteroid.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "force of nature existential risk to civilization"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "aquatic ability",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character has fish-like underwater abilities beyond what is possible for any ordinary person today. They may, for example, be able to swim as fast as a shark, or stay under water indefinitely.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative personal locomotion"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Captain Kirk and Spock became water breathers and froliced like fish in the oceans of the planet Argo in tas1x13 \"The Ambergris Element\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "arachnophobia",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone exhibits a fear of spiders.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human phobia"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apprehension"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Miles O'Brien confided in Barclay that he overcame arachnophobia by crawling into a Jefferies tube filled with twenty Talarian hook spiders in tng6x02 \"Realm of Fear\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "archaeological looting",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone illicitly removes artifacts from an archaeological site, or the like. The robbing of ancient graves is a specific example of such looting.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "theft"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaeological_looting"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "archaeology",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The scientific study of human activity through excavation of old sites, analysis of artefacts, etc.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "science"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaeology"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "archaeology occupation",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "An archaeologist is engaged in their chosen occupation.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "academic occupation",
                "archaeology"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaeology"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Captain Picard's much anticipated lecture on archaeological ruins of Tagus III was rudely cut short by Q in tng4x20 \"Qpid\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "architect occupation",
            "aliases": [
                "architecture"
            ],
            "description": "A character is engaged in the planning, design, and supervision of the construction of buildings.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "art related occupation"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architect",
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architecture"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "are humans more than machines",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Discussed is whether and to what extent humans are nothing more than sophisticated mechanical contraptions of some sort or another.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "metaphysics"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "are we alone in the universe",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The question of whether or not there may be other intelligent lifeforms somewhere in the Universe, is discussed.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "metaphysics"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "aristocracy vs. bourgeoisie",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The question of whether the noble classes or the merchant classes should have more power in society is discussed.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "contraposed political ideologies"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristocracy",
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bourgeoisie"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "arms race",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Two rival factions each strive to improve to their arsenal of weaponry in order to outdo the other and gain an upper hand in the event of a war.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "international issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arms_race"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "arms trade",
            "aliases": [
                "arms industry"
            ],
            "description": "One faction sells weapons to another faction. To what extent is the seller responsible for the actions carried out with such weapons?",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "international issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arms_industry"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "arranged marriage",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are asked to what extent, if any, people should be free to marry whom they choose, or whether parents and other interested parties should have a say.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "sociocultural issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arranged_marriage"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Spock urgently returned to Vulcan for the expressed purpose of wedding, and subsequently copulating with, his arranged bride T'Pring in tos2x05 \"Amok Time\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "arson",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The crime of willfully and maliciously setting fire to property is featured. For example, burning down a house or starting a forest fire may count as arson.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "crime against property"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arson"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "art discussion",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Two characters critically discuss a piece of art.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "art related activity"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_criticism"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Data found evidence of \"unsettling overtones of proto-Vulcan influences\" in Picard's painting of a nude model in tng3x14 \"A Matter of Perspective\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "art forgery",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The crime of creating and peddling falsely accredited artwork is featured. For example, a skilled painter may copy an old masterpiece, take pains to make it look aged, and then sell it under the pretense that it is the original.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "criminal fraud"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_forgery"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "art related activity",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is an activity which centers around art objects but which is not itself about the creation of art.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "the fine arts and the humanities"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "art related occupation",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character involved with the production of art is engaged in their chosen occupation.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human occupational activity"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "artificial being",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a being that was produced using technology as opposed to the old fashioned way.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative being"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "artificial body part",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone has a mechanical or otherwise manufactured prosthetic device in place of a flesh and blood organ, limb or extremity.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human enhancement technology"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In tz1985e3x30 \"Father and Son Game\", an old and dying man had the contents of his flesh and blood brain copied into an electronic brain that was implanted into the body of a younger man."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "artificial gravity technology",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Technology that can be used to create more gravity than there is really mass present to account for. This is typically used to make life in a spaceship easier.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "gravity manipulating technology"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_gravity"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In tos3x18 \"The Lights of Zetar\" Mira was put into a pressurized anti-gravity chamber in order to expel alien influences from her mind."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "artificial intelligence",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is an automaton (typically a machine) with roughly human-level intelligence, such as androids, sentient computers, etc.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative technology"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence_in_fiction",
                "http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/ai"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "artificial life",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone creates a living, functioning being (organic or otherwise) from non- living components by scientific means.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative technology"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_biology#Synthetic_life"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Mad scientist Dr. Charles Walding tried to create the first man-made living organism in \"Escape\" (1971)."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "artificial planet",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "An entire planet designed and constructed by some sentient race.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "planetary-scale engineering",
                "speculative habitable celestial body"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "A mysterious planetoid turned out to be a wholly artificial artifact of a long gone alien civilization in tos3x14 \"That Which Survives\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "artificial womb",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A device for maintaining the growing a baby from conception to the point where they can enter the world is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "pod or booth-like device"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_womb"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "artisan occupation",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Featured is the professional activities of a skilled craft worker who makes or creates material objects partly or entirely by hand. This may include blacksmiths, shoemakers, weavers and watchmakers.",
            "notes": [
                "The category is taken to exclude people who are thought of as artists, which is for example most painters and sculptors."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human occupational activity"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artisan"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "artist vs. scientist",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A stereotypically artist type of character is compared and contrasted with a stereotypically scientist kind of character.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human characters in contrast"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In \"Stalker\" (1979), the character Writer (a sophisticated writer) spoke at length to the character Professor (an erudite physicist) about the differences in their chosen professions."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "assimilating beings",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is an species-like faction that propagates itself not by conventional reproduction but by assimilating members of other alien races. Note: terminology becomes problematic in this case as there is typically something very much like an alien race, yet biologically it is not in strictly speaking a race or a species.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "biologically distinguished being"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "assisting in suicide",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone debates whether or not it is ethical to help another in that other person's attempt to end their own life.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "personal life and death dilemma"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assisted_suicide"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "asteroid impact",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Life on a planet is threatened by an asteroid that is on a collision course with it.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "approaching astronomical object event"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_event"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "asteroid mining",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Interesting minerals are extracted from an asteroid.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "planetary-scale engineering"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroid_mining"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "astrology",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The study of the movements and relative positions of celestial objects as a means for divining information about human affairs and terrestrial events.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "divination"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrology"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "astronaut occupation",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "An astronaut is a person trained, equipped, and deployed by a human spaceflight program to serve as a commander or crew member of a spacecraft. Such a person is featured.",
            "notes": [
                "This theme is not used in sci-fi films where space travel is ubiquitous and people don't need specific training for the purpose."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human occupational activity"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronaut"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "astronomical impact avoidance",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A collection of methods by which an asteroid could be diverted from colliding with a planetary target.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative technology"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroid_impact_avoidance"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "After the Enterprise had spectacularly failed to divert an asteroid, Captain Kirk accidentally activated an ancient asteroid deflecting device on the planet's surface in tos3x03 \"The Paradise Syndrome\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "astronomical-scale engineering",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is an application of technology for the purpose of influencing the environment of something beyond the scale of even a planet, like a star or galaxy.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative technology"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megastructure"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "astronomy",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The scientific study of celestial objects and other celestial phenomena is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "science"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomy"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "atheism",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a character who notably rejects the idea that there could be any deity, and especially so God of the Abrahemic religions.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human sentiment"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atheism"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "An unnamed man had been condemned to Hell for not believing in God in tz1985e1x19b \"Dead Run\" (1986)."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "Atlantis",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The legendary island state that is said to have fallen out of favor with the deities and submerged into the Atlantic Ocean, is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "crackpot theory",
                "legendary place"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantis",
                "http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/atlantis"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Aquan underwater civilization on the planet Argo was preceded by a land civilization that was destroyed in the wake of global flood triggering earthquakes in tas1x13 \"The Ambergris Element\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "atmospheric dissipation",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The atmosphere on a planet disappears and civilization collapses.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "force of nature existential risk to civilization"
            ],
            "references": [
                "http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Atmospheric_dissipation"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Worf's unruly brother Nikolai save a group of Boraalan villagers from certain death in a rapid atmospheric dissipation event on their homeworld in tng7x13 \"Homeward\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "atrocities of war",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Atrocities, such as torture or the mass killing of civilians, are carried out during the course of a war.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "the horrors of war"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_crime"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "atrophied civilization",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Civilization simply stagnates and becomes weak to the point where it may not be capable of safeguarding its own continuation.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "institutional risk to civilization"
            ],
            "references": [
                "http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/arrested_development"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "attachment to one's land",
            "aliases": [
                "place attachment"
            ],
            "description": "The human penchant for becoming attached to geographical locations is featured. This is perhaps a nicer way of referring to human territoriality.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human social need"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Place_attachment"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "attachment to one's livelihood",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The human tendency to become attached to a profession and be reluctant to give it up is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human safety need"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Xenophobic miners on Janus VI nearly killed the last alien of a species rather than give up their lucrative livelihood in tos1x26 \"The Devil in the Dark\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "attack from Inner Earth",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Civilization as we know it is under threat because of an attack from beings that live inside the Earth.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "threat from extraterrestrial life"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollow_Earth"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "attack from outer space",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Civilization as we know it is under threat because of an invader from outer space.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "threat from extraterrestrial life"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_invasion"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "attack from outer space by a genocidal enemy",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Homicidal aliens from outer space come to your home planet and massacre everyone.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "attack from outer space"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_invasion"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "The colonists of Tau Cygna V were slated for extermination by the genocidal Sheliak in tng3x02 \"The Ensigns of Command\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "attack from outer space by a giant spaceborne being",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "An inhabited world is destroyed by a ginormous creature that lives in space and, presumably, likes to eat planets.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "attack from outer space"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "The Gamma 7A system, with its billions of inhabitants, was utterly destroyed by a giant space amoeba in tos2x19 \"The Immunity Syndrome\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "attack from outer space by a powerful conquering enemy",
            "aliases": [
                "attack from outer space by a powerful subjugating enemy"
            ],
            "description": "Alien beings from outer space come along and subjugate your civlization to make it serve their own ends.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "attack from outer space"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_invasion"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "The mirror universe Halkan homeworld  was under threat of being conquered or destroyed by the savage Terran Empire in tos2x10 \"Mirror, Mirror\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "attitude of superiority",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character expresses the sentiment that they are better than others around them in some, more or less, general sense. Typically, this happens when a character believes themself to be of superior intellect, social class, or race.",
            "notes": [
                "The theme is not used about specific and limited attributes a character may feel, superior with respect to. For example, if a character rightly or wrongly thinks they are better at the game of pool than others, this may rather be called \"pride in an ability\", or perhaps \"hubris\"."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "pride"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "attitude towards the dead",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are shown possible ways of thinking about death and the departed.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "sociocultural issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Death_customs"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Most of us feel a measure of respect for the body of a late compatriot, but the Klingons in tng1x20 \"Heart of Glory\" demonstrated complete disregard for the empty husk of a corpse their friend had recently departed."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "augmented reality",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is technology that allows a person to see artificial digital information overlaid on top of their real view of the world.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative technology"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augmented_reality"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "aunt and nephew",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The relationship between an aunt and her nephew is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human familial relationship"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "aunt and niece",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The relationship between an aunt and her niece is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human familial relationship"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "authoritarianism",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Featured is a form of government characterized by the rejection of political plurality, the use of a strong central power to preserve the political status quo, and reductions in the rule of law, separation of powers, and democratic voting.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "form of government"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authoritarianism"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "automatic surgery machine",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A non-sentient machine that can nonetheless perform surgery without human supervision.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative device"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot-assisted_surgery"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In Prometheus (2012) Shaw used such a machine to remove a squid-like alien that was growing inside of her."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "autonomous weapon systems in society",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Discussed is in what way the constitution of society as we know it may change with the emergence of weapons that can to a large extent operate on their own. For example, such systems may be used to oppress people for pennies a day.",
            "notes": [
                "This theme is not automatically used in the many sci-fi stories where the autonomous weapons merely go haywire and kill everyone."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "sociotechnological issue",
                "autonomous weapons system",
                "machines in society"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lethal_autonomous_weapon"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "autonomous weapons system",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a weapons system that has a sufficient degree of artificial intelligence so as to select targets and operate entirely on its own, once unleashed.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "artificial intelligence",
                "speculative weapon"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lethal_autonomous_weapon"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "autonomous weapons system killing everyone",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "People create weapons systems (killer robots etc.) that can function all on their own but things get out of hand and the weapons kill everyone.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "technological risk to civilization",
                "autonomous weapon systems in society"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "avian being",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A being patterned after birds.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "animal and plant patterned being"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_avian_humanoids"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "The historian Aleek-Om, a bird-like alien of the race Aurelian, took tricorder readings in the vicinity of the Guardian of Forever in tas1x02 \"Yesteryear\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "avunculicide",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character murders their own uncle.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "parricide"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avunculicide"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "awe",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Awe is an emotion comparable to wonder but less joyous. Typically, in a story a character is awestruck by something that impresses them deeply.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human emotion"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Awe"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "bad government exports while the people are starving",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The governing body of a faction focuses time and resources on producing exports in order to strengthen the country or merely enrich themselves, all the while internal conditions are abysmal for the great majority of the population.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "social dysfunction"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "This is a charge often levied against Mao Zedong with respect to the Great Chinese Famine of 1959-1961 in particular."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "bad luck signs",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "An omen that signifies ill luck according to some tradition, is featured in just such a way.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "supernatural luck"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bad_luck_signs"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In ahp1x14 \"A Bullet for Baldwin\", a cleaner informs Mr. Stepp that opening an umbrella indoors gives you bad luck."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "ball-shaped being",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A being that is basically a bouncing ball.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "shape distinguished being"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "band of outlaws",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a group of outcasts to society who go around committing crimes in an organized manner.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "organized crime"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "bank robbery",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The crime of stealing from a bank (or comparable venue) by physically gaining entry to its facilities and unlawfully removing large amounts of money or valuables, is featured. Bank-like outfits include other venues that have vaults, for example casinos or Fort Knox.",
            "notes": [
                "In real life most bank robberies are made at gunpoint, i.e., by threatening bank employees with violence. In fiction (more than reality) there are sometimes clever schemes to gain entry clandestinely, for example by tunneling in during off-hours, or using deception. The latter is technically a case of \"burglary\" when violence is not used, but is categorized as \"bank robbery\" for convenience. This definition may well (and rightly should) be revisited in the future."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "robbery"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_robbery",
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bank_robbers_and_robberies"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In talesoftheunexpected5x06 \"The Moles\", two old friends whose business faced financial ruin hatched a clever plan to tunnel their way into a certain bank vault from an antique shop adjacent to it."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "be careful what you wish for",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone gets what they desire only to find out that they really shouldn't have desired it in the first place.",
            "notes": [
                "This proverb is normally used when a person does not have the maturity or sophistication to understand what the outcome of their desire will actually mean to themself. It is notably not applied in situations where there is hidden information about the outcome that makes it undesirable, and that no person could possibly have known beforehand irrespective of such things as maturity."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human idea about life"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/be_careful_what_you_wish_for"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "be mindful of first impressions",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone learns how important first impressions can be as they often last longer in the mind than subsequent memories.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human idea about life"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_impression_(psychology)"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Sonya Gomez made a terrible first impression when she spilled hot chocolate all over Captain Picard on her first day in tng2x16 \"Q Who\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "be wary of strangers",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The idea that we ought better be cautious around outsiders we do not know, is expressly stated or pointedly illustrated.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human idea about life"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In talesoftheunexpected5x16 \"A Man with a Fortune\", Janet Murdoch met her doom after she set out to travel with the strange American John Smith and it turned out he was a psychopathic killer descended from a long line of psychopathic killers."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "beards",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The sublime matter of pogonotrophy (the cultivation of one's facial hair) is discussed.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "male stereotype"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beard",
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facial_hair"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Star Trek enthusiasts were treated to a double dose of Riker and his beard in tng6x24 \"Second Chances\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "beating one's self up",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character chastises themself over a perceived failure, usually in a way that is unfair or unnecessary.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human worrying about self"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/beat-yourself-up"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "beauty and beast romance",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A beautiful person and an extremely ugly person become romantically involved.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "romantic relationship"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "beauty is in the eye of the beholder",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are shown that the perception of what is beautiful or not depends on the observer. What is pretty to one may be ugly to another.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human idea about life"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/beauty_is_in_the_eye_of_the_beholder"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "The grotesque looking Horta alien thought that it was the humans that should be pitied for their unsightly appearance in tos1x26 \"The Devil in the Dark\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "becoming a harder person",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character seeks to become more composed and emotionally callous, i.e., someone who can do what needs to be done even when the task is distasteful.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human self improvement"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In tz1959e4x04 \"He's Alive\", Hitler extolled Peter to put sentimentality aside, to steel himself, to become a tougher person."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "becoming a more emotionally sophisticated person",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character struggles to improve on their own temperament in order to become a better person.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human self improvement"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In tz1959e5x16 \"The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross\", the hard-hearted young man Sal gave old Mr. Maitland a large sum of money in exchange for the latter's highly cultivated sense of compassion."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "becoming a more self-assured person",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A notably insecure and nervous character strives to become a more self- confident and composed person.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human self improvement"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In tz1959e2x03 \"Nervous Man in a Four Dollar Room\", we saw how Jackie, confronted with a task that terrified him, started to re-evaluate his whole prevaricating life. The story concluded with Jackie metamorphosing into his alter ego, mirror Jackie, his complete opposite in terms of self-confidence. In this new persona, Jackie finally had the aplomb to stand up to his bullying boss, and to quite the whole sordid line of work he was in."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "becoming a nicer person",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character struggles to change their personality so as to become kinder towards others in general.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human self improvement"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "becoming like what you oppose",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character realizes that by acting like their enemy they are becoming like their enemy.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human worrying about self"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "beholding the Earth from space",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character takes pointed satisfaction in viewing the planet Earth from the vantage point of outer space.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "pleasure in nature"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "being ashamed of who you are",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character thinks about why the feel ashamed for who they are.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human worrying about self"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "being bitter about one's life",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character reflects on their life with caustic bitterness over things that did not turn out to their satisfaction.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human worrying about self"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "being on the run from the law",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is on the run from the legitimate police.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "facing organized pursuit"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In ahp1x16 \"You Got to Have Luck\", Sam is a felon escaped from prison and tries to evade recapture by the police."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "being physically conjoined to another",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are made to imagine what it would be like to be physically connected, like a conjoined twin, to another person.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative experience"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conjoined_twins"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "being that feeds on electricity",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a being that somehow derives nourishment directly from electricity, perhaps by plugging themselves into an electrical socket.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "biologically distinguished being"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "An eccentric, yellow-colored alien named Nick turned down a drumstick in favor of a 240V electric line in \"The Boy Who Turned Yellow\" (1972)."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "being that feeds on the mind",
            "aliases": [
                "emotion eating being"
            ],
            "description": "There is a life form that somehow derives nourishment from the minds of other beings. It may, for example, be said to feed on the emotions of others, or on some mystic quality associated with the mind (such as \"the soul\").",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "biologically distinguished being"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "being wiped out by more powerful aliens",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A civilization is destroyed, perhaps perhaps intentionally, by the actions of comparatively more advanced aliens.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "threat from extraterrestrial life"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "A Douwd wiped the Husnock clean out of existence in tng3x03 \"The Survivors\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "belonging",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Members of a group feel that they are an essential part of that group.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "humans in group"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belongingness"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "benefiting from someone else's work",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character must decide whether they can quietly take credit for something that is actually due to another person's labor.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "compromising one's ethical principles for personal advantage"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plagiarism"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "Bermuda Triangle",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A region where a number of vessels are said to have disappeared.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "crackpot theory"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bermuda_Triangle",
                "http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/bermuda_triangle"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "The Enterprise disappeared in the Delta Triangle (The Bermuda Triangle in Space) under mysterious circumstances in tas1x12 \"The Time Trap\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "best laid plans often go awry",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The proverbial expression used to signify the futility of making detailed plans when the ability to fully or even partially execute them is uncertain is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human idea about life"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/best_laid_plans"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "bestiality",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Bestiality is cross-species sexual activity between human and non-human animals.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "sexual norms in society"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoophilia"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "betrayal",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character betrays the trust of friend, a family tie, or some other loyalty.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "humans interacting"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betrayal"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "better to have loved and lost",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The wisdom in the old saying \"it is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all\" is illustrated.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human idea about life"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Memoriam_A.H.H."
            ],
            "examples": [
                "When star-crossed lovers Nella Daren and Captain Picard opted to part ways after a passionate but turbulent dalliance in tng6x19 \"Lessons\", both seemed decidedly happier for the experience they had shared."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "biased sex-ratio society",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a nation of people where the male to female ratio is highly skewed in the one direction or the other.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative society"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-gender_world"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In \"The Moon is a Harsh Mistress\" (1966), Luna society had a sex-ratio of about two men to each woman, resulting in the widespread practice of polyandry."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "big banking in society",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The ramifications of big banking in society are explored.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "socioeconomic issue"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "bigamy",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "In cultures where monogamy is mandated, bigamy is the act of entering into a marriage with one person while still legally married to another.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "polygamy",
                "sexual crime"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bigamy"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "Bigfoot",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "This creature from North American folklore is featured explicitly.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "cryptid",
                "legendary being"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bigfoot"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "binary star system",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A star system consisting of two stars orbiting around their common center of mass.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "astronomy"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_star"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "bio-mimicking life form",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A life form that can copy the shape of other aliens. An original is needed to stand model.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "shapeshifter"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "bioengineered human pathogen",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A virus, bacterium or equivalent type of infectious substance has been engineered by a person.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative biotechnology",
                "contagious disease in society"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "biological computer",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A machine that works much like a classical computer but is grown out of organic materials.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative biotechnology"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_computing",
                "http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/bionics"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "biological machinery",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is an artificial device with components that are biological in nature. Note: This theme is not used for sentient objects such as androids.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative biotechnology"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "biological spaceship",
            "aliases": [
                "bioship"
            ],
            "description": "A spaceship made up of biological components, i.e., cells and such.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative spaceship",
                "speculative biotechnology"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioship"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "biological weapons",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The use of biological agents, i.e., man-made diseases, to indiscriminantly kill people is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "weapons of mass destruction"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_warfare"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "biologically distinguished being",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a being that is novel by virtue of its biology, e.g., beings living in symbiosis or having unusual methods of reproduction.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative being"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fictional_extraterrestrials",
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fictional_extraterrestrials_by_form"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "biologically symbiotic beings",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There's a pair of beings whose biological functions are so dependent on each other that one could not flourish without the other.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "biologically distinguished being"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "biology",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Biology is the natural science that studies life and living organisms. This theme is used whenever an aspect of this science is featured in the story.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "science"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biology"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "biotechnological risk to civilization",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "People come up with a nifty way to modify living organisms using technology, but there are consequences, unforeseen or otherwise, and everybody dies.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "technological risk to civilization"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "bird in a gilded cage",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone faces living in luxury but without freedom.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human vs. captivity"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/a+bird+in+a+gilded+cage"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Harry Mudd was waited on by an army of ostensibly loyal androids and had everything he could wish for except the freedom to leave in tos2x12 \"I, Mudd\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "birth control",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are asked what, if any, birth control methods are acceptable.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "sexual norms in society"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birth_control"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "The People of Gideon, the Space Catholics, were fundamentally opposed to using birth control as a means to solve their over-population crisis in tos3x17 \"The Mark of Gideon\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "bisexualism",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character displays an attraction to both men and women.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "sexual norms in society"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bisexuality"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "black hole",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A region of space exhibiting such strong gravitational effects that nothing (not even particles and electromagnetic radiation such as light) can escape from inside it.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "astronomy"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole",
                "http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/black_holes"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "black magic",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone uses supernatural powers of the evil variety for selfish ends. This may involve things like hexes and curses, dead bodies, and blood. There is often a connection to quasi-religious entities such as evil spirits, demons, and Satan.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "the supernatural"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_magic"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "black markets",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The covert covert trade in government prohibited or stolen goods is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "crime against the public"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_market"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Steve Austin was sent on a mission to stop an arms dealer from selling stolen nuclear missiles on the black market in \"The Six Million Dollar Man: Wine, Women and War\" (1973)."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "black sheep",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone is regarded as the family disgrace because of their uncouth or criminal ways.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "family affairs",
                "coping with a problematic family member"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_sheep"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Lore was the family disgrace in the eyes of his goody two-shoes brother Data in tng1x13 \"Datalore\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "blackmail",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The act of blackmailing is featured in a way that is (arguably) considered criminal in the context. Blackmail is an act of coercion using the threat of revealing or publicizing either substantially true or false information about a person or people unless certain demands are met.\n\nIt is often damaging information, and may be revealed to family members or associates rather than to the general public. It may involve using threats of physical, mental or emotional harm, or of criminal prosecution, against the victim or someone close to the victim. It is normally carried out for personal gain, most commonly of position, money, or property. It is also used, sometimes by state agencies, to exert influence.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "crime against property"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackmail"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "blindness",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is visually impaired to such an extent that their eyes are nearly useless to them.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "visual impairment"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_impairment"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "blobform",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "An amorphous alien organism that is solid enough to be able to maintain a definite shape for an extended period of time.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "shape distinguished being"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://aliens.wikia.com/wiki/Blob"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "blood is thicker than water",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "This adage is explicitly invoked or it is pointedly illustrated that familial bonds will always be stronger than those of friendship or love.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human idea about life"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_is_thicker_than_water"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In ahp2x01 \"Wet Saturday\", the Narrator spelled out this moral of the story at the end. Mr. Princey had no compunctions about framing his friend for a murder that his own daughter had committed. Though the daughter was rather disagreeable and the friend rather benevolent, blood is always thicker than water."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "blood sports",
            "aliases": [
                "bloodsports"
            ],
            "description": "There is a sport or entertainment that involves intentional bloodshed. Either animals or people are meant to be severely wounded during the activity.",
            "notes": [
                "Modern boxing and other sports that are violent but where the objective is neither to kill nor inflict serious injury, are classified as \"combat sports\" instead."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "sports"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_sport"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "bluffing",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character insinuates they will do something that they in fact cannot or will not do, thereby deceiving someone else.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "humans interacting"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "body implant",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a futuristic device that is implanted inside the body of a person for some practical purpose.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human enhancement technology"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microchip_implant_(human)"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "body part transplant",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A body part is transplanted using scientific means, such as surgery. The transplanted body part may or may not turn the subject evil or endow them with supernatural powers.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human enhancement technology"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_transplantation_in_fiction"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "body snatching",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Body snatching is the secret removal of corpses from burial sites for the purpose of dissection and anatomy studies. This is featured as a crime.",
            "notes": [
                "The Wikipedia definition is slightly broader. We restrict the usage here to body snatching for the purpose of medical studies, as there are a number of mostly 19th century stories that feature this distinctive social issue."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "crime against the public"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_snatching",
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burke_and_Hare_murders"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "body swap",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A process by which the consciousness inhabiting one body is swapped with that inhabiting another body. Each consciousness thus ends up in another body than where it began. Normally only two bodies are involved but the theme does not preclude the possibility that there are three or more bodies that each end up with a different consciousness than it began with.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative experience"
            ],
            "references": [
                "http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/identity_exchange"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "bondage sex",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The practice of consensually tying, binding, or restraining a partner for erotic, aesthetic, or somatosensory stimulation is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "romantic relationship issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bondage_(BDSM)"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "boredom",
            "aliases": [
                "ennui"
            ],
            "description": "Someone is feeling bored and depressed with their life and existence.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human emotion"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boredom"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "General Trelane (retired), a.k.a. the Squire of Gothos, held an enterprise landing party against their will to help spice up his life in tos1x18 \"The Squire of Gothos\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "boss and employee",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The relationship between a manager and a person they manage is featured at a workplace.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "superior and subordinate"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Management"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "boyfriend and boyfriend",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is an informal but extended, presumed monogamous, romantic relationship between two male characters.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "romantic relationship"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "A flamboyantly gay man moved to an idyllic Connecticut town with his boyfriend in a last ditched effort to salvage their relationship in \"The Stepford Wives\" (2004)."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "boyfriend and girlfriend",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is an informal but extended, presumed monogamous, romantic relationship between a male character and a female character.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "romantic relationship"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "brain disembodiment technology",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Technology by which a brain can be taken out of the body and maintained in a functioning state for an extended amount of time.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human enhancement technology"
            ],
            "references": [
                "http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/brain_in_a_box"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "The Morg of Sigma Draconis VI used such technology to steal Spock's big and sexy brain in tos3x06 \"Spock's Brain\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "brain implant",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a technological device that is implanted directly into someones brain. Note: This theme only applies when the implant results in a functionality that goes above and beyond what currently existing brain implant devices can provide.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "brain-computer interface",
                "human enhancement technology"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_implant#In_fiction_and_philosophy"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "brain stimulating implant",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a cranial implant which can be used to affect the brain in some generally beneficial way (cf. \"pain implant\"), for example to produce the effects of a narcotic drug.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "brain implant"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "brain transplant",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A procedure to transplant a brain from one person to another is featured in a science fictional context.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "body part transplant"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_transplant"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "brain-computer interface",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a device that connects directly to the brain and interacts directly with its subject's thoughts.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "mind altering technology"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain%E2%80%93computer_interface"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "brain-shaped being",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A being that is basically a bare brain, often big, sometimes floating.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "shape distinguished being"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isolated_brain#In_fiction"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "The Providers of Triskellion had perhaps hocked their bodies in tos2x17 \"The Gamesters of Triskelion\", for they now subsided as disembodied brains in a subterranean cavern and engaged in all manners of gambling."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "brains vs. brawn",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A clever person is pitted against a physically powerful opponent in a fight and we wonder which of these qualities is more important for victory.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "the art of war"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/brains+versus+brawn"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Captain Kirk was pitted in an epic battle of agility and brains vs. brawn against a Gorn captain in tos1x19 \"The Arena\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "brainwaves",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The measurement of rhythmic patterns of neural electrical activity produced in the brain.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human biology"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural_oscillation"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "bread and circuses",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A government divert common people from paying attention to public policy issues by satisfying their most immediate or base requirements.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "political issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_and_circuses"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "The two main parties of England formed a coalition government and encouraged the success of pop singer Steven Shorter to placate the masses and divert them from political activity in \"Privilege\" (1967)."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "breaking the law for personal advantage",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character struggles with whether or not to commit a crime in order (typically) to enrich themself. Would you, for example, steal if there was a good chance of getting away with a fortune? Would you commit murder for the same fortune?",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "personal ethical dilemma"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "breaking the law to cover up another crime",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone must choose whether to commit a further transgression of the law in order for a past transgression not to become publicly known.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "personal ethical dilemma"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "bribery",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The act of offering, giving, receiving, or soliciting any item of value to influence the actions of an official, or other person, in charge of a public or legal duty, is featured as a crime.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "crime"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bribery"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "bringing back extinct species",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Genetic engineering is used to reintroduce an extinct organism.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative biotechnology"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De-extinction"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Scientists used dinosaur DNA recovered from inside amber to genetically engineer real, living dinosaurs in \"Jurassic Park\" (1993)."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "brinkmanship",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A tense military or political confrontation is brought beyond its safe limits for the dangerous purpose of gaining an advantage when the opponent, it is hoped, backs down first.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "the art of war"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brinkmanship"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "brother and brother",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The relationship between two brothers is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human familial relationship"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "brother and sister",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The relationship between brother and sister is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human familial relationship"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Serova and her brother Rabal fought loyally together to stop warp-speeding space ships from polluting the subspace near Hekaras II in tng7x09 \"Force of Nature\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "brother-in-law and brother-in-law",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The relationship between a brother-in-law and his brother-in-law is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "in-law relationship"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "brother-in-law and sister-in-law",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The relationship between a brother-in-law and his sister-in-law is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "in-law relationship"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "bureaucracy",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The ramifications of excessive bureaucracy, too much paperwork and red tape, to society are explored.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "political issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bureaucracy"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "The Gideoneans tried in vain to use bureaucratic tricks to stop Spock from finding Captain Kirk in tos3x17 \"The Mark of Gideon\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "bureaucratic dystopia",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a Kafkaesque society in which much of daily life is a maddening series of seemingly pointless bureaucratic procedures.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "dystopia"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "burglary",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The unlawful entry into a building or other location for the purposes of stealing from there is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "theft"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burglary"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "Bussard ramjet",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A spaceship propulsion technology the idea of which is to use electromagnetic fields to collect hydrogen from space and fuel a fusion process.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative spaceship"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bussard_ramjet"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "The Enterprise-D crew discharged vast amounts of hydrogen from the ship's Bussard collectors in a last ditched attempt to escape from a Tykan's Rift in tng4x17 \"Night Terrors\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "can machines have souls",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The question is posed: Can a machine have that immaterial immortal component that believers call \"the soul\"?",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "metaphysics"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_artificial_intelligence#Can_a_machine_have_a_soul?"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "canine-like being",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A being patterned after dogs.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "animal and plant patterned being"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mammalian_alien_species"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Natasha Yar was appalled to learn that the dog-like Anticans like to eat their food alive in tng1x07 \"Lonely Among Us\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "cannibalism",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A person consumes the flesh of another person.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "murder"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_cannibalism"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "cannibalism to survive",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A (presumably starving) character must decide whether or not to eat the corpse of another person in order to survive. This may or may not involve killing the other person first.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "personal life and death dilemma"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "capital punishment",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are asked how and when, if ever, it is acceptable to punish a criminal by death.",
            "notes": [
                "An innocent person being sentenced to death within the framework of a modern criminal justice system is typically grounds for applying this theme. This is on account that such a happening invites the story partaker to consider about the general moral issues surrounding this controversial legal punishment."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "legal punishment",
                "social ethical dilemma"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "capitalism",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Capitalism is an economic system based upon private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "political ideology"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalism"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "career choice",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is confronted with the consequential tough decision of which path to pursue in the development of their career.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human life choice"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "carefree way of life",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character leads a life free from anxiety and responsibility.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human sentiment"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In tz1959e3x36 \"Cavender Is Coming\", happy-go-lucky Miss Agnes Grep didn't seem to much care that she couldn't hold down a job and had trouble making rent. In fact, when the angel Cavender bestows upon her a mansion and lots of money, we learn that she much prefers the carefree simplicity of her old life to the various complications of high society."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "caring for a baby",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "One or more characters go through the trials and tribulations associated with taking care of an infant.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human parenting"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newborn_care_and_safety",
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infant#Care_and_feeding"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "caring for an elderly relative",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character dedicates a significant part of their time towards caring for a related person that suffers from old age.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "coping with life issues",
                "family affairs",
                "human health condition"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elderly_care"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "carpe diem",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The wisdom of the old motto \"seize the day\" is illustrated, i.e., the idea that it is best for us to make the most of our time right away for who knows what tomorrow may bring.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human sentiment"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpe_diem"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "carpentry occupation",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character works professionally with creating things out of wood and related materials.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "artisan occupation"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "carrot vs. stick",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone must decide, in a given situation, which approach is the better way to get another person to act as they should: the threat of consequence (the stick), or the promise of reward (the carrot).",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "personal practical dilemma"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrot_and_stick"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "caste system",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a system of hereditary social classes: one is born into a class and has little hope of ever changing it.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "form of government"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caste"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "catastrophic encounter with another universe",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Our universe somehow collides with another one and is completely destroyed.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "force of nature existential risk to civilization"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Lazarus-A sacrificed himself to stop our universe from colliding with its parallel antimatter duplicate in tos1x20 \"The Alternative Factor\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "catastrophic flood",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Large-scale flooding, or the rising oceans, sends civilization to a watery grave.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "force of nature existential risk to civilization"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "After seismic disturbances the planet Argo had become almost wholly covered with water and the inhabitants turned themselves into water-breathers in tas1x13 \"The Ambergris Element\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "catastrophic solar event",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Something goes wrong with a planet's sun and everybody dies.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "force of nature existential risk to civilization"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "catharsis",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone releases passionate emotions they have previously kept bottled up inside in a way that results in renewal and restoration.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human mental condition"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catharsis"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "Catholicism",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The Catholic religion with its trappings and traditions is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "organized religion"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "celebrity culture in society",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Celebrity culture is the high-volume perpetuation of celebrities' personal lives on a global scale. It is inherently tied to consumer interests where celebrities transform their fame to become product brands. The ways in which this influences society are discussed.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "sociocultural issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celebrity_culture"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "celebrity worship",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Our human tendency to revere famous people is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human nature"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celebrity_worship_syndrome"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "cell division",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The process by which a parent cell divides into two or more daughter cells. There are three types of cell division: binary fission, mitosis, and meiosis.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "biology"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_division"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "The giant space amoeba was poised to divide into two giant space amoebas in tos2x19 \"The Immunity Syndrome\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "centaur",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "This mythological half-man half-horse being is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human-animal hybrid",
                "legendary being"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centaur"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "chameleon-like being",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A being patterned after chemeleons. i.e., they can change appearance in order to conceal themselves.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "animal and plant patterned being"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Geordi metamorphosed into a bioluminescent, chamelion-like alien in tng4x18 \"Identity Crisis\""
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "change is part of life",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The idea is explicitly voiced or pointedly illustrated, that things can never stay the way they are on account that change is an inevitable part of life.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human idea about life"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "changing the orbit of a planet around its star",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a technology used to alter the orbit of a planet around its star.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "planetary-scale engineering"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moving_the_Earth"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "character metamorphosis",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "An individual wittingly undergoes a fundamental change in terms of character.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human worrying about self"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In play: Pygmalion (1913), \"Pygmalion\", cockney flower girl Eliza transforms herself into a proper Lady with the illustrious assistance of speech Professor Higgins."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "character transported into imaginary world",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character moves from the real world into what appears to be a world created by their own or someone else's imagination.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative travel"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In tz1959e4x08 \"Miniature\", Charley kept looking into a museum doll house and finding it alive with activity that no one else perceived. After long pining for this world, he is suddenly transported into it himself and becomes one of its actors."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "charitable organization",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A charitable organization, or \"charity\", is a non-profit organization whose primary objectives are philanthropy and social well-being of persons.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "national social issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charitable_organization"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "charitable volunteering",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is working with something that is considered charitable, such as a soup kitchen or aid work in Africa. The occupation may or may not be remunerative, but is popularly considered to be done for the betterment of the world rather than for economic gain.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human occupational activity"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "It was revealed that Miranda Vigo had cared for orphans on Camor V in tng7x22 \"Bloodlines\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "charting unknown territory",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone faces the dangers inherent to exploring new and unfamiliar territory, for example in space exploration or deep sea exploration.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human vs. nature"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "chastity",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone refrains from engaging in sexual activity.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human character"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chastity"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Captain Picard declined Ardra's amorous advances when she materialized in his quarters in the middle of the night in tng4x13 \"Devil's Due\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "cheating",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character subverts rules in a non-criminal way to obtain an unfair advantage over others with whom they are acquainted.",
            "notes": [
                "The theme \"criminal fraud\" is to be preferred when the when the act is clearly criminal in context."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "humans interacting"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheating"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Johnny infuriated the Swede by cheating at the card game High Five \"The Blue Hotel\" (1977)."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "chemical weapons",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The use of chemicals, i.e., poison gas, to indiscriminantly kill people is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "weapons of mass destruction"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desertion"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "chemicals",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Artificially synthesized compounds (a.k.a. chemicals) are used for some novel purpose.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "science"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemistry"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In the novel \"Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde\" (1886), Dr. Henry Jekyll concocted a special serum out of chemicals that he used to transform himself into the evil Mr. Edward Hyde."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "child abduction",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The crime of unauthorized removal of a minor (a child under the age of legal adulthood) from the custody of the child's natural parents or legally appointed guardians, is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "crime against the person"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_abduction"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "child abuse",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Child abuse is featured in a context where it is arguably criminal. Child abuse or child maltreatment is physical, sexual, and/or psychological maltreatment or neglect of a child or children, especially by a parent or a caregiver.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "crime against the person",
                "violent crime"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_abuse"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "child exploitation",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Underage characters are exploited for labor of one sort or another, by scrupulous adults. We are made to ponder whether and to what extent this is right or wrong.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "exploitation of sentient beings"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://www.unicef.org/rosa/what-we-do/child-protection/child-labour-and-exploitation"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "child labor",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The ramifications of children doing in any work that deprives children of their childhood, interferes with their ability to attend regular school, and that is mentally, physically, socially or morally dangerous and harmful are explored.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "educational issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_labour"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "child leaving the nest",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A juvenile reaches that stage in life when it is time to take leave of mom and dad and face the world.",
            "notes": [
                "The situation can be featured from either the child's or a parent's point of view. Children may find it hard to leave, or parents may find it hard to let them."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human childhood"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaving_the_nest"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Wesley wrestled with leaving the comfortable confines of the Enterprise-D to enter Starfleet Academy in tng3x24 \"Ménage à Troi\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "child living on the streets",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a homeless child living on the streets of a city or town.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human childhood"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_children"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "child power",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Children are featured as a powerful force in society.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "special interest group issue"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "child soldiers",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The widely condemned practice of having juveniles serve as soldiers in an armed conflict, is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "war"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_in_the_military"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "child unhealthily attached to a parent",
            "aliases": [
                "mother's boy mama's boy daddy's girl"
            ],
            "description": "A character maintains an unhealthy dependence on a parent at an age when the character is expected to be self-reliant.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "parent and child",
                "human mental condition"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother%27s_boy"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "child's need to be loved",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "It is illustrated that children need to be cared for by loving adults in order to be happy and grow up as well-adjusted individuals.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human social need",
                "human parenting",
                "human childhood"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_neglect"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In tz1959e5x36 \"The Bewitchin' Pool\", the narrator spells out in the end that Sport and Jeb found a happy fantasy land complete with a loving aunt, because of a need for love that their quarreling and insensitive parents had left unfilled."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "child's point of view",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are shown what things might be like from the point of view of a child.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "special interest group issue"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "childhood as an outsider",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone grows up in a community they don't feel they quite fit in with, perhaps because they are a freaky alien with devilishly pointed ears.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human childhood"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Spock's trials and tribulations as a half-Human child growing up on conservative planet Vulcan were featured in tas1x02 \"Yesteryear\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "childhood aspirations",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A child's typically ephemeral life ambitions are featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human childhood"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "childhood imaginary friend",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A child has a friend who is entirely a figment of their imagination.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human childhood"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imaginary_friend"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Clara's imaginary friend Isabelle became real thanks to a mischievous incorporeal alien in tng5x22 \"Imaginary Friend\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "childhood music lessons",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A child struggles with music lessons in a stereotypical way, often involving a little old lady piano teacher.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human childhood"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "childhood pranks",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A mischievous kid carries out an annoying practical joke such as kids sometimes do.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human childhood",
                "practical joking"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "childhood terrors",
            "aliases": [
                "childhood nightmares"
            ],
            "description": "A child is afraid of something that adults normally know better than to fear, for example monsters in the dark or the bogeyman.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human childhood",
                "fear"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "childhood trauma",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A child suffers a traumatic experience of the kind that can haunt you for the rest of your life.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human childhood"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Childhood_trauma"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "childish bullying",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The ramifications of people bullying each other, in ways that are unlikely to be prosecutable as crimes, are explored. Bullying is the use of force, coercion, hurtful teasing or threat, to abuse, aggressively dominate or intimidate.",
            "notes": [
                "This theme is typically used when the children treat each other badly. The theme is typically not used when adults use violence and the threat thereof. It may be used when adults act like children. As a rule of thumb, it applies when the actions referred to fall below the bar for what is likely to be considered a legally punishable offense in the context."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "sociocultural issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullying",
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberbullying"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In \"The Toxic Avenger\" (1984), the 98-pound weakling Melvin was picked on mercilessly by certain patrons of the fitness club where he worked as a mop boy."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "childishness",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "An adult character behaves in a silly and immature manner.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human character"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/childish"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Captain Kirk coped with Elaan the Dohlman of Elas and her childish behavior in tos3x02 \"Elaan of Troyius\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "children and candy from strangers",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The parental injunction to steer clear of strangers, especially those that offer sweet inducements, is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "educating a child",
                "be wary of strangers"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stranger_danger",
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_abduction"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "children learning about death",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A child is confronted with death, or taught about death, for more or less the first time in their life.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human childhood"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "children's rights",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are made to ponder what intrinsic rights we feel should be awarded children.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human rights issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%27s_rights"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "chivalry",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a \"knight in shining armour standing up for the fair maiden\" type scenario. Other types of chivalric virtues have their own themes when featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human character"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chivalry"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Captain Kirk rescued a damsel in distress from a sword wielding knave in tos3x23 \"All Our Yesterdays\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "choosing between conflicting loyalties",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character has a bond of loyalty tying them to two different people or factions, but these come into conflict and the character must choose one in order not to betray both.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "personal ethical dilemma",
                "loyalty"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In voy3x06 \"Remember\", B'Elanna had an alien inspired dream in which she had to choose between saving her lover's life on one hand, and being obedient to her parents on the other."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "choosing between equally futile actions",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character must decide which action to take even though all potential actions appear equally unappealing.",
            "notes": [
                "This situation is also allegorically known as \"Sheridan's Ass\" after renowned theme enthusiast Paul Sheridan who noted that it is a mirror reflection of \"Burridan's Ass\"."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "personal practical dilemma"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "choosing between equally unappealing possibilities",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character must choose between courses of action and outcomes that are all bad.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "personal practical dilemma"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In nightgallery0x01b \"Eyes\", Sidney was faced the stark option of whether to sell his eyes for $9000 in order to repay his debt to a criminal and escape lethal retribution. He believed that without sight he would probably fall into a depression and soon kill himself."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "choosing between job opportunities",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character faces that major life decision of which career path to go down.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "career choice"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Riker was torn between accepting an offer to command the starship Aries and continuing as first officer on his beloved Enterprise-D in tng2x14 \"The Icarus Factor\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "choosing between love and family",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character must choose between someone they love on one hand, and obligations to their family on the other.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human life choice"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romeo_and_Juliet"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Romeo Montageu and Juliet Capulet, famously, are both torn between family loyalty and love as their two clans are feuding while they themselves become enamored with each other, in the play \"Rome and Juliet\" by William Shakespeare."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "choosing between lovers",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is faced with the choice of deciding which of multiple lovers to be with.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human romantic relationship choice"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "choosing between odious regimes",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The dilemma of choosing one or the other between two unethical regimes when not choosing would probably lead to the worst outcome of all, is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "social ethical dilemma"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "choosing whether to kill someone to spare them suffering",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character must choose whether or not to kill another character in order to spare them from some perceived or anticipated suffering. The intended victim- cum-benefactor may or may not be consenting to the act.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "personal ethical dilemma"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euthanasia"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "choosing whether to return found property",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character finds something that another has lost, for example a wallet with money. They must decide whether to keep it for themself or try to return it to its rightful owner.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "breaking the law for personal advantage"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "choosing who dies and who lives",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character faces a choice where every alternative leads to someone or other (at least two different people) dying.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "personal ethical dilemma"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Sophie%27s_choice"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "Christianity",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Christianity is a collection Abrahamic monotheistic religions that are based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ. Something about this is prominently featured in the story.",
            "notes": [
                "It is often easy to see Christianity related implication in Western stories. This theme should only be used of something intrinsically Christian is explicitly featured. For example, the theme applies if the Bible, the sacraments, or Jesus Christ is mentioned. It does not necessarily apply merely if heaven and hell are mentioned, because these things are not at all exclusive to Christianity."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "organized religion"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "Christmas traditions",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The story notably involves one or more of those traditions that are commonly associated with Christmas celebration. Christmas (or Feast of the Nativity) is an annual festival commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ. It is usually observed on December 25, though the date as well as the rituals may change depending in which religion and culture one is in.",
            "notes": [
                "The mentioning of Christmas or its date is not uncommon in stories as it is a simple way to indicate what time of the year it is. This theme is not used in such cases, unless Christmas traditions are of further importance to the story."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "sociocultural issue"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "circus skill",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Circus skills are a group of disciplines that have been performed as entertainment in circus, sideshow, busking, or variety, vaudeville, or music hall shows. Such a skill is notably featured in the story and in a circus-like context.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "performance art"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_circus_skills"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "city planet",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a planet the surface of which is one enormous city.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative city",
                "speculative habitable celestial body"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecumenopolis"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "civil rights",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Civil and political rights are a class of rights that protect individuals' freedom from infringement by governments, social organizations, and private individuals. They ensure one's ability to participate in the civil and political life of the society and state without discrimination or repression. Such rights issues are discussed explicitly, or very pointedly illustrated.",
            "notes": [
                "This theme does not apply to isolated occurrences of racism, but should be used when a systematic oppression of a category of people is clearly featured."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human rights issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_and_political_rights"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In futurama6x12 \"The Mutants Are Revolting\", we saw how the sewer mutants were prevented from participating in the normal civil and political life of New New York because people saw them as sub-human scum that must stay hidden in the sewers."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "civil war",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A segment of a society takes up arms and violently demand independence or reshaping of government.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "war"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_war"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "civilians suffering in war",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are shown the plight of a group of civilians that suffer as a direct consequence of war between two factions. They may for example have had their food confiscated, homes destroyed, or been put in an internment camp for fear of espionage.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "the horrors of war"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_casualties",
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_Japanese_Americans"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "civilization vs. savagery",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The question of what can be called \"civilized\" and what, by contrast, is to be denounced as \"savage\" is discussed.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "ethics"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "clairvoyance",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is able to gain information about an object, person, location, or physical event through extrasensory perception.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative ability related to own mind"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clairvoyance"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "clash of Wills",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Two characters both named William lock wills in an argument over a joint course of action.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "humans interacting"
            ],
            "references": [
                "http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Second_Chances_(episode)"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "There was some serious William T. Riker on William T. Riker action going on in tng6x24 \"Second Chances\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "clash of wills",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Two characters lock wills in an argument over a joint course of action.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "humans interacting"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/battle/clash%20of%20wills"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Spock and McCoy butted heads in no fewer than five episodes. In tos2x19 \"The Immunity Syndrome\", a rivalry ensued when they both volunteer to commandeer a specially equipped shuttlecraft into the giant space amoeba."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "classic films",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is enthusiastic about old movies of cultural significance.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "recreational activity",
                "the fine arts and the humanities"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "claustrophobia",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character exhibits acute fear of confined spaces.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human phobia"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claustrophobia"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "climate change and bureaucratic inaction",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The sadly familiar social issue of people around the worlds not being able to agree on what to do about climate change is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "environmental issue"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "clingy girlfriend",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A female character in a relationship is annoying their partner by being overly demanding of time and attention.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "female stereotype"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "close encounter with a passing astronomical object",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "An astronomical object comes into close proximity with a populated planet and poses a threat to continued civilization.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "approaching astronomical object event"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "The genetically engineered colonist utopia on Moab IV was threatened by a stray stellar core fragment from a collapsed neutron star in tng5x13 \"The Masterpiece Society\".",
                "A worldwide catastrophe when an errant comet passes by Earth and causes natural disasters and social unrest in The End of The World (1916)."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "close encounter with a stray artificial object",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A human made object comes into close proximity with a populated planet and poses a threat to continued civilization there.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "anthropogenic existential risk to civilization"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "cold fusion",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The possibility of powering technology on energy derived from the fusing of atomic nuclei at, or near, room temperature is explored. This is in contrast to ordinary fusion power which is normally understood to occur at temperatures in the tens of millions of degrees.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "fusion power"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_fusion"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "The young inventor Harold Kelp struggled to invent a cold fusion engine in \"The Nutty Professor\" (2008)."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "collecting objects",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character displays an enthusiasm for finding items to make their property as part of a collection of one sort or another.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "recreational activity"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychology_of_collecting"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "collective punishment",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The rulers punish not only the criminal but also the criminal's family, society, people, etc.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "legal punishment"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_punishment"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "collectively intelligent beings",
            "aliases": [
                "hive mind beings"
            ],
            "description": "A group of beings are conscious more as a collective than individually.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "mentally distinguished being"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_intelligence",
                "http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/hive_minds"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "colonialism",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The practice of advanced civilizations to create colonies in less advanced regions is discussed.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "form of government"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonialism"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "colonization",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Colonization is a process of establishing control over areas or peoples for foreign people to advance their trade, cultivation, exploitation and possibly settlement. Such a process is featured in the story. In modern fiction, colonization typically comes at the expense of indigenous cultures and is seen as a moral wrong.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "international issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonization"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "The Federation was preparing a seemingly lifeless planet for colonization in tng1x18 \"Home Soil\", but it turned out that it harbored a very unusual form of life. The morality of the whole endeavor became a central topic for the story."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "colonization of Alpha Centauri",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A permanent human settlement is established in the Alpha Centauri star system.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "space colonization"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_Centauri"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "colonization of Earth",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A permanent alien settlement is established on the planet Earth.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "space colonization"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "A well-known archaeologist discovered the site of a hundreds of thousands of years old Martian colony deep inside Africa in \"The Retreat to Mars\" (1926)."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "colonization of Jupiter",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a permanent human settlement on or around the Jovian planetary system.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "space colonization"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploration_of_Jupiter#Potential_for_colonization"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "colonization of Mars",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A permanent human settlement is established on the planet Mars.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "space colonization"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonization_of_Mars"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "colonization of Mercury",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a permanent human settlement on the planet Mercury.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "space colonization"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_colonization#Mercury"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "colonization of Neptune",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a permanent human settlement on or around the planet Neptune.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "space colonization"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonization_of_the_outer_Solar_System#Neptune"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "colonization of Pluto",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A permanent human settlement is established on the dwarf planet Pluto.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "space colonization"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonization_of_trans-Neptunian_objects"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "colonization of the Moon",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A permanent human settlement is established on Earth's only major satellite.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "space colonization"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonization_of_the_Moon"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "colonization of the Sun",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A permanent human settlement on the surface (or something close to it) of the Sun is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "space colonization"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "colonization of Venus",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A permanent human settlement is established on the planet Venus.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "space colonization"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonization_of_Venus"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coma",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is in a coma, i.e., a deep state of prolonged unconsciousness from which they cannot be awakened, fail to respond normally to painful stimuli, light, or sound, lack a normal wake-sleep cycle and do not initiate voluntary actions.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human health condition"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coma"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "combat sports",
            "aliases": [
                "martial arts"
            ],
            "description": "There is a sport, or martial art, that involves combat or mock combat under rules and constraints that are meant to prevent serious injury.",
            "notes": [
                "If serious injury is part of the objective then \"blood sports\" is used instead."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "sports"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combat_sport",
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martial_arts"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coming of age",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A young, typically adolescent, character transitions from being a child to being an adult.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human childhood"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coming_of_age"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In talesoftheunexpected9x05 \"The Facts of Life\", we saw 17 year old Nicholas learn the ways of the world during his first trip to the big city, London."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coming out of the closet",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone faces the social consequences that come of revealing themself to be gay.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "romantic relationship issue",
                "human life choice"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coming_out"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Riker helped Soren, a member of the gender neutral J'naii species, to explore her female side in tng5x17 \"The Outcast\". She was summarily brought before a tribunal of J'naii authorities and ordered to receive the equivalent of gay conversion therapy."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coming to terms with having to give up on a dream",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character has had to give up on something they wanted, for example a career, and struggles to accept the reality of this.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "coming to terms with things"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In ds93x18 \"Distant Voices\", we hear of how Dr. Bashir had once dreamed of becoming a professional tennis player, but had to give up that dream and settle for medical school instead."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coming to terms with living in a new environment",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character's general living environment has suddenly changed in some way that they can do nothing about, and they must now come to accept it. They may for example be stranded in a foreign land, or have woken up in a distant future.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "coming to terms with things"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In voy2x25 \"Resolutions\", Janeway and Chakotay got stranded on an uninhabited planet. They were eventually resigned to the fact that they would live out the rest of their lives there."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coming to terms with one's own death",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is about to die, perhaps from a natural illness, comes to accept the fact and become at peace with themselves over it. In fantastic stories, a character may even have died and must now come to terms with the fact.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "coming to terms with things",
                "facing death"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In tng5x24 \"The Next Phase\", Ro Laren and Geordi La Forge apparently perish in a freak engineering accident and become ghosts. Geordi implores Ro to accept the reality of their demise, but she will have none of it. As it transpires, they had merely been phase shifted and could be brought back later."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coming to terms with one's own sexuality",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character learns to become comfortable with their sexuality.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "coming to terms with things"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coming to terms with one's past",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character has harbored guilt, resentment or other bad feelings with respect to some event in their past, but then comes to peace with all of that.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "coming to terms with things"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coming to terms with things",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character must come to accept something specific that has happened, or some changes in their situation, because there is nothing they can do about it.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human worrying about self"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/come_to_terms_with"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "commander and subordinate",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The relationship between a military type of leader and their formal subordinate is featured. The setting may be army, navy, air force or something comparable.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "humans in pairs"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In tz1959e4x06 \"Death Ship\", we saw the Captain of a spaceship quarrel with two men under his command over the best course of action to take given a strange predicament they had found themselves in."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "commercialism in society",
            "aliases": [
                "commercialism"
            ],
            "description": "Commercialism is the application of both manufacturing and consumption towards personal usage, or the practices, methods, aims, and spirit of free enterprise geared toward generating profit. We are made to ponder whether or not a state of excessive commercialism has come about in society, to the detriment of other social concerns.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "socioeconomic issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercialism"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "commoner vs. intellectual",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A stereotypical down-to-earth, poor and uneducated, \"ordinary\" character is compared and contrasted with a stereotypical refined and educated elitist character.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human characters in contrast"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In \"Stalker\" (1979), Stalker is a pitiful and  poor man who has to illegally guide people through a banned zone for a living. The story shows him guiding two educated elite characters: an eminent physicist, Professor, and a professional writer, Writer. The three get into a violent argument, in which Stalker's experience and feelings finally prevail against the others' refined intellects. The story concludes with a disheveled Stalker complaining about those idiotic intellectuals."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "communicating with deaf people",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The troubles a person who is deaf and one who is not, may have in communicating with each other are illustrated.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "problem of language and meaning",
                "deafness"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "communicating with someone who speaks a different language",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Two characters neither of whom understands the other's language, try to communicate with each other.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "problem of language and meaning"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "communicating with the dead",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The supposed practice of communicating with the spirits of the deceased, is explored.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "folk belief"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediumship"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "communism",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Featured is the philosophical, social, political, and economic ideology and movement whose ultimate goal is the establishment of the communist society, which is a socioeconomic order structured upon the common ownership of the means of production and the absence of social classes, money and the state.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "political ideology"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communism"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "communist dystopia",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are shown a bleak image of a dysfunctional world resulting from the abolishment of private property and other collectivization efforts. Typically the individual is oppressed for the perceived good of the many.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "dystopia"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_society"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "community of abandoned children",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Children are left without any adult supervision and are left to organize (or descend into chaos) by themselves.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative social institution"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "A band of abandoned brats tried to \"bonk bonk\" Captain Kirk on the noggin in tos1x11 \"Miri\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "company team building",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A workplace organizes some group activity with the aim of strengthening the bonds between people in a team and teach them to cooperate better.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "humans at work"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team_building"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "compassion",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone displays a notable degree of compassion toward the plight of another individual or group.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human emotion"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compassion"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "compassion vs. public safety",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone must chose between risking danger to many other on one hand, or helping someone in need on the other.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "personal ethical dilemma",
                "compassion"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In the movie \"Alien (1979)\", Ripley tries to follow standard quarantine procedures and denies the distressed landing party access to the ship after Kane has come in contact with alien life."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "compassion vs. self-preservation",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone is forced to choose between acting with compassion toward another, and saving his or her own skin.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "personal ethical dilemma"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "competition among nations",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Two nations knowingly vie against one another to achieve a goal that cannot be shared.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "international issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Competition"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "The Americans and Russians competed to be the first put a man on the Moon in \"Countdown\" (1968)."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "competitiveness",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is conspicuously driven to outperform someone else or be victorious in a task where the goal can't be shared.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human character"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Competition"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In tz1985e3x20 \"A Game of Pool\", Jesse and Fats were both extremely competitive pool players. Fats had returned from the afterlife, and Jesse staked his immortal soul simply for a chance to prove his mettle."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "compound interest",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Interest is calculated on top on interest, in addition to the principal sum. When the compounding is done at relatively short intervals (or continuously) over a relatively long time, the result is an exponential growth of capital which can be ample food for the imagination.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "mathematics"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compound_interest"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In rd1988e1x06 \"Me2\", Holly explained that Lister now owned 98% of Earth's wealth thanks to compound interest accruing on the £17.50 he had in his bank account 3 million years ago."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "compromising",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Two characters disagree over some arrangement and both concede something to reach a workable compromise.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "humans interacting"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compromise"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "compromising one's ethical principles for personal advantage",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone must choose between what they believe is right on the one hand, and what would profit them personally on the other.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "personal ethical dilemma"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "compromising one's ethical principles vs. great need",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone is torn up over doing something they feel they greatly need to do, but that is ethically unsavory to them.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "personal ethical dilemma"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In voy5x26 \"Equinox, Part I\" it is revealed that the Equinox crew choose to exploit and kill aliens in order to be able to get back to Earth, a voyage that would have taken more than a lifetime otherwise."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "compromising one's ethical principles vs. self-preservation",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone must choose whether or not to commit unsavory acts in order to save their own skin.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "compromising one's ethical principles vs. great need"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In blackmirror1x01 \"The National Anthem\", the Prime minister had to decide whether to copulate with a pig on national television in order to save his political career, as well as the life of beloved Royal Family member Princess Susannah."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "compulsive spending",
            "aliases": [
                "oniomania"
            ],
            "description": "A character exhibits an obsession with shopping, and a buying behavior that leads to adverse consequences for her. In stories, typically this is due to excessive spending that leads to financial problems. However, it can also involve just spending inordinate amounts of time on shopping activities.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human addiction"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsive_buying_disorder"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In tz1985e2x08a \"The Card\", we saw a woman, Linda, who had been rejected for every major credit card due to problems with late payments. She now applies for a rather special card with draconian penalties for late payment. When, again, she fails to make payments on schedule her family members start to disappear."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "computer hacking",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The practice of subverting computer security to break into computer systems is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human regular activity"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "It was mentioned that Trinity had cracked the IRS database in \"The Matrix\" (1999)."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "computer simulation",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A computer is used to simulate a complex system, for example the movement of planets in a solar system, the folding of a proteins, the trajectory of a vehicle etc.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "mathematics"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_simulation"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Geordi and Leah Brahms used the holodeck to simulate the warp engine, and save the day in tng3x06 \"Booby Trap\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "comrades in arms",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The relationship between two characters working closely together in combat roles in the armed forces, is explored.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "humans in pairs"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/comrade_in_arms"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "con artistry",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a character who plays an elaborate confidence trick of some sort on another character.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "criminal fraud"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "confessing to a wrongdoing vs. keeping quiet",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character considers whether to \"come clean\" and owe up to something they did that they should not have done, or whether to simply stay silent and hope they wont be found out.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "self-preservation vs. conscience"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "conflict of cultural norms",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is material conflict because people have different moral codes and there is a specific situation in which the codes appear to be incompatible.",
            "notes": [
                "This theme applies if there is a conflict situation in which at least one side won't back off because of some cultural idiosyncrasy which is notably different from that of the other side.",
                "The theme notably does not apply if the reasons both sides perpetuate the conflict because of such relatively universal values as: self-preservation, greed, etc."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "foreign point of view"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In tng1x04 \"Code of Honor\", The Ligonian leader Lutan thought it quite reasonable to kidnap Tasha, a lowly woman as he saw it, for his intrigues and was then honor-bound to stand his ground. The Federation people, on the other hand, saw things differently and could not abandon an officer just because she was female. Thus a material conflict became inevitable."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "conflict of duty",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character must choose between their \"duty\" to something (for example, a leader) on one hand, and a conflicting impulse (for example, a noble cause) on the other.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "personal ethical dilemma"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict_of_interest"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "conflict of privacy preferences",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone is made uncomfortable by things they consider to be more private but that are flaunted publicly by people from another culture. This often has to do with love and sex.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "cross cultural issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "conflicting systems of jurisprudence",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Mutually incompatible systems of justice have a claim to maintaining the rule of law within society. If a mutually acceptable compromise cannot be reached, brute force may have to arbiter.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "international issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurisprudence"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "conflicts of interest in society",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The social problem of people sometimes having misaligned or conflicting interests to the roles they are serving in, is discussed.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "political issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict_of_interest"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "conformism in society",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The ramifications of conformism in society, the strong expectation (sometimes enforced) that everyone should adapt themselves to specific norms, are explored.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "sociocultural issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conformity"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "A band of space hippies refused to conform and scolded Captain Kirk for being a rigid old \"Herbert\" in tos3x20 \"The Way to Eden\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "conformist dystopia",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a bleak society in which there is very little diversity because, one way or the other, people are prevented from developing their own distinctiveness. There may, for example, be an oppressive government that persecutes deviants, or there may be some other social institution that makes people conform. It may be that people must conform in appearance, way of acting, way of thinking, or all three.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "dystopia"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In tz1959e5x17 \"Number 12 Looks Just Like You\", we saw a society wherein everyone upon reaching adulthood were required to undergo a surgical alteration to transform them into one of a limited preset of physically perfect models. The procedure clearly affects the mind as well, and is likely maintained by a remote government in order to maintain conformity and order."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "confronting an old ghost",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone deals directly with a problem they had previously avoided or ignored.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "coming to terms with things"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Kodos the Executioner, a.k.a. Anton Karidian, was haunted by his decision to sentence some 4,000 colonists to death as governor of Tarsus IV in tos1x12 \"The Conscience of the King\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "conjoined twins",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There are a pair of twins that were physically joined in utero, that is, before they were born.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "twin and twin",
                "being physically conjoined to another"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conjoined_twins"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In tftc1989e2x17 \"My Brother's Keeper\", Frank and Eddie are Siamese twins and literally joined at the hip. Their combined epidermis merged there, and they share a circulatory system. An eccentric German physician gives them each a 50/50 chance of surviving a separation procedure, should they choose to undergo it."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "conservative vs. liberal",
            "aliases": [
                "conservative vs. progressive"
            ],
            "description": "An conservative philosophy of life is contrasted with a liberal philosophy of life. Conservative typically means an emphasis on traditions (as it is perceived) whereas liberal typically means an emphasis on social progress (as it is perceived).",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "contraposed political ideologies"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "conspiracy theory",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The belief that there is a secret and nefarious conspiracy in an institution, often a government.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "crackpot theory"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy_theory"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Neural parasites hatched a conspiratorial plot to infiltrate Starfleet Command in tng1x25 \"Conspiracy\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "consumerist dystopia",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a society in which human activity is geared towards acquisition of goods and services to absurd extents. Other values and things that give us meaning are mostly absent.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "dystopia"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumerism"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "contagious disease in society",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The social issue of there being pathogens that spread quickly from person to person and cause severe health conditions, is discussed.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "public health issue"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In apuleius180tgab9 \"The Golden Ass: Book 9\", the danger of rabies was illustrated when people fearfully kept their distance from an apparently infected canine."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "contemplating suicide",
            "aliases": [
                "suicide crisis"
            ],
            "description": "A character ponders whether their life is worth living.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human life choice",
                "suicide"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_crisis"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Worf was by a hair talked out of committing suicide rather than to live with the shame of being paralyzed in tng5x16 \"Ethics\". Dr. Timicin was expected according to Kaelonian culture to commit suicide at the age of 65 in tng4x22 \"Half a Life\" and he had second thoughts before he caved to peer pressure."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "contempt",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character regards another character with scorn or disdain and deems them beneath consideration.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human emotion"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contempt"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "contraposed political ideologies",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Two or more reasonably well-defined political ideologies are pointedly contrasted.",
            "notes": [
                "The goal of this project is in no way to provoke political controversy. When using a word that references a political stance it is advisable to consult, for example, Wikipedia and use the word only in ways that appear mainstream and are relatively uncontroversial."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "political ideology"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_philosophy",
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideology#Political_ideologies"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "\"conservative vs. liberal\" is a theme of this kind that is often featured in contemporary stories. We have a reasonably clear understanding of what conservative and liberal values are respectively, in a broad sense, even though we may disagree about many of the details."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "control by intimidation",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A person in charge uses fear to keep his underlings under control.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "humans in hierarchy"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "controlling family member",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "One family member is excessively controlling of the life of another family member. For example, an older brother may be controlling who his younger sister dates.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "coping with a problematic family member"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "controlling partner",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "One side in a romantic relationship is excessively controlling of their partner's activities.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "romantic relationship issue",
                "controlling family member"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "cooking",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is regularly engaged in preparing food for human consumption. Typically the character is either a professional cook, or sees cooking as a hobby.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human regular activity"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Riker whipped up a batch of 'Owon egg omelets for a few selected members of the command crew in tng2x13 \"Time Squared\". Worf pronounced the omelets to be \"delicious\", but the others did not concur."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "cooperation",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Various complications that can arise when two characters try to cooperate in an endeavour are featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "humans interacting"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperation#Among_humans"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "cooperation vs. competition",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are made to ponder whether it is more important that society and it's laws are centered around (the perhaps utopian idea of) people cooperating for the common good or around (the perhaps realistic assumption of) people working for their own benefit.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "contraposed political ideologies"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coping with a bad boss",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone copes with a boss who makes their work or life at the workplace difficult.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "coping with a problematic person",
                "boss and employee"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Riker had a rough go of it working under the command of the no-nonsense Captain Jellico in tng6x10 \"Chain of Command, Part I\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coping with a bad hangover",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone experiences the effects of a bad hangover.",
            "notes": [
                "If someone is said to have severe alcohol induced effects like blackouts, this theme may be motivated on account that the character surely also had a hangover."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human health condition"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Scotty coped with the effects of a bad hangover after drinking the Kelvan Tomar under the table in tos2x21 \"By Any Other Name\". The engineer again struggled with a bad hangover in tas1x10 \"Mudd's Passion\" and later tng6x24 \"Relics\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coping with a bad sunburn",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character stayed in the sun too long and got roasted like a lamb, then had to live with the consequences.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human health condition"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coping with a crisis of faith",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone struggles with a loss of faith in religious beliefs that they once held dear.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human mental condition"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiritual_crisis"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coping with a disability",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone experiences life with a emotional or physical disability. A physical disability is any limitation on a person's physical functioning, mobility, dexterity or stamina.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human health condition"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disability",
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_disability"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coping with a disobedient person",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character who is nominally in charge has to deal with a person that is disinclined to obey.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "coping with a problematic person"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coping with a drunken fool",
            "aliases": [
                "coping with an intoxicated idiot"
            ],
            "description": "A character suffers through being in the vicinity of an intoxicated person who is acting obnoxiously, for example at a party.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "coping with a problematic person",
                "inebriated interaction"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coping with a failing marriage",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Family members struggle through a dysfunctional marriage.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "disintegrating romantic relationship"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coping with a family issue",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone is troubled by the obligations and other troubles that stem from one's family connection, for example spending time taking care of children.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "family affairs"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dysfunctional_family"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coping with a grumpy old coot",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Some less old and grumpy character is annoyed by the antics of a much older and grumpier character.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "coping with a problematic person"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coping with a jealous lover",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character has to deal with the fact that their lover is inordinately jealous of perceived and potential rivals.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "coping with a problematic person"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coping with a life-changing event",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone must come to terms with the fact that an event has drastically changed their living conditions and future prospects.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "coping with life issues"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Captain Picard resigned to living out the remainder of his life as an alien on an unknown planet in tng5x25 \"The Inner Light\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coping with a loose cannon",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone copes with having an unpredictable and uncontrollable person around who is likely to cause unintentional harm.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "coping with a problematic person"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Captain Picard and Wesley found themselves stranded on a desert moon with the cantankerous mining shuttle captain Dirgo in tng4x09 \"Final Mission\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coping with a loved one being gravely ill",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone experiences having a loved on who is on the brink of death because of some disease or injury.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "coping with life issues",
                "humans in pairs"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coping with a loved one being in peril",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone must stand idly by while a loved one faces a perilous situation.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "coping with life issues",
                "humans in pairs"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coping with a loved one being mentally ill",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone near and dear must persevere through the experience of having a loved one suffering from a severe mental disorder of one sort or another.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "coping with life issues",
                "humans in pairs"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_disorder"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coping with a loved one being missing",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is upset because a loved one has disappeared and it is not known whether the loved one is dead or alive.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "coping with life issues",
                "humans in pairs"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_person"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coping with a massive loss of comrades",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character in a military-like outfit looses a demoralizing number of their comrades in some disastrous event, and must come to terms with this.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "coping with the death of someone"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Commodore Matt Decker mourned the loss of his crew to the Planet Eater in tos2x06 \"The Doomsday Machine\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coping with a meddling parent",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The life of a child or adult whose parent or parents interfere more than is desired is explored.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human parenting"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Worf's adoptive, Human parents embarrassed the Klingon during their visit aboard the Enterprise-D in tng4x02 \"Family\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coping with a moocher",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is subjected to the prolonged company of a person that begs and takes advantage of them without offering much in return. Typically there is a social bond, such as blood ties or old friendship, that inhibits the first character from breaking off the acquaintanceship.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "coping with a problematic person"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/moocher"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In talesoftheunexpected4x04 \"The Best of Everything\", Arthur invited Charlie to stay with him for a share of the rent, a lease of smart looking clothes, and some tuition in the art of seduction. It quickly became apparent that Charlie only paid lip-service to the terms of this arrangement and had no intention to pay his due in full. The increasingly frustrated Arthur was eventually pushed to the point of committing manslaughter."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coping with a nag",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone makes efforts to endure an inordinate amount of verbal abuse and admonishment.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "coping with a problematic person"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Harry Mudd was nagged nearly to death by an android replica of his wife Stella in tos2x12 \"I, Mudd\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coping with a pedantic authority figure",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A subordinate is having trouble with their boss being overly critical of their work.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "coping with a problematic person"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coping with a problematic family member",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character struggles to get along with, control, or abide, a family member that, for one reason or another, causes them trouble.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "coping with a problematic person",
                "family affairs"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dysfunctional_family"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "\"embarrassing family member\" is an example of \"coping with a problematic family member\" as it implies the presence of someone who is struggling to abide a family member that they find embarrassing."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coping with a problematic person",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character must put up with a person who they cannot avoid but find if difficult to deal with for whatever reason.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human challenge in life"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Examples of problematic people that others have coped with in stories include panicky relatives, practical jokers, jealous lovers, enamoured groupies, and obnoxious jerks."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coping with a spendthrift",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is troubled because someone they are connected with frivolously spends too much money. A spouse might, for example, be troubled because their partner is shopping or gambling to an extent that it threatens the family's financial security.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "coping with a problematic person",
                "spendthrift"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spendthrift"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coping with a spoiled brat",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone copes with a child, or childish person, who screams their heads off until they get what they want.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "coping with a problematic person"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Captain Kirk struggled with the behavioural problems of Elaan in tos3x02 \"Elaan of Troyius\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coping with a suicidal person",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character has to live with a person in their life carrying notions of suicide around.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "coping with a problematic person",
                "suicide"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coping with a sycophant",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character must deal with another character who is excessively obsequious.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "coping with a problematic person"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coping with a terminal illness",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone experiences having a terminal illness.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "facing death",
                "human health condition"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "McCoy diagnosed himself with xenopolycythemia, a rare blood disease that is always terminal, in tos3x10 \"For the World is Hollow and I have Touched the Sky\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coping with a tough customer",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The proprietor of a business struggles to maintain cordial relations with a client who refuses to be content.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "coping with a problematic person"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coping with aging",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone copes with the inevitability of growing old.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human health condition"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Lwaxana coped with aging once in tng4x22 \"Half a Life\" and again in tng5x20 \"Cost of Living\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coping with an arrogant jerk",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone has to handle being around a conceited and condescending person.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "coping with a problematic person"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coping with an enamored groupie",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A celebrity is accosted by a fan who is sexually attracted to him or her and none too shy about it.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "coping with a problematic person"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coping with an existential crisis",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character questions whether their life has meaning, purpose, or value. This is often tied to depression or negative speculations on purpose in life.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human mental condition"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existential_crisis"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In \"Winter Light\" (1963), Pastor Tomas Ericsson had a deep existential crisis related to the problems he saw in the world and his own apparent lack of faith. Fisherman Jonas Persson had a similar crisis, and ended up killing himself."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coping with an incompetent coworker",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is burdened by an incompetent coworker.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "coping with a problematic person"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "The Delta Theta III landing party was generally bemused by the erratic actions of Ari bn Bem in tas2x02 \"Bem\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coping with an intransigent person",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character copes with an inflexible person who is unwilling to compromise or see other peoples point of view.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "coping with a problematic person"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Data struggled to convince Gosheven, the leader of a human colony on Tau Cygna V, to organize an evacuation in the face of a Sheliak invasion in tng3x02 \"The Ensigns of Command\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coping with an obnoxious chatterbox",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone struggles to listen to a person who talks at length about frivolous matters.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "coping with a problematic person"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Captain Picard was obligated to attend a social gathering hosted by the notorious chatterbox Calvin \"Hutch\" Hutchinson in tng6x18 \"Starship Mine\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coping with an obnoxious jerk",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone struggles to deal with an annoying and inconsiderate person.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "coping with a problematic person"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Berlinghoff Rasmusen played the role of obnoxious jerk aboard the Enterprise-D in tng5x09 \"A Matter of Time\" in order to distract the crew from his larceny."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coping with an obnoxious neighbor",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone has to deal with a noisy, or otherwise troublesome, neighbor.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "coping with a problematic person",
                "neighbor and neighbor"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coping with an obsessive fan",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A famous person struggles with a much-more-than-usually devoted groupie, for example a stalker.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "coping with a problematic person"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celebrity_worship_syndrome"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coping with an overbearing jerk",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone struggles to deal with a domineering and inconsiderate person, i.e., an jerk.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "coping with a problematic person"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Mr. Lurry, manager of Deep Space Station K-7, coped with verbal abuse at the hands of Captain Kirk after having issued an unnecessary Code One alert in tos2x13 \"The Trouble with Tribbles\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coping with an overly hard handshake",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is subjected by another character to a grasping of hands that is uncomfortably firm. Typically this is done for the purpose of intimidation and to assert dominance.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "coping with a problematic person"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handshake"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coping with an overly private individual",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character tries to be social with another character who is unusually taciturn.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "coping with a problematic person"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coping with an overprotective guardian",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "An adolescent copes with the anxiety and depression that comes with having an overprotective guardian.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "coping with a problematic person"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helicopter_parent"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Salia was excessively protected by her appointed guardian Anya in tng2x10 \"The Dauphin\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coping with an unappealing social gathering",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character copes with participating in a social function, such as a dinner party, that they didn't want to attend in the first place.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "humans interacting"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coping with an unwelcome house guest",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A reluctant host has to suffer through having a guest that they would rather not have.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "coping with a problematic person"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coping with bad cooking",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is subjected to lousily prepared food.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "humans in pairs"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coping with being a danger to those around you",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character copes with being a danger to other people around them.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "coping with life issues"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coping with being a laughing stock",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone is the perpetual laughing stock of a group.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "embarrassment"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coping with being an outcast",
            "aliases": [
                "ostracism"
            ],
            "description": "Someone struggles with being rejected and isolated from a social group that is (financially, emotionally, or otherwise) important to them.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "coping with life issues",
                "humans in group"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostracism"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coping with being disfigured",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character lives with a deformity or injury that has left them permanently disfigured to an appalling degree.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "coping with a disability"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Vina was horribly disfigured in a crash landing on the planet Talos IV in tos0x01 \"The Cage\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coping with being eclipsed by a family member",
            "aliases": [
                "coping with being surpassed by one's child"
            ],
            "description": "A character feels diminished because of a family member's success at something in particular, and must come to terms with this.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "coping with a family issue"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In talesoftheunexpected9x02 \"The Colonels Lady\", George, who had had a distinguished career in the military, resented his wife's sudden and smashing success as a poetry writer."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coping with being famous",
            "aliases": [
                "being famous is not all it's cracked up to be"
            ],
            "description": "Someone deals with the various travails that may come with being famous, such as lack of privacy, creepy stalkers, greedy supplicants, etc. etc.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human social position"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coping with being ill and indisposed",
            "aliases": [
                "convalescence"
            ],
            "description": "A character is unable to go about their normal daily life because of some affliction and this changes their social interactions in a disagreeable way. They may, for example, resent being treated like an invalid by their well- meaning friends.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human health condition"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coping with being ill on the job",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character experiences symptoms of some illness while at work.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human health condition",
                "humans at work"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coping with being in a heat wave",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is sweating it through a period of excessively hot weather.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human challenge in life"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_wave"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coping with being in debt",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character struggles with various such problems that may arise from being in debt to another.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "coping with life issues"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coping with being injured",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone who is injured is featured as trying to cope with their situation.",
            "notes": [
                "Since injuries are extremely common in fiction, the bar for using this theme ought to be high, i.e., the comment should cite something explicit that makes it clear why the coping was featured which is not necessarily the case just because there was an injury in passing and someone saying \"ouch\"."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human in danger"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coping with being lost",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is in mortal danger because they have gotten lost and can't find their way to safety.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human in danger"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coping with being lost in space",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone (or some sentient thing) copes with being lost in the vast vastness of space.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "coping with being lost"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "The sentient space probe Nomad coped briefly with being lost in space, parted from its maker Jackson Roykirk, in tos2x08 \"The Changeling\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coping with being lost in the forest",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character copes with being lost in the woods.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "coping with being lost"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In \"The Blair Witch Project\" (1999), we saw three young filmmakers get irrevocably lost in a large forest while making a documentary about the local legend. While trying to find their way out, they were chased by something supernatural and eventually perished."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coping with being separated from one's family",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character struggles with being separated from their family for an extended duration of time.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "humans in pairs"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_estrangement"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Jono was separated from his adoptive father the Endar in tng4x04 \"Suddenly Human\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coping with being separated from someone you love",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is struggling with relationship issues that come from being far away (or otherwise separated) from the object of their affection for an extended period of time.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "humans in pairs"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coping with being tortured",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is subjected to cruel, painful and deliberate mistreatment against their will.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human in danger"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torture"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Captain Picard coped with extreme physical and psychological torture in tng6x11 \"Chain of Command, Part II\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coping with being unemployed",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character deals with not having a job and the typical problems that come with it.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "coping with life issues"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coping with being washed up",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone copes with having once been successful at what they did but then failed to keep up with.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "coping with life issues"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coping with cold feet",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is struggling with second though about getting married as their wedding day draws near.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "romantic relationship issue"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Keiko O'Brien, née Ishikawa, experienced some last minute jitters over marrying Miles O'Brien in tng4x11 \"Data's Day\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coping with disagreeable orders",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character copes with being ordered by a superior to do something that they do not wish to do for personal reasons, for example pride. Note: This theme is not used when the orders cause a moral dilemma.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human social position"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Ro Laren expressed her annoyance at Riker in the turbolift for making her write up flight handling assessment in his way in tng5x14 \"Conundrum\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coping with discomfort during pregnancy",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A pregnant woman (rarely a man except in fiction) has to deal with the various aches, pains and other annoyances that come with her condition.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human health condition"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symptoms_and_discomforts_of_pregnancy"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coping with excruciating pain",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character must endure extreme levels of physical pain.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human health condition"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pain"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In nightgallery2x22a \"The Caterpillar\", the character Macy was in utter agony while an earwig burrowed its way through his brain from one ear to the other."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coping with food poisoning",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character ate something bad and now has an upset stomach.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human health condition"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coping with getting dumped",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A former lovebird deals with the emotional fallout of having been dumped like a sack of potatoes.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "coping with heartbreak",
                "coping with romantic rejection"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coping with having a bad day",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character copes with having one of those days when everything that seemingly can go wrong, does go wrong.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "coping with life issues"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coping with having a bad reputation",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character struggles with the feelings and social complications that can come with having a bad reputation with people around you.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human social position"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coping with having a chronic condition",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character has an intractable, constantly recurring disease or other medical condition that they just have to live with. This may involve regular visits to the doctor and onerous treatment procedures.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human health condition"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coping with having a headache",
            "aliases": [
                "coping with migraine"
            ],
            "description": "A character struggles to endure pain located internally inside the skull.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human health condition"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headache"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coping with having a lousy dead-end job",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone is stuck in a very low status job and must come to terms with it.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "coping with life issues"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coping with having a predetermined life",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is burdened with their future role in this world being out of their own hands.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "coping with life issues"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Salia was reluctant to be the predetermined ruler of Daled IV in tng2x10 \"The Dauphin\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coping with having a stigmatizing illness",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone has a physical condition that makes them a pariah to the rest of their society. For example HIV/AIDS can be a stigmatizing disease in homophobic societies.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human social position",
                "human health condition"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2080544/"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coping with having been raped",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character deals with the psychological problems that can come from being violated sexually, or in a comparable way.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human social position",
                "human mental condition"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coping with having injured someone",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone feels guilty at having been responsible for injuring another person.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "humans in pairs"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Doctor McCoy unintentionally blinded Spock in tos1x29 \"Operation -- Annihilate!\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coping with having to destroy one's own creation",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character struggles with the tough decision of whether or not they should destroy something they have created, perhaps because it is causing some kind of mischief.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "coping with life issues"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In voy2x13 \"Prototype\" B'Elanna found an alien robot and spent much time lovingly restoring and upgrading him. When it turned out that the robot and his kin where completely genocidal, B'Elanna very reluctantly took the decision to destroy the work she had done in order that it would not aid them."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coping with heartbreak",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A former lovebird deals with the emotional fallout of their relationship having come to an end for whatever reason.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "romantic relationship issue"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coping with ill-fitting clothes",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character finds themself subject to this most disagreeable circumstance: the wearing of items of clothing, for example boots, that are not quite the right size.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "coping with life issues"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coping with infertility",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character struggles to come to term with the fact that they can't make babies of their own.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human health condition"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coping with insomnia",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is unable to sleep.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human health condition"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Troi struggled with insomnia in tng4x17 \"Night Terrors\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coping with life issues",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character has to live through one or another of those adverse conditions that have been known to plague human life from time to time.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human challenge in life"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Puberty, financial ruin, unemployment, stress, and personal failure are examples of some things that humans occasionally have to live through and learn to cope with."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coping with living in a foreign culture",
            "aliases": [
                "coping with living abroad"
            ],
            "description": "A character copes with living in culture different from the one they are accustomed to.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human social position"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Worf struggled to maintain his Klingon identity while serving aboard the Enterprise-D in tng2x14 \"The Icarus Factor\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coping with losing a special ability",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character had an ability that made them somewhat special but then looses that ability and must cope with the associated feelings and potential loss of status.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human mental condition"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In tng4x10 \"The Loss\" Counselor Deanna Troi looses her emphatic/telepathic powers and can no longer sense minds and emotions. Frustrated by this comparative handicap in her work and with a feeling that she has become useless to her fellow crew-members, she becomes distraught and attempts to resign."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coping with memories of a lost love",
            "aliases": [
                "lamentation over a lost love"
            ],
            "description": "A character copes with heart-wrenching memories of a lover that they failed to entirely get over.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "romantic relationship issue",
                "coping with life issues",
                "remembrance"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "McCoy found himself in a \"romantic haze\" at the prospect of meeting his long- lost love Nancy on Planet M-113 In tos1x05 \"The Man Trap\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coping with mortality",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character struggles with the realization that they will one day die.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "coping with life issues"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Q was stripped of his transcendental powers, including immortality, by the Q Continuum in tng3x13 \"Deja Q\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coping with opposing a friend",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is morally compelled to oppose and jeopardize their friendship with someone who is acting badly.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "humans in pairs"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Captain Kirk coped with opposing his longtime friend Gary Mitchell, who became an imminent danger to the crew after acquiring super powers, in tos1x01 \"Where No Man Has Gone Before\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coping with personal failure",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character copes with the aftermath of having experienced a personal failure in life.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "coping with life issues"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Wesley needed some words of encouragement from Captain Picard after he failed the Starfleet Academy entrance exam in tng1x19 \"Coming of Age\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coping with post-traumatic stress",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character copes with a mental disorder that can develop after a person is exposed to a traumatic event.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human health condition"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posttraumatic_stress_disorder"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Super soldier Roga Danar suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder after having served in the Angosian military in tng3x11 \"The Hunted\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coping with puberty",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "An adolescent character struggles with the normal hallmarks of puberty, such as a variety of bodily changes and sexual urges.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "coping with life issues",
                "human childhood"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coping with radiation sickness",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character experiences radiation sickness.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human health condition"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acute_radiation_syndrome"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Little Willie Harding succumbed of radiation poisoning after spending a night in the hospital in \"X the Unknown\" (1956)."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coping with romantic rejection",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone copes with being rejected by a person they are romantically interested in.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "romantic relationship issue"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coping with saying goodbye forever",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is about to leave someone they care about behind forever and struggles with how to take their leave.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "humans in pairs",
                "coping with life issues"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coping with senility",
            "aliases": [
                "coping with dementia"
            ],
            "description": "A character copes with a loss of their mental faculties that comes naturally with age, or one of the more severe conditions that is sometimes associated. Alternatively, a near and dear character copes with this happening to someone they care for.",
            "notes": [
                "This theme is used for example when a character copes with dementia, or Alzheimer's."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human health condition",
                "coping with aging"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dementia"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In tng3x23 \"Sarek\", Sarek coped with having Bendii Syndrome, which is a rare degenerative neurological disorder that sometimes affects Vulcans over the age of two hundred."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coping with sexual dysfunction",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character has trouble performing in the sack.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human health condition"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_dysfunction"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coping with someone controlling your life",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character has to struggle with someone (or something) controlling their life.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "coping with a problematic person"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Professor Kerry West got a new television set that began to regulate almost every aspect of his daily life in Twonky (1953)."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coping with someone having an addiction",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone must watch as a near and (usually) dear person struggles with an addiction.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "humans in pairs"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Addiction"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coping with someone losing their mind",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone is powerless to help a friend who is losing their mind and is left with no alternative but to stand idly by and watch the descent into madness.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "humans in pairs"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coping with someone who is a threat to replace you",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is concerned with losing their position, often meaning their job, to another character.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "coping with a problematic person",
                "human social position"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coping with someone who is comporting themself above their station",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a character A and a character B such that: Character A considers and is troubled by the fact that character B behaves like they have a more esteemed position in A and B's shared society, than they (in A's opinion) actually do. For example, an aristocrat may be troubled by the fact that a servant habitually doesn't act with due respect and deference.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "coping with a problematic person",
                "prejudicial attitude of superiority against someone less well off than one's self"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coping with someone who is overexerting themself",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone experiences having to watch a person they care about overexert themself at work.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "humans in pairs"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coping with someone who is suffering from a health condition",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character must cope with the fact that someone they care about suffers from a, more or less, serious health complication.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "humans in pairs"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coping with someone who refuses to take care of their health",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character, usually a relative, is concerned about a person they care for risking their life by refusing to see the doctor or not following medical advice, etc.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "coping with a problematic person"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coping with starvation",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is deprived of food for a dangerous period of time.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human health condition"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coping with stress at work",
            "aliases": [
                "coping with occupational stress"
            ],
            "description": "A character struggles to deal with heavy pressure and stress at work.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "psychological stress"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupational_stress"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Barclay retreated to a holodeck powered fantasy world to escape his on the job problems in tng3x21 \"Hollow Pursuits\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coping with suicide",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character experiences losing a near and dear one to suicide. Alternatively, in a creative sci-fi story, they could possibly cope with the ramifications of their own suicide.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "coping with the death of someone"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "The crew was shocked and bereaved at the suicide of their fellow crewman Daniel Kwan in tng7x18 \"Eye of the Beholder\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coping with the death of a child",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character grieves over the loss of their own son or daughter (or any other person they have regarded more or less as their offspring).",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "coping with the death of a family member"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Lwaxana mourned the death of her daughter Kestra in tng7x07 \"Dark Page\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coping with the death of a family member",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character must come to terms with having lost a family member.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "coping with the death of someone"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coping with the death of a friend",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character grieves over the death of a friend.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "coping with the death of someone"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "McCoy mourned Captain Kirk after he was pulled into interspace in tos3x09 \"The Tholian Web\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coping with the death of a lover",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character grieves over the death of a lover.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "coping with the death of someone"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Captain Kirk cried on Spock's shoulder, after he had knowingly allowed his lover Edith Keeler to die, in tos1x28 \"The City on the Edge of Forever\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coping with the death of a parent",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character (typically a child) grieves over the loss of a parent.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "coping with the death of a family member"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Jeremy Aster was racked with guilt in tng3x05 \"The Bonding\" for falsely thinking that he was responsible for the death of his parents."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coping with the death of a pet",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character grieves over the loss of their pet.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "coping with the death of someone"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Spock mourned the loss of his pet sehlat in tas1x02 \"Yesteryear\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coping with the death of a spouse",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character grieves over the loss of their spouse.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "coping with the death of a family member",
                "coping with the death of a lover"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Worf howled over the body of his murdered spouse K'Ehleyr in tng4x07 \"Reunion\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coping with the death of one's entire family",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character grieves over the death of their entire family.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "coping with the death of someone"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In tng1x26 \"The Neutral Zone\", Clare Raymond woke up from cryogenic preservation aboard the Enterprise-C only to be confronted by the stark realisation that everyone in her entire family from the 20th century was dead."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coping with the death of someone",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is coming to grips with the death of a person or persons who he or she had a degree of attachment to in life.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human challenge in life",
                "grief"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coping with the defeat of one's people",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character deals with the news that their country, or suchlike faction, has suffered a major setback, up to and including a total wipeout. The setback is typically military in nature and of such a scale that, at minimum, it can be said to hurt the national pride.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "coping with life issues"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coping with the imprisonment of a family member",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character must stand idly by while a loved one rots away in prison.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "humans in pairs"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coping with the loss of one's livelihood",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character copes with having had to give up their livelihood for whatever reason.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "coping with life issues"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coping with the rigors of command",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A commander struggles with the mental burden it is to be responsible for other people.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "psychological stress"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Captain Pike pondered going into business on Regulus or on the Orion colony in the aftermath of a hard fought battle on Rigel VII in tos0x01 \"The Cage\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coping with time passing you by",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character copes with not being able to keep up with an ever-changing world.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "coping with aging"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Scotty coped with time having passed him by after Geordi found him suspended in a transporter pattern-buffer in tng6x05 \"Relics\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "coping with unwelcome romantic attention",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character copes with unwelcome amorous advances.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "romantic relationship issue"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Captain Picard was mortified to have his former lover Vash aboard the Enterprise-D in tng4x20 \"Qpid\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "corporal punishment",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The once accepted, but now usually proscribed, practice of letting authority figures correct the behavior of their subordinates by inflicting physical pain, is discussed.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "legal punishment"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporal_punishment"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In talesoftheunexpected2x03 \"Galloping Foxley\", young Perkins was regularly caned by the older boy called Galloping Foxley, a prefect, (who would sometimes cane at a gallop) to whom he had been assigned as a slave."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "corporate executive",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character working at large firm in a senior management capacity is engaged in their chosen occupation.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human occupational activity"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_title"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "corporation interfering in politics",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a powerful corporation that to a notable extent uses its wealth to bribe or otherwise influence the government.",
            "notes": [
                "As a rule of thumb, this theme applies if a corporation interferes with or seriously challenges the whole of law enforcement."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "unethical business practices",
                "political issue"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In RoboCop 2 (1990), the OCP megacorporation plotted to bankrupt the city of Detroit then to step in to take it over."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "corporatocracy",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are shown a society in which one or more corporations has formal monopoly on political power.",
            "notes": [
                "This theme is not used in the many cases where powerful corporations merely control a more conventional government."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "form of government"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporatocracy"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "The film Parasite (1982) is set in a new future where instead of a government, America is run by an organization called the Merchants who exploit the remaining populace with ruthless ineptitude."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "corruption in society",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Discussed is the social problem that arises when officials or other people that have been entrusted with authority, to a wide extent abuses their position to acquire illicit benefits for themselves.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "political issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "cosmic balance",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The idea that the universe somehow maintains an equilibrium between opposing, typically dualistic forces (e.g. good and evil, light and dark, male and female, etc.), is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "metaphysics"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yin_and_yang",
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maat"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "Counter-Earth",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A hypothetical planet always on the other side of the Sun from Earth so that it remains hidden from us.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "crackpot theory"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counter-Earth",
                "http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/counter-earth"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "courage",
            "aliases": [
                "bravery"
            ],
            "description": "A character faces a perceived danger boldly.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human character"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Courage"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "courage in the face of death",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone shows bravery in the face of lethal danger.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "courage"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "courtly intrigues",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Persons with political power in a royal court or suchlike setting, maneuver and scheme with various motives, usually to get more power, wealth, and influence.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "political issue",
                "the lust for power"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In the play \"Hamlet\" (1602), the drama takes place in the royal court of Denmark where people were jostling for power, marriage, and prestige. Prince Hamlet's uncle had usurped the throne by murdering Hamlet's father, and was further maneuvering to rid himself of the troublesome, bereaved, and eponymous prince."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "covering up a crime to save a friend",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character struggles with whether to report a crime committed by a friend, or to help said friend evade the law.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "personal ethical dilemma",
                "obstruction of justice"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In talesoftheunexpected4x08 \"Never Speak Ill of the Dead\", Bob and Sim came to believe that their friend, Dr. David Rankin, had murdered his promiscuous young wife and buried her corpse in the basement. They decided to help him cover up the crime, had their help rejected and their hypothesis soundly refuted by the shovel."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "covert alien observers",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Powerful aliens observe us in secret to see what we are like, perhaps conducting an experiment or two in the process.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "extraterrestrial being"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "covert military operation",
            "aliases": [
                "covert military program"
            ],
            "description": "A secret military project is featured. The project is notably kept secret from the public at large, and not just the enemy.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "military secrecy"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covert_operation"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "cowardice",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone exhibits a marked lack of courage when the situation demands it.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human character"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowardice"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Marplon lost his nerve in the lead up to Captain Kirk confronting Landru in the Hall of Audiences in tos1x22 \"The Return of the Archons\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "cracking under pressure",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone is put under so much stress that they can't handle it and, typically, start acting irrationally.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "psychological stress"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Dave Bailey was relieved of duty for snapping on the bridge in tos1x02 \"The Corbomite Maneuver\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "crackpot theory",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "This is a general theme pertaining to theories that are presented as scholarly, but do not in fact adhere to the mainstream academic standards of the time. The theme may pertain to urban legends, fringe science, or conspiracy theories. Examples include the Bermuda Triangle, flying saucers, and Bigfoot.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "alternate reality"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudoscience"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "crackpot theory of cattle mutilation",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The killing and mutilation of cattle under unusual, usually bloodless, and anomalous circumstances is attributed to one or another fanciful notion, including secret government agencies, cryptid predators, and aliens.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "crackpot theory"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cattle_mutilation"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In \"Endangered Species\" (1982), some people attributed a series of cattle mutilations to extraterrestrials, but the true source of the mischief turned out to be something closer to home."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "creationism",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The contemporary social issue of how to handle creationist teachings is discussed. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, of course, but to what extent is it permissible to teach children such nonsense?",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "educational issue",
                "sociocultural issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creationism"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "creative writing",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A writer is engaged in writing original and creative works of poetry, novels, plays, etc. This is contrasted with, for example, scientific and journalistic writing where creativity has to be constrained by objective facts to a much greater extent.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "the fine arts and the humanities"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_writing"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "creeping authoritarianism",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Featured is a slippery-slope process by which a society becomes less democratic and more authoritarian. The population at large fails to take notice because although they'd prefer democracy, each step of the way appears normal and necessary, and quickly becomes a new normal.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "authoritarianism"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authoritarianism"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "crew's attachment to their ship",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The human tendency to form strong bonds to ships we are in command of or serve on for some time, is illustrated.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human social need"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "cricket",
            "aliases": [
                "billiards snooker"
            ],
            "description": "Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a 22-yard (20-metre) pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. This game is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "sports"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cricket"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "crime",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "One or another of those proscribed actions that are normally punishable by contemporary states, is featured.",
            "notes": [
                "The action must be understood in the context of the story to constitute a crime, be it against written law or unwritten customs (for example against God or other notions of morality).",
                "Because of their notoriety, we consider that a \"crime\" theme is topical to the story when a character unambiguously commits such a crime. For example \"murder\" becomes topical if a murder is committed. Common sense is required here: For example, action movies frequently feature actions that would arguably be \"crimes\" to a thoughtful conscientious viewer, yet are not treated as such in the story for one reason or another (action heroes often appear to be above the law). It is not the purpose of this category to catalog such things."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "law and order issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "crime against justice",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Featured is a crime that prevents the justice system itself from operating as it is meant to. This may involve, for example, false accusations, tampering with evidence, and perjury.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "crime"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverting_the_course_of_justice",
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obstruction_of_justice"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "crime against property",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Featured is a crime that involves private property, for example burglary, larceny, theft, motor vehicle theft, arson, shoplifting, and vandalism.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "crime"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Property_crime"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "crime against the person",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Featured is a crime that involves direct physical harm or force being applied to another person.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "crime"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Offence_against_the_person"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "crime against the public",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Featured is a crime where all of society is the aggrieved party, according to the law. This may include things like \"drunk driving\" which is criminal even if no one actually got hurt because anyone and everyone was put at risk.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "crime"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminal_law"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "crime and punishment",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "What acts are to be criminal, how they should be punished and otherwise handled, and their impact on society in general are discussed.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "social ethical dilemma"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In blackmirror2x02 \"White Bear\", the viewer is made to ponder several ethical dilemmas regarding the treatment of putative criminals. The woman did not remember her crime. Moreover, her punishment was turned into a public spectacle, if not for profit certainly for fame. Her punishment was certainly both cruel and unusual."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "crime of passion",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Featured is a violent crime, typically homicide, in which the perpetrator commits the act because of sudden strong impulse such as sudden rage rather than as a premeditated crime.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "violent crime"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_of_passion"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "criminal fraud",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The crime of intentional deception to secure unfair or unlawful gain, or to deprive a victim of a legal right, is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "crime against property"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraud"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Ardra conned the gullible inhabitants of Ventax II by pretending to be their devil in tng4x13 \"Devil's Due\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "criminal gangs",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a criminal gang and their influence on society is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "organized crime"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gang"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Moses in \"Attack the Block\" (2011) headed a criminal youth gang in a rundown area of London."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "cross cultural issue",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "This is a general theme pertaining to what may happen when people of different cultural backgrounds encounter each other.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "society"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-cultural_communication"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "The theme \"alien point of view\" is used when we are shown what things might be like from the point of view of an alien species, and categorized under \"cross cultural issue\" is it illustrates how someone from a different culture may have a different outlook on things."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "cross cultural romance",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Two people with different cultural backgrounds engage in a romantic relationship, and face all the various misunderstandings and controversies that typically come with it. Will the respective families get along?",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "romantic relationship"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "cruel and unusual punishment",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are made to ponder what kinds of acts of punishments are so cruel and unusual that it would be preferable to prohibit them entirely.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human rights issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cruel_and_unusual_punishment"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "cruelty",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is indifferent to, or delights in, pain and suffering that they inflict on someone else.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human character"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cruelty"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Gul Madred subjected Captain Picard to unspeakable tortures in tng6x11 \"Chain of Command, Part II\" and tried to make him see five lights where there were only four, four lights!"
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "crustacean-like being",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A being patterned after crustaceans.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "animal and plant patterned being"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "cryogenic technology",
            "aliases": [
                "biological stasis technology"
            ],
            "description": "Technology that can freeze, e.g., a human body and thus stop it from aging or changing in any major way for an extended amount of time.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "suspended animation"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryobiology"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "cryptid",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is an animal or plant that has been inferred from evidence, typically anecdotal, considered insufficient by mainstream science. Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster, and living dinosaurs are common examples from fiction.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "crackpot theory"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cryptids"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "cryptographic cypher",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A technique for secure communication in the presence a third party is featured. A collection of more or less complicated algorithms for encryption. These are strategies for writing messages such that they can only be read by those who know the secret to decoding them.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "mathematics"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cipher"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Sherlock Holmes and Watson cracked a book cipher in sherlock1x02 \"The Blind Banker\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "crystalline being",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A being with a body made out of crystal.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "inorganic being"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypothetical_types_of_biochemistry#In_fiction"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Data's evil twin brother Lore summoned the Crystalline Entity, the space snowflake, to feed on the lifeforms aboard the Enterprise-D in tng1x13 \"Datalore\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "cultural exchange",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is an exchange, or someone is sent, to stay in a foreign culture with the purpose of fostering cross cultural understanding between peoples in general.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "cross cultural issue"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "William Riker participated in an officer exchange program that involved serving aboard the Klingon vessel Pagh in tng2x08 \"A Matter of Honor\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "cultural history",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A cultural artifact from actual human history is featured. Notably, these are references to well known stories that have been occasionally and explicitly referenced within other stories.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "history"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_history"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "For example \"the Wizard of Oz\", \"Lord of the Rings\", and \"the legend of King Arthur\" are stories (or categories of stories) that are sometimes unambiguously referenced within more modern stories."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "cultural preservation",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The importance of preserving an imperiled culture is explored.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "sociocultural issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_heritage"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "The aliens on Malcor III decided to protect their dogmatic we-are-the-centre- of-the-universe beliefs by shutting themselves off from the Federation and the outside world in tng4x15 \"First Contact\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "cultural symbols as a unifying force in society",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "People unify around some object that is of shared cultural and historical significance to them, for example a religious relic.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "sociocultural issue"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "cure for Alzheimer's disease",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A scientifically derived cure for Alzheimer's disease is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "cure for an as yet uncurable disease"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alzheimer%27s_disease"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "cure for an as yet uncurable disease",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a scientific-based cure for a disease, such as cancer or the common cold, that is considered uncurable by modern medicine.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human enhancement technology"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "cure for blindness",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A scientifically derived cure for complete or nearly complete vision loss is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "cure for an as yet uncurable disease"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_impairment"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In nightgallery0x01b \"Eyes\" (1969), a doctor temporarily restored a blind woman's vision by transplanting in her the optic nerves taken from a reluctant donor."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "cure for cancer",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A scientifically derived cure for cancer is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "cure for an as yet uncurable disease"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treatment_of_cancer"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Dr. Bradshaw sought an electricity-based cure for cancer in the film Indestructible Man (1956)."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "cure for the common cold",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A scientifically derived cure for the common cold is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "cure for an as yet uncurable disease"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_cold"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "curiosity",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character exhibits a strong desire to know or learn something.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human emotion"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "curiosity killed the cat",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone performs ill-advised, unnecessary, dangerous investigations or experiments in order to satisfy their own personal curiosity.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human idea about life",
                "curiosity"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curiosity_killed_the_cat"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "custody battle",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Two or more people fight over the legal guardianship of a child.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human parenting",
                "divorce"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_custody"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "cyborg",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a being that is to a significant extent mechanical but that is a living biological organism at its core. Typically, a person or creature has been transformed by artifice into something that has a significant amount of non-biological technology integrated into it.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "artificial being",
                "hybrid being"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyborg",
                "http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/cyborgs"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "cyclical time universe",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A theory in which the universe follows infinite, or indefinite, self- sustaining cycles is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative cosmos"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclic_model"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "cyclops",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a flesh-and-blood being with only one eye.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "legendary being"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclopes"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "dancing",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a character who likes to wag about to the rhythms of music, either professionally or as a serious hobby.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "the fine arts and the humanities"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Beverly \"the dancing doctor\" got a kick out of teaching Data the art of tap dancing in tng4x11 \"Data's Day\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "dangerous driving",
            "aliases": [
                "reckless driving speeding"
            ],
            "description": "The issue of people sometimes choosing to drive their vehicles in a way that poses an unacceptable danger to themselves and others, is discussed. Most typically, this happens when a character is caught speeding.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "crime against the public"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dangerous_driving",
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reckless_driving"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "dark family secret",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is an embarrassing fact about something pertaining to a person's family or ancestry that is not widely known.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "family affairs"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_secret"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In ds96x17 \"Wrongs Darker Than Death or Night\" Kira found out that her mother, who she previously thought was a heroine, had quite willfully prostituted herself to the enemy and become a collaborator in order to protect Kira and her family."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "dark matter",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The physics hypothesis of \"dark matter\", thought to make up 85% of the matter in the universe, is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "physics"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_matter"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "data privacy",
            "aliases": [
                "information privacy"
            ],
            "description": "The question of appropriate balance between the public expectation of privacy on one hand and various social, legal and political issues on the other, are discussed. Is it, for example, acceptable for the government to snoop on innocent people's browsing habits in order to pick up on potential terrorist threats?",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "sociotechnological issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_privacy"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "de-escalating a conflict",
            "aliases": [
                "détente"
            ],
            "description": "Two parties in a conflict, like the Cold War, try to gradually back down and defuse the situation.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "international issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9tente"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "deadbeat parent",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a parent who does not adequately fulfill their responsibilities as such. This typically happens when someone neglects their child custody or support obligations as set out by law.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human parenting"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadbeat_parent"
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "deadly touch ability",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is able to kill people (or living things) merely by touching them.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "remote harming ability"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "deafness",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character experiences life with severely reduced hearing to the point that they can't practically understand spoken language.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "coping with a disability"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deafness"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "deal with the devil",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone literally strikes a bargain with the Christian devil, one of his minions, or a closely comparable mythological being from some other creed.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "organized religion"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deal_with_the_Devil"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "The Ventaxians had made a literal deal with the devil to provide a thousand years of paradise on their homeworld in return for future enslavement in tng4x13 \"Devil's Due\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "dealing with children",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The many trials and tribulations involved in handling children are featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human parenting"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "On Captain Picard Day, Picard had the onerous duty to feign interest, bestow awards and otherwise encourage youngsters in tng7x12 \"The Pegasus\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "death incarnate",
            "aliases": [
                "personification of death the Grim Reaper"
            ],
            "description": "There is a being of the Grim Reaper sort, that is somehow central to the transportation of expired souls from the Land of the Living to the Hereafter.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "legendary being",
                "personification of a concept"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_(personification)"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In tz1985e1x17a \"Welcome to Winfield\", we see a modern agent of Death dressed in a shining white suit, on a mission to capture a young man who did not want to come quietly when it was his time."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "death ray",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A hypothetical directed energy weapon that induces instant death in its victims.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative weapon"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_ray",
                "http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/death_rays"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "deciding what to wish for",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character has the opportunity to \"make a wish\", i.e., choose a boon from a loosely defined and relatively unbounded set of options, and struggles with this potentially tough decision. For example, a genie may tell them they can wish for anything but more wishes, or an extremely wealthy character says they can ask for whatever they want.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human life choice"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In tz1985e1x19a \"The Leprechaun-Artist\", we saw three young boys with a captive Leprechaun deliberate over what sort of boons to demand. The idea of asking for world peace was mooted but quickly discarded for more interesting things, like X-ray vision."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "deciding whether to be a parent",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character wrestles with themselves over whether or not they are ready and willing to axle the mantle of being a parent.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human life choice"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "decision making in the face of uncertainty",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone must decide, in a given situation that involves significant uncertainty, which among various courses of action is the better.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "personal practical dilemma"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "deep sea exploration",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone faces the dangers inherent to exploring unfamiliar parts of the deep sea.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "charting unknown territory"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "defamation of character vs. freedom of speech",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are made to ponder where the limits of free speech should be drawn. Should outright lies that hurt someone else's reputation be persecuted or is that a slippery slope towards totalitarianism?",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "social ethical dilemma"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "defection",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character escapes from their own side and goes over to the enemy, sometimes bringing valuable information with them.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "war"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defection"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "dehumanization",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are made to ponder what treatments are so shameful and debasing that they should be prohibited. Such treatment have been used as early steps in stirring up ethnic hatred and may lead to repression and genocide.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human rights issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dehumanization"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "delivering bad news",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone has the undesirable duty to deliver very bad news, i.e., to inform of the death of kin.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "humans in pairs"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Captain Picard had the unpleasant duty of informing Jeremy Aster that his mother Marla had died on an away mission in tng3x05 \"The Bonding\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "delusion of being someone one is not",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is portrayed as having the crazy delusion that they are someone they are not. Typically this happens when a person believes themself to be someone famous, like Jesus or Napoleon.",
            "notes": [
                "This theme is typically not applicable in fantastical stories where magic or technology is used to alter a person's mind in such a way that it arguably has been transformed into the mind of that person they now think they are."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human mental condition"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delusional_disorder"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "delusion of grandeur",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character exhibits fantastical beliefs that they are famous, omnipotent, wealthy, or otherwise very powerful.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human mental condition"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandiose_delusions"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Navigator Riley suddenly thought he was the captain in tos1x06 \"The Naked Time\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "delusional point of view",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are shown what things might be like from a mentally ill person's point of view.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human mental condition"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "demagoguery",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone, typically an aspiring popular leader or a \"rabble-rouser\", in a political context uses speeches, fine or incendiary words, rhetorical tricks and the like, to whip up the passions of the crowd.",
            "notes": [
                "It is often the case that the \"crowd\" consists of commoners and that they are being organized in opposition to an elite. This is not a logical necessity. The theme would also apply in a story if a group of aristocrats were being agitated against the lower classes, to take but one example."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "persuasion of groups by rhetoric"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demagogue"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "democracy",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The workings of a democracy are featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "form of government"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Babylon 5, bbf1x01, involved an election on earth as well as voting on the station itself."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "democracy vs. autocracy",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Democracy is a system of government in which state power is vested in the people or the general population of a state. Autocracy, by contrast, is a system of government in which absolute power is held by the ruler, known as an autocrat. In practice, systems of government aren't objectively either, but can subjectively be placed somewhere on a scale between the two extremes. Compared and contrasted in the story is two forms of government, one of which falls further towards the democratic end of the scale and one who falls further towards the autocratic end of the scale. For example, in Ancient Rome the faults and virtues of the somewhat democratic republican system was compared and contrasted with the faults and virtues of having a mostly autocratic dictator or emperor in charge.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "contraposed political ideologies"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy",
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autocracy",
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Republic"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "demon",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a pure evil spirit.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "legendary being"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "demonic possession",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A demon or devil enters into a person and takes control of them.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "spirit possession"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demonic_possession"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Dana Barrett was possessed by the demon Zuul in \"Ghostbusters\" (1984)."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "demonization of the enemy",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A propaganda technique which promotes an idea about the enemy being threatening evil aggressor with only destructive objectives is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "war"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demonizing_the_enemy"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "denial",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone is faced with an uncomfortable fact but tries irrationally to deny the evidence.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human mental condition"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "depletion of a vital natural resource",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "People over-exploit a vital resource on which they depend and civilization collapses.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "ecological destruction"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_resource_management"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "The Salt Vampires of planet M-113 were on the road to extinction as their planet had run out of salt in tos1x05 \"The Man Trap\". Where exactly the salt went is unclear but perhaps they ate it all."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "depression",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone exhibits a low, dark mood that at its extreme can lead to thoughts of suicide.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human mental condition"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depression_(mood)"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "descent into crime",
            "aliases": [
                "descent into evil"
            ],
            "description": "The way that someone can, step by step and without particular premeditation, get drawn into evermore serious crime is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "coping with life issues"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In voy3x13 \"Fair Trade\" Neelix did a favor for a friend who turned out to be involved in drug smuggling. After covering up some minor transgressions Neelix eventually found himself an accomplice to serious crime.",
                "In voy5x26 \"Equinox (1)\" it is told that the Equinox crew accidentally killed an alien and discovered that its body made excellent fuel. Driven by exceptional need they procured another alien which they murdered for fuel, then another and so on."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "descent into madness",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The transition of a healthy mind into unhealthy mental disorder is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human mental condition"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insanity"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Riker thought he was losing his mind in an alien insane asylum in tng6x21 \"Frame of Mind\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "desert planet",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a planet where nearly all land is arid, hot and sandy so that it resembles nothing more than one gigantic desert.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative habitable celestial body"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert_planet"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "desertion",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character abandons a duty or post without permission and is done with the intention of not returning.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "military issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desertion"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "desire",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "This a general theme pertaining to states of mind that are expressed by terms like \"wanting\", \"wishing\", \"longing\" or \"craving\".",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human emotion"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desire"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "desire vs. conscience",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone is made to choose between what they desire for themselves on the one hand, and a cause of action they know to be morally the right on the other.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "personal ethical dilemma"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "despair",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character feels that all hope is gone.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human mental condition"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depression_(mood)"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "desperation",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone is at the brink of disaster, defeat, or personal failure and may try desperate actions to avoid the dreaded outcome.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human mental condition"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "despotism",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a society which is ruled by a despot with more or less absolute power. This should not be confused with totalitarianism, which is more severe.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "form of government"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Despotism"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "destiny",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Destiny, or \"fate\", is the idea that some or all of what happens to us is predetermined and cannot be influenced by our decisions. This idea is featured in the story. It shouldn't be confused with the idea of (backwards) \"time travel\" and usually isn't used in conjunction with the time travel theme.",
            "notes": [
                "Typically, destiny is a major theme in stories where a character has been told about their future through a prophesy or the like, and strives to change some part of it (generally in vain). It is a minor theme for example when a character mentions the idea but it has little relevance to the main storyline. Note that words like \"destiny\" and \"fate\" are sometimes used in figures of speech (say \"come, destiny awaits\" or \"that fateful day\") where the speaker is not particularly concerned with the idea behind the word in question. In such cases it is not used as a theme at all.",
                "Time travel stories are most often paradoxical but tend to involve a character actually changing what has, in a sense, already happened. In some stories a character changes the past futilely in order to escape an event in the present and it may in some sense look similar to the idea of destiny. However, it is difficult to make sense of such stories in the context of \"a singular predetermined course of events\", which is the basis for the classical idea of \"destiny\". Therefore, as a rule of thumb, \"destiny\" stories tend to be completely separate from \"time travel\" stories."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "folk belief"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destiny"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Data was destined to find his own severed head in tng5x26 \"Time's Arrow\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "destroying one people to save another",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The following type of ethical dilemma becomes topical: Can the destruction of one people be justified on account of it saving another? In particular, is a people justified in committing genocide if they think it is necessary for their own survival as a people?",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "social ethical dilemma"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "developing one's social skills",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character seeks to improve their ability to interact socially with other people.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human self improvement"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "device bigger inside than outside",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a container-like device that, defying the laws of nature as we presently know them, has a larger interior volume than its exterior volume.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "spacetime manipulating technology"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "devil worship",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The worship of Satan is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "organized religion"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satanism"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "devolution",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A hypothetical process by which a creature can be transformed into some creature of an earlier stage in its evolutionary history. E.g., a human could become an ape-like \"australopithecus\", or a rat-like \"repenomamus\", etc.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative evolution"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devolution_(biology)",
                "http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/devolution"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "dictation machine",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A machine that can listen to human speech and put it down in writing. This was sci-fi in the 60s but is by-and-by and more becoming reality.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "once speculative device"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictation_machine"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Roberta Lincoln had trouble coming to grips with her hands-off typewriter in tos2x26 \"Assignment: Earth\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "digital afterlife",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is technology which can transfer the consciousness of a dying person into a simulated reality where they can live on after their body ceases to function.",
            "notes": [
                "This theme is not used when the portrayed transfer is featured as some sort of cloning process that creates an independent duplicate of a person."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative virtual reality"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "digital clone of a person",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A real person has been copied so that a facsimile of them now exists in a computer simulation.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "virtual person",
                "duplicate of a person"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "diplomacy",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Explored is a transnational social issue that centers on the peaceful interaction between sovereign factions in the form of discussion, trade, and posturing - as opposed to by threats and brute force.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "international issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplomacy"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "\"peace process\" and \"diplomatic negotiating\" are examples of \"diplomacy\" themes."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "diplomacy vs. force",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The question of when to use peaceful diplomacy and when to resort to brute force is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "international issue"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "directed energy shooting ability",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is able to shoot energy beams, usually out of their hands or eyes, in a controlled manner.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative ability related to own body"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In X-men (2000), Cyclops emitted powerful beams of energy from his eyes that he could not control without the aid of special glasses."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "disapproving parent",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A parent disapproves of the actions and decisions a child of theirs make, as so often happens.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human parenting"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "discipline in the workplace",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A person in charge is confronted by insubordination and tries to do something about it.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "humans at work"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "discipline of a child",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The subtle question of how best to teach a child self-discipline, appropriate obedience, and how to punish transgressions.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "educating a child"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_discipline"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Worf gave Alexander a stern talking to for having pocketed a lizard model on a school field trip in tng5x10 \"New Ground\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "disciplined leadership vs. flexible leadership",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Two characters in leadership positions take radically different approaches in terms of what balance of flexibility and friendliness they employ vs. how much hard discipline they impose. Alternatively, a single character contemplates which of these leadership styles to adopt.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human characters in contrast",
                "leadership"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "discovering a hidden talent",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone realizes they are good at something they had not previously considered as a skill in their possession.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human self improvement"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "discrimination in society",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The ramifications of discrimination in society are explored.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "political issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrimination"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "The telekinetically endowed Platonians treated the dwarf Alexander as a second class citizen because he did not have any mental powers in tos3x12 \"Plato's Stepchildren\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "disembodied head",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A severed head is kept alive, and perhaps placed inside a jar.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "artificial being"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "disillusionment",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone realizes that something they had previously believed in is not so great after all.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human character"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/disillusionment"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "disintegrating romantic relationship",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A romantic relationship breaks down and becomes dysfunctional in one of the many ways such a thing can happen.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "romantic relationship issue"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "disintegration chamber",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A chamber with the capability to make its contents, for all intents and purposes, vanish into thin air.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "pod or booth-like device"
            ],
            "references": [
                "http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/disintegrator"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "displacement by a rising new species",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A new species evolves, or otherwise appears, and overthrows the civilization of the current dominant species on a world. The new species is also native to that world.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "force of nature existential risk to civilization"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Dr. Otto Hasslein was convinced that apes were destined to become intelligent and supplant humankind as the dominant species on Earth in Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971)."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "distaste for attention",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone is unassuming and declines attention for themselves.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human character"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Worf reluctantly participated in a surprise birthday party held in his honor in tng7x11 \"Parallels\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "diversity vs. unity",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Diversity in society is contrasted with unity in society. Social \"diversity\" is the quality of people being and thinking in many different ways while social \"unity\" is the exact opposite. Either can be a strength and either can be a weakness.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "contraposed political ideologies"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "divide and conquer",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The well known strategy of gaining and maintaining power by breaking up larger concentrations of power into pieces that individually have less power than the one implementing the strategy, is demonstrated.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "the art of war"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divide_and_rule"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "divination",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The attempt to gain insight into a question or situation by way of an occultic, standardized process or ritual, is featured. This may involve reading entrails, reading stars, using knuckle bones, tarot cards, ouija boards etc.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "folk belief"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divination"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "divine madness",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a mentally impaired character who is considered blessed or otherwise holy, by some religious doctrines.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "organized religion"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foolishness_for_Christ#Holy_fool",
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divine_madness"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In \"Andrei Rublev\" (1968), we heard that Durochka had nothing to fear from the rambunctious Tartars that carried her off because she would be considered a holy fool by them."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "divine retribution",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "It is suggested that a misfortune befalling someone, a group, or a society, is in fact a punishment from God for something that was done.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "organized religion"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divine_retribution"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "divine visitation",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is visited by a deity, for example in a dream or a vision, and receives some sort of revelation.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "organized religion"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "divorce",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Two characters who were formally married go through a divorce.",
            "notes": [
                "Although legally distinct, we theme annulments as divorces for the time being."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "family affairs"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divorce"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "divorce procedures",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The legal niceties required in order for a married couple to be formally divorced, are featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "law and order issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divorce"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In talesoftheunexpected7x13 \"The Reconciliation\", various complications involved in obtaining a divorce in the UK were explained to James by his lawyer."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "DNA encoded message",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The idea of using DNA, which encodes the genetic instructions used in the development of functioning of all known organisms, to encode a conventional message.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative biotechnology"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "A secret message was found encoded in pieces in the DNA of numerous separate humanoid alien species in tng6x20 \"The Chase\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "doctor and patient",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The interpersonal relationship between a doctor and their patient is examined.",
            "notes": [
                "As doctors and patients are rather common occurrences in stories, this theme should only be used if the relationship in question has a notable and lasting quality. Usually, the doctor is expected to be self-conscious of the relationship."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "humans in pairs"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor%E2%80%93patient_relationship"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "doctor and patient romance",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A doctor and their patient engage in a romantic relationship, and the befuddling dilemmas that come with it. Can a besotted doctor still give good medical advice?",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "romantic relationship",
                "medical ethical issue"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "doctor assisted suicide",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Discussed is whether it is ethically right sometimes for a doctor to assist life-weary patients in committing suicide.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "medical ethical issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assisted_suicide"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Worf longed for somebody to pull the plug on him after he was paralyzed as the result of a freak accident in tng5x16 \"Ethics\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "doctor vs. next of kin",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "It is discussed what should be done when there is disagreement between doctors and their patient's next of kin, in some important choice the patient is incapable of making.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "medical ethical issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor%E2%80%93patient_relationship"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "doctor's opinion vs. patient preference",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are asked to what extent a doctor must respect the wishes of the patient, their next of kin or guardians in case of a minor, when those wishes are seen as being against the good of the patient.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "medical ethical issue"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "doctor-patient confidentiality",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "It is discussed when, if ever, a doctor is ethically obligated to divulge confidential information about their patient without the patient's consent.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "medical ethical issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor%E2%80%93patient_relationship"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "domed city",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A city protected by some manner of a dome-shaped barrier.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative city"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domed_city"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "The Enterprise-D was diverted to save a doomed domed city of genetically engineered colonists in tng5x13 \"The Masterpiece Society\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "domestic violence",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A crime involving violence or other abuse by one person against another in a domestic setting, such as in marriage or cohabitation, is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "crime against the person",
                "violent crime"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestic_violence"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "dominicide",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character murders a person to whom they are formally subordinate and ought in principle be loyal to.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "murder"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_types_of_killing#Killing_of_superiors"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In \"Throne of Blood\" (1957), Washizu and Asaji murdered their liege lord Tsuzuki in order to usurp his position."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "donating an organ to save a life",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character chooses to donate an organ of their own in order to save someone else's life.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human self-sacrifice for another"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "doppelgänger",
            "aliases": [
                "doppelganger twin stranger"
            ],
            "description": "There are two characters who are biologically unrelated yet carry such a remarkable resemblance that one could readily impersonate the other.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative human"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doppelg%C3%A4nger"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In ahp1x10 \"The Case of Mr. Pelham\", a twin double is gradually taking over Mr. Pelman's life."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "drawing",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The art of using relatively dry instruments such as pens and crayons (but not paint) to create images on a surface such as paper or a computer display.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "the fine arts and the humanities"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drawing"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "dream interpretation",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Dreams are interpreted in a highly metaphorical or otherwise esoteric way.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "folk belief"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "dream recorder",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A device used to record and replay your dreams.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative device"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought_recording_and_reproduction_device"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "The holodeck was employed to monitor Data's dreams in tng7x06 \"Phantasms\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "dream walking",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is able to enter a dream world and consciously observe or interact with it. The dreamworld is shown as being more real than our conventional understanding of dreams. The dream world could be created by the character, another character, or exist independently of people.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative ability related to own mind"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "drug abuse",
            "aliases": [
                "substance abuse"
            ],
            "description": "A character uses a chemical substance (e.g. alcohol, tobacco, hallucinogens, or narcotics) to such an extent and frequency that it becomes a problem for them and others.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human addiction"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substance_dependence"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "drugged up dystopia",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a world in which stability is maintained thanks to one or more drugs that keep people under control, perhaps by making them feel perpetually happy.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "dystopia"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "drugs for military use",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The military supplies addictive drugs to their own fighters in order to make them pliant.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "military issue"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "drunk driving",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The offense of driving, operating, or being in control of a vehicle while impaired by alcohol or other drugs (including recreational drugs and those prescribed by physicians), to a level that renders the driver incapable of operating a motor vehicle safely, is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "dangerous driving"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Driving_under_the_influence"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "dumb blonde stereotype",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a pretty, young woman is profoundly ignorant and shows no interest in intellectual pursuits.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "female stereotype"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blonde_stereotype"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Gary Seven's secretary, Roberta Lincoln, epitomized the ditsy blonde stereotype in tos2x26 \"Assignment: Earth\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "dumb jock stereotype",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone is primarily interested in sports and sports culture, and does not take much interest in intellectual culture. This is the male equivalent of the ditzy blond blond stereotype.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "male stereotype"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jock_(stereotype)"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "The Ghostbusters' secretary Kevin Beckman exemplified the male equivalent of a stereotypical dumb blond in \"Ghostbusters\" (2016)."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "Dungeons and Dragons",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "This franchise sprung from the 1974 tabletop role-playing game is directly featured or parodied.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "tabletop games",
                "cultural history"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeons_%26_Dragons"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "duplicate of a person",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The technology to duplicate a person, or at least a person's mind.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "mind altering technology"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "duty to disobey illegal orders",
            "aliases": [
                "superior orders defense Nuremberg defense just following orders"
            ],
            "description": "We are asked whether an excuse like \"I was merely following orders\" is acceptable in some scenario where something illegal or unethical has been perpetrated.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "legal duty"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superior_orders"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "duty to rescue",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The idea, found in some legal codes, that a person sometimes has a legal duty to come to the rescue of another person is discussed.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "legal duty"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duty_to_rescue"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In \"Vertigo\" (1958), detective John Ferguson attends a hearing regarding Madeleine's death. The judge chastises John for the various ways in which John failed to intervene, and laments that the law unfortunately doesn't have much to say about actions never taken."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "duty to return lost property",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The idea, found in some law codes, that the finder of a piece of presumably lost property has a duty to do something in order to return it to the rightful owner, is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "legal duty"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "duty vs. compassion",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone is forced to choose between following their duty on the one hand, and acting to help a fellow being out of compassion on the other.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "conflict of duty"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "duty vs. conscience",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone is forced to choose between acting in accord with their duty, and acting in accord with their conscience.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "conflict of duty"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "duty vs. desire",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is forced to choose between following their duty, and acting to further some goal of their own.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "conflict of duty"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "duty vs. duty",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone is forced to choose between opposing groups.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "conflict of duty"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "duty vs. friendship",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone is forced to choose between following their duty, and helping a friend.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "conflict of duty"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In tos1x13 \"The Galileo Seven\", Captain Kirk was torn between his duty to the Federation to deliver medicine on the one hand, and his duty to continue his search for Spock on the other."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "duty vs. love",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone is forced to choose between following their duty, and following their heart.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "conflict of duty"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "The allasomorph princess Salia chose the office of head of state of the planet Daled IV over Wesley in tng2x10 \"The Dauphin\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "duty vs. self-preservation",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone is forced to choose between following their duty, and saving their own skin.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "conflict of duty"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "dying sun",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The sun to a planet becomes colder and civilization collapses.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "catastrophic solar event"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_evolution"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "dysfunctional legal system",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A legal system (a system of courts and policing) is so broken, perhaps owing to endemic corruption, that the meting out of justice is severely compromised",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "social dysfunction"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_national_legal_systems"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "dysfunctional upbringing",
            "aliases": [
                "troubled childhood"
            ],
            "description": "A character grows up in a family under conditions that professionals would probably describe as dysfunctional. This typically involves some amount of psychological problems.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human childhood"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Beverly in \"It\" (1990) had a physically abusive father and later in life find herself drawn to other abusive men against her better judgment."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "Dyson sphere",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A truly enormous, hollow sphere constructed around a star to capture its entire energy output.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "stellar engineering"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyson_sphere",
                "http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/dyson_sphere"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Scotty was found to have crash landed on the outer shell of a Dyson sphere in tng6x04 \"Relics\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "dystopia",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a functioning society that is nevertheless for some reason depressing and horrifying to contemporary eyes.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative social institution"
            ],
            "references": [
                "http://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/dystopias"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "déjà vu",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The unscientific notion that the sensation that an event currently being experienced has happened in the past means it did in fact happen in the past.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "crackpot theory"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9j%C3%A0_vu"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Beverly and her poker buddies experienced déjà vu when they got stuck in a time loop in tng5x18 \"Cause and Effect\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "early computer",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A computer, i.e. a machine that is programmed to carry out sequences of arithmetic operations, of the sort that was used by large organizations and was around before PCs and The Internet began becoming commonplace in households, is featured.",
            "notes": [
                "As a general rule of thumb, this category includes machines made before the 1990s and excludes such machines that may be called \"PCs\"."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "technology"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Duotronic computer technology had supplanted conventional transistor based computing in the Federation by the 23rd century in tos2x24 \"The Ultimate Computer\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "eco-terrorism",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Terrorist-like activities such as armed attacks, bombings and sabotage, are carried out in the name of the natural environment.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "environmental issue",
                "terrorism"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eco-terrorism"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Militant activists from Hekaras II placed space mines to stop space ships from rupturing subspace with their warp cores in tng7x09 \"Force of Nature\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "ecological destruction",
            "aliases": [
                "environmental destruction"
            ],
            "description": "People pollute the environment upon which they depend to the point of total collapse and everyone dies from starvation etc.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "institutional risk to civilization"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_degradation"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "ecology",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The scientific study of interactions among organisms and their environment, involving all of biology, geography, and Earth science.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "science"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecology"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Invasive species' such as the Tribbles could have a profound impact on ecology as we are shown in tas1x05 \"More Tribbles, More Troubles\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "economic downturn",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The ramifications of a severe economic downturn, like an economic depression or recession, on society are explored.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "socioeconomic issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depression_(economics)",
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recession"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Captain Kirk and Spock followed McCoy back to the 1930s and got to experience the American Great Depression first hand in tos1x28 \"The City on the Edge of Forever\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "edge of the universe",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A hypothetical untraversable border around the universe which cannot be traversed.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative cosmos"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observable_universe"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "The Traveler used his powers of thought a little bit too hard and tossed the Enterprise-D to the edge of the universe in tng1x06 \"Where No One Has Gone Before\" and it was found to be a really weird place."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "educating a child",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "An adult character goes about deliberately shaping a child's mind as he or she grows up.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human parenting"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "educational issue",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Explored is a social issue that examines how we, collectively through policy making, instruct people in how they should think and act. Notably, the theme pertains to the schooling of young people.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "national social issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "\"religion in public education\" is an \"educational issue\" as it discusses whether and to what extent religious notions ought to be presented to young people as part of their formal education."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "egocentrism",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character manifests an inability to understand or assume any perspective other than their own.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human character"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egocentrism"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "El Dorado",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "This fabled city in South America is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "legendary place"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Dorado"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In \"Aguirre the Wrath of God\" (1972), we saw a band of Spanish conquistadors meat their doom on the Amazon River while obsessively pursuing the chimera of El Dorado."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "electioneering in society",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Problems and controversies surrounding the various practices by which politicians sometimes go about campaigning for public office are featured. For example, what can we do about all the fake news that is generated and how do we keep the Russians from meddling?",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "political issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_campaign"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "electricity",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The science behind those physical phenomenon associated with charged particles in motion is explored.",
            "notes": [
                "Electricity is almost ubiquitous in the human world since the early 20th century and the effects of electricity can often be noted in modern stories without being in any way remarkable. Electric appliances typically form the background setting of the story and are not themes. Nor does a simple lightning strike or passing thunderstorm offer sufficient grounds for applying the theme unless more is said about the matter. The theme also does not apply merely when someone is zapped by what seems like an electrical discharge in an action or sci-fi story."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "physics"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity",
                "http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/power_sources"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Professor Carbonic invented a life restoring, brain-injectable serum that worked by stimulating neuronal electrical production in \"Advanced Chemistry\" (1927)."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "electricity manipulation ability",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is able to conjure or control electricity, or lightning, more or less by using the power of their mind.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative ability related to physical things"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "electromagnetic being",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A being that is made of electromagnetic radiation.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "inorganic being"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Captain Picard joined forces with Dathon, a member of the enigmatic Children of Tama, to battle the ferocious Electromagnetic Beast of El-Adrel in tng5x02 \"Darmok\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "electromagnetic catapult",
            "aliases": [
                "mass driver"
            ],
            "description": "There is a launcher on a planet that uses a linear motor (e.g. a mass driver that uses coils of wire energized by electricity to make electromagnets) to accelerate and catapult payloads into space.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative device"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_driver"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In \"The Moon is a Harsh Mistress\" (1966), wheat was shipped from the Moon to Earth using just such a contraption."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "elemental being",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a personification of one of the four classical elements (i.e. earth, water, air, and fire).",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "legendary being",
                "personification of a concept"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elemental"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In the video game \"Final Fantasy\" (1987), it is up to the Light Warriors to retrieve the elemental orbs of earth, water, air, and fire by defeating their respective personifications in battle."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "elf",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a diminutive, humanoid being with long pointy ears that is friendly with nature and animals.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "legendary being"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elf",
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elves_in_fiction"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "embargo",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A faction sets out to curtail and prevent trade with another faction. Often some form of direct air/naval blockade is put in force.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "war"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_sanctions"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "embarrassing family member",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A person is ashamed because of a relative's anachronistic or otherwise embarrassing behavior. For example, a kid might be embarrassed when their parents accompany them to class.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "coping with a problematic family member"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "embarrassment",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone feels ashamed or self-conscious about themself in front of others.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human emotion",
                "human social position"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embarrassment"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Spock was mortified at the prospect of having to explain the nature of his secret Vulcan mating urges to Captain Kirk in tos2x05 \"Amok Time\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "embezzlement",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Embezzlement is a type of financial fraud involving the misappropriation of assets. Typically it is used with regards to the theft of money from an organization or company such as an employer. For example, a lawyer might embezzle funds from the trust accounts of their clients; a financial advisor might embezzle the funds of investors; and a husband or a wife might embezzle funds from a bank account jointly held with the spouse or peer.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "theft",
                "criminal fraud"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "emergently intelligent being",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A non-human intelligence forms through some process akin to evolution. This is as opposed to it being designed by some prior intelligence.",
            "notes": [
                "In fiction there are many cases of machines that weren't meant to be intelligent, becoming so for one reason or another. That case is typically in scope for this theme. The boundary becomes blurred when the machine was originally designed to be advanced close to the point of intelligence."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative being"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "emotional attachment to a thing",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character has a significant emotional attachment to an inanimate object, typically a cherished possession.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human emotion"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comfort_object"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "emotional overwhelm",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone feels overwhelmed by an emotion or impression, for example by the grandeur of an experience or the gravity of a responsibility, to such an extent that they are speechless and come close to fainting or commit suicide because they can't handle it all.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human emotion"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Troi was shocked to wake up on a Romulan warbird looking like a Romulan in tng6x14 \"Face of the Enemy\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "emotionless emotion craving being",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A being that, lacking emotions of its own, somehow craves to experience emotions with the help of others.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "mentally distinguished being"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "empathic being",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a being that is able to transmit its feelings directly to others.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "mentally distinguished being"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Elliot was able to feel what E.T. felt in \"E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial\" (1984)."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "endangered species",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Ideas surrounding the preserving of endangered species are explored.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "environmental issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endangered_species"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "enemy point of view",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are simultaneously shown what things may be like from the respective viewpoints of two factions that see each other as enemies.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "cross cultural issue"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "energy crisis in society",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A society systemically fails to provide enough energy to cover basic demands. Energy means electricity as well as fossil fuels and other kinds of fuels that are used to perform work.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "socioeconomic issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_crisis"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In the short film \"Libra\" (1978), we see a freewheeling frontier space colony design fantastic solar power plants in space that may potentially save the corrupt and over-regulated Earth from its ongoing energy crisis."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "engaged couple",
            "aliases": [
                "fiancé and fiancée"
            ],
            "description": "The relationship between two people engaged to be married is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human familial relationship",
                "romantic relationship"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "engineered orbital structure",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a technological construction in orbit around an astronomical body.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "engineered space structure"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megastructure#Orbital_structures"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "engineered space structure",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a technological construction in outer space.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative technology"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "engineered trans-orbital structure",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a technological construction that connects a planet with things orbiting it.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "engineered space structure"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megastructure#Trans-orbital_structures"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "entrepreneurship",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The art of launching a business and engaging in economical activity is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human occupational activity"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entrepreneurship"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "environmental issue",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Discussed is the effect that human activity may have at large on the biophysical environment, that is, on nature.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "national social issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_issue"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "\"climate change and bureaucratic inaction\" may arguably be the most important \"environmental issue\" theme of our times. The issue is that human activity since the industrial revolution has produced evermore greenhouse gases; this leads to an unrelenting heating of the whole of the Earth, which in turn has varied but significant effects on the climate. As these changes are expected to be widely detrimental to human well being, many believe that the response from policy makers has been lackluster and negligent in the extreme."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "environmentalism",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "An ideology that emphasizes environmental protection and improvement of the health of the environment with a focus on non-human elements.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "environmental issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmentalism"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "epic love",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The love between idealized Earth-moving love of Gods, legends, and Helen of Troy.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "romantic love"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "epidemics in society",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Discussed is how society deals with the rapid spread of some infectious disease, or of such diseases in general. We may, for example, see preventive measures taken, or efforts to get the epidemic under control when it is at its apogee.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "contagious disease in society"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epidemic"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In \"Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror\" (1922), people believed that the many victims of the Vampire in fact died of the plague. They had heard of a plague outbreak in Prague and thought it had now reached the shores of England."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "EQ vs. IQ",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Featured are the contrasts, interactions and potential conflicts that can arise between people who are more gifted in the emotional compartment than the intellectual on the one hand, and those that are more gifted intellectually than emotionally on the other. IQ here refers to the logical math and puzzle solving abilities oft associated with intellectuals. EQ refers to the ability of people to recognize there own and others' emotions and respond appropriately to them.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human characters in contrast"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "equal career opportunities for women",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The problem women have in finding the same career opportunities as men in a male dominated society is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "gender issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_the_workforce"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Dr. Janice Lester was convinced that Captain Kirk had had the career she had not, only because of their respective genders in tos3x24 \"Turnabout Intruder\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "escape from reality",
            "aliases": [
                "escapism"
            ],
            "description": "A character prefers to dream up a fantasy world rather than face reality.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "withdrawal from society",
                "human dreaming"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escapism"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "espionage",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "One faction uses covert methods such as the planting of spies in order to glean secret information from an opposing faction and thus gain military or political advantage.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "the art of war"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Espionage"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "ethics",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Ethics is the branch of philosophy that involves systematizing, defending, and recommending moral principles. The theme is used whenever an aspect of this branch of philosophy is featured in the story.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "philosophy"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethics"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "ethnic hatred",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Notable hostility toward an ethnic group is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "hatred in society"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_hatred"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "eugenics",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are asked to what extent, if any, we should collectively strive to control human evolution by selective breeding. In past this has meant sterilizing or killing \"undesirable\" people, and subsidizing the procreation of \"desirable\" people.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "sociocultural issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics",
                "http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/eugenics"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Doctor Stavos Keniclius 5 made a failed bid to create a galactic master race of giant Spock clones in tas1x07 \"The Infinite Vulcan\" - a giant Spock, of course, being the measure of eugenic perfection."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "European colonization of the Americas",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "During the Age of Discovery, a large scale colonization of the Americas, involving European countries, took place primarily between the late 15th century and early 19th century. Featured is all or some part of this centuries long human activity.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "historical event",
                "colonization"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_colonization_of_the_Americas"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "European dragon",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "This sometimes fire-breathing reptile from European folklore is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "legendary being"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "euthanasia",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are asked how and when, if ever, we should allow and assist the \"merciful\" killing of someone who is thought to suffer greatly without any other hope of relief.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "sociocultural issue",
                "human rights issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euthanasia"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "event management",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is working with organizing large get-togethers and other events involving people.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human occupational activity"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event_management"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "evil can come in the guise of beauty",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are warned not to be deceived by beauty as attractive people (or objects) may in fact be quite as evil as anyone (or anything) else.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "evil can come in the guise of good"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Miranda Jones was both smart and beautiful but under the surface she had a viciously jealous streak in tos3x07 \"Is There in Truth No Beauty?\". This in contrast to the Medusan ambassador who was hideous yet remarkably accommodating."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "evil can come in the guise of good",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are cautioned that that and those that appear kind and benevolent on the surface, can in fact be quite wicked underneath. For example, charitable workers and religious leaders are sometimes presumed to be good because of their profession, but can nevertheless be quite evil.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human idea about life"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In \"The Night of the Hunter\" (1955), we saw how a man styling himself as Reverend Harry Powell inspired trust an confidence with his pious persona, then revealed himself to be a venal, lying, cold blooded murderer."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "evil doll",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a doll that is somehow alive or possessed, and that wants to do evil deeds like murdering people.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "anthropomorphic object come to life"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haunted_doll",
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killer_toy"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "evil hand",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character has a limb that seems to have an evil mind of its own.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "what if my personal identity came into question"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "evocation magic",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Evocation is the act of evoking, calling upon, or summoning a spirit, demon, deity or other supernatural agents. Such acts of supernatural magic are featured in the story.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "folk belief"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evocation"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "exercising self-control",
            "aliases": [
                "struggling with self-control exercising self-restraint"
            ],
            "description": "A character notices their own emotional inclination to do (or not to do) something, and that obeying them is undesirable. The character makes a reasonable attempt not to do so.",
            "notes": [
                "There are two contraposed formulas for when the theme applies: wanting to do vs. wanting to not do. For example, a character may feel like taking a smoke, but stops themself from doing so because they know it is ultimately bad for them. Conversely, a character may be reluctant to stick their neck out and challenge a misbehaving superior they are afraid of, yet tries to do so because they know it is the right thing to do."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human self-reflection"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-control"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Riker urged Troi to exercise a modicum of self-restraint shortly after she picked up a young ensign on the turbolift in tng6x03 \"Man of the People\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "exile",
            "aliases": [
                "banishment"
            ],
            "description": "The practice of punishing someone by expelling them from their native land, is feature.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "legal punishment"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exile"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In the film \"No Escape\" (1994), a man was banished from the cooperative autonomous community that he called home for having twice fallen asleep at his post."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "existential risk to civilization",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A civilization on a planetary scale (notably Earth) or beyond comes into jeopardy. This can mean the civilization is outright obliterated or something happens that makes it unable to progress.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative future event"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_catastrophic_risk",
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Societal_collapse",
                "http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/end_of_the_world"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "expanding sun",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Things get a little hot under the collar for a planetary civilization because its sun has entered int its red giant phase.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "catastrophic solar event"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_of_Earth#Red_giant_stage"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "The United Earth Government initiated a project to migrate the earth out of the Solar System to the Alpha Centauri system when it became apparent that the sun was entering into its red giant phase in \"The Wandering Earth\" (2019)."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "expecting parents",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The lives of (typically) two soon-to-be parents between confirmed conception and the birth of a child is explored. If the story is primarily about maternal labor and the delivery of a baby and what comes after, use \"giving birth\" instead of this theme.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human parenting"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "experimental medical procedure",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The question of where to draw the line when it comes to the use of experimental medical procedures is featured. Examples include when a doctor resorts to the use of such procedures on his or her patients either in the name of the advancement of medical science or as a last resort on a critically ill patient.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "medical ethical issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Experimental_medical_treatments"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Dr. Toby Russell wanted to test out her new surgical procedure for spinal transplantation on Worf but Beverly remonstrated in tng5x16 \"Ethics\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "exploitation of sentient beings",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are made to ponder what is needed for a creature to be considered sentient and when the exploitation of such a creature becomes shameful. Exploiting beasts of burden is typically condoned but the same treatment of human beings would be morally reprehensible.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human rights issue"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "exploiting a lover",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone scrupulously takes advantage of their lovers devotion for personal gain.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "romantic relationship issue"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "exploiting another society",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Discussed is what sort of interaction with a weaker nation might constitute illegitimate exploitation, and what might be justified. For example, trade is often thought to be beneficial to both parties, but maybe not so if one state conspires to keep the other weak in order to have a more lopsided bargain.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "social ethical dilemma"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "exploring one's sexual fantasies",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character imagines or even acts out on a sexual desire that is somehow out of reach.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human nature"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eroticism"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "explosives",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The chemistry and technology of making things that explode is featured. Gunpowder, for example, is a mixture of sulfur, charcoal, and potassium nitrate (saltpeter) with the sulfur and charcoal acting as fuels, while the saltpeter functions as an oxidizer.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "technology"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunpowder"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Captain Kirk knew this well and used the knowledge to defeat his Gorn enemy in the legendary fight to the death in tos1x19 \"Arena\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "exponential growth",
            "aliases": [
                "geometric growth"
            ],
            "description": "A very rapid kind of growth by which the amount of a quantity increases at a rate proportional to the amount already present.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "mathematics"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exponential_growth"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Sulu explained how Gary Mitchell's psychic ability was increasing geometrically in tos1x01 \"Where No Man Has Gone Before\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "exported pollution",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Discussed is the societal issue of some (usually wealthier) nations in effect outsourcing their pollution to other (usually poorer) nations. This may be to explicit export of waste products, or the implicit export of pollution as caused by the remote manufacturing of later imported goods.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "international issue",
                "environmentalism"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollution_haven_hypothesis",
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_dumping",
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_waste_trade"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "expressing feelings",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The various troubles involved in expressing one's feelings to another are featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "humans interacting"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Data expressed his affection for Spot the cat in characteristic android fashion by reciting \"Ode to Spot\" in tng6x05 \"Schisms\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "extinct interstellar civilization",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A civilization that flourished to the extent that they colonized other planets, but then went extinct for some reason or another. What perils may the distant future hold in store?",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "extraterrestrial being"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "extra-dimensional being",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A being said to be native to another dimension is featured. By \"another dimension\" it is usually meant a reality that is not reachable for us by conventional traversal of space, and that have somewhat different laws of nature.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "extraterrestrial being"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "extradition",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "One sovereign faction gives up a prisoner to the care of another soverign faction.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "international issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extradition"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "extramarital affair",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character who is married engages in a sexual encounter or relationship outside the marriage, and deals with the consequences.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "romantic infidelity"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affair#Extramarital_affair"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "extrasensory perception",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The discredited theory that information can be received directly by the mind itself in addition to the recognized physical senses.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "crackpot theory"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extrasensory_perception",
                "http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/esp"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Elizabeth Dehner was reported to have an esper rating of 089 and an aperception quotient of 20/100 in tos1x01 \"Where No Man Has Gone Before\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "extraterrestrial being",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a being from outer space.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "locationally distinguished being"
            ],
            "references": [
                "http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/aliens"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "extraterrestrial civilization",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Human civilization encounters an alien civilization. Note: This theme is not used when any mere alien is featured unless that alien's whole civilization is referenced and discussed vis-à-vis human civilization.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "extraterrestrial being"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "extrovert vs. introvert",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Featured are the contrasts, interactions and potential conflicts that can arise between people who are outgoing and extrovert on the one hand, and people who are reclusive and introvert on the other.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human characters in contrast"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "eye for an eye justice",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are made to ponder the ethics of the age old creed that we should punish evildoers by treating them in a similar way to how they treated their victims.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "social ethical dilemma"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_for_an_eye"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "eye transplant",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A procedure to transplant eyes from one person to another is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "body part transplant"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Baron Victor von Frankenstein attempted to transplant the eyes of a murdered man into his blind monster in Frankenstein 1970 (1958)."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "fabled land of goodness",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character tells of a land somewhere in which existence would be akin to paradise on Earth, if only it could be reached. Typically the main feature of such a land is freedom from a specific social ill that plagues the rest of the world, such as disease, violence, or famine.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "utopia"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promised_Land"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "facing a conspiracy",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone faces a secret conspiracy that aims to produce some nefarious outcome.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human vs. human"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Ensign Ro got herself mixed up in an elaborate conspiracy to eradicate a Bajoran terrorist cell in the eponymous episode tng5x03 \"Ensign Ro\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "facing a ferocious beast",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone experiences what it is like to face a fearsome animal or some other kind of beast-like creature.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human vs. beast"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Captain Kirk was the victim of a nearly fatal mugato attack in tos2x16 \"A Private Little War\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "facing a genius adversary",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character experiences what it is like to face a genius in a fight, competition, or other adversarial situation. The adversary might be a stock evil mad scientist type character, a criminal mastermind, and so on.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human vs. human"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "facing a home invader",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is in their home, or comparable abode, as someone with criminal intent attempts to break in.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human vs. human",
                "what if I were in a tight spot"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In tz1959e2x15 \"The Invaders\", a woman living all alone in a rustic cabin tried to fend off diminutive space invaders who landed in her attic and refused to leave her be. She eventually destroys their flying saucer using a crude hatchet."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "facing a hostage situation",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone is involved in a hostage situation.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human vs. human"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Hostage_taking_in_fiction"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "The Pakled held Geordi hostage in the hopes of getting some Federation goodies in exchange for the engineer in tng2x17 \"Samaritan Snare\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "facing a mortal enemy",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone faces their mortal enemy, i.e., someone who would be happy to see them dead.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human vs. human"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Captain Picard faced the evil genius Dr. James Moriarty in tng2x03 \"Elementary, Dear Data\" and tng6x12 \"Ship in a Bottle\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "facing a ship takeover",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone tries to deal with their vessel being space-jacked.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human vs. human"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "A ragtag band of space hippies took over the Enterprise with the intention of commandeering the vessel and taking it to the mythical planet Eden in tos3x20 \"The Way to Eden\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "facing a stalker",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is illicitly and repeatedly surveilled by someone, for example, by a former lover.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human vs. human"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalking"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "facing a vermin infestation",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A facility is infested with rodents or some other type of animal nuisance and someone tries to get rid of the vermin.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human vs. nature"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "facing adversity",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character confronts something difficult that they actively endeavor to overcome. This includes matters of survival, for example, making a self- sacrifice for (typically) someone.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human challenge in life"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "facing an extraordinary accusation",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is baffled to be accused of something that is so out of the ordinary that no one would reasonably expect it to happen to them in their entire life.",
            "notes": [
                "If the accusation is of a crime and is wrongful, then the child theme \"what if I was accused of a crime that I didn't commit\" applies. Occasionally, however, a character is featured as facing accusations of something they admittedly did, or something that can't easily be called a crime even in the broad sense of the word (a taut or wrongdoing)."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "what if I were in a tight spot"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "facing an invading force",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone experiences what it is like when an invading force comes to attack them and their homeland.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human vs. human"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "The Delta Rana IV colonists faced a Husnock invading force very poorly by getting slaughtered down to the last man in tng3x03 \"The Survivors\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "facing an overpowering adversary",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone learns what it is like to come up against an opponent that is many times more capable than themselves.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human vs. human"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "The future of humanity was at stake in tng4x01 \"The Best of Both Worlds, Part II\" when the Borg came knocking in Sector 001: Earth's sector."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "facing being evicted from one's home",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is facing being evicted from the place they live.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human vs. human"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eviction"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "facing being hunted like an animal",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone struggles to survive while being hunted.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human vs. human"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "facing bloodthirsty savages",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A seemingly civilized character must fight or flee one or more murderous barbarian characters. Stereotypically, a modern Western characters flees from savage Natives (possibly cannibals) with primitive weapons.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human vs. human"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In tz1985e1x14a \"Still Life\", a modern American couple suddenly had their house invaded by a band of savage Amazonian natives who had been trapped inside an old camera for the better part of a century."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "facing death",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is confronted with the fact of their own (more or less) impending expiration. This typically happens when a character learns that they have a terminal illness or is about to be executed.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human challenge in life"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "facing financial ruin",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character runs low on money to such an extent that a radical change in life style will imminently be forced upon them.\n\nTypically, a previously poor character faces financial ruin when they loose their source of income and must starve or become a charity case. A formerly rich character may face financial ruin when their due debts exceed their liquid assets, and bankruptcy proceedings are imminent.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "coping with life issues"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bankruptcy"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In nightgallery2x13b \"The Painted Mirror\", old lady Ellen was desperately pawning her last prized possessions in order to pay her day-to-day expenses. Meanwhile, Frank was bough out by his unscrupulous partner and faced the prospect of unemployment in an apparently harsh economy."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "facing job insecurity",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character worries about loosing their job.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "coping with life issues"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Layoff"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "facing life in captivity",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone faces living as a captive with no reasonable prospect of escape.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human vs. captivity"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Fivas Fajo kidnapped Data to sit the android on display in his collection of rare and unusual objects tng3x22 \"The Most Toys\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "facing loan sharks",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character has taken a usury loan from a more or less criminal group and is under pressure to pay up, one way or the other.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human vs. human"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loan_shark"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "facing muggers",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is confronted by other characters who threaten them with violence should they fail to hand over various possessions.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human vs. human"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "facing one's darker side",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone analyzes their own less desirable attributes and inclinations.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human self improvement"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "William T. Riker saw his darker side in Thomas Riker in tng6x24 \"Second Chances\", but the feeling was mutual."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "facing one's darkest fear",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone comes face to face with what they fear the most.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "fear"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Barclay mustered the courage to face his darkest fear of going through the transporter in tng6x02 \"Realm of Fear\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "facing one's own execution",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone is waiting to be executed.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "facing death"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "facing organized pursuit",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is being pursued by for example the police, a crime syndicate, or some other organized group.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human vs. human"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "facing persecution by the government",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is being pursued by the governing body in the region, for whatever reason.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human vs. institution"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "facing the demise of a personal enterprise",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is confronted with the imminent failure of a venture they had invested much of their energy in, for example a career pursuit, private company, etc.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "coping with life issues"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In talesoftheunexpected7x11 \"I Like it Here in Wilmington\", Harry and Marvin had a joint clothing manufacturing business that was on the verge of bankruptcy. Being used to the good life, Harry contemplated murdering Marvin to claim insurance money."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "factions joining forces against a common enemy",
            "aliases": [
                "the enemy of my enemy is my friend"
            ],
            "description": "Two sovereign factions put their differences aside and make common cause for the purpose of opposing a third faction.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "diplomacy"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Captain Kirk's crew and the Klingons joined forces against a mysterious cloud being in tos3x11 \"Day of the Dove\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "fairies",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The notion of fairy folk, from primarily North European folklore, is brought up.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "folk belief",
                "legendary being"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairy"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "fairy godmother",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a fairy with magical powers who acts as a mentor or guardian to someone.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "fairies",
                "godparent and godchild"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairy_godmother"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "faith healing",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Prayers and gestures (such as laying on of hands) are shown to elicit divine intervention in spiritual and physical healing, especially in the context of Christian religion.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "folk belief"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faith_healing"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "faith vs. medicine",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are asked what society should do when some peoples' faith clashes with state of the art medical science and therefore puts public health at risk to lesser or greater extent.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "medical ethical issue",
                "faith vs. science"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "A contemporary debate rages in some places about the use of vaccination."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "faith vs. science",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The central question in the battle between the secular (science) and the ecclesiastical (religion): Is there a valid source of knowledge, i.e., revelation, that is not derived from reason and not subject to scientific experimentation?",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "organized religion",
                "science"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faith_and_rationality"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "fall from grace",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A previously honored character finds themself out of favor, with a loss of status and prestige, for one reason or another.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative experience"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_from_grace"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "falling out of friendship",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Two friends stop being friends, for example, because they come to disagree about an important issue.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "friendship"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "false flag operation",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A faction that wants to make war creates an incident and blames it on the enemy. The real warmongerers can then attack while falsely claiming that their targeted enemy started the hostilities.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "war"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_flag"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "The Enterprise-D nearly destroyed a Lysian space station in revenge but then it turned out the whole situation had been orchestrated by the Sataarans in tng5x14 \"Conundrum\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "false friend",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a character that acts openly as a friend to another character yet conspires behind their back in a way that is most unfriendly and meant to cause harm.",
            "notes": [
                "This theme is not used when someone poses as a friend to someone because they merely wish exploit that person for some other purpose than to cause them harm. It does, for example, not typically apply to confidence tricks as the purpose of such tricks is generally to make a profit by any means available."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "humans in pairs",
                "betrayal"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In \"Othello\" (1603), sly Iago poses as confident and most reluctantly reveals to Othello details about Othello's wife, Dedemona's, infidelity. Alas, it is all ruse and fabrication carefully conceived by Iago in order to get revenge on those he envies or dislikes, including on Othello himself. It is only after he has killed his own wife in jealous rage that Othello becomes aware of what a false and malign \"friend\" Iago has been."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "false rape accusations",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The crime of reporting a rape where no rape has occurred, is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "crime against the person",
                "crime against justice"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_accusation_of_rape"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "familial love",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Featured is the sort of love shared among family and friends.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "love"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "family affairs",
            "aliases": [
                "family"
            ],
            "description": "This is a general theme about interpersonal relations, interactions, and those sorts of issues that arise among members of a family.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "humans in group"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "\"divorce\", \"family honor\", \"inheritance fight\", and \"human parenting\", are examples of some \"family affairs\" themes that are summed up succinctly in a couple of words."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "family dispute",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Two or more family members have a perennial or otherwise significant quarrel over some material family matter, for example family honor.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "family affairs"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "family financial problem",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A family struggles to pay for essentials, like rent, house repairs, college tuition, etc.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "family affairs"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "A Florida school teacher worried that his family would need to tighten their belts in order to be able to send his son to university in the television film \"Stowaway to the Moon\" (1975)."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "family honor",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Members of a family contemplate their collective honor. This often happens because the actions of a family member threatens to put a stain on the family's reputability.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "family affairs",
                "honor"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_honor"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "family vs. career",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character must decide what is more important to them: their family or their career.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "career choice"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "family vs. conscience",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character must choose between being loyal to their family on one hand, and following their conscience on the other.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "personal ethical dilemma"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In ahp2x17 \"My Brother, Richard\", District Attorney Martin Ross was confronted with the stark choice of whether to turn his own brother, Richard, in for murder after the latter kills a politician who was competing with Martin for the post of governor. Martin is torn between his own law abiding nature, and loyalty to his brother."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "famine",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a widespread scarcity of food in a society, to such an extent that many people struggle to get what they need to live.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "public health issue",
                "socioeconomic issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Famine"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "fantasy land",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a fantastical world apart from the real world. The fantastical world has such whimsical qualities as one may expect the imagination to come up with during a dream, day-dream, or nightmare.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative place"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In tz1959e5x36 \"The Bewitchin' Pool\", two children flee from their parent's domestic disputes by diving into a swimming pool and reaching a magical house by a river, where there is play, pastries, a kindly old woman and no worries in the world."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "fantasy romance",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character imagines their own ideal romantic adventure.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human dreaming",
                "romantic relationship"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "farming",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A farmer is a person engaged in agriculture, raising crops and/or livestock for food or raw materials. Such an occupation is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human occupational activity"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farmer"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "fascism",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a system of authoritarian nationalism in the best traditions of Mussolini's Italy (1922-43) or Hitler's Third Reich (1933-45).",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "political ideology"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Federation cultural observer John Gill ill-advisedly instituted a Nazi state on the planet Ekos in tos2x23 \"Patterns of Force\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "faster than light travel",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a space faring vehicle that can move faster than 299,792,458 m/s through space.",
            "notes": [
                "This theme is used only when the space is traversed in a more or less conventional contiguous path fashion. Travel through wormholes or other speculative instant point-to-point relocations are a different matter."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative spaceship"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faster-than-light"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "father and daughter",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The relationship between a father and his daughter is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "parent and child"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "father and son",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The relationship between a father and his son is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "parent and child"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "father-in-law and daughter-in-law",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The relationship between a father-in-law and her daughter-in-law is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "in-law relationship"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "father-in-law and son-in-law",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The relationship between a father-in-law and his son-in-law is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "in-law relationship"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "fatherly disappointment in a son",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A son is not all that his father wishes him to be.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "parental disappointment in a child",
                "father and son"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "Faustian bargain",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character chooses to make an agreement that gains them immense power, wealth, or knowledge in return for a terrible spiritual or moral price. For example, this could apply if a character strikes a deal to betray and sacrifice their allies to the enemy in return for being handed political power.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human life choice"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deal_with_the_Devil"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "favoritism at work",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character abuses their authority to give an unfair advantage to someone they favor for one reason or another.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "humans at work"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "fear",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone experiences anxiety about the near future in a way that rises above \"apprehension\", but is not so intense that they loose self-control and scream out in \"terror\". This theme is typically used when a character percieves a clear and present physical danger.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human emotion"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Beverly revealed her fear of heights to Captain Picard in tng7x08 \"Attached\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "fear for one's life",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is terrified because there is a chance that they may soon be killed or otherwise die.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "fear"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "fear of abandonment",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character exhibits a fear that someone they love (for example a husband or a dad) will leave them.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "fear"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abandonment_(emotional)"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "fear of an unknown future",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is afraid owing to the prospect of an uncertain and unfamiliar future.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "fear"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "fear of being alone",
            "aliases": [
                "autophobia monophobia"
            ],
            "description": "Someone exhibits a fear of being alone.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human phobia"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autophobia"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Aquiel Uhnari did not much like being all alone on Relay Station 47 in tng6x13 \"Aquiel\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "fear of being late",
            "aliases": [
                "allegrophobia"
            ],
            "description": "A character exhibits acute anxiety at the prospect of arriving late to an appointment or the like.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human phobia"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "fear of commitment",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The trope concerning male reluctance to engage in or stay with a long-term exclusive romantic commitment, even when it is otherwise good, is featured. While this fear is not exclusive to males, it is notably featured as a male stereotype in some stories.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "romantic relationship issue"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "fear of death",
            "aliases": [
                "thanatophobia"
            ],
            "description": "A character exhibits notable fear and anxiety at the prospect of being dead. This is as opposed to the process of dying, which can naturally be gruesome and painful but is not what this theme refers to.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human phobia"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_anxiety_(psychology)"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In tz2002-1x23 \"Last Lap\", terminally cancer sick Andy was afraid to die and seemed to hallucinate that his friend Marco had died in Andy's stead."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "fear of doctors",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character exhibits mild or acute iatrophobia.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human phobia"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "fear of failure",
            "aliases": [
                "atychiphobia"
            ],
            "description": "A character notably exhibits anxiety about not managing something they have set out to achieve. Alternatively, the character exhibits distress over negative evaluations by others, or the expectation that others would evaluate them negatively",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human phobia"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear_of_negative_evaluation"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "fear of flying",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone exhibits aviophobia: the fear of being in a flying vehicle.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human phobia"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear_of_flying"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "fear of heights",
            "aliases": [
                "acrophobia"
            ],
            "description": "A character exhibits an extreme or irrational fear of heights.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human phobia"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acrophobia"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In \"Vertigo\" (1958), detective John Ferguson is left hanging from a gutter watching a colleague tumble to his death, after a perilous rooftop pursuit. The experience leaves him with such an extreme fear of heights that he can no longer continue in his job."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "fear of intimacy",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character manifests anxiety from having difficulty forming a romantic relationship with another person.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human worrying about self"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear_of_intimacy"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "fear of letting loose",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is afraid of expressing or acting out their feelings and innermost desires.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human worrying about self"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "fear of open waters",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character exhibits an intense and persistent fear of the sea or other large bodies of water that appear vast, dark, deep, and dangerous.",
            "notes": [
                "A fear of sea travel is indicative of this phobia, although other factors could be behind the feeling. This theme should not be applied if a character simply fears sea sickness, or separation from home."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "fear"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalassophobia",
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquaphobia"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In \"The Truman Show\" (1998), Truman became paralyzed with fear when confronted with the idea of embarking on a boat because in his youth he had lost his father in a boating accident caused by a sudden storm."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "fear of patterns",
            "aliases": [
                "trypophobia"
            ],
            "description": "A character exhibits an excessive and irrational aversion to patterns of some sort or all.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human phobia"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In tz1985e3x19 \"Something in the Walls\", Sharon went into a terror at the sight of patterns in rugs, wallpapers, linoleum floors, etc. She saw a face recurring in the patterns and was convinced its bearer wanted to kill her."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "fear of sleep",
            "aliases": [
                "oneirophobia somniphobia"
            ],
            "description": "A character is notably and (more or less) irrationally afraid of going to sleep. This may be because they dread their dreams, or think they will never wake up.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "fear"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_disorder"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In tz1959e1x09 \"Perchance to Dream\", Edward was afraid to fall asleep because he was convinced that he would be murdered in his dreams by a mysterious woman who had started to appear there. In the end he subjected himself to an autodefenestration with fatal outcome, in order to escape sleep."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "fear of strangers",
            "aliases": [
                "xenophobia"
            ],
            "description": "Someone exhibits an unusual amount of anxiety when encountering new people.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human phobia"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenophobia"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "fear of telling someone how you feel about them",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is reticent about their feelings towards another. In particular this is used when someone is secretly in love with someone else and struggles with how to let them know.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human worrying about self"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "fear of the dark",
            "aliases": [
                "nyctophobia"
            ],
            "description": "A character is excessively afraid of darkness.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "fear"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear_of_the_dark"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In tz2019e1x09 \"Blue Scorpion\", we saw a magical gun that had to be kept in a well lit safe, or lit box, because it was said to fear the dark."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "fear of the unknown",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is afraid because they have encountered something that is foreboding but unknown.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "fear"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "feeling neglected in a relationship",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone is in a relationship where they feel their partner doesn't pay sufficient attention to them.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "romantic relationship issue"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "feeling of inadequacy",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character feels they are not deserving of the things they've got and the honors they are awarded.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human emotion"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "feeling tied down in a relationship",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character in an otherwise functional relationship re-thinks whether this commitment is preventing them from pursuing more enticing goals in life.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human worrying about self"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "felinoid being",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A being patterned after cats.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "animal and plant patterned being"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mammalian_alien_species#Felines"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "A race of carnivorous, feline humanoids, known as the Kzinti, were featured in tas1x14 \"The Slaver Weapon\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "female attraction to bad men",
            "aliases": [
                "Hybristophilia"
            ],
            "description": "There is a female character who is attracted to bad men, for example criminals or sociopaths, to the extent that the stereotype becomes apparent.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "female stereotype"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybristophilia"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "female attraction to powerful men",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The oft cited stereotype that women are attracted to men of power and influence, is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "female stereotype"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "female bonding",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Two mature adult women strengthen their friendship by engaging in stereotypically female bonding activities such as chit-chatting about Willaim T. Riker.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "friendship"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Ro found her confidant in Guinan in tng5x03 \"Ensign Ro\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "female education",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The at-times controversial topic of whether and how humans of the female gender should receive education, is discussed.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "gender issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_education"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In tz1985e1x12a \"Her Pilgrim Soul\", we heard that Nola's 19th century patriarch of a father had objected vehemently to her, a girl, attending university."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "female empowerment",
            "aliases": [
                "girl power"
            ],
            "description": "The idea that women are more capable of feats than perhaps society and themselves give them credit for.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "gender issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girl_power",
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_empowerment"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "female independence",
            "aliases": [
                "independent woman"
            ],
            "description": "The woman struggle to become less dependent on others, particularly men, is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "gender issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_woman"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Female android Rayna was perhaps oppressively tied to her father and suitor Flint in tos3x21 \"Requiem for Methuselah\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "female seeking to find a superior mate",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A female character is determined to find a partner who will secure for her the most \"fit\" possible offspring. The term \"fitness\", being subjective, could refer to being genetically superior, socially well-connected, lavishly wealthy, etc.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "female sexuality"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In the film \"Species\" (1995), the seductive extraterrestrial-human hybrid Sil instinctively sought out a peak human male with whom to mate, gruesomely killing any partner who didn't meet her minimum standards."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "female sexuality",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The sexual urges of a female character are notably featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human nature"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_female_sexuality"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "female stereotype",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Correctly or incorrectly, highlighted is one of those attributes that someone thinks to be typical women. Such themes may sometimes be considered sexist by contemporary standards.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human character stereotype"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "female vanity",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A woman shows excessive concern for her appearance.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "female stereotype",
                "vanity"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "female-female rivalry",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Two or more female characters compete with each other in a stereotypically female way, for example by making derogatory remarks about the other's female qualities and personal integrity.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "rivalry",
                "female stereotype"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_intrasexual_competition#Female_derogation"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "female-only society",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a nation of, more or less, only women.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "single-gender society"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-gender_world#Female-only_worlds"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In \"Sexmission\" (1984), two men woke up from a human hibernation experiment gone wrong to find themselves in a subterranean, all female society that arose out of the ashes of a nuclear holocaust."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "femininity",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Qualities and mannerisms that are associated with the feminine sex in contemporary society are featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "female stereotype"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Femininity"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "feminism",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Feminism is a range of political movements, ideologies, and social movements that share a common goal: to define, establish, and achieve political, economic, personal, and social gender equality.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "political ideology"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feminism"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "femme fatale",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a seductive female character who ensnares a lover and uses them for her own ends, often with danger involved.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "female stereotype"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Femme_fatale"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "fencing",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Fencing is a group of one-on-one sword fighting sports in which points are scored when a player makes contact on an opponent with their weapon. Such a contest is featured in the story.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "combat sports"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fencing"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "feral children in society",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The challenges of integrating a feral child back into society are featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "special interest group issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feral_child"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "Fermat's Last Theorem",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "An interesting mathematical equation famously conjectured by Pierre de Fermat in 1637 in a margin of a copy of Arithemetica, where he claimed he had a proof that was too large to fit in the margin.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "mathematics"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermat%27s_Last_Theorem"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Captain Picard took a crack at proving this theorem in his readyroom in tng2x12 \"The Royale\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "fictional character come to life",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The story contains a character who is described as fictional, but who has somehow become real.",
            "notes": [
                "This theme necessitates that there be at least a cursory story-within-story situation. The contained story could itself be fictional and only partially described, or it could be a reference to a well known real work of fiction."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative being"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In tz1959e1x36 \"A World of His Own\", it transpired that any character the famed playwright George described using his dictation machine, would be rapidly conjured into real life. George had used this remarkable ability first to conjure himself a wife, then a mistress."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "fifth columns",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Inside the governing institutions of society there is an organized group that more or less clandestinely seeks to undermine and take control from within.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "political issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_column"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In bbf1x06 \"Mind War\", Psi-corps was said to have an unseemly amount of secret power over affairs of the stat due to their psychic abilities. In bbf1x08 \"And the Sky Full of Stars\", Commander Sinclair was accused of acting as a fifth column on behalf of the Minbari."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "fight vs. flee",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone must decide, in a given confrontational situation, whether the better course of action is to stay and fight or to flee (perhaps to survive to fight another day).",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "personal practical dilemma"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "fighting evil with evil",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character contemplates whether to use evil means, such as extra-judicial murder, in order to fight other evils, such as crime.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "personal ethical dilemma"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "fighting one's inner demons",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is haunted by past memories or fictive notions with which they seek to come to grips in order to function normally.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human self improvement"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "figuring out what to do with one's life",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character lacks a particular sense of purpose and tries to decide what they really want to do in the long term, e.g., choosing a career, a life of adventure, or settling down etc.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human life choice",
                "human aspiration"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "filial love",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The love of a child for their parent is featured. This is not used for very young children who just cling to their parents instinctively.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "familial love"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "filicide",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character murders their own child.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "parricide"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filicide"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In tz1959e1x13 \"The Four of Us Are Dying\", a disappointed father took it upon himself to shoot the man he believed to be his own wayward son."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "filmmaking",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Filmmaking (or, in an academic context, film production) is the process of making a film, generally in the sense of films intended for extensive theatrical exhibition. Such activities are featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "the fine arts and the humanities"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filmmaking"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In \"The Blair Witch Project\" (1999), we saw three young filmmakers get irrevocably lost in a large forest while making a documentary about the local legend."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "finding religion",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character discovers a place for religion in their life.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human self improvement"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "fingerprinting",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The science of fingerprinting is dealt with.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "technology"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fingerprint"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "fire-based being",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a more-or-less sentient being that is shown to be made of fire.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "inorganic being"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elemental"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "first contact",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Two cultures that were previously isolated from each other meet for the first time. This is often feature in science fiction as between human and alien, but could apply to some situation on present Earth too.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "international issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_contact_(science_fiction)"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "first day at school",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A child attends school for the first time and experiences some of the anxieties and excitements that come along with it.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human childhood"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In \"D.A.R.Y.L.\" (1985), the android boy Daryl surprised his foster mother by not being the least bit nervous for his first day of school."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "first day on the job",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are shown an idea of what it may be like to start a new job.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "humans at work"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In tz1985e1x17a \"Welcome to Winfield\", a newly hired agent of death missed his first appointment and was, during the subsequent chase, confronted with a highly irregular situation left to him due to his predecessor's misconduct."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "first strike tactic",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Combatants decide to attack preemptively because they are convinced their opponent is about to attack.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "the art of war"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Worf articulated this combat advice in tng2x02 \"Where Silence Has Lease\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "fish-like being",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A being patterned after fish.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "animal and plant patterned being"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fictional_aquatic_alien_species#Ichthyoids"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Worf considered the fish-like Antedeans to be \"a handsome race\" in tng2x19 \"Manhunt\""
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "fishing",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is notably engaged in the catching of wild aquatic animals. Typically the character is either a professional fisherman, or sees fishing as a hobby.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human regular activity"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "fitting in at work",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character has troubles getting along smoothly in day-to-day life with their coworkers.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "humans at work"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "flat-panel display",
            "aliases": [
                "flatscreen TV"
            ],
            "description": "A TV with an entirely flat screen. This was sci-fi back in the 60s.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "once speculative device"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_panel_display"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Flint had a fancy flatscreen TV which he used for illicit surveillance of his guests in tos3x21 \"Requiem for Methuselah\". People did not have such devices when this episode was made so it constitutes sci fi."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "flattery",
            "aliases": [
                "sucking up sycophancy"
            ],
            "description": "Someone takes unusual pains to flatter someone else.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "humans interacting"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flattery"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Berlinghoff Rasmussen nearly conned the Enteprise-D crew after putting them at ease with his silver tongue in tng5x09 \"A Matter of Time\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "flee to fight another day",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Combatants decide to run from a battle in which they are at a disadvantage and holds that this is sensible rather than cowardice as it will allow them to fight again later.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "the art of war"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "flirtation",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Playful and seductive manners are employed to subtly express romantic interests in a prospective partner.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "romantic courtship"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flirting"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Thadiun Okona, a self-described rogue, not so subtly expressed his romantic interest in Lt. B.G. Robinson in tng2x04 \"The Outrageous Okona\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "floating city",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A city suspended in air by means of anti-gravitational technology.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative city"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floating_cities_and_islands_in_fiction"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "The political elite on Ardana lived in a floating city named Stratos in tos3x19 \"The Cloud Minders\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "flying ability",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is able to fly more or less using only their own body.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative personal locomotion"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "flying car",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a vehicle that looks like a car which can fly or hover.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative vehicle"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_car_(aircraft)",
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hovercar"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "A trio of cosmonauts explored the surface of Venus in a nifty hovercar in Planeta Bur (1962)."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "flying carpet",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a carpet on which one may be swiftly transported through the air.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "magic object"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_carpet"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "flying drone",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), commonly known as a drone, is an aircraft without a human pilot aboard.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "once speculative device"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unmanned_aerial_vehicle"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "flying saucer",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a spaceship with a disc- or saucer-shaped body.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative spaceship"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_saucer"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "flying saucer theory of UFOs",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The theory that some unidentified flying objects are in fact spacecraft of extraterrestrial origin is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "crackpot theory"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unidentified_flying_object",
                "http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/ufos"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Scientists incorrectly attributed a spate of authentic flying saucers sighting to a variety of mundane phenomenon, including Saint Elmo's fire, in \"Earth vs. the Flying Saucers\" (1956)."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "flying ship",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a flying galleon type vessel.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative airship"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "The heroes of the \"Final Fantasy I\" (1987) video game are able to zip around from one location in their world to another in an archetypal flying galleon."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "folk belief",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A faith-based popular belief or cultural tradition falling outside of the doctrines and practices of established religious institutions, is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "the natural world"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folk_belief",
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popular_belief",
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superstition"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "following through on a promise that is unpleasant",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character struggles with the decision of whether to be honest and follow through on a promise they have made, or to break it just because it's somehow unpleasant or distasteful.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human life choice"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "food crop pandemic",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A biological agent or pathogen wipes out a significant amount food producing plants on a planet and the dependent civilization collapses.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "force of nature existential risk to civilization"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Captain Kirk had to pick up zenite consignment in order to stop such a plague on Merak II in tos3x19 \"The Cloud Minders\" (1969)."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "food pill",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Pills that when taken in place of meals render the consumption of ordinary food unnecessary.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "synthetic food"
            ],
            "references": [
                "http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/food_pills"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "food synthesizer",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A contraption used to produce any of a vast library of tasty meals and foods.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "matter manipulating technology"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replicator_(Star_Trek)"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "forbidden love",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The love between two people who can't be together because society deems their relationship unnatural or otherwise proscribed.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "romantic love"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Societal_attitudes_toward_homosexuality"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "force field",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Technology used to produce a (more or less) invisible and impenetrable wall of \"force\".",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative technology"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Force_field_(fiction)"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "force of nature existential risk to civilization",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a way in which life on Earth (or some inhabited planet) could end because of essentially natural events that we do not control and may have little hope of preventing. When will the sun explode?",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "existential risk to civilization"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_catastrophic_risk"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "forced confession",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Whether and to what extent society should consider confessions of crime that were acquired from the defendant while under any form of duress (whether extended isolation or outright torture) is considered.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "law and order issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forced_confession"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "forced fatherhood",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone becomes a father against their will and we are asked what this person's responsibilities vis-à-vis his unwanted child should morally be.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "gender issue"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In voy2x26 \"Basics, Part I\" we learn that Seska has stolen some DNA from Chakotay and made herself pregnant with his child entirely without his cooperation or consent."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "forced labor camp",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A harsh detention facility where inmates are forced to engage in penal labor as a form of punishment is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "socioeconomic issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_camp"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "forced resettlement",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are made to ponder when, if ever, it can be morally justified to coerce someone into moving away from where they have long lived.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human rights issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forced_displacement"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "The Federation sough to resettle the Native Americans of Dorvan V in order to honor a treaty in tng7x20 \"Journey's End\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "forced resettlement for peoples' own good",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are asked whether it can be acceptable to force people to resettle against their will if letting them stay would mean that they are exposed to severe hardship and danger.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "social ethical dilemma"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forced_displacement"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "foreign customs",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone exhibits bemusement, stress, surprise, amusement, offense, and so on over observing, being subjected to, or participating in customs, habits and institutions of a culture not their own.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "foreign point of view"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "foreign point of view",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A culture is seen through the eyes of an outsider.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "cross cultural issue"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "form of government",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Explored is one or another of the many organizing principles for a system of state government that have been proposed, and expressed in a way that makes it reasonably well-defined.",
            "notes": [
                "The goal of this project is in no way to provoke political controversy. When using a word that references a political stance it is advisable to consult, for example, Wikipedia and use the word only in ways that appear mainstream and are relatively uncontroversial."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "national social issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "\"anarchy\", \"democracy\", \"despotism\", \"federalism\", \"military dictatorship\", and \"totalitarianism\" are examples of \"form of government\" themes that are sometimes featured explicitly and the definition of which seem, for the most part, unproblematic when a few dictionaries are consulted."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "forming one's own distinct personality",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character struggles to become their own person rather than imitating or conforming to someone else.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human self improvement"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In tng5x23 \"I Borg\", the liberated Borg drone Hugh grappled with the concept of him being an individual separate from the Borg collective mind."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "fortitude",
            "aliases": [
                "determination"
            ],
            "description": "Someone shows a capacity for putting up with hardship and pulling through in spite of it.",
            "notes": [
                "This theme is applied only if the character attribute (fortitude) is more or less directly commented upon. It is typically not used in those run-of-the- mill action films where protagonists are generally determined and courageous but the fact is not really developed as a theme."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human character"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "fortune favors the bold",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "This old adage, endorsing courageous risk taking, is more or less explicitly referenced.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human idea about life"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortune_favours_the_bold"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "fortune telling",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a character or object (e.g. a fortune cookie) that purports to be able to divine other characters' future fates, through mysterious means.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "divination"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortune-telling"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Fortune teller Abner Suggs assailed Captain Lindemann with with a number of unsolicited soothsayings in the \"Night Gallery\" story \"Lindemann's Catch\" (1972)."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "four-dimensional being",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a being that perceives four spatial dimensions.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "locationally distinguished being"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In \"The Captured Cross-section\" (1929), the mathematics instructor Jiles Heagley captured a three-dimensional cross section of a flesh-and-blood inhabitant of a four-dimensional world."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "four-dimensional space",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are shown, or at least made to contemplate, a world in which we have willful access to four spatial dimensions rather than the three we are accustomed to.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative cosmos"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_dimension_in_literature",
                "http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/dimensions"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "Fourier series",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A way to represent a wave-like function as a combination of simple sine waves, named in honor of Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "mathematics"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourier_series"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Data revealed that the blinking patterns of some Soong-type androids, although seemingly random, were in fact governed by Fourier series, in tng7x10 \"Inheritance\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "framing someone for a crime",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The crime of providing false evidence or false testimony in order to falsely prove someone guilty of a crime, is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "crime against the person",
                "crime against justice"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frameup"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "fratricide",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character murders their own brother or sister.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "parricide"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fratricide"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "free inquiry vs. obedience",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The social principle of being allowed to speak freely without fear of retribution is contrasted with the principle of being obedient to higher authorities and greater causes. Should we, for example, stop people from advertising medicines that experts believe to be fake?",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "political ideology"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "free love",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character shares their love freely and (at least ostensibly) accepts that others do the same. This is as opposed to monogamy and being jealous about a partners love affairs.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human sentiment"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_love"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "The hedonistic Edo from the planet Rubicun III shared their love freely in tng1x08 \"Justice\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "free love utopia",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Society is seemingly paradisical because everyone in it shares their love freely without restraint, shame, or envy.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "utopia based on a view of human nature"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_love"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "The hedonistic Edo from the planet Rubicun III shared their love freely with anyone who happened to pass by as long (as long as they were of age) in tng1x08 \"Justice\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "free market utopia",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Society is made perfect by overthrowing the yolk of government regulation and letting the free market take control.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "utopia"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_market"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Life was all rainbows and sunshine for the Libra libertarian space colony in \"Libra\" (1978)."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "free market vs. regulated market",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are asked to what extend the government should be allowed to intervene in private economic transactions. For example, should the government be able to say that elevators must be inspected once a year or make antitrust laws?",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "contraposed political ideologies"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_market"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "The free market utopian space colony Libra was contrasted with a world that was stagnating because of over-regulation in \"Libra\" (1978)."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "free will",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Discussed is whether and to what extent we are free to choose our own actions. Perhaps we are merely pre-programmed computers?",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "metaphysics"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_will"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "freedom of the press",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The oft desirable independence of the Fourth Estate, i.e. news and media, from undue influences by other branches of government is discussed. What counts as news, and should putative journalists be allowed to write and say whatever they choose in public forums?",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "political issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_the_press"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "freezing up in a critical moment",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone can't handle the stress of an intense situation and freezes up in a critical moment when they should have acted.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "psychological stress"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Dave Bailey froze up at the conn when Captain Kirk ordered him to fire the main phasers at a menacing space cube in tos1x02 \"The Corbomite Maneuver\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "Freudian psychoanalysis",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A somewhat unscientific set of psychological and psychotherapeutic theories and associated techniques, originally popularized by Sigmund Freud.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "superseded scientific theory"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychoanalysis"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "A virtual Sigmund Freud psychoanalyzed Data on the holodeck in tng7x06 \"Phantasms\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "friendly competition in groups",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A group of friends compete in an amicable way, typically without dirty tricks and hard feelings.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "humans in group"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Junior officers competed amicably for a promotion in tng7x15 \"Lower Decks\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "friendship",
            "aliases": [
                "friend and friend"
            ],
            "description": "The friendship between two characters is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "humans in pairs"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendship"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "friendship vs. career",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character must decide what is more important to them: a friendship or their career.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "career choice"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "friendship vs. personal conviction",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character must choose between being loyal to a friend on one hand, or staying true to their own beliefs and convictions on the other.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "personal ethical dilemma"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In tz1959e4x04 \"He's Alive\", Peter's odious Nazi convictions spelled the end of his relationship with his Jewish stand-in parent and benefactor, Ernst. Peter also sacrificed his long time friend Nick for the cause."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "friendship vs. personal gain",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character faces the stark choice between maintaining a friendship on one hand, and doing something that is personally profitable on the other.",
            "notes": [
                "Personal gain and profit in this context may be about power, prestige, or any other thing that a character happens to desire, not limited to wealth."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "personal ethical dilemma"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In tz1985e1x08a \"Act Break\", Maury turned his back on his recently expired friend and partner when, instead of bringing the friend back, Maury used his one wish in an attempt to grant himself literary fame."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "from zero to hero",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A meek character develops into a heroic one.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative experience"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In \"The Last Starfighter\" (1984), high school boy Alex went from living in a trailer pack with little hope for a bright future to being the savior of the Star League."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "funeral rite",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The traditional funeral ritual of a religion is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "organized religion"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funeral"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "fungus proliferating over the entire world",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A fungus overruns the world and everybody dies.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "force of nature existential risk to civilization"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "The Cave of the Dead contained a fast growing fungus that, if ever ever got outside of the cave, would destroy the entire world in The Unknown Terror (1957)."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "fusion power",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The possibility of using the energy released from the fusing of atomic nuclei as a power source for technology is explored. This theme does not apply when the energy is released in an uncontrolled manner, such as would be the case with thermonuclear weapons.",
            "notes": [
                "The theme \"cold fusion\" should be used instead when it is made clear that the nuclear fusions occur at, or near, room temperature."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative energy generation technology"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusion_power",
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_fusion"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Doc Brown's iconic DeLorean in \"Back to the Future Part II\" (1989) ran on fusion derived energy."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "future point of view",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are shown what things might seem like in the here and now if viewed from a future person's perspective.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "cross cultural issue"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "galactic master race",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a race of beings that have achieved dominance over most other alien races in their galaxy.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "extraterrestrial being"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "The Slavers a billion years ago used their weird mental powers to dominate the galaxy in tas1x14 \"The Slaver Weapon\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "gambling",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character takes pleasure in engaging in games of chance with money or other valuables at stake.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "recreational activity"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "The Providers, a trio of disembodied brains, had a gambling problem to say the least in tos2x17 \"The Gamesters of Triskelion\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "gambling with a body part",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character ponders whether or not to enter into a situation in which profit may be had, but a body part could be lost.",
            "notes": [
                "The body part in question must be a presently functioning component attached to the body of the decision making character. For the avoidance of any doubt: This theme is not applicable, for example, if the gambling is done using someone else's body part or a priorly severed limb."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "risk taking vs. playing it safe"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In talesoftheunexpected1x01 \"The Man from the South\", Tommy entered into a bet whereby he stood to win a fabulous car should he be able to light his lighter unfailingly ten times in a row, but would loose a little finger should he fail but once."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "gardening",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is notably and regularly engaged with the growing and cultivating plants as part of horticulture. Typically the character is either a professional gardener, or sees gardening as a hobby.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human regular activity"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "gaseous being",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A being composed out of gaseous matter. They are not to be confuse with incorporeal aliens, whose bodies have no kind of matter at all.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "inorganic being"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Swirls of ionised gas known as the Calamarain sought vengeance against Q in tng3x13 \"Deja Q\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "gastronomy",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The discovering, tasting, experiencing, researching, understanding and writing about food preparation and the sensory qualities of human nutrition as a whole, is featured. Typically this happens when a professional gastronome discusses the qualities of wine or some other delicacy.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human regular activity"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gastronomy"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In talesoftheunexpected2x07 \"Taste\", professional wine connoisseur Richard Pratt was so confident in his abilities that he wagered two houses against the hand of his friend's daughter in marriage, that he could identify a wine merely by tasting it."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "gender bending",
            "aliases": [
                "androgyny"
            ],
            "description": "A character challenges our typical preconceptions of gender roles and attitudes, for example by behaving like the opposite sex that they are.",
            "notes": [
                "A character simply disguising themselves as the opposite sex is not in itself a motivation for this theme."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "gender issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_bender"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "gender in crime statistics",
            "aliases": [
                "sex differences in crime"
            ],
            "description": "Discussed are the differences between men and women as the perpetrators or victims of crime, in aggregate.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "gender issue",
                "law and order issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_differences_in_crime"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "gender in sports",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The question of how various sports ought to be organized with regard to gender is discussed. Typically we are asked whether it is right to have separate male and female competitions, and who may and must be counted as male respectively female for that distinction.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "gender issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_verification_in_sports",
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixed-sex_sports",
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_sports"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "gender issue",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The social, psychological, cultural and behavioral aspects of being a man, woman, or other gender identity, is discussed.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "national social issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Various feminist issues are categorized under \"gender issues\", as are both \"male sterotype\" and \"female sterotype\" themes."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "gender neutral being",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A sentient species whose members are all the same gender, i.e., neither male nor female.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "sexually distinguished being"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "The J'naii of tng5x17 \"The Outcast\" are a neither male nor female barring a few curious deviants."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "generosity",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character goes out of their way to help someone else in material terms without being strongly motivated by love or duty: The other may be a stranger or an enemy.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human character"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generosity"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "The philosopher king Parmen bestowed gifts upon Captain Kirk, Spock, and McCoy in tos3x12 \"Plato's Stepchildren\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "generous character vs. mean character",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A notably munificent and kind character is contrasted with a notably miserly and unkind character.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human characters in contrast"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In tz1985e1x13a \"Night of the Meek\", Henry's lavish doling out of Christmas presents was nearly thwarted by the surly and mean Mr. Dundee."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "genetic engineering in society",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are asked  to what extent, if any, it is acceptable or wise for us to interfere with our own genes and, by extension, our evolution as a species.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "sociotechnological issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_engineering#Controversy",
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetically_modified_food_controversies"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "genetic engineering utopia",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Society is supposedly made perfect through the careful removal of anything undesirable in our genomes.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "technologically enabled utopia"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "genetically engineered person",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A person that has been genetically engineered to be capable of feats (physical or mental) well beyond normal human limits or abilities.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "artificial being"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "genetically engineered soldier",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A soldier that has been genetically engineered to be capable of operating well beyond normal human limits or abilities.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "genetically engineered person",
                "supersoldier"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "The Angosians had, during the Tarsan Wars, chemically and genetically enhanced their soldiers, we were told in tng3x11 \"The Hunted\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "genetically modified food in society",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The contentious question of whether we should accept the use of genetic engineering to \"improve\" on grains, cattle, etc., is discussed. Such methods may give us more resilient plants and meatier cows, for example, but perhaps do so at the cost of biodiversity and other hitherto unforeseen consequences.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "public health issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetically_modified_food"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "genetics",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Genetics is a branch of biology concerned with the study of genes, genetic variation, and heredity in organisms.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "biology"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetics"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "genie in a lamp",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A lamp-dwelling being who must fulfill the (typically three) wishes of anyone who summons them is featured.",
            "notes": [
                "This is not to be confused with the jinn from Islamic mythology."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "wish-granting being",
                "wish-granting magic object"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genies_in_popular_culture"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "A woman who was granted three wishes on paper by a genie had trouble getting them fulfilled owing to a series of administrative hurdles in \"The Twilight Zone\" story \"Wish Bank\" (tz1985e1x04b)."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "genocide",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A whole nation or large ethnic group is killed en masse.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "war"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "gentrification",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The sometimes contentions process by which deteriorated urban neighborhoods are renovated, resulting in the driving up of prizes and squeezing out of local residents, is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "socioeconomic issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentrification"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "geology",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Geology is an earth science concerned with the solid Earth, the rocks of which it is composed, and the processes by which they change over time. Geology can also include the study of the solid features of any terrestrial planet or natural satellite such as Mars or the Moon. Modern geology significantly overlaps all other earth sciences, including hydrology and the atmospheric sciences, and so is treated as one major aspect of integrated earth system science and planetary science. This theme is used whenever a topic in this science is notably featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "science"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geology"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "geothermal energy from Earth's interior",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The possibility of extracting usable geothermal energy directly from Earth's mantle or core is explored.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative energy generation technology"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geothermal_energy"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In \"Crack in the World\" (1965), a team of scientists tried to release the geothermal energy from Earth's core with earth-shattering consequences."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "germophobia",
            "aliases": [
                "fear of germs fear of bacteria mysophobia germaphobia verminophobia bacillophobia bacteriophobia"
            ],
            "description": "A character exhibits a pathological fear of germs and takes extraordinary precautions to keep away from them.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human phobia"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mysophobia"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "getting a taste of one's own medicine",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone is subjected to a treatment they had previously meted out to others, and starts thinking about the experience.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human self improvement"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "getting along in spite of disagreement",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Two characters must seek to abide each others company (for one reason or another) even though something makes it hard for them to get along, typically a difference of strongly held beliefs or preferences.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "humans interacting"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "getting along together in a confined space for an extended period",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A group of people have to spend an extended amount of time together in an environment where they have little chance of being private from each other.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "humans in group",
                "psychological stress"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In tz2019e1x06 \"Six Degrees of Freedom\", we saw the interactions among a group of young astronauts en route to Mars, as they had to spend many months together in a fairly small spaceship."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "getting fired from one's job",
            "aliases": [
                "last day on the job"
            ],
            "description": "A character is informed that they have been sacked, laid off, or otherwise terminated from their employment (or copes with the immediate aftermath of such a communication).",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "humans at work"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In ahp1x14 \"A Bullet for Baldwin\", Mr. Baldwin tells Mr. Stepp he is fired so Mr. Stepp fetches a gun and promptly fires it at Mr. Baldwin."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "ghost",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The soul or spirit of a deceased person appears after death among the living.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "incorporeal spirit"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "ghost hunting",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone investigating locations that are reported to be haunted by ghosts.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "the supernatural"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_hunting"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Three parapsychology researchers formed a ghost hunting team in \"Ghostbusters\" (1984)."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "ghost ship",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A ship from the afterlife is featured, typically with no crew or with an undead crew.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "legendary being"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_ship",
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Dutchman"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "giant monster",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is an abnormally large creature that poses a threat to people.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "monster"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "The giant dinosaur-like monster Godzilla that makes a bee line for Tokyo in \"Godzilla\" (1954)."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "giant person",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a being of human appearance but of prodigious size and possibly strength.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "legendary being",
                "size distinguished being"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "girlfriend and girlfriend",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is an informal but extended, presumed monogamous, romantic relationship between two female characters.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "romantic relationship"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "give them a finger and they'll take the whole hand",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The situation where the permitting of a small, seemingly innocuous act will open the door for larger, clearly undesirable actions is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human idea about life"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel%27s_nose"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "giving birth",
            "aliases": [
                "childbirth"
            ],
            "description": "A mother gives birth to a child, often with a medical professional present to assist and with a father standing anxiously by.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human parenting"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Childbirth"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "global cooling",
            "aliases": [
                "coming ice age"
            ],
            "description": "A planet becomes so cold that glaciers advance and civilization collapses.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "force of nature existential risk to civilization"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_age"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "The Eymorg civilization had collapsed when they entered an ice age in tos3x06 \"Spock's Brain\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "global warming",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "People's activities cause a greenhouse effect and/or other processes cause the temperature on a planet to rise and civilization collapses.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "institutional risk to civilization"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Global warning threatened civilization on the Beta moon of Peliar Zel in tng4x23 \"The Host\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "gluttony",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character indulgences in food and drink to the point of excess.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human character"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gluttony"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Troi enjoyed her chocolate cake just a little bit too much in tng3x08 \"The Price\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "god and follower",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A personal relationship between a deity and a (more or less) devout follower of theirs, is featured.",
            "notes": [
                "This theme should only be used when someone is in direct, typically verbal communication with their chosen god. The simple voicing of a prayer, for instance, does not meet the bar."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "organized religion",
                "humans in pairs"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "godparent and godchild",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The relationship between a godparent and their godchild is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human familial relationship"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "going over someone's head",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone takes up an issue with another person's boss or other superior rather than taking up the issue with the original person.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "humans in hierarchy"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command_hierarchy"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "gold digging",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character engages in a romantic relationship with the primary objective of acquiring money, and with little concern for love.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "greed for riches",
                "romantic relationship"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_digging"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In talesoftheunexpected2x15 \"The Orderly World of Mr Appleby\", we learn that Mr. Appleby serially married older women for their money and then sought to bring about their premature demises."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "golem",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "This animated anthropomorphic being that is created entirely from clay or mud of Jewish folklore is featured explicitly.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "legendary being"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golem"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In \"Assassin\" (1986), the heroin of the story made reference a zealot rabbi in 16th century Prague (presumably Judah Loew ben Bezalel) who created a clay creature, called a golem, to protect the Jews from persecution."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "golf",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible. Such a game is featured in the story.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "sports"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golf"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "good and evil in religion",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Good and evil as concepts in religion are discussed. The meaning of the words often itself becomes the topic of discussion but they relate to moral preference: Good is typically that which is morally preferable while evil is the exact opposite.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "organized religion",
                "philosophy"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_and_evil"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "good vs. evil",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a conflict between an overtly good force and and overtly evil on in which the good should prevail and the evil should be defeated.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "facing adversity"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_and_evil"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "government censorship in society",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A government suppress speech, public communication, or other information, on the basis that such material is considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, or \"inconvenient\".",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "political issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "government expropriation of land",
            "aliases": [
                "eminent domain"
            ],
            "description": "The practice and principles by which a government can take ownership of privately owned land is discussed. For example, how much compensation should the government pay if any?",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "political issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expropriation"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "government indoctrination",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The government uses its powers to indoctrinate individuals into a way of thinking. For example it may design school curricula so as to indoctrinate students into the virtue of the present governments pet ideology of the day.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "indoctrination in society"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indoctrination"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "government regulation in society",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Featured is the extent to which the government should use its power to alter firms' pricing, entry, production, investment, and product choice decisions.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "political issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "World government regulation was preventing the deployment of a game changing form of space-beamed solar power from solving Earth's energy crisis in \"Libra\" (1978).",
                "The Ghostbuster's small business was obstructed by incompetent government regulator William Atherton in \"Ghostbusters\" (1984)."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "government secrecy",
            "aliases": [
                "government concealing information"
            ],
            "description": "The pros and cons of government secrecy to society are explored.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "political issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secrecy#Government_secrecy"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "The Ressikan community on Kataan were kept in the dark about the impending doom of their civilization in tng5x25 \"The Inner Light\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "graciousness in defeat",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone accepts a defeat with dignity.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "humans in pairs"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Dr. James Moriarty conceded defeat with impeccable Victorian poise in tng2x03 \"Elementary, Dear Data\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "grandfather and granddaughter",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The relationship between a grandfather and his granddaughter is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human familial relationship"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "grandfather and grandson",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The relationship between a grandfather and his grandson is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human familial relationship"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "grandfather paradox",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The following kind of paradox is featured: If I go back in time and do something that would prevent me from later going back in time (such as killing my own grandfather), then I can't have gone back in time. But then I won't have been prevented from going and so I went, and so on.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "time travel paradox"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandfather_paradox"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "grandmother and granddaughter",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The relationship between a grandmother and her granddaughter is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human familial relationship"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Beverly mourned her late grandmother and reminisced in tng7x14 \"Sub Rosa\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "grandmother and grandson",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The relationship between a grandmother and her grandson is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human familial relationship"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "grave robbery",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Grave robbery, tomb robbing, or tomb raiding is the act of uncovering a grave, tomb or crypt to steal commodities.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "theft"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grave_robbery"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "gravity manipulating technology",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is technology that allows us to simulate or control the force of gravity.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative technology"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-gravity"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "great need vs. breaking the law",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The following kind of dilemma is illustrated: Is it morally okay to break certain laws if that is the only way to protect your life? A friend's life? A pet's life? Your house?",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "personal ethical dilemma"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "The Bynars saw no other choice than to hijack the Enterprise-D to save their homeworld in tng1x15 \"11001001\". If they had asked, the Federation might have said no."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "great need vs. human rights",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The following kind of dilemma is illustrated: Can it be morally justified to violate human rights, for example to take someone's children, if that is the only way to protect your own people?",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "social ethical dilemma"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "greed for riches",
            "aliases": [
                "avarice"
            ],
            "description": "A character exhibits an inordinate desire for wealth such as money, luxuries, and the like.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "desire",
                "human self-actualization need"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greed"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "greedy heir",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone, usually an aging or sick character, is bothered by a potential beneficiary who is overly concerned about their future inheritance. The greedy beneficiary is from a younger generation, i.e., typically a child or nephew to their intended benefactor.",
            "notes": [
                "A common related scenario in which this theme is not used is when a much younger wife is waiting anxiously for her aged husband to give up the mortal coil. In that scenario \"gold digging\" applies instead."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human character",
                "greed for riches"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "greedy search for hidden loot",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone is inordinately eager to enrich themself by finding and purloining a hidden treasure of one sort or the other. Often, though not necessarily, the treasure is something like pirate gold, or otherwise proceeds from illicit activity that has been stashed away by a criminal for later retrieval.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "greed for riches"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "gremlin",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a folkloric mischievous creature that causes malfunctions in aircraft or other machinery.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "legendary being"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gremlin"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In tz1959e5x03 \"Nightmare at 20,000 Feet\", Bob Wilson upset his fellow aeronauts by claiming to see a gremlin on the wing of the aircraft trying to sabotage the engine there."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "grief",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character exhibits that deep \"sadness\" which comes with loosing someone near and dear. This typically involves the rending of garments and shedding of tears as the character loses self-control.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human emotion"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grief"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Captain Kirk both rued and lamented the loss crewman Hendorff in tos2x09 \"The Apple\". Hendorff, a token redshirt, was shot with poison darts by a pod plant."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "group bonding",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "More than two people engage in an activity together and thereby form the human bonds that often come with shared experiences.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "humans in group"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "group morale",
            "aliases": [
                "esprit de corps"
            ],
            "description": "Featured is the capacity of a group's members to maintain belief in an institution or goal, particularly in the face of opposition or hardship.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "humans in group"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morale"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "growing as a person",
            "aliases": [
                "personal development"
            ],
            "description": "A character realizes that they've learned something important that made them develop as a person, making them more mature and sophisticated as a result.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human self improvement"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "guardian and child",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The relationship between a legal guardian of a child and that child is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human familial relationship"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Captain Picard reluctantly accepted the responsibility of serving as guardian to Jono in tng4x04 \"Suddenly Human\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "guilt and evidence",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The following kind of dilemma is illustrated: How much and how strong evidence should we require before considering someone guilty of a crime?",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "social ethical dilemma"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evidential_burden"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "habitable asteroid",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "An asteroid that is hypothetically amenable to human life.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative habitable celestial body"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Zefram Cochrane, the inventor of warp drive, was found living on a habitable asteroid in tos2x02 \"Metamorphosis\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "habitable moon",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A moon that is hypothetically amenable to human life.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative habitable celestial body"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habitability_of_natural_satellites"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Captain Picard, Wesley, and the irascible mining shuttle captain Dirgo crash landed on a barely habitable desert moon in tng4x09 \"Final Mission\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "habitable planet in a binary star system",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a planet in a binary star system, that is hospitable to human life.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "habitable planet in a multiple star system"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habitability_of_binary_star_systems"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Harry Mudd fled the Enterprise in an absconded shuttlecraft to planet in a binary star system inhabited by a giant, menacing worm in tas1x10 \"Mudd's Passion\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "habitable planet in a multiple star system",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a planet in a star system consisting of two or more stars, that is hospitable to human life.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative habitable celestial body"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_system#Multiple_star_systems"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Four stars were shown in the sky of the garbage planet Arcadia 234 in \"Soldier\" (1998)."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "habitable planet in a trinary star system",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a planet in a trinary star system, that is hospitable to human life.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "habitable planet in a multiple star system"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_system#Triple_star_systems"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "A trio of disembodied brain aliens ran a humanoid fighting ring on just such a planet in tos2x17 \"The Gamesters of Triskellion\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "hallucination of a non-existing person",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character suffers from the delusion that they perceive a person that is in fact not there. Typically the person is merely a figment of the perceiver's imagination, i.e., an imaginary person.",
            "notes": [
                "This theme is not used when the situation is explained by something other than a malfunction in the perceiver's brain. I.e., if they are merely tricked by lights and shadows, or by supernatural phenomena, it is not generally a case of \"human mental condition\" being topical."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human mental condition"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychosis#Hallucinations"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In nightgallery2x22b \"Little Girl Lost\", Professor Putman was so distraught by the violent death of his daughter in a hit-and-run incident, that he began to imagine that she was still alive. He had conversations with the non-existing daughter, brushed her hair, tucked her in, etc."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "handing over the mantle before retirement",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "An elderly character or veteran thinks about handing over their privileges and duties to their children or successors. A parent might be thinking about passing along the family business.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human life choice"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "harassment",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Behaviors that demean, humiliate or embarrass a person in a socially and morally unreasonable way are featured as an undesirable aspect of society.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "sociocultural issue"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In tz1985e2x06 \"The Convict's Piano\", music loving and wrongfully convicted inmate Ricky Frost had an encounter with a prison bully."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "hardship makes you stronger",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The time tested adage that adversity can be good for strengthening one's character, is explicitly featured.",
            "notes": [
                "As hardship and character development are very common features in stories, some care should be taken to apply this theme only when the causative relation (hardship leads to strengthened character) is actually pointed out."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human idea about life"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In talesoftheunexpected9x04 \"The Verger\", the story concluded with the observation that Mr. Dobson had his very illiteracy to thank for going into the restaurant business and becoming such a smashing success."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "hate begets hate",
            "aliases": [
                "if you live by the sword you will die by the sword"
            ],
            "description": "The committing of hateful acts cause others to do the same, leading to a vicious self-reinforcing cycle. The same goes for violence.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human idea about life"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Areel Shaw argued that it was basic human nature to hate a person who hates you in tos1x14 \"Court Martial\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "hatred",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is overcome with inordinate and uncontrolled feelings of hatred and anger. In practice, this is used for hot-blooded fighting when it is featured as part of the story.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human emotion"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatred"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "hatred between nations",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There are two sovereign states that despise each other for some reasons, to the extent that war of one sort or another is conceivably imminent.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "war"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "hatred in society",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is notable bellicosity directed towards a distinct social group  within a society.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "relations between social groups in society"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatred#Legal_issues"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "hatred of exceptional people",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is hostility towards a category of people that stand out because of some ability or other distinctive quality.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "hatred in society"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "haunted house",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is an otherwise ordinary house which is surreptitiously inhabited by a supernatural being. Typically the being is the spirit of someone who has died.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "haunted object"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haunted_house"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In nightgallery1x03b \"Certain Shadows on the Wall\" the spirit of Emma Brigham lingered in order to haunt her brother and murdered, Dr. Stephen Brigham."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "haunted object",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is an object to which a ghost, or suchlike spirit, is attached.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "folk belief"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "haunted painting",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is an otherwise ordinary painting which is surreptitiously inhabited by a supernatural being. Typically the being is the spirit of someone who has died.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "haunted object"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Vigo the Carpathian haunted an eerie painting of himself in \"Ghostbusters II\" (1989)."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "haunted vehicle",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a vehicle, for example a car, to which a ghost or suchlike spirit is attached.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "haunted object"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_vehicle"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In tz1985e2x09a \"Joy Ride\", a group of teenagers come across a car owned by a recently deceased neighbor. Alas, the car had been involved in a brutal police murder and its putative passengers are brought into a ghostly reenactment of that bloody drama."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "having a baby out of wedlock",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Having a baby out of wedlock is featured in such a way that it is clear the practice is at odds with prevailing societal norms.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "sexual norms in society"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "having a preconception challenged",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone is made to question beliefs they had previously taken for granted.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human self improvement"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "having a skeleton in the closet",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character thinks about a dark and old, possibly incriminating, secret they are keeping from everyone else, or at least from the general public.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human worrying about self",
                "keeping secrets"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "head transplant",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A surgical procedure to transplant a head from one person to another is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "body part transplant"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_transplant"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "healing ability",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is able to cause another person's injuries to heal with preternatural rapidity.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative remote living body manipulation"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faith_healing"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "E.T. healed Elliot's finger after Elliot cut it on a saw blade in \"E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial\" (1984)."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "healing after social upheaval",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The story discusses how societies come to terms (or not) with what has happened after a great social upheaval such as was World War 2.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "political issue"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "health and fitness",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character incorporates noncompetitive exercise and healthy eating habits into their general lifestyle.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human regular activity"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_fitness"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "healthcare in society",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The various ways people may receive medical attention when they need it, is discussed. Typically, the workings of an institution that provides such care is featured. For example, we may see a dysfunctional publicly run healthcare program, or substandard helathcare provided by greedy private doctors.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "public health issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_equity"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In \"Red Beard\" (1965), the eponymous doctor is in charge of an overloaded and underfunded rural medical clinic in 19th century Edo Japan. We see the plight of the various patients and, even though this is set over a century in the past, must reflect on how healthcare provision works or ought to work."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "healthcare inequality",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The ramifications of people receiving different quality of medical care depending on social status are explored.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "social inequality"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_equity"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "hearing voices",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character hears, and perhaps talks back to, a voice of a separate entity which the character incorrectly thinks is real. In clinical terms the condition might be classified as auditory hallucinations, or schizophrenia.",
            "notes": [
                "The theme does not apply when a character merely has an internal dialog with their own id. Nor does it apply in fantastical situations where the origin of the voice is understood to be through telepathy, produced by spirits, or the like. There's a variety of stories where the question of whether the voice is real or not (and thus the sanity of the character) itself is a central topic: in this case the theme applies inasmuch the idea implied in the definition is entertained as a possibility."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human mental condition"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "tz1959e5x05 \"The Last Night of a Jockey\", Grady was being taunted the alter ego in his head which offered to fulfill his any wish. In the end we are left wondering whether the voice was a real entity, or Grady had gone mad."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "heart transplant",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A procedure to transplant a living, beating heart from one person to another is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "body part transplant"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_transplantation"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Zachary Wheeler was transplanted with a heart that was harvested from a clone produced from his own DNA in \"The Resurrection of Zachary Wheeler\" (1971)."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "heaven and hell",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Featured is a speculative afterlife existence comparable to the idea of \"Heaven\" or \"Hell\" as they are popularly understood in various large religions. For instance, there is an afterlife location or mental state in which the departed are pointedly at peace (heaven) or pointedly tormented (hell).",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "the afterlife",
                "organized religion"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaven",
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "hedonism",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is driven by the pursuit of physical pleasure.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human character"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedonism"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "The Edo were quickly revealed to be full-blown sexual hedonists in tng1x08 \"Justice\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "hell hath no fury like a woman scorned",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The Shakespearian observation that women may take extraordinarily badly to being rejected by someone they are romantically interested in, is put forth.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "female stereotype",
                "the desire for vengeance"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "helping a stranger in need",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character goes out of their way in order to help a stranger who appears to be in some need of help.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human self-sacrifice for another",
                "compassion",
                "kindness"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "heresy",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A church or religious organization clamps down on people who hold a belief or theory that is strongly at variance with established beliefs or customs.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "organized religion"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heresy"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "The EMCOM mainframe computer master program coerced its programs to renounce their belief in the the existence \"Users\" (i.e. the humans software engineers who coded them) in \"Tron\" (1982)."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "hero worship",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The way in which groups can come to excessively admire certain individuals is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "humans in hierarchy"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult_of_personality"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "hero's return",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A hero returns home to his community after a long and arduous adventure.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human nature"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hero%27s_journey"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "heroism",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Good deeds are made at great personal risk or great personal sacrifice.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human character"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hero"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "hexes and curses",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The idea that someone can be cursed with, for example, ill-fortune is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "folk belief"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "high ground advantage",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Combatants have a military advantage by being at a greater elevation than their opponent. Typically the elevated side gain visibility and can use gravity to their advantage.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "the art of war"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_ground"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Captain Kirk was climbing a mountain in tos1x19 \"Arena\". Why was he climbing a mountain? To gain a high ground advantage over a Gorn captain against whom he was pitted in a fight to the death."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "historical determinism",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Some variant of the philosophical concept of determinism is discussed. Determinism is the idea that events can only unfold in a certain way given the preceding state of things; thus history (past, present and future) is fixed and \"free will\" is perhaps but an illusion.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "metaphysics"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_determinism"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "historical event",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "An event from real human history is discussed or otherwise featured.",
            "notes": [
                "The story must clearly identify the event in question, but there is no requirement that it be otherwise \"correct\" in what it has to say."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "history"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "historical figure",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character from real human history is discussed or otherwise featured.",
            "notes": [
                "The story must clearly identify the character in question, but there is no requirement that it be otherwise \"correct\" in what it has to say."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "history"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "historical revisionism",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Some group in society seek to rewrite history in a way that makes it more advantageous to them. This typically involves glossing over inconvenient truths as well as outright lying.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "educational issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_revisionism"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "history",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "This is a general theme pertaining to the study of history, or historical events and personages as they are commonly understood. For example, the story may present a reasonable idea of how a historical event might have transpired, what a time and place in history might have been like for its inhabitants, or what a historical figure might have been like.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "society"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "history occupation",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A historian is engaged in their chosen occupation.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "academic occupation"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historian"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "hitman occupation",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character has made a profession out of killing people in return for payment.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human occupational activity"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contract_killing"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "holding someone captive to protect them",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are made to ponder whether and to what extent it is ethically justifiable to hold someone against their will if doing so is for the sake of their own safety.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "social ethical dilemma"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In tz1985e2x05 \"The Toys of Caliban\", we saw an elderly married couple who were raising their intellectually disabled son Toby in seclusion because he had a dangerous magical ability but no self-restraint or sense to conduct himself safely with his power."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "Hollow Earth",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The discredited theory proposing that planets, like the Earth, are entirely hollow or contain substantial interior spaces is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "crackpot theory"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollow_Earth",
                "http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/hollow_earth"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "hollowed out asteroid habitat",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "An asteroid has been turned into a living space suitable for humans.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "planetary-scale engineering",
                "space habitat"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "hologram",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is technology that can create three-dimensional images in space.",
            "notes": [
                "Hologram-like special effects are frequently used in modern sci-fi movies. This theme should be used only if the holograms are explicitly discussed or are significant to the story."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative technology"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holography"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In pkded1x10 \"Kill All Others\", Philbert is rather put off when he finds his wife sharing the sofa with a hologram of a sexy foreign man selling coffee."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "homesickness",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is distressed on account that they are away from their home. The affected character may be taking a short trip to a nearby place, such as summer camp, or they may be taking a long trip or have even moved to a different country.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human health condition"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homesickness"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "homework shirking",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a young person who neglects doing their homework in favor of a more appealing activity.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human childhood"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "homework vs. play",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A child must choose what is more important to them: boring homework or frivolous play.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "working hard vs. taking it easy in life"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Alexander was very much swayed by Lwaxana's arguments for choosing play over homework in tng5x20 \"cost of Living\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "hominid evolution",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Discussed is the evolutionary process that led to the emergence of anatomically modern humans.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "the theory of evolution"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_evolution"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "homophobia",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character expresses negative attitude and feelings towards lesbian, gay or bisexual people in general.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "prejudice in society"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homophobia"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "homosexuality in society",
            "aliases": [
                "homosexuality"
            ],
            "description": "We are asked to what extent, if any, homosexuality should be tolerated in society and how homosexual people ought to be treated.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "sexual norms in society"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexuality"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "The J'naii's gender identities were rather fuzzy in tng5x17 \"The Outcast\"; Riker's fling with Soren may have been as close as we ever got to seeing homosexuality in TNG."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "honest character vs. deceitful character",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A stereotypically truthful and sincere character is contrasted with a stereotypically mendacious and false character.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human characters in contrast"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In \"His Girl Friday\" (1940), the blue eyed and sincere insurance salesman Bruce Baldwin is contrasted with his fiancée's ex-husband Walter Burns, who is a scrupulous, lying rogue working as news paper editor."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "honesty",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone displays notable truthfulness and lack of deceit.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human character"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honesty"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "honor",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character steadfastly sticks to a traditional moral code in spite of temptation to do otherwise. It nearly always has to do with being honest and defending ones reputation.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human character"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honour"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Worf, being a true man of honor, implored the Klingon authorities to grant honorable deaths to three Klingon renegades whom he had come to respect in tng1x20 \"Heart of Glory\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "honorable suicide",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character contemplates committing suicide because doing otherwise would lead to some form of dishonor for themself and possibly their family.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "contemplating suicide"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honor_suicide"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "hope",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character feels that events they wish for may come about.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human emotion"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hope"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "horse racing",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Horse racing is an equestrian performance sport, typically involving two or more  horses ridden by jockeys (or sometimes driven without riders) over a set distance, for competition. This theme is used whenever this time-honored sport is notably featured in the story.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "sports"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horse_racing"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "horseback riding",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The excitement some of us experience by engaging in equestrian escapades is examined.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "recreational activity"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Captain Picard shared his passion for riding Arabian horses with Troi on the holodeck in tng2x15 \"Pen Pals\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "hospitality",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone is very hospitable towards their guests.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human character"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hospitality"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Captain Kirk held a banquet for Khan Singh to welcome the former dictator of Earth to the 23rd century in tos1x24 \"Space Seed\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "hoverboard",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a skateboard-like device without wheels that hovers at a constant altitude of up to some feet above the ground and used for personal transportation.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative vehicle"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoverboard"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Marty McFly got into a hoverboard chase in the year 2015 in \"Back to the Future Part II\" (1989)."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "how to commit a crime and get away with it",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are made to ponder clever ways in which one might commit one crime or another, and avoid getting caught.",
            "notes": [
                "This theme is not used in extraordinary circumstances, such as in the wake of a general disaster, where the opportunity might present itself through mere chance."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative experience",
                "crime"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "how to cover up a murder",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character takes measures to prevent the authorities from discovering the truth about a murder that has been committed.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "how to commit a crime and get away with it"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "how to crack a safe",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are shown how one may, credibly, gain access to the contents of a safe without having the key or combination required to legitimately open it.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "how to commit a crime and get away with it"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safe-cracking"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In talesoftheunexpected5x03 \"Operation Safecrack\", the (in)famous safe-cracker Sam Morrissey takes on a PR stunt challenge by an advertising company to break into the latest model of their safe. Sam attempts to do so using a variety of strategies, heavy machines, and explosives."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "how to dispose of a corpse and get away with it",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are made to ponder clever ways in which one might contrive to illicitly and quietly dispose of a corpse one has been inconveniently hampered with. The usual scenario is that the character saddled with the dilemma produced said corpse in the first place by, intentionally or otherwise, killing the living person that preceded it.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "how to commit a crime and get away with it"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disposal_of_human_corpses#Criminal_disposal"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "how to fake one's own death",
            "aliases": [
                "staged death pseudocide"
            ],
            "description": "A character purposely deceives others into believing they are dead when, in fact, they are not.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "how to commit a crime and get away with it"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faked_death"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "how to handle a hostage situation",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Featured is the dilemma of whether and how to negotiate with hostage takers.",
            "notes": [
                "Hostage situations are typically when someone holds innocent people at gunpoint and threatens to execute them unless certain demands are met. Especially in fiction, hostage situations may also arise when terrorists have planted bombs or designed doomsday weapons that threaten buildings, cities, countries, or entire planets."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "violent crime",
                "social ethical dilemma"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Captain Picard negotiated to free Beverly from the clutches of terrorists in tng3x12 \"The High Ground\", but ended up himself a hostage."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "how to murder someone and get away with it",
            "aliases": [
                "the perfect murder"
            ],
            "description": "We are made to ponder clever ways in which one might commit murder and avoid getting caught.",
            "notes": [
                "This theme is not used in extraordinary circumstances, such as on a battlefield, where the opportunity might present itself through mere chance."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "how to commit a crime and get away with it",
                "murder"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "how to rob a bank and get away with it",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are made to ponder clever ways in which one may steal large amounts of money from a bank (or comparable venue) and avoid getting caught.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "how to commit a crime and get away with it"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_robbery"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In talesoftheunexpected5x06 \"The Moles\", two old friends whose business faced financial ruin hatched a clever plan to tunnel their way into a certain bank vault from an antique shop adjacent to it."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "how to treat people that pose a risk to society through no fault of their own",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Some people are innocent of any wrongdoing yet pose a danger to public safety for one reason or another; are we socially justified in killing these people in order to defend ourselves?",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "social ethical dilemma"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "hubris",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Pride is so excessive that a character deigns to put themself on par, or even above, the gods.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "pride"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubris"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Riker was riding on his high horse after having been granted Q powers in tng1x10 \"Hide and Q\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "human addiction",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Despite adverse consequences to themself, a character compulsively engages in an activity that results in rewarding stimuli. In medical terms, addiction is disorder of the brain's reward system.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human health condition"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Addiction"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Typically \"human addiction\" is connected to substance abuse, such as the case with \"alcoholism\" and \"drug addiction\". Other forms of addiction include \"video game addiction\", or \"workaholism\", although these examples may not be addictions in the clinical sense."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "human AI relationship",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A romantic relationship between a real person and an artificial person is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "romantic relationship"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "human aspiration",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character expresses a hope, a dream, or ponders the question of what they want out of life.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "purpose in life"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "human battery",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Industrially relevant amounts of electrical energy are somehow extracted from human beings.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative energy generation technology"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Intelligent machines partially powered their machine civilization by extracting electrical energy from unconscious humans kept in pods in \"The Matrix\" (1999)."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "human biology",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The scientific study of the morphology of the human body is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "biology"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline_of_human_anatomy",
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composition_of_the_human_body"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "human blood types",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Some aspect of the science of blood types is explained. Popularly, this is the classification system O-, O+, A-, A+, and so forth (eight categories) or simply O, A, B, AB (four categories). However, other systems are in use as well.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human biology"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_type"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "human challenge in life",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "This is a general theme pertaining to such problems as we might plausibly face in the course of a typical human life.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "individual humans"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "\"human challenge in life\" often revolves around \"facing death\" or \"facing adversity\", but may also involve any of a mishmash of troubles categorized under \"coping with life issues\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "human character",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "This is a general theme pertaining to character types and personal character traits.",
            "notes": [
                "Character themes apply only if the behavior is explicitly discussed or pointedly illustrated."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "individual humans"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "\"courage\", \"cowardice\", \"misanthropy\", and \"chivalry\" are all \"human character\" themes because they refer to personal character traits such as we may variously admire or abhor in people."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "human character stereotype",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a person in the story whose character fits a recognizable, well- defined, stereotype to a remarkable degree.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human character"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "human characters in contrast",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The personalities of two characters are pointedly compared and contrasted.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human character"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personality"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "\"extrovert vs. introvert\" is a theme that compares and contrasts outgoing characters with inwards looking characters."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "human childhood",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A young character faces one of those problems people tend to go through during the early parts of their lives, typically during childhood or adolescence.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "family affairs"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Childhood"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "\"sibling rivalry\" and \"teenage angst\" are two \"human childhood\" themes that most people experience as they grow up. \"orphanhood\" is a \"human childhood\" theme that only a few people are unfortunate to experience in real life."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "human cloning",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The technology to create new individuals that have the same DNA as an original, but not necessarily have anything else in common.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative biotechnology"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_cloning"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "human cloning in society",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are asked to what extent, if any, the cloning of human beings is acceptable.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "sociotechnological issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_cloning"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "human dreaming",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "This is a general theme pertaining to reflections on what was, what could have been, what might be, what could never be, and so on and so forth.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "individual humans"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reminiscence",
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantasy_(psychology)"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "\"human dreaming\" themes tend to involve fantasies or reminiscence. An illustrative example is \"thinking about one's accomplishments in life\" when a character reflects on their achievements (or lack thereof)."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "human emotion",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "This is a general theme pertaining to experiences, typically intensely, of one of those conscious inner mental states that we call emotions.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "individual humans"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotion"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "\"hope\" and \"jealousy\" are illustrative examples of \"human emotion\" themes."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "human empathy for babies",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The way humans tend to feel particular empathy for babies is noted.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human nature"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "human enhancement technology",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A novel technology is used to alter a person's physical or mental ability. Typically it is used objectively to enhance abilities, though whether a given alteration diminishes or enhances a person can be controversial.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative technology"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_science_fiction_themes#Body_and_mind_alterations"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "human familial relationship",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The interpersonal relationship between two individuals bound by such a close social bond that they might be called \"family\" is featured.",
            "notes": [
                "Any defined character relationship can be familial if it is clearly considered as such in a story and if it is sufficiently relevant to the plot. It may be noted that while there are many stories in which parental, sibling, half- sibling, step-parent, sibling-in-law, or even adoptive relationships are important, there are few stories in which consanguinity relations beyond first cousinage is relevant to the plot."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "humans in pairs",
                "family affairs"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "\"guardian and child\" is a \"human familial relationship\" because the guardian is typically expected to take on the role of a parent even if they are not related to the child by blood."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "human health condition",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a character whose mental or physiological well-being is featured because they suffer from some condition or another that is considered to be pathological. Such a condition is usually detrimental to the individual's well-being.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human challenge in life"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Disease, illness, and injury are disagreeable but prominent components of human lives and frequently featured in fiction. For example \"coping with a terminal illness\" and \"coping with aging\" are found in this category."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "human idea about life",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "This is the general theme pertaining to generalities about what human life may be like. For example, the theme may be practical advice on how one ought to lead ones life. Many of the stories featuring this theme contain tidbits of folksy wisdom summed up in readily recognizable pithy aphorisms.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human nature"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphorism"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "\"appearances can be deceiving\", \"beauty is in the eye of the beholder\", and \"fortune favors the bold\" are examples of general ideas about life expressed as well known aphorisms."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "human in danger",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character finds themself in a dangerous situation of one sort or another.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human challenge in life"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "\"coping with being injured\" is a \"human in danger\" theme as it describes what it is like for someone to be in a certain risky situation."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "human life choice",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is made to reflect on a tough decision that involves choices that are hard, not because of ethical issues or uncertainty regarding the outcome, but because the decision will have a major impact on the course of their life.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human tough decision"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "\"human life choice\" themes include \"choosing between love and family\", \"deciding whether to be a parent\", \"figuring out what to do with one's life\", and \"to settle down vs. to keep on trekking\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "human life in ancient times",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We see a reasonable idea of what ordinary human life might have been like for some category of people somewhere in the world between the beginning of recorded history (with the emergence of writing) and the middle ages.\n\nTypical characteristics include polytheism.",
            "notes": [
                "This is roughly taken as 3000 BC until 500 CE but varies slightly depending on location."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human life in history"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_history"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/timeperiod.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "human life in early modern times",
            "aliases": [
                "life in the Age of Sail"
            ],
            "description": "We see a reasonable idea of what ordinary human life might have been like for some category of people somewhere in the world around the Age of Discovery and the Renaissance in Europe but before the the Industrial revolution.\n\nTypical characteristics include long distance sea faring in wooden vessels relying on the winds for locomotion.",
            "notes": [
                "This is roughly taken as 1450 CE to 1750 CE but varies slightly depending on location."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human life in history"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_modern_period",
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_Sail"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/timeperiod.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "human life in historical Africa",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We see a reasonable idea of what ordinary human life might have been like for some category of people somewhere in Africa in the past.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human life in history"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/timeperiod.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "human life in historical Asia",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We see a reasonable idea of what ordinary human life might have been like for some category of people somewhere in Asia in the past.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human life in history"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/timeperiod.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "human life in historical Australia",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We see a reasonable idea of what ordinary human life might have been like for some category of people somewhere in Australia in the past.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human life in history"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/timeperiod.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "human life in historical Britain",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We see a reasonable idea of what ordinary human life might have been like for some category of people somewhere in Britain in the past.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human life in historical Europe"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/timeperiod.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "human life in historical Europe",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We see a reasonable idea of what ordinary human life might have been like for some category of people somewhere in Europe in the past.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human life in history"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/timeperiod.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "human life in historical North America",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We see a reasonable idea of what ordinary human life might have been like for some category of people somewhere in North America in the past.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human life in history"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/timeperiod.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "human life in historical South America",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We see a reasonable idea of what ordinary human life might have been like for some category of people somewhere in South America in the past.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human life in history"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/timeperiod.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "human life in history",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We see a reasonable idea of what ordinary human life might have been like for some category of people somewhere in the world in the past.",
            "notes": [
                "If there is conflict between the nature of civilization in a story and the time/location the story itself professes to take place, the nature of civilization in the story should be used to determine which history theme is relevant. The precise dating of these time periods is therefore of lesser importance to the categorization of stories.",
                "If the story is still ambiguous, do not expend energy debating the point but include all seemingly applicable themes.",
                "It is suggested to use these themes as Major only when the story clearly depicts something that can be considered a reasonable image of normal life for some relatively normal category of people. If the focus of the story is, for example, a heroic figure doing something heroic then the social setting in which it takes place may likely be a Minor theme, if a theme at all."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "history"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_time_periods#General_periods",
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_history"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/timeperiod.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "human life in late modern times",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We see a reasonable idea of what ordinary human life might have been like for some category of people somewhere in the world from around the Industrial Revolution until the end of the Second World War.\n\nTypical characteristics include seafaring vessels made of metal and using combustion rather than wind for propulsion.",
            "notes": [
                "This is roughly taken as 1750 CE to 1945 CE but varies slightly depending on location."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human life in history"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_world#Late_modern_period"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/timeperiod.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "human life in medieval times",
            "aliases": [
                "human life in post-classical times"
            ],
            "description": "We see a reasonable idea of what ordinary human life might have been like for some category of people somewhere in the world around the times known as the Middle Ages.\n\nTypical characteristics include an emphasis on monotheistic religious authority and a lack of speedy long distance travel such as became possible first in the Age of Discovery.",
            "notes": [
                "This is roughly taken as 500 BC to 1450 CE but varies slightly depending on location. The European Middle Ages have been defined as starting with the fall of the Roman Empire in the 5th century and ending with the fall of Constantinople in 1453."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human life in history"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-classical_history"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/timeperiod.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "human life in post-war times",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We see a reasonable idea of what ordinary human life might have been like for some category of people somewhere in the world after the Second World War, i.e., after 1945.\n\nTypical characteristics include references to World War II as being in the past.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human life in history"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_world#Late_modern_period"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/timeperiod.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "human life in pre-historical times",
            "aliases": [
                "human life in the stone age"
            ],
            "description": "We see a reasonable idea of what ordinary human life might have been like for some category of people somewhere in the world prior to the invention of writing systems.\n\nTypical characteristics include tools made of stone and a lack of metals.",
            "notes": [
                "This is roughly taken as being before 3000 BC but varies slightly depending on location."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human life in history"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prehistory",
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_Age"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/timeperiod.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "human mental condition",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a character whose mental well-being is featured because they suffer from some condition or another that is considered to be pathological. Such a condition is usually detrimental to the individual's well-being.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human health condition"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_disorder"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "\"depression\", \"despair\", \"persecution complex\", \"schizophrenia\", and \"suppressed emotion\" are all \"human mental condition\" themes that are featured in stories from time to time."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "human nature",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "This is a general theme pertaining to distinguishing characteristics - including ways of thinking, feeling, and acting - which humans tend to have naturally.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "the human world"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_nature"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "human need",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "This is a general theme pertaining to the things people tend to need in order to consider ourselves healthy, content, and fulfilled in life. The immediate specializations break down according to a simplified version of Maslow's hierarchy of needs.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "purpose in life"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "human occupational activity",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "This is a general theme pertaining to an individual being notably engaged in their chosen occupation.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human regular activity"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "human overpopulation",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The social and environmental ramifications of an ever increasing human population are discussed. Perhaps we will multiply beyond Earth's capability to sustain our present way of life.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "environmental issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_overpopulation",
                "http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/overpopulation"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "human parenting",
            "aliases": [
                "parenthood"
            ],
            "description": "A problem or situation that may arise in the interaction between parents and their progeny is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "family affairs"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parenting"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "human phobia",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character displays a persistent and excessive fear to a specific object or situation.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human mental condition",
                "fear"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phobia"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "\"arachnophobia\", the fear of spiders, and \"fear of doctors\" are both \"human phobia\" themes that may be used when a character portrays an excessive and persistent fear of the subject in question."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "human physiological need",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "One or another of a character's physiological needs is featured. For example, the theme may pertain to the need for things like food, water, sleep, and sex.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human need"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow%27s_hierarchy_of_needs#Physiological_needs"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "\"the need for rest and recreation\" is a \"human physiological need\" because a character who is sufficiently overworked and tired becomes incapable of considering higher order needs such as staying out of harm's way."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "human pleasure",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character engages in an activity for the pure enjoyment of it, such as savoring a tasty meal or engaging in a cherished pastime.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "purpose in life"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "human regular activity",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "This is a general theme pertaining to various purposeful regular activities that humans may be engaged in. Such activities are typically occupations or hobbies.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "personal human experience"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "human rights issue",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Explored is one of those ideas of \"rights\", such as the right to not be tortured, that we sometimes say people (or other beings that are to be treated as people) are inalienably entitled to merely by virtue of existing. It may, for example, involve practical concerns around safeguarding such rights, discuss ethical questions around what counts as a right, or weight two conflicting human rights considerations in a particular situation.\n\nExamples of rights and freedoms which are often thought of as human rights include civil and political rights, such as the right to life, liberty, and property, freedom of expression, pursuit of happiness and equality before the law; and social, cultural and economic rights, including the right to participate in science and culture, the right to work, and the right to education.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "social ethical issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "human romantic relationship choice",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character must make a choice regarding whether and whom to devote themself romantically to.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "romantic relationship issue",
                "human life choice"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "\"human romantic relationship choice\" themes include \"love vs. career\", \"monogamy vs. single life\", and \"choosing between lovers\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "human sacrifice",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The act of killing humans, usually as an offering to a deity, as part of a ritual is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "organized religion"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_sacrifice"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "human safety need",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character's need to feel save from all kinds of dangers is featured. Dangers may include physical dangers, financial dangers, and health risks.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human need"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow%27s_hierarchy_of_needs#Safety_needs"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "\"attachment to one's livelihood\" is a \"human safety need\" because loosing one's job may (at least historically) lead to poverty, then starvation and death. \"the need for privacy\" is also a \"human safety need\" because a lack of privacy could lead to the publication of facts about us that jeopardize our social standing which might (historically) lead to ostracization, then death in any number of ways."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "human self improvement",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character in the story contemplates their own person and some way in which they can better themself.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human self-reflection"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_development"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "\"lesson in humility\" is a \"human self improvement\" theme because it implies that a previously arrogant character has been forced to reconsider their attitude. \"questioning one's loyalties\" is of the same category because a character has come to see that what they are doing is perhaps not right, and that they should change."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "human self-actualization need",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character's desire to grow as a person and to realize their full potential is featured. For example, the theme may pertain to a character's aspirations or purpose in life",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human need"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-actualization"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "\"the need for a challenge in life\" is a \"human self-actualization need\" theme because the reason people seek out things that challenge them is, generally, that through challenges we learn and grow as people."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "human self-esteem need",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "One or another of a character's ego related needs is featured. For example, the theme may pertain to the need for things like recognition, status, importance, and respect from others.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human need"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow%27s_hierarchy_of_needs#Self-esteem"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "\"the desire for fame\" and \"the need to feel useful to society\" are \"human self-esteem need\" themes as they express a human's need or desire for some form of recognition from others."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "human self-reflection",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "This a general theme pertaining to the examination of one's own person, for example, desires, motives, one's own conscience, etc.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "individual humans"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "\"human self improvement\" is the main specialization of this theme because most often when a character is considering themself it seems they do so with a desire to improve on themself."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "human self-sacrifice",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character helps another character, or does something for a worthy cause, at a significant cost or risk to themself.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human tough decision"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altruistic_suicide"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "human self-sacrifice for another",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone goes significantly out of their way in order to help another person who is need of something.",
            "notes": [
                "Typically, this situation occurs when a character risks life and limb in order to save another character from the same sort of dangers."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human self-sacrifice"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "\"donating an organ to save a life\" is a typical \"human self-sacrifice for another\" theme since giving up an organ is quite risky but will likely save the life of the other character."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "human sentiment",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "This a general theme pertaining to the various ideas people may have about how they want to lead their lives.",
            "notes": [
                "Sometimes a person's idea about how they should lead their life involves ideas about how other people ought to lead their lives as well. This category may overlap with that of political ideologies."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "individual humans"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "\"carpe diem\", \"pacifism\", and \"vegetarianism\" are all \"human sentiment\" themes because they imply lifestyles such as we may choose to lead for one reason or another."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "human sex pheromones",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The idea that human men and/or women emit chemicals that attract the opposite sex is featured. Despite numerous studies there is no evidence for anything that does so to any significant extent.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "superseded scientific theory"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_sex_pheromones"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "human sexuality",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The mating urges and rituals of homo sapient are discussed in a philosophical manner.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human nature"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_sexuality"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "human shields in war",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Armed forces are deliberately using civilians (whether their own, their enemy's, or otherwise) to make it hard for their opponent to strike at a military target without causing casualties among said civilians.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "war"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "human social need",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character's need to have good connections with other people is featured. For example, the theme may pertain to belonging to a social group, friendship, maintaining family relations, etc.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human need"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow%27s_hierarchy_of_needs#Social_belonging"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "\"the desire to be liked\", \"the need for cultural heritage\", and \"the need to belong\" are concrete examples of \"human social needs\". The category also contains relate more indirectly to these themes, for example \"the desire for justice\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "human social position",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "This is general theme pertaining to an individual's status within a society of which they are part.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "humans in group"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "\"coping with being a laughing stock\" is a \"human social position\" theme because it deals with an event of which the main feature is that a character's status in a group is lowered."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "human thought virus",
            "aliases": [
                "memetic virus"
            ],
            "description": "There is an \"information\" virus that can invade the thought processes of a human and transmit itself to other humans by means of communication. It is thus more like a computer virus than a biological virus, except in that it infects biological information systems rather than machines.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative mind altering effect"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In tz1985e1x21a \"Need to Know\", we saw how people in a little village started going insane one after the other because of a confounding and viral idea about the meaning of life, that was whispered by an infected person to someone who would become the next victim in turn."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "human tough decision",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "This is a general theme that pertains to an individual struggling with a decision which must be made",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "individual humans"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "This category of themes, so common in fiction, is further subdivided into: \"human life choice\" (a character struggles with a decision regarding how to live their life), \"human self-sacrifice\" (a character must choose or not to risk themselfs for the sake of another), \"personal ethical dilemma\" (a struggle with morals), and \"personal practical dilemma \" (the choice is hard more because of uncertainty than for moral or personal considerations)."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "human vs. affliction",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character struggles to overcome an affliction, like a disease, a disorder, or something else that causes pain and suffering.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human vs. nature"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "human vs. beast",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A struggle between human and animal is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human vs. nature"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Captain Kirk was mauled by a Mugato tos2x16 \"A Private Little War\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "human vs. captivity",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A struggle between captive and captor is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human vs. human"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Butthead aliens held Captain Pike captive with the intention to use him as breeding stock in tos0x01 \"The Cage\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "human vs. contagious disease",
            "aliases": [
                "epidemic pandemic"
            ],
            "description": "Someone tries to deal with a highly infectious disease running rampant through a population.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human vs. nature",
                "contagious disease in society"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epidemic",
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandemic"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "A weary band of space lepers had their sights set on bringing themselves, and possibly their disease, to planet Haven in tng1x11 \"Haven\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "human vs. desert environment",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character's struggle to survive the elements commonly associated with a (sandy) desert environment is featured.  This typically is about surviving in scorching heat and sandstorms with little water.",
            "notes": [
                "For theming purposes, \"desert\" here only refers to those stereotypically sandy stretches we usually think about in this context. It does, for example, not include Antarctica, which may otherwise be classified as a desert due to its low rate of precipitation."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human vs. environment"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "human vs. environment",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character's struggle to survive the elements commonly associated with a specific environment is featured. This could be about surviving the blistering cold of a frozen wasteland, the scorching heat of a desert, etc.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human vs. the elements"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict_(narrative)#Man_against_nature"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "human vs. human",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "This is a general theme pertaining to conflict situations between a person and other people.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "facing adversity"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Interpersonal_conflict",
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict_(narrative)#Man_against_man"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "\"facing a mortal enemy\", \"facing organized pursuit\", and \"human vs. captivity\" is a selection of themes that describe a situation wherein a person is in conflict with other people."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "human vs. inexplicable adversity",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is confronted with problematic happenings that seem to defy explanation or categorization in any meaningful way.",
            "notes": [
                "This theme does notably not apply in the case of events for which the character can perceive reasonable sounding possible explanations. It is meant to capture things that just don't any make sense. However, if mysterious events are cause by spirits or the like, the theme \"human vs. the occult\" is normally used instead."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "facing adversity"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In tz1959e1x34 \"The After Hours\", Marsha grew increasingly puzzled after she purchased a gold thimble on the 9th floor of a department that had only eight floors."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "human vs. institution",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character experiences what it is like to face an entire institution, like the secret police, that is out to get them.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "facing adversity"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict_(narrative)#Man_against_society"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "human vs. Kafkaesque institution",
            "aliases": [
                "human vs. bureaucracy"
            ],
            "description": "A character encounters a labyrinthine and overpowering bureaucracy so extreme that it beggars belief.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human vs. institution",
                "bureaucracy"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Kafka#%22Kafkaesque%22"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Eponymous Franz Kafka describes such a bureaucracy in \"The Trial\" (1925), wherein Josef K struggles to descry what crime he has been charged with, and to meet the various impossible demands made on him by a remote and faceless judiciary."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "human vs. magic wielder",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a struggle between a relatively normal person and someone, such as a wizard, who uses magic powers.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human vs. the unnatural"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_(supernatural)"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "human vs. monster",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A struggle between person and monster is featured. Monster, here, means a grotesque version of man or animal of a sort that typically only exists in stories.",
            "notes": [
                "Use \"human vs. beast\" if the struggle is with a relatively ordinary animal."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human vs. unnatural being"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monster"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "human vs. natural disaster",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character's struggle to get by during a natural disaster is featured. This could be about surviving a volcanic eruption, an earthquake, a tsunami, etc.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human vs. nature"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict_(narrative)#Man_against_nature"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "human vs. nature",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character's struggle to survive the elements is featured. This could be about surviving in blistering cold, scorching heat, raging wind, etc.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "facing adversity"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict_(narrative)#Man_against_nature"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "human vs. self",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character must overcome an internal struggle within themself.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human vs. human"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict_(narrative)#Man_against_self"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "human vs. sentient machine",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a struggle between a human and a (more or less) sentient machine.",
            "notes": [
                "There is no clear definition for what machines are to be considered sentient. As a rule of thumb, this theme applies if the machine takes complex actions with high-level motivations such as self-preservation, or vengeance. It certainly applies if the machine exhibits any sort of human-like personality."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human vs. technology"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict_(narrative)#Classification"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "The Enterprise-D crew members were almost overwhelmed by the autonomous planetary defense system of Minosian design in tng1x21 \"The Arsenal of Freedom\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "human vs. space anomaly",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character struggles to survive contact with a space anomaly of some kind.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human vs. nature"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Beverly became trapped in a collapsing warp bubble universe in tng4x05 \"Remember Me\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "human vs. speculative environment",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character's struggle to survive the elements perceived to be associated with a speculative environment is featured. This could be about surviving on an alien planet, the unrealistic interior of a creature, or in an alternate dimension.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human vs. environment",
                "what if I found myself in a strange place"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict_(narrative)#Man_against_nature"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "human vs. spirit",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A struggle between person and spirit is featured. A spirit, here, means an \"immaterial being\", \"supernatural agent\", the \"soul of a person\", an \"invisible entity\", or the \"soul of a seriously suffering person\". Often spirits have an intermediate status between gods and humans, sharing some properties with gods (incorporeality, greater powers) and some with humans (finite, not omniscience).",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human vs. unnatural being"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirit_(supernatural_entity)"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "human vs. technology",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A conflict between a person and technology is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "facing adversity"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_vs._Technology"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "human vs. the elements",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character's struggle to survive the elements as associated with a specific natural weather condition. This could be about surviving in the blistering cold of an ice storm, in scorching heat during a drought, or in the raging winds of a hurricane.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human vs. nature"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict_(narrative)#Man_against_nature"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Sulu nearly froze to death on Alfa 177 during a geological survey gone wrong in tos1x04 \"The Enemy Within\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "human vs. the unnatural",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A person struggles against supernatural or otherwise unnatural forces such as dark magic or unnatural beings. Unnatural, here, means not existing in nature as it is presently understood.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "facing adversity"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernatural"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "human vs. unnatural being",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A person struggles against supernatural or otherwise unnatural beings such as ghosts or mutant zombies.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human vs. the unnatural"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernatural"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "human vs. venomous animal",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A struggle between a human and an animal equipped with poison dangerous to said human, is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human vs. beast"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "human worrying about self",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character ponders a concern they have regarding their own person.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human self-reflection"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introspection"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "\"second guessing one's self\" and \"beating one's self up \" are \"human worrying about self\" type themes because they imply that a person is being dissatisfied with their own decisions in some way."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "human-alien hybrid",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a part human, part alien being.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "hybrid being",
                "extraterrestrial being"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "human-animal hybrid",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a being that incorporates elements from both humans and at least one non-human animal.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "hybrid being"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human%E2%80%93animal_hybrid"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "human-bug hybrid",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There being that is part human and part insect or creature that resembles an insect.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "hybrid being"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "human-canine hybrid",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a part human, part dog being.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human-animal hybrid",
                "canine-like being"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "human-fish hybrid",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a part human, part fish being.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "hybrid being",
                "fish-like being"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Fallout from a nuclear holocaust caused a man to develop some fish features, including a dorsal fin and tuna-blue skin, in \"Endgame\" (1983)."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "human-made pandemic",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "People create a dangerous pathogen, typically for the purpose of war, but it gets out of control and kills everyone.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "biotechnological risk to civilization"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "The inhabitants of Earth Two sought to increase their lifespan but instead released an infectious virus that quickly killed off all adults in tos1x11 \"Miri\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "human-plant hybrid",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a part human, part plant being.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "hybrid being"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Professor Nolter crossed a human being with a plant in \"The Mutations\" (1974)."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "human-reptile hybrid",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a part human, part reptile being.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "hybrid being",
                "reptilian being"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Dr. Curt Connors transformed himself into a lizard-man with super regenerative capabilities in \"The Amazing Spider-Man\" (2012)."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "humanity's place in the universe",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A philosophical, or theological, view of humanity's place in the universe is discussed. For example, the idea that Earth and humanity is at the center of all that there is, may be put forth. Alternatively, the contrasting scientific and modern view that humanity is a tiny spec in the vastness of the cosmos, may be pointedly emphasized or illustrated.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "philosophy"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_center_of_the_Universe"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "humankind controlling its own destiny",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The idea is featured that mankind must, needs, deserves, or can (etc. etc.) somehow be the arbiter of its own fate as opposed to being steered by a deity or some such more-or-less external monolith.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human nature"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In tas2x05 \"How Sharper Than a Serpent's Tooth\", Captain Kirk convinced Kukulkan that humankind was ready to stand on its own two feet and that Kukulkan's help in cultivating civilization was henceforth neither requested nor required."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "humanoid mutant",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "An originally humanoid being has been rendered grotesque relative to the norm of its species owing to genetic mutation.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "biologically distinguished being"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutants_in_fiction",
                "http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/mutants"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "humanoid robot",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "An automaton that resembles a human being is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "artificial intelligence",
                "speculative robot"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "humans at work",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "This is a general theme pertaining to the experience of people as they seek to collaborate in a workplace.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "humans in group"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Job",
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workplace_politics"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "\"office politics\", about intrigues in workplaces, is an oft featured theme of the \"humans at work\" sort."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "humans in group",
            "aliases": [
                "community"
            ],
            "description": "This is a general theme pertaining to human group dynamics, or some experience simultaneously applicable to each member of a group of people.",
            "notes": [
                "We distinguish between \"individual humans\", \"humans in pairs\", and \"humans in groups\" with reference to whose experiences are relevant to the thematic idea that is being expressed. For example \"coping with problematic people\" clearly implies the presence of two or more people but the theme is only concerned with the experiences of a single observer at a time. \"romantic relationship\", on the other hand, is a category of themes that most often examine the interaction between two people and discuss both their experiences simultaneously. Likewise \"humans in group\" imply themes that examine the constitution of a whole group of people, for example the idea that \"lack of trust can lead to group dysfunction.\""
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "personal human experience"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "\"insubordination\" is considered a \"humans in group\" theme because even though it implies the actions of only a single person the ideas featured are typically related to how hierarchies of humans function when insubordination is either tolerated or prescribed to some extent."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "humans in hierarchy",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "This is a general theme pertaining to a hierarchical structure wherein some characters are put above and in charge of other characters.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "humans in group"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominance_hierarchy",
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hierarchy"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "\"leadership\" is a typical \"humans in hierarchy\" as a leader by definition is someone who is in charge of others, formally or informally."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "humans in pairs",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "This is a general theme pertaining to the respective interactions and attitudes of two people vis-à-vis each other.",
            "notes": [
                "We distinguish between \"individual humans\", \"humans in pairs\", and \"humans in groups\" with reference to whose experiences are relevant to the thematic idea that is being expressed. For example \"coping with problematic people\" clearly implies the presence of two or more people but the theme is only concerned with the experiences of a single observer at a time. \"romantic relationship\", on the other hand, is a category of themes that most often examine the interaction between two people and discuss both their experiences simultaneously. Likewise \"humans in group\" imply themes that examine the constitution of a whole group of people, for example the idea that \"lack of trust can lead to group dysfunction.\""
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "personal human experience"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "humans interacting",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "This is a general theme pertaining to the interactions between two or more humans.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "humans in group"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "\"clash of wills\" is a \"humans interacting\" theme used when two characters are locked in a heated argument over some joint course of action. By contrast, \"clash of Wills\" is used whenever two characters who are both named Will, get locked in a heated argument over some joint course of action."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "humility",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone downplays their own abilities or receives a lesson in humility that appears effective.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human character"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humility"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "hunting",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is notably and regularly engaged with the chasing down and dispatching wild animals. Typically the character is either a professional hunter, or sees hunting as a hobby.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human regular activity"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "hunting people for sport",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is an organized sport-like activity that resembles game hunting except that the targeted prey are people.",
            "notes": [
                "This theme does not normally apply when warriors hunt down and kill their enemies as part of a military campaign."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "blood sports"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "husband and wife",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The relationship between husband and wife is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "married couple"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Harry Mudd bickered with an android replica of his wife, Stella, in tos2x11 \"I, Mudd\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "hybrid being",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a being that incorporates elements from both humans and non-humans.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "biologically distinguished being"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human%E2%80%93animal_hybrid"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "hypochondria",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone exhibits an abnormal anxiety about the state of their own health.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human mental condition"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypochondriasis"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "hypocritical character",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a character who does the opposite of what they themself preaches, to a notable degree.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human character stereotype"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypocrisy"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In \"Measure for Measure\" (1604), Angelo has condemned Claudio to death for the offense of extramarital fornication, even though it was with a woman he loved, that loved him, and whom he intended to marry. When petitioned for leniency, Angelo orated at length about the importance of enforcing the law. Simultaneously, he used his office to pressure a young nun for extramarital sex himself."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "hysterical woman stereotype",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A female character exhibits a stereotypical prolonged outburst of excessive emotionality, typically by screaming.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "female stereotype"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_hysteria"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "ice hockey",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Ice hockey is a contact team sport played on ice, usually in an indoor or outdoor rink, in which two teams of skaters use their sticks to shoot a vulcanized rubber puck into their opponent's net to score goals. This game is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "sports"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_hockey"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "ice planet",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a planet that is more or less entirely covered in ice so that the whole of it resembles nothing so much as an arctic wasteland.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative habitable celestial body"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_planet"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "identical twins",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There's a monozygotic pair of twins (or higher order multiple), i.e., two twins that are virtually identical on account of having the same DNA. The relationship between these two characters is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "twin and twin"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin#Monozygotic_(identical)_twins"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "if it ain't broke don't fix it",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character learns to avoid attempting to correct, fix, or improve what is already sufficient (often with an implication that the attempted improvement is risky and might backfire).",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human idea about life"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/if_it_ain%27t_broke_don%27t_fix_it"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "if it sounds too good to be true it probably isn't true",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The age-old adage is illustrated: If circumstances that are extremely advantageous too you manifest against the odds, you should seriously consider that someone (possibly your self) is simply deceiving you.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human idea about life"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/too+good+to+be+true"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "ignorance is bliss",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The old wisdom that one may be happier not knowing certain things is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human idea about life"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ignorance_is_bliss"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "illegal drug trade",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The ramifications of drugs and drug trade in society are explored.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "crime against property"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_drug_trade"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "The Brekkians found that trading a certain narcotic to the Ornarans was such a lucrative enterprise that they needed no other industry whatsoever in tng1x22 \"Symbiosis\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "illiteracy in society",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The ability or inability of categories of people in a society to read and write is discussed.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "educational issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literacy"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In talesoftheunexpected9x04 \"The Verger\", we saw briefly featured an adult literacy program at the local university."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "illness as a social construct",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The role culture plays in determining whether a certain condition is considered to be a disease is explored.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "sociocultural issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexuality_and_psychology"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In \"X-Men: The Last Stand\" (2006), many mutants were horrified when a \"cure\" for mutancy was announced since they didn't consider mutancy as a disease to be cured, but rather a normal way of being."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "immigration in society",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are asked how much immigration, if any, it is appropriate for a society to permit. One extreme is to disband all borders and the other is to build walls.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "socioeconomic issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "immortal living secretly among us",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character who doesn't age and who has lived an impossibly long time lives secretly among us run-of-the-mill mortals.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "impostor living secretly among us"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Flint is revealed to be an immortal human who had lived on Earth under various aliases for thousands of years in tos3x21 \"Requiem for Methuselah\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "immortality",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is able to go on living even when other characters would have died. They typically do not age (beyond a point) or if they do, death is not inevitably at the end of that process.",
            "notes": [
                "The theme \"immortality\" is considered topical simply if the idea that a character may go on living indefinitely is there. Stories are surprisingly full of nominally immortal characters that nevertheless perish, one way or another."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative personal resilience",
                "what if I were not subject to the normal process of aging"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Mr. Flynn of tos3x21 \"Requiem for Methuselah\", a.k.a. Methuselah, was born with that most coveted mixed blessing of all: immortality."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "impartiality in the legal system",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The problem of ensuring impartiality in the legal system is highlighted. We all suffer from various preconceptions and judges are no exception.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "law and order issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impartiality"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "imperialism",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A faction systematically uses the military in order to subjugate their neighbours and expand their own power.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "form of government"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperialism",
                "http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/imperialism"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "imperviousness to physical damage",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is able to withstand extreme physical effects, such as impacts or heat. They may, for example, be able to walk through flames or stand in the way of oncoming bullets, unscathed.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative personal resilience"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://powerlisting.fandom.com/wiki/High_Resistance"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "implanted memory punishment",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A fictional type of criminal correction that involves putting unpleasant memories into the brain of the convict, for example to let them experience what their victim may have felt.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "memory implantation technology",
                "speculative punishment"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "implanted weapon",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character has has a weapon of some sort grafted into their body by means of hitherto undeveloped cybernetic technology.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative weapon",
                "body implant"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "impossible love",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Two characters fall in love but it appears more-or-less impossible for the relationship to progress because of straightforward physical circumstances.",
            "notes": [
                "This theme is contrasted with \"forbidden love\", where the relationship is impeded by social circumstances."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "romantic love"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In tz1985e1x06b \"A Message from Charity\", two lonely teenagers separated by three centuries of time found themselves telepathically linked, and fell in love. Alas, as they would never be able to meet in person, the young girl from the 17th century took the tough decision to terminate their disagreeably platonic relationship.",
                "In tz1985e3x09 \"The Call\", Norman fell in love with a mysterious woman he spoke to only on the phone. The sentiment was reciprocated. Unfortunately, he came to find that the woman was the spirit of a successfully suicidal artist, now inhabiting her own self-portraying statue. That would normally have spelled the end of their courtship. But fate intervened and Norman was turned into a statue of his own, dotingly contraposed with the other for eternity."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "impostor living secretly among us",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a community of people in which one seeming member is in fact not of the community, and lives within it under notably false pretenses.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "crackpot theory"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In tz2002e1x31 \"The Monsters Are on Maple Street\", order in a little neighbored along the eponymous street broke down when several of the inhabitants became convinced that one of their secluded neighbors was, in fact, a foreign terrorist living there under false pretense."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "in for a penny in for a pound",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "This popular idiom is explicitly invoked or pointedly illustrated: Having started something, one must see it through to its end, rather than stopping short.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human idea about life"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/in_for_a_penny_in_for_a_pound"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "in-law relationship",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Featured is the relationship between two people who are not biologically related but who are considered kin as the result of someone's marriage. Most often this is a spouse together with one of their partner's near relatives.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human familial relationship"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affinity_(law)"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "inaction vs. futile action",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone has no good options but must choose between doing nothing, or waste effort doing something that is most certainly pointless.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "personal practical dilemma"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Captain Kirk and Commissioner Ferris debated whether to keep up the search for the Galileo shuttlecraft in tos1x13 \"The Galileo Seven\", even though it was almost certainly hopeless."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "inanimate object come to life",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "An ordinarily inanimate object moves and acts like a living being.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative being"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "inattentive male partner",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A male character in a relationship is inattentive to their partner's emotional needs.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "male stereotype"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "incest in society",
            "aliases": [
                "incest"
            ],
            "description": "Whether and to what extent people who are closely related should be allowed to have sex and procreate together is discussed.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "sexual norms in society"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incest"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "incestuous relationship",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a sexual relationship between two near relatives.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "romantic relationship"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incest"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "incompatible modes of communication",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The trouble two intelligent beings who use entirely different approaches to communication may face in understanding each other is illustrated.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "problem of language and meaning"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "incorporeal being",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a being that doesn't have material a body. It may be electromagnetic patterns, or something entirely beyond our science.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "shape distinguished being"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fictional_extraterrestrials_by_form#Immaterial/Incorporeal_beings"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "The alien Sargon no longer needed a body at the end of tos2x22 \"Return to Tomorrow\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "incorporeal spirit",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a being that is deceased but interacts with the world in the form of a bodiless spirit.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "undead being"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirit"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "indecent exposure",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The deliberate public exposure by a person of a portion of their body in a manner contrary to local standards of appropriate behavior is featured in a way that it is understood to be a crime in the sociocultural context of the story.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "sexual crime"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indecent_exposure"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "indefinite detention",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The ramifications of allowing governments to detain people indefinitely are discussed.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "legal punishment"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indefinite_detention_without_trial"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "The Romulans had kept Klingon war prisoners from the Khitomer Massacre in a prison camp for many years in tng6x17 \"Birthright, Part II\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "independence struggle",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is an activist for the cause of independence or autonomy of a region that is part of a political entity.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "political issue"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "indigenous rights",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The putative rights of groups and individual claiming to belong to groups that claim to represent indigenous population in a country settled from elsewhere, are discussed.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human rights issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_rights",
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Nations"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "individual humans",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "This is a general theme pertaining to an individual's personal emotions, dispositions, thoughts, urges, ambitions, life issues, and other such experiences.",
            "notes": [
                "We distinguish between \"individual humans\", \"humans in pairs\", and \"humans in groups\" with reference to whose experiences are relevant to the thematic idea that is being expressed. For example \"coping with problematic people\" clearly implies the presence of two or more people but the theme is only concerned with the experiences of a single observer at a time. \"romantic relationship\", on the other hand, is a category of themes that most often examine the interaction between two people and discuss both their experiences simultaneously. Likewise \"humans in group\" imply themes that examine the constitution of a whole group of people, for example the idea that \"lack of trust can lead to group dysfunction.\""
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "personal human experience"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "indoctrination in society",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "An institution (for example the government, the church, or the military) uses its powers to indoctrinate individuals into a way of thinking. For \"indoctrination\" to apply a certain amount of coercion and intolerance towards contrarian views is required.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "political issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indoctrination"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "indoctrination of a people",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The ramifications of instilling the people in a society with a biased, one- sided or uncritical ideology are explored.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "educational issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indoctrination"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "The Cardassian military indoctrinated the Cardassian people in the virtues of the Cardassian military in tng6x11 \"Chain of Command, Part II\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "indoctrination of the young",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The ramification of indoctrinating a group of young people are explored.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "educational issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indoctrination"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Spock was unsettled to have stumbled on the fugitive Lokai indoctrinating some younger members of the crew in tos3x15 \"Let That Be Your Last Battlefield\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "inebriated interaction",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is inebriated in a social setting. Typically the character makes a right fool of themself.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "humans in group"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "inequality in the justice system",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "People of different classes are treated differently in the legal system when they commit the same type of crimes. For example, a rich man may get away with murder while a poor man of an ethnic minority is sent to the gallows.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "social inequality"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_in_the_United_States_criminal_justice_system"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "infanticide",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character murders a defenseless little baby, and it is featured as being a crime.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "murder"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In \"The Winter's Tale\" (1611), King Leontes ordered the newborn child he thought was his wife's bastard to be slain. Although it appeared was legally in his right to do so, being the King and slighted husband, it was also featured as being morally reprehensible and therefore a crime against the customs of society. We also know that, in the historical context, Christianity proscribed infanticide."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "infatuation",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "An intense but (typically) short-lived passion that may peter out or settle into more enduring romantic love.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "romantic love"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infatuation"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Riker and Minuet enjoyed a short, but memorable, infatuation on the holodeck in tng1x15 \"11001001\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "inferiority complex",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character experiences a lack of self-worth and possibly feelings of not measuring up to expectations.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human health condition"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferiority_complex"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "inflexible education system",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The education system is held up as rigid and intolerable of creative thinking, something that might be an important problem for society.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "educational issue"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "information technology in society",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The influence of the Internet, its precursors, or related technology on society is discussed.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "sociotechnological issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet",
                "http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/internet"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "informed consent in medicine",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The idea in medical ethics that to the extent possible, a patient should not be subjected to a treatment unless they have consented to it with a clear understanding of its implications.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "medical ethical issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Informed_consent"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "inheritance fight",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Putative beneficiaries (usually family members) of a departed person's estate squabble over how to divide the inheritance.",
            "notes": [
                "Stories often feature such squabbling beginning well before the benefactor of the heirs apparent has had the decency to depart. This theme is applicable, for example, when children argue with their parents over how their future bequest is to be allotted."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "family affairs"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inheritance"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "inherited liability",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are asked to what extent descendants are answerable for the actions of their ancestors.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "law and order issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sins_of_the_Father"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "For Javier Maribona Picard's role in the reconquest of New Mexico in the 1690's, all of Captain Picard's family was deemed to wear a stain of blood until this day in tng7x20 \"Journey's End\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "inhospitable environment dwelling being",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A being that thrives in environments that would be startlingly inhospitable to us humans. In scorching fire, for example, or in bedrock.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "biologically distinguished being"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "initiation rite",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Featured is a rite of passage marking entrance or acceptance into a group or society.",
            "notes": [
                "The initiate should be aware that a rite of passage is taking place for this theme to apply. For example, the theme does not apply to a conventional infant baptism."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "humans in group"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initiation"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "inorganic being",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a being that is novel by virtue of having a non-carbon-based biochemistry, e.g., crystalline beings, gaseous beings, electromagnetic beings, etc.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "biologically distinguished being"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fictional_extraterrestrials_by_form#Other_inorganic_life",
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypothetical_types_of_biochemistry"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "insectoid being",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A being patterned after common earth insects and arachnids.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "animal and plant patterned being"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fictional_extraterrestrials_by_form#Invertebrates"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "institutional risk to civilization",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "People rely on a particular way of organizing their civilization but they are either trapper in it or it has unforeseen consequences and civilization collapses.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "anthropogenic existential risk to civilization"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "institutionalized human blood sports society",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a broad practice of human blood sports in society, like the gladiatorial games in Ancient Rome.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative social institution"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "institutionalizing a loved one",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is wrestling with the decision of whether or not to let a near and dear person be committed to, for example, an asylum for the mentally ill.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "family affairs",
                "human life choice"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institutionalisation#The_mentally_ill"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "insurance fraud",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character fakes or deliberately causes an injury or loss of property in order to illicitly get compensation from an insurance company.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "criminal fraud"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In \"Double Indemnity\" (1944), Walter and Phyllis hatch an elaborate plot to kill Phyllis' husband and claim his life insurance, which they first take out in his name but without his knowledge. They must then make the murder look like an accident, in order to trigger the indemnity clause and double the payout."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "intangibility ability",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is able pass through material objects, such as walls.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative personal body manipulation"
            ],
            "references": [
                "http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/matter_penetration"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In X2 (2003), the mutant Kitty Pride manifested an innate ability to pass through walls."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "intangibility device",
            "aliases": [
                "matter penetration technology"
            ],
            "description": "There is a device which confers upon its target the ability to pass unscathed through solid matter.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative handheld device"
            ],
            "references": [
                "http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/matter_penetration"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Captain Archer was able to walk through walls using a handheld device in \"Star Trek: Enterprise\" Cold Front (ent1x11)."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "integrity",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "When a character sticks to their moral principles in spite of temptation to do otherwise.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human character"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrity"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Captain Kirk unhesitatingly refused Korob's offers of tasty foods and sparkling gemstones in exchange for his cooperation in tos2x01 \"Catspaw\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "intellectual development of a child",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The subtle question of how a child's intellect develops and what should be done to aid this process is discussed.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "educating a child"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_development"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "The Aldeans had an enlightened approach to raising children they kidnap in tng1x17 \"When The Bough Breaks\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "intellectual property in society",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The treatment of intangible creations of the human intellect as property by law is discussed. Copyrights, patents, trademarks, and trade secrets are notable examples of such things. Questions that arise are typically about whether something deserves the legal protection it is afforded, or vice versa.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "socioeconomic issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_property"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In tz1959e5x34 \"Come Wander with Me\", \"Rock-A-Billy Kid\" Floyd Burney expresses the opinion that he isn't obligated to pay any money for Mary Rachel's song because it is in the public domain."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "intelligence augmentation technology",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is technology, perhaps wearable, by which an ordinary person can be transformed into a genius.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "mind altering technology",
                "artificial intelligence"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "intelligent animal",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A conventional Earth animal is discovered to be truly intelligent or to have an intelligent (but as yet unknown) offshoot.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative being"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talking_animal"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "intelligent dinosaurs",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The theory that some dinosaurs had intelligence comparable to that of modern humans is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "crackpot theory"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "interclass romance",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Two characters who are of notably different social classes engage in a romantic relationship and the difference in social status has some bearing on what happens. Typically, one or both of the lovers' families disapprove. Sometimes the affair is proscribed by prevailing social norms.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "romantic relationship",
                "sociocultural issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Interclass_romance_in_fiction"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "interest in antiques",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The human predilection for engaging with old curios is illustrated.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "recreational activity"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Geordi was keen to take a look at some Ktarian antiques on the Deep Space 9 Promenade in tng6x16 \"Birthright, Part I\". He had heard there was a twenty- first century plasma coil in perfect condition for sale."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "interfactional mediation",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone acts as a helpful intermediary between two factions that have trouble negotiating effectively on their own, perhaps because they can't stand the sight of one another.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "diplomacy"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediation"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "interfering in the internal affairs of other powers for humanitarian reasons",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The ethical justifications for intervening in the affairs of another nation when doing so could arguably stop or prevent great human suffering, is explored.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "the ethics of interfering in the internal affairs of other powers"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "intergalactic space travel",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Featured is spaceflight between galaxies.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "space travel"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intergalactic_travel"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "intergenerational conflict",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Social problems that arise because of conflict between age groups are explored. For example, when the young feel they are unemployed and poor because previous generations have run up national debt and extract juicy pensions there can be some resentment.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "war"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intergenerationality"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "international issue",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "This is a general theme about interactions among sovereign states. For example, the theme may pertain to war, peace, diplomacy, international trade, and globalization.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "society"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_(polity)",
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transnationality",
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_relations",
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_issue"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "\"transnational institution for peace\" is an \"international issue\" theme as it is used when an organization like the UN, a forum for sovereign states to discuss common concerns, is featured."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "international politics",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The intricacies of politics when multiple sovereign factions and ethnic identities are involved is features.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "international issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_relations"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "international sanctions",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "One or more states seek to punish another state by by preventing activities such and trade and travel.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "international issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_sanctions"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "Internet crime in society",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "One of the various types of Internet related crime known as \"cybercrime\" is featured, for example \"cyberfraud\" or \"cyberextortion\".",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "information technology in society"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_safety",
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybercrime"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "interplanetary space travel",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Featured is spaceflight between planets or other bodies withing the same star system.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "space travel"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interplanetary_spaceflight"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "interplanetary war",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is warfare between combatants from different planets in a stellar system.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative society"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In \"The Moon is a Harsh Mistress\" (1966), a full-scale war erupted between the Federated Nations of Earth and their colony on the Moon."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "interracial couple",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Two people with of different socially-defined races engage in a romantic relationship, and face some of the obstacles that come along with it.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "romantic relationship"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interracial_marriage"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "interstellar communication network",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A way of communicating in some kind of real-time across the vast distances of space that lies between star systems, is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "astronomical-scale engineering"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "interstellar space travel",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A people travels outside its original solar system. Note: As space travel is present as the backdrop in every Star Trek episode, the theme is used only when a particular point is made about it in the story line.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "space travel"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstellar_travel"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Captain Picard explained the Federation's mission in detail in tng1x01 \"Encounter at Farpoint\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "interstellar war",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is warfare between combatants from different planetary systems.",
            "notes": [
                "This theme does not apply in the asymmetrical scenario where only one party can take the fight to the other party's planetary system."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative society"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstellar_war"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "intimidation",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character tries to browbeat another by threat and intimidation.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "humans interacting"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intimidation"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "invasion of privacy",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "One character does something to another character that would be offensive and considered a violation of the other character's reasonable expectation of privacy, if found out. Typical this happens when one character spies on another.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "humans in group"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expectation_of_privacy"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "invasive life form from outer space",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The ecosystem, or a vital resource (food), on your planet is destroyed by an invasive life form from outer space and you all die.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "threat from extraterrestrial life"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "The grain supply designated for Sherman's Planet was entirely consumed by Tribbles in tos2x13 \"The Trouble with Tribbles\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "invisibility",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is an effect that renders someone or something invisible to the eye.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative effect"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "invisibility ability",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is able to go unseen because their body is not visible to normal human sight.",
            "notes": [
                "This condition is often described as a semi-permanent feature that the benefiting character can't control, per se. It is, nevertheless, an ability in the sense that it allows someone to go places unseen. Typically, they can still make themselves seen by donning clothes or otherwise manipulating the physical world."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative personal body manipulation",
                "invisibility"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invisibility_in_fiction"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "invisibility technology",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a technology that renders someone or something invisible.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative technology",
                "invisibility"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invisibility_in_fiction",
                "http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/invisibility"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "invisible spaceship",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Technology that renders a spaceship invisible.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative spaceship",
                "invisibility technology"
            ],
            "references": [
                "http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/cloaking_device"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "ion drive spaceship",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A spaceship propulsion technology the idea of which is to create thrust by using electricity to accelerate ionized particles.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative spaceship"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion_thruster",
                "http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/ion_drive"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "An ion-powered starship from Sigma Draconis VI was encountered in tos3x06 \"Spock's Brain\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "ironic twist of fate",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Fate subjects a character to circumstances that are notably ironic in the context of that same character's own designs and past actions.",
            "notes": [
                "This theme does not apply if the irony is achieved through the considered designs of another character, for example as vengeance. It must also be reasonably clear that irony is a considered component of the story."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "ethics"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In talesoftheunexpected3x06 \"Parson's Pleasure\", Cyril Boggis purchased a priceless commode for a pittance by telling the seller he needed only the legs and would use the rest as kindling. Upon appearing to collect it he found, in an ironic twist of fate, that the exuberant seller had decided to do him the favor of detaching the legs and chopping the body up into an easily transportable kindling pile."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "irreverence",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone shows flagrant disregard toward people and things that generally expected to be taken seriously.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human character"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "irrigation",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Any of a number of technologies developed over the ages to supply controlled amounts of water to crops at regular intervals.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "technology"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irrigation"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Captain Kirk, while suffering from amnesia, had plans to irrigate Amerind in tos3x03 \"The Paradise Syndrome\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "is there a higher power",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The question is posed: Is there a cosmic principle or eternal omnipotent entity at work in the universe?",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "metaphysics"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Captain Picard soliloquized on the possible existence of a higher power at work in the cosmos in tng2x02 \"Where Silence Has Lease\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "is there a purpose to life",
            "aliases": [
                "the meaning of life"
            ],
            "description": "The abstract, possibly nonsensical, question of whether life has some sort of meaning and purpose is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "metaphysics"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meaning_of_life"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "Islam",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Islam is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion whose central text, the Quran, is considered by followers, known as Muslims, to be the word of God. Something about this faith is prominently featured in the story.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "organized religion"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "isolated prehistoric land",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a geographical region, or location of significant size, which is remote and isolated to such an extent that many features from prehistoric times are still extant in present time.",
            "notes": [
                "\"Prehistoric\" indicates time from before there were written records. These fictional lands may for example contain cave men form the Stone Age, Neanderthals, woolly mammoths, and dinosaurs."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative place"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prehistory"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In futurama7x08 \"Fun on a Bun\", Fry falls through a hole in a glacier into a land filled with mammoths and Neanderthals. This land had been shut off from the rest of the world by the ice since around the time Homo sapiens first emerged and replaced Neanderthals."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "isolationism",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A society endeavors to cut all ties to the outside world and avoid strangers to the extreme.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "political ideology"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isolationism"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "it's the future that matters not the past",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Featured is the idea that a preoccupation with the past is bad if it comes at the expense of concern for the future.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human idea about life"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In tz1959e4x10 \"No Time Like the Past\", we saw a disillusioned scientist in a bleak future try vainly to change the past in various ways. After many failures, he comes to the realization that his fixation with history is wrong, and that he must instead work for the betterment of the future in the world from whence he came."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "it's what's on the inside that counts",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The idea that one's character is more important than one's external appearance is put forth.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human idea about life"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "Japanese folklore",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Elements of folkly Japanese traditions are explicitly and unambiguously featured. There may, for example, be nature spirits or deities with Japanese names.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "folk belief"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_folklore"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In \"Spirited Away\" (2001), the young Japanese girl Chihiro found her self in a peculiar land of legends, to which Japanese gods and spirits came each night to visit a sorceress's magical bathhouse."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "jealousy",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is desirous of an advantage perceived to be held by another, whether it be material (fancy hat) or intangible (love, friends, power, ability, fame, etc.).",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human emotion"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jealousy"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Janice Lester went insane with jealousy over the achievements of her one time lover Captain Kirk in tos3x24 \"Turnabout Intruder\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "jellyfish-like being",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A being resembling a jellyfish.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "animal and plant patterned being"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "An enormous spaceborne jellyfish-like creature was imprisoned and exploited by the Bandi in tng1x01 \"Encounter at Farpoint\", but its mate showed up to rescue it."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "jet pack",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A device worn on the back which uses jets of gas or liquid to propel the wearer through the air.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative wearable device"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet_pack"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "journalism",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character working with journalism is engaged in their chosen occupation. This may include traveling investigative journalists as well as editors, columnists, and the like.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human occupational activity"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journalist"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "journey into the underworld",
            "aliases": [
                "descent into hell"
            ],
            "description": "Someone travels into a dark and dreary world of the dead.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative travel"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underworld"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "Jovian extraterrestrial",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A native inhabitant of either the planet Jupiter or else one of its moons is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "extraterrestrial being"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jovian_(fiction)"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In \"Night Caller from Outer Space\" (1965), aliens from Jupiter's moon Ganymede came to Earth seeking human females for breeding stock."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "Judaism",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The religion of the Jewish people is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "organized religion"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judaism"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "junk foods in society",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Featured is the social issue of there being an overabundance of cheap and unhealthy food that is nevertheless so delicious that many people eat excessively, which may turn them overweight and unhealthy.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "public health issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junk_food"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "just be yourself",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The wisdom of the old motto \"be yourself\" is featured: one should strive to act in a way that feels natural.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human sentiment"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In tz1959e1x33 \"Mr. Bevis\", we saw how Mr. Bevis first resolved to better himself by conforming to society, as the guardian angel wanted, but realized that he'd rather remain destitute but carefree, as he had always been.",
                "Mudd's women were trying to act attractive but arguably became more attractive when they stopped acting in tos1x03 \"Mudd's Women\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "justification for torture",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The following kind of dilemma is illustrated: Can it be morally justified to use torture, for example, if it is the only way to protect your country? What if you have only weak evidence that it can protect your country? Rumors?",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "social ethical dilemma"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torture"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "keeping a promise when circumstances have changed",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character struggles with whether or not they are honor bound to keep a pledge in a situation when circumstances have changed so much that it is unclear whether the spirit of the pledge still applies.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "personal ethical dilemma"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In ds92x19 \"Blood Oath\" Jadzia Dax has to decide whether she should keep her blood oath to go on a murderous quest of vengeance, even though the oath was made by her antecedent Curzon Dax whose memories she retains but whose personality is long departed."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "keeping secrets",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone tries to keep something a secret from others around them.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "humans in group"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "kid getting a first job",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A young person is introduced to the job aspect of adult life, for example by means of a summer job.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human childhood"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "kids' science project",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A young person is made to perform a science project of some sort in school, or some equivalent scenario.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human childhood"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "kill all humans utopia",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Society is made perfect by the removal of its one failing component: human.",
            "notes": [
                "This  may not seem like a utopia since the destructions of all humans is usually not in the best interest of said humans. Nevertheless, in some stories there are individuals (sometimes human, sometimes robot) who seem to imagine a society bereft of humans as an idyllic one."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "utopia"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Lore and his loyal Borg minions wanted to wipe out the human scourge and make the universe a perfect place in tng7x01 \"Descent, Part II\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "killer microdrone",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A small autonomous aerial vehicle designed specifically to kill.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative weapon"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "killing an artificial person",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are made to ponder whether killing a sentient but artificial human-like being would be as bad as killing a normal human being.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "AI rights"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Sarek and the good guys debated the morality of killing artificial villains in tos3x22 \"The Savage Curtain\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "killing for personal advantage",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone struggles with the decision of whether or not to kill another in a situation where what's at stake for the potential killer is wealth or status etc. This theme is not used in \"kill or be killed\" situations, or when the killing is otherwise primarily done to save lives.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "personal life and death dilemma"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "killing in self-defense",
            "aliases": [
                "justifiable homicide"
            ],
            "description": "A character must choose whether to kill another person in order to save their own hide.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "compromising one's ethical principles vs. great need"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justifiable_homicide"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In tng3x03 \"The Survivors\", we heard that the immensely powerful alien being Kevin refused to kill even the murderous Husnock when they arrived to eradicate Kevin, Kevin's family, friends and entire community."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "killing to save a loved one",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone struggles between whether to commit murder if that is required to save a loved one from death.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "personal life and death dilemma"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "killing to survive",
            "aliases": [
                "kill or be killed"
            ],
            "description": "A character struggles with whether or not it is acceptable in a certain situation to take another's life in order to save their own.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "compromising one's ethical principles vs. great need"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "killing wicked people",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are made to ponder whether and to what extent the extrajudicial killing of patently wicked people can be morally sanctionable.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "social ethical dilemma"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In tz2019e1x01 \"The Comedian\", we must consider, as Samir no doubt did, whether it was alright to eradicate various maleficents that he knew from his past and that Internet confirmed as bad eggs."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "kindness",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone feels deeply for the plight of another and offers kindness and compassion rather than material aid.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human character"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kindness"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "kleptomania",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character persistently exhibits the irresistible urge to steal items, typically for reasons other than personal use or financial gain.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human mental condition"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleptomania"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "knowledge is power",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The age old wisdom that having knowledge that others' lack can be a source of power to influence the actions of others, is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human idea about life"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientia_potentia_est"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In bbf1x03, \"Born to the Purple\" (1994), one character sought knowledge to gain power in society, at two characters pointedly used their secret knowledge for good and one character obtained private knowledge but refrained from taking advantage from it out of compassion."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "kumbayah utopia",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Society is seemingly paradisical because everyone just stops being a jerk.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "utopia based on a view of human nature"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "The tiny alternate universe time continuum Elysia was a veritable utopia where everyone simply got along in tas1x12 \"The Time Trap\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "labor revolt",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Featured is a period civil unrest characterized by strong labor militancy and strike activity.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "political issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labour_revolt"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "labor strikes in society",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The feature of strike action among organized worker groups in society is discussed.",
            "notes": [
                "Not to be confused with \"bowling strikes\", which rarely appear as social issues in stories."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "socioeconomic issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strike_action"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "land exploration",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone faces the dangers inherent to exploring relatively unknown and unfamiliar inland regions.",
            "notes": [
                "A land inhabited by natives may still be unknown to the explorer and their people."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "charting unknown territory"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "language change",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Language change is variation over time in a language's features. This process is discussed or pointedly illustrated.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "problem of language and meaning"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_change",
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_change"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "An Abraham Lincoln replica asked forgiveness for calling Uhura \"a charming negress\" in tos3x22 \"The Savage Curtain\" upon recalling that the term was used by some in his time as a description of property."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "language of musical notes",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The idea of a language composed of musical sounds is illustrated.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative communication",
                "problem of language and meaning"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "The myseterious space obelisk on Amerind featured such a language in tos3x03 \"The Paradise Syndrome\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "law and order issue",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Explored is behavior that is broadly considered to be against the law in organized societies. The theme pertains to crimes and the measures we take to punish, deter, and prevent them.",
            "notes": [
                "Discussions about what ought or oughtn't be law belong elsewhere. For example, thorny constitutional law controversies may be better described as political issues."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "national social issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminal_law",
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "\"price rigging in society\" and \"theft in society\" are both about undesirable activities that we seek to proscribe, and are thus \"law and order issue\" themes."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "law enforcement",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character working in some department of law enforcement is engaged in their chosen occupation.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human occupational activity"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_enforcement"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "lawless anarchy dystopia",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a dysfunctional society without laws or order. Typically the strong and powerful do as they wish, and violence abounds.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "dystopia"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "laziness",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is very lazy, either physically (too lazy to work or move about) or mentally (too lazy to bother attending to their duties).",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human character"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sloth_(deadly_sin)"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Spock abandoned his duties in favor of frolicking in a tree while under the influence of space spores in tos1x25 \"This Side of Paradise\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "leadership",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone does a good or bad job of leading a group of people.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "humans in hierarchy"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leadership"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "learning about a foreign culture",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone seeks to learn about a culture different to their own.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "foreign point of view"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "learning languages",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The difficulties involved in learning a new language are illustrated.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "problem of language and meaning"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "leaving one's old life behind",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character must choose between staying put in a familiar old role on one hand or grab a fresh new (but unknown and risky) opportunity on the other.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human life choice"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "legal duty",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Featured is a codified duty in the sens of criminal law, i.e., an obligation to act under which failure to act (omission) results in criminal liability.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "law and order issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_obligations"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "legal occupation",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character working directly with the interpretation of law, for example a lawyer, prosecutor, or judge, is engaged in their chosen occupation.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human occupational activity"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_proceeding"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "legal punishment",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Discussed is a type of punishment that is considered legitimate by virtue of being set out in a law code by a recognized government.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "law and order issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punishment"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "legendary being",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a fictitious being from Earth mythology.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative being"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legendary_creature"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "legendary historical figure",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A person who has been suggested to have been a real historical figure but for whose existence there is no accepted historical evidence, is discussed or otherwise featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "history"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "legendary magic wielder",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a human or human-like being with an innate ability to use magic of one sort or another. This may include wizards, sorcerers, witches, etc.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "legendary being"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "legendary place",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A fictional realm from Earth mythology, is featured. Examples include Atlantis, El Dorado, and the Garden of Eden.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative place"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "leprechaun",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "This diminutive mischief-maker from Irish folklore is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "legendary being"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leprechaun"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In tz1985e1x14b \"The Little People of Killany Woods\", an Irish town drunkard's tall tales about \"little people\" turned out to be true after all. Alas, in this case the Leprachauns were from outer space."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "lesbianism",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are asked to what extent, if any, lesbianism should be tolerated in our society and how lesbians ought to be treated.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "homosexuality in society"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesbian"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Beverly was propositioned by Kareel Odan in tng4x23 \"The Host\", alas declined."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "lesson in humility",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone who was previously proud or arrogant is humbled and becomes more conscious of their own limitations.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human self improvement"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "lethal mating practice being",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A species of beings for which, like the preying mantis, the practice of mating is a lethal affair.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "sexually distinguished being"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "letting go of a lover",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone painfully comes to terms with a relationship that has ended and moves on.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "romantic relationship issue",
                "letting go of the past"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "letting go of the past",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character struggles with accepting and adjusting to their new reality after something adverse and irreversible has happened to it. Typically this theme is used when someone has trouble moving on after a, to them, important person has passed away.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human self-reflection"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In tz1985e3x05 \"Dream Me a Life\", both Roger and Laurel were miserable because they had difficulty letting go of their late lovers and moving on. In the end they finally did so and became acquainted with each other, possibly as intimates."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "liar paradox",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The statement of a liar who states that they are lying: for instance, declaring that \"I am lying\" or \"everything I say is false\". If they are indeed lying, they are telling the truth, which means they are lying and so on ad infinitum.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "mathematics"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liar_paradox"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Captain Kirk bested the android Norman by skillfully wielding this dangerous piece of otherwise abstract mathematics in tos2x12 \"I, Mudd\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "librarian",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a character whose job it is to tend to the books in a library, or the like.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human occupational activity"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In tz1959e2x29 \"The Obsolete Man\", Mr. Wordsworth was a dedicated librarian and therefore considered obsolete by the totalitarian state in which he had the misfortune to live."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "lie detector",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A gadget that can detect whether or not someone is lying. Such machines exist but their reliability is debated.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "once speculative device"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lie_detection"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "The Enterprise computer doubled as a lie detector in tos2x07 \"Wolf in the Fold\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "life extension technology",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a technology that enables a person to live long beyond the current maximum life span.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human enhancement technology"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_extension"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "life force",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The idea that people have some sort of vital energy that can (usually) be used and depleted much like a liquid.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "folk belief"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_(esotericism)"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "life force draining being",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A life form that somehow derives nourishment from the \"life force\" of other beings.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "parasitic being"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "life force transfer",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Seen is a process, perhaps aided by technology or magic, in which \"life force\" (spiritual energy, part of the soul, or the like) is transfered form one person to another.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative effect"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_(esotericism)"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Taurean women put life force draining headbands on men in tas1x04 \"The Lorelei Signal\", in order to extend their own lives, until Captain Kirk and his crew put a stop to such shenanigans."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "life in Ancient Rome",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "It is shown what life might have been like in world of Ancient Rome.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "life in the ancient Greco-Roman world"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_of_ancient_Rome"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/timeperiod.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "life in Crow law era America",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are shown a reasonable idea of what life might have been like for ordinary people in American (especially the South) during the time when Jim Crow laws mandated various kinds of racial segregation, i.e., roughly 1877 to 1954.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human life in late modern times",
                "human life in historical North America"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Crow_laws"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In \"Daughters of the Dust\" (1991), we saw the lives of an extended black family on a former slave plantation island off the coast of Georgia in 1902."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/timeperiod.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "life in early modern Ireland",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "It is described what life might have been in Ireland during around 1500-1800, i.e., before industrialization.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human life in early modern times",
                "human life in historical Europe"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/timeperiod.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "life in inner city America",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are shown an idea of what ordinary life might have been for some category of people living in lower-income residential districts in the downtown or city center of a large city in and around the United States of America.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human life in post-war times",
                "human life in historical North America"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner_city",
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghetto#United_States"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In \"Do the Right Thing\" (1989), we saw everyday life for a motley collection of mostly poor people in the borough of Brooklyn, New York City."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/timeperiod.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "life in late imperial China",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "It is described what life might have been in the area of the world controlled by the Ming, or Qing dynasty of China in or around the years 1368 to 1912 AD.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human life in historical Asia",
                "human life in early modern times"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_opium_in_China",
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Opium_War",
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Opium_War"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/timeperiod.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "life in late modern Britain",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "It is described what life might have been in Britain around 1750-1945, i.e., during the Industrial Age.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "life in late modern Europe"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/timeperiod.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "life in late modern Europe",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "It is described what life might have been like in Europe in and around 1800 to 1945.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human life in late modern times",
                "human life in historical Europe"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unification_of_Germany"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/timeperiod.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "life in late modern France",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "It is described what life might have been in France in and around 1800 to 1945.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "life in late modern Europe"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/timeperiod.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "life in late modern Germany",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "It is described what life might have been in Germany in and around 1800 to 1945.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "life in late modern Europe"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unification_of_Germany"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/timeperiod.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "life in late modern India",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are shown a reasonably sincere idea of what life might have been like for some category of people living on the Indian subcontinent, typically under British colonial rule, roughly between the years 1750 and 1947.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human life in late modern times",
                "human life in historical Britain",
                "human life in historical Asia"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonial_India"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In \"Aparajito\" (1956), we followed the everyday life of young Apu and his family living in the Bengali city Varanasi around 1920."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/timeperiod.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "life in late modern Italy",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The everyday life of people in this era and region of the world are depicted.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "life in late modern Europe"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/timeperiod.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "life in medieval Europe",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are shown a reasonably sincere idea of what life might have been like for some category of people living in Europe between years AD 500 and AD 1500.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human life in medieval times",
                "human life in historical Europe"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_Ages"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In \"The Seventh Seal\" (1957), we saw a Swedish crusader return from Palestine to find his homeland ravaged by plague."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/timeperiod.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "life in medieval Russia",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are shown an idea of what life might have been like in Russia during or around its Medieval era, ca. 980–1584.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human life in medieval times",
                "human life in historical Asia"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Russia#Early_history"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In \"Andrei Rublev\" (1966), we followed the lives of three monks, some peasants, and other low birth characters around the year 1400."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/timeperiod.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "life in post-war America",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are shown what life might have been like for various people in USA after World War II.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human life in historical North America",
                "human life in post-war times"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_in_the_1950s"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/timeperiod.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "life in post-war Europe",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are shown what life might have been like for various people somewhere in Europe after World War II.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human life in historical Europe",
                "human life in post-war times"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/timeperiod.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "life in revolution era America",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are shown what life might have been like for people in USA in and around the time when they declared independence from England, i.e., 1765 to 1783.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human life in early modern times",
                "human life in historical North America"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/18th_century_in_the_United_States",
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Revolution"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/timeperiod.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "life in the American Wild West",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "It is shown what life might have been like in America during its post- revolutionary frontier expansion, roughly 1783-1912, the times popularly associated with Cowboys and Indians.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human life in historical North America",
                "human life in late modern times"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_frontier"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/timeperiod.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "life in the ancient Greco-Roman world",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "It is described what life might have been like in the area of the world controlled by Rome or Greece in or around the centuries 8 BC to 5 AD.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human life in ancient times",
                "human life in historical Europe"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greco-Roman_world"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/timeperiod.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "life in the Napoleonic era",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are shown an idea of what life might have been like in Western Europe during or around the days of Napoleon Bonaparte, 1799-1815.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human life in historical Europe",
                "human life in late modern times"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleonic_era"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In \"Barry Lyndon\" (1975), we saw images of life military, aristocratic, and common in various places in Western Europe during the Napoleonic wars."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/timeperiod.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "life in the Soviet Union",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are shown an idea of what more-or-less normal life might have been like in the USSR while it existed, i.e., between 1922 and 1991.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human life in historical Asia",
                "human life in historical Europe",
                "human life in late modern times",
                "human life in post-war times"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In tz1985e1x21b \"Red Snow\", we saw some people living in a dreary arctic Gulag-like settlement of Soviet design."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/timeperiod.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "life in Victorian Britain",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are shown a reasonable idea of what life might have been like for some category of people living in Britain (or in areas suffused with British culture) in or around the reign of queen Victoria, i.e., 1837 to 1901.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "life in late modern Britain"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victorian_era"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In tz1985e1x22b \"Devil's Alphabet\", we followed the lives of a friend group of Cambridge students for a few years after their graduation, some time in Victorian England."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/timeperiod.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "life with a handicap vs. death",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone must decide whether or not to accept a permanent physical or mental impairment, for example the loss of a limb, in order to survive.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "contemplating suicide"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "Lilliputian being",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Humanoids that are just unusually small for some reason, like the Lilliputians in \"Gulliver's Travels\" by Jonathan Swift.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "size distinguished being",
                "legendary being"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/lilliputian"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Spiroid epsilon waves had turned human scientists into tiny humanoids that were about one sixteenth of an inch tall in tas1x11 \"The Terratin Incident\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "literary thematic entity",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A literary thematic entity, or literary theme for short, is a topic that is explored in a work of fiction or an opinion that is conveyed about a topic in a work of fiction.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": ""
        },
        {
            "name": "literature appreciation",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "How best to appreciate litterature is discussed.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "the fine arts and the humanities"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literary_criticism"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Spock was most impressed with Mr. Flint's taste in literature in tos3x21 \"Requiem for Methuselah\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "live by the sword die by the sword",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The idea is held forth that people who choose to live lives of violence are likely to die violent deaths.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human idea about life"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_by_the_sword_die_by_the_sword"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "living corpse",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a corpse that has been re-animated by some or another means.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "undead being"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Dr. Juan Munos used refrigeration to keep his dead body somehow alive in \"Night Gallery\" tale \"Cool Air\" (1971)."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "living dinosaur",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The theory that non-avian dinosaurs have survived the Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) extinction event is entertained.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "cryptid"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living_dinosaur",
                "http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/dinosaurs"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "living isolated from civilization",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character or small community chooses the hermit's life of isolation from most of the rest of society.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human sentiment"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "living planet",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is an organism that exists on a planetary-scale.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "size distinguished being",
                "spaceborne being"
            ],
            "references": [
                "http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/living_worlds"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "living space cloud",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A life form that exists as an expansive, gaseous cloud in outer space.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "size distinguished being",
                "spaceborne being"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "living up to expectations",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone struggles with the pressure of meeting the expectations of others.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human social position",
                "human worrying about self"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Wesley, the wunderkind, failed to meet expectations that he would pass the Starfleet Academy entrance exam in in tng1x19 \"Coming of Age\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "lobotomization",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are asked when, if ever, it is acceptable to prescribe lobotomization, the surgical destruction of part of someone's brain, typically in the context of ameliorating a mental disorder. Concrete lobotomization is no longer done but surgery on the brain is sometimes necessary and there are many tough decision to wrangle.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "medicine"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobotomy"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "local weather control system",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A machine capable of modifying and controlling weather in its immediate vicinity is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "sub-planetary-scale engineering"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_modification",
                "http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/weather_control"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "A team of scientists tested a system to control the weather on and around a remote Pacific island in \"Son of Godzilla\" (1967)."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "locationally distinguished being",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a being that is novel by virtue of where it comes from, e.g., underground, outer space, an ethereal realm, etc.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative being"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "Loch Ness Monster",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "This creature from Scottish folklore is featured explicitly.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "cryptid",
                "legendary being"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loch_Ness_Monster"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "logarithmic scale",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A scale of measurement that displays the value of a quantity using intervals corresponding to orders of magnitude, like the Richter scale for earthquakes.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "mathematics"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logarithmic_scale"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Data and Geordi used a logarithmic scale in tng5x04 \"Silicon Avatar\" to improve image resolution."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "logic vs. gut feeling",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone must decide, in a given situation, which course of action is the better: the one dictated by their gut instinct or the one dictated by their head (logic).",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "personal practical dilemma"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "logical reasoning",
            "aliases": [
                "deductive reasoning inductive reasoning abductive reasoning"
            ],
            "description": "Logic is the systematic study of valid rules of inference, i.e. the relations that lead to the acceptance of one proposition (the conclusion) on the basis of a set of other propositions (premises). More broadly, logic is the analysis and appraisal of arguments.",
            "notes": [
                "As almost any human conversation can be said to involve logic, this theme is used only when the topic of logic itself is explicitly discussed in a somewhat academic way."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "mathematics"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logic"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "loneliness",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone feels bad because they lack friends and meaningful companionship.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human emotion"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loneliness"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "lonewolf way of life",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone deliberately shuns contact with others and prefers to live alone as much as they can.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human sentiment"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "long-distance relationship",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Two lovers try to remain romantically involved in spite of being miles or lightyears apart, perhaps even without access to real-time communication. Can they keep the spark alive?",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "romantic relationship"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-distance_relationship"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Captain Picard recalled that he and Miranda Vrgo had broken up because their long distance relationship didn't work out in tng7x22 \"Bloodlines\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "looking for a lover",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone is actively seeking a romantic partner.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "romantic relationship issue"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "lookism in society",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The issue of people being too obsessed with looks and appearances, their own and others, is discussed.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "prejudice in society"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lookism"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "looting",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Featured is the crime of stealing, or the taking of goods by force, in the midst of a military, political, or other social crisis, such as war, natural disasters (where law and civil enforcement are temporarily ineffective), or rioting. The proceeds of all these activities can be described as booty, loot, plunder, spoils, or pillage.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "theft"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Looting"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "loser character",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a stereotypical loser-like character with attributes like a dead-end job, no useful education, poor social relations etc.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human character stereotype"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "loss of emotional equilibrium",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character acts impulsively due to extreme emotion and (normally) against better judgment.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human mental condition"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "lost continent of Mu",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The far-fetched notion that a continent, once located in the Pacific Ocean and inhabited by a technologically advanced civilization in pre-history, has since disappeared as a result of catastrophic geological phenomena.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "crackpot theory",
                "legendary place"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mu_(lost_continent)"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "love",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "This is a general theme dealing with that feeling of deep affection and attachment toward someone or (occasionally) something. If sexuality is featured then the specialization \"romantic love\" is used.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human emotion"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "love at first sight",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The kind of love a person feels who becomes instantly infatuated upon first seeing someone.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "romantic love"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_at_first_sight"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "It was love at first sight for Troi and  Devinoni Ral in tng3x08 \"The Price\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "love conquers all",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Two lovers have such strong feelings for each other that prove to survive surprisingly difficult obstacles, e.g., years of separation.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "romantic love",
                "human idea about life"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Anne Nored remained as deeply in love as ever with Carter Winston even after it came to light that he was a betentacled alien spy in tas1x06 \"The Survivor\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "love is blind",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is so much in love that they are unable to see important flaws in the object of that affection. Typically, other characters can see what's happening and tries to intervene, but the character in love refuses to listen to them.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "romantic love",
                "human idea about life"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_proverbial_phrases#L"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "love kindled by danger",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The idea that a shared danger can kindle peoples' passions for each other is illustrated.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "romantic love"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "love of a pet",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The love of a master for their pet is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "familial love"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "love of a woman transforms a man",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A man is inspired to transform himself for the better by a woman with whom he has fallen in love.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "romantic relationship",
                "character metamorphosis"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "love out of pity",
            "aliases": [
                "pity sex"
            ],
            "description": "A character maintains a romance, or has sex, with an infatuated devotee mostly out of pity for them.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "romantic relationship issue"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Janet Wallace offered intimate comforting to Captain Kirk in tos2x11 \"The Deadly Years\" when he started aging rapidly."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "love potion",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a liquid concoction with the property that it can make one person love another.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "magic potion"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "love triangle",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Three people (sometimes more) are connected via multiple romantic relationships or unrequited romantic aspirations in a so called \"love triangle\" (\"love mesh\" more generally). For example: A loves B loves C loves A, or A and B are friends and both lovers of C, etc.",
            "notes": [
                "To be applicable, some sort of interpersonal relationship should be present for all pairs of people in the triangle. In particular, the theme is not applicable when a spouse takes a lover unless the other spouse is also well acquainted, for example friends, with the lover in question."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "romantic relationship"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_triangle"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "love vs. career",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character must decide what is more important to them: love or career.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "career choice",
                "human romantic relationship choice"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "love vs. conscience",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is made to choose between love one on one hand, and doing what they feel is right on the other.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "personal ethical dilemma",
                "human romantic relationship choice"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "love vs. faith",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone is forced to choose between adhering to their faith (for example the doctrines of a church they belong to), or pursuing a romantic interest.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human romantic relationship choice"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "love vs. friendship",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone has to choose between pursuing a romantic relationship on one hand, and maintaining a friendship on the other.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human romantic relationship choice"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "love vs. material gain",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character must choose between someone they love on one hand, and profiting materially (for example by money) on the other.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human romantic relationship choice"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In tz1959e2x21 \"The Prime Mover\", Kitty gave her lover Ace this ultimatum: Quit his crooked gambling, or she'd leave. Ace kept gambling a bit longer."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "love vs. self-preservation",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character must choose between protecting themself and their own interests on one hand, or protecting a lover on the other.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "personal ethical dilemma",
                "human romantic relationship choice"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "love vs. the public good",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character must choose between the loved one on one hand, and a general good, such as a cure for cancer, on the other.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "personal ethical dilemma"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "If time traveler Peter Standish had married his love Helen Petigrew, then the timeline would have been irreparably altered in \"I'll Never Forget You\" (1951)."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "love-hate relationship",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Two characters simultaneously or alternatingly adore each other and despise each other in a very chaotic relationship.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "romantic relationship"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "lovers' quarrel",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Two characters in a romantic relationship have an argument over something relatively petty, in a way that stereotypically belongs to such relationships.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "romantic relationship issue"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "loyalty",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is pointedly faithful to someone or something. For example, the theme may pertain to an individual demonstrating their loyalty (or pointed lack thereof) to a friend, a cause, or their nation.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human character"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loyalty"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "loyalty to a cause",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone shows constant support to a movement they feel strongly about.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "loyalty"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "loyalty to a friend",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone shows constant support to a friend.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "loyalty",
                "friendship"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "loyalty to a group",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone shows constant support to a group to which they belong.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "loyalty"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "loyalty to a leader",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A subordinate shows constant support to their leader.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "loyalty"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Kirk's senior officers remained loyal to their captain at his court martial in tos1x24 \"Court Martial\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "loyalty to a subordinate",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A leader shows constant support to a subordinate.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "loyalty"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "loyalty to one's family",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone shows constant support to a family member.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "loyalty"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "lucid dreaming",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The way we can sometimes dream with full awareness and control of our dream is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human mental condition"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucid_dream"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "lucky charms",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone believes a certain object gives them good luck.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "supernatural luck"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_luck_charm"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "lying",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character perpetrates a falsehood in an outright effort to deceive others with whom they are intimately acquainted.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "humans interacting"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lie"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "David tells an unconvincing lie to cover up that he'd accidentally shot dead a mule while playing with his new pistol in \"Almos' a Man\" (1976)."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "machine living secretly among us",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A machine impersonating a human is living secretly among normal people.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "impostor living secretly among us"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In \"Terminator: Dark Fate\" (2019), the T-101 Model Terminator Carl lives with a wife and stepson in Laredo, Texas, where he works as a common draper."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "machine regulated society",
            "aliases": [
                "computer controlled society"
            ],
            "description": "Society is supposedly ideal thanks to being regulated by machines that go about optimizing everybody's well-being in the best way possible.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "ruling elite utopia",
                "technologically enabled utopia"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "machines in society",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The role of machines in society is explored. Examples include the ramifications of people being replaced by machines at work and the use of AI technology in daily life.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "sociotechnological issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanization"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "mad scientist stereotype",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a character that fits the stereotype of a mad scientist. This typically involves lab coats and crazy experiments.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human character stereotype"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Mad_scientist_films"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "madness inducing painting",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a painting, or similarly visual work of art, that entices its beholders towards insanity.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative madness inducing effect",
                "magic object"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "magic bag",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a bag from which one can procure far more items, possibly an unlimited number, than the bag by its external appearance could possibly hold.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "magic object"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In tz1985e1x13a \"Night of the Meek\", Henry suddenly found that his garbage bag was filled with Christmas presents and continued to be so however many were removed, near enough."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "magic healing object",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is an object which can be used to heal a person of their ailments, with supernatural efficacy.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "magic object"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "magic object",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is an object with some fantastical property that cannot be explained by science.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "folk belief"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Magic_objects"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "magic portal",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is an opening, usually framed in a portal, mirror, or suchlike object, through which objects and people may pass and appear instantaneously in remote places.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "magic object"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portals_in_fiction"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "magic potion",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a liquid concoction with supernatural properties. For example, the potion might turn someone into an animal, or make them fall madly in love.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "magic object"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potion"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "magic powers",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is able to do at will some fantastical things that involves speculative supernatural forces that can be described as \"magic\".",
            "notes": [
                "This theme applies when a character uses spells, incantation, and other classically magic invocations. Unlike, for example, telekinesis it is clear that the world is manipulated first through the manipulation of some \"magical\" force or principle. In essence, the character is not directly manipulating real things (as we know them) but manipulates magic. Thus this becomes a category apart from other \"speculative ability\" themes."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative ability"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "magic word",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The use of spoken words to invoke magical energies is featured. Note: A stage magician uttering \"Abracadabra\" before performing a trick does not count.",
            "notes": [
                "A stage magician uttering \"Abracadabra\" before performing a trick does not meet the bar for applying this theme."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "folk belief"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_word"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "magical land in the sky",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a land, a kingdom perhaps, above the clouds.",
            "notes": [
                "This kind of theme is common fare for fairy tales and religions, and the exact details are generally left vague."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative place"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaven"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "magnanimity in victory",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone is forgiving to a rival they have bested.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "humans in pairs"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Riker graciously declined Portal 6-3's offer to destroy a party of conniving Ferengi in tng1x05 \"The Last Outpost\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "magnetic boots",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Boots that are magnetic, which allows them to attach to the ferrous floor or hulls of a spacecraft during weightlessness, and presumably would allow someone to walk around the cabin of a spacecraft, are featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative wearable device",
                "once speculative device"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_boots"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "maker and machine",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The relationship between a maker of a (more or less intelligent) machine and that machine is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "humans in pairs"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "maker and monster",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The relationship between a maker and a monster of their own creation is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "humans in pairs"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "male bonding",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Two mature adult males strengthen their friendship by engaging in stereotypically male bonding activities such as William T. Riker fighting an Anbo-jyutsu match.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "friendship"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Geordi and Bochra, a Romulan centurion and sworn enemy of the Federation, engaged in some serious male bonding while stranded together on the planet Galorndon Core in tng3x07 \"The Enemy\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "male brutishness",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The sexist attitude that males are blunt and violent is illustrated as such.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "male stereotype"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "male competitiveness",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The idea that men are inherently competitive is expressed.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "male stereotype",
                "competitiveness"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9639863"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "male homosexuality",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are asked to what extent, if any, male homosexuality should be tolerated in our society and how homosexual people ought to be treated.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "homosexuality in society"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexuality"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "male lasciviousness",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A male character is stereotypically licentious, i.e., makes offensive comments of a sexual nature or otherwise expresses an offensive preoccupation with sex.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "male stereotype"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lascivious_behavior"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "male midlife crisis",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The sterotypical idea of a male midlife crisis is featured. It might, for example, make the male in question buy fast cars and hookers, revert to teenage attitudes, or do some other silly things.",
            "notes": [
                "A midlife crisis is a transition of identity and self-confidence that can occur in middle-aged individuals, typically 45-64 years old."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "male stereotype"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midlife_crisis"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "male posturing",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The tendency of some males to prance and posture, particularly in front of females, is demonstrated.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "male stereotype"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "male protectiveness",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The tendency of some males to be protective of females is illustrated.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "male stereotype"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Scotty had a crush on Carolyn Palamas and tried awkwardly to be her knight in shining armor in tos2x04 \"Who Mourns for Adonais?\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "male stereotype",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Highlighted is one of those attributes that someone thinks, correctly or incorrectly, to be typical of men. Such themes may sometimes be considered sexist by contemporary standards.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human character stereotype"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "male-female bonding",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Two mature adult characters of the opposite sex strengthen their friendship through some sort of bonding activity or shared hardship etc. Note: This theme is not used if the nature of the relationship is predominantly romantic.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "friendship"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In ent1x15 \"Shadows of P'Jem\", Archer and T'Pol are held hostage together, a tribulation during which they come to much better understand each other."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "male-male rivalry",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Two or more male characters compete with each other in a stereotypically male way, for example through posturing or by trying to intimidate each other.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "rivalry",
                "male stereotype"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "malicious hoaxes in society",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A deliberately fabricated falsehood is widely propagated to the public with malicious or mischievous intent.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "sociocultural issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoax"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "NASA faked a manned mission to Mars in \"Capricorn One\" (1978)."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "man and mistress",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a man and a woman who are in a stable romantic relationship in such a way that she can be readily described as his \"mistress\". This expression is usually applied when the man is married to someone else, or when there is at least a hint of secrecy about the arrangement. The interpersonal relationship between the two characters is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "paramour and paramour"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mistress_(lover)"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "man vs. woman",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is conflict between a male character and a female character, featured in such a way that the gender difference is significant to the situation.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human vs. human"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "mandatory retirement",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are asked when in life it is right and proper for a person to retire.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "sociocultural issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandatory_retirement"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "The Federation decided to review the mandatory retirement age of 75 in the case of Commodore April after his heroic actions in tas2x06 \"The Counter-Clock Incident\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "mandrake root legend",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The legend that humanoid-shaped Mandrake root is produced by the semen of hanged men under the gallows.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "folk belief"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alraune#Legend",
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandrake#Magic_and_witchcraft"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "manipulation of evolution on a planet",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A species influences the development of life on other planets by interceding early in the evolutionary process (possibly before biological molecules first appeared) and then letting nature take its course.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "planetary-scale engineering"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directed_panspermia"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In tz1985e1x15b \"A Small Talent for War\", an alien told some United Nations delegates that his people had seeded Earth, along with millions of other worlds, with life."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "manners",
            "aliases": [
                "etiquette"
            ],
            "description": "The importance of, for example, not telling fools they are fools straight to their face is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "humans in group"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etiquette"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "maritime occupation",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone working on or with a seafaring vessel is engaged in their chosen occupation. Typically this means sailors, captains, and other naval officers.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human occupational activity"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sailor"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In \"Two Lost Worlds\" (1951), we saw the day-to-day lives of the crew members of an American clipper ship as they pursued pirates across the Pacific Ocean all the way to a volcanic island inhabited by dinosaurs."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "marriage ceremony",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a wedding.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "romantic relationship issue"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "marriage equality",
            "aliases": [
                "same-sex marriage"
            ],
            "description": "The human rights issue that same-sex marriage and opposite-sex marriage be recognized as equal by the law, is discussed.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human rights issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-sex_marriage",
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marriage_equality_(disambiguation)"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "marriage of convenience",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character ties the knot for reasons other than that of love and commitment. Typically, a character seeks personal gain such as monetary wealth or political advantage.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "humans in pairs"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marriage_of_convenience"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "married couple",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The relationship between two people who are married, according to prevailing customs, is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human familial relationship"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "Martian extraterrestrial",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Featured is a native inhabitant of the planet Mars.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "extraterrestrial being"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martian"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "masculinity",
            "aliases": [
                "manliness"
            ],
            "description": "What it means to be a real man is at stake.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "male stereotype"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masculinity"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "mass consumerism",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are made to ponder the pros and cons of a society in which happiness is linked to the acquisition of goods and services in ever-increasing amounts.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "sociocultural issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumerism"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "mass hysteria",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Allusions of a threat spread through a group causing panic, each person's fear reinforcing that of the next and in a vicious circle.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "humans in group"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_hysteria"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "The people of Maple Street gradually transform into an hysterical mob when they thought an alien monster was masquerading amongst them in \"The Twilight Zone\" (1959) story \"The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street\" (tz1959e1x22)."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "mass infertility",
            "aliases": [
                "sub-replacement fertility"
            ],
            "description": "For one reason or another people become infertile and civilization gradually die out.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "force of nature existential risk to civilization"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Societal_collapse#Sub-replacement_fertility"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "mass media in society",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The various ways in which mass media affect society is explored.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "sociotechnological issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_media"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "mass mind control",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The technology to, more or less directly and with some degree of precision, control the minds and actions of entire populations of people.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "mind altering technology"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainwashing"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Landru mind controlled a entire population with the help of an absorption chamber or two in tos1x22 \"The Return of the Archons\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "mass murder",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The crime of murdering a number of people, typically simultaneously or over a relatively short period of time and in close geographic proximity is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "murder"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_murder"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "A New York police detective investigates a series of mass murders in \"God Told Me To\" (1976)."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "mass radiation poisoning",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Radiation from some unspecified source wipes out life on a planet.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "force of nature existential risk to civilization"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acute_radiation_syndrome"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "The Scalosians were nearly wiped out by radiation in tos3x13 \"Wink of an Eye\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "mass surveillance",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The question of whether and to what extent we should have large scale surveillance systems in place is discussed.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "law and order issue",
                "sociotechnological issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveillance"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "master and pet",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The relationship between a master and their pet is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human familial relationship"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Data replicated feline supplement 74 for his beloved pet Spot the cat in tng4x11 \"Data's Day\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "master and servant",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The relationship between a master and their servant is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "superior and subordinate"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "master and slave",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The relationship between a master (or mistress) and their slave is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "superior and subordinate"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "match fixing",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The problem of criminals rigging games and sports matches by various means in order to profit from betting and spectator revenues, is discussed.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "criminal fraud"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Match_fixing"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "matchmaking",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character pointedly engages in the process of matching two or more people together for the purpose of forming a romantic relationship between them.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "romantic relationship"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matchmaking"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "matchmaking technology",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is technology with the putative capability to pair love seekers off in some sort of optimal way.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative device"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matchmaking"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "material possessions aren't everything",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The idea is put forth that we ought to see material possessions as less important in favor of other considerations, for example relationships.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human idea about life"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "maternal love",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The love of a mother for her child is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "parental love"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maternal_bond"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Beverly expressed her love for Wesley in tng1x03 \"The Naked Now\" by slapping him clear across the face."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "mathematics",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Mathematics is an area of knowledge that includes the topics of numbers, formulas and related structures, shapes and the spaces in which they are contained, and quantities and their changes. The theme is used whenever a notable idea from this area of knowledge is featured in the story.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "science"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematics"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "mating behavior",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The ways in which animals behave with regard to mating is studied.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "zoology"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_sexual_behaviour"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "matriarchy",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a social system in which exclusively women have political power.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "form of government"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matriarchy"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "matricide",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A son or daughter murders their own mother.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "parricide"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matricide"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In \"Psycho\" (1960), we learn that young Norman Bates had murdered his widowed mother and her new fiancée out of jealousy when Mrs. Bates planned to remarry."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "matrimonial love",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The love between two married people is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "familial love"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "matter duplicator",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A machine that can exactly duplicate physical objects.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "matter manipulating technology"
            ],
            "references": [
                "http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/matter_duplication"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "matter manipulating technology",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is technology that enables the changing or rearranging of particles of matter at a level of precision beyond our current capabilities.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative technology",
                "speculative matter manipulating effect"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "matter replicator",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A device used to synthesize all sorts of material objects merely out of energy.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "matter manipulating technology"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replicator_(Star_Trek)"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "L.Q. \"Sonny\" Clemonds replicated a straight up martini with two olives (for the vitamins) using the Enterprise-D matter replicator in tng1x26 \"The Neutral Zone\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "matter transmuter",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A device used to transform material objects into other material objects or into energy.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "matter manipulating technology"
            ],
            "references": [
                "http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/transmutation"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "mechanic occupation",
            "aliases": [
                "auto mechanic"
            ],
            "description": "A character works professionally with building, maintaining, or repairing machinery. In particular they may be an auto mechanic, i.e., someone who work this way with cars.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human occupational activity"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanic"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "mechanical insect",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a mechanical device that is shaped like an insect and that acts like an insect in some ways.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "artificial intelligence",
                "speculative robot"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RoboBee"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In blackmirror3x06 \"Hated in the Nation\" enormous swarms of mechanical bees had been created to pollinate plants, because real bees had died out."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "medical assistance to the enemy",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A medical professional ponders whether and to what extent they should expend effort to treat a wounded enemy.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "medical ethical issue"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "medical ethical issue",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Ethical issues relating to how physicians and other health care providers ought to behave in various situation, is explored.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "social ethical issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_ethics"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "\"medical triage\" involves choosing which patient to treat first and involves various ethical considerations that, perhaps, should not be left to individual whim."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "medical occupation",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character working with health care, typically in a hospital or comparable institution, is engaged in their chosen occupation.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human occupational activity"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_professional"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "medical risk taking",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "It is discussed how one can weight one set of risks and benefits against another in planning medical treatments.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "medical ethical issue"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "medical triage",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A practitioner of medicine has to choose which patient to prioritize base on factors such as likelihood of survival, age, and expected quality of remaining life.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "medical ethical issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triage"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "medicine",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Medicine is the science and practice of establishing the diagnosis, prognosis, treatment, and prevention of disease. This theme is used whenever an aspect of this science is featured in the story.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "science"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicine"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "meditation",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is engaged in the practice of coming to a deep rest while still remaining conscious, perhaps as a form of relaxation.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "recreational activity"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meditation"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "meeting the parents",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A paramour meets the parents of their lover for the first time.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "romantic relationship issue"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "memories from past lives",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is able to recall experiences from another lifetime. This implies some sort of reincarnation, or variation thereof.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative ability related to own mind"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "memory erasure",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The technology to remove (some or all) segments of someone's memories is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "mind altering technology"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_erasure",
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mindwipe"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "memory implantation technology",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is technology by which memories may be implanted into someone's brain.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "mind altering technology"
            ],
            "references": [
                "http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/memory_edit"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "memory recorder",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A device used to record and replay someone's memories.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative device"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Professor Quatermass used a device to record a young lady's buried memory of a ritual slaughter and then played it back to an audience in \"Quatermass and the Pit\" (1967)."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "men in black conspiracy theory",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Featured is the theory that there are men dressed in black suits who claim to be quasi-government agents who harass, threaten or assassinate UFO witnesses to keep them quiet about what they have seen.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "crackpot theory"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Men_in_black"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "mending one's wicked ways",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A once wicked character sets out to reform and become good, or at least to cease doing the wicked things they were doing.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "becoming a nicer person"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In ahh1x18 \"A Tangled Web\", the renowned jewel thief David Chesterman, for the sake of his beloved new bride, swears to give up his jewel thieving ways and become an honest Joe. Alas, it ends in misery."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "menopause",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character, typically a woman aged 45-50, experiences menopausal symptoms.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human health condition",
                "coping with aging"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menopause"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Lwaxana coped with a characteristically Betazoid form of menopause in tng2x19 \"Man Hunt\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "mental illness",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character exhibits general mental illness.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human mental condition"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_disorder"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "mental retardation",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a person who suffers from a neurodevelopmental disorder so severe that they have a significantly lower IQ (technically below 70) and problems with adaptive behavior that make their everyday living problematic.",
            "notes": [
                "This theme may be included in stories that clearly explore actual as well as borderline intellectual disability even if it is not clear that the technical definition of that condition are fulfilled. It may also be included in stories that parody or mischaracterize the condition."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human mental condition"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_disability"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In tz1985e2x05 \"The Toys of Caliban\", we saw an elderly married couple who were raising their intellectually disabled son Toby in seclusion because he had a dangerous magical ability but no self-restraint or sense to conduct himself safely with his power."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "mentally distinguished being",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a being that is novel by virtue of its mental abilities, e.g., it is telepathic, super intelligent, or collectively linked in a hive mind, and so on.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative being"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "mentor and protégé",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The relationship between a mentor and the person they are mentoring is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "humans in pairs"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "The Traveler played the role of mentor to Wesley in tng1x06 \"Where No One Has Gone Before\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "mercy",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone displays forgiveness, pity, or compassion toward another who is under their authority, i.e., is at their mercy.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "humans in pairs"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercy"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "mercy vs. justice",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are made to ponder when and to what extent we think laws should be enforced to the letter, and when, if ever, there might be reason to stay enforcement for reasons of mercy.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "social ethical dilemma"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In \"The Merchant of Venice\" (1598), by the letter of the law Shylock had the right to extract a literal pound of flesh from Antonio who had broken his bond. A legal expert implored Shylock to be merciful yet acknowledged that the law must be upheld and that mercy could not be enforced by the state. Later Shylock was himself brought low by the law, and various characters made a point of being merciful even when the law would have awarded them ruthless satisfaction."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "merpeople",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a race of mermaids and mermen, i.e., beings that share fish-like characteristics and that live under water.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "legendary being"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "messiah",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A religious savior or liberator of a group of believers, similar to a holy prophet but usually a notch higher in the divine pecking order.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "organized religion"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messiah",
                "http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/messiahs"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Kahless the Unforgettable, the Klingon messiah, was resurrected by cloning by Klingon monks in tng6x23 \"Rightful Heir\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "Messiah complex",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character believes themselves to be a divinely chosen leader and savior of their people.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "delusion of grandeur"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messiah_complex"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "metaphysics",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Metaphysics is the branch of philosophy concerned with the fundamental nature of reality and such basic concepts as existence, matter, space, time and causation. The theme is used whenever a notable idea from this branch of philosophy is featured in the story.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "philosophy"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaphysics"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "microbe-like being",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A macroscopic single celled being.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "animal and plant patterned being"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "microscopic being",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a being that is too small to see with the naked eye.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "size distinguished being"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "militarization of space",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Featured is the placement and development of weaponry and military technology in outer space around a world.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "war"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Militarisation_of_space"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "military coup",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A state's government is overthrown by a group of people from within the state's own armed forces.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "civil war"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coup_d%27%C3%A9tat"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In \"Akira\" (1988), Colonel Shikishima led a coup d'état against the Neo Tokyo government and directed all of its military forces to destroy a young man who had acquired near god-like telekinetic abilities."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "military dictatorship",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Society is ruled by a military group that maintain power by means of violence and repression.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "form of government"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_dictatorship"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "military indoctrination",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The military uses its powers to indoctrinate individuals into a way of thinking. For example, a militia may be indoctrinated with the idea that the enemy is evil. For \"indoctrination\" to apply a certain amount of coercion (possibly clandestine) is required.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "indoctrination in society"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indoctrination#Military"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "military issue",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The way society organizes its armed forces is explored.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "national social issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "\"desertion\" and \"treason\" are \"military issue\" themes as they deal with how discipline is maintained within the military or military-like groups."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "military related work",
            "aliases": [
                "military occupation military profession"
            ],
            "description": "There is a character whose main occupation involves being part of the armed forces of a putative state, or the like. This may, for example, be because they work professionally as an officer or because they are conscripted as privates.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human occupational activity"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "military retaliation to discourage",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The following kind of dilemma is illustrated: Is it right to retaliate after an offence in order to dissuade an enemy from further violence? Or will that just lead to a vicious circle of vendetta?",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "social ethical dilemma"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Captain Kirk chased down Gorn marauders to discourage them from further aggression in tos1x19 \"Arena\". It had nothing to do with vengeance, nothing!"
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "military secrecy",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The practice of keeping sensitive military information secret is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "military issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secrecy#Military_secrecy"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "military tactics",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "It is discussed how one should act and maneuver in battle to gain an advantage.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "the art of war"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_tactics"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "mimetic desire",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The peculiar human habit of occasionally wanting something only because we became cognizant of someone else wanting the same thing, is explicitly featured.",
            "notes": [
                "The story must make it clear that the desire arose primarily for mimetic reasons, if this theme is to be used."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human emotion"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In talesoftheunexpected7x13 \"The Reconciliation\", we learn that James' interest in his estranged wife was rekindled only because he came to believe someone else had taken her as a lover."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "mind altering technology",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A novel technology is used to alter (enhance or perhaps diminish) a person's mental ability. These are themes that posit technology to manipulate the human mind by cloning it, wiping it, moving it, controlling it, and so on.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative technology"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_science_fiction_themes#Body_and_mind_alterations"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "mind attack ability",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is able to attack another's mind, soul, or spirit (etc.) and inflict harm. They can sometimes also defend against such attacks, and the story world may contain the idea of invisible mind battles.",
            "notes": [
                "If a character struggles to control another person, rather than inflicting direct spiritual harm, then \"mind control ability\" is the more appropriate theme."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "mind to mind interaction ability"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "mind control ability",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character, by simply using their mind, is able to control other people's thoughts and actions.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "mind to mind interaction ability"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_control_in_popular_culture"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In tz1985e1x19a \"The Leprechaun-Artist\", a Leprechaun granted three young boys the power of command over their own parents. This was fun at first, but proved problematic as the parents showed no initiative whatsoever and had to be micromanaged."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "mind control technology",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Technology that can be employed to shape someone's mental states, thoughts, and opinions.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "mind altering technology"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_control_in_popular_culture"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "mind controlled society",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Society is supposedly ideal thanks to the use of mass mind control.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "ruling elite utopia"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "mind linking technology",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Technology that links two or more people's minds so that they can sense each other's emotions and perhaps even hear each other's thoughts.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "mind altering technology"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Captain Picard and Beverly shared their most intimate thoughts while mind linked in tng7x08 \"Attached\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "mind reading ability",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is able to telepathically read the minds of other people.",
            "notes": [
                "This theme is used when one person can merely \"hear the thoughts\" of another. If a person transmits their thoughts or otherwise affects people's minds at a distance, the more general theme \"telepathy\" is used."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "telepathic ability"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telepathy"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "mind reading technology",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Technology that can be employed by one person to read another person's mind.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "mind altering technology"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought_identification"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "mind to mind interaction ability",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is able to interact with another mind, simply by concentrating.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative ability related to another being"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "mind transfer technology",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Technology used to transfer someone's mind from one body to another, or to a computer or some sort of artificial brain.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "mind altering technology"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_uploading"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "mind uploading",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a technology used to transfer someone's mind to a computer or some sort of artificial brain.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "mind transfer technology"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_uploading"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "The mind of pop singer Ashley O was transfer into the AI doll Ashley Too in the Black Mirror story \"Rachel, Jack and Ashley Too\" (2019)."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "mind-computer merging",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Technology that provides a low-latency interface between a brain and a computer, thus blurring the boundaries between man and machine.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "mind altering technology"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Barclay got tired of the slow old interfaces and connected his brain directly to the Enterprise-D computer when he developed super-intelligence in tng4x19 \"The Nth Degree\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "mindwipe punishment",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "As a punishment for crime, someone has their mind and memories, or significant parts thereof, erased.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "memory erasure",
                "speculative punishment"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "minefields in war",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "One faction in a conflict uses hidden proximity activated explosive devices (mines) in order to booby trap an area and make it more or less impassable for the enemy.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "war"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_mine"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "miniaturization technology",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Technology by which material objects (such as people) can be made smaller in size compared to their surrounding without changing their characteristics otherwise.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "matter manipulating technology"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Size_change_in_fiction",
                "http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/miniaturization"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "mining and tunneling",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a professional whose jobs involve excavation perilously deep underground.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human occupational activity"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunnel_construction",
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mining#Underground_Mining"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "miracle",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a supernatural event, beneficial for the faithful, that is attributed to divine agency.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "organized religion"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracle"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "A blind boy miraculously regained his sight upon visiting a Mexican shrine in the \"Night Gallery\" story \"The Miracle at Camafeo\" (1972)."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "misandry",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone exhibits prejudice, dislike, or even hatred, of men.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human character"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misandry"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Janice Lester was deeply resentful of Captain Kirk and other men who got ahead because of their sex in tos3x24 \"Turnabout Intruder\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "misanthropy",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone exhibits prejudice, dislike, or even hatred, of humans and humanity.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human character"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misanthropy"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "miscarriage of justice",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is convicted and punished for a crime that he or she did not actually commit.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "law and order issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miscarriage_of_justice"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "miserliness",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a character who is notably and excessively reluctant to spend money, in particular to help others.",
            "notes": [
                "In particular, this theme becomes topical when a notably well-off character is contrasted with a notably poor character and the former offer less help to the latter than the situation appears to warrant."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human character"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In talesoftheunexpected6x11 \"The Tribute\", we see three former colonial ladies who are notorious for being penny-pinching. Before they fell on bad times themselves, they had treated their servants with remarkable meanness, or so we are told.",
                "Charles Dickens' \"A Christmas Carol\" is perhaps one of the most obvious examples of a story about miserliness."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "misery loves company",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The embarrassingly human tendency for unhappy people to want other people to be unhappy as well, is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human idea about life"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "misfortune unites",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "It is observed that a shared spat of adversity can work to bring people closer together.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "humans in group",
                "human idea about life"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "misogyny",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone exhibits prejudice, dislike, or even hatred, of women.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human character"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misogyny"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Scotty took shore leave on Argelius II in an effort to overcome his \"total resentment towards women\" in tos20x7 \"Wolf in the Fold\". He was then accused of brutally murdering a number of women on the planet, but was ultimately found to be innocent."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "missing hand",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character experiences life without less than two functioning hands. For the avoidance of doubt, this theme also applies if an entire arm is absent.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "mobility impairment"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_disability"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "mistrust",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The ways in which a lack of trust can lead people to not get along are explored.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "humans interacting"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distrust"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "mixed marriage",
            "aliases": [
                "interethnic marriage"
            ],
            "description": "We are asked when, if ever, marriage between people of different ethnicities ought to be tolerated.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "sociocultural issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interethnic_marriage"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "MMORPGs in society",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Social concerns relating to people engaging with \"massively multiplayer online role-playing games\" are discussed.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "public health issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massively_multiplayer_online_role-playing_game",
                "http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/massively_multiplayer_online_game"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "mobile life support device",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a device (possibly bewheeled and box-like) that keeps you alive and mobile even after the most crippling of catastrophic accidents.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative vehicle"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Captain Pike was confined to just such a device in tos1x15 \"The Menagerie, Part I\" and tos1x16  \"The Menagerie, Part II\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "mobility impairment",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character experiences life without the ability to speak aloud.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "coping with a disability"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_disability"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "moderation in all things",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "More or less explicitly featured is the philosophy that one should not do anything too much, nor too little.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human idea about life"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/moderation+in+all+things"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "mole people",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Creatures that live entirely under the Earth, or more generally underground in a planet, in caves or hollowed out regions.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "subterranean being"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mole_people"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "monasticism",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A \"holy\" order of monks or nuns practicing religion is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "organized religion"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monasticism"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "money can't buy happiness",
            "aliases": [
                "material things don't make you happy"
            ],
            "description": "This old adage is illustrated. The idea is that no amount of money or other external things can guarantee a person's happiness.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human idea about life"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/money_can%27t_buy_happiness"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In \"Citizen Kane\" (1941), we see how the exceedingly rich and powerful Mr. Kane dies miserable without friends while reminiscing on the last time, perhaps, that he was truly happy: when he was eight and had a sled named \"Rosebud\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "money can't buy love",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "This age old adage is demonstrated, refuted, or otherwise discussed.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human idea about life"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "money is the root of all evil",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The idea is put forth that money is the source of many, most, or even all, social ills or individual shortcoming.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human idea about life"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "money isn't everything",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The idea is put forth that we ought to see money as less important in favor of other considerations, for example relationships.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "material possessions aren't everything"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/money+isn%27t+everything"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "monitoring implant",
            "aliases": [
                "tracking implant"
            ],
            "description": "There is an implant that lets someone else monitor the wearer's activities and experiences to a significant extent.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative device"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "monogamy vs. single life",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character contemplates whether to enter into a presumed monogamous relationship or whether to stay single.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human romantic relationship choice"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "monopolies in society",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The ramifications of economic monopolistic forces at work in society are explored.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "socioeconomic issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "monster",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a type of grotesque creature, whose appearance frightens and whose powers of destruction threaten the human world's social or moral order.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative being"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monster"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "monster apocalypse",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Monsters or beasts of some kind ravage a world and put an end to civilized life.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "force of nature existential risk to civilization"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "Moon people",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A native inhabitant of the the Moon is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "extraterrestrial being"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "moon slowly spiraling into a planet",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The moon to a planet drops out of its normal orbit for some reason and starts on a slow, spiraling collision course with the planet.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "approaching astronomical object event"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "The Enterprise-D saved the Natives of Bre'el IV from this fate in tng3x13 \"Deja Q\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "Morse code",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "An historically important method of encoding the alphabet into binary sequences of long and short signals, often audible beeps.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "technology"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morse_code"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "mortification of the flesh",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The practice of atonement for sin through the infliction of pain and suffering is explored. Traditional forms of mortification include fasting, abstinence from sexual intercourse, the wearing of sackcloth, and flagellation.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "organized religion"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortification_of_the_flesh"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "mother and daughter",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The relationship between a mother and her daughter is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "parent and child"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "mother and son",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The relationship between a mother and her son is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "parent and child"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "mother's right to determine pregnancy",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The notion that an expecting mother should have the sole right to decide whether or not she will carry a pregnancy to term is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "gender issue"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "The senior officers discussed what to do about Troi's mysterious pregnancy and Worf suggested an abortion in tng2x01 \"The Child\", but Troi would have none of it."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "mother-in-law and daughter-in-law",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The relationship between a mother-in-law and her daughter-in-law is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "in-law relationship"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "mother-in-law and son-in-law",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The interpersonal relationship between a married man and his wife's mother is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "in-law relationship"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parent-in-law#Mothers-in-law"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In \"A Woman Under the Influence\" (1974), Nick handled Mabel's hapless mother with remarkable ease and affection."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "motherly disappointment in a son",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A son is not all that his mother wishes him to be.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "parental disappointment in a child",
                "mother and son"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Beverly was disappointed in Wesley for covering up the now infamous Nova Squadron Incident in tng5x18 \"The First Duty\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "motor sports",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a sport which notably involves the use of motorized vehicles.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "sports"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorsport"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "mountaineering",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is enthusiastic about the set of outdoor activities that involves ascending tall mountains.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "recreational activity"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountaineering"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "move fast or take it slow in a romantic relationship",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone embarking on a romance is trying to decide how strongly they should come on.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "romantic relationship issue",
                "personal practical dilemma"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "moving in together",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Two lovers contemplate whether or not to start living together in the same home.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "romantic relationship issue"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "mugging",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The crime of robbing people in public places, particularly on streets, is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "robbery"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robbery"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "multi-gendered being",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a species of beings that have more than the customary two genders. Three or more individuals have to contribute genetic material in order to procreate.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "sexually distinguished being"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "multi-generational spaceship",
            "aliases": [
                "generation ship"
            ],
            "description": "A spaceship built for voyages longer than an individual's lifespan and with a view to let the crew procreate and live out their lives on-board.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative spaceship"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_ship"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "multi-species civilization",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There are multiple sentient, species that all live there together in one society.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative society"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "multicultural community",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "People of different cultures are trying to live together. There  may or may not be a specific issue, but intolerance hangs in the air. Problems are not far off.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "cross cultural issue"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "multicultural upbringing",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A kid is brought up being part of two or more cultures, perhaps because mom and dad have different heritages.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human childhood"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Worf and his mate K'Ehleyr discussed the troubles of growing up with a foot each in two different cultures in tng2x20 \"The Emissary\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "multiculturalism",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a society in which sizable groups of people with different ethnicities seek to live together under a common law.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "political ideology"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiculturalism"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "multiple personality disorder",
            "aliases": [
                "dissociative identity disorder"
            ],
            "description": "A mental disorder characterized by at least two distinct and relatively enduring identities or dissociated personality states.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human mental condition"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissociative_identity_disorder"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "multistage rocket",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A rocket that uses two or more stages, each of which contains its own engines and propellant is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative spaceship"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multistage_rocket"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "murder",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The crime of unlawful and intentional homicide is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "violent crime",
                "crime against the person"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_types_of_killing"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "murder of a lover",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character murders someone with whom they have, or have recently had, a romantic relationship.",
            "notes": [
                "If the romantic relationship has ceased and the murder has nothing to do with it, then this theme is not used. If the romantic relationship has ceased, but the murder is notably connected to it (for example motivated by romantic jealousy or resentment), then this theme is used."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "murder"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariticide",
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uxoricide"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "music",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Music is notably featured in the story. Typically, this is because there is a musician, other music professional, or someone else who is very interested in music.",
            "notes": [
                "As music is rather common in modern society, it is often present in unremarkable ways in the background of stories. It is generally not considered a theme just because a normal person briefly listens to music, or a radio is heard in the background. Nor is music automatically a theme when the story is told through song, such as in opera."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "the fine arts and the humanities"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_appreciation"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Captain Picard and Nella Daren made beautiful music together aboard the Enterprise-D in tng6x19 \"Lessons\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "muteness",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character experiences life without the ability to speak aloud.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speech disorder"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muteness"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "mutilation as punishment",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The practice found in some law codes of prescribing amputation of limbs and other mutilations (such as blinding or tongue slitting) for crimes, is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "legal punishment"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amputation#Legal_punishment",
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hudud",
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutilation#Mutilation_as_human_punishment"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In talesoftheunexpected9x08 \"The Finger of Suspicion\", we learned that Stephen had had his right hand cut off as punishment for theft in the Arab country where he lived."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "mutual respect",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Two characters come to respect each other.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "humans interacting"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "mutual trust",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Two characters come to trust each other.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "humans interacting"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "mysterious maker alien race",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A long gone alien race that left behind a creation of some significance, for example a grand technological construction.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "extraterrestrial being"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "A mysterious maker alien race left an asteroid deflecting obelisk on the planet Amerind in tos3x03 \"The Paradise Syndrome\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "mystical aura",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The paranormal notion that a human body (or any animal or object for that matter) is enclosed by a mysterious, sometimes colorful energy is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "crackpot theory"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aura_(paranormal)"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "It was speculated that a suicided environmental activist was able to return from the dead owing to his unusually strong aura in \"2.0\" (2018)."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "mythological dwarf",
            "aliases": [
                "dwarf"
            ],
            "description": "There is a short and possibly ugly human-shaped entity that dwells in mountains and in the earth, and is variously associated with wisdom, smithing, mining, and crafting.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "legendary being",
                "size distinguished being"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwarf_(mythology)"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "mythological siren",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The sirens are dangerous creatures from Greek mythology, that lure unwary sailors to their doom. Such or similar creatures are featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "legendary being"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siren_(mythology)"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "narcissism",
            "aliases": [
                "narcissistic personality disorder megalomania"
            ],
            "description": "There is a character that, like Narcisuss in the ancient Greek story, has an excessive, lasting, and obsessive admiration their own self-image and/or other attributes.",
            "notes": [
                "\"Pride\" themes like \"attitude of superiority\" involve a character comparing themselves to others. Such themes do not necessarily mean that narcissism is implied. It is possible for a character, rightly or wrongly, to believe themselves superior and take pride in that supposed fact, without them obsessively and lastingly admiring themselves.",
                "To judge whether we describe a character as \"narcissistic\" we inspect the character's self-admiring behavior and gauge whether we think that they, like Narcissus did, could have behaved the same way when alone.",
                "If a character admires themselves habitually but in a way that is not describable as \"obsessive\" then the theme \"vanity\" is applicable."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human mental condition",
                "vanity"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissistic_personality_disorder",
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissism"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Garth of Izar suffered from delusions of grandeur in tos3x16 \"Whom Gods Destroy\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "national social issue",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "This is a general theme pertaining to a single state's internal affairs.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "society"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_(polity)"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "\"national social issue\" themes are plenty and come in a wide variety. It is convenient to further divide it into categories such as \"political issue\", \"economical issue\", \"law and order issue\", etc."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "nationalism",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a political movement characterized by the promotion of the interests of a nation.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "political ideology"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationalism"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "natural pandemic",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A naturally occurring biological agent or pathogen wipes out civilization on a world.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "force of nature existential risk to civilization"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandemic"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "natural resource sustainability",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The importance of managing natural resources in a manner that safeguards their availability to future generations is explored.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "environmental issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainability"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Mark the merman wondered aloud about what humans would do once they used up all the raw materials that could be obtained from mining the sea floor in \"Man from Atlantis IV: The Disappearances\" (1977). The feasibility of undersea mining was being researched on account that humans were quickly using up all the materials on the surface."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "nature conservationism",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone works to protect the environment, or a unique aspect of nature, against threatening changes brought on by human activity.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "environmental issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservation_(ethic)"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "nature vs. artifice",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Something perceived as \"natural\" is compared and contrasted with something that is artificial, i.e., human-made.",
            "notes": [
                "Usually, the associated moral ends up being that the natural thing is superior to the artificial thing in at least some sense."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "philosophy"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "nature vs. nurture",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Discussed is whether human behavior is determined more by the environment, either prenatal or during a person's life, or more by a person's genes.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human nature"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nature_versus_nurture"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "nature's revenge",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Nature somehow runs amok and takes vengeance on its abusers.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human vs. nature"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Nuclear weapons tests in the Pacific stirred up a prehistoric dinosaur-like monster that make a B-line for Tokyo in \"Godzilla\" (1954),",
                "A green brain arises from nature's resistance to human efforts eradicate all insect life on Earth in \"The Green Brain\" (1966).",
                "An unspecified cosmic event results in ant colonies evolving collective intelligence and challenging humans for dominion over the Earth in \"Phase IV\" (1974)."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "Nazism",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The ideology and set of practices associated with the 20th-century German Nazi Party are discussed.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "fascism"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazism"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "necrophilia",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a character who is sexually attracted to a corpse, or to corpses in general.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human mental condition"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necrophilia"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "A Scottish widow had a thing for her deceased husband in the \"Night Gallery\" story \"The Ghost of Sorworth Place\" (1972)."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "neglectful parent",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A parent neglects to spend time with their child to a conspicuous extent.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human parenting"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_neglect"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "negotiating deadlock",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Two or more people are in a process of negotiating but neither will budge from their entrenched position.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "negotiation"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "negotiation",
            "aliases": [
                "haggling"
            ],
            "description": "Two or more characters seek to reach a mutually acceptable arrangement of some sort.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "humans in group"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negotiation"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "neighbor and neighbor",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The relationship between two people who live next to each other is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "humans in pairs"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "neo-Luddist utopia",
            "aliases": [
                "hippie commune utopia"
            ],
            "description": "Society goes back to the perfect state it was once in, after the root of all evil has been made away with: machinery.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "technology-free utopia"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-Luddism"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "nepotism",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The ramifications of someone favoring relatives or personal friends because of their relationship rather than because of their abilities are explored.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "political issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nepotism"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "Neptunian extraterrestrial",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is an alien race that is native to the planet Neptune in our solar system.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "extraterrestrial being"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "nested universe",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a whole other universe somehow contained within a portion of our normal (or some other) universe. For example, there might be a universe contained in an atom, every atom, a box, or a marble.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative cosmos"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "neural parasite",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A life form that dominates other species by attaching themselves to the others' neural systems.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "parasitic being"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Patch-like flying aliens attached themselves to people's nervous system in tos1x29 \"Operation -- Annihilate!\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "newlywed couple",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a husband and wife whose interactions are notably colored by the fact that they were recently married. This usually involves exceptional romanticism, tenderness, talk about the honeymoon, and planning for a future together.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "husband and wife"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In tz1959e2x07 \"Nick of Time\", we saw that William Shatner (as Don) with his loving bride Pat honeymooning across the Ohio countryside. When Don revealed his excessive superstitiousness, Pat insisted that she did not regret her decision to marry him, and they spoke of their future together."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "nihilism",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A philosophical doctrine that suggests the lack of belief in one or more reputedly meaningful aspects of life. Most commonly, nihilism is presented in the form of existential nihilism, which argues that life is without objective meaning, purpose, or intrinsic value.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "metaphysics"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nihilism"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "nihilophobia",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character exhibits an irrational fear of nothingness.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human phobia"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "noble lies in society",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Can a myth or untruth (often, but not invariably, of a religious nature) knowingly propagated by an elite to maintain social harmony or to advance an agenda ever be justified as benefiting society more than it harms it in the long run?",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "social ethical dilemma"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_lie"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "noble savage utopia",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Society is bliss because it is made up of noble savages who live as one with nature etc., never mind antibiotics and such pointless luxeries.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "technology-free utopia"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "non-Euclidean space",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Space as it would be if the rules and axioms of geometry were suddenly different from what we know.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative cosmos"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-Euclidean_geometry"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "The Enterprise flew at warp speed in a straight line only to find itself back where it began in tng2x02 \"Where Silence Has Lease\", just as would someone who traveled in a straight line on the surface of Earth. Perhaps Nagilum's realm was a hypersphere."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "nonconsensual voyeurism",
            "aliases": [
                "peeping tom"
            ],
            "description": "Voyeurism is the sexual interest in or practice of spying on people engaged in intimate behaviours, such as undressing, sexual activity, or other actions usually considered to be of a private nature. Discussed is the perceived social issue associated with the prevalence of this often criminal activity.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "sexual crime",
                "invasion of privacy"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyeurism"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "nostalgia",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character exhibits a feeling of sentimentality, longing for the days of yore, etc.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human emotion"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nostalgia"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Scotty drunkenly relived his glory days in a holodeck simulation of the original Enterprise bridge in tng6x04 \"Relics\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "nostalgic love",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The kind of love a person feels springing from the memory of a bygone passion.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "romantic love"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "nothing ventured nothing gained",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The idea is explicitly mentioned that if one takes no risks, one will not gain any benefits.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human idea about life"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nothing_ventured,_nothing_gained"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "nuclear fission power",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The harnessing of nuclear fission reactions as a power source for technology is explored. This theme does not apply in the case when energy from nuclear fission reactions is released in an uncontrolled manner, such as with a fission bomb.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "technology"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power",
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_fission"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "A crew of pioneering astronauts commandeered an atomic powered rocketship to the Moon in \"Destination Moon\" (1950)."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "nuclear holocaust",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Nuclear weapons are widely employed to an extent that destruction and radioactive fallout causes the collapse of civilization.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "annihilation by WMDs",
                "nuclear weapons"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_holocaust",
                "http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/atomic_war"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "nuclear power safety",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The social problem of whether and to what extent nuclear power generation can be made safe is discussed.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "environmental issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_safety_and_security"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "nuclear powered spaceship",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a spacecraft that relies on some form of nuclear energy (e.g. nuclear fission or nuclear fusion) for propulsion.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative spaceship"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "nuclear proliferation",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are made to think about the perils of the spread of nuclear technology and information.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "international issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_proliferation"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "nuclear weapons",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The use of nuclear technology for war is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "weapons of mass destruction"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_warfare"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "nudism",
            "aliases": [
                "naturism"
            ],
            "description": "Someone dislikes clothes to such an extent that they prefer to be naked in public.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human sentiment"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naturism"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "obesity",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone struggles with being grossly over-weight.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human health condition"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "obsession",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone is fixated with a particular idea or objective to the extent that they notably neglect other concerns.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human character"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/obsessed"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Captain Kirk became obsessed with stalking down a vampiric cloud entity in tos2x18 \"Obsession\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "obsession with a life-dedicated project",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone is fixated with a project that they have dedicated their life to, to the extent that they notably neglect other concerns.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "obsession"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/obsessed"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Dr. Richard Daystrom made it his life's work to build a computer so powerful that it could replace Kirk as the captain aboard the Enterprise in tos2x24 \"The Ultimate Computer\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "obsessive love",
            "aliases": [
                "obsessive infatuation"
            ],
            "description": "An infatuation that is so intense and obsessive that one's self-control and judgement becomes impaired.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "infatuation",
                "obsession"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obsessive_love"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Lwaxana chased Captain Picard like a rabbit from one end of the ship to another in tng2x19 \"Manhunt\" and was only narrowly diverted from her objective when she encountered an attractive bartender on the holodeck."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "obsessive-compulsive disorder",
            "aliases": [
                "OCD"
            ],
            "description": "A character has a pathological need to need to check things repeatedly, perform certain routines repeatedly, etc. Often featured as repeated cleaning.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human mental condition"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obsessive%E2%80%93compulsive_disorder"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "obstruction of justice",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Featured is a crime that consists of obstructing prosecutors, investigators, or other government officials. This may involve, for example, perjury, making false statements to officials, witness tampering, jury tampering, destruction of evidence, etc.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "crime against justice"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obstruction_of_justice"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "ocean planet",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A hypothetical type of exoplanet wherein the surface is completely covered by water.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative habitable celestial body"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_planet"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Captain Kirk and Spock were transformed into fish-like humanoids on the water- world Argo in tas1x13 \"The Ambergris Element\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "Oedipus complex",
            "aliases": [
                "Electra complex"
            ],
            "description": "A character is notably seen to exhibit repressed sexual desire for the opposite-sex parent and hatred for the same-sex parent, to some extent.",
            "notes": [
                "This should be distinguished from cases where a parent pursues a sexual relationship with their child."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human mental condition"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oedipus_complex"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In \"Hamlet\" (1602), until the revelations at the end, is seems plausible that Hamlet is indeed mad and has invented the poisoning because he (as Sigmund Freud held) hates his step-father being married to his mother, who Hamlet unconsciously desires sexually. The scene where he is wrestling with his mother in her bed is suggestive."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "off-world garbage dump",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a garbage dump somewhere away from any inhabited world. The place in question may for example be a moon, a planet, or merely a Lagrange point.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative place"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "The presumed dead body of Sergeant Todd was unceremoniously dumped on the Arcadia 234 waste disposal planet in \"Soldier\" (1998)."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "off-world prison colony",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a prison somewhere away from any inhabited planet. Typically it is on a moon, asteroid, spaceship or the like.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative place"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "office politics",
            "aliases": [
                "workplace politics"
            ],
            "description": "There is scheming, maneuvering, and intrigue in the workplace.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "humans at work"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workplace_politics"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Younglings on the Enterprise pondered how to get ahead in their careers in tng7x15 \"Lower Decks\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "office romance",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Two (or more) workplace colleagues embark on a romantic relationship.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "romantic relationship",
                "workplace relations"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workplace_relationships#Romantic"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "official scapegoating in society",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone in officialdom tries to divert public attention from, for example, themselves or a social problem by blaming or otherwise denigrating a different group of people.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "political issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scapegoat"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "oil spills in society",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "An oil spill is the release of a liquid petroleum hydrocarbon into the environment, especially the marine ecosystem, due to human activity, and is a form of pollution.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "pollution in society"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_spill"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "old flames",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone ponders a past love or encounters their former lover again.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "romantic relationship"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "McCoy met whom he assumed to be his old flame Nancy Crater on planet M-113 in tos1x05 \"The Man Trap\", but she turned out to be a ravenous salt vampire."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "old woman as a witch stereotype",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a character that fits the Western folklore stereotype of a witch. This may, for example, involve pointy black hats, foul concoctions, or a knowledge of herbs, etc.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human character stereotype",
                "witch"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witchcraft"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "old-age love",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The love between two aged people that have been together a long time and are well familiar with each other's kinks and flaws.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "romantic love"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "old-age romance",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Two elderly people embark on a romantic relationship in spite of their considerable life experience.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "romantic relationship"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "omens",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The idea that we are given mysterious signs that, if only noticed and interpreted, tell us something important about the future.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "folk belief"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omen"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Worf used the Boraalan people's belief in omens to his advantage in tng7x13 \"Homeward\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "on the move parenting",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The many trials and tribulations involved in rearing a child while frequently moving from one place to another, as opposed to being settled down, is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human parenting"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "The Sutter family found it so hard to raise a child while on assignments in space that they required counseling in tng5x22 \"Imaginary Friend\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "once speculative device",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Featured is a technology which is now real though it was near enough sci-fi at the time of the making.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative device"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "one cannot cheat fate",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The conviction that the future events of one's live are written in the stars, so to speak, and cannot be changed.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "destiny"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "one night stand",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A consummated but short lived romantic involvement is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "romantic relationship issue"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Helen Noel reminded Captain Kirk about what happened between them when he dropped in at the science lab Christmas party in tos1x10 \"Dagger of the Mind\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "onerous user agreements",
            "aliases": [
                "confusing license agreements"
            ],
            "description": "When purchasing purchasing and services customers are sometimes asked to sign or tacitly agree to lengthy licensing agreements that few of us will read carefully. We are made to contemplate this situation and ponder whether and to what extent we should accept the practice as a social good.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "law and order issue",
                "sociotechnological issue"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-user_license_agreement"
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "open romantic relationship",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Two or more people engage in an intimate relationship that is sexually non- monogamous.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "romantic relationship"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_relationship"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "open sexuality in society",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are asked to what extent, if any, it is acceptable or wise for people to have multiple sex partners.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "sexual norms in society"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Argelian culture in tos2x07 \"Wolf in the Fold\" was sexually permissive to put it nicely."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "opera",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "This intersection between theater and singing is featured with focus on its production or artistic qualities.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "music",
                "acting"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "opposite world",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a hypothetical world (maybe a parallel universe or a fantasy land) where some or several laws of nature (or suchlike aspects of reality) are reversed.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative place"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "The Enterprise got sucked into just such a universe in tas2x06 \"The Counter- Clock Incident\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "opposites attract",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are shown that sometimes people that are very much unlike in some respects can be attracted to each other.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human idea about life"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "opposition to authority",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is defiant towards authority and authority figures to a notable degree.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human character"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In \"The Matrix\" (1999), Neo's boss at the software company inside the Matrix complains that Neo thought the rules somehow didn't apply to him."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "optimist vs. pessimist",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The general attitude of having an optimistic outlook on life is compared with the general attitude of having a pessimistic outlook on life.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human characters in contrast"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "orbital spaceflight",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A spaceflight in which a spacecraft is placed on a trajectory where it could remain in space for at least one orbit.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "space travel"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbital_spaceflight"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "orbital weapons",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Weapons are strategically placed in space, in orbit around a planet, from where they can easily be deployed against any desired target.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "engineered orbital structure"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_weapon"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "The Enterprise visited the 20th century and found that Earth was about to go down the path of self-obliteration by putting nukes in orbit in tos2x26 \"Assignment: Earth\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "orchestrated asteroid bombardment",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Civilization on a planet is threatened when asteroids are directed on a collision course with the planet.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "annihilation by WMDs"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "order vs. freedom",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The typically desirable quality of order in society is contraposed with the typically desirable quality of individual freedom. Should we limit how people can move about in order to avoid potential chaos?",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "contraposed political ideologies"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "organ theft",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The forcible removal of a person's organs to be used as transplants and sold on the black market is featured as a crime.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "crime against the person",
                "violent crime"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_theft"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Spock's brain was harvested by aliens who wanted it as a computer in tos3x06 \"Spock's Brain\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "organized crime",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The particular social problem of large centralized enterprises that engage in criminal activity is displayed.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "crime"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organized_crime"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "organized religion",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A doctrine or practice of an institutionalized religion is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "the natural world"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion",
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organized_religion"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "orphanhood",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone grows up having no parents for all or part of their childhood.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human childhood"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orphan"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "orphans in society",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The care of orphans in society is expolred.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "special interest group issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orphan"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "out of control AI",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "An artificial intelligence goes amok and makes trouble for society.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "out of control technology"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_takeover"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "out of control scientific experiment",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Something goes wrong during a scientific experiment, and everyone dies. Perhaps a particle accelerator created a black hole. Stupid scientists.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "technological risk to civilization"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "out of control technology",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The potential problem of a technology somehow getting out of hand and damaging the lives and well being of large groups of people are discussed from a society point of view.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "sociotechnological issue"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "out-of-body experience",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character experiences a feeling being outside of their own physical body.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative experience"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out-of-body_experience"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "overactive imagination",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A person experiences a persistent, extensive, and deep involvement in some fantasy or other. The involvement is beyond what can be considered normal behavior, and affects the person's day to day life to some extent.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human mental condition"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantasy_prone_personality"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "overcoming a limitation",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone strives to overcome a limitation of theirs.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human self improvement"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "overcoming an addiction",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone struggles to overcome being addicted to a substance or activity, e.g., a drug or gambling.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human self improvement"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Barclay struggled with getting his holodeck addiction under control in tng3x21 \"Hollow Pursuits\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "overcoming an imaginary reliance",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character feels that they cannot function fully without a certain object or the like, but that is all in their head and they struggle to overcome this mental barrier.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human self improvement"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In ds97x10 \"It's Only a Paper Moon\" Nog required a cane to walk even though the doctor's said there is absolutely nothing wrong with his leg. When at one point he became emotionally upset and forgot to use the cane it became apparent that this was indeed just a mental block that he should seek to overcome."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "overcoming an inhibition",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone struggles to overcome a feeling of fear or embarrassment that stops them from behaving in a natural way.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human self improvement"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Barclay began his long journey towards overcoming shyness in tng3x21 \"Hollow Pursuits\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "overpopulated dystopia",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a world that is stereotypically hellish due to too many people using up too much space and other resources.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "dystopia"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "overpopulated world",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "People just keep on reproducing until all the planets resources are depleted and everyone dies from starvation etc.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "institutional risk to civilization"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_overpopulation"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "The Gideans had extended their own lifespans remarkably but were completely unable to control their own reproduction and had so overpopulated their planet that people lived literally shoulder to shoulder in tos3x17 \"The Mark of Gideon\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "overprotective parent",
            "aliases": [
                "helicopter parenting"
            ],
            "description": "A parent pays unusually close attention to a child's experiences and problems, particularly at educational institutions. Figuratively, the parent hovers over the child like a helicopter.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human parenting"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helicopter_parent"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "overregulated dystopia",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a world that is severely dysfunctional because its society is overburdened by onerous and ill-considered regulations that hinder people from effectively producing the goods and services they require to be happy.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "dystopia"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In the short film \"Libra\" (1978), life on an overregulated Earth seems bleak as the international planning commission imposes variously silly and corrupt regulations that stifle productivity. The whole planet suffers from rolling black-outs as it can no longer even produce the electricity it needs to light up its board rooms."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "ozone layer depletion",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The environmental issue of human activity causing the ozone layer to weaken is featured. This leads to increased ultraviolet radiation which is thought to be harmful to life in general.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "environmental issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozone_depletion"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "The Aldeans had gone sterile in tng1x17 \"When The Bough Breaks\" as a result of their planet's ozone layer having become depleted."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "pacifism",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone believes that violence should never be used. In the extreme, a pacifist may feel that violence should not even be used in self-defence against violence.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human sentiment"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacifism"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "A replica of the Vulcan philosopher Surak espoused pacifism as a way of life in tos3x22 \"The Savage Curtain\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "pain belt",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A belt-like device used to induce unbearable pain in its wearer without causing physical injury.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative wearable device",
                "speculative torture device"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "The Eymorg outfitted Captain Kirk, McCoy, and Scotty with pain belts in tos3x06 \"Spock's Brain\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "pain collar",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A collar-like device used to induce unbearable pain in its wearer without causing physical injury.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative wearable device",
                "speculative torture device"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "A trio of disembodied brains employed \"collars of obedience\" to maintain control over their thrall gladiators in tos2x17 \"The Gamesters of Triskelion\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "pain implant",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A medical device implanted in the body to induce unbearable pain in its wearer without causing physical injury.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative torture device"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Arctus Baran was not above using neural servos (i.e. pain implant devices) to keep control over his rogue crew in tng7x04 \"Gambit, Part I\" and tng7x05 \"Gambit, Part II\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "painting",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The art of drawing pictures is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "the fine arts and the humanities"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Painting"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "panspermia",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The hypothesis that life exists throughout the universe and is distributed naturally by asteroids and comets or perhaps even at the direction of aliens.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative effect"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panspermia",
                "http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/panspermia"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "parallel universe",
            "aliases": [
                "parallel dimension multiverse"
            ],
            "description": "A hypothetical self-contained universe co-existing with our own.",
            "notes": [
                "The word \"dimension\" is used in two different sense in fiction. Sometimes what is meant is no different from a parallel universe. Sometimes what is meant is a fourth spatial dimension of space as an addition to the three we know. In the latter case we use \"four-dimensional space\" as a theme."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative cosmos"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_universes_in_fiction",
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiverse",
                "http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/parallel_worlds",
                "http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/multiverse"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "paralysis device",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A device used to paralyze people. The effect is typically temporary.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative weapon"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "paramour and paramour",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Two characters are not married to each other but are in a reasonably stable long-term romantic relationship that is somewhat or wholly antithetical to prevailing social norms, and usually clandestine. Especially this is the case if at least one of the two characters is married to someone else.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "romantic relationship"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/paramour"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "parasitic being",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A being that lives as a parasite off of other life forms.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "biologically distinguished being"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_parasitic_alien_species"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Bug-like neural parasites from outer space nearly took over Starfleet by attaching themselves to important officers' brainstems in tng1x25 \"Conspiracy\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "parent and child",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The relationship between a parent and their child is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human familial relationship"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "parent and child rivalry",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A parent and their child compete over status or some objective in a less than amicable manner.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human childhood",
                "parent and child"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Riker settled his long-standing rivalry with his father Kyle in the anbo- jtytsu dohyo tng2x14 \"The Icarus Factor\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "parent's right to make decisions for their child",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Discussed is to what extent parents should be legally able to make important decisions on their child's behalf. For example, to what extent should parents dictate that their child undergo life-altering operations, say a sex-change, or prevent their child receiving medical attention when it might be of benefit? To what extent should parents be able to indoctrinate their child in a religion or cult?",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human parenting",
                "social ethical dilemma"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In bbf1x10 \"Believers\", we must ponder whether it was right that Shon's parents could refuse Shon receiving a life saving surgery from Babylon 5's Doctor Franklin."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "parental controls in society",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are asked whether and to what extent the practice of blocking children from access to different kinds of contents, sights, and experiences is beneficial for them.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "educational issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parental_controls"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "parental disappointment in a child",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A child is not all that a parent wishes them to be.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human parenting"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "parental love",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The love of a parent for their child is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "familial love"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "parental pride",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A parent shows pride in their offspring.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human parenting",
                "pride in one's family"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "parenting a child with special needs",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character struggles with bringing up a child who needs assistance for disabilities that may be medical, mental, or psychological (e.g. a learning disability, attention deficit disorder, autism.).",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human parenting"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_needs",
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_disorder",
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_disability",
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attention_deficit_hyperactivity_disorder",
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autism"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "parenting a mentally disabled child",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The struggle of a parent to raise a child that has a significant mental disability of some sort, is featured. For example, a learning disability, attention deficit disorder, autism, etc.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "parenting a child with special needs"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_disorder",
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_disability",
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attention_deficit_hyperactivity_disorder",
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autism"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "parenting a physically disabled child",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The struggle of a parent to raise a child that has a significant physical disability of some sort, is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "parenting a child with special needs"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_disability"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "parody on life in academia",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are shown a highly parodical version of what life in academia might seem to be like.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "academic occupation"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "parricide",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character murders a close relative of theirs.",
            "notes": [
                "This theme is also applied in cases where a close in-law relative is killed."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "murder"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parricide"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In ahp1x24 \"The Perfect Murder\", two greedy nephews conspire to murder their aunt in order to access an inheritance."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "partners in crime",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The relationship between two characters who find themselves in a close co- working relationship against the law is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "humans in pairs"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Criminal_duos"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "partners on the police force",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The relationship between two law enforcement officers who are working together as a unit is explored.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "work partner and work partner"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "passion for flying machines",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character shows a keen interest in vehicles that fly, possibly extending to realms beyond the skies.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "passion for vehicles"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "passion for vehicles",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is excited by machines made for transporting people and things, i.e., cars, boats, planes etc. Often the character is particularly interested in speed and things that go fast.",
            "notes": [
                "This theme is also used when children are fascinated with toy vehicles, assuming they are old enough to understand the connection with the genuine article."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human pleasure"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "past point of view",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are shown what things might seem like in the here and now if viewed from a past person's perspective.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "cross cultural issue"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "paternal love",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The love of a father for his child is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "parental love"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "pathological lying",
            "aliases": [
                "mythomania"
            ],
            "description": "A character lies compulsively and disproportionately to any discernible end in view.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human mental condition"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pathological_lying"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "patriarchy",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a social system in which exclusively men have political power.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "form of government"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriarchy"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "patricide",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character murders their own father.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "parricide"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_patricides"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Kylo Ren murdered his own father Hans Solo by running him through with a light saber in \"Star Wars: The Force Awakens\" (2015)."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "patriotism",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character believes fervently in the causes of their homeland.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human sentiment"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriotism"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "peace on Earth",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "An ideal state of freedom and peace within and among the nations on a world.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative future event"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_peace"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "The people of Earth lived in peace and without the need for weapons in \"Barbarella\" (1968)."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "peace process",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Two recently warring factions are talking to each other (potentially with an intermediary or mediator involved) with the aim of reaching an accord and stopping the violence.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "diplomacy"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "pecking order",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The struggle for social dominance in the workplace is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "humans in hierarchy"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pecking_order"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Chief Engineer Logan stormed to the bridge to issue a challenge Geordi's authority in the midst of a heated space battle in tng1x21 \"The Arsenal of Freedom\". Geordi, who had been left in command of the Enterprise-D, promptly ordered Logan back to main engineering."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "pedophiles",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are made to contemplate how adults that are sexually attracted to prepubescent minors affect society, and how such individuals ought to be treated.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "sexual crime"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedophilia"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "peer pressure",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A member of some group is pressured into making a certain choice by other members of that group.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "humans in group"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer_pressure"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "people bread for organ donation",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are asked to what extent, if any, it might be ethically acceptable to create human clones to harvest their organs.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "social ethical dilemma"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "people can change",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone who was of a certain character proves later to have changed in a profound and, perhaps, surprising way. For example, a no-good punk, juvenile delinquent might reform their wicked ways to become a veritable saint.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human idea about life"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Returning defector Stefan DeSeve had really seen the error of his ways in tng6x14 \"Face of the Enemy\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "people forced to be average dystopia",
            "aliases": [
                "Scandinavian Jante dystopia dystopic egalitarianism"
            ],
            "description": "There is a dystopian society in which people who are exceptional, in one way or another, are censored. They may for example be killed, or have some form of handicap imposed on them.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "conformist dystopia"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Jante"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In tz1985e1x06a \"Examination Day\", a 12 year old boy was lawfully disposed of after he failed his intelligence test with an above acceptable performance. His dimwitted parents were, naturally, distraught."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "people may not always live up to their reputations",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character anticipates what another will be based on their reputation but comes to find that the reputation was not entirely warranted.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human idea about life"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "people meddling in history",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The idea is presented that a sentient entity has more or less deliberately intervened to shape that history in a way that is not normal. This typically necessitates some form of time travel or clandestine visit by someone who is not supposed to be part of our history.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "crackpot theory"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In tz1985e1x22c \"The Library\", an aspiring writer discovered she could retroactively change reality by rewriting books containing descriptions of her loved ones lives."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "people should stick to their own kind",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The idea is put forth that people are better off not straying outside of their own social group (e.g., class, race, nation).",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human idea about life",
                "relations between social groups in society"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "people tubes",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a transportation system that enables someone to enter into one end of a tube and get shipped through to the other end.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative device"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Markham observed people getting around a future New York City in penumatic tubes in \"A Visitor from the Twentieth Century\" by Harold Donitz (1928)."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "performance art",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The performing arts are arts such as music, dance, and drama which are performed for an audience. It is different from visual arts, which is when artists use paint, canvas or various materials to create physical or static art objects. Performing arts include a range of disciplines which are performed in front of a live audience, including theatre, music, and dance. It can also include circus skills, vaudeville, professional wrestling, to name a few examples of activities that some may be reluctant to consider \"art\" in the normal sense.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "the fine arts and the humanities"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Performing_arts"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "performance-enhancing drugs",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are asked to what extent, if any, drugs used to enhance performance should be tolerated. This could be in the context of sports, the military, or a university test for example.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "sociocultural issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Performance-enhancing_substance"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Three women used beauty-enhancing drugs to get ahead in the game of love in tos1x03 \"Mudd's Women\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "perilous voyage at sea",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone finds themself on a perilous voyage on the high seas.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative travel"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nautical_fiction"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "perjury",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The matter of perjury in relation to miscarriages of justice is explored.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "crime against justice"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perjury"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "perpetual energy machine",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A hypothetical machine that can do work indefinitely without an energy source.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative energy generation technology"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpetual_motion"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "persecution complex",
            "aliases": [
                "persecutory delusion"
            ],
            "description": "A character is obsessed with exaggerated or irrational worries about being the object of hostility, conspiracy, etc.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human mental condition"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecutory_delusion"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "personal conviction",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character feels strongly for a worthy cause and tries hard to further it. It sometimes turns out to be a bad cause but it is the motives that define the theme.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human character"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "personal ethical dilemma",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character struggles with a tough decision that involves choices that are hard because they involve moral considerations. Would you, for example, let another person die if that was the only way to save your own life?",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human tough decision"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "personal flying contraption",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a wearable technological device, such as a suit or a jet pack, which allows its user to fly.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human enhancement technology"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "personal freedom vs. romantic love",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character must decide what is more important to them: love and commitment or the freedom of being single.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human romantic relationship choice"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "McCoy chose to live under the domination of the Oracle of the People so that he might live out his days with his love Natira in tos3x10 \"For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "personal haunting",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A person is followed by a ghost or suchlike supernatural creature.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "folk belief"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "personal human experience",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "This is the most general theme about individual humans, their inner experiences, their experiences interacting with other individuals, and their experiences of the world they inhabit. For example, the theme may discuss the individual experiences of members making up a small group of people. Or it may discuss the interpersonal relationship of two people vis-à-vis each other. Or it may discuss the trials and tribulations an individual encounters in their journey through life. Or it may discuss an individual's emotions, desires, and driving passions, etc.",
            "notes": [
                "This theme, and the more specific themes below it by extension, is defined with the perspective of individuals at the center and should be motivated accordingly."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "the human world"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "personal identity",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The tricky, as yet sci-fi:ish, question of what precisely constitutes ones \"personhood\" is posed: Is it DNA, the body, the brain, memories, something elusive called the \"soul,\" or a combination of these? What happens, legally and ethically, if some of these are copied or transferred somehow?",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "metaphysics"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_identity",
                "http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/identity"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "personal invisibility cloak",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is technology by which a person can render their own body practically invisible.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "invisibility technology"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "personal life and death dilemma",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character must make a difficult choice regarding whether someone else lives or dies.",
            "notes": [
                "When a character is contemplating sacrificing their own life for one reason or another, the theme category \"human self-sacrifice\" is used."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human tough decision"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_problem",
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethical_dilemma"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "\"cannibalism to survive\" refers to any of a number of gruesome scenarios in which a character deprived of other food must decide whether they will accept killing and eating another human in order to survive."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "personal practical dilemma",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character struggles with a tough decision that involve choices that are hard, not because of moral considerations or preferences but simply because the effect of possible choices are less than clear. A typical example is \"risk taking vs. playing it safe\": high risk with high reward, or low risk with low reward.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human tough decision"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "personality rights",
            "aliases": [
                "the right to one's own likeness"
            ],
            "description": "We are made to ponder to what extent or for what purposes it might be wrong to use someone else's physical appearance. Would it be okay to make a film in which it looked like a famous actor appeared even if they hadn't permitted it?",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human rights issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personality_rights"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "personally irresponsible character",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a character who notably fails to take responsibility for their own future and wellbeing. They may, for example, prefer partying to studying, or blame everyone else for their own shortcomings.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human character"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In tz2002-1x22 \"Gabe's Story\", a point of the story was that Gabe needed to shape up and take charge of his life. He must also take responsibility for it and stop blaming everyone else for his misfortunes."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "personification of a concept",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a living, perhaps even breathing being that represents a tangible thing (e.g. earth, water, air, fire) or an abstraction (e.g. death, time, nature).",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative being"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personification"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "persuasion of groups by rhetoric",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone uses fine words, speeches, rhetorical tricks etc. to influence a group of people.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "humans in group"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhetoric"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "pervasive marketing in society",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Corporate market practices such as different kinds of advertisement strategies, often perceived as a nuisance, are discussed from a societal perspective.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "social dysfunction",
                "sociocultural issue",
                "advertising in society"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marketing"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "pesticides in society",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Potential harmful effects of using chemicals or biological agents that are meant to control undesirable plants and animals is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "environmental issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pesticide"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Environmental concerns prompted some townspeople to seek out alternatives to using cyanide to poison the out-of-control proliferating rabbits in \"Night of the Lepus\" (1972)."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "Phaeton hypothesis",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There was a planet between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter whose destruction supposedly led to the formation of the asteroid belt.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "crackpot theory"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phaeton_(hypothetical_planet)"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "philanthropist way of life",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Featured is a private initiative, for the public good, focusing on quality of life, e.g., on the provision of public services.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human sentiment"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philanthropy"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "philosophy",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "This is a general theme pertaining to ideas in philosophy, that is, the study of general and fundamental questions such as those about existence, reason, knowledge, values, mind, and language.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "the natural world"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "photographic memory ability",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is presented as having a more or less perfect, or photographic, memory to an extent that is not normally considered possible for a human.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative ability related to own mind"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eidetic_memory"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "photography",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a character who likes to take a lot of pictures with a camera, either professionally or as a serious hobby.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "the fine arts and the humanities"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photography"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "phrenology",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The study of cranial shapes and the discredited notion that features on the skull are indications of mental ability and personal character.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "superseded scientific theory"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrenology"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Melakon considered the shape of Spock's head to indicate stupidity in tos2x23 \"Patterns of Force\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "physics",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Physics is the natural science that studies matter, its motion and behavior through space and time, and the related entities of energy and force. This theme is used whenever an aspect of this science is featured in the story.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "science"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physics"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "picking up a hitchhiker",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character traveling in a vehicle goes out of their way to help a stranger who is waiting along the side of the road in search of a ride.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "helping a stranger in need"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitchhiking"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "piloted creature-shaped vehicle",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a belimbed (or betentacled etc.) mobile machine that is piloted by someone residing within it.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative vehicle"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mecha"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "The powerful \"Gun Unit Heavy Elimination Device\" (GUNHED) mecha was used by Brooklyn to foil a highly advanced AI's plans for world domination in \"Gunhed\" (1989)."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "pity",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character shows feelings of sympathy at the misfortune of another.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "humans in pairs"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pity"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "placing blame",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "One character places the blame for some misfortune squarely on another character, to a seemingly unjustifiable degree.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "humans interacting"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "plagiarism",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Plagiarism is the fraudulent representation of another person's language, thoughts, ideas, or expressions as one's own original work. A character does this in the story.",
            "notes": [
                "Plagiarism often does not become a police matter in stories where it is featured but is still categorized as criminal fraud as it could potentially be so. If it is categorically not a legal matter the theme \"cheating\" might be considered instead."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "criminal fraud"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plagiarism"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "planet being flung out of its orbit",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Civilization on a planet is threatened because the planet is, for one reason or another, leaving its natural orbit.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "force of nature existential risk to civilization"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "planet being knocked off its axis by nuclear blast",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Civilization ending natural disasters ensue when a nuclear explosion knocks a planet off its normal axis of rotation.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "technological risk to civilization"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "planet detection",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A collection of methods for discovering planets outside the Solar System, including direct imaging with telescopes, the radial-velocity method, and the transit method.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "astronomy"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methods_of_detecting_exoplanets"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Such methods were employed in tos3x20 \"The Way to Eden\" to search for the mythical planet Eden."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "planet killing weapon",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A device that is capable of physically destroying an entire planet. This goes beyond making the surface uninhabitable.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative device"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "planet scorching atmospheric conflagration",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The whole atmosphere on a planet ignites and civilization goes up in flames.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "force of nature existential risk to civilization"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "planet scorching solar flare",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "An abnormally strong solar flare roasts the surface of a planet like so many coffee beans, and civilization collapses.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "catastrophic solar event"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "The Irish colonists on Bringloidi V had to be evacuated as their sun began to emit powerful solar flares in tng2x18 \"Up The Long Ladder\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "planetary invisibility cloak",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A device capable of rendering a whole planet invisible.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "planetary-scale engineering",
                "invisibility technology"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "The Aldeans had such a device in tng1x17 \"When The Bough Breaks\" and it had made them complacent."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "planetary weather control system",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A system capable of modifying and controlling weather on a planetary scale is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "planetary-scale engineering"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_modification",
                "http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/weather_control"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "planetary-scale engineering",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is an application of technology for the purpose of influencing the global environments of a planet.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative technology"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary_engineering"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "planetary-scale machine",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is an interconnected system of machinery or a monolithic machine that is at least the size of a small planet.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "planetary-scale engineering"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In bbf1x18 \"A Voice in the Wilderness (Part 1)\" it was revealed that Epsilon 3 was crisscrossed by a massive system of fusion reactors."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "plant-like being",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A being patterned after plant life.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "animal and plant patterned being"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_plant_and_fungi_alien_species"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "The Phylosians of the planet Phylos were a race of technologically advanced, space-faring, plants in tas1x07 \"The Infinite Vulcan\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "platonic love",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The love of one human being for another of a type that is non-sexual.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "familial love"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platonic_love"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "playing God with nature",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are asked to what extent, if any, it is acceptable to willfully interfere with nature. Though breeding programs have been around for millennia, the advent of gene modification technology brings the question to a whole new level.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "sociotechnological issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playing_God_(ethics)"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Reckless scientists learned a lesson about playing around with Nature when their genetically engineered super-babies turned out to be deadly company in tng2x07 \"Unnatural Selection\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "playing it fair vs. taking an advantage",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character must choose between their sense of fairness on one hand, and their desire to gain an advantage on the other.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "personal ethical dilemma"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "plea bargain dilemma",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "An accused person, either guilty or innocent, is presented with the following troublesome options: admit guilt and get a lower punishment with certainty, or plead innocent and risk getting a much heavier punishment but perhaps with some chance of going free.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "personal practical dilemma"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plea_bargain"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "pleasure in coffee",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character takes great pleasure in preparing or imbuing the black heavenly nectar colloquially known as \"coffee\".",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "pleasure in eating and drinking"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "pleasure in eating and drinking",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The natural human predilection for reveling in food and/or drink beyond nutritional necessity is illustrated.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human pleasure"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Tomar of the Kelvan Empire enjoyed all the delicacies that the Enterprise replicator could offer in tos2x21 \"By Any Other Name\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "pleasure in nature",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone takes pointed satisfaction in scenes of serene natural beauty, or is notably enthusiastic about one aspect or another of those parts of the environment on a world that are considered natural. Typically, such a character studies wild flora or fauna.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human pleasure"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nature"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "The whole crew in turns got to admire the beauty of the magical amusement planet now known as the \"Shore Leave Planet\" in tos1x17 \"Shore Leave\".",
                "In \"Jaws\" (1975), we saw two people, Hooper and Quinn, who were both extraordinarily interested in sharks and shark behavior."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "pleasure in the misfortune of another",
            "aliases": [
                "schadenfreude"
            ],
            "description": "A character feels pleasure, joy, or self-satisfaction from learning of or witnessing the troubles, failures, or humiliation of another character.",
            "notes": [
                "To apply, it should be clear that the feeling is inspired solely by the other's misfortune, and is not the result of some secondary advantage gained by the first character. For example, if an enemy or competitor suffers misfortune it may be quite natural to feel joy because of the personal advantage this entails. This theme, then, does not apply."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human emotion"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "tz1959e2x12 \"Dust\", the rather odious conman Sykes was gleeful at the prospect of Gallegos getting hanged, and tormented him relentlessly."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "pleasure in violence",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The embarrassingly human predilection for battle and bloodshed is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human pleasure"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Data confessed that he had taken pleasure in chocking a Borg drone to death in tng6x26 \"Descent, Part I\".",
                "Captain Kirk took full advantage of the opportunity to beat the living tar out of a robot replica of his former tormenter Finnegan in tos1x17 \"Shore Leave\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "plug-in learning device",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Technology by which you can inject your brain with knowledge and skill in an instant.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "brain-computer interface"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "McCoy plugged himself into \"The Great Teacher\" in order to acquire the knowledge necessary to surgically restore Spock's brain to the Vulcan's body in tos3x06 \"Spock's Brain\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "pluralistic ignorance",
            "aliases": [
                "the Emperor's New Clothes phenomenon"
            ],
            "description": "Members of a social group knowingly go along with something they privately hold to be wrong because they assume, incorrectly, that most others accept it.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "humans in group"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluralistic_ignorance"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "poaching",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The illegal hunting or capturing of wild animals, usually associated with land use rights, is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "crime against property",
                "hunting"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poaching"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "pod or booth-like device",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a futuristic stationary device with a particular function that requires you to step inside to use.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative device"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "poetic justice",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "An evildoer ironically falls victim to the very wickedness that they themself intended for (or meted out to) someone else.",
            "notes": [
                "This theme does not apply if the result is achieved through the considered designs of another character, for example as vengeance. It must also be reasonably clear that the irony is a noteworthy component of the story.",
                "The interpretation of \"wickedness\" must be reasonably specific. For example, if a murderer ends up getting murdered, it is only \"poetic justice\" if there is a salient similarity in methodology between the intended and the actual murder."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "ethics"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poetic_justice"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In nightgallery2x19a \"Deliveries in the Rear\", Dr. Fletcher is perfectly content to look the other way while innocent people are murdered in order to provide cadavers for dissection in his anatomy class. Eventually, in an ironic twist of fate, he uncovers a new corpse only to find that it is his own beloved fiancée that has become the victim."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "poetry",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The art of stringing words together is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "the fine arts and the humanities"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poetry"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "poison murder",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The crime of murdering someone using poison is discussed.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "murder"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_poisonings"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "polar exploration",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone faces the dangers inherent to exploring unfamiliar arctic regions.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "charting unknown territory"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "police brutality",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The problem of police sometimes willfully using excessive force and violence to brutalize either criminals or the innocent is explored.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "law and order issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_brutality"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "political apathy in society",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is in the public a feeling of disinterest in politics. This typically happens because we feel that all viable politicians are self-serving or inept and it makes little difference how we vote.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "political issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_apathy"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "political assassination",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "An individual or faction uses the targeted killing of important people for the purpose of military and political advantage.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "murder"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "A traitorous Klingon conspired with the Romulans to brainwash Geordi into assassinating another Klingon and frame the Federation in tng4x24 \"The Mind's Eye\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "political asylum",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A sovereign faction grants an individual safety in their own jurisdiction, typically because that political actor is in danger from a rival faction.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "international issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_of_asylum"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "political ideology",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "One of those relatively well known, reasonably well defined, ideas about how society ought to be organized, that we call \"political ideologies\" and often label with \"-isms\", is featured.",
            "notes": [
                "TLike Wikipedia, this project aims to remain neutral in regard to political questions. When using a word that references a political stance it is advisable to consult, for example, Wikipedia and use the word only in ways that appear mainstream and are relatively uncontroversial."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "form of government"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_political_ideologies",
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideology#Political_ideologies"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "\"Capitalism\", \"communism\", \"fascism\", and \"democracy\" are some political ideologies that have been popular in the last century."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "political issue",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Political power in a society, that is, who rules and makes the laws, is discussed.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "national social issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Politics_by_issue"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "political neutrality",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Some faction tries to maintain neutrality in a political conflict.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "international issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutral_country"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "political polarization",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The problem of political attitudes diverging, in a society, to such extremes that cooperation becomes difficult and even violence may be imminent is discussed.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "political issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polarization_(politics)"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "political purge",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The ruling body in a state institute a program aimed at killing or otherwise neutralizing potential political opponents.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "political issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purge"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "pollution in society",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The social issue of pollution caused by human behavior is explored.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "environmental issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollution",
                "http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/pollution"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "polyamorous relationship",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Three or more characters are involved in a lasting romantic relationship, with all of them understanding and accepting the situation.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "romantic relationship"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyamory"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "polygamy",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The contentious social question of whether or to what extent a man or woman should be permitted to be lawfully married to more than one spouse at a time.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "sociocultural issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polygamy"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "polytheism",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Religions that contain a pantheon of many gods, as opposed to the Abrahamic religions.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "organized religion"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polytheism"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "poor personal hygiene",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Personal hygiene involves those practices performed by a person to care for their bodily health and well-being through cleanliness. Featured is a character who conspicuously fails to take care of themself in this respect.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human health condition"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hygiene#Personal_hygiene"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "pornography",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Pornography is the portrayal of sexual subject matter for the exclusive purpose of sexual arousal. The story deals with attitudes towards pornography in general, and especially the question of whether and to what extent it should be tolerated in society.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "sexual norms in society"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pornography"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "portent of luck",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character sees something that they interpret, sincerely, as a sign that good fortune, of one sort or another, is imminent.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "supernatural luck"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In tz1959e2x16 \"A Penny for Your Thoughts\", a tossed coin that stood on its side was said to be a portent of good luck. The coin-tosser subsequently began to hear thoughts, and profited greatly from this."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "position in exchange for sexual favors",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The practice of some people to solicit sexual favors from an applicant in exchange for, e.g., employment is treated from a societal perspective.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "social dysfunction"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casting_couch"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "post-apocalyptic dystopia",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a society in which something extraordinary bad has happened to civilization and the survivors must now cope as best they can. Usually this happens because society had a brush with one existential risk or another (cf. theme \"existential risk\").",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "dystopia"
            ],
            "references": [
                "http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/ruined_earth"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "post-scarcity economy utopia",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a society in which goods needed for human welfare are all abundant so that trade and squabbles over ownership are pretty much redundant.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "technologically enabled utopia"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-scarcity_economy"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "post-truth politics",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Clearly featured is a political culture in which debate is framed largely by appeals to emotion disconnected from the details of policy, and by the repeated assertion of talking points to which factual rebuttals are ignored. Post-truth differs from traditional contesting and falsifying of facts by relegating facts and expert opinions to be of secondary importance relative to appeal to emotion.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "political issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-truth_politics"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "tz2019e1x05 \"The Wunderkind\" featured a presidency in which the leader, drunk on his own power, invented ill-considered policies and forced them around him to agree to whatever fake facts were expedient. A clear reference to Donald Trump's America."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "poverty in society",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Social issues relating to there being large numbers of poor people in a society are explored.",
            "notes": [
                "This theme is typically used in relation to absolute poverty, i.e., when the poor have trouble providing for their most basic needs such as food, clothing, sanitation, and shelter."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "socioeconomic issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In \"Red Beard\" (1965), we saw vividly how society treated the poor in 19th century Japan."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "power corrupts",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone who was decent gains power and because of the power becomes nasty.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human idea about life"
            ],
            "references": [
                "http://www.dictionary.com/browse/power-tends-to-corrupt-absolute-power-corrupts-absolutely"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "powered exoskeleton",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A machine that surrounds you and enhances your normal human movements.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative full body outfit"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powered_exoskeleton"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "practical joking",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a mischievous trick played on someone, generally causing the victim to experience embarrassment, perplexity, confusion, or discomfort.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "humans interacting"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Practical_joke"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In apuleius180tgab3 \"The Golden Ass: Book 3\", the people of Hypata played a cruel prank on Lucius to celebrate their annual Festival of Laughter: They put him on trial for the murder of three robbers he had valiantly slain to defend his host's house and made him believe he would be tortured. Later was it revealed to Lucius that he had in fact just vandalized three wines skins after returning drunk from an evening of merriment."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "practice makes perfect",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "It is pointedly mentioned or illustrated that people get better at a particular task the more they practice performing that task.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human idea about life"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/practice_makes_perfect"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "practitioner vs. theorist",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The stereotypical divide in science between those who are inclined towards pure theory one one hand, and those who are inclined to practice and experiments on the other, is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human characters in contrast"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "pre-crime responsibility",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The following hypothetical dilemma is considered: If through some marvel of time travel like technology it is possible to prove that someone is about to commit a crime in the future, can they then be arrested and considered guilty already in the present?",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "social ethical dilemma"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-crime"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In Philip K. Dick's 1956 science fiction short story \"The Minority Report\", PreCrime police officers can put people in a detainment camp before they commit the crime they are destined to commit."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "precognition",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is able to see (or at least sense with some accuracy) what will be, or happen, in the future.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "clairvoyance"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precognition"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "predatory financial practices in society",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Predatory lending refers to unethical practices conducted by lending organizations during a loan origination process that are unfair, deceptive, or fraudulent. The story ask us to ponder how such and suchlike practices affect a society.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "socioeconomic issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predatory_lending"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In nightgallery2x12b \"Camera Obscura\", the successful money lender Mr. Sharsted is transported into some sort of bleak Limbo wherein he is confronted with the various victims of his callous, perhaps usurious, business practices."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "preemptive strike in self-defense",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The following kind of dilemma is illustrated: Can it be right to use military force pre-emptively to prevent an attack on yourself?",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "social ethical dilemma"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preemptive_war"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Picard was urged to attack the Romulans before they could strike at the Federation in tng3x10 \"The Defector\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "prejudice against ex-convicts",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Prejudice against ex-convicts, even though they have atoned for their crimes, is discussed.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "prejudice in society"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Nobody trusted Ro Laren after she got out of the penal stockade on Jaros II and was assigned to the Enterprise-D in tng5x03 \"Ensign Ro\" until Guinan took pity on her."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "prejudice against someone of a different social class",
            "aliases": [
                "social class prejudice in society class prejudice in society"
            ],
            "description": "Class prejudice is featured in general terms, or demonstrated by the appearance of a character that expresses a prejudice against a group of people whom they regard to have a different social or economic status than themself.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "prejudice in society"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Class_discrimination"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "prejudice in society",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The subject of preconceived (typically unfavorable) notions about a group of people in society is explored.",
            "notes": [
                "The themes \"hatred in society\" or \"ethnic hatred\" are more appropriate in cases where there is hostility but not necessarily any preconceived notions. A people at war may, for example, quite logically hate their enemy on account of that enemy being demonstrably organized to do murder."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "relations between social groups in society"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prejudice"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "prejudicial attitude of superiority against someone less well off than one's self",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character expresses a prejudice against a group of people whom they consider to be materially less well off, and therefore inferior, to themself. For example, a character may express the opinion that poor people are likely to be criminals.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "attitude of superiority",
                "prejudice against someone of a different social class"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "prenuptial agreement",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Partners entering into marriage draw up a contract to formalize their legal obligations to each other.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "romantic relationship issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prenuptial_agreement"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "preternatural rain",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a \"rain\" of something that is entirely unnatural in falling from the sky, such as frogs, blood, or nuts.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "folk belief"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In rd1988e1x05 \"Confidence and Paranoia\", it was momentarily raining fish in the same way as it had rained herring in Burgundy some time in the 12th century."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "price inflation in society",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "It is featured that prices in society rise rapidly in nominal terms, making savings worth much less than they would have been otherwise, etc.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "socioeconomic issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflation"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "pride",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A person expresses pride in something they have done or some aspect of who they are.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human character"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pride"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "pride goes before a fall",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character exhibits an unflattering amount of pride or overconfidence regarding some subject, and subsequently suffers a severe setback nominally related to that subject and their attitude.",
            "notes": [
                "When the pride is so excessive that the character deigns to put themself on par, or even above, the gods etc. then the theme \"hubris\" is used."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "pride"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In voy6x13 \"Virtuoso\", The Doctor thought he was a virtuoso singer when he found a race of aliens that adored his music. Alas, they soon surpassed and grew bored with the Doctor who returned chastised to Voyager."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "pride in an achievement",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character expresses pride on something specific that they have accomplished.",
            "notes": [
                "In cases where a character is proud of \"their many achievements\" without being specific, \"attitude of superiority\" may be more appropriate."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "pride"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "pride in one's community",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character expresses pride in being part of a specific community of people.",
            "notes": [
                "A \"community\" is typically a number of people larger than a family or friendship circle, living in the same area such as a town or city."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "pride"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "pride in one's family",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character expresses pride in their family in general, or in specific people to whom they are related.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "pride"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "pride in one's own creation",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character takes pride in something they have created.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "pride in an achievement"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "pride in one's team",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character expresses pride in a smaller group they are part of for the purpose of some activity.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "pride"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "pridefulness",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character's ego dictates their action, prompting or preventing them from doing something they ought to or not to do.",
            "notes": [
                "The motivation should exemplify what action (or absence thereof) was dictated by the character's pride."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "pride"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "prime numbers",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A number greater than 1 that has no positive divisors other than 1 and itself.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "mathematics"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_number"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Captain Picard tapped the first six prime numbers into a door panel in tng3x18 \"Allegiance\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "primitive point of view",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are shown what things might be like from the point of view of a person that comes from a technologically less advanced culture than the one depicted in the story.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "cross cultural issue"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "prisoners being exploited for entertainment",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Condemned prisoners are being made sport of for the entertainment of free people.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative punishment"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "prisoners of war",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "One faction takes members of another faction as prisoners during the course of a war. The treatment of such prisoners is wrought with potential problems and moral questions.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "military issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner_of_war"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "It was unclear whether Captain Picard was technically a prisoner of war thus protected by a treaty against mistreatment in tng6x11 \"Chain of Command, Part II\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "prisoners' rights",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are made to ponder what conditions in prisons should be like and what may morally be done to prisoners who have committed crimes of different kinds.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human rights issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoners%27_rights"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "The Angosians kept their super-soldiers imprisoned without any right to appeal on a shabby little moon in tng3x11 \"The Hunted\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "private investigator occupation",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A professional private investigation is engaged in their chosen occupation.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human occupational activity"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_investigator"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "privatization in society",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The social ramifications of privatizing government functions and services are explored.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "socioeconomic issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privatization"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "problem gambling",
            "aliases": [
                "gambling addiction"
            ],
            "description": "A character gambles continuously, despite harmful negative consequences or a desire to stop.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human addiction",
                "gambling"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem_gambling"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "problem gambling in society",
            "aliases": [
                "gambling addiction in society"
            ],
            "description": "The social consequences of gambling addiction, such as the harm caused to those other than the gambler, are explored.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "public health issue",
                "problem gambling"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem_gambling"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "The pursuit of a good gamble had turned the Triskelian society into one of slavery and sadism in tos2x17 \"The Gamesters of Triskelion\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "problem of language and meaning",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Featured is a practical problem that arises when people who communicate differently, i.e. who use very different languages, have to interact.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "philosophy"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "problematic usage of mobile communication devices in society",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are made to contemplate the widespread use of portable communication devices, typically hand-held, that some people think is excessive. In particular the impact of this on children tends to be controversial.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "sociocultural issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problematic_smartphone_use"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "professional politics",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A person working with professional politics is engaged in their chosen occupation. This may include people inhabiting an elected office, or who are campaigning for such.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human occupational activity"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_campaign"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "promiscuity",
            "aliases": [
                "promiscuousness"
            ],
            "description": "Promiscuity is the practice of engaging in sexual activity frequently with different partners or being indiscriminate in the choice of sexual partners.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human character"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promiscuity",
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypersexuality",
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lascivious_behavior"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "property rights vs. public interest",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a situation in which we must decide whether someone's lawful right to their property outweighs some other issue that is important to society at large. For example, can the government take your land in order to build a highway? Temporarily prevent you from using your land in order to excavate a site of archaeological interest?",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "social ethical dilemma"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In tz1985e3x04 \"The Hunters\", a real estate developer quarreled with an archaeologist over who had a right to do what on a piece of land. The archaeologist wanted time to study some pre-historic cave drawings, while the developer wanted no further delay in beginning a construction project."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "prophetic ability",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is able to predict things about the future through some sort of revelation involving deities or suchlike mysterious forces.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "clairvoyance"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prophecy"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "prostitution",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a character who sells sex for money in order to make a living.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "sex work"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostitution"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "prostitution in society",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a person who sells sex for money, or an institution (such as a brothel) set up for the purpose, and we are made to ponder the way in which such practices shape society.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "sexual norms in society"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostitution"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "prostitution vs. poverty",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character has to choose whether to perform sexual services for money in order not to starve.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human life choice",
                "compromising one's ethical principles vs. self-preservation"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostitution"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "protecting children vs. letting them learn",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are asked whether and to what extent we should be shielding children from things that are considered unsavory and disturbing. Most people believe that they must learn about these things eventually in order to become well rounded adults. The timing and manner of the learning, however, are contentious. Typical controversies generally center around pornography, violence, or crime.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "educational issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helicopter_parent"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "protecting kids from bad influences on children",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A parent's concern for the bad influence someone may have on their child is noted.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human parenting"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "protest by civil disobedience",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Civil disobedience is the active, professed refusal of a citizen to obey certain laws, demands, orders or commands of a government (or any other authority) in a way that does not include violence against people. Such actions and sentiments are featured in the story.",
            "notes": [
                "Generally, \"protest by civil disobedience\" is about non-violent action whereas \"terrorism\" is about violent action."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "crime against the public",
                "political issue"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "prudishness",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is too easily offended or shocked by sexual matters.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human character"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prude"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Campio called off his wedding to Lwaxana when it became apparent that the ceremony was to be conducted in the nude, as was the Betazoid custom, in tng5x20 \"Cost of Living\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "psychedelic experience",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character experiences a temporary altered state of consciousness induced by the consumption of psychedelic drugs (the best known of which are LSD and psilocybin 'magic' mushrooms).",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "psychoactive drug experience"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychedelic_experience"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "A group of castaways started tripping out after eating the local mushrooms on a remote island in \"Matango: Attack of the Mushroom People\" (1963)."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "psychic detective",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a person who investigates crimes by using purported paranormal psychic abilities.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "crackpot theory"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychic_detective"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "A man used his newfound psychic powers to help the police track down a serial killer in \"The Dead Zone\" (1983)."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "psychoactive drug experience",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are pointedly shown a reasonable idea of what it might be like to be under the influence of one recreational psychoactive drug or another.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative experience"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychoactive_drug"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In tz2019e1x09 \"Blue Scorpion\", we saw how Jeff Storck smoked pot and played the guitar in the course of mourning the loss of his once hippie father."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "psychological stress",
            "aliases": [
                "coping with stress"
            ],
            "description": "A character experiences an unhealthy amount of mental strain and pressure due to some situation they are in.",
            "notes": [
                "We generally do not use this theme in violent, action filled, scenarios where we assume that adrenaline and stress would be a relatively natural (and arguably healthy) response to a life-and-death situation."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human mental condition"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_stress"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "\"coping with the rigors of command\" is a \"psychological stress\" theme as it implies that a character experiences unusual amounts of mental strain due to having a burden of responsibility."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "psychology",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Psychology is the science of mind and behavior. Psychology includes the study of conscious and unconscious phenomena, as well as feeling and thought. This theme is used whenever a topic in this science is notably featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "science"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychology"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "psychopathy",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character exhibits persistent antisocial behavior, impaired empathy, and abnormal egotism.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human mental condition"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "public health issue",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Social policy relating to the mental and physiological well-being of humans in a community, is explored.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "national social issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Well-being"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "\"opium addiction in society\" and \"suicide in society\" are both \"public health issue\" themes. In both cases we typically contemplate what sort of policies may be implemented in order to improve the situation for the population at large. In the first case, opium tends to be a proscribed substance. In the second case, the government is often required to provide support to people we think may be at risk of committing suicide."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "public safety vs. human rights",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Is it justified to deprive an innocent person of their rights if we think public safety may be in danger? Where would the line be drawn?",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "social ethical dilemma"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "public safety vs. public prosperity",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A society must decide between a policy that helps the economy on one hand, and one that makes people safe on the other.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "social ethical dilemma"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In \"Jaws\" (1975), Mayor Larry Vaughn refused to let police chief Martin Brody close the beaches on Amity Island even after the shark claimed its second victim. The Forth of July was only days off and the tourism this occasion brings is a backbone of the local economy. Thus the mayor choose to overlook evidence and let beach activities go ahead, which ultimately lead to the death of yet another victim."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "pulling the plug on a loved one",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone is faced with deciding whether or not to authorize the suspension of life support procedures on a loved one.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "personal life and death dilemma"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_support"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "It fell to Clara Murphy to decide in whether to let her mortally wounded husband Alex die or let a team of scientists turn what was left of him into a cyborg \"RoboCop\" (2014). She went cyborg route."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "pulsar",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A rotating neutron star that emits a beam of electromagnetic radiation, like a lighthouse.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "astronomy"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulsar"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "punishment as a deterrent to crime",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "It is discussed to what extent different kinds of prescribed punishments can work to deter people from committing crimes in the first place.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "legal punishment"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "punishment in the afterlife",
            "aliases": [
                "what if I had to endure eternal torment"
            ],
            "description": "A character (or their soul) is posthumously tortured because of wicked things that they did while alive.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "the afterlife"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judgement_(afterlife)"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "pure evil being",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "An entity that is pure sadistic evil.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "mentally distinguished being"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "The slick of malevolent tar Armus was such a being in tng1x23 \"Skin of Evil\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "purpose in life",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "This is a general theme pertaining to what drives us and makes us act with what we perceive as \"purpose\". This theme is about our aspirations, needs, pleasures, cherished beliefs and such.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "individual humans"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meaning_of_life"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "The theme is further specialized into: human aspiration (hopes, dreams, and questions of what we want out of life), human need (things we need in order to consider ourselves fulfilled in life), human pleasure (things we may simply enjoy)."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "pursuing one's dream vs. advancing one's career",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character must decide what is more important to them: their career or some other personal ambition such as galavanting around the universe.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "career choice"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Picard was mightily tempted to leave his post as captain of the Enterprise-D in tng6x20 \"The Chase\" to do space archaeology with his old mentor Professor Richard Galen."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "putting a child up for adoption",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone struggles with the decision of whether to give their child away for adoption.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human life choice",
                "human parenting"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adoption"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "putting differences aside",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Two characters agree to put past differences aside in order to pursue some more important joint purpose.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "humans interacting"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "putting down a pet",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone has to euthanize a beloved pet for one reason or another. Typically it is either sick, injured, or a danger to the public.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "coping with life issues"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Spock made the tough decision to put his pet sehlat out of its misery in tas1x02 \"Yesteryear\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "putting yourself in someone else's shoes",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character looks at a situation from a different point of view, as if one were the other person, to empathise.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human self improvement"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/put_oneself_in_someone%27s_shoes"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "pyrokinetic ability",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is able to conjure or control fire, more or less by using the power of their mind.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative ability related to physical things"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrokinesis"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "A secret government agency sought to control a young girl with formidable pyrokinetic abilities in \"Firestarter\" (1984)."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "quackery",
            "aliases": [
                "quacksalvery"
            ],
            "description": "The fraudulent practice of peddling unproven \"medicines\" that are highly unlikely to work as advertised.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "con artistry"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quackery"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "quality is more important than quantity",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The ever-present dichotomy between quantity and quality is features: Should one strive towards producing many mediocre things or a few high quality things, or is there a sweet spot somewhere in between?",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human idea about life"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "quarantine dilemma",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Some people carry an infectious and undesirable, typically deadly, condition and we are asked what measures the rest of society is ethically justified in taking in order to protect itself from those that are infected but innocent of any wrongdoing.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "social ethical dilemma"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quarantine"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "quasar",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Featured is an active galactic nucleus of very high luminosity.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "astronomy"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasar"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "The Enterprise encountered Murasaki 312, a quasar-like phenomena, in tos1x13 \"The Galileo Seven\". Interestingly, \"murasaki\" means purple in Japanese, yet the quasar was plainly green."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "quasi-religious cult",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The practices religious cults, or something much like them, are featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "organized religion"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "The Children of Landru in tos1x22 \"The Return of the Archons\" Landru lead a cult-like following."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "questioning one's beliefs",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character comes to re-evaluate some idea, usually a moral sentiment, that they had previously taken for granted.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human self improvement"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "questioning one's loyalties",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character considers whether the things they are loyal to are really worthy of that devotion. This happens for example when the morality of a previously accepted leader, faction, or ideology comes into doubt for some reason.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human self improvement"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "questioning one's sanity",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character questions whether their beliefs are really rational.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human worrying about self"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "racial segregation",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Racial segregation is the systematic separation of people into racial or other ethnic groups in daily life. Such practices in a society are discussed.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "socioeconomic issue",
                "sociocultural issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_segregation",
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apartheid"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In \"District 9\" (2009), aliens trapped on Earth were forced to live separate from humans, in what had become sprawling slums with harsh, impoverished, conditions."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "racial supremacism",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character expresses the belief that their own ethnic group (as perceived by that character) is somehow superior to other races.",
            "notes": [
                "If a character is preoccupied with the purity of their own race, for example by objecting vociferously to all mixed marriages, they may be presumed to stand for racial supremacism."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "racism in society"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supremacism"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "racism in society",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The issue of a large portion of society having an irrational (typically unfavorable) prejudice against people of a certain ethnicity, i.e., race, is discussed.",
            "notes": [
                "Any use of a racial slur is indicative of this prejudice. It is, however, possible for people of different ethnic groups to hate each other without any particular preconceived notions being apparent. In that case the theme \"ethnic hatred\" is used."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "prejudice in society"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "radiation neutralizer",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A device that somehow makes radioactive material to which it is exposed un- radioactive.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative device"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Dr. Adam Royston invented an anti-radiation container that could neutralize any radioactive material put inside it in \"X the Unknown\" (1956)."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "ransom kidnapping",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The crime of unlawful transportation, asportation and confinement of a person against their will for the purposes of extortion, is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "crime against property",
                "crime against the person"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidnapping"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "rapid aging effect",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Featured is a hypothetical process that makes you age significantly faster than normal.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "what if I were not subject to the normal process of aging"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "When Gamma Hydra IV experienced mild radiation in the tail of a rogue comet, Captain Kirk and some of his team started to age rapidly in tos2x11 \"The Deadly Years\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "rationality vs. emotionality",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The allegedly rational parts of the human psyche are contrasted with its emotional parts. For example, the claim might be made that there are cognitive tasks in which emotional people excel far beyond what more rational people can manage, or vice versa.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human nature"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "reading as a hobby",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is notably fond of reading books.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "recreational activity"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reading"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In tz1985e2x11a \"Song of the Younger World\", we heard that Amy, the superintendents daughter, liked to spend inordinate amounts of time reading in the reformatory's library. In an obscure tome she discovered the spell that saved her rapscallious lover and herself from her father's wrath."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "realist vs. idealist",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A pragmatic down to Earth character is contrasted with a visionary in pursuit of (some sort of) perfection.",
            "notes": [
                "The wikipedia articles discussing \"realism\" and \"idealism\" refer to abstract philosophical concepts that are not very helpful in explaining what the present theme is about. We choose to omit these as references."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human characters in contrast"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "reality television in society",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Reality television is a genre of television programming that documents purportedly unscripted real-life situations, often starring unknown individuals rather than professional actors. The ways in which these shows are intended to humiliate or exploit participants, make stars out of untalented people unworthy of fame and glamorize vulgarity are discussed.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "sociocultural issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality_television",
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_reality_television"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "A seemingly terminally ill woman agreed to have a reality television show made out the final days of her life in exchange for a large sum of money in \"Death Watch\" (1980)."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "reasons for war",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The question of why wars happen is taken up.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "war"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "rebuilding society after a disaster",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The troubles and tribulations faced by a society that begin rebuilding after a disaster are featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "socioeconomic issue"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "rebuilding society after war",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The troubles and tribulations faced by a society that has just experienced the ravages of war are featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "socioeconomic issue"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "reclusiveness",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone takes pains to avoid the company of other people. Note: This is used for individuals and not for, say, a xenophobic alien species.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human character"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recluse"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "It was revealed that Tam Elbrun lived among the non-humanoid, telepathic Chandrans in order to avoid contact with other humanoids in tng3x20 \"Tin Man\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "reconciliation",
            "aliases": [
                "forgiveness"
            ],
            "description": "Two characters who have quarreled in the past come to a more or less amicable reconciliation.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "humans interacting"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/reconciliation"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Riker and his father Kyle reconciled their differences over a heated anbo- jyutsu match in tng2x14 \"The Icarus Factor\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "reconciliation between two peoples",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Two factions who have been at odds with each other decide to put their difference aside and seek rapprochement.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "international issue"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "recording implant",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a device that can be implanted into the body and which records some one or more of our senses, typically the visual and auditory much like a camera.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative device"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "recreational activity",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "This is a general theme pertaining to activities that are more or less done for fun, for example, hobbies.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human regular activity",
                "human pleasure"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "recreational illicit drug use",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character takes a controlled or outright illegal chemical substance in moderation for enjoyment, rather than for medical reasons or out of a desire to feed an addiction.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "recreational activity"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recreational_drug_use"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "reflecting on the person one might have been",
            "aliases": [
                "the road not taken"
            ],
            "description": "A character reflects on how their own life might have turned out, typically for the better, had they taken a different path in life.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human worrying about self"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In the TV short \"The Jolly Corner\" (1975), Spencer Brydon couldn't stop thinking about what type of man he would have become had he not scuttled off to Europe in order to avoid the national trauma that was the American Civil War."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "refugee crisis",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are made to think of movements of large groups of displaced people, who could be either internally displaced persons, refugees or other migrants.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "socioeconomic issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refugee_crisis"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "regicide",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character murders a crowned king, queen, or comparable sovereign ruler.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "dominicide"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regicide"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In \"Macbeth\" (1606), the Macbeth couple slew King Duncan in order to usurp his powers."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "reincarnation",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The belief, typical in Indian religions, that there is some non-corporeal us (a soul) the after our death is reborn in a new physical body.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "organized religion",
                "the soul"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reincarnation"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "reintegrating into society",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone has been away from anything resembling normal society for a long time, for example due to a lengthy prison term, and tries to re-adjust to life amongst normal people again.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human social position",
                "coping with life issues"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner_reentry"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In \"Universal Soldier: Regeneration\" (2009), the former mindless supersoldier Luc Deveraux was undergoing rehabilitation therapy in Switzerland with the goal of rejoining society."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "rejuvenation technology",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is technology that restores people to a more youthful state or semblance thereof.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human enhancement technology"
            ],
            "references": [
                "http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/rejuvenation",
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regenerative_medicine"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "relations between social groups in society",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There are two different and notably distinct social groups within a society, for example two ethnic groups, and some aspect of the relationship between these two groups is featured. Notably, this is a general theme pertaining to different types of hatred and prejudice in society.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "sociocultural issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_group"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "relentless enemy in war",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A people is threatened by an enemy who uncompromisingly wants them all dead and who will not be reasoned with.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "war"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "reliability of eyewitness testimony",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Eyewitness testimony is the account a bystander or victim gives in the courtroom, describing what that person observed that occurred during the specific incident under investigation. Discussed is whether and to what extent such testimony can be relied upon in order to pass judgment upon another person and punish them for a crime that they are alleged to have committed.",
            "notes": [
                "Research in the 20th century demonstrated various ways in which witnesses can deceive themselves and be unreliable despite being seemingly honest. Typically the situation in which this theme is featured is some variation on highlighting this, perhaps startling, revelation. I.e., we are shown that a witness is sincere in what they say and yet, in fact, wrong. At stake may be another person's life and liberty."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "law and order issue",
                "social ethical dilemma"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyewitness_testimony"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "reliable streak of luck",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone believes that a recent streak of luck is indicative of future outcomes in some game of chance or the like.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "supernatural luck"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "religion as a control mechanism",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a society in which the ruling elite moulds religious doctrine to justify their own position and exert control.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "form of government"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "religion in public education",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The contentious issue of whether and to what extent unscientific religious notions should be taught to students in public education is discussed.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "educational issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creation_and_evolution_in_public_education"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "religious fervor",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character exhibits an obsessive enthusiasm related to their religion.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human mental condition"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Worf encountered zealous Klingons who resurrected their Messiah in tng6x23 \"Rightful Heir\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "religious festival",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a day of celebration or observance for something related to a religion.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "organized religion"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_festival"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "religious fundamentalism",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The ramifications of people acting more or less fanatically to promote the literally interpreted doctrines of a religion are explored.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "political ideology"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamentalism#Religious"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "religious hypocrisy",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A religious person neglects to practice what they preach.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "hypocritical character",
                "organized religion"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypocrisy"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "religious occupation",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A priest, rabbi, imam, or other character whose principal occupation involves the studying and teaching of religious doctrine, is engaged in their craft.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human occupational activity"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Religious_occupations"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In tz1959e5x26 \"I Am the Night—Color Me Black\", a black reverend has words with a man who is about to be hanged."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "religious point of view",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are shown how something more or less ordinary may seem different when viewed from the perspective of someone who is extremely pious, with respect to some religious doctrine or another.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "cross cultural issue"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "religious prophesy",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There are divinely inspired prognostications of holy prophets.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "organized religion"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prophecy"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "religious prophet",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is an individual who is regarded as being in contact by a divine being and is said to speak on that entity's behalf, serving as an intermediary with humanity by delivering messages or teachings from the supernatural source to other people.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "religious prophesy"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prophet"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "religious toleration",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a society in which people with drastically different religious beliefs are seen to treat each others with toleration.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "political ideology"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toleration"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "remembering bygone days",
            "aliases": [
                "reminiscence"
            ],
            "description": "A character looks back with emotion on previous experiences.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human dreaming",
                "nostalgia"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "remembrance",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character reflects on memories of a departed loved one, friend, or colleague, etc.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human dreaming"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "reminiscence about one's youth",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character thinks back to their childhood years.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "remembering bygone days"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In voy2x09 \"Tattoo\", Commander Chakotay had numerous flashbacks to the times in his youth he been out with his father in the forest."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "remorse",
            "aliases": [
                "guilt regret"
            ],
            "description": "Someone feels regret for a past action that they have come to see as morally wrong, or for a mistake they should have been able to avert.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human emotion"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remorse"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "remote controlled person",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Technology by which, e.g., one person can be controlled by another person at a distance.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human enhancement technology"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "McCoy jury-rigged a brainless Spock so that he could be operated by remote control in tos3x06 \"Spock's Brain\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "remote harming ability",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is able to directly inflict injuries, or other deleterious effects, on another person, more or less by using their mind alone and without manipulating intermediate physical objects.",
            "notes": [
                "If a character, for example, uses telekinesis to move a knife, manipulate air, etc. and inflict injury, then the applicable theme is just ordinary \"telekinetic ability\"."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative remote living body manipulation"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychokinesis",
                "http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/telekinesis"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In \"Scanners\" (1981), Cameron was able to speed up another man's heartbeat using only his mind."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "remote projection of self",
            "aliases": [
                "soul travel spirit walking astral projection"
            ],
            "description": "A character is able to project their own consciousness and/or likeness to a remote location.",
            "notes": [
                "The expression \"astral projection\" is occasionally used in stories to describe such abilities being exercised, especially when the soul and other religious ideas are involved."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative ability related to own mind"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astral_projection"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Luke Skywalker projected an incorporeal version of himself across the galaxy to have a showdown with Kylo Ren in \"Star Wars: The Last Jedi\" (2017)."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "remote viewing",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is able to see remote places in their mind.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "clairvoyance"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_viewing"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "repressed memories",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is found to have unconsciously suppressed uncomfortable memories.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human mental condition"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repressed_memory"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Riker was found to have repressed the memory of a vivisection in which his arm was severed in tng6x05 \"Schisms\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "repressing one's romantic desires",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character strives consciously to ignore their innate sexual urges.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "exercising self-control"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "reproductive surrogacy",
            "aliases": [
                "surrogate mother"
            ],
            "description": "One or two parents have another woman carry their baby to term. Surrogacy in this sense can thus easily be discussed from either of three rather different perspectives.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human parenting"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrogacy"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "reptilian being",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A being patterned after reptiles.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "animal and plant patterned being"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fictional_extraterrestrials_by_form#Reptilians_and_amphibians"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Captain Kirk was pitted in a fight to the death against a reptilian alien in tos1x19 \"The Arena\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "resentment",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character harbors a resentment toward another stemming from a belief that he or she has been wronged by that person.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human emotion"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resentment"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "resettlement vs. fighting for one's homeland",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character must decide whether it is worth it to stay and fight for their homeland when powerful authorities want their way with it.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human life choice"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "resistance movement",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a group of people that engages in organized resistance against an occupying enemy or other oppressing force.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "political issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resistance_movement"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "resisting a temptation",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is tempted to do or indulge in something that they know they shouldn't.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human vs. self"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Captain Picard resisted the temptation to sleep with the empathic metamorph Kamala in tng5x21 \"The Perfect Mate\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "respect for an enemy",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character exhibits feelings of admiration toward an enemy owing to their abilities or achievements.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "humans in pairs"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "resurrection of the dead",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A person is brought back to life, be it through miraculous means, technological artifice, or otherwise.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative experience"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resurrection"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Worf was brought back from dead by the amnesiac alien provisionally named John Doe in tng3x25 \"Transfigurations\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "retarded aging effect",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Featured is a hypothetical effect that makes you age much slower than normal. The effect might, for example, be brought about by a futuristic medical treatment.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "what if I were not subject to the normal process of aging"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "McCoy's tricorder scans of the Vaalians in tos2x09 \"The Apple\" revealed them to not be aging at all, praise be Vaal."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "retiring from one's job",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character formally retires from work, typically because they have reached a certain retirement age.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "humans at work"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retirement"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "retrocognition",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is able to see (or at least sense with some accuracy) what has been, or happened, in the past.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "clairvoyance"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retrocognition"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "reunion with a long lost child",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A parent is reunited with their child after a very long time apart.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human parenting",
                "reunion with a loved one"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "reunion with a loved one",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Two closely related characters, or lovers, are reunited after a significant time apart.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human familial relationship"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In tng7x10 \"Inheritance\", the android Data was reunited with Juliana Tainer, a person he thought of as his mother. Alas, it transpired that she was just an android facsimile of the genuine article."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "reverse aging effect",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a character who starts life as old and then becomes younger as time passes.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "what if I were not subject to the normal process of aging"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "reverse psychology",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone employs reverse psychology to influence another in a desired way.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "humans interacting"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_psychology"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Data attempted a clever bit of reverse psychology on the stubborn colonists of Tau Cygna V in tng3x02 \"The Ensigns of Command\" but to no avail."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "reversed time",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A fantasy world where time runs in reverse, e.g., people are born old and die young.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative time manipulating effect",
                "opposite world"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "The Enterprise got sucked into just such a universe in tas2x06 \"The Counter- Clock Incident\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "revival long after death",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Technology that can bring someone back from death many hours after they are technically dead.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "life extension technology",
                "resurrection of the dead"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "revolution in society",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Peacefully or by the sword, an old ruling class is forced to make way for a new social order.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "political issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolution"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "rich character vs. poor character",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A conspicuously affluent person is deliberately put in contrast with a notably impoverished person.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human characters in contrast"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In \"movie: City Lights (1931)\" we see Charlie Chaplin's destitute Tramp befriend a filthy rich man known as The Millionaire. While the former can barely feed and clothe himself, the latter has several servants and enjoys all sorts of luxuries."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "rights of accused",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are made to ponder the rights and privileges of a person accused of a crime, such as the right to know the charges under which one is being held, and the assurances guaranteeing them a fair trial.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human rights issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://www.britannica.com/topic/rights-of-accused",
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_a_fair_trial"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "rise to prominence from humble beginnings",
            "aliases": [
                "from rags to riches"
            ],
            "description": "A character who has little or no particular social status at birth rises to a prominent position, usually due to their talents and hard work.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative experience"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Bill and Margaret Weldon spent a giddy night imagining all the things they would buy after having signed a big contract to market a razor-less shaving cream in \"Her Husband's Affairs\" (1947)."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "risk taking in the advancement of science and technology",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "It is discussed how one can weight one set of risks and benefits against another in planning scientific experiments and developing technology.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "social ethical dilemma"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "risk taking vs. playing it safe",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character must decide, in a given situation, which course of action is the better: the risky one with (perhaps) a high reward or the relatively safe one that has but small reward.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "personal practical dilemma"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "risky revival of patient for vital information",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A medical professional must choose whether to revive a patient to allow important interrogation, when doing so would posed added risk to the patients health. The unconscious patient may, for example, know where a terrorist attack is going to take place.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "medical ethical issue"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "rite of passage into manhood",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A young male performs a feat that according to his culture (in part or wholly) qualifies him for status as adult.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "coming of age"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "rivalry",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Two characters are rivals over, for example, a desired mate or workplace prestige.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "humans in pairs"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "robbery",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The crime of taking something of value by force, threat of force, or by putting the victim in fear, is featured or otherwise discussed.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "violent crime",
                "theft"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robbery"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "robot helper",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A sophisticated but not quite sentient mobile machine that serves man as his helper.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "artificial intelligence",
                "speculative robot"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "The immortal Mr. Flint had a hovering robot helped named M-4 in tos3x21 \"Requiem for Methuselah\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "robot prizefighter",
            "aliases": [
                "robot boxer combat sports robot robot fighter"
            ],
            "description": "There is a robot, perhaps less than sentient, whose purpose is to take part in pre-arranged and rule-bound combat competitions.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "artificial intelligence",
                "speculative robot"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In tz1959e5x02 \"Steel\", the story is set in a near future when regular boxing has been deemed to violent for humans to partake in. Instead ever more sophisticated androids fight in the ring for the entertainment of human crowds."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "robotic civilization",
            "aliases": [
                "android civilization"
            ],
            "description": "We imagine what a society of robots would be like.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative society"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "rock being",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a being that is made of rock and that resembles a collection of adjoined rocks.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "silicon-based being"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "rogue planet",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A planet that is not gravitationally bound to a star.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "astronomy"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogue_planet"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "General Trelane (retired) was found to live on a rogue planet in the middle of a \"star desert\" in tos1x18 \"The Squire of Gothos\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "role models",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A young character imitates a character they look up to.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human childhood"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Role_model"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "romantic courtship",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The complex ins and outs of human mating rituals are discussed.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "romantic relationship"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Courtship"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "romantic infidelity",
            "aliases": [
                "adultery"
            ],
            "description": "The question of monogamatic faithfulness arises between two characters in a romantic relationship. This usually appears because one of the pair is tempted by an attraction to someone else, or one of the pair jealously perceives it to be so.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "romantic relationship issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infidelity"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "romantic jealousy",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is notably desirous of the exclusive affections that another receives from a potential lover.",
            "notes": [
                "In cases of infidelity, for example, it must be clear that resentment is over emotions and not some other concern. For example, a spouse who no longer desires their partner may still be upset about infidelity for the social stigma, or for practical reasons. They are not, then, romantically jealous."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "jealousy",
                "romantic love"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jealousy#Romantic_jealousy"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In blackmirror1x03 \"The Entire History of You\", Liam was exceedingly jealous of Jonas over the way Jonas' interest in his wife Fion clearly had solicited a positive response in the past, and perhaps still did. He might not even be the father of their daughter Jodie."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "romantic love",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Featured is that peculiar sort of love between people so often associated with sexual attraction.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "love"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romance_(love)"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "romantic relationship",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Two or more characters engage in an interpersonal relationship, or web of such relationships, that is characterized by romantic intimacy.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "humans in pairs"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romance_(love)"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "romantic relationship issue",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The relationship between two (or more) individuals who are, or may become, intimately and sexually involved with each other, is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "humans in pairs"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intimate_relationship"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "The literature abounds with this sort of themes. \"disintegrating romantic relationship\", \"romantic fidelity\", and \"lovers' quarrel\" all imply situations that involve a romantic relationship and that are often portrayed in fiction."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "romanticization of the past",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Featured is the idea that we sometimes remember periods from the past as having been more idyllic or appealing relative to the present, than was actually the case.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "remembering bygone days"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In tz1959e4x15 \"The Incredible World of Horace Ford\", the genial but childish toymaker Horace Ford became bored with the present and started dreaming of his childhood. After going back in time and reliving an episode of bullying, however, he realized that things had not been nearly as great as his recent fantasies had made them out to be. His mother also spoke of family strife during the time in question."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "roommate and roommate",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The relationship between two characters that voluntarily live together more or less in the same room without being romantically involved, is featured. Typically this happens when two young people share a flat in order to save money.",
            "notes": [
                "The theme does for example normally not apply to people who are incarcerated together, or who are so impoverished that they lack any meaningful choice."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "humans in pairs"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "Roswell UFO incident",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "In mid-1947, a United States Army Air Forces balloon crashed at a ranch near Roswell, New Mexico, and a notorious crackpot theory that it was a flying saucer ensued.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "historical event"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roswell_UFO_incident"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "rotating space habitat",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Featured is a rotating structure in outer space that is habitable on its inner surface.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "space habitat"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O%27Neill_cylinder"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "A libertarian space colony lived in a rotating space habitat, possibly an O'Neil cylinder, in \"Libra\" (1978)."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "rotational simulated gravity",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Rotation is used to induce centrifugal forces to simulate gravity. The still hypothetical rotating wheel space station, for example, uses this mechanism to generate Earth-like gravity.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "artificial gravity technology"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_gravity"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "rule by strength of arm",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a military strongman that holds political power on account of their ability to forcibly repress any opposition.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "form of government"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "ruling elite utopia",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Society is supposedly ideal thanks to a ruling elite who know what is best for everyone else.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "utopia"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_(Plato)"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "running away from home",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A young character leaves their legal guardians, perhaps parents, without permission and with the intention of never returning.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human childhood"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runaway_(dependent)"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In \"The 400 Blows\" (1959), Antoine thought he could no longer live with his unloving parents so left them with the intention of making his own way in the world."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "rural character vs. urban character",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A stereotypical character from a small town or the countryside is contrasted with a stereotypical character from a large city.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human characters in contrast"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In talesoftheunexpected9x05 \"The Facts of Life\", we saw small town boy Nicholas get a taste of the high life in London. In particular, Nicholas' father was a religious traditionalist who feared the temptations preferred by sinful city-life (thieving, gambling, fighting, drinking, and whoring) all of which Nicholas got to experience first hand."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "ruthless character vs. merciful character",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A merciful character is pointedly contrasted with a ruthless character.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human characters in contrast",
                "ruthlessness"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "ruthlessness",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character pursues their objectives without taking pity on others.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human character"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Arctus Baran used pain implants to control the crew of his mercenary vessel in tng7x04 \"The Gambit, Part I\" and tng7x05 \"The Gambit, Part II\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "ruthlessness to quicken the end of the war",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The following ethical dilemma is posed: Can extreme levels of aggression, such as the use of nuclear weapons against a comparatively weak enemy, be justified by the argument that they quicken the end of the war and therefore save lives in the long run?",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "social ethical dilemma"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "This argument is sometimes raised in discussions about America's use of nuclear bombs on Japan in the second world war."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "sacred ground",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a religious faith that for one reason or another considers a particular plot of land to be sacred.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "organized religion"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacred#Sacred_ground"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "sacred sanctuary",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Featured is a tradition that designates certain places of worship as havens into which people may take refuge from persecution of one kind or another. Typically, criminals or political dissidents are seen to take refuge from the state.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "organized religion"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanctuary"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In ahp1x22 \"Place of Shadows\", Both Rocco and Ray take sanctuary in a monastery. The abbot invokes tradition in order to prevent Ray from seeking out Rocco, and later impede the police searching for Ray."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "sacrifice for a child",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character endangers themself in order to save or otherwise benefit a child.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human self-sacrifice for another"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "sacrifice for a friend",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character does a self-sacrificial thing for the sake of a friend.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human self-sacrifice for another"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "sacrifice for a loved one",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character does a self-sacrificial thing for the sake of a person they love, i.e., a family member or a lover.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human self-sacrifice for another"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "sacrifice for an adversary",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character does a self-sacrificial thing for the sake of someone who is an opponent or even an enemy.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human self-sacrifice for another"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "sacrifice for one's beliefs",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character does a self-sacrificial thing for the sake of a cause, or idea, they believe in.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human self-sacrifice"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "sacrifice for one's people",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character does a self-sacrificial thing for the sake of the people they belong to, i.e., their tribe, country, ethnic group, etc.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human self-sacrifice for another"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "sacrifice to defeat an enemy",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone notably risks their own neck or other interests in order to defeat an adversary.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human self-sacrifice"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Captain Picard was ready to destroy the Enterprise-D, himself and the crew with it, rather than give in to Nagilum in tng2x02 \"Where Silence Has Lease\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "sacrifice to prevent mass death",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character does a self-sacrificial thing in order to save a large number of people from death.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human self-sacrifice for another"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In voy5x25 \"Warhead\" the eponymous warhead (a sentient bomb) decides to detonate to destroy a number of other bombs instead of letting them complete their missing, thereby saving countless innocent lives."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "sacrificing a friend to save one's self",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character must choose whether to accept their own demise, typically death or capture, or whether to callously sacrifice a friend to save themself.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "personal ethical dilemma"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Captain Kirk decided to maroon his old friend Gary on an uninhabited planet after Gary developed dangerous psychic abilities in tos1x01 \"Where No Man Has Gone Before\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "sacrificing a loved one to defeat an enemy",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character struggles with whether or not to sacrifice a loved one in the struggle against some vicious foe.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "personal ethical dilemma"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "sacrificing one's self to stop a contagion",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character does a self-sacrificial thing in order to contain a highly infectious disease.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "sacrifice to prevent mass death"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Spock sacrificed his eyesight in order to defeat the neural parasites in tos1x29 \"Operation -- Annihilate!\", though it turned out he had second eyelids that in fact saved him."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "sadism",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone enjoys inflicting pain or humiliation without pity.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human character"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sadism"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Gul Madred subjected Captain Picard to a host of  sadistic tortures in tng6x11 \"Chain of Command, Part II\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "sadomasochism",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "It means that people get together to either give or receive pain and humiliation.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human character"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadomasochism"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "sailing",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is notably engaged in the operation of a boat propelled partly or entirely by sails. Typically the character is either a professional sailor, or sees sailing as a hobby.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human regular activity"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sailing"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "Santa Claus",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Santa Claus (also known by many other names) is a legendary figure originating in Western Christian culture who is said to bring gifts during the late evening and overnight hours on Christmas Eve. This character features in the story.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "legendary being",
                "Christmas traditions"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Claus"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In tz1985e1x13a \"Night of the Meek\", Henry seemed to metamorphose into Santa Claus himself."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "Saturnian extraterrestrial",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A native inhabitant of either the planet Saturn or else one of its moons is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "extraterrestrial being"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_in_fiction"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In \"A Baby on Neptune\" (1929), we are told that regular radio communication with the inhabitants on one of Saturn's moons had been established by the year 2300."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "saving a friend vs. self-preservation",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character must choose between their own life and the life of a friend.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "personal ethical dilemma"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "saving innocent lives vs. compromising one's ethical principles",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character must choose whether or not to commit unsavory acts in order to save innocent people.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "personal ethical dilemma"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Riker could have saved mining colonists and a dead child with his new Q-powers in tng1x10 \"Hide and Q\" if he had broken his word to Picard."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "scams against the elderly",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The social issue of criminals and other immoral characters trying to cheat the elderly out of their hard-earned savings is discussed.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "criminal fraud"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elder_financial_abuse"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "schizophrenia",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character clearly exhibits some of the main symptoms of schizophrenia as it is popularly perceived. For example, a character may exhibit abnormal behavior due to hearing voices that do not exist.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human mental condition"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schizophrenia"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "school shooting",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The social problem, most notable in the contemporary United States, of educational institutions becoming the target of more or less indiscriminate attacks with firearms, is explored. The perpetrators may be, for example, lone troubled students, or organized terrorist groups.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "terrorism"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_shooting"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In tz2002e1x29 \"Into the Light\", a teacher, Rachel Stark, during her last days of work caught wind of the fact that Ben, a bullied and angry student, was planning to go on a killing spree and shoot up the school. She managed narrowly to avert the tragedy by tackling Ben off the roof, where he had strategically stationed himself with a rifle."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "science",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "This is a general theme pertaining to science, that is, the systematic endeavor that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "the natural world"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "science as magic to the primitive",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "It is illustrated how people of a less advanced culture may perceive the science and technology of a more advanced culture as being, for all intents and purposes, magic. It is something outside the primitives' understanding of the world.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "primitive point of view"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarke%27s_three_laws"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "science for war or peace",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The following dilemma is illustrated: Should we pursue scientific research that has promising beneficial applications (cheap energy) if it has potentially devastating military applications (nuclear weapons)?",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "social ethical dilemma"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "The pros and cons of science that creates super soldiers was discussed in tos1x24 \"Space Seed\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "scientist occupation",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A scientist is engaged in their chosen occupation.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "academic occupation"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientist"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "sculpture",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The art of shaping materials is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "the fine arts and the humanities"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sculpture"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Data sculpted a treble clef at breakneck speed in tng7x17 \"Masks\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "search for extraterrestrial intelligence",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A contemporary scientific endeavor to search for extraterrestrial intelligence, primarily by employing powerful telescopes of different kinds and analyzing the received signals.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "astronomy"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_for_extraterrestrial_intelligence",
                "http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/seti"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "searchable electronic database",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A computerized database that is readily searchable. This was avant garde technology in the 60s when people still spent inordinate amounts of time cross-referencing information manually using filing cabinets and indexing cards.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "once speculative device"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "seasickness",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Seasickness is a form of terrestrial motion sickness characterized by a feeling of nausea and, in extreme cases, vertigo experienced after spending time on a boat. This condition is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human health condition"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_sickness"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "second guessing one's self",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character questions the propriety of their own previously held beliefs or past actions.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human worrying about self"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Kevin Uxbridge second guessed himself over having wiped the Husnock race clean out of existence in tng3x03 \"The Survivors\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "secret agent occupation",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character working with espionage or the like is engaged in their chosen profession.",
            "notes": [
                "This profession is naturally a gray area between legal, illegal, and war type of themes. It is included here because there are many stories that feature romanticized ideas of secret agents as heroes."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human occupational activity"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Espionage"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "secret crush",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character has feelings of romantic attraction to someone else but is too shy to say anything.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "romantic love"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "secret government project",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The issue of the government or its agencies having large scale secret projects going on is discussed.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "political issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secrecy#Government_secrecy"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "secret society conspiracy theory",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a clandestine organization that exerts significant influence on society for good or bad. Alternatively, someone expresses the belief in the existence of such an organization.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "crackpot theory"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy_theory"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "security vs. freedom",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The typically desirable quality of safety and security in society is contraposed with the typically desirable quality of individual freedom. Should we, for example, limit freedom of the press in order not to provoke terrorism?",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "contraposed political ideologies"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "The Rutians had given up much liberty to gain but little security for the sake of fighting terrorism in tng3x12 \"The High Ground\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "see-anywhere device",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a device, perhaps a mirror, a font of water, or a good old orbuculum, that lets its user see hidden faraway places without having an apparent physical connection to the place in question.",
            "notes": [
                "This theme generally does not apply to devices that operate according to presently understood principles. I.e., it does not apply to telescopes that require a line of vision (the place is not hidden) and it does not apply to transmitted camera recordings (a physical camera is required at the remote location)."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "magic object"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_ball",
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrying"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "seeing the error of one's ways",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character comes to realize that their previous actions and attitude were in fact bad.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human self improvement"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "self-confidence",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character ponders whether they are really capable enough to do what they do, intend to do, are requested to do, etc.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human character"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-confidence"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Wesley was assigned to lead a science team in an effort to help build his self-confidence in tng2x15 \"Pen Pals\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "self-coup",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A form of putsch or coup d'état in which a nation's leader, despite having come to power through legal means, dissolves or renders powerless the national legislature and unlawfully assumes extraordinary powers not granted under normal circumstances.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "civil war"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-coup"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "self-deception",
            "aliases": [
                "wishful thinking"
            ],
            "description": "A character notably refuses to face uncomfortable truths.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human self-reflection"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-deception"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In tng3x23 \"Sarek\", the eponymous Vulcan refuses to acknowledge the obvious fact that he suffers from a rare neurological disease that makes him succumb to emotionality. Priding themselves on their rationality, this would be highly embarrassing for any Vulcan, and doubly so for Sarek who is an esteemed diplomat."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "self-destruct tactic",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Combatants decide to destroy themselves and whatever abode, vessel, etc. they are defending rather than surrender. Sometimes the goal is also to kill their opponents along with themselves.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "the art of war"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In tng1x15 \"11001001\", for the contingency that they should fail to take back control of the ship's bridge, Picard and Riker activated the ship's auto- destruct feature in order to stop the Bynars from hijacking it."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "self-driving car",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a car, or car-like vehicle, that does not require a driver in order to operate.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "self-driving vehicle"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-driving_car"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "self-driving vehicle",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a vehicle that does not require a driver in order to operate.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative vehicle"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-driving_car"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "self-fulfilling prophesy",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A prediction causes itself to become true through some usually roundabout means.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "philosophy"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-fulfilling_prophecy#Literature,_media,_and_the_arts"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "self-healing ability",
            "aliases": [
                "super regenerative powers"
            ],
            "description": "A character is able to recover from injury because their body can mend itself with preternatural rapidity.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative personal body manipulation"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://powerlisting.fandom.com/wiki/Regenerative_Healing_Factor"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "self-image",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character thinks about how they see themselves in contrast with how other people may see them.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human worrying about self"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-image"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "self-injurious behavior",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character engages in deliberately reckless behavior or outright self-harm.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human mental condition"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-harm"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "self-justification",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character struggles to convince themselves (as well as others) that their actions are just even though the motives seem self-serving and the justifications weak.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human self-reflection"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In tng1x17 \"When The Bough Breaks\", when Radue's proposed exchange was turned down, he rationalize kidnapping the Enterprise children instead. He dubiously held that the children would be better off with foster parents on Aldea than with their real human parents, and that his proposed bargain had been a fair one anyways."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "self-preservation vs. conscience",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone struggles with an ethical dilemma where on one hand they can follow their conscience and \"do the right thing\", or on the other hand they can act to safeguard their own person, position and property.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "personal ethical dilemma"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "self-replicating gray goo consuming the world",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "People create a substance that consumes all sorts of matter in order to expand itself indefinitely, thus threatening civilization as well as the physical planet it is on.",
            "notes": [
                "The famous original, well known under the moniker \"gray goo\", is goo-like and gray, but that is not strictly a requirement for this theme. It may certainly be any color."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "technological risk to civilization"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_goo",
                "http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/grey_goo"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "self-replicating machine",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a device of some sort that is able to create perfect copies of itself ad infinitum. Note: This is used for machines large enough to be seen; there is another theme for self-replicating nanodevices.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative device"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-replicating_machine"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "self-replicating nanomachines",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The potential consequences of introducing small human-made self-replicating devices is explored.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "self-replicating machine",
                "speculative nanotechnology"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-replicating_machine"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Wesley created such things in tng3x01 \"Evolution\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "selfishness",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is concerned excessively or exclusively, for themself or their own advantage, pleasure, or welfare, regardless of others.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human character"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selfishness"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "selfless character vs. selfish character",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The story contrasts and compares two characters whereof one is notably egotistic, and the other notably altruistic.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human characters in contrast"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selfishness",
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altruism"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "selfless service",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone does a self-sacrificial thing in the line of duty but above and beyond the call of duty.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human self-sacrifice"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "selling a part of one's self",
            "aliases": [
                "selling an organ"
            ],
            "description": "A character deliberates whether to sell an organ or some other body part. Typically, a character suffering from poverty considers this as a last resort to get a decent living standard.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human life choice"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In tz1985e3x22 \"The Mind of Simon Foster\", Simon sold his memories to a sleezy pawnbroker in order to pay his rent and avoid being thrown into the street."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "selling out for money",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is must choose whether or not to give up on something that is important to them for financial gain.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "personal ethical dilemma",
                "integrity"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "sending a child to military school",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The practice of some parents in some places to send their child of to stay at a military like educational institution for an extended period of time is examined. In stories, this is often done either to imbue discipline in an unruly child, or because the parents want to rid themselves of the burden of caring for the child.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human parenting"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_high_school"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Mr. Holston visited an unusually strict military school to assess whether or not it was the right place to send his son in \"Night Gallery\" story \"The Academy\" (1971)."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "sentient bomb",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is an explosive device with a built in artificial intelligence that is self-aware and able to make complex strategical decisions on pair with humans.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "artificial intelligence",
                "speculative weapon"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "sentient computer",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A computer-like machine that is self-aware an intelligent. This is used about stationary devices.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "sentient machine"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "sentient machine",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a machine, artificial by definition, imbued with intelligence to the level that it is considered sentient.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "artificial intelligence"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "sentient rights",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are made to ponder what intrinsic rights we feel should be awarded all sentient beings even if they are nothing like humans in shape or temperament.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human rights issue"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "sentient space probe",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "An artificial self-aware object designed to explore space.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "artificial intelligence"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Nomad was such an object in tos2x08 \"The Changeling\", and hellbent on cleansing the universe of imperfect beings."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "sentient spaceship",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a spaceship with a mind of its own. This theme covers anything from a spaceship installed with an advanced artificial intelligence to more exotic possibilities, including intelligent entities constructed from biological components that function as spaceships to other beings.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative spaceship",
                "sentient machine"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In \"Batteries Not Included\" (1987), a family of small living spaceships of extraterrestrial origin helped save a property development threatened apartment block from being demolished."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "serial murder",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "An individual murderer (as opposed to an organization) kills three or more people on separate occasions in service of abnormal psychological gratification, with a significant period of time taking place in between the murders.",
            "notes": [
                "There is no widely accepted and precise definition for this category of crime. Prefer to omit this theme if it is unclear whether a serial murder was part of the story. Do not use this theme if the murders are primarily motivated by, for example, good old greed (not an abnormal psychological gratification)."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "murder"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_killer"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "sex trade in society",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The somewhat taboo, though not always illegal, practice by some people to sell sexual favors to other people in return for money, is discussed.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "sociocultural issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_industry"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "sex work",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character works voluntarily and gainfully in either providing direct sexual services, i.e. prostitution, or with activities that center around indirect sexual stimulation, such as erotic dancing or producing pornography.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human occupational activity"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_work"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "sex-droid",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a \"fully functional\" android of one gender or another, capable of pleasing its masters in matters of the flesh. Whether or to what extent such behavior should be tolerated in society is topical. In practice, if the idea of sexual activity with a human-like machine is mooted in the story, this theme can almost certainly be motivated since such any such goings-on would be generally be eyebrow-raising to an audience whether past- or present-day.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "android",
                "sexual norms in society"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "sexism in society",
            "aliases": [
                "gender discrimination"
            ],
            "description": "Prejudice against someone because of their gender is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "gender issue",
                "prejudice in society"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexism"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "sexual assault",
            "aliases": [
                "rape in society"
            ],
            "description": "The crime of sexually touching another person without that person's consent, or coercing or physically forcing a person to engage in a sexual act against their will is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "sexual crime",
                "violent crime"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_assault"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "sexual crime",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character commits a crime that involves activities considered sexual in nature.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "crime"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_and_the_law"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "sexual debut",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is introduced to sex, or a particular and distinctive type of sexual activity, for the first time.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "romantic relationship"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "sexual harassment",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is bullying or coercion of a sexual nature, or the unwelcome or inappropriate promise of rewards in exchange for sexual favors.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "gender issue",
                "sexual crime",
                "harassment"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_harassment"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "sexual norms in society",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A sexual activity that has at some point been considered deviant or taboo is discussed from a societal perspective.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "gender issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_norm"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In futurama3x15 \"I Dated a Robot\" Fry dates a robot and is shown a film about why that practice will lead to the downfall of humanity, clearly a parody on various religions' injunctions on autoerotic activities."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "sexually distinguished being",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a being that is novel by virtue of how it reproduces, e.g., a being that that reproduces according to a cyclical mating cycle.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "biologically distinguished being"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "sexually transmitted disease in society",
            "aliases": [
                "STDs in society"
            ],
            "description": "The social problem of sexually transmitted diseases is discussed.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "public health issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexually_transmitted_infection"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "shadow monster",
            "aliases": [
                "shadow person"
            ],
            "description": "There is a monster, possibly human-like, perceivable mostly as patches of shadow.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "monster"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_person"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "shamanism",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The ritualistic practice among tribal people of crediting supposed magicians with powers of healing, divination, and protection against bad magic conjured by others.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "organized religion"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamanism"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Captain Kirk was made a genuine space shaman after he lost his memories on the planet Amerind in tos3x03 \"The Paradise Syndrome\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "shame",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character feels bad because of past actions of theirs that they have come to think were wrong, or because they have an unbecoming outwards appearance.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human emotion"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shame"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "shape distinguished being",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a being that is novel by virtue of its shape. For example, blob-like creatures and beings resembling disembodied brains.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative being"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "shapeshifter",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a corporeal being that can radically change its shape to such an extent that it seems to become something entirely different.",
            "notes": [
                "This theme applies only if the ability is, more or less, intrinsic to the being's species. I.e., it does not apply if technology is used. Nor does it typically apply to \"transcendental beings\" (beings who are so advanced that their capabilities seem like magic to us), or incorporeal beings, unless an innate shapeshifting ability is explicitly explained as such."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "shape distinguished being"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shapeshifting",
                "http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/shapeshifters"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "shapeshifting",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is able to transform their body into a notably different shape.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative personal body manipulation"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Garth of Izar could change shape because he had learned the technique of cellular metamorphoses from the natives of Antos IV in tos3x16 \"Whom Gods Destroy\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "short and sweet life vs. long and miserable life",
            "aliases": [
                "live fast and die young"
            ],
            "description": "A character chooses or rejects living by the age old doctrine of \"live fast and die young\".",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human life choice"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "shotgun wedding",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The parents of a girl attempt to force a boy to marry the girl after the said girl has been compromised by, oh dear, sexual intercourse with the boy.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "romantic relationship"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shotgun_wedding"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Debin of the planet Altec compelled Benzan of the planet Straleb to marry his daughter Yanar in tng2x04 \"The Outrageous Okona\", when it became apparent that the Stralebian had impregnated Yanar."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "shrew character",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is an unpleasant, ill-tempered woman characterized by scolding, nagging, and aggression to a notable degree.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "female stereotype"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrew_(stock_character)"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In \"The Taming of the Shrew\" (1592), we see a young woman Katherina who complains, scolds, and bickers to such an extent that no man can stomach the thought of courting her. She is finally \"tamed\" by an equally ill-tempered man who marries her merely for her dowry, and proceeds to train her by rather harsh methods."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "sibling and sibling",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The relationship between two children of more or less the same parents is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human familial relationship"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sibling"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "sibling rivalry",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is conflict between brothers and sisters.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human childhood",
                "sibling and sibling"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sibling_rivalry"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "signs from the heavens",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Some seemingly miraculous event is taken as having divine origin and carry implications about what ought or oughtn't be done.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "organized religion"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signs_and_Wonders"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In ahp1x03 \"Triggers in Leash\", two cowboys agree to start their duel on the stroke of twelve o'clock. When the designated timepiece stops a few minutes short of the fatal hour, it is seen as a sign from God that they ought to call the duel off and reconcile."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "silicon-based being",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A being whose body chemistry is based on silicon just like conventional biology is based on carbon.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "inorganic being"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypothetical_types_of_biochemistry#Silicon_biochemistry"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "The mother Horta of tos1x26 \"The Devil in the Dark\" was just such a life form."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "sin",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The religious idea of transgression against divine law is explored.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "organized religion"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sin"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In nightgallery2x21a \"The Sins of the Fathers\", Ian consumed a meal in front of his late father's corpse in order to take on his sins and save him from damnation."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "single fatherhood",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A man raises a child alone because the mother has passed away or is absent for some other reason.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human parenting"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_parent"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Worf having to raise Alexander as a single father was featured in tng5x10 \"New Ground\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "single motherhood",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A mother raises a child alone because the father has passed away, is unknown, or is absent for some other reason.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human parenting"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_parent"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Beverly raising Wesley as a single mother was featured in tng1x03 \"The Naked Now\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "single-gender society",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a nation of people who, more or less, are all the same gender.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "biased sex-ratio society"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-gender_world"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "sister and sister",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The relationship between two sisters is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human familial relationship"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "size distinguished being",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a being that is novel by virtue of its size, i.e., it is either very small or very large.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative being"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "skipping school",
            "aliases": [
                "playing hooky skipping class"
            ],
            "description": "A young character plays truant from compulsory education.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human childhood"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truancy"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In \"The 400 Blows\" (1959), Antoine got into much trouble with his teacher and parents after he played truant together with a friend and then forged a note from his mother."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "slavery",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The practice of the owning, or the buying and selling, of human beings as a legally sanctioned institution in society, is discussed.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "socioeconomic issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "slaves to technology",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "People start relying on technology for everything and loose their ability to cope creatively with novel problems that may arise in the future. When something does, everybody dies.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "technological risk to civilization"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "The Aldeans of tng1x17 \"When The Bough Breaks\" had remarkable technology, including a planetary invisibility cloak, but it was all controlled by a central computer which they no longer understood, so they became helpless when the computer broke down."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "sleep deprivation",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character exhibits the symptoms that come from not having been able to sleep adequately.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human mental condition"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_deprivation"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Alien influences prevented the crew from being able to dream which made them angry and violent in tng4x17 \"Night Terrors\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "sloppy character vs. tidy character",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "An untidy an perhaps uncleanly character is deliberately contrasted with a tidy and neat character.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human characters in contrast"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "slug-like being",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A being patterned after land slugs and such gastropods.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "animal and plant patterned being"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "A full-grown Lactran resembled a 30 meter long slug in tas1x15 \"The Eye of the Beholder\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "smart ammunition",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Ammunition for a firearm has some built-in capability to assess the situation mid-flight and adjust itself according to the situations it finds.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative weapon"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_bullet"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Neal Stephenson in \"Sevenevens\" (2015) describe small arms munition that could, for example, detect if it were to impact a wall in which case it would reconfigure itself to shatter and inflict minimal damage (useful in spaceships)."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "smuggling",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The crime of the illegal transportation of such things as objects substances, information or people is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "crime against property"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smuggling"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In sherlock1x02 \"The Blind Banker\", Sherlock Holmes and Watson connected a pair of enigmatic murders to a Chinese smuggling ring."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "sneak attack tactic",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Combatants take advantage of concealment and the element of surprise to attack an unsuspecting enemy.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "the art of war"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambush"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "snobbishness",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character behaves, offensively, as if they are superior to someone else in a specific matter of knowledge or taste. For example, a wine snob looks down their nose at someone who is ignorant in matters of \"the grape\".",
            "notes": [
                "Like other character themes, this theme should be applied only if the behavior is explicitly discussed or made pantomimically obvious."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "attitude of superiority"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snob"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "soap opera",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The art of creating episodic works of fiction presented in serial format on television, radio and in novels, featuring the lives of many characters and focusing on emotional relationships to the point of melodrama, is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "the fine arts and the humanities"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soap_opera"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "soccer",
            "aliases": [
                "football"
            ],
            "description": "Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played with a spherical ball between two teams of 11 players. This game is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "sports"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_football"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "social activism",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone works to change society in a grassroots movement kind of way, i.e., through consciousness-raising and example, not with guns and diplomacy.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "political issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Activism"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "social awkwardness",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A socially awkward character has trouble interacting and communicating effectively with other people.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human character"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_skills"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "social change due to new technology",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Featured is a period of social and economic change that transforms a human group from an\n\nagrarian society into an industrial society, involving the extensive re- organisation of an economy for the purpose of manufacturing.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "sociotechnological issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrialisation"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "social dysfunction",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Featured is a broad institutional social ill that in itself is reasonably distinct, unambiguous, and uncontroversially identified.",
            "notes": [
                "Corruption, poverty, and failing order are examples of things that most people will agree are \"social ills\", though proposed solutions may be controversial. Capitalism and Socialism, however, are notable examples of things that do not fall in the same category. Such political controversies are categorized elsewhere."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "national social issue"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "social ethical dilemma",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A tough trade-off between different ethical considerations in the shaping of government policy and norms of conduct is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "social ethical issue"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "social ethical issue",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are asked to contemplate what is \"right\" and what is \"wrong\" with respect to social policy. The social policies may be such that are in use in practice or such that have been proposed and could potentially be implemented.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "society"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethics"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "social inequality",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The ramifications of social inequality in society are explored.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "socioeconomic issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_inequality",
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_privilege"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "social media addiction",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone compulsively spends an inordinate amount of time interacting with things like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and other social media networks.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human addiction"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media_addiction"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "social media dystopia",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a society in which life is depressing, to our eyes, because of the pervasive presence of some form of social media.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "dystopia"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In blackmirror3x01 \"Nosedive\", everyone were obsessed with rating each other on social media, and receiving good ratings. Having a good rating was crucial in order to have a job, somewhere to live etc. This lead most people to act to each other in a way that seems entirely false, and to become stressed or suicidal because of a slip in their rating."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "social media in society",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Social media are interactive computer-mediated technologies that facilitate the creation and sharing of information, ideas, career interests and other forms of expression via virtual communities and networks. The various ways in which these affect society is discussed.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "information technology in society"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "social oppression",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Social oppression is when a single group in society takes advantage of, and exercises power over, another group using dominance and subordination. This theme is used whenever such a situation is featured in the story.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "political issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oppression"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "social responsibility",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character displays a notable sense of responsibility towards society at large. Typically, this theme applies when someone goes out of their way to do a selfless thing that benefits everyone, for example cleaning up garbage on the street.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human character"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_responsibility"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "social stagnation",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A society ceases to advance in art, science, forms of government, and other characteristics of advancing civilization.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "socioeconomic issue"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "socialism",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Featured is a one of a range of economic and social systems characterized by social ownership of the means of production and workers' self-management.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "political ideology"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "A well-known archaeologist uncovered incontrovertible evidence that Ancient Martian civilization was organized on social democratic principles in \"The Retreat to Mars\" (1926)."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "society",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "This is the most general theme about social groupings of people sufficiently large that not everyone personally knows everyone else. For example, the theme may discuss world society as a whole, intra- or inter-societal issues, forms of government, or past and present hot button social issues.",
            "notes": [
                "This theme does not apply to small-scale human social interactions, e.g., everyday face-to-face interactions, family life, workplace dynamics, etc."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "the human world"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society",
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macrosociology"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "society consisting of only children",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We imagine what the world would be like if there were only children around.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative society"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Captain Kirk and his team found a planet on which all the adults had died from a mysterious disease while the children stayed children for hundreds of years in tos1x11 \"Miri\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "society in which victims sentence their own assailants",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are brought to imagine a legal system wherein the perpetrator of a crime has his punishment decided by the victims of said crime (or the next of kin in case of murder).",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative social institution"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "society living in space",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a society of people that live, more or less exclusively, away from any planet and normal gravity over many generations.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative society"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "society regulating central computer crash",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "People come to rely on a single central computer, but it crashes and everyone dies. That's a real \"blue screen of death\".",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "technological risk to civilization"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "The Bynar's central computer was knocked out by an electromagnetic pulse in tng1x15 \"11001001\" and they nearly perished."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "society with a maximum age limit",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We imagine a society in which people may not live beyond a certain age. They may for example be killed or exiled once they reach a specific age.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative social institution"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "society with an institutionalized social stratification",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Social stratification refers to a society's categorization of its people into groups based on socioeconomic factors like wealth, income, race, education, ethnicity, gender, occupation, social status, or derived power (social and political). Featured is a society that is more or less formally organized around one or more such principles.",
            "notes": [
                "The following are necessary requirements for the theme to apply: There must be a clearly identifiable grouping of the people in the society into (at least) two groups. There must be laws or other relatively strong institutions that perpetuate that grouping. Said grouping must have significance for the way the society is governed."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "form of government"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_stratification"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "sociocultural issue",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Explored are the social behaviors and norms that may be widespread in a human population. Many specializations of this theme mark a past or present moral controversy of some sort.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "national social issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "\"eugenics\" and \"flappers in society\" are examples of two moral controversy themes that have been largely resolved. \"euthanasia\" and \"creationism\" are two around which there is frequent debate today."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "socioeconomic issue",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Explored is the way that society behaves with regard to economic activity. Economic activity means the use of labor, capital, and land, for the production of goods and services. In particular, this theme pertains to how corporations fit and function within society, and the creation of markets. Additionally, this theme relates to how capital (wealth and money) is distributed.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "national social issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socioeconomics"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "\"monopolies in society\", \"slavery\", and \"advertising in society\" are themes that all relate to economic activity and the distribution of wealth."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "sociolinguistics",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A thematic entity about the descriptive study of the effect of any and all aspects of society, including cultural norms, expectations, and context, on the way language is used, and society's effect on language.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "science"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sociolinguistics"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "sociotechnological issue",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Explored is how society handles innovation and the impact of new technologies.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "national social issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sociotechnology"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "\"workers replaced by machines\" is perhaps the most typical \"sociotechnological issue\" as some members of society may be concerned about loosing their jobs when a new technology emerges. Similarly, \"playing God with nature\" discusses whether and to what extent we should let ourselves interfere with nature, for example by the use of gene modification, breeding programs, forestry, or any other interference with the biosphere."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "solar eclipse",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The science of the type of eclipse that occurs when the Moon passes between the Sun and Earth, and when the Moon fully or partially blocks the Sun is discussed.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "astronomy"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "solar power",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The harnessing of sunlight as a power source for technology is explored.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "technology"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Dr. Frankenstein harnessed the power of solar energy to reanimate a corpse in \"Frankenstein: The True Story\" (1973)."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "solar sail spaceship",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Massive sail-like sheets that can be folded an unfolded are used to harness energy from the sun. The energy can be used directly as propulsion or indirectly by being stored as electricity.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative spaceship"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_sail"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "The colony ship in \"Alien: Covenant\" (2017) unfurled solar sails to gather power."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "solipsism syndrome",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a person who thinks that all of reality is merely a construction in their own mind.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human mental condition"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solipsism_syndrome"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In tz1985e1x23a \"Shadow Play\", Adam was thought to suffer from this condition when he stated that everyone else was merely an actor in his recurring dream. Alas, it transpired that Adam was quite correct."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "solitary confinement as a punishment",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone is imprisoned in isolation from other people as a punishment. Note that while solitary confinement may sometimes be used out of necessity to protect people, its use merely as a punishment is controversial and may constitute torture due to its adverse psychological effects.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "legal punishment"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solitary_confinement"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "sonar sensory ability",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is able to sense the shape of the world around them by way of sonar, i.e., by somehow making use of information contained in sound waves around them. The character may or may not emit sound waves themselves for this purpose.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative ability"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonar"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "The blind telepath Miranda Jones wore a sonar-based sensor web dress that helped her to compensate for her disability in tos3x07 \"Is There in Truth No Beauty?\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "sonic shower",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A shower-like device that uses sound vibrations instead of water to dislodge the grit from your body.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "pod or booth-like device"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "sororal love",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The love of sister for sister is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "familial love"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Aquiel and her sister Shianna Uhnari where very close indeed in tng6x13 \"Aquiel\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "sound masking device",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A system that can selectively filter out some sounds in a recording. This was pure sci-fi in the 60s but nowadays you can purchase a pair of noise canceling headphones at your local electronics store.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "once speculative device"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_masking"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "The Enterprise computer was employed to mask out the sound of heartbeats of all known personal aboard in tos1x14 \"Court Martial\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "space colonization",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A sentient race spreads its civilization to other worlds.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative society"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_colonization",
                "http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/colonization_of_other_worlds"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "The Enterprise found an Earth colony flourishing on Omicron Ceti III in tos1x25 \"This Side of Paradise\" in spite of lethal levels of berthold radiation on their planet."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "space dock",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a type of space station that is able to repair or build spacecraft similar to maritime shipyards on Earth.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "space station"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_dock"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "The Starship USS Enterprise was refitted in an orbital dry dock in \"Star Trek: The Motion Picture\" (1979)."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "space elevator",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A proposed type of planet-to-space transportation system using a cable anchored to the a planetary surface that extends into space",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "engineered trans-orbital structure"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_elevator",
                "http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/space_elevator"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "space exploration",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone faces the dangers inherent to exploring unfamiliar regions of space.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "charting unknown territory"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "space folding travel technology",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A spaceship, or the technology that enables a spaceship, to travel possibly vast distances by folding space is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "spacetime manipulating technology"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "space gun",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Featured is a method of launching an object into space using a large gun- or cannon-like structure.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative device"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_gun"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "space habitat",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A large-scale, self-sustaining, permanent settlement in outer space, is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative place"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_habitat"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "space mirror",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is an large artificial device in space that reflects some parts of the electromagnetic spectrum, most typically visible light from the Sun.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "engineered space structure"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_mirror_(climate_engineering)"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In futurama4x08 \"Crimes of the Hot\", Professor Wernstrom (Wernstrom!) constructed an enormous mirror outside Earth to reflect sunlight and thus to cool the planet."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "space portal",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a portal-like device that enables rapid travel between two distant locations.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "teleportation device",
                "space travel"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stargate_(device)"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "space station",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a structure in space capable of supporting crewmembers, which is designed to remain in space for an extended period of time, and often for spacecraft to dock.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "engineered space structure"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_station"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "space telescope",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A powerful telescope in space, far away from atmospheric interference and other obstacles found on or around a planet.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "engineered space structure"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_telescope"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "The Enterprise-D was dispatched to the far-flung reaches of the galaxy to repair the Argus Array, a subspace telescope, in tng4x19 \"The Nth Degree\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "space tourism",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is an industry around taking people on a ride in space for the entertainment purpose simply of seeing parts of the universe from this extra- planetary vantage point.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative society"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In pkded1x02 \"Impossible Planet\", two space tourism guides fly a group of passengers around to see the wonders of outer space. One gathers that these wonders were somewhat lacking in appeal as the guides secretly used visual overlays to spice things up for their customers."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "space travel",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a means, typically a technology but sometimes a form of magic, that enables a character to travel across outer space.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative travel"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_exploration",
                "http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/space_travel"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "space-based solar power",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Technology is used in outer space to collect solar energy.",
            "notes": [
                "The upshot of doing it in space is, typically, that there is less interference from the atmosphere and longer exposure times to the sun."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "solar power"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space-based_solar_power"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In the short film \"Libra\" (1978), the overly regulated and mismanaged Earth society is unable to generate enough energy to meet its own needs, so suffers from rolling blackouts."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "spaceborne being",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A being that lives mostly in outer space is featured. They are sometimes enormous in size what with not being slaves to gravity and all.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "extraterrestrial being"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "spacefaring plants",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Plants that have evolved to spread themselves to other planets, e.g., by shooting clouds of spores into space.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "spaceborne being"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "The pod plants of Omicron Ceti III had arrived after traversing space as a cloud of spores in tos1x25 \"This Side of Paradise\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "spacetime manipulating technology",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Technology is used to somehow manipulate space and/or time, such as a space folding engine used for space travel or a time machine.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative technology"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "special interest group issue",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Examined it the situation of one sub-group of people or another, often called a \"minority group\", in society.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "national social issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minority_group",
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Interest_Group#Political_Interest_Groups"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "\"child's point of view\", \"orphans in society\", \"the role of the disabled in society\", \"the role of the elderly in society\", and \"the role of war veterans in society\" are \"special interest group issue\" themes that examine the situation in society for children, orphans, the disabled, the elderly, and war veterans, respectively."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "species transmutation",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The practice of altering one species to become another using scientific means.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human enhancement technology"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "species uplifting",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone intervenes in the evolution of a lower lifeform (typically an animal species) to bring it to a higher level of intelligence.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "species transmutation"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uplift_(science_fiction)"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "The mad scientist Dr. Moreau creates human-like hybrid beings from animals via vivisection in H. G. Wells' classic science fiction novel \"The Island of Doctor Moreau\" (1896)."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "speculation that the Devil is not so bad after all",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We imagine what the world would be like if the much despised Devil of Christian mythology was real yet not, in fact, evil but merely misunderstood.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "crackpot theory"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "The Devil was revealed to be  a well-intending but misunderstood alien in tas1x08 \"The Magicks of Megas-Tu\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "speculative ability",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a character who has an ability of the kind that humans today may dream of, but can't normally have. Notably, this includes various \"super powers\" that have been described in fiction.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "alternate reality"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "speculative ability related to another being",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character has a speculative ability which primarily relates to another living being, when exercised. Notably, telepathy falls under this theme.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative ability"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "speculative ability related to own body",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character has a speculative ability which primarily affects only their own body. The theme pertains to many classical super powers, such as super strength and the ability to fly.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative ability"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "speculative ability related to own mind",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character has a speculative ability which primarily affects only their own mind.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative ability"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "speculative ability related to physical things",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character has a speculative ability which primarily relates to specific non- living physical things, when exercised. Notably, telekinesis is covered by this theme.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative ability"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "speculative ability related to reality at large",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character has a speculative ability which affects reality broadly. The theme is used when a character can change the timeline, or when their powers seem to be without qualitative limits, akin to godlike.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative ability"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "speculative airliner",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A passenger airplane with capabilities above and beyond what can be expected of contemporary airliners is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative vehicle"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airliner"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "The film \"Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land\" (1983) followed the maiden voyage of Starflight: a hypersonic passenger plane that was anticipated to fly from Los Angeles to Sydney in two hours."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "speculative airship",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a still speculative lighter-than-air vessel that can navigate through the air under its own power.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative vehicle"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airship",
                "http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/airships"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "The film \"Thunderbird 6\" (1968) is largely set aboard Skyship One - a futuristic flying vessel that relies on anti-gravity technology to stay aloft."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "speculative artificial island",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "An island that has been constructed by people rather than formed by natural means.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "sub-planetary-scale engineering",
                "speculative place"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_island"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "speculative being",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a novel creature, or living entity, not found in the real world as it is presently understood.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "alternate reality"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Fantasy_creatures",
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Legendary_creatures_in_popular_culture",
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legendary_creature"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "speculative biotechnology",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is an as-yet fictional technology that achieves the application of organisms, cells, parts thereof and molecular analogues for human purposes.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative technology"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_engineering"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "speculative city",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a futuristic city requiring a degree of engineering ability beyond our present capabilities, such as an arcology or a floating city.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative place"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "The film \"Demolition Man\" (1993) is set 2032 San Angeles: a vast megalopolis formed from the merger of Los Angeles, San Diego, and Santa Barbara."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "speculative communication",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is able to communicate intelligently with living things that humans in reality can't communicate with.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative ability related to another being"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "speculative cosmos",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A universe that is fundamentally different in some novel, non-supernatural respect to the one we inhabit, is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative place"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "speculative device",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a futuristic device, machine, or gizmo of some sort or another.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative technology"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "speculative diving suit",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A garment or wearable contraption designed to protect a diver from an underwater environment is featured in a manner that makes clear it is a future technological achievement.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative environmental suit"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diving_suit"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "speculative effect",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a novel physical phenomenon that is not found in the real world as it is presently understood. The phenomenon may be mediated by magic, technology, or any other means.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "alternate reality"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "speculative energy generation technology",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The harnessing of a possible future source of energy is explored.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative technology"
            ],
            "references": [
                "http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/power_sources"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "speculative environmental suit",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A garment or wearable contraption designed to keep someone alive in an environment hostile to life is featured in a manner that makes clear it is a future technological achievement.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative full body outfit"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_suit"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "speculative evolution",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Featured is an idea of evolution that is not (yet) in evidence by history. This may for example be when an alternative evolutionary history is stipulated, or when the evolutionary history of fictional beings is explained.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative effect"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "speculative experience",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character finds themself in such an unusual circumstance as no one would expect to face in their lifetime.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "alternate reality"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "speculative full body outfit",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A garment (or wearable contraption) covering more or less the whole body that dramatically enhances an ability of its wearer is featured in a manner that makes clear it is a future technological achievement.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative wearable device"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Sidney Stratton makes a brilliantly white business suit from an everlasting fabric made of a special polymer that repelled dirt using static electricity in \"The Man in the White Suit\" (1951)."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "speculative future event",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A hypothetical future event of major significance to society is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative society"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "speculative genetic engineering",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "An organism genes are manipulated in a way or to an extent that is presently beyond what humans can do.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative biotechnology"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_engineering",
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetics_in_fiction#Genetic_engineering",
                "http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/genetic_engineering"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "speculative genetically modified crops",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A crop that has been genetically engineered to yield much more usable food than its original. This was sci-fi in the 60s. A gene modified plant (antibiotic-resistant tobacco) was first developed in 1982.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative genetic engineering"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Quadrotriticale was a high-yield genetically modified grain, and the only Earth grain that could grow on Sherman's Planet, in tos2x13 \"The Trouble with Tribbles\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "speculative geoengineering",
            "aliases": [
                "climate engineering"
            ],
            "description": "The scientific study of large scale methods by which the general conditions on a planet can be willfully modified. This may involve the shaping of land masses and oceans, or modification of the climate.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "planetary-scale engineering"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_engineering"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "speculative glasses",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There are futuristic glasses of some sort, like a glasses that allow you to see electromagnetic radiation beyond the visible spectrum.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative wearable device"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "speculative habitable celestial body",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a large body in space (e.g. an asteroid, a planet, and perhaps even a star) that is amenable to human life.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative place"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "speculative handheld device",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a futuristic device, like a \"sonic razor\", designed to be held in the hand.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative device"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "speculative healing device",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a device that heals wounds and injuries with extraordinary quickness.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative device"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In ent2x04 \"Dead Stop\", Phlox used a medical regenerator of some sort to repair a severe leg injury Malcolm had sustained while trying to disarm a mine. The outcome was complete recovery without even a scar, and Malcolm walked away feeling no pain."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "speculative human",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a speculative being that is biologically human, yet has some characteristic that is not ordinarily seen in the species.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative being"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "speculative hypnosis",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Featured is a notion of hypnosis that goes well beyond what can be done in reality. In particular, this theme is used when a character is shown to \"hypnotize\" another character in order to make them carry out commands, or to implant \"triggers\" in their mind. The theme may also be used when the hypnosis has an immediate and notable effect, such as to bring back true memories.",
            "notes": [
                "Real hypnosis can be used in hypnotherapy and may have some effect in altering problematic habits for a willing subject. Typically, multiple sessions are required in order to produce limited effects, and not all subjects are receptive to it."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "crackpot theory"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnosis",
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stage_hypnosis"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In voy4x17 \"Retrospect\", hypnosis used to bring out buried or suppressed old memories."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "speculative interstellar probe",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "An unmanned spacecraft that has been dispatch outside the solar system.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative spaceship"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstellar_probe"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "speculative love inducing effect",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is an effect that functions to create feeling of love in one person for another.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative effect"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "speculative luck inducing effect",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is an effect that causes good fortune to be showed on someone much more than would be expected by chance.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative effect"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "speculative madness inducing effect",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a hypothetical mechanism that induces madness in the mind, in a way that is as yet unknown to occur naturally or by artifice.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative mind altering effect"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "speculative matter manipulating effect",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is an effect, perhaps magical or technology mediated, that turns one form of matter into a wholly different form of matter.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative effect"
            ],
            "references": [
                "http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/transmutation"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "speculative mind altering effect",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a hypothetical effect on the mind that is as yet unknown to occur naturally or by artifice.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative effect"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "speculative nanotechnology",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A technology that concerns the control of matter on the atomic and molecular scale that goes beyond our current capabilities.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative technology"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanotechnology",
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanotechnology_in_fiction",
                "http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/nanotechnology"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Wesley Crusher made nano-machines work together and evolve in tng3x01 \"Evolution\" and things got a bit out of hand."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "speculative personal body manipulation",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is able to transform or otherwise manipulate their own body in ways that no ordinary person today ever could.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative ability related to own body"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "speculative personal locomotion",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is able to move in a way that no ordinary person today ever could. They may, for example, be able to fly using their own body alone, or teleport themselves using their mind.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative ability related to own body"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "speculative personal resilience",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character's body is able to endure some types of physical influences well beyond what is possible for any person in the real world today. A character may for example be impervious to bullets, or able to walk through fire.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative ability related to own body"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "speculative place",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a domain that falls outside the present scope of places that human beings have gleaned or set foot in. These hypothetical domains range from futuristic cities, to space habitats, to habitable exoplanets, to fabled lands, to magical kingdoms in the clouds.",
            "notes": [
                "From a theming point of view these places tend only to be interesting, and by extension used as themes, if they are amenable to human habitation or at the very least are hypothetically visitable."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "alternate reality"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "speculative prediction of the future",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is an effect that gives someone the means to predict the future with near perfect accuracy.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative effect"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "speculative punishment",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "People convicted of crimes are punished within the confines of some legal framework in a novel, perhaps fantastical way that has likely never been used in the course of human history.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "alternate reality"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "speculative remote living body manipulation",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is able to influence the body of another living being, in ways that real people can't ever do.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative ability related to another being"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "speculative rise of civilization",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A society's development from pre-historical through various stages of civilization, cultural and scientific development through to some kind of modernity is featured more or less in the whole.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative society"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "speculative robot",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a mobile machine equipped with an advanced artificial intelligence. For example, an android or a robotic dog that looks and behaves much like the real article.",
            "notes": [
                "For this theme to apply, the machinery itself or the artificial intelligence must be well beyond what is possible when the story was first released. The theme does not apply to creature-like machines that lack relatively advanced AI. For example, the theme does not apply to animal-shaped vehicles like the iconic AT-AT walker from Star Wars or the mechas from Japanese anime, even though these things are sometimes referred to as robots. The \"piloted creature-shaped vehicle\" theme is used to cover such contraptions."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "artificial intelligence"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robots_in_literature"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "speculative robotics",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a non-sentient, task-performing machine that is currently beyond our ability to engineer.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative technology"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robotics"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "speculative smart house",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a human abode of some sort that, without being intelligent or sentient in the traditional sense, performs complex tasks that would be on par with or beyond the cognitive ability of an ordinary human. For example, many everyday tasks in the house may be automated to a very high degree.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative smart object"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_automation"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "speculative smart object",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a man-made object of some sort that, without being intelligent or sentient in the traditional sense, performs complex tasks that would be on par with or beyond the cognitive ability of an ordinary human.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative technology",
                "artificial intelligence"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "speculative smart tool",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a tool of some sort that, without being intelligent or sentient in the traditional sense, performs complex tasks that would be on par with or beyond the cognitive ability of an ordinary human.",
            "notes": [
                "This is generally not used when full fledged, sentient, AI is involved."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative smart object",
                "speculative device"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In nightgallery1x02b \"The Little Black Bag\", former MD William Fall comes across a medical kit from the distant future. In this kit there is a device that diagnoses ailments and suggests remedies, as well as a smart scalpel that cuts only to the precise depth that is required of it and that can steer its wielders hand to some extent."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "speculative social institution",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The story features a notable social institution of some sort that, for all intents and purposes, has not hitherto been extant in any human society. It may, for example, be premised on some technology or fantastical idea that humanity has not (yet) achieved.",
            "notes": [
                "A \"social institution\" in its broadest meaning is the activities of a large number of people that have banded together for some specific purpose. Typically it means that there is some recognized practice of doing something within a society. This may be related to education, business, governance, diplomacy, so on and so forth."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative society"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "speculative society",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a society that is different from what we normally experience in some novel respect.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "alternate reality"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "speculative spaceship",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A vehicle or machine designed to fly in outer space is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative vehicle"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacecraft",
                "http://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/spaceships"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "speculative spacesuit",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A garment or wearable contraption designed to keep someone alive in the harsh environment of outer space is featured in a manner that makes clear it is a future technological achievement.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative environmental suit"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_suit"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "speculative subliminal stimuli",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a fanciful notion of what may be achieved using communication where at least part of the intended message passes beneath the recipient's threshold for conscious perception. Typically, a character is manipulated by the clever insertion of imperceptible cues in the audio or video they see.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "crackpot theory"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subliminal_stimuli"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In \"Max Headroom: 20 Minutes into the Future\" (1985), the Network 23 television network used a new form of subliminal advertising, called blibverts, to prevent their viewers from channel surfing."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "speculative submarine",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A watercraft capable of independent operation underwater is featured in a manner that makes it clear it is a future technological achievement.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative vehicle"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submarine",
                "http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/submarines"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "speculative technology",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Featured is a novel technology falling somewhere on the spectrum from being a realistic elaboration on a currently existing technology (for example, human cloning), to a scientifically plausible portrayal of a technology far beyond our current capabilities (for example, self-replicating nanomachines), to a technology that is unsupported by science as we know it (for example, time machine).",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "alternate reality"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_in_science_fiction",
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Fictional_technology"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "\"speculative technology\" themes come in great numbers in science fiction, and also great variety. It is convenient to further sub-categorize them according to function, for example \"artificial intelligence\", \"speculative biotechnology\", \"mind altering technology\", and \"speculative weapon\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "speculative terraforming",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The scientific study of methods by which another planet can be made more Earth-like.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative geoengineering"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terraforming",
                "http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/terraforming"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "speculative time manipulating effect",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is an effect that makes \"time\" itself behave in ways we are not accustom to. For example it may enable the past be rewritten or the future to be changed, or time may seem pass at widely different rates at different places.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative effect"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "speculative torture device",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A fantastical device that is used to inflict pain on someone without causing them physical injury.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative device"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "speculative travel",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Novel means of traveling around in space and time are explored. For example, the theme may pertain to ocean voyages, space flights, and journeys into the past.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "alternate reality"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travel",
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_travel_in_fiction"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "speculative vehicle",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a futuristic vehicle, like a flying car.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative device"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "speculative virtual reality",
            "aliases": [
                "simulated reality"
            ],
            "description": "There is technology that places people within simulated and immersive environments that can be similar to or completely different from the real world. It must exceed in capabilities the virtual reality technology of today. In extreme cases the technology makes it practically impossible to distinguish the simulated world from reality.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative technology"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_reality",
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_reality_in_fiction",
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulated_reality"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "speculative virtual reality headset",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a virtual reality headset (or goggles, or glasses, or some such head attachable device) the capabilities of which go beyond those of contemporary virtual reality devices of comparable design.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative virtual reality"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_reality"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Chewbacca's father Itchy uses a virtual reality headset to watch a quasi- adult, fantasy program in \"Star Wars Holiday Special\" (1978)."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "speculative weapon",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a futuristic weapon, such as a death ray or sentient bomb.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative technology"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weapons_in_science_fiction",
                "http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/weapons"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "speculative wearable device",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a futuristic device, like a \"jet pack\", designed to be worn on the body.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative device"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "speculatively magnified ordinary personal ability",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character has an ability that is, by and large, just an ordinary person's ability but scaled up to an impossible extent.",
            "notes": [
                "This theme is generally not used for machines or artificial beings. It may be used when those machines are compared and contrasted with humans, as is sometimes the case with androids in stories."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative personal body manipulation"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "speech disorder",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character experiences life with a speech impediment.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "coping with a disability"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_disorder"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "speed of light limitation",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "According to special relativity, the speed of light (c=299,792,458 meters per second) is the maximum speed at which all matter and information in the universe can travel.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "theory of relativity"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "spendthrift",
            "aliases": [
                "profligacy"
            ],
            "description": "There is a character who chronically and frivolously spends more money than they really can afford to spend.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human character"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spendthrift"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "spirit possession",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "An entity such as an anima, demon, god, or other spirit takes control of a person's body.",
            "notes": [
                "The concept of spirit possession exists in many religions, including Christianity, Buddhism, Haitian Vodou, Wicca, Hinduism, Islam and Southeast Asian and African traditions."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "folk belief"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirit_possession"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "spiritual strive towards higher ideal",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character pursues a higher ideal like those of the world religions, for example the Christian salvation or the Buddhist Nirvana.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human self improvement"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "spontaneous generation",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The discredited theory according to which different types of life repeatedly emerge from inanimate matter, like fleas emerging from dust, or maggots from carrion.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "superseded scientific theory"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spontaneous_generation"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Beverly discovered that a virus, which had infected a large proportion of the Enterprise-D crew, spontaneously generated from a certain chemical when brought into contact with the lungs in tng1x14 \"Angel One\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "spontaneous human combustion",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A living (or recently deceased) human body erupts into flames without an apparent external source of ignition.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "crackpot theory"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spontaneous_human_combustion"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "People who David felt hostility toward had a funny habit of spontaneous combusting in the namesake film \"Spontaneous Combustion\" (1990)."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "spontaneous planetary break up",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A planet suddenly breaks apart and becomes rubble for no particular reason.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "force of nature existential risk to civilization"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Planets in the Selcundi Drema sector were spontaneously breaking up as a result of natural geologic cataclysms in tng2x15 \"Pen Pals\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "sporting to promote peace",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The idea that international sporting events (Olympic Games, FIFA World Cup, etc.) can be valuable in promoting peace between nations is featured. The \"Olympic Truce\" is an ancient Greek example.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "international issue"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "sports",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A competitive physical activity or game of the kind to which we have given specific names and call \"sports\", is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human regular activity"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sport"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Goldine's adoptive father injected her with growth hormones from childhood and carefully managed her life to ensure she would win three races at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow in \"Goldengirl\" (1979)."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "sportsmanship",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Something is said about what does or does not constitute good manners in some sport or another.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "manners"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sportsmanship"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In tz1959e3x05 \"A Game of Pool\", we saw Jesse accuse Fats of poor sportsmanship twice, because Fats distracted Jesse as he was about to take a shot in the game of pool."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "spouse murder",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "One spouse in a married couple seeks to bring about the death of their partner.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "murder of a lover"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariticide",
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uxoricide"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In nightgallery2x19b \"Stop Killing Me\", Francis Turchin arrives at the local police station to explain that her husband is actively murdering her by a most unusual method: By making frequent remarks about killing her he is instilling in her such anxiety that she will, within a week no less, fail to pay attention to her surroundings and suffer a deadly accident."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "stage fright",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character experiences anxiety stemming from the requirement to perform in front of an audience.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human phobia"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stage_fright"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "stage magic",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A performing art in which audiences are entertained by staged tricks or illusions of seemingly impossible feats using natural means.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "the fine arts and the humanities"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_(illusion)"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "stand-up comedy",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The art of making a group of people laugh is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "the fine arts and the humanities"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stand-up_comedy"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Data tried to learn the art of stand-up comedy on the holodeck in tng2x04 \"The Outrageous Okona\" but not even the juxtaposition of female attire and an amphibian briefcase could make him laugh."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "standing up to a boss",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character confronts their boss over perceived unfair treatment.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "humans at work"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "standing up to a bully",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character defends themself against a bully.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human vs. human"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Worf stood up to his bully of a brother Kurn in tng3x17 \"Sins of the Father\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "star-crossed lovers",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A pair of lovers whose relationship is often thwarted by outside forces is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "romantic relationship",
                "romantic love"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star-crossed"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "start-over utopia",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The (rather vague) notion of an idyllic world obtained by simply restarting the normal world from scratch whilst avoiding any unappealing aspects, for example sleaze, is put forth.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "utopia"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In tz1985e2x09b \"Shelter Skelter\", the survivalist specialist Harry dreamed of a chance to start society over without the impure sleaze and filth he saw everywhere around him."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "stasis technology",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The story features a technology that makes time freeze in a box or some other confined region of space.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative technology"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stasis_(fiction)",
                "http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/stasis_field"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "statute of limitations",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A statutory maximum time that may elapse between a crime and the initiation of legal proceedings for that crime is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "law and order issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statute_of_limitations"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Did Kodos the Executioner really deserve to be persecuted 20 years after his alleged crime in tos1x12 \"The Conscience of the King\"?"
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "stellar engineering",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is technology by which matter on the scale of stars can be manipulated and even moved about at will.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "astronomical-scale engineering"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_engineering"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "stellar rejuvenation",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A dying star is somehow rekindled and brought back to a more agreeable state of activity.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "stellar engineering"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "The Enterprise-D helped a scientist from Kaelon II to put new life into their fading sun in tng4x22 \"Half a Life\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "stepfather and stepdaughter",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The sometimes contentious relationship between a non-biological father figure and a female child under his protection is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human familial relationship"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "stepfather and stepson",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The sometimes contentious relationship between a non-biological father figure and a male child under their protection is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human familial relationship"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "stepmother and stepdaughter",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The sometimes contentious relationship between a non-biological mother figure and a female child under her protection is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human familial relationship"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stepmother"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Margaret Griffith tried to knock off her heiress stepdaughter Julie and inherit her fortune in \"The Incredible Hulk: Death in the Family\" (1977)."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "stepmother and stepson",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The sometimes contentious relationship between a non-biological mother figure and a male child under her protection is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human familial relationship"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stepmother"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "High school senior Michael Harlan showed little interest in socializing with his new stepmother in \"My Science Project\" (1985)."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "stereotypically innocent character",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a character who has an optimistic view of the world because they lack knowledge and experience of life's hardships.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human character stereotype"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "Stockholm syndrome",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A hostage victim comes to feel affection for their captor.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human mental condition"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Beverly came to empathize with her kidnapper, the terrorist leader Kyril Finn, in tng3x12 \"The High Ground\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "storytelling",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character regularly regales their audience with the telling of a story.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "the fine arts and the humanities"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "stranded at sea",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is stranded at sea with little prospect of survival. Typically, they are adrift on a small vessel with negligible propulsion, or flotsam, without much prospect of reaching safety.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human vs. environment",
                "stranded without food and water"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castaway"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "After a shipwreck, Edward Prendick finds himself adrift in the southern Pacific Ocean with two other men and few provisions in H. G. Wells' classic science fiction novel \"The Island of Doctor Moreau\" (1896)."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "stranded in outer space",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is stranded in outer space. Typically, they are in a spacesuit or an inadequate spacecraft that keeps them alive for some time, but that lacks the propulsion to reach safety.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human vs. environment",
                "stranded without food and water"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "stranded on a deserted island",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is stranded on a deserted island, cut off from society, without much prospect of a timely rescue.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "wilderness survival",
                "stranded without food and water"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castaway#Castaways_in_popular_culture"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In Daniel Defoe's \"Robinson Crusoe\" (1719), the titular character spent 28 years stranded on a remote tropical island off the coasts of Venezuela and Trinidad."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "stranded on a deserted planet",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is stranded on a deserted planet, or similar celestial object, cut off from society without much prospect of a timely rescue.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human vs. speculative environment",
                "stranded without food and water"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "stranded without food and water",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character experiences what it would be like to be, for example, shipwrecked or otherwise stranded somewhere, with inadequate food and water supplies or suchlike necessities that they are otherwise accustomed to obtaining from the society in which they live.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "what if I were in a tight spot"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Captain Picard, Wesley, and the cantankerous mining shuttle captain Dirgo crash-landed without food and water on the desert moon Lambda Paz in tng4x09 \"Final Mission\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "stress from being in danger",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character suffers anxiety from being in perpetual mortal danger.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "psychological stress"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "struggling artist character",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is an aspiring painter, musician, or other performer of the fine arts who has not (yet) acquired sufficient patronage to sustain themselves in their chosen profession.",
            "notes": [
                "This theme does not apply to kids who live with their family and are not yet expected to sustain themselves."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human character stereotype"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In talesoftheunexpected4x11 \"Kindly Dig Your Grave\", Graham is a talented young painter but not much of a negotiator. He is ruthlessly exploited by the Madam La Grue, and struggles to turn every one of the few pennies she condescends to give him for his work."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "stubbornness",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is conspicuously persistent in doing something, or obstinate in their opinions, despite exhortations or other incentives to change.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "humans interacting"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "student and teacher romance",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A teacher becomes romantically involved with one of their students.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "romantic relationship"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_harassment_in_education_in_the_United_States#Sexual_relationships_between_students_and_teachers"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Benjamin made out with his music teacher in \"Toomorrow\" (1970)."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "studying for a test",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A young character studies for a formal test in school, or something similar.",
            "notes": [
                "Formal tests are typically associated with schooling, and thus the early stages of life. Therefore this theme is taken to imply \"human childhood\". If an adult character is \"studying for a test\" in a story, the reviewer must decide whether the situation resembles school tests enough that the idea of \"human childhood\" is implied."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human childhood"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Educational_entrance_examination"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Wesley tries the Starfleet Academy entrance exam and fails in tng1x19 \"Coming of Age\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "sub-orbital spaceflight",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A crewed or uncrewed spacecraft reaches outer space, but its trajectory intersects the atmosphere or surface of the gravitating body from which it was launched, so that it will not complete one orbital revolution.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "space travel"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sub-orbital_spaceflight"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "sub-planetary-scale engineering",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is an application of technology for the purpose of influencing a local environment of a planet at a level beyond our present capabilities. These are constructions such as underwater cities and arcologies.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative technology"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macro-engineering"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "substance intoxication",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone becomes or acts as if they have become intoxicated by, e.g., alcohol.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human addiction"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substance_intoxication"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "subterranean being",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a being whose natural habitat lies underground.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "locationally distinguished being"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "subterranean civilization",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A civilization that lives underground is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative society"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "subterrene",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A vehicle that travels underground (through solid rock/soil) much as a submarine travels underwater, either by mechanical drilling or by melting its way forward, is featured in a science fictional context.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative vehicle"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subterrene"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "subversive life form from outer space",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "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.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "threat from extraterrestrial life"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "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."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "sugar addiction",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone cannot cease eating or drinking sugary things to unhealthy excess.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human addiction"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "suicide",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character takes, tries to take, or considers taking their own life.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human challenge in life"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "suicide booth",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A fictional machine for committing suicide.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "pod or booth-like device"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_booth"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "suicide in society",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The social ramifications of people taking (and wishing to take) their own lives, are explored.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "public health issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Troi investigated the suicide of Lt. Daniel Kwan, learned about another suicide long ago, and ended up nearly taking her own life in tng7x18 \"Eye of the Beholder\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "suicide vs. slow death",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character must choose between making a quick end of themself on one hand, or suffering a drawn out dying process on the other.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "contemplating suicide"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "summoning a malevolent being",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone uses magic to conjure a demon or some other more or less evil entity with malign designs.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "black magic",
                "evocation magic"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evocation"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "sun going supernova",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The sun to a planet enters its supernova state and civilization is fried like so many chickens.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "catastrophic solar event"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "sun gun",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A theoretical orbital weapon, which makes use of a concave mirror mounted on a satellite, to concentrate rays from the sun on to a small area of the Earth's surface, destroying targets or killing through heat.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "engineered space structure",
                "speculative weapon"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_gun"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "super accelerated Darwinian evolution",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We imagine what the world would be like if some beings in it \"evolved\" at a much accelerated rate.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative evolution"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "super growth therapy",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A therapy that when administered to living organisms makes them grow to much larger than their ordinary proportions.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human enhancement technology"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "super hearing",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character can perceive weak sounds clearly, well beyond ordinary human capability of hearing.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculatively magnified ordinary personal ability"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Bionic woman Jamie Sommers used her bionic eavesdrop on CIA agents talking at the other end of a hallway in \"Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman\" (1989)."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "super intelligence",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "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."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculatively magnified ordinary personal ability"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "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."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "super reflexes",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character has lightning quick reaction times to external stimuli.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculatively magnified ordinary personal ability"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Peter Parker acquired bullet dodging quick reflexes after he was bitten by a genetically enhanced spider in \"The Amazing Spider-Man\" (2012)."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "super speed",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is able to run, or otherwise move, impossibly fast. They may, for example, be able to outrun a speeding bullet.",
            "notes": [
                "Note the theme \"time slow down ability\". It is not always clear whether the situation is such that a character speeds up, or time is slowed down for the rest of the world."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculatively magnified ordinary personal ability"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "super strength",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is able to perform feats of muscular strength beyond what is possible for any real person.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculatively magnified ordinary personal ability"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "super strength formula",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a chemical formula that grants super strength to those who ingest it.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human enhancement technology"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Dexter Riley ate a bowl of chemically enhanced cereal that granted him super strength in \"The World's Strongest Man\" (1975)."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "superior and subordinate",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The relationship between a person and someone that person has a position of direct authority over, is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "humans in pairs"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "supernatural ability",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character has an intrinsic ability that is arguably beyond what real humans ever can have today, and this ability is also extraordinary in the world that the character inhabits.",
            "notes": [
                "There is a gray area around tool usage. Generally, if a character uses an object that anyone could use then the tool in question is what is extraordinary, and not the character's ability to use it. However, if the tool is uniquely connected to a user then arguably this user has an extraordinary ability. Due judgment must be exercised, and this category may be refined as we go forwards."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative ability"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "supernatural existential risk to civilization",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Supernatural forces conspire to bring about the destruction of civilization. For example, one god or another might decide to wipe the slate clean and start creation over again.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "existential risk to civilization"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In tz2002e1x42 \"Sunrise\", an ancient Aztec curse that blotted out the sun was unleashed. Earth was mere hours from becoming an icy tomb when the curse was narrowly countermanded by means of a human sacrifice. Or so believed four college students who ritually murdered their friend."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "supernatural luck",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character's good or bad fortune is interpreted in terms of the supernatural, such as an attribute of themself or some magical object, or the result of a favorable or unfavorable view of a deity upon them.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "folk belief"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luck"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "supernova",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A giant exploding star.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "astronomy"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernova"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "superseded scientific theory",
            "aliases": [
                "discredited scientific theory"
            ],
            "description": "A scientific theory that was once more or less accepted but has since been largely rejected by mainstream science, is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "science"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superseded_scientific_theories"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "supersoldier",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a soldier capable of operating beyond normal human limits or abilities. This is typically achieved by augmenting an ordinary person, either through surgical means, eugenics, genetic engineering, cybernetic implants, drugs, brainwashing, traumatic events, an extreme training regimen or other scientific and pseudoscientific means.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative human"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supersoldier"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In \"X-men Origins: Wolverine\" (2009), Major Stryker led a clandestine research program the goal of which was to enhance the abilities of natural mutants, turning them into elite soldiers."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "superstition in society",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Discussed is how superstitious beliefs can permeate and shape everyday society.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "sociocultural issue"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In tz1985e1x11a \"The Beacon\", we saw a community of backwards people that for hundreds of years had shut themselves away from civilization and progress in order to practice human sacrifice and appease a perceived ghost they thought inhabited the lighthouse."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "superstitiousness",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a character who is abnormally ready to think and act according to practice based upon trust in luck or other irrational, unscientific, or supernatural forces.",
            "notes": [
                "This theme is primarily used with respect to common and classical superstitions, such as fortune telling. It is not used, for example, with respect to beliefs that were considered scientific, or even pseudo-scientific, in the context of the story."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human character"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superstition"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In tz1959e2x07 \"Nick of Time\", we saw that William Shatner (as Don) was quick to fall victim to the soothsayings of an infernal fortune telling machine, and learned that he had both a four-leaf clover and a rabit's foot, quite sincerely for good luck."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "suppressed emotion",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character suppresses strong emotions and suffers the consequences that come thereof.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human mental condition"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "suppression of a technology to preserve an industry",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The following social problem is featured: People with vested interests try to suppress new technology in order to preserve the potentially antiquated industry they have shares in.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "socioeconomic issue"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "supreme judge being",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a being with powers vastly greater than those of ordinary humans who sees itself as an enforcer of cosmic justice.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "transcendental being"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divine_judgment"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "surveillance capitalism",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Discussed is the social issue of corporations collecting and profiting from large amounts of people's personal data.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "socioeconomic issue",
                "sociotechnological issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveillance_capitalism"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In pkded1x09 \"Safe and Sound\", Simi corp. is providing school students with activity monitoring wrist bands. The corporation uses information form the wristbands to stage terrorist attacks, in order to scare people and create further demand for its activity monitoring wristbands."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "survivalism",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Survivalism is a movement of individuals or groups who actively prepare for emergencies, including possible disruptions in social or political order, on scales from local to international. A person who builds part of his life around such activities is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human sentiment"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivalism"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "survivalist stereotype",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a stereotypical character of the sort that prepares excessively for the imminent collapse of civilization. This may, for example, be an American man who stockpiles food and weapons in his own underground bunker.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human character stereotype",
                "survivalism"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivalism"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In tz1985e2x09b \"Shelter Skelter\", the American gun dealer and survivalist specialist Harry foresaw the imminent breakout of a devastating nuclear war. To prepare, he had planned meticulously and stockpiled various necessities in his very own secret basement bomb shelter."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "surviving in a wasteland",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character struggles to survive in a barren world tattered and bereft of organized society.",
            "notes": [
                "This theme is not used when a relatively large number of people are surviving together and forming what seems like a new society, but rather when one or a few character have to scavenge for what they need to survive."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "facing adversity"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In tz1959e3x01 \"Two\", we saw two lonely soldiers from opposing factions scavenge a broken city for the necessities of another day of life."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "survivor guilt",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone has strong feelings of guilt associated with surviving an event in which others perished.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human mental condition",
                "remorse"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivor_guilt"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "suspended animation",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Technology that can considerably slow basic life processes, e.g., breathing or a heartbeat, in a manner that allows for subjects to be later revived.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "stasis technology"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspended_animation",
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stasis_(fiction)",
                "http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/suspended_animation"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Kamala the Metamorph was kept in a stasis device so that she wouldn't upset the crew with her erotic powers in tng5x21 \"The Perfect Mate\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "suspended animation punishment",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "People convicted of crimes are frozen by means of cryogenic technology for some time and as a punishment.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "suspended animation",
                "speculative punishment"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "sympathetic magic",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a kind of supposed magic that involves effigies and images of a target, e.g., voodoo dolls and the like.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "folk belief"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sympathetic_magic"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Extradimensional aliens found memories of such things in the human subconsciousness and used the knowledge scare Captain Kirk and his crew in tos2x01 \"Catspaw\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "synthetic food",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The chemical synthesis of food from non-plant and animal derived matter is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative technology"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Humanity's food supply was produced in chemistry labs after the year 2900 in \"The Miracle of the Lily\" (1928)."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "séance",
            "aliases": [
                "seance"
            ],
            "description": "The idea that a trained mystic can help us communicate with the dead.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "communicating with the dead"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A9ance"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Prefect Jaris of Argelius II figured that this with be a good way to resolve the murder case brought against Scotty in tos2x07 \"Wolf in the Fold\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "table manners",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The importance of, for example, not tearing into a bloody steak with your bare hands in polite company is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "manners"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_manners"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Captain Kirk gave Elaan, the Dohlman of Elas, a lesson in table manners in tos3x02 \"Elaan of Troyius\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "tabletop games",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Featured is one of those games that is normally played on a table or other flat surface, such as board games, card games, dice games, miniature wargames, or tile-based games.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "recreational activity"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabletop_game"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "taking a high-stakes wager vs. walking away",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character wrestles with the decision of whether to enter into a gamble or wager with high potential reward, but also high potential penalty.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "risk taking vs. playing it safe"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In talesoftheunexpected2x07 \"Taste\", Mike thought he had an almost sure thing going so he accepted a bet of his daughter's hand in marriage against Pratt's two houses, after much deliberation."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "taking a test",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character takes a more or less formal test for something such as in school, a driving test, etc.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human childhood"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "taking sides in an international conflict",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are made to ponder when and how it is ethical for a state to pick a side in an international conflict between two other states.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "the ethics of interfering in the internal affairs of other powers"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "taking someone's picture steals their soul",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The belief that making a picture of someone is somehow directly detrimental to their soul or spirit, etc., is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "folk belief"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In tz1985e1x14a \"Still Life\", a photograph took photos of Kurukai natives and their souls somehow became trapped inside the film."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "taking the blame for someone else's crime",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character admits to a crime they did not commit, in order to protect the real culprit from legal retribution (or someone else from associated consequences).",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "obstruction of justice",
                "human self-sacrifice for another"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "taking the law into one's own hands",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character can't wait for law-enforcement and instead takes matters into their own hand by, e.g., tracking down and killing criminals.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "personal ethical dilemma"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "talking someone out of suicide",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is about to commit suicide and someone else tries to talk them out of it.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "humans interacting",
                "suicide"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "tardiness",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is in the habit of being late for scheduled activities.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human character"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tardiness"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Wesley Crusher dozed off in the science lab and was subsequently late for duty in tng3x01 \"Evolution\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "tax evasion",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character tries to get out of paying their due taxes in an illegal way.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "crime against property"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_evasion"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "taxation in society",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are made to ponder whether, how, and to what extent governments should levy financial charges on their subjects (individually or as businesses) to pay for government expenditures.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "socioeconomic issue"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In tz1959e2x02 \"The Man in the Bottle\", Mr. and Mrs. Castle lamented exorbitant taxes that, of their one million dollar windfall, left them  but a measly $5."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "teaching occupation",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a school teacher, or the like, engaged in their chosen profession.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human occupational activity"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teacher"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "tech support occupation",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is employed to tend to the machines that other people are using.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human occupational activity"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "technological risk to civilization",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "People rely on some technology but it has unforeseen consequences and civilization collapses.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "anthropogenic existential risk to civilization"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/12/upshot/a-discussion-of-the-danger-and-promise-of-tech.html"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "technologically enabled utopia",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Society is supposedly perfected thanks to technology.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "utopia"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "technology",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The application of scientific knowledge in building contraptions is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "science"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "technology-free utopia",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Society is great because there are not many machines around to make people's lives miserable.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "utopia"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "technophobia",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character exhibits notable fear and dislike of one, some, or all advanced technological devices.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human phobia"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In tz1959e2x04 \"A Thing About Machines\", Mr. Finchley was utterly terrified of his home appliances, which from his point of view, were out to get him."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "teen romance",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Young characters engage in romantic relationships, perhaps for their first time, and the relationship is notably featured in the story.",
            "notes": [
                "There are stories in which \"boyfriend and girlfriend\" applies because two characters are described as such, but where nevertheless there was no notable idea of romance (explicitly or by its conspicuous absence). This typically happens when the relationship is entirely irrelevant to the story. In such cases we do not use \"teen romance\"."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "young lovers"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "teenage angst",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A teenager feels anxious about fitting in and being misunderstood as teenagers so often do.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human childhood"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "teenage crush",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A young person becomes romantically infatuated, perhaps for the first time. For example, a school boy or girl may become infatuated with their teacher.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "infatuation"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "teenage rebellion",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A teenage person experiments with behaviors that is notably in contrast to what their family, and parents in particular, considers desirable.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human childhood"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teenage_rebellion"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In tz2002-1x01 \"Evergreen\", Jenna Winslow is a unruly, wayward child who prefers to party with sex and drugs, caring nothing for what her parents want. The story follows the Winslow's as they move to a gated community with stringent rules in a last ditched attempt to get their teenage daughter on the right path in life."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "telekinetic ability",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is able to manipulate objects at a distance, more or less by using the power of their mind.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative ability related to physical things"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychokinesis",
                "http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/telekinesis"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "telekinetic machine manipulation ability",
            "aliases": [
                "technopathy cyberpathy technokinesis"
            ],
            "description": "A character has a psychic ability to control machinery, including electronic machinery, such as computers.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "telekinetic ability"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Cameron Vale reprogrammed a computer using only the power of his own mind in \"Scanners\" (1981)."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "telepathic ability",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is able to transmit thoughts or feelings to or from another person, using their mind alone.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "mind to mind interaction ability"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telepathy"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Dr. Luther Stringfellow endowed several young volunteers with telepathic abilities which they were encouraged to develop through sexual exploration in \"Streo\" (1969)."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "telepathic being",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A being that communicates telepathically with or read the thoughts of others.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "mentally distinguished being",
                "telepathic ability"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "telepathic society",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A society where telepathy constitutes a part of the ordinary operation of natural laws.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative society",
                "telepathic ability"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telepathy"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "telepathic utopia",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Society is nice and amicable because people can hear each others' thoughts and have learned to control their anti-social instincts, etc.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "utopia based on a view of human nature",
                "telepathic ability"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "teleportation ability",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character, by using their mind alone, is able to instantaneously move themself, others, or objects, to remote locations, as if by magic.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative personal locomotion"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In tz1985e3x21 \"Room 2426\", the imprisoned professor Martin Decker learned how to use will alone to move himself in space. Thus he made good his escape, and was able to save the world to boot."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "teleportation device",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A device used to move people and objects over vast distances by transforming matter into energy and the reconstituting the matter at the destination.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "pod or booth-like device",
                "space travel"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teleportation",
                "http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/teleportation"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "television as a control mechanism",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a society in which the ruling elite uses television to dumb people down and keep them from questioning authority.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "form of government"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "A totalitarian government used television to dumb people down in order to prevent revolution and thinking in \"Fahrenheit 451\" (1966)."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "terrorism",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Attacks are characterized as \"terrorism\" by others. There is no objective definition, but the attacks typically target civilians and the attacker is not a conventional military carrying out normal war operations.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "crime against the public",
                "violent crime",
                "political issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "terrorist or freedom fighter",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are shown that a group that is seen as vicious terrorists by some may well be seen as heroic freedom fighters by others.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "social ethical dilemma",
                "terrorism",
                "war"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "test of love",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "One character is concerned about whether their romantic partner really loves them and does something in order to test this.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "romantic relationship issue"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In futurama3x06 \"Bendless Love\", Bender wonders whether Angelyne is really in love with him. To find this out he seduces her in the guise of her ex-husband, Flexo, and is upset to find that she falls for him."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "test of loyalty",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A commander is unsure of their subordinate's loyalty and arranges a temptation to see whether they will commit treason or not.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "the art of war"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Romulans tested their commander Jarok's loyalty by enticing him to defect to the Federation in tng3x10 \"The Defector\". Jarok was so upset he ingested a felodesine chip to kill himself."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the afterlife",
            "aliases": [
                "afterlife"
            ],
            "description": "The idea that we somehow continue to exist in spirit after we die is discussed. The story contains some information about what might be in store for us, spiritually, post-mortem.",
            "notes": [
                "This theme is considered to be topical, for example, if it is featured that a living person dies and transitions to being a ghost as the idea that this can happen when we die, is then implicit.",
                "The theme is not otherwise applied in a story where there just appears to be an incorporeal spirit, unless it is made explicitly clear that this is the after-life existence that can occasionally happen to people.",
                "In some stories there is a character that is the Grim Reaper, or similar. Surprisingly often, nothing further is said about whence (if anywhere) he is to escort the deceased. Thus \"the afterlife\" does not appear to apply.",
                "In some stories, the deceased character appears to remain in the world briefly for the purpose of relaying the story more than to suggest that this is a possible continuation of their spiritual existence. Unless matters are clarified further, we do not apply \"the afterlife\" as a theme."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "metaphysics"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afterlife"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Ro and Geordi thought they might have died and become wandering spirits in tng5x24 \"The Next Phase\", before finding out that they had merely been phase shifted."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "The Algerian War",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "This war was fought between France and the Algerian National Liberation Front from 1954 to 1962, and culminated with Algeria winning its independence from France. It is featured in the story.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "historical event"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algerian_War"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the American Revolution",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "This 1765-1783 war between the Thirteen Colonies in America, and Great Britain, is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "historical event",
                "revolution in society"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Revolution"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the Ancient Egyptian stereotype",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A stereotypical Ancient Egyptian character is featured. This may involve people with dog's heads, cracking whips, slave labor, a fetish for oversized pyramids and depthless portraiture.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human character stereotype"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egypt"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "The D'Arsay shared some remarkable similarities with the ancient Egyptians in tng7x17 \"Masks\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the Ancient Greek stereotype",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A stereotypical Ancient Greek character is featured. This typically involves togas, laurel wreaths, and lengthy philosophical discourses.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human character stereotype"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "The Platonians of tos3x12 \"Plato's Stepchildren\" cavorted with the Greeks of old in ancient times.",
                "References https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greece https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greco-Roman_world"
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the art of salesmanship",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The many ways by which a prospective customer can be enticed to make a trade are discussed.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "humans interacting"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sales"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the art of smalltalk",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The human tendency to sometimes engage in mostly meaningless and idle chit- chat is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "humans interacting"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_talk"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Data studied the master of smalltalk Calvin \"Hutch\" Hutchinson in tng6x18 \"Starship Mine\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the art of war",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Featured is how one most effectively conducts warfare. Humanity should be ashamed and embarrassed that this is such a large group of themes.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "the natural world"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_tactics"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the battle of the sexes",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The respective male and female gender roles in society are contrasted.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "gender issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Sexes"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the Big Bang",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The Big Bang theory of the origin of the universe is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "astronomy"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bang"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the Big Chill",
            "aliases": [
                "the heat death of the universe"
            ],
            "description": "The Big Chill theory of the origin of the end of the universe is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "astronomy"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_of_an_expanding_universe"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the Big Crunch",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The Big Crunch is a hypothetical scenario for the ultimate fate of the universe, in which the expansion of the universe eventually reverses and the universe recollapses, ultimately causing the cosmic scale factor to reach zero, an event potentially followed by a reformation of the universe starting with another Big Bang. This idea is featured in the story.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "astronomy"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Crunch"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the birds and the bees",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A parent struggles to explain sex to their child.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "educating a child"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the boy who cried wolf moral",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Featured is the age old wisdom that you should not tell frivolous lies, or you may not be believed when the matter is for real.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human idea about life"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boy_Who_Cried_Wolf"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the British Raj",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The British Raj was the rule by the British Crown in the Indian subcontinent between 1858 and 1947.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "historical event"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Raj"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the business world",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character working more with business in general than with any specific industry, for example an executive, is engaged in their chosen occupation.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human occupational activity"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the butterfly effect",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The notion that a small change in the initial conditions of a system can result in large differences in a later state.",
            "notes": [
                "Every other time travel story could be creatively interpreted as involving some subjectively small change to the past having some subjectively large effect in the future. For this theme to apply, the motivation must indicate why the change is considered small, and the effect large. Typically, this happens when a character points it out more or less explicitly."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "mathematics"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly_effect"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the calculus of human life",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "When someone has a calculated life-and-death decision to make, such as: saving two moderately close friends with 50% probability vs. saving a dozen perfect strangers with 60% probability. The details spelled out here for illustration are typically left ambiguous in real stories.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "personal life and death dilemma"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the Casanova stereotype",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is an extraordinarily seductive male character for whom women fall easily and often.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "womanizing man"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In tz1985e3x24 \"Cat and Mouse\", we saw an exotic French man named Guillome, who had such skill and success with women that he had ended up cursed for it, and must spend daytime in the guise of a cat."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the Cold War",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A state of geopolitical tension after World War II between powers in the Eastern Bloc (the Soviet Union and its satellite states) and powers in the Western Bloc (the United States, its NATO allies and others).",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "historical event"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_War",
                "http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/cold_war"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the common cold",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The common cold, also known simply as a cold, is a viral infectious disease of the upper respiratory tract that primarily affects the nose. A character copes with the symptoms of this aliment.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human health condition"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_cold"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Captain Picard battles cold and flu like symptoms after contracting an alien respiratory virus in tng1x14 \"Angel One\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the control of deadly weapons",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The story tackles the issue of guns and other deadly weapons being available to the public, and the implications this may have for a society.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "political issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_violence"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "H. G. Wells, upon time traveling to 20th century San Fransisco from Victorian Britain, expressed his disapproval of guns being sold on mass to the general public in the film \"Time After Time\" (1979)."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the control of fire",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The control of fire by early humans is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "technology"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_of_fire_by_early_humans"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the corporate world",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character who works in the bureaucracy of a corporation is engaged in this profession.",
            "notes": [
                "This typically means, businessmen, CEOs, board members, and sometimes secretaries. It typically does not mean factory workers and janitors."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human occupational activity"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the crime of adultery",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is extramarital sex that is considered objectionable on social, religious, moral, or legal grounds. Although the sexual activities that constitute adultery vary, as well as the social, religious, and legal consequences, the concept exists in many cultures and is similar in Christianity, Judaism and Islam. The act is featured as being criminal in the context of the story.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "sexual crime"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adultery"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the dangers of blind obedience",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are shown why having people follow orders unquestioningly might not be a good thing.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human idea about life"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the dangers of radioactivity",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The adverse health effects of exposure to radiation are featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "environmental issue"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Little Willie Harding passed away from radiation poisoning after having been exposed to a natural source of radioactivity on the Scottish mores in \"X the Unknown\" (1956)."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the dangers of sending information out into space",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The potentially adverse consequences of sending messages or space probes etc. out into space are discussed. One idea is that they may alert an advanced and hostile alien species to our existence.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "threat from extraterrestrial life"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the dangers of smoking",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The adverse health effects of smoking tobacco are featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "public health issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_effects_of_tobacco"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the dangers of unchecked ambition",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The adverse effects to society of ambition left unchecked are explored, for example, Napoleon and the Napoleonic Wars.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "political issue"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the dangers of unfettered scientific advancement",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The dangers of scientific experiments going out of control with disastrous consequences for society, or the results of scientific discovery being used for mass destruction, are explored.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "sociotechnological issue"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Concern was expressed about the potential for the powerful terraforming device named Genesis to be used to destroy all life on a planet in \"Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan\" (1982)."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the deadly sins",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The seven (or thereabouts) deadly sins from Christian mythology are featured more or less explicitly.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "organized religion",
                "sin"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the decision to have a child",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character deliberates over whether or not to bring a child into the world.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human parenting"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the desire for a simpler life",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character dreams of shedding their troublesome and complicated life  for one that is perceived as simpler and more idyllic. Typically, this means going back to a more old-fashioned way of life with less technology.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "desire",
                "human aspiration"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In tz1959e1x30 \"A Stop at Willoughby\", Gart was under such intense pressure at work that he began fantasizing about escaping to an idyllic 1880s town called Willoughby."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the desire for fame",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character manifests a strong desire to become well-known and in the public eye.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "desire",
                "human self-esteem need"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the desire for glory",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character wants nothing better than to become famous for great and grand achievements such as the vanquishing of foes.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "desire",
                "human self-esteem need"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the desire for glory in battle",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character manifests a strong desire to become famous for having performed great feats in battle.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "the desire for glory"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the desire for justice",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character seeks righteous, and typically lawful, vengeance upon some miscreant.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "desire",
                "human social need"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Riker and his team wanted to bring Captain Picard's presumed murderers to justice in tng7x04 \"Gambit, Part I\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the desire for personal development",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character wants nothing better than to improve on their own competences and character.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "desire",
                "human self-actualization need"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_development"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the desire for prestige",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character wants nothing better than to become pre-eminently respected in their community.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "desire",
                "human self-esteem need"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reputation"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the desire for professional success",
            "aliases": [
                "career ambition career advancement"
            ],
            "description": "A character seeks ever further promotion, influence, recognition, rank, or salary etc. in their chosen line of work. Usually they want career advancement.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "desire",
                "human self-actualization need"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Need_for_achievement"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the desire for redemption",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character seeks to make up for past misdeeds and gain forgiveness.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "desire",
                "human self-esteem need"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Worf and his brother Kurn together sought redemption for the father's soiled reputation in tng4x26 \"Redemption\" and again in tng5x01 \"Redemption, Part II\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the desire for vengeance",
            "aliases": [
                "revenge"
            ],
            "description": "A character seeks retribution over a perceived injury or wrong.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "desire",
                "human self-esteem need"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revenge"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the desire to be beautiful",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character wants nothing less than to look good.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "desire",
                "human self-esteem need"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "The titular character of Carlo Collodi's classic children's novel \"The Adventures of Pinocchio\" (1883) is a wooden puppet who dreams of becoming a real boy."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the desire to be different from what one is",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character longs to become someone or something else entirely.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "desire",
                "human aspiration"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In rh2012e2x02, Matilda's new coworker wanted to be a Hubot so much that she went to great lengths to imitate one."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the desire to be human",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A nonhuman character longs to become more like a human being in some respect.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "the desire to be different from what one is"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the desire to be liked",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character manifests a wish to be liked by someone else they care about.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "desire",
                "human social need"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the desire to be more like a normal person",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character longs for nothing more than to be an ordinary person. For example, a celebrity wishes they could lead a normal life, or an exceptionally tall person wishes they were of average height.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "the desire to be different from what one is"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the desire to be remembered",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "It is suggested that humans are driven to do something with their lives that is worth remembering at least for someone.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "desire",
                "human social need"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the desire to get away from it all",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character wants nothing more than to rid themselves of their various burdens in life for an extended period of time, or perhaps even permanently.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "desire",
                "human self-actualization need"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the desire to have children",
            "aliases": [
                "the need for procreation"
            ],
            "description": "That humans typically need to reproduce and sire offspring in order to feel self-fulfilled is illustrated.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "desire",
                "human physiological need"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reproduction"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the desire to marry above one's station",
            "aliases": [
                "hypergamy"
            ],
            "description": "A character marries, or seeks to marry, someone from a wealthier or more powerful family.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "desire",
                "human self-actualization need"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypergamy"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the desire to pursue one's dream",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character has wishes to pursue unusual or fanciful ambitions that most people typically do not spend their lives persuing.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "desire",
                "human self-actualization need"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the desire to repay one's debts",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character manifests a strong desire to repay something, typically money or a favor, that they feel they own to someone else.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "desire",
                "human character"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the desire to survive",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is determined to live in spite of an adverse situation.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "desire",
                "human safety need"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the Devil",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A being of pure evil that is posited by some religions, i.e., the antithesis of the Christian God.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "organized religion",
                "legendary being"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the Devil is an alien",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The crackpot notion that the Devil of Judeo-Christian lore is really an alien.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "the mythological figure was really an alien",
                "the Devil"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Lucien, a friendly alien from the magical world of Megas-Tu, was revealed to have been known as Lucifer on Earth millennia ago in tas1x08 \"The Magicks of Megas-tu\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the difficulty of picking a name for a baby",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character experiences the trials and tribulations that come with choosing a name for their baby.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "family affairs"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the end justifies the means",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The following dilemma is illustrated: Can wicked policies, such as oppression, lead to socially good outcomes? Are the policies morally justified if so?",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "social ethical dilemma"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the entertainment industry",
            "aliases": [
                "show business showbiz"
            ],
            "description": "A character working in show business, i.e., film, theater, and the like, is engaged in their chosen occupation.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "art related occupation"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Show_business"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the ethics of interfering in less advanced societies",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The ethical question of whether and to what extent it is morally acceptable for an advanced society to interfere in the everyday life and development of a less advanced society is discussed.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "the ethics of interfering in the internal affairs of other powers"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Directive",
                "http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/prime_directive"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the ethics of interfering in the internal affairs of other powers",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The ethical justifications for supporting or opposing one political entity intervening in the affairs of another nation as part of its foreign policy are explored.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "social ethical dilemma"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interventionism_(politics)#Foreign_interventionism"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the ethics of thinking immoral thoughts",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are made to ponder whether merely pondering a supposedly immoral act might be ethical or unethical.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "ethics"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In tz2019e2x09 \"Try, Try\", Marc was stuck in a peculiar loop where he repeated the same day over again indefinitely, here at least for the ten-thousandth time. The story turned on the ethical question of whether Claudia, in Marc's daily re-run, was like a figment of his imagination that he could treat as he liked since she would remember nothing the next time around."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the ethics of valuing human lives",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "How we can come to terms with the fact that sometimes some people's lives may be more important to preserve than others' is discussed.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "ethics"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the fashion industry",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are shown what it might be like for people involved in the design, modeling, marketing, and sales of fashionable clothing and related goods.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "art related occupation"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fashion"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "New Wave fashion of the 1980s is showcased in \"Liquid Sky\" (1983)."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the fine arts and the humanities",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Art forms or the study of human society is featured. They range from painting to tap dancing, from calligraphy to stand up comedy, and from rhetoric to anthropology.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human regular activity"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fine_art",
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanities"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the flip side of a promotion",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character gets a promotion and learns that various problems can come with the broadened responsibilities.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human idea about life",
                "humans at work"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the flip side of being in power",
            "aliases": [
                "uneasily lies the head that wears the crown"
            ],
            "description": "It is illustrated that positions of power may come with the fear of a sudden downfall and great personal danger.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human idea about life"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damocles"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the flip side of immortality",
            "aliases": [
                "the curse of immortality"
            ],
            "description": "A character lives so long that they start to see the downsides to \"immortality\", i.e., the boredom and lack of purpose.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human idea about life",
                "immortality"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immortality_in_fiction"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the four elements",
            "aliases": [
                "classical element"
            ],
            "description": "An antiquated theory advanced by the ancient Greeks that earth, water, air, and fire are the fundamental constituents of all matter.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "superseded scientific theory"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_element"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Data debunked this theory in front of a classroom of Barkonian kids in tng7x16 \"Thine Own Self\" to their teacher's chagrin."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the French Resistance",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A collection of French movements that fought against the Nazi German occupation of France and against the collaborationist Vichy regime during the Second World War",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "World War II"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the future of human evolution",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Featured is a hypothetical future direction that human evolution might take.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative evolution"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "A time traveler was surprised to find that the human race had diverged into two distinct species by the year 802,701 in \"The Time Machine\" (1960)."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the game of baseball",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "This competitive bat-and-ball team sport is notably featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "sports"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baseball"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the game of basketball",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "This competitive team sport, and ballgame, is notably featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "sports"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basketball"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the game of darts",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Darts is a sport in which two or more players throw small missiles, also known as darts, at a circular target, known as a \"dartboard\". This game or sport is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "sports"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darts"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the game of poker",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A card game of the poker family common to which is that there is a concept of ranked \"hands\" of cards, and the goal is to finish with the best such hand. Such a game is notably featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "tabletop games"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poker"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the game of pool",
            "aliases": [
                "billiards snooker"
            ],
            "description": "This cue sports played on a table with six pockets along the rails, into which balls are deposited, is notably featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "sports"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pool_(cue_sports)"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the game of tennis",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "This racket-ball sport is notably featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "sports"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennis"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In \"The Superperfect Bride\" (1929), Charles Broderick was pushed to his limit in a game of tennis against a woman who had supposedly been surgically altered to be physically perfect."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the gangster stereotype",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A stereotypical mobster character is featured. This typically involves Tommy guns, fedoras, and Italian accents.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human character stereotype"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gangster"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "The imitable natives of Sigma Iotia II had gotten hold of a 20th century Earth book about Chicago Mobs and promptly became stereotypical gangsters in tos2x20 \"A Piece of the Action\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the god is an alien",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Featured is the notion that worshiped deity is actually some kind of powerful alien being.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "the mythological figure was really an alien"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "A mysterious alien entity convinced the many New Yorkers that it was the God of Christianity \"God Told Me To\" (1976)."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the Golden Rule",
            "aliases": [
                "love thy neighbor"
            ],
            "description": "Someone lives by the \"do unto others as you would have them do unto you\" motto.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human idea about life"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Rule"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the good of society vs. personal gain",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character must choose between benefiting society at large, or doing something for their own personal benefit.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "personal ethical dilemma"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In tz1959e2x10 \"A Most Unusual Camera\", There was a brief deliberation regarding how to best employ the magic camera: Should they donate it to science for the good of all humankind or take it to the race track? They quickly settled on the latter course of action, and made a pile of money."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the good of the many vs. the needs of the few",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The following kind of dilemma is illustrated: In choosing between two incompatible policies, if one is somewhat beneficial to a large number of people while the other is many times more important to a smaller number of people, how do we decide which is morally preferable?",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "social ethical dilemma"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the grass is always greener on the other side",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Featured is the idea that humans are more apt to perceive that other people's lives or situations are better than their own, rather than the converse.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human idea about life"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/the_grass_is_always_greener_on_the_other_side"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the greatest among us is the smallest in another world",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are shown that the famous people we may admire and worship are only \"great\" on a very limited human scale. In the larger scheme of things none of us stands out all that much from the rest.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human idea about life"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Captain Kirk and his crew were harassed by an alien with unimaginable powers until its parents appeared in tos1x18 \"The Squire of Gothos\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the hippie movement",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are asked what we think of the trappings and ideologies of the movement that started among young people now known as \"Hippies\" in the 60s in the USA.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "sociocultural issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_hippie_movement"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the hippie stereotype",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A stereotypical member of the counterculture of the 1960s is featured. This typically involves tie dye shirts, psychedelic drugs, and a \"make love not war\" philosophy of life.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human character stereotype"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippie"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Dr. Severin and his loyal disciples displayed all the ideologies and mannerisms of hippies and scolded Captain Kirk for being a rigid narrow-minded \"Herbert\" in tos3x20 \"The Way to Eden\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "The Hippocratic Oath",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The Hippocratic Oath is an oath of ethics historically taken by physicians. This oath, or some iconic part of it, is mentioned explicitly in the story. For example, \"first do no harm\" (primum non nocere) is a well known principle that belongs to the original Hippocratic Oath.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "medical ethical issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippocratic_Oath"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the historical figure was really an alien",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The crackpot notion that some historical (or legendary) character from our history was really an alien in disguise, is put forth.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "crackpot theory"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In futurama6x05 \"The Duh-Vinci Code\" we learn that Leonardo da Vinci was in fact a fantastically long lived extraterrestrial from the planet \"Vinci\", where he was the dumbest of his kind."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "The Holocaust",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The systematic murder of six million Jews perpetrated by Adolf Hitler of Germany in the early 1940s is discussed.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "historical event"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the Holy Chalice",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A mythological artifact within the Christian religion that has been at the center of countless stories over the centuries.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "Christianity"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Chalice"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the horrors of war",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The terrible impact war has on individuals is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "war"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the hospitality industry",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A waiter, bartender, hotel maid or other hospitality industry worker is engaged in their chosen occupation.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human occupational activity"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hospitality_industry"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the human capacity for good and evil",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The story makes a point about individual human's capability to be both, or alternatingly, good and evil. If explicit reference is not made to this idea, a story is still deemed to exhibit the theme if there is a character who in an exaggerated way is both good and evil.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human nature"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_and_evil"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In, for example, \"Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde\" (1931), Henry Jekyll used a drug to switch between dominant aspects of his own personality: his philanthropist good self on one hand, and his evil split personality, Edward Hyde, on the other."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the human mind and big numbers",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The problem our brain has with comprehending very large numbers is featured. How does the radius of the universe compare with, say, the length of your nose?",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human nature"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Spock pointed out in tos2x19 \"The Immunity Syndrome\" how the human mind finds it easier to understand the death of one than the death of a million."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the importance of being frugal",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "It is illustrated that wasting all your money recklessly can be bad for you.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human idea about life"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frugality"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the importance of being hardworking",
            "aliases": [
                "hard work pays off with great effort comes great reward the importance of being diligent"
            ],
            "description": "The idea is put forth that being diligent about one's work is a virtue worthy of praise.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human idea about life"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the importance of being honest",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "It is illustrated that being untruthful can be bad for you and those around you.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human idea about life",
                "honesty"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the importance of faith",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The idea is put forth that (more or less blind) faith in one thing or another, is a human quality that is important for a good life and a functioning society.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human idea about life"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In tz1959e5x07 \"The Old Man in the Cave\", we saw how the sagacious Mr. Goldsmith had been able to shepherd his village flock by appealing to a mysterious \"old man in the cave\", from who he got sound advice. When it was revealed that the old man was in fact a cold hearted computer, the villagers lost faith and destroyed it. As a consequence, they all died."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the importance of keeping one's promises",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "It is illustrated that being seen as a person of one's word is important and, conversely, that deceiving those around you can lead to disaster.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "the importance of being honest"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the importance of not displaying weakness",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The ramifications of displaying weakness in front of one's enemy is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "the art of war"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Spcok argued rationally for attack in tos1x08 \"Balance of Terror\", because anything else would be a sign of weakness."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the importance of paying attention to detail",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The idea is illustrated that one would do best to be mindful even of seemingly small and insignificant things, in order to be successful in one's endeavors.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human idea about life"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the importance of remembering history",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The importance to a well-functioning society of remembering history is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "educational issue"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the importance of reputation",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The fact that one's reputation is of vital importance to one's well being is highlighted.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human idea about life"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the inclination to believe what one wants to believe",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Pointedly illustrated or mentioned is the human tendency to interpret, favor, and recall information in a way that confirms or strengthens one's prior personal beliefs or hypotheses. In short, to believe and confirm what one is already inclined to believe.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human nature"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In tz2019e1x04 \"A Traveler\", Mr. A. Traveler is in fact an alien with mysterious mind reading abilities who cleverly manipulates people by inventing insidious fictions that play to their hopes and prejudices."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the instinct for violence",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The all too familiar human penchant for violence is discussed.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human nature"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "The Melkotians deplored the human instinct for violence and sought to turn it against the Enterprise crew in tos3x01 \"Spectre of the Gun\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the killing of animals",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are asked to what extent, if any, it is acceptable to kill other animals for food or sport.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "animal rights"
            ],
            "references": [
                "http://www.bbc.co.uk/ethics/animals/using/eating_1.shtml"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the Korean War",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The Korean War was a war between North Korea, with military support from China and the Soviet Union, and South Korea, backed by personnel from the United Nations (principally the United States). The war began on 25 June 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea following clashes along the border and insurrections in the south. The war ended unofficially on 27 July 1953 in an armistice. This historical human conflict is featured in the story.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "historical event"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the language industry",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character working with translation, interpreting, subtitling, or the like is engaged in their chosen occupation.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human occupational activity"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_industry"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the legend of King Arthur",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The legend of King Arthur and his round table is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "cultural history",
                "legendary historical figure"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Arthur"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the letter of the law vs. the spirit of the law",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The following dilemma is illustrated: Language and writing is fallible and there is always ambiguity and room for misunderstanding. So to what extent should the law be obeyed to the letter, and to what extent should we instead look to the intent of the legislators and, ultimately, our own sense of right and wring?",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "social ethical dilemma"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_and_spirit_of_the_law"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the life of a loved one vs. the lives of many",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character must choose between the life and/or well being of a loved one on one hand, and the lives and/or well being of a group of other people on the other.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "personal ethical dilemma"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Captain Picard was in a crux when Natasha Yar got abducted by ebony skinned aliens who held a desperately needed vaccine in tng1x04 \"Code of Honor\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the limits of language",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The idea that language is not always up to the task of accurately expressing thoughts and notions on one hand, or objective reality on the other, is expressed.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "problem of language and meaning"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_language"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the limits of science",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The empirical limits of science in regard to limits of human ability to inquire and answer questions about phenomena.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "metaphysics"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empirical_limits_in_science"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the lust for power",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character seeks ever more influence in society and the means to make people do their bidding.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human self-actualization need"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the making of a monster to society",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The social factors involved in the development of a psychopathic criminal are explored.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "law and order issue"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Armus became a being of pure evil when the Titans left him behind in tng1x23 \"Skin of Evil\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the merits of autocracy",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Democracy is contrasted with autocracy and the point is made that the former can be inefficient and slow in making decisions where the later can act decisively.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "democracy vs. autocracy"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the military-industrial complex in society",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is an informal alliance between a nation's military and the defense industry that supplies it, seen together as a vested interest which influences public policy, typically in a nefarious way in fiction, is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "military issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military%E2%80%93industrial_complex"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the mythological figure was really an alien",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The outlandish notion that some historical (or legendary) character from human mythology was really an alien in disguise, is put forth.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "crackpot theory"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the Native American stereotype",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a stereotypical depiction of a Native American, i.e. with feather headgear, tomahawks, peace pipes, etc.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human character stereotype"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_Indian"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "On the planet Amerind there were people who were just like a 20th century stereotype of pre-colonial Native Americans in tos3x03 \"The Paradise Syndrome\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the nature of animal instincts in humans",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Those ancient instincts that are deeply rooted in the reptile core of our brains are discussed. They typically involve aggression, survival, and reproduction.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human nature"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Suppressed animal instincts come to the surface as the crew begins to de- evolve in tng7x19 \"Genesis\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the nature of creativity",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "It is discussed what precisely human \"creativity\" is and from whence it comes.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "metaphysics"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creativity"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the nature of death",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Existential questions about the end of life are discussed.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human nature"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuteness"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "The immortal alien being Nagilum killed Enterprise-D crew in order to understand the nature of this whole dying business in tng2x02 \"Where Silence Has Lease\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the nature of fear",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The experience of fear and its root causes is discussed.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human nature"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the nature of human emotions",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "What emotions are and what they mean to us is discussed.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human nature"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotion"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the nature of human perception of time",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "How we sense and think of time is discussed.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human nature"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Data put the aphorism \"a watched pot never boils\" to the test in tng6x25 \"Timescape\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the nature of humor",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "What it means to leave people in stitches is pondered.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human nature"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humour"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the nature of love",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The emotion of love and associated activities are pondered from a philosophical perspective.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human nature"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the nature of memory",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The definition for, and workings of, human memory is discussed.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "metaphysics"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Telepathic aliens studied memory and the subconscious in tng5x12 \"Violations\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the nature of nightmares",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The why and how of nightmares is discussed. Typically, there is a lengthy discussion about what someone's bad dreams imply about them.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human nature"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightmare"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In tz1959e2x17 \"Twenty-Two\", the Doctor attempted to prove that Liz's strange experience was actually a recurring nightmare, by having her conduct an experiment."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the nature of the senses",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "What our senses are and how they work is discussed.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human nature"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sense"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the nature of the subconscious",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The workings of the subconscious mind is explored.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human nature"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subconscious"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the Nazi stereotype",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A stereotypical Nazi character is featured. This typically involves military fatigues with Swastikas, hatred for other races, admiration for a strong leader, glorification of violence, sadism, etc.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human character stereotype"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazism"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the need for a challenge in life",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "It is suggested that humans, in order to feel fulfilled, need some kind of long term challenge to overcome.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human self-actualization need"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the need for a purpose in life",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "It is suggested that humans, in order to feel fulfilled, need some kind of long term purpose to work toward.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human self-actualization need"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the need for adventure",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character, in order to feel fulfilled, need some kind of adventure in their life.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human self-actualization need"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the need for closure",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We see that humans tend to feel bad about past affairs being left partially unresolved or unknown. We would, e.g., dislike not knowing whether a missing family member is dead or alive.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human social need"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closure_(psychology)"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Geordi found closure in accepting the death of his mother in tng7x03 \"Interface\" by speaking with an alien entity that had taken on her identity."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the need for companionship",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "It is illustrated that humans need close friends or life partners etc. in order to feel fulfilled.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human social need"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the need for cultural heritage",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "It is illustrated that humans often need to feel they have roots in a culture in order to feel content in life.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human social need"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_heritage"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the need for freedom",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "It is suggested that humans do not feel good about being in captivity or otherwise deprived of liberty.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human safety need"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the need for privacy",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "It is illustrated that lack of privacy, if taken too far, will lead to unhappy and ill-functioning humans.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human safety need"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Miranda was born with the ability to hear thoughts and might have gone insane, in tos3x07 \"Is There in Truth No Beauty?\", had she not learned how to shut the voices out."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the need for rest and recreation",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "It is illustrated that people, in order to function well, need to rest and unwind with amusing activities from time to time.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human physiological need"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Captain Picard reluctantly took in a little R&R on Risa in tng3x19 \"Captain's Holiday\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the need for self-vindication",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The human need to clear their names from perceived accusations or suspicions is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human social need",
                "human self-esteem need"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In tos1x12 \"The Conscience of the King\", Kodos the Executioner justified committing genocide as governor of Tarsus IV to Captain Kirk, saying that it was a matter of life and death."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the need for sleep",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "It is illustrated that people, in order to function well, need sleep.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human physiological need"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the need to be treated with respect",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "It is illustrated that humans feel bad if they are not treated with sufficient respect by their fellow humans.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human social need",
                "human self-esteem need"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the need to belong",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The human need to be part of and accepted into a social group is demonstrated.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human social need"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belongingness"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the need to feel useful to society",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "It is illustrate that humans in order to be content must feel that they have a meaningful place in society.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human social need",
                "human self-esteem need"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the need to get there on one's own merits",
            "aliases": [
                "the desire to be independent"
            ],
            "description": "It is illustrated that humans may put high importance on achieving something by their own merits, rather than having it handed to them on a silver plate.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human self-esteem need"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the need to know one's roots",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "It suggested that people need to understand where they come from and who their nearest ancestors are in order to be content.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human social need"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the need to maintain an image",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "It is illustrated that humans, to function well in society, to some extent must maintain an outwards facade that can be quite different from their true inner selves.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human self-esteem need",
                "human social need"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Captain Picard took elaborate measured to prevent the crew from learning that he suffered from a heart condition in order to maintain his image in tng2x17 \"Samaritan Snare\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the need to prove one's self",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "It is illustrated that humans, in order to feel content, may feel the need to demonstrate that the skills they claim to have are true, to themselves and to others.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human social need",
                "human self-actualization need"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the need to travel",
            "aliases": [
                "wanderlust the need to see the world"
            ],
            "description": "The urge some people have to travel the world and explore new places is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human self-actualization need"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanderlust"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the nerd stereotype",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A stereotypical nerd character is featured. This typically involves the wearing of glasses, an excessive interest in things intellectual. The character is socially awkward.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human character stereotype",
                "social awkwardness"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nerd"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the number pi",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "3.1415926535 8979323846 2643383279 5028841971 6939937510 5820974944 5923078164 0628620899 8628034825 3421170679 8214808651 3282306647 09384460...",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "mathematics"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Wily Spock ordered the computer to compute pi to the last digit in tos2x07 \"Wolf in the Fold\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the origin of life",
            "aliases": [
                "abiogenesis"
            ],
            "description": "The natural process by which life is thought to have arisen from non-living matter such as simple organic compounds is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "biology"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abiogenesis"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Q brought Captain Picard back in time and showed him the bubbling pool of ooze from which the first complex organic molecules on Earth would emerge in tng7x25 \"All Good Things...\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the pirate stereotype",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A stereotypical pirate is featured. This typically involves the flying of skull and crossbones flags, the wearing of eye patches, plundering, and lots of \"hardy har har\" talk.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human character stereotype"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirates_in_popular_culture"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Orion space pirates hijacked a Federation cargo freighter in tas2x01 \"The Pirates of Orion\". Contrary to popular belief they did not appear to wield space cutlasses."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the placebo effect",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The phenomena where patients given a placebo treatment have a perceived or actual improvement in a medical condition.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "psychology"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placebo"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In the end the Mudd's women found that it was the confidence a drug had inspired that made them beautiful rather than the drug itself in tos1x03 \"Mudd's Women\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the plague",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character suffers from a disease described as the plague, be it bubonic, septicemic, pneumonic, or some minor fictional variation on the genuine article.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human health condition"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In ahp1x05 \"Into Thin Air\", the kind of air most conducive to vanishings, it is revealed at the end that Diana's mysteriously vanished mother had in fact succumbed to the bubonic plague, and being secretly taken away by the authorities for bureaucratic reasons."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the power of art to influence people",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The idea is expressed that ideas expressed skillfully through art have the potential to influence and shape people and society.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "aesthetics"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the presumption of innocence",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The pros and cons of the presumption of innocence as a legal right are explored.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "law and order issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presumption_of_innocence"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "On Tanuga IV, by contrast with the Federation, people were presumed to be guilty until proven innocent in tng3x14 \"A Matter of Perspective\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the price of freedom is eternal vigilance",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are shown that freedom comes with a price and should not be taken for granted.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human idea about life"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the problem of evil",
            "aliases": [
                "whence cometh evil"
            ],
            "description": "Discussed is the ancient problem of how to reconcile the existence of evil with the existence of an omnipotent, omnibenevolent, and omniscient God.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "organized religion",
                "philosophy"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem_of_evil"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "\"The Epicurian paradox\" famously goes as follows: Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?"
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the psychology of torture",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "How torture affects the mind of victim, perpetrator, bystanders, etc. is explored.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human nature"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torture"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the publishing industry",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character working with the dissemination of literature, music, and information is engaged in their chosen occupation. For example, we may see an author work with a literary agent to find a publisher willing to print and sell a book.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "art related occupation"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publishing"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In talesoftheunexpected6x10 \"The Luncheon\", Tony spent his last £37 on lunch with the wife of a famous film producer in an effort to secure a film deal for his novel."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the qualities of a good leader",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "What it takes to lead other people effectively is discussed.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human nature"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leadership"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the qualities of a good wife",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is concerned with what a woman should be like in order to make a good house wife.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "female stereotype"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the quest for immortality",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is tempted by a perceived chance to live on well beyond what is considered to be a normal lifespan.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human self-actualization need",
                "immortality"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immortality",
                "http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/immortality"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Ira Graves surreptitiously transferred his consciousness into Data in an effort to gain eternal life in tng2x06 \"The Schizoid Man\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the religious end of the world",
            "aliases": [
                "Ragnarök apocalypse rapture"
            ],
            "description": "A religious doctrine that predicates the end of all material things for one reason or another is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "organized religion"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End_time"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "The people of Ventax II thought the prophesied end was neigh when their devil seemed to appear in the flesh in tng4x13 \"Devil's Due\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the restless dead",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A departed person's spirit somehow bothers the living world because the person feels they have unfinished business there, of one sort or another.",
            "notes": [
                "This theme is not necessarily used when zombies and other undead beings are featured except if it is made clear that those beings are restless due to some unfinished business from when they were alive. Corpses raised as zombies by a virus or a necromancer, for example, do not match this criteria."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "the afterlife",
                "undead being"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the right to a fair trial",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are made to ponder what kind of legal procedures are required before action may be taken to deprive someone of their freedom or property, etc.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human rights issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_a_fair_trial"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Admiral Norah Satie's investigation of Simon Tarses turned into a witch-hunt because of her racial prejudice against Romulans in tng4x21 \"The Drumhead\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the right to education",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The perceived human right to receive a reasonable level of education is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human rights issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_education"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the right to exist of a genocidal people",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The following dilemma is illustrated: Suppose a peoples engages in pathological killing and genocide; do they themselves then have the right to exist? Would we be morally justified in visiting genocide on them? Is there room for doubt?",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "social ethical dilemma"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In tng3x03 \"The Survivors\", should the 50 billion strong race of aggressive conquerers known as the Husnock be permitted to run amok around the galaxy? The all-powerful Douwd didn't think so and wiped them out of existence with a thought. Then he suffered grievous pangs of conscience."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the road to hell is paved with good intentions",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "This old adage, usually meaning that many bad things have come about because of people who thought they were doing good, is illustrated.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human idea about life"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_road_to_hell_is_paved_with_good_intentions"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the role of the disabled in society",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The role of disabled people in society is explored.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "special interest group issue"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Miranda Jones hid her blindness and proved she could do just as well as a normal person in tos3x07 \"Is There in Truth No Beauty?\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the role of the elderly in society",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The role of the elderly in society is explored.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "special interest group issue"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the role of war veterans in society",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The role of war veterans in society is explored.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "special interest group issue"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "The Angosians tucked their genetically engineered war veterans safely away on a shabby little moon in tng3x11 \"The Hunted\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "The Russian Revolution",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The Russian Revolution was a period of political and social revolution that took place in the former Russian Empire and began during the First World War. Commencing in 1917 with the fall of the House of Romanov, it concluded in 1923 with the Bolshevik establishment of the Soviet Union. This event and period of Russian history is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "historical event",
                "revolution in society"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Revolution"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the Russian Revolution of 1905",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Events popularly knowns as The Russian Revolution of 1905, are featured. This was a wave of mass political and social unrest that spread through vast areas of the Russian Empire, some of which was directed at the government. It included worker strikes, peasant unrest, and military mutinies.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "historical event",
                "revolution in society"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1905_Russian_Revolution"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "The film \"Battleship Potemkin\" (1925) romanticizes a mutiny aboard the eponymous vessel and its involvement with the 1905 uprisings in Odessa."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the Salem witch trials",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693. This theme is used whenever this event is featured in the story.",
            "notes": [
                "For the intents and purposes of thematic annotation we shall assume that any witch trials referenced as taking place in colonial Massachusetts, in fact the Salem Witch trials, unless otherwise is said explicitly."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "historical event",
                "witch-hunt"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the senselessness of war",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The idea is put forth that war is an immature and undignified way to resolve problems.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "war"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the ship Titanic",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The magnificent luxury cruiser RMS Titanic that famously hit an ice berg and sank in 1912, is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "historical event"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the soul",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The \"soul\" is the notion that people have an immaterial, intangible and immortal component that will somehow continue to exist after the body dies. Such a thing is featured in the story.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "organized religion"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soul"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Captain Pike balked at the notion that having free reign in an Orion den of sin was worth a man's soul in tos0x01 \"The Cage\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the sport of boxing",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "This, sometimes controversial, sport wherein two people wear safety gear and try punch each other in a boxing ring, is notably featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "combat sports"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional_boxing",
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amateur_boxing"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the Star Trek franchise",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "This iconic story universe is featured as an object within some story that is not itself part of the franchise.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "cultural history"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In futurama4x11 \"Where No Fan Has Gone Before\", the protagonists encounter the living heads of the main actors from the original Star Trek TV series and get wound up in a narrative that is clearly a parody on one of the iconic Star Trek stories."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the stupidity of crowds",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Presented is the idea that flocks of people acting in unison often end up acting with remarkable baseness and folly.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human idea about life"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In tz1959e5x07 \"The Old Man in the Cave\", townspeople disillusioned of the old-man-in-a-cave myth irrationally smashed to smithereens their only hope of salvation: a powerful computer."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the supernatural",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Things that are traditionally thought of as not being valid targets for rational inquiry and experimentation are featured. Typically ghosts, spirits, and the like.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "folk belief"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernatural"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Two extradimensional aliens used their mysterious abilities to conjure up a haunted castle and other things from the dark depths of human imagination in tos2x01 \"Catspaw\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the tech industry",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character working in a technology oriented company is engaged in their chosen occupation.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human occupational activity"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the technological singularity",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Featured is the idea that, at some point, AI will become more advanced than humans. At that point the AI will accelerate the development of even more advanced AI, and so on ad infinitum. The result is that, pretty much in the wink of an eye, AI so far exceeds human capabilities that it makes humanity obsolete and imperils human civilization's existence, or freedom to choose its own destiny.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "AI risk to civilization",
                "speculative future event"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the theater",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The art of playing out stories live is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "the fine arts and the humanities",
                "the entertainment industry"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theatre"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the theory of evolution",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Featured is the process of change in all forms of life over generations that is characterized by mutation, genetic drift, and natural selection.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "biology"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_evolution"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the thirst for knowledge",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character wants ever more information, understanding, and knowledge.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human self-actualization need"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the thrill is in the chase",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Featured is the idea that life is often more exciting while one tries to accomplish something, than it is once that goal has been achieved. Sometimes that excitement may seem more valuable than the utility of whatever the goal was.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human idea about life"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In tz1959e4x14 \"Of Late I Think of Cliffordville\", the business tycoon Mr. Feathersmith had just finished diminishing his last major rival and considered that his empire was now everything it possibly could be. The satisfaction soon waned, however and he turned to the bottle while reminiscing on how much more fun it had been facing the various challenges in the early days of his career. When the Devil appeared to offer him a chance to do it over again, Mr. Feathersmith jumped on the opportunity."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the thrill of danger",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character experiences the feeling of exuberance that can sometimes come with a perilous situation.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human emotion"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the Tooth Fairy",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "This legendary figure, who collects teeth from beneath children's pillows and leaves a small remuneration in exchange, is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "legendary being"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tooth_fairy"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In tz1985e1x16c \"Tooth and Consequences\", the Tooth Fairy himself appears before a depressed dentist to grant him whatever he wished."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the Turing test",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "An idea famously suggested by Allan Turing that when AI can fool humans, they will indeed by intelligent.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "mathematics"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_test"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the unappreciated and unimportant at the workplace",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The ungratifying experience of someone who is at the very bottom rung of the corporate ladder is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "pecking order"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the universe is a dream",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We must ponder the possibility that reality as we know it is simply the dream of one's self, or of some other sentient entity.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative cosmos"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream_argument"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In tz1985e1x23a \"Shadow Play\", Adam was convinced that his execution wouldn't matter because he is only dreaming."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the universe is a simulation",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We must ponder the possibility that all we know is just a simulation within a larger reality.",
            "notes": [
                "Typically the simulation is featured as being within a computer, but this is not a requirement. The simulation might be a physical contained space within a larger reality."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative cosmos"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulation_hypothesis"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Dr. James Moriarty was to unwittingly live out his simulated life in a simulated universe in tng6x12 \"Ship in a Bottle\", but who knows: maybe we all are?"
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the use of personality altering medication",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are asked to ponder whether and when it is justified in medicine to prescribe such drugs as may alleviate symptoms, but do so at the expense of severely altering the mind and character of a patient.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "medical ethical issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mood_stabilizer",
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychoactive_drug"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In nightgallery3x13 \"Whisper\", we saw Charlie decline a doctor's suggestion that he prescribe personality altering drugs to Charlie's wife. Charlie believed his wife might loose her quirky and erratic yet charming nature."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the value of imagination",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Whether and to what extent our imagination is of benefit to us is discussed.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human nature"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the Vietnam War",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The historical event known as the Vietnam War is featured. The Vietnam War was conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia that lasted from November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "historical event"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the visual arts",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character working with art forms such as painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, photography, video, filmmaking, design, crafts, and architecture is engaged in their occupation.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "art related occupation"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_arts"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the winners write history",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The time tested wisdom that time tested wisdom and history are generally constructed by the winners of conflicts and would possibly look quite different if such conflicts had ended differently.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human idea about life"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the wish to live",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The basic instinct in humans to fight for self-preservation is discussed more or less explicitly.\n\nNote: Since many if not most stories feature some sort of struggle for survival, this theme should be used only when the psychological force is more or less explicitly made topical.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human nature"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_to_live"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "the Wizard of Oz",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "This story from 1900 is explicitly featured or parodied.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "cultural history"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wonderful_Wizard_of_Oz"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "theft",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The taking of another (legal) person's (property or services or scrap money without that person's permission or consent with the intent to deprive the rightful owner of it, is featured.",
            "notes": [
                "The legal person who is deprived may be for example an individual, a company, or a state."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "crime against property"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theft"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "theocracy",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a society in which one or more gods are recognized as rulers and the ruling elite is essentially a priesthood (or the gods themselves).",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "political ideology"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theocracy"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "theory of everything",
            "aliases": [
                "grand unified theory GUT ToE"
            ],
            "description": "A hypothetical all-encompassing theory of physics that fully explains and links together all physical aspects of the universe.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "physics"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_everything"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Barclay had a heated discussion with a virtual Albert Einstein about this theory on the holodeck in tng4x19 \"The Nth Degree\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "theory of relativity",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Albert Einstein's theories regarding the nature of space, time, and gravity are featured to some extent.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "physics"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_relativity",
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_relativity"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Holographic recreations of Stephen Hawking, Isaac Newton, and Albert Einstein quibbled about this and other things in tng6x26 \"Descent\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "there is someone for everyone",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The idea is put forth that, however bad your disadvantages are, there is always someone out there who would be a willing and suitable romantic match for you.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human idea about life"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "there is strength in unity",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The time tested wisdom that we are stronger when we stand united is illustrated.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "humans in group"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Kor explained that the Klingons are united and therefore strong in tos1x27 \"Errand of Mercy\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "there is value in diversity",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The idea that diversity in itself may be desirable, is featured. For example, it may be noted that diversity in skills and in thinking can be very useful to a society.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human idea about life"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "there is value in redundancy",
            "aliases": [
                "reliance on a single point of failure is unwise"
            ],
            "description": "That redundancy, a copy which does not add value while the original is around, can in fact be a good thing (because the original may break) is featured. As \"redundancy\" is often a byword for \"waste\", the observation is perhaps worth making.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human idea about life"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "thermophilic being",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A being that thrives in extreme heat.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "biologically distinguished being"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "The Tholians of tos3x09 \"The Tholian Web\" were a non-humanoid, thermophilic species."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "thinking about one's accomplishments in life",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character reflects upon what they have done (or failed to do) with their life. This is often at the core of a midlife crisis.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human dreaming"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midlife_crisis"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "those who do not remember the past are condemned to relive it",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "This time-tested piece of wisdom is demonstrated.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human idea about life"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "thought materialization ability",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is able to make physical objects that did not previously exist, appear as out of thin air.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative ability related to physical things"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "thought-controlled vehicle",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a vehicle that is controlled simply by thinking, without using knobs, wheels, levers, etc.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative vehicle"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "thoughtcrime society",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We imagine what the world would be like if certain ways of thinking could be detected and punished by the government.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative social institution"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoughtcrime"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "threat from extraterrestrial life",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Civilization as we know it is jeopardized by the activities of living beings from another planet. This may, for example, involve an invasion, colonization, infiltration, or preemptive attempt by aliens to wipe out humanity. Alternatively, it may involve some sort of alien accident.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "existential risk to civilization"
            ],
            "references": [
                "http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/invasion",
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_catastrophic_risk#Extraterrestrial_invasion"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "tidal power",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The harnessing of tidal energy as a power source for technology is explored.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "technology"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tidal_power"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "The dystopian city in \"Logan's Run\" (1976) was powered by the tides."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "tidally locked planet",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A planet one side of which always faces its parent star, like how the same side of the moon always faces the earth.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "astronomy"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tidal_locking"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Captain Picard secretly met various Federation starship captains on the tidally locked planet Dytallix B in tng1x15 \"Conspiracy\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "tilting at windmills",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character unreasonably takes action against an enemy that exists only in their own imagination.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "overactive imagination"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Quixote#Tilting_at_windmills"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "time freeze",
            "aliases": [
                "time stop"
            ],
            "description": "Time itself comes to a complete stop.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "time slow down"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "time loop",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A repeated period of time that is typically re-experienced by those within it.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative time manipulating effect"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_loop",
                "http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/time_loop"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "time machine",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Featured is a hypothetical device by which someone can travel in time. This may be either to an earlier time or to a later time, and without the need for the time-traveler to experience the intervening period of time in the usual sense.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative technology",
                "time travel"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_travel",
                "http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/time_machine"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "time passing at different rates for different people",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "At least two characters experience the passage of time such that time goes faster for the one and slower for the other.",
            "notes": [
                "For this theme to apply, the experience of the passage of time must be depicted from the point of view of each character. In particular, this theme does not apply when one character simply freezes time or slows time to a crawl."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative time manipulating effect",
                "speculative experience"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "The Scalosians had been subjected to radiation that made them speed up in time relative to the Enterprise crew in tos3x13 \"Wink of an Eye\". The radiation had its negative effects also, rendering them sterile."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "time portal",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A doorway in time.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "time travel"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_portal",
                "http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/time_gate"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "time rewind ability",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is able at will to turn back the clock, to some extent, and do things over again. Typically they retain their memories while everything else in the universe is reset to an earlier state of affairs.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative ability related to reality at large",
                "time travel"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "time slow down",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Time itself is observed to slow to a crawl.",
            "notes": [
                "The theme \"time freeze\" is used in the limiting case when time comes to a complete and utter stop."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative time manipulating effect"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "time slow down ability",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is somehow able to slow down or even freeze time. Typically the person with the ability can still move, breathe, and even interact with otherwise frozen objects and persons.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative ability related to reality at large"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "time travel",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Traveling between past and future points in time is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative travel"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_travel",
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_travel_in_fiction",
                "http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/time_travel"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "time travel paradox",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is an apparent contradiction, or logical contradiction associated with the  idea of time and time travel. Typically, temporal paradoxes fall into two broad groups: consistency paradoxes exemplified by the grandfather paradox, and causal loops.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "time travel",
                "metaphysics"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temporal_paradox"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "time traveler living secretly among us",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character who has traveled from a another time lives secretly among normal people.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "time travel",
                "impostor living secretly among us"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "time traveler meddling in history",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A person travels back in time and changes history somehow.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "time travel",
                "people meddling in history"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In tz1985e1x20a \"Profile in Silver\", we saw history professor Dr. Joseph Fitzgerald travel back in time from the year 2172 to quietly observe President John F. Kennedy. Alas, when the sinister moment arrived Joseph could not stop himself but impulsively intervened to save the much admired President. This action had unexpected and dire consequences for the world."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "time traveler's dilemma",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The following dilemma is illustrated: What should we do if some people find a way to affect the past? They could stop Hitler, yes, but what untold damage might they also do?",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "time travel"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandfather_paradox",
                "http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/time_paradoxes"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "to kill or to spare",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character must choose whether to satisfy their own blood thirst, lust for vengeance, etc., on one hand, or to show mercy, compassion, etc., on the other.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "personal life and death dilemma"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "to settle down vs. to keep on trekking",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character considers whether or not it is time to settle down at specific place instead of traveling around.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human life choice"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "to tell the truth vs. to offer a comforting lie",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character must choose between telling a comforting white lie on the one hand, and being brutally honest on the other.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "personal ethical dilemma"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "too much television is bad for society",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The idea is put forth that people watching too much (or perhaps any amount of) TV is detrimental to society for one reason or another.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "mass media in society"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "torture",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are made to ponder the practice of some humans to deliberately inflict severe physical or psychological suffering on people that are in their power.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human rights issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torture",
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Convention_against_Torture"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "totalitarian dystopia",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a society in which the ruling government aspires to complete control over all aspects of life, i.e., including what people should read, think, say, and do in their \"free time\".",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "dystopia"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totalitarianism"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "toxic waste management",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The social problem of what to do with toxic waste, for example radioactive garbage, is brought up.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "waste management"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxic_waste"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "track and field",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Track and field is a sport that includes athletic contests based on running, jumping, and throwing skills. This sport is featured in the story.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "sports"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Track_and_field"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "tractor beam",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A contraption used to produce a beam of gravity to attract material objects at a distance but in a desired direction.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative device"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tractor_beam#Fiction",
                "http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/tractor_beam"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "trading sex to get ahead in the world",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character struggles with the moral issue of whether to use sex as a tool in order to get things like wealth, power, and influence that are perceived as improving one's standing in society.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "compromising one's ethical principles for personal advantage"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casting_couch"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "traditionalism",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone emphasizes tradition and doing things \"the good old way\" as opposed to embracing new ways of going about it.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human sentiment"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "traditionalist conservatism",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone espouses a return to traditional values, the need for moral order, and the like.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "political ideology"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditionalist_conservatism",
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_conservatism"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "tragic love",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Love that has come to a tragic impasse, for example because the object of the feeling has died prematurely.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "romantic love"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "transcendental being",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a being whose capabilities are clearly beyond what we can fathom or describe by our science. Their feats often seem like magic and their actions may be either good or evil as judged by human standards.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative being"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "transcendental point of view",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are shown what things might be like from the point of view  of a being whose abilities are so far beyond us that they seem  practically omnipotent, and who therefore is not limited by our own practical concerns.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "alien point of view"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "transnational conflict over a claimed territory",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Two or more sovereign factions fight over territory that they all claim as theirs.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "international issue"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "transnational conflict over a shared resource",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Two or more sovereign factions fight over a resource that is not under the sole control of any one faction.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "international issue"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "transnational conflict over environmental concern",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Two or more sovereign entities squabble over something related to the environment. For example, one nation's damming of a river may threaten a downstream nation's economy.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "international issue"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "transnational institution for peace",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "An institution reminiscent of the United Nations is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "international issue"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Babylon 5 in the eponymous tv show is essentially a UN in space."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "transsexualism",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are asked to what extent, if any, transsexualism ought to be tolerated in society and how people who identify with a different gender than they were assigned at birth, ought to be treated. Are sex-change operations to be permitted or even subsidized?",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "sexual norms in society"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transsexual"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Captain Kirk and Janice Lester switched genders on account of switching bodies in tos3x24 \"Turnabout Intruder\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "trapped in the belly of a whale",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is swallowed up by a whale, or similar leviathan, and must face the prospect that they may never again see the light of day.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human vs. speculative environment",
                "stranded without food and water"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonah"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "trapped underground",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is trapped in a mine, cave, or the like without prompt rescue being at hand.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human vs. environment",
                "stranded without food and water"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In tz1985e2x08b \"The Junction\", two miners from very different points in time somehow end up trapped together in a collapsed mineshaft, hoping beyond hope for rescue."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "travel inside a human body",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone finds themself tiny and able to move around inside a human body.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative travel"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "travel into the Earth",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone travels deep into the Earth's crust and possibly beyond (much deeper than spelunking as we know it can take you). Sometimes the goal of the journey is the center of the Earth. Sometimes a drill-like vehicle is used.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative travel"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travel_to_the_Earth%27s_center#In_science_fiction",
                "http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/underground"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "traversable wormhole",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A passage through space-time that would allow vast distances to be quickly traversed.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "astronomy",
                "space travel"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wormhole",
                "http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/wormholes"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "treason",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A member of a faction decides to take up the cause of an enemy faction against their own.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "crime"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treason"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "treatment of migrants",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are made to ponder how the government ought (or ought not) to treat immigrants into our society, illegal and otherwise.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "law and order issue",
                "immigration in society"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In tz2019e1x08 \"Point of Origin\", we saw how suspected illegal immigrants were herded together in cold and brutal internment camps by a ruthless government agency. The cultural context makes it clear that we must think of the way ICE in the USA have been said to treat immigrants."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "treatment of prisoners",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are asked how prisons ought to be organized. Day-care center for adults, or hell-on-Earth?",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "legal punishment"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoners%27_rights"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "treatment of the criminally insane",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are asked how the criminally insane ought to be treated. Just like any other prisoner, or with more compassion?",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "legal punishment"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "treatment of the mentally ill in society",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The way society treats people with serious mental illnesses is discussed.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "public health issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_disorder",
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunatic"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "treatment of war collaborators",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are asked to ponder what one should do after the war with those of one's own people who choose to collaborate with the enemy for one reason or another. For example, if someone collaborated only because they would be killed otherwise, should they be punished?",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "law and order issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaborationism"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "true beauty comes from within",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The idea is posited that real beauty does not come from make-up and such mundane trappings, but is a thing of the soul.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human idea about life"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Ruth, Magda and Eve found that they didn't need the Venus drug to be beautiful because their beauty stemmed from increased self-confidence and not the drug in tos1x03 \"Mudd's Women\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "true name",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The idea that beings can have true name, and that speaking said names can have some sort of supernatural effects, is featured. For example, speaking the true name of a demon might perhaps summon said demon.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "magic word"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_name",
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody_Mary_(folklore)"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "trust",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character exhibits a feeling of faith in the reliability of someone or, occasionally, something. This assumes that the character harbors a certain level of \"acceptance\", not necessarily \"admiration\" toward their object.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "humans in pairs"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trust_(emotion)"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "trust in a friend",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character supports a friend by showing unwavering trust in their honesty.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "friendship"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "trust in a leader",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A leader inspires trust in their team members.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "humans in hierarchy"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "trust in a potential foe",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character must choose whether a potential foe is to be trusted.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "personal practical dilemma"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "trust in intentions vs. trust in judgement",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character must choose whether another's judgement can be trusted even though their intentions are above reproach.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "personal practical dilemma"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "truth inducing technology",
            "aliases": [
                "truth serum"
            ],
            "description": "There is technology, perhaps a serum or other kind of drug, by which people can be made to speak the truth and nothing but the truth, to some extent or another.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "mind altering technology"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth_serum"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "turn the other cheek",
            "aliases": [
                "forgiveness"
            ],
            "description": "A character endorses the ethic that we ought to refrain from retaliating when aggrieved. While this could be about physical attacks it is more often used in the context of insults.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human sentiment"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "The pacifist Dowd turned every cheek on his body in spite of insult and injury (then he ran out and wiped a species of 50 billions clean out existence) in tng3x03 \"The Survivors\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "twin and twin",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The relationship between two siblings born of a single pregnancy, is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human familial relationship"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "twin earth",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A hypothetical planet that is a near duplicate of Earth.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative habitable celestial body"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_analog"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Earth Two was discovered in tos1x11 \"Miri\" and found to be populated only by children."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "two-dimensional being",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A being that perceive only two spatial dimension, like those sentient geometrical figures occupying a two-dimensional world described in the satirical novella \"Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions\" by E. A. Abbott.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "locationally distinguished being"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interdimensional_being"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "The Enterprise-D came into contact with a plane of 2D beings floating towards a cosmic string in tng4x10 \"The Loss\", and got stuck."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "two-dimensional space",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A world confined to two spatial dimensions.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative cosmos"
            ],
            "references": [
                "http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/dimensions"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "The Enterprise-D got stuck in a plane of two-dimensional beings in tng4x10 \"The Loss\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "unbounded thought powers",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is able to do or change reality in practically any way, qualitatively limited only by imagination.",
            "notes": [
                "This theme is used when the ability appears qualitatively unbounded. That is, a character may be seen to do a few limited things, but it is clear that there are very few limits on what sort of things they can do. Typically, this theme is used when a character becomes godlike and can will reality to change in the blink of an eye."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative ability related to reality at large"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Riker was riding on his high horse upon having been granted godlike Q powers in tng1x10 \"Hide and Q\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "uncle and nephew",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The relationship between an uncle and his nephew is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human familial relationship"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "uncle and niece",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The relationship between an uncle and his niece is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human familial relationship"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "undead being",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a being that is deceased but behaves as if they were alive.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "monster"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undead"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "undead mummy",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is an as undead creature wrapped in bandages.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "living corpse"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummy_(monster)"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "The mad scientist Dr. Krupp hatched a plot to steal a golden breastplate and a bracelet from the tomb of the centuries-old living mummy Popocain in \"The Robot vs. the Aztec Mummy\" (1958)."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "undead skeleton",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a living (typically human) skeleton.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "living corpse"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeleton_(undead)"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "A living skeleton received a lesson in elevator manners in the \"Night Gallery\" tale \"An Act of Chivalry\" (1971)."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "underground city",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a large underground settlement that does not sprawl out onto the surface.",
            "notes": [
                "This theme does not apply when a small community of people living inside caverns or a underground complex, as is sometimes depicted in post-apocalyptic dystopian films."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative city"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "The United Earth Government prepared approximately 10,000 underground cities for the world's population to hunker down inside while the planet was being migrated out of the Solar System to the Alpha Centauri system in \"The Wandering Earth\" (2019)."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "undersea tunnel",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A tunnel which is partly or wholly constructed under a body of water is featured in a manner that makes it clear it is a future technological achievement.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "sub-planetary-scale engineering"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undersea_tunnel"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "understanding by metaphor",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Communicating by metaphorical language is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "problem of language and meaning"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "underwater breathing gill",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A small, air-tankless device that fits in the mouth used to breathe underwater.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative device"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Obi-Wan Kenobi and Qui-Gon Jinn used just such devices to swim to the underwater city Otoh Gunga in \"Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace\" (1999)."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "underwater city",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A large settlement under water. It might be adapted for air-breathing people somehow, or it may be inhabited by water breathers.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative city"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "unemployment in society",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The social problem of people being unemployed against their desire is discussed.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "socioeconomic issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unemployment"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "unethical business practices",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a businessman or corporation that, in their ruthless pursuit of the bottom line, engage in activities that are clearly considered unethical. The activities may or may not be legal.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "socioeconomic issue"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In futurama1x13 \"Fry and the Slurm Factory\", the Slurm factory was an evil corporation that ruthlessly exploited its poor \"Grunka-Lunka\" thralls in order to produce an extraordinarily unhealthy but addictive Slurm cola which it marketed vigorously to the public."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "unethical experimentation for scientific progress",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are made to ponder whether unethical practices can be justified if they are likely to further scientific progress. Would it, for example, be alright to risk the life of a convicted felon in order to test out a device that might bring us clean energy?",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "social ethical dilemma"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "unethical human experimentation",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Medical experiments are carried out on people and we are asked question such as: Can the ends justify the means when someone tests medical procedures and drugs on patients without their informed consent? Is it right to use knowledge that was obtained through atrocities such as the Nazi experimentation in German concentration camps?",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "medical ethical issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unethical_human_experimentation"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "unethical psychological experimentation",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "It is discussed whether a psychological experiment can be considered ethical.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "unethical human experimentation"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unethical_human_experimentation"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Dr. Tristan Adams used a device to break people's minds and turn them into zombies in tos1x10 \"Dagger of the Mind\", all in the name of medical science."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "unions in the workplace",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is an organization of workers who have come together to achieve common goals; such as protecting the integrity of its trade, improving safety standards, and attaining better wages, etc.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "humans at work"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_union"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "universal translation device",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A device used to seamlessly translate speech between any languages.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative device"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_translator",
                "http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/universal_translator"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "unkillable attribute",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "For whatever reason, a character is literally impossible to kill through conventional means. Typically, this happens because fate is involved.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative personal resilience"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "unknown parent",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The classical \"who is the father?\" scenario, according to which there is a child and it is pondered who the real parent is, is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "family affairs"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "unlawful detention",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The act of intentionally restricting another person's movement within any area without legal authority, justification, or the restrained person's permission, is featured as a crime. Notably, this situation tends to arise in fiction when police or similar forces overstep the bounds.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "legal punishment"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_imprisonment"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "unplanned pregnancy",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The many trials and tribulations a woman or a couple may face when the woman unexpectedly becomes pregnant are featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human parenting"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unintended_pregnancy"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Worf was at a loss for words when K'Ehleyr showed up in tng4x07 \"Reunion\" and had with her the unexpected consequence of their impulse mating on the holodeck some years earlier."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "unrequited love",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A romantic love, or infatuation, in which the object of the ambition declines to reciprocate the emotions, i.e., they don't love you back.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "romantic love"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unrequited_love"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Geordi was devastated to find that the real Leah Brahms didn't much fancy him in tng4x16 \"Galaxy's Child\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "uptight character vs. laid back character",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "An uptight character is contrasted with a more easy going person.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human characters in contrast"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "Uranian extraterrestrial",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is an alien race that is native to the planet Uranus in our solar system.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "extraterrestrial being"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranus"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "using tough love",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character, typically a parent or mentor, must choose in a given situation whether to be harsh with a another for their own good.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "personal practical dilemma"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "utopia",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Notions about how society could be made \"perfect\". Note that such notions are often scatterbrained and the objects of the themes turn out to be horrible dystopia. This is all captured in the word \"utopia\" which literally means \"no place\".",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative social institution"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utopia",
                "http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/utopias"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "utopia based on a view of human nature",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Society is perfect because, well, everyone behaves in a way that conforms to a particular view of human nature.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "utopia"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "utopia based on exploitation of a group",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Society is great because there is a (usually contemptible) class of people who can be made to do all the unpleasant work.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "utopia"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "utopia on the back of android labor",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Society is perfect thanks to an army of androids that fulfill our every wish.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "utopia based on exploitation of a group",
                "technologically enabled utopia"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "An army of obedient androids stood ready to bring utopia to the galaxy but were stopped by Captain Kirk and a well aimed logical paradox in tos2x12 \"I, Mudd\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "utopia on the back of slave labor",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Society is perfect thanks to an army of slaves that just take care of every distasteful chore.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "utopia based on exploitation of a group"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "vampire",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a being, typically undead and sentient, that subsists by feeding on the blood of the living.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "living corpse",
                "parasitic being"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampire",
                "http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/vampires"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "vandalism",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The deliberately destroying or damaging to public or private property is featured as being a crime.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "crime against property"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vandalism"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "The Troglytes of Ardana were none too happy with their status as lowly miners and used vandalism to voice their displeasure in tos3x19 \"The Cloud Minders\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "vanity",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character exhibits excessive admiration of their own appearance or achievements.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human character"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanity"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Mudd's women took the \"Venus drug\" in order to maintain youthful appearances in the eponymous episode tos1x03 \"Mudd's Women\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "vegetarianism",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone abstains from eating meat and other animal products on moral grounds.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human sentiment"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetarianism"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "vendetta",
            "aliases": [
                "blood feud"
            ],
            "description": "There is a bitter, destructive and escalating feud between two factions within one society.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "crime against the person",
                "violent crime"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feud"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Yuta of the vanquished clan Tralesta was genetically altered and spent 100 years tracking down members of the Lornak clan in a vendetta in tng3x09 \"The Vengeance Factor\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "vengeance from beyond the grave",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A departed person somehow bothers the living world because the person feels, or once felt, they have a bone to pick with someone there. For example, a murder victim's spirit may be haunting its killer in a desire to see vengeance done.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "the restless dead",
                "the desire for vengeance"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "ventriloquism",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Ventriloquism, or ventriloquy, is an act of stagecraft in which a person (a ventriloquist) creates the illusion that their voice is coming from elsewhere, usually a puppeteered prop, known as a \"dummy\". This activity is featured in the story.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "stand-up comedy",
                "stage magic"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ventriloquism"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "Venusian extraterrestrial",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Featured is a native inhabitant of the planet Venus.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "extraterrestrial being"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venusians"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "video game addiction",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone exhibits an addiction to a video game.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human addiction"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_addiction"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "video gaming",
            "aliases": [
                "computer gaming"
            ],
            "description": "A character is enthusiastic about playing video games.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "recreational activity"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Alex Rogan was determined to set the high score on an arcade game, called Starfighter, in \"The Last Starfighter\" (1984)."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "video manipulation in society",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The social consequences of our recently emerging ability to fake or manipulate video with such precision that it is hard to spot, is discussed.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "sociotechnological issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_manipulation"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "videophone",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A phone system with a video link is featured in such a manner that it is made clear it is still a technology to be developed in the future.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "once speculative device"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teleconference"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Captain Kirk and his crew conferred in such a way in tos2x26 \"Assignment: Earth\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "vigilante justice",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Extrajudicial punishment that is motivated by the nonexistence of law and order or dissatisfaction with justice is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "crime against justice"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frontier_justice"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "violence in the media",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The social implications of violence being portrayed, often glorified, on TV, in films, in games, or in other media, is explored.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "sociocultural issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research_on_the_effects_of_violence_in_mass_media",
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_controversies#Violence"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "violent crime",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "One or another of those proscribed actions involving violence or the threat of violence, is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "crime"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "virgin birth",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A religious doctrine holding that someone, i.e., Christ, was conceived in the absence of sexual intercourse.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "organized religion"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miraculous_births"
            ],
            "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."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "virtual lover",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a virtual personality with which someone corporeal has a love affair.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "virtual person"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "virtual person",
            "aliases": [
                "simulated person sentient computer program"
            ],
            "description": "A personality that exists only as a program within some computer. It is self- aware but may or may not be cognizent of its status as a simulation. Perhaps we all are such.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "artificial being",
                "artificial intelligence"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulated_consciousness_in_fiction"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "virtual reality room",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a programmable room that can produce virtually any imaginable setting, including tangible physical objects, like virtual reality on steroids.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative virtual reality"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_reality"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "virtual reality sex",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a technology that allows users to engage in sexual relations with virtually reality simulated characters, or receive tactile sensations from remote participants.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative virtual reality"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_reality_sex"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "virtual reality suit",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a wearable suit that makes it seem as if you were somewhere else, encompassing all the senses.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative full body outfit",
                "speculative virtual reality"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_reality"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Geordi uses a virtual reality suit to explore a wrecked spaceship in the inhospitable environment of a gas giant planet in tng7x03 \"Interface\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "vision beyond the visible spectrum glasses",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Glasses-like technology that can make the brain perceive and interpret electromagnetic waves (light) beyond what is normal, i.e., into the infrared or ultraviolet regions and possibly beyond. This is used to describe Geordi's iconic VISOR. Note: this includes X-ray glasses as a special case.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative glasses"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "vision quest",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A Native American ritual used to establish contact with an ancestral spirit to ask for guidance during a difficult time.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "organized religion"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vision_quest"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "The mystic Traveler posing as a space Native American mystic embarked Wesley on a vision quest to acquire arcane lore in tng7x20 \"Journey's End\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "visual impairment",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is visually impaired to some extent.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "coping with a disability"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_impairment"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "vivisection",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "It is discussed whether dissecting a living creature for the sake of advancing medical knowledge is justified.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "medical ethical issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivisection"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Extradimensional aliens abducted Riker and severed his arm in tng6x05 \"Schisms\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "voice duplicator",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A device used to make your voice sound like that of another.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative device"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "The android Ruk had a built in voice duplicator that let him impersonate Captain Kirk in tos1x09 \"What Are Little Girls Made Of?\""
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "voice identification device",
            "aliases": [
                "speaker recognition device"
            ],
            "description": "A device which can identify a speaker merely from a recording of their voice and to some extent understand what is being said. This was sci-fi in the 60s. This was pure sci-fi in the 60s but is by-and-by becoming more of a reality.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "once speculative device"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speaker_recognition"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Gary Seven's computer in tos2x26 \"Assignment: Earth\" recognized its owner's voice."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "volcanic cataclysm",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Volcanic activity increases and civilization bites the dust. Pardon the pun.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "force of nature existential risk to civilization"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Terratin civilization on Terra Ten was threatened by volcanic activity in tas1x11 \"The Terratin Incident\" so Captain Kirk moved them all to Verdanis."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "voodoo doll",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is an effigy of a person that can mysteriously be used to affect that person in various way. A person may, for example, be subjected to various afflictions when needles are inserted into relevant parts of their effigy.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "voodoo magic",
                "magic object"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voodoo_doll"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "voodoo magic",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is magic of the type that is popularly thought of as Voodoo. This often involves witch-doctors and curses in a stereotypical tropical jungle setting.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "sympathetic magic"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voodoo"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "vow of silence",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The occasional religious practice of forswearing speech is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "organized religion"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vow_of_silence"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "voyage under the sea",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone goes on a journey into the depths of the sea, typically in a submarine.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative travel"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Captain Nemo built a super high-tech submarine to explore the ocean depths in \"20000 Leagues Under the Sea\" (1954)."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "war",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Sovereign factions, usually state-like entities but sometimes armed rebels etc., taking up arms against each other for one reason or another is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "international issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "war crime",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "An act that constitutes a serious violation of the laws of war that gives rise to individual criminal responsibility is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "crime",
                "war"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_crime"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "war due to diplomatic miscalculation",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Neither faction in a diplomatic negotiation really wants war but fluke and miscalculation threaten to pull them into a military confrontation anyway.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "war"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "war is sometimes justified",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The idea is put forth that the deliberate waging of war, horrible as it may be, may sometimes be justified.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "social ethical dilemma"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Spock argued that war against Nazi Germany was warranted in the lead up to World War II in tos1x28 \"The City on the Edge of Forever\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "war of mutual annihilation",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "People wage war on each other and (often with the help of WMDs) wipe each other out in a mutual apocalypse.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "institutional risk to civilization",
                "war"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "war of religion",
            "aliases": [
                "holy war"
            ],
            "description": "A war primarily caused or justified by differences in religion is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "war"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_war"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "war of succession",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "War (typically civil war) breaks out over who is to become the new leader after the old leader dies.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "war"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_succession"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "war plunder",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A faction with the upper hand in a military conflict decides to loot and remove some of their opponents' cultural artifacts and other valuables. This theme is often featured when the war is over and calls for the return of said plunder are made.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "war"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Looting#In_armed_conflict"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "war propaganda",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The use of propaganda in war is featured. This can be to dehumanize and demonize the enemy, to glorify your own actions, and to heroify your allies.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "war"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda#Wartime"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "warlock",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a man who practices witchcraft.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "legendary magic wielder"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warlock"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "waste management",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The societal problem of how to handle all sorts of unwanted byproducts of human activity is discussed. This means rubbish and garbage form everyday life as well as from industry.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "environmental issue"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "water planet to the core",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a planet that is almost 100% water through and through.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative habitable celestial body"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "water sports",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a sport which takes place either in or on liquid water.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "sports"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_water_sports"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "wax sculpture",
            "aliases": [
                "wax doll"
            ],
            "description": "The art and artifice of making depictions out of wax like substances, is featured. For example, a wax museum filled with wax effigies of famous people might be pointedly featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "sculpture"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wax_sculpture"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "we need a balance between rationality and emotionality",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are shown that people use a balance of rationality and emotionality in their normal functioning.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human idea about life"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "we need our darker side in moderation",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The idea is posited that dark emotions such as anger, jealousy, and fear, which we usually detest, actually serve a meaningful purpose.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human idea about life"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Captain Kirk was duplicated into one copy that had all his good qualities, one that had all the bad but neither of which was a very useful person in tos1x04 \"The Enemy Within\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "weaponization of animals",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The use of animals in warfare and other combat related activities is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "war"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_animal#As_weapons"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "A corporation was marketing special genetically engineered dinosaurs to be used in warfare in \"Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom\" (2018)."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "weapons of mass destruction",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A weapon of mass destruction is a nuclear, radiological, chemical, biological, or any other weapon that can kill and bring significant harm to a large number of humans or cause great damage to human-made structures (e.g., buildings), natural structures (e.g., mountains), or the biosphere. The use of such weapons in war is featured.",
            "notes": [
                "We consider that the mere existence of a WMD implies its potential use in war as these devices really have no other credible purpose."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "war"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weapon_of_mass_destruction"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Biological, chemical, and nuclear weapons are commonly found beneath the moniker \"weapons of mass destruction\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "werewolf",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a human with a transmittable condition that makes them occasionally transform in to a vicious creature, typically a wolf, or a human-creature hybrid.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "monster"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werewolf",
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therianthropy",
                "http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/werewolves"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what goes around comes around",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The idea is illustrated that in acting some way (often meaning \"badly\") towards others, you help normalize that behavior and make it more likely that others in turn will act that way to you.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human idea about life"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/what_goes_around_comes_around"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what if a child had power over adults",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are made to imagine a situation in which a child exercises notable authority over an adult. This can, for example, happen because the child has supernatural powers that enable them to enforce their will.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative society"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In tz2019e1x05 \"The Wunderkind\", young sociopath Oliver Foley cleverly manipulates public opinion and becomes elected president of the USA. Once installed in the White House, it does not take long for Oliver's despotic tendencies to bloom. Adults around him must jump to his childish whims for fear of loosing their jobs or be accused of treason."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what if a killer was after me",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character experiences what it is like to know that someone is out to take their life.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "what if someone dangerous was after me"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what if a loved one became possessed by another being",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We imagine what it would be like if a loved one suddenly became possessed by a demon or some other malevolent entity and started doing evil demon things, like hitting us.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "what if someone around me changed"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Keiko O'Brien's husband Miles became possessed by a malevolent, disembodied prisoner alien in tng5x15 \"Power Play\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what if an aspect of my personality was slightly different",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We imagine what it'd be like to be a somewhat different person than we are, in terms of character.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative experience"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what if Britain had won the American Revolutionary War",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are made to imagine what things might have been like had England suppressed the American Revolution of 1765-1783.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "alternate history"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what if criminals were after me",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We imagine what it would be like to be chased by potentially dangerous criminals, for one reason or another.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "what if someone dangerous was after me"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In futurama7x12 \"Viva Mars Vegas\", Dr. Zoidberg finds and spends some money belonging to the robot mafia. He is then chased by said mafia who wants their money back."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what if every woman suddenly got pregnant at the same time",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We imagine what the world would be like if virtually every woman of childbearing age got pregnant at the same time.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative future event"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what if everyone lost control of their inhibitions",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We imagine what the world would be like if everyone gave in to their immediate urges without self-restraint.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "what if the people around me changed"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In tos1x06 \"The Naked Time\" everyone got intoxicated on polywater and did whatever they wanted. The Enterprise would have spiraled into the atmosphere of Psi 2000 were it not for the Captain Kirk's willpower and Dr. McCoy's ingenuity."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what if everyone suddenly started to communicate differently",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We imagine what it would be like to find that everyone changed how they communicate, i.e., it'd be like everyone suddenly spoke a foreign language.",
            "notes": [
                "Normally, one may reasonably think, it is not everyone else that have changed but a single observer's brain that has. This theme applies if the vantage point of such an observer is featured."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "what if the people around me changed"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In tz1985e1x02a \"Wordplay\", Bill found that he could no longer understand anyone else because they seemed to use the wrong words for the things they were talking about. In the end he had to re-learn English.",
                "In the Bible story of the \"Tower of Babel\", Genesis 11:1-9, God made people speak different languages as a punishment for their audacious contrivance to reach the heavens by erecting an enormous tower."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what if everyone suddenly turned stupid",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We imagine what the world would be like if virtually everyone in it turned incredibly stupid.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative future event"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what if everyone turned into zombies",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We imagine what the world would be like if everyone in it (except us) turned into zombies.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "what if the people around me changed"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Wesley dropped by the Enterprise-D for a visit in tng5x06 \"The Game\" only to find the crew had become a bunch of video game addicted zombies."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what if everyone vanished and I was all alone",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We imagine what it would be like if everyone else in our world suddenly vanished.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "what if the people around me changed"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Captain Kirk woke up aboard what appeared to be a completely empty Enterprise in tos3x17 \"The Mark of Gideon\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what if I became accessory to a friend's crime",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We imagine what it might be like to involuntarily be drawn into crime by a less than law-abiding friend.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "what if I were in a tight spot"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what if I became extremely lucky",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We imagine what it would be like to be on a perpetual lucky streak, winning every game of chance one engaged in.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "what if my life were different"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what if I became separated from my parents",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a child who gets separated from their parents and must try to reunite with them. This is used when the story is told from the child's point of view.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "what if I were in a tight spot"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Mace and Cindel Towani became separated from their parents after the family crash landed on the Ewok homeworldl in \"Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure\" (1984)."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what if I became telepathically linked with someone else",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are made to imagine what it'd be like to become mentally linked with someone in such a way that we could talk to them telepathically or even share sensory experiences directly (i.e., see through their eyes).",
            "notes": [
                "This theme is not used, e.g., for when there is an alien race of beings that are innately linked in a hive mind or the like."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative experience"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what if I became witness to a crime",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We imagine what it would be like to see something that seems to imply a serious crime, typically murder, has been committed. Typically we are left to ponder what one should do: Should we investigate, contact the police, or drop the matter?",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "what if I were in a tight spot"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In \"Rear Window\" (1954) Jeff thinks he has just witnessed a murder but doesn't have enough certainty to call the police. Instead he convinces his friends to sneak over and gather evidence."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what if I came into a lot of money",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a character of more or less normal means who comes into the possession of a very large amount of money. The money is available for them to use.",
            "notes": [
                "The threshold for this theme is that the amount of money is so large that the person doesn't necessarily have to work more in their life, should they wish it. If a smaller amount of money is suddenly gained, the theme \"what if I suddenly got some free money\" applies instead.",
                "The theme typically excludes scenarios where, for example, criminals have to conceal the money or are otherwise on the run from the police. In such cases they aren't really free to spend the money."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "what if my life were different"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what if I caught a glimpse of the future",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is shown a sight of some future happening. This might be on account that the character invoked a magical incantation, appealed to some speculative technology, or was shown a vision of the future by another entity.",
            "notes": [
                "If a character has an innate ability to see into the future, then \"precognition\" is the more appropriate theme."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "what if I found myself in a different time"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In tz1985e2x04b \"Lost and Found\", Jenny, an absent minded college student with a cantankerous room mate found out from a couple of time travelers hiding in her wardrobe that she was, in fact, destined to become the future leader of a united Earth."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what if I could be young again",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "An aged character experiences what it is like to be young again, i.e., finds the proverbial fountain of youth.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "what if I were not subject to the normal process of aging"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what if I could do anything I wanted without repercussions",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We imagine what it would be like if no one stopped us or punished us for doing whatever we felt like doing.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "what if my life were different"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "The Children of Landru committed unspeakable acts of lawlessness at Festival, a designated period when Landru permitted anything, in tos1x22 \"The Return of the Archons\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what if I could never go home",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We imagine what it would be like to be far away and never able to return to our home, perhaps because we've been exiled from our country.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "what if I found myself in a strange place"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Captain Kirk and his crew found themselves trapped inside the Delta Triangle with no realistic possibility of escape in tas 1x12 \"The Time Trap\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what if I could only speak the truth",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a character who is physically unable to tell intentional lies.",
            "notes": [
                "This is one of the more-or-less incoherent counterfactuals that appears in stories: A circumstance arises in which a character tries to speak a lie (maybe a white lie or omission of the truth), but their mouth ends up uttering the truth (maybe the whole truth) to the mind's general dismay. The theme notably does not apply if a character merely chooses not to tell lies, be it for moral compulsion on legal injunctions."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative experience"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In tz1959e2x14 \"The Whole Truth\", the crooked, used car dealer Mr. Hunnicut came into the possession of a haunted car that somehow made him tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. This proved disastrous for his business."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what if I could travel around inside a human body",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We imagine what it would be like to be tiny and move around inside a human body.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "what if I found myself in a strange place"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what if I couldn't distinguish between my enemy and my ally but I had to choose between them",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We imagine what it would be like in this rather peculiar situation.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "what if I were in a tight spot"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Incredibly, Spock faced exactly this situation when Garth of Izar transformed himself to look like Captain Kirk in tos3x16 \"Whom Gods Destroy\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what if I couldn't trust the veracity of my senses",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We imagine what it would be like if the world our senses reported on became so peculiar that we had to question our own senses and even our sanity.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "what if I were in a tight spot"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Sulu couldn't tell whether those were swirling knives out there in space while at the held or whether his eyes were tricking him in tos3x05 \"And the Children Shall Lead\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what if I discovered that I was a facsimile of someone else",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We imagine what it would be like to discover that we are, in fact, merely a copy of someone else who by virtue of prior existence can be considered more genuine.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "what if my personal identity came into question"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what if I fell into the clutches of a homicidal maniac",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We imagine what it might be like suddenly to find one's self in the captivity and at the mercy of a crazed killer.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "what if I fell into the clutches of a person with malicious intent"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In talesoftheunexpected1x05 \"The Landlady\", young Billy comes to realize that his landlady is a serial killer but, alas, only too late: His tea has been drugged and he is in the end no longer capable of putting up effective resistance as she leads him to his prospective deathbed."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what if I fell into the clutches of a person with malicious intent",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We imagine what it might be like suddenly to find one's self in the captivity and at the mercy of a person who wants us no good.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "what if I were in a tight spot",
                "human vs. captivity"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In ahp1x16 \"You Got to Have Luck\", Mary is home invaded by a fugitive prisoner who threatens her with a knife and plans to use her as a hostage."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what if I found myself in a body of the opposite sex",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We imagine what it would be like if our mind moved into a body of the opposite gender.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "what if I found myself in the body of another person"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "An old flame took revenge on Captain Kirk by using an alien device to swap bodies with him in tos3x24 \"Turnabout Intruder\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what if I found myself in a different time",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character more or less suddenly find themself in a different time than the one they are from.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative experience"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what if I found myself in a high gravity environment",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character experiences what it is like to be in an environment where gravity is a lot stronger than what they are used to.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "what if I found myself in a strange place"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what if I found myself in a low gravity environment",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are shown what it is like for a person in a low gravity environment, as compared with Earth, such as on the surface of the Moon or on that of Mars.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "what if I found myself in a strange place"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what if I found myself in a strange place",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We imagine what it would be like to suddenly find ourself in an unfamiliar place.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative experience"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what if I found myself in a void of nothingness",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is trapped in a \"void\" of some sort.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "what if I found myself in a strange place"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what if I found myself in a zero gravity environment",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are shown what it is like for a person inside a zero gravity environment, such as on a space station or in a free-falling vehicle, where our bodies appear to float in the air.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "what if I found myself in a strange place"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what if I found myself in an alternate reality",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We imagine what it would be like to (more or less) suddenly and unexpectedly be moved into an entirely different kind of reality.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "what if I found myself in a strange place"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Worf suddenly found himself shifting between strangely different alternate realities in tng7x11 \"Parallels\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what if I found myself in the body of a child",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We imagine what it would be like if our mind moved into a the body of a child.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "what if I found myself in the body of another person"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "A transporter malfunction turned Captain Picard and some of his crew back into children physically but not mentally in tng6x07 \"Rascals\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what if I found myself in the body of another person",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We imagine what it would be like to suddenly find ourselves inhabiting the body another person.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "what if my personal identity came into question"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what if I found myself in the future",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We imagine what it would be like to more or less suddenly and unexpectedly move into the future.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "what if I found myself in a different time"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Riker woke up sixteen years in the future as captain of the Enterprise-D, or so it seemed, in tng4x08 \"Future Imperfect\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what if I found myself in the past",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We imagine what it would be like to (more or less) suddenly and unexpectedly be moved into the past.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "what if I found myself in a different time"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Captain Kirk, Spock, and McCoy were tossed right back into the Great Depression of the 1930s in tos1x28 \"The City on the Edge of Forever\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what if I found myself with a superabundance of potential lovers and no competition",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character experiences the fantastical situation of finding themself with access to a virtually unlimited supply of romantic partners with little to no competition to boot.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "what if I found myself in a strange place"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what if I found out I was a different person than I thought I was",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "It is revealed to someone that their background is very different from what they believed it was.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "what if my personal identity came into question"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In ds93x05 \"Second Skin\", Kira was told that she is in fact a Cardassian spy who has been mentally conditioned to think herself Bajoran in order to make infiltration more believable."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what if I found out I was a simulation",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We imagine what it would be like to suddenly discover that we are merely a simulated personality within some program in a computer, or the like.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "what if my personal identity came into question"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what if I found out that a loved one was not the person I thought they were",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character finds that a person they care about has a highly problematic or troubling side of themself.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "what if someone around me changed"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what if I got accidentally locked in somewhere",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are made to imagine what it would be like to get accidentally locked in a room or some other relatively limited space, with no immediate way of escaping.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "what if I were in a tight spot"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what if I got into trouble in a foreign country",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is in a country that is foreign to them and gets into some sort of trouble that is compounded by international bureaucracy and the foreignness of the country's institutions and language.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "what if I were in a tight spot"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In ahp3x10 \"The Diplomatic Corpse\", Evan and Janet find themselves in a spot of trouble with the authorities in Tijuana, Mexico, when their car containing Janet's late aunt's corpse is stolen."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what if I grew in size",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character experiences what it is like to grow in size to potentially enormous proportions.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "what if I underwent a physical metamorphosis"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what if I had a life-changing stroke of good fortune",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone has a stroke of good luck so significant that it changes their life notably. For example when someone wins the lottery or inherits a fortune enough to be set for life.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "what if my life were different"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what if I had a near-death experience",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is on the brink of death and has peculiar experience as a consequence.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "what if my life were different"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what if I had a second chance at life",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We imagine what it would be like if we were given the chance to go back and relive our life from some earlier point but with our later memories and experiences intact.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "what if my life were different"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Q granted Captain Picard the opportunity to relive his time as a Starfleet cadet in tng6x15 \"Tapestry\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what if I had a second childhood",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We imagine what it would be like if we were given the chance to go back and relive our childhood.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "what if my life were different"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Ro and Guinan, to their delight, got the chance to be children again in tng6x07 \"Rascals\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what if I had a secret guardian",
            "aliases": [
                "guardian angel"
            ],
            "description": "We imagine what it would be like to have a powerful secret guardian that intervenes, as and when required, to protect us from harm or other troubles in life.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative experience"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guardian_angel"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In tz1985e1x10a \"The Shadow Man\", a mysterious shadowy person lived under Danny's bed and appeared from nowhere to chase down bullies that dared prey on Danny."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what if I had amnesia",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are shown an idea of what it might be like to suffer from extreme memory loss.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "what if my personal identity came into question"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amnesia",
                "http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/amnesia"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "John Doe struggled with a bad case of amnesia in tng3x25 \"Transfigurations\", not even remembering his own name."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what if I had multiple personalities",
            "aliases": [
                "what if I had a split personality"
            ],
            "description": "We are made to imagine what it would be like to have more than one personality in our head, presumably vying for control.",
            "notes": [
                "This theme is typically used in fantastical scenarios where the clinical condition of multiple personality (aka. dissociative identity) disorder is not sincerely featured but distinct personalities nevertheless inhabit the same body. As a rule of thumb, it is used when at least one of the personalities at least some of the time is aware of its own condition of having multiple personalities."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "what if my personal identity came into question",
                "multiple personality disorder"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissociative_identity_disorder"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Norman Osborn struggled with his deranged alter ago the Green Goblin in \"Spider-Man\" (2002)."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what if I had only one day to live",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is faced with the grim realization that they have only a short time left to live, perhaps just a day.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "what if I were in a tight spot",
                "facing death"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what if I had to defuse a ticking time bomb",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone is confronted with a deadly device that has to be defused carefully, and soon, lest it kill everyone around it.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "what if I were in a tight spot"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what if I had to endure eternal torment",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are made to ponder to hypothetical prospect of being subjected to perpetual torment with practically no hope of escape - not even death.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "what if I were in a tight spot"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what if I had to fight to the death",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We imagine what it would be like to be in a fight, typically one-on-one, that must end with one contestant dead.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "what if I were in a tight spot"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Captain Kirk felt what it was like to be pitted against Spock in the mother of all fights to the death in tos2x05 \"Amok Time\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what if I had to have sex in order to save someone",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are made to imagine a situation in which we are given the choice between consenting to carnal intercourse on one hand, or letting someone die on the other.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "what if I were in a tight spot"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what if I had to operate on myself",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We imagine what it would be like to have to perform surgery or the like on ourself.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "what if I were in a tight spot"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what if I had to spend eternity in limbo",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We imagine what it would be like to spend an eternity in the nothingness of, say, Dante's Limbo.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "what if I found myself in a strange place"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Lazarus-A saved two universes at the cost of trapping himself in a limbo between himself and Lazarus-B for all eternity in tos1x20 \"The Alternative Factor\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what if I heard all the thoughts around me",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We imagine what it would be like to continuously hear the thoughts of those nearby with little recourse to stop doing so apart from removing ourselves from the presence of others.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "what if my life were different"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Tam Elbrun was nearly driven mad by not being able to block out other people's thoughts in tng3x20 \"Tin Man\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what if I killed someone by accident",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are made to imagine what it would be like if we, accidentally but directly, caused someone else's death.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "what if I were in a tight spot"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what if I lived an alternate life",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We imagine what it would be like to live a different life, but with the memories of our other life intact.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "what if my life were different"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Captain Picard, under the influence of an alien probe, experienced what it would be like to live out his life as a modest villager on an alien planet in tng5x25 \"The Inner Light\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what if I met an extraordinary person",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We imagine what it would be like to meet someone, like a person from history, who you would think it well nigh impossible to meet in real life.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative experience"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what if I met an historical figure",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We imagine what it would be like to meet some famous historical figure from the past.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "what if I met an extraordinary person"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Data had the pleasure of making Mark Twain's aquintance in tng5x26 \"Time's Arrow\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what if I met my distant descendant",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are made to imagine what it may be like, usually through the magic of time travel or cryogenics, to encounter a distant descendant.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "what if I met an extraordinary person"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what if I met my double",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We imagine what it would be like to meet a perfect double of ourself.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "what if I met an extraordinary person"
            ],
            "references": [
                "http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/doppelgangers"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Captain Kirk was not very impressed with his android double in tos1x09 \"What Are Little Girls Made Of?\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what if I met myself from a different time",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We imagine what it would be like to encounter our own self from an earlier or later time of our life.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "what if I met an extraordinary person"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In tz1985e1x11b \"One Life, Furnished in Early Poverty\", Gus was somehow transported back the to 1940s where he became a confidant of his childhood self in order to persuade him to choose a different path in life. Alas, instead he became the very progenitor of the problems he sought to remedy."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what if I met the perfect mate",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We imagine what it would be like to meet someone who is as tailor made to be our life partner.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "what if I met an extraordinary person"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Captain Kirk found his perfect mate in the android Rayna in tos3x21 \"Requiem for Methuselah\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what if I murdered someone in a fit of rage",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are made to imagine what it'd be like to suddenly realize one had murdered another person during a fit of, more or less blind, anger.",
            "notes": [
                "If a person causes someone else's death and it is treated unequivocally as an accident in the story then this theme is not used. However, if the perpetrator has any expectation that they will be tried for murder in a contemporary court, or the like, then this theme likely applies."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "murder",
                "what if I were in a tight spot"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what if I repeated a portion of my life over again",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We imagine what it would be like if through some kind of time travel phenomenon we got to relive a portion of our life again (albeit with our own memories intact).",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "what if my life were different"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what if I saw a glimpse of the past",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is shown a sight of a past occurrence. This might be on account that the character invoked a magical incantation, appealed to some speculative technology, or was shown a vision of the future by another entity.",
            "notes": [
                "If a character has an innate ability to see into the past, then \"retrocognition\" is the more appropriate theme."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "what if I found myself in a different time"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what if I saw strange things no one else could see",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character sees strange things that nobody else can see.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "what if I were in a tight spot"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In \"It\" (1990) children could see terrors that were invisible to adults that were looking right at them. Later as adults, the protagonists experienced the same thing again."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what if I shrank in size",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character experiences what it is like to shrink in size to potentially minuscule proportions.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "what if I underwent a physical metamorphosis"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "A group of scientist had been bombarded with spiroid epsilon waves which, naturally, made them start to shrink in size until they stood but a sixteenth of an inch tall in tas1x11 \"The Terratin Incident\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what if I suddenly got an extraordinary ability",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are made to imagine what we'd do if suddenly endowed with a super power or comparable ability, of one sort or another.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "what if my life were different"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In tz1959e2x19 \"Mr. Dingle, the Strong\", an invisible two-headed Martian used technology to bestow upon Mr. Dingle the strength of roughly 300, as an experiment. It transpired that Mr. Dingle became a showboater, exhibiting his strength for entertainment."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what if I suddenly got some free money",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are made to ponder what we would do if we were suddenly given a modest sum of money to spend however we like.",
            "notes": [
                "The threshold for this theme is that the amount of money is sufficiently modest that the person isn't necessarily living on easy street for the rest of their life. If more money is obtained, the theme \"what if I was super rich\" is used instead."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "what if my life were different"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In futurama4x16 \"Three Hundred Big Boys\", everyone on Earth is given a $300 tax refund. We get to see the various frivolous ways in which the protagonists spend their unexpected windfall."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what if I told the truth and nobody would believe me",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We imagine what it would be like not to believed by anyone when we tell them truthfully about important events that have taken place. This is often featured from the perspective of a kid.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "what if I were in a tight spot"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Nobody would believe Serova about detrimental effects of using warp drive, especially not Geordi, in tng7x09 \"Force of Nature\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what if I turned into an animal",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We imagine what it'd be like to turn into an animal, by some speculative process or another (typically magic).",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "what if I underwent a physical metamorphosis"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what if I underwent a physical metamorphosis",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character undergoes a substantial personality change to the point of being an entirely new person.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative experience",
                "speculative matter manipulating effect"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Geordi gradually transformed into a non-sentient, bioluminiscent creature in tng4x18 \"Identity Crisis\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what if I was a specimen animal in a zoo",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We imagine what it would be like if we were contained in an alien zoo and gawked at like we gawk at animals in an ordinary zoo.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "what if I was held captive and made an exhibition object"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "The slug like Lactrans put some humans in the Lactra VII alien zoo in tas1x15 \"The Eye of the Beholder\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what if I was accused of a crime that I didn't commit",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We imagine what it would be like to be wrongfully accused of a crime.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "facing an extraordinary accusation"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Riker was cleared of killing Nel Apgar in a dramatic holo-hearing in tng3x14 \"A Matter of Perspective\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what if I was at the mercy of a mad person",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is held captive by a mad man and is at their mercy.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "what if I were in a tight spot"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what if I was brought back to life long after my death",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character dies and is gone for a long enough time that their friends and family have moved on, but is then resurrected from the dead.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "what if I were not subject to the normal process of aging"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what if I was combined with another person",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are made to imagine the hypothetical scenario that two people are somehow combine into one, typically receiving physical and mental traits from both progenitors and having the memories of both.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "what if my personal identity came into question"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what if I was held captive and made an exhibition object",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We imagine what it would be like to be made a prisoner and put on display as if in a collection or in a zoo.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "what if I were in a tight spot"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In nightgallery3x03 \"Rare Objects\", the notorious gangster August Kolodney meets with Dr. Glendon. Glendon drugs Kolodney to extend his life, and puts him in a cell as part of a large exhibition of notorious individuals from history."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what if I was incapacitated and stuck in the middle of nowhere",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We imagine what it would be like to, for example, get stuck in rock or suchlike far away from assistance, say, while spelunking or mountaineering.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "what if I were in a tight spot"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what if I was injured and far away from help",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are made to imagine what it would be like to sustain a serious injury such as will leave us alive and able to think but may lead death if left untreated, when far away from those who might help us. For example, a character may sustain a broken limb when alone in wilderness far away from civilization.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "what if I were in a tight spot"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In \"movie: There Will Be Blood (2007)\", Daniel was mining for silver alone when he had an accident in the shaft and ended up with a broken leg. He had to painfully drag himself out of the deep shaft and make his way to populated areas."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what if I was really beautiful",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We imagine what it would be like to be truly beautiful. Those of us who already are must first imagine that they are not.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "what if my life were different"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "With the aid of a beauty-enhancing drug, three ordinary women became so stunningly pretty that they drove men wild in tos1x03 \"Mudd's Women\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what if I was somebody's pet",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are shown what it would be like to be held captive as somebody's pet.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "what if I were in a tight spot"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "The gargantuan blue humanoid alien Tiwa kept a human boy as a pet in \"Fantastic Planet\" (1973)."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what if I was super rich",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a character that is ostentatiously wealthy in the context of the society depicted. The character has enough money to command the labor of numerous or countless fellow citizens, for example, through the vehicle of a private corporation. In a modern story, they might have their own yachts, jets, and secret bat caves.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "what if my life were different"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what if I was trapped in a work of fiction",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character experiences what it is like to be inside the world painted by the story of a creative work (e.g., a novel, movie, poem, etc.), with no way to escape it.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "what if I found myself in a strange place"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Commander Riker's landing party was trapped in an eternal live enactment of a second rate 21st century novel in tng2x12 \"The Royale\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what if I was trapped inside a game",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone finds themself somehow literally stuck inside a game, like a video game.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "what if I found myself in a strange place"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what if I were a ghost",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We imagine what it would be like to be a ghost.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "what if my life were different"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "After a freak accident Ro and Geordi were phase shifted in a way that, for all intents and purposes, made them ghosts in tng5x24 \"The Next Phase\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what if I were a god",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are made to imagine what it would be like to be worshiped as a god.",
            "notes": [
                "This theme is not used just because someone has magical (godlike) powers, in which case \"what if I had magical powers\" is applicable. Godlike status is here defined as having worshipers."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "what if my life were different"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apotheosis"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what if I were a man who got pregnant",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are made to imagine what it would be like as a man to become pregnant.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative experience"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what if I were all alone in the world",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character, or small group of characters, experience what it is like to be more or less the only person/people in the world.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "what if I were in a tight spot"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what if I were being framed for a crime",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is being deliberately set-up so as to be suspected of a crime that they did not actually commit.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "what if I was accused of a crime that I didn't commit",
                "framing someone for a crime"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In ahp1x37 \"Decoy\", Gil tries to confront his lover Mona's abusive husband but arrives to find the man murdered. Gil flees from the police and eventually discovers that Mona has, in fact, set him up so that she would be able to elope with the real murderer."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what if I were gradually turning into stone",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character experiences what it is like to transform into a petrified state.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "what if I underwent a physical metamorphosis"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what if I were in a coma-like state",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We imagine what it might be like to suffer from some condition such as \"persistent vegetative state\" or \"minimally conscious state\", without the ability to move but without being entirely brain dead.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "coma",
                "what if I lived an alternate life"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coma",
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimally_conscious_state",
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistent_vegetative_state"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what if I were in a tight spot",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We imagine what it would be like find ourself if a predicament that goes above and beyond what would be normal to experience in real life.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative experience"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what if I were not subject to the normal process of aging",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We imagine what it would be like to not be subject to the normal aging process.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative experience"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what if I were socially isolated for an extended period of time",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are made to imagine what it would be like to be alone and isolated from the company of other people for an abnormally long time, i.e., months or years.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "what if I were in a tight spot"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In tz1959e2x25 \"The Silence\", Mr. Tennyson accepted a wager that he'd not be able to stay silent for a whole year. In order for the effort to be vetted, he had to live practically isolated in a glass room."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what if I were the last of my family line",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character faces the possibly grim reality that they are the last living member in their family line.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "what if I were in a tight spot"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Baron Victor von Frankenstein was the last living member of the infamous Frankenstein family in Frankenstein 1970 (1958)."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what if I were trapped in a nightmare",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is trapped inside a nightmare.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "what if I found myself in a strange place"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what if I woke up in a strange place and didn't remember how I got there",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are mad to imagine what it might be like were we to suddenly wake up in a strange place with no recollection of the recent past.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "what if I found myself in a strange place"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what if my life was secretly stage managed",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We imagine what it would be like to find out that we have not been shaping our own life as we thought, but that it had been minutely stage managed by others.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "what if my life were different"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In \"The Truman Show\" (1998), Truman overcame his fear of water and sailed across the ocean only to encounter a mysterious wall. Traversing it through a convenient door, he found out that his entire town was encased in an enormous dome. It was all an elaborate construction to create the ultimate reality TV show, and he had been the unwitting star."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what if my life were different",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character experiences what it would be like if their life were different in some interesting and significant aspect. Many of these themes involve magic or seemingly magical phenomena.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative experience"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what if my partner switched gender",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We imagine what it would be like if our partner (in the romantic sense) suddenly switched gender for some reason.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "what if someone around me changed"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what if my personal identity came into question",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone experiences a situation that challenges their common sense notions of personhood. Examples include someone discovering they are a digital copy of somebody else and two people getting somehow combined into one person.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative experience"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_identity"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what if my thoughts became reality",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We imagine what it would be like if someone's various thoughts just became real as soon as they imagined them, whether they want it or not.",
            "notes": [
                "This theme is not used when a character has the ability to conjure things into existence at will, and can refrain from doing so at will."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative experience"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "The Enterprise crew experienced this sort of alternate reality on the Shore Leave amusement park planet in tos1x17 \"Shore Leave\", and again in tas1x09 \"Once Upon a Planet\", where their lazy day dreams were made rapid reality by an enormous machine."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what if people around me started behaving strangely one by one",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We imagine what it would be like if more or less everyone around us started to act in an unusual way for no obvious reason.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "what if the people around me changed"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In ds91x18 \"Dramatis Personae\", people around Odo started to act out of character, acting clandestinely and inquiring about his loyalties. It turned out an alien transmission was turning them into two opposing factions."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what if people around me started disappearing one by one",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We imagine what it would be like if people around us just started to mysteriously disappear one after the other.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "what if the people around me changed"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what if people around me started falling mysteriously ill one by one",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We imagine what it would be like if people around us one by one contracted mysterious ailments.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "what if the people around me changed"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what if people connected to me started dying one by one",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We imagine what it would be like if our friends and/or other people in our general vicinity started falling dead one after the other. This usually occurs under mysterious circumstances and murder might be suspected.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "what if the people around me changed"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what if someone around me changed",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We imagine what it would be like if somebody around us was found to be different from who the person we thought they were, or was changed in a fantastical way.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative experience"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what if someone couldn't remember me anymore",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character suddenly finds that a person that used to know them well has now lost all memories of them.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "what if someone around me changed"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what if someone dangerous was after me",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character experiences what it is like to know that some dangerous person is out to kill or otherwise cause them significant harm.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "what if I were in a tight spot"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what if someone I knew returned from the dead",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character believes someone they know is dead and gone, but after some time that person comes back.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "what if someone around me changed"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what if the fate of the world was in my hands",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We imagine what it would be like if we were in a situation where our choice of action would have a direct and profound impact on the populated world. For example, this would apply if we were the only one present to stop a super- villain from destroying Earth.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative experience"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what if the Nazis had won",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We imagine what the world would be like if the Nazis had prevailed in World War II and come to world dominance.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "alternate history"
            ],
            "references": [
                "http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/axis_wins"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "The possible consequences of a Nazi victory in World War II were explored in tos1x28 \"The City on the Edge of Forever\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what if the people around me changed",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We imagine what it would be like to find ourself in a situation where the people around them have changed dramatically.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative experience"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what if the Roman Empire never fell",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We imagine what the world would be like if the Roman Empire had not declined from its peak but simply gone on to become globally dominant into modern times.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "alternate history"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Our protagonists came across a planet which was virtually a parallel of Earth up until the 20th century, except that the Roman Empire had somehow survived in tos2x14 \"Bread and Circuses\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what if we all lost our memories",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We imagine what the world would be like if everyone suddenly lost all their memories.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "what if the people around me changed"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "The entire crew on the Enterprise suddenly lost their memories in tng5x14 \"Conundrum\", which led to much befuddled and amusing awkwardness."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what is beauty",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The question of what \"beauty\" really is is discussed. Why do we call some things \"beautiful\"?",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "aesthetics"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beauty"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what is good and evil",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The very nature of what is morally good and bad is discussed.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "ethics"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what is justice",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The vary nature of what is just and what is unjust is discussed.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "ethics"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justice"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what is life",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The slippery definition of what constitutes \"life\" is discussed. Nature has a way of befuddling biologists whenever they think they may have pinned it down, and sci-fi can of course speedily go beyond nature into the purely hypothetical.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "metaphysics"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what is natural",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The subtle question of what it means for something to be \"natural\" contra \"unnatural\" is discussed. For example: since most people die before reaching 90, is it unnatural to live longer than that? What about 100? 500?",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "metaphysics"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what is perfection",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The question of what \"perfection\" really is, is discussed. Is there such a thing as true perfection?",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "aesthetics"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfection"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "The sentient space probe Nomadof  tos2x08 \"The Changeling\" set out to eradicate all imperfections in the universe, but Captain Kirk demonstrated to it that it was itself imperfect."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what is sentience",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The definition of sentience is discussed. Here as in most sci-fi the word \"sentient\" is taken to mean intelligent and self-aware. That, however, still leaves much to ponder.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "metaphysics"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentience"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what is truth",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Questions regarding the definition of the word \"truth\" are pondered. Is there even such a thing, and if so is it knowable and how can it be confidently recognized?",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "philosophy"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what it is like in a combat zone",
            "aliases": [
                "what it is like in a battle"
            ],
            "description": "The experiences a combatant may face on a field of battle, or there around, are featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "what life is like"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In \"Glory\" (1989), we were shown the gruesome experiences of Colenel Shaw's all black 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment as they lead a suicidal charge on Fort Wagner atop Morris Island, with disastrous consequences."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what it is like in a legal proceeding",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A hearing, trial, or other such legal procedure is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "what life is like"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_proceeding"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what it is like in a psychiatric institution",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone experiences living as a patient in an insane asylum.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "what life is like"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Nefarious aliens made Riker believe he might live out his life in an insane asylum on Tilonus IV in tng6x21 \"Frame of Mind\""
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what it is like in boarding school",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are shown what life may be like in an educational institution where young students both live and learn on the premises for whole semesters without leaving to go home.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "what it is like in school"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boarding_school"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what it is like in elementary school",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are shown an idea of what things might be like for people (both student and staff) in an elementary school, primary school, or comparable institution. Students are roughly 6-11 years old.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "what it is like in school"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elementary_school_(United_States)"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what it is like in high school",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are shown an idea of what things might be like for people (both student and staff) in a high school, or comparable institution. Students are roughly 14-18 years old.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "what it is like in school"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what it is like in prison",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are shown a reasonable vision of what life might be light for an incarcerated person in some type of prison.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "what life is like"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what it is like in school",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are shown what life might be like for students in some institution of learning.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "what life is like"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what it is like in university",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are shown what life might be like for university students. Stereotypically this might involve fraternities, pranks on the dean, spring breaks, etc.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "what it is like in school"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what it is like on a passenger flight",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are shown what it might be like for a passenger to fly on a commercial airline flight. Stereotypically, this might involve cramped seating, an overly chatty neighbor, an unruly child kicking the back of one's seat, hijackings, etc.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "what it is like to travel"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what it is like on a passenger liner",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are shown what it might be like for a passenger to make a lengthy ocean journey aboard a ship made primarily for this purpose.",
            "notes": [
                "Passenger liners are understood to have come about first in the mid-19:th century."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "what it is like to travel"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_liner"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what it is like to be a refugee",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The experiences of someone has crossed national boundaries and who cannot or is unwilling to return home due to well-founded fear of persecution, are featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "what life is like"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refugee"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what it is like to be buried alive",
            "aliases": [
                "what if I were inhumed alive what if I were entombed alive"
            ],
            "description": "We imagine what it would be like to be buried (or bricked up in a mausoleum, or some other variation on the same concept) while still alive.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "what if I were in a tight spot"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premature_burial"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what it is like to be different",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The experiences of someone who is significantly different from everyone else in their surrounding is featured. Someone might for example be an outcast because of their skin color.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human social position"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what it is like to be homeless",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are made to ponder what life is like for a poor downtrodden man or woman living on the streets.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "what it is like to be impoverished"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homelessness"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what it is like to be impoverished",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The general life and travails of someone who finds themself in a state of abject poverty is illustrated. Typically they are homeless and must live hand- to-mouth on the street doing odd-jobs or begging.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "what life is like"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what it is like to be pregnant",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The emotional and physical experiences of (typically) a female character carrying a fetus in her womb are explored.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "what life is like"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pregnancy"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what it is like to live through a military occupation",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character experiences what life is like for a normal civilian living through a military occupation of their home land.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "what life is like"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what it is like to travel",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are shown a reasonable idea of the various travails that may be involved in making a prolonged journey in some accessible part of the world.",
            "notes": [
                "If the journey is unusually perilous or exploratory, a \"speculative travel\" theme is used instead."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "what life is like"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what life is like",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "This is a general theme about aspects of what life may be like for an individual of some interesting cohort (for example, a visible minority group) or in some particular situation (for example, in high school).",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "personal human experience"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what men want",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The question of what men want out of life or out of prospective mates is discussed.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "male stereotype"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Scotty, for example, wanted a cabaret dancing girl in tos2x07 \"Wolf in the Fold\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "what women want",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "What women in contemporary society tend to want out of life is discussed, typically with emphasis on things that men would be less concerned with.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "female stereotype"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "when in Rome",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The notion that when you are abroad it is best to adopt the customs of those around you, is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "cross cultural issue"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Captain Kirk urged Scotty to refrain from applauding loudly in appreciation of a seductive belly dance at an Argelian cafe, directing the drunken engineer to blink the table light according to Argelian custom in tos2x07 \"Wolf in the Fold\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "where to make one's home",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character wrestles with the rather basic life decision of where to settle down and live out at least a good portion of their life.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human life choice"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "white hole",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a hypothetical region of spacetime called a \"white hole\", that cannot be entered from the outside, although energy-matter, light and information can escape from it.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "astronomy"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_hole"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "wicked character vs. virtuous character",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A stereotypically evil character is contrasted with a character who is stereotypically good.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human characters in contrast"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In \"Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs\" (1937), we see how the innocent and kindly princess Snow White is hunted by her wicked and villainous step-mother, the queen."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "wicked husband stereotype",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We see a depiction of a married couple wherein the husband is a stereotypically bad character and the wife a comparatively good one.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "male stereotype"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Up until the end in talesoftheunexpected5x04 \"Run Rabbit Run\", former Nazi war collaborator Jacques was loud, lazy, mean, and domineering towards his wife Nathalie who appeared to be meek, loving, forgiving, and dutiful. Only at the very end we learn that that Nathalie finally had enough and got her own back."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "wicked stepmother stereotype",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a stepmother who is stereotypically mean towards her stepchildren in particular.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "female stereotype"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In apuleius180tgab10inset1 \"The Golden Ass: The Tale of the Murderous Wife\", a wicked stepmother tried to poison murder her stepson after he refused to sleep with her. Through an ironic twist of fate she ended up killing her treasured biological son instead."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "wicked wife stereotype",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We see a depiction of a married couple wherein the wife is a stereotypically bad character and the husband a stereotypically good one.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "female stereotype"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In tz1959e5x11 \"A Short Drink from a Certain Fountain\", Harmond was a kind and devoted older man with a cruel, selfish, and self-indulgent younger wife named Flora."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "wilderness expedition",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "One or more characters trek through a nature environment for an extended time, with a specific purpose, and with some element of risk to it.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human vs. environment"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "wilderness survival",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character must survive somewhere in nature for an extended time, more or less alone with little or no technology or access to the amenities of a large community.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human vs. environment"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "wish-granting being",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a being who can be induced to grant one or more wishes (typically three) of more-or-less any sort imaginable.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "legendary being"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In tz1985e1x16c \"Tooth and Consequences\", the Tooth Fairy himself appears before a depressed dentist to grant him whatever he wished."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "wish-granting magic object",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a fantastical object which can be used in order to get one or more wishes granted.",
            "notes": [
                "Classically, a genie may appear from such an object to grant its summoner three wishes that may end up having unpleasant side effects if the wording is not made with the utmost care."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "magic object"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aladdin"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "wish-granting shooting star",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Someone sees a shooting star, makes a wish, and has the wish granted.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "wish-granting magic object"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_Star"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In tz1985e1x23b \"Grace Note\", Mary wished upon a shooting star that her older sister would become a great opera singer, and so she did."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "wishing or wanting something really hard makes it happen",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The idea is featured that if someone (implied anyone) really wants, wishes, needs, desires (etc. etc.) something then occasionally reality can magically make that thing come true.",
            "notes": [
                "This is not a reliable \"ability\", but something that happens more or less as a one-off to characters in special circumstances. If a character is able to reliably alter reality, then \"unbounded thought powers\" or \"speculative ability related to reality at large\" is applicable instead."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "folk belief"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In tz1959e1x27 \"The Big Tall Wish\", Henry warned Bolie that the only way Henry's wish that Bolie had won the boxing match would stay granted, was if Bolie well and truly believed in it. Bolie could not find it in himself to believe in such a wacky thing. Therefore reality reverted, and Bolie found himself again having lost the boxing match."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "witch",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a female-looking being (possibly but not necessarily a normal human woman) who is described as a \"witch\", or who uses magic of the kind that is traditionally described as \"witchcraft\".",
            "notes": [
                "It should be clear that she uses magic, and is not merely some old woman with a knowledge of herbs (cf. \"old woman as a witch stereotype\")."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "legendary magic wielder",
                "witchcraft"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witchcraft"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "The elderly aunt Ada used black magic in an effort to transfer her soul into the body of her niece in the \"Night Gallery: Since Aunt Ada Came to Stay\" (1971)."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "witch-hunt",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The religious practice, mostly Christian, of hunting down people that are believed to fraternize with the devil.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "organized religion",
                "witch"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witch-hunt"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "Captain Kirk was confined and nearly charged with witchcraft in tos3x23 \"All Our Yesterdays\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "witchcraft",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character uses magical abilities of a type that witches and warlocks tend to use in folklore, especially the Western variety.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "folk belief"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witchcraft"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "with great power comes great responsibility",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "This old proverb, also known as the Peter Parker principle, is more or less explicitly referenced.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human idea about life"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/With_great_power_comes_great_responsibility"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In \"Spider-Man\" (2002), Uncle Ben quoted this principle in response to Peter Parker when Peter confided in Ben that he didn't know what he was supposed to do with the newfound power he had acquired."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "withdrawal from society",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character isolates themself from their family, friends, and or community.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human mental condition"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "witness tampering",
            "aliases": [
                "witness intimidation"
            ],
            "description": "The act of attempting to improperly influence, alter or prevent the testimony of witnesses within criminal or civil proceedings is featured. Most typically this is featured in stories when criminals intimidate witnesses to lie or be silent in court.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "obstruction of justice"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witness_tampering"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "woman in charge",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The outlandish notion that a woman can be the leader of a group is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "gender issue"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "womanizing man",
            "aliases": [
                "playboy character"
            ],
            "description": "A man engages in numerous casual love affairs with different women.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "male stereotype",
                "promiscuity"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Thadiun Okona flirted with every skirt in sight in tng2x04 \"The Outrageous Okona\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "women's rights",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "We are made to ponder what rules need to be made in order for women to feel they have the same rights and opportunities as men in society.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human rights issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_rights"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "The alien woman Kamala was born and raised for no other purpose than to be the perfect mate to an important foreign dignitary in tng5x21 \"The Perfect Mate\", but don't women have more than that to offer human (or alien) kind?"
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "women's suffrage",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The right of women to vote in elections is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "gender issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_suffrage"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "work partner and work partner",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The relationship between two characters who find themselves in a close co- working relationship is explored.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "humans in pairs",
                "humans at work"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "work-life balance",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character has to decide how they want to weight the amount of time they spend on work against the amount of time they spend on other pursuits in life.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "career choice"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work%E2%80%93life_balance"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "workaholism",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The more or less pathological condition of a person who can't tear themself away from their work is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human addiction"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workaholic"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "worker exploitation",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The director of some facility treats their employees in a way that is considered unfair, which can happen if the employees for one reason or another are not free and able to quit and find employment elsewhere.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "exploitation of sentient beings"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploitation_of_labour"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "workers replaced by machines",
            "aliases": [
                "automation in society"
            ],
            "description": "We are asked to what extent we should fear and, perhaps, oppose the replacement of workers by machines. The day when this definition is written by a computer may not be far off.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "machines in society",
                "socioeconomic issue"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "McCoy moaned about the M-5 multitronic unit (a computer) taking everyone's jobs in tos2x24 \"The Ultimate Computer\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "workers' rights",
            "aliases": [
                "labor rights"
            ],
            "description": "It is discussed what kind of rights we feel that lowly workers ought to have.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human rights issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_rights"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "working hard vs. taking it easy in life",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character must choose how they want to approach life in general: Be diligent and attend to their duties, or take it easy and have fun.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human life choice"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "working together in spite of disagreement",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "People who disagree and dislike each other must seek to work together in spite of their differences.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "humans at work",
                "getting along in spite of disagreement"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "working together under stress",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "People must try to work amicably and efficiently together under heavy stress.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "humans in group"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "workplace disgruntlement",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character is angry or dissatisfied with their work to the extent that it begins to interfere with the normal operation of the workplace.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "humans at work"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "workplace harassment",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Belittling or threatening behavior directed at an individual worker or a group of workers is featured as an undesirable aspect of society.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "harassment",
                "humans at work"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workplace_harassment"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "In talesoftheunexpected7x01 \"The Dirty Detail\", the army veteran Fred Pearson thought that his sergeant had singled him out for abuse during his time in the army."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "workplace relations",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "People form friendships and other interpersonal relationships in the workplace.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "humans at work"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "workplace rivalry",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Two or more people squabbling over common workplace issues such as pecking order and promotion, are featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "humans at work",
                "work partner and work partner"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "world eating machine",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "An enormous machine that gobbles up entire planets for fuel.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "engineered space structure"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "An autonomous but not sentient machine nicknamed \"The Planet Eater\" from another galaxy came and gobbled up some planets and a Federation starship in tos2x06 \"The Doomsday Machine\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "world government",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a world-wide political system with a single authority at the top and war between sovereign states is naught but a distasteful memory.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "form of government"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_government"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "world ship",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a spaceship with a self-sustaining environment that has resources on a scale comparable to an entire planetoid, moon, comet, or suchlike celestial object.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative spaceship"
            ],
            "references": [
                "http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/world_ships"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "World War I",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Featured is the global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "historical event"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I",
                "http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/world_war_one"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "World War II",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "World War II was global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. Towards the end the participants had formed two opposing military alliances called \"the Allies\" and \"the Axis\". The theme is used whenever this war comes up in the story.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "historical event"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II",
                "http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/world_war_two"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "World War III",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a hypothetical third worldwide large-scale military conflict subsequent to World War I and World War II.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative future event"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_III",
                "http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/world_war_three"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "worldwide drought",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A severe and prolonged water shortage imperils civilization on a world.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "force of nature existential risk to civilization"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drought"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "worm-like being",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a sentient being patterned on worms.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "animal and plant patterned being"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worm"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "wrestling with one's conscience",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character questions the propriety of an intended action and decides to go with their own instincts about what is morally right and wrong.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human worrying about self"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Captain Picard and his crew finally rejected the fake orders they had received to kill defenceless aliens in tng5x14 \"Conundrum\", because the orders went against good conscience."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "writer's block",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A writer's block is a non-medical condition, primarily associated with writing, in which an author is either unable to produce new work or experiences a creative slowdown. A character in the story struggles with this condition.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "coping with life issues"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Writer%27s_block"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "X-rays",
            "aliases": [
                "X rays"
            ],
            "description": "Electromagnetic waves in the part of the spectrum between UV rays and gamma rays (i.e., X-rays) are harnessed for some novel purpose.",
            "notes": [
                "This theme does not apply to mundane usages of X-ray imagining technology, such as the case of a physician examining an X-ray of a broken arm."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "physics"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-ray"
            ],
            "examples": [
                "An unsuspecting man has his skeleton extracted by an X-ray machine operating scientist in \"A Novice at X-rays\" (1898).",
                "In \"X: The Man with X-ray Eyes\" (1963), Dr. James Xavier uses special eye drops to see beyond the visible spectrum into the ultraviolet and X-ray wavelengths and beyond."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "xenophobia in society",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The issue of a large portion of society having hostile and fearful attitudes toward strangers is discussed.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "prejudice in society"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenophobia"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "xenophobic isolationist society",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a society which chooses to remain well apart from the affairs of other societies, perhaps out of fear of strangers.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "speculative society"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "The Paxans went to elaborate lengths to hide their home world in tng4x14 \"Clues\"."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "Yeti",
            "aliases": [
                "Abominable Snowman"
            ],
            "description": "This ape-like creature from Nepali folklore is explicitly featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "cryptid",
                "legendary being"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeti"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "yokel stereotype",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a steretypical country bumpkin kind of character, also known as a hillbilly or (in the USA) a redneck. Their attributes typically include a narrow view of the world, little education, and a perceived provincial attitude to personal hygiene.",
            "notes": [
                "The authors know very well that this stereotype is demeaning and most often misleading. It can nevertheless be featured in stories."
            ],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human character stereotype"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "you can't beat the odds in the long run",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The folksy observation (that has very clear scientific justification) that in matters of chance with known odds you can't consistently outperform the odds, is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human idea about life"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambler%27s_fallacy",
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_limit_theorem"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "you can't eat money",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "It is explained or pointedly illustrated that things like money, or gold, has very little intrinsic value for a person when they lack more basic necessities of life, such as food.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human idea about life"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "In tz1959e2x24 \"The Rip Van Winkle Caper\", we saw four crooks meticulously carry out an elaborate heist for gold. They then fought and killed each other over the loot. Then one of them was forced to trade away gold bar after gold bar for measly sips of water. The last thief collected many gold bars only to be summarily assassinated by a comrade he had alienated. Finally we learn that it was all in vain, because gold had become worthless as a commodity."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "you have to take chances to get ahead",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A character takes great risks in order to gain an advantage in life.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "nothing ventured nothing gained"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [
                "Q offered Picard a second chance at life in which Picard choose to play everything safe in tng6x15 \"Tapestry\"; he ended up as the most dreary kind of person imaginable, a scientist, and speedily repented."
            ],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "you must fight for what you want",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The idea is emphasized that one must work, fight, or otherwise struggle for what one desires, or one will usually not get it.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human idea about life"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "young and old romance",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A younger person and an older person embark on a romantic relationship together, with all the troubles and tribulations that may entail.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "romantic relationship"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "young character vs. old character",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A stereotypically aged (often cynical) character is contrasted with a stereotypically younger (often more blue-eyed and enthusiastic) character.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human characters in contrast"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "young lovers",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "The mutual passion of two besotted young lovers is featured.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "romantic relationship"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "youth rebellion",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is conflict between an older generation and a young, up and coming generation over established moral and cultural norms.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "sociocultural issue"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counterculture_of_the_1960s"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "youthful ideological convictions",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a relatively young character holding some strong ideological conviction of a political nature. There is a suggested connection between that character's age and their conviction, for example by the contrasting presence of an older and more sombre character.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human childhood"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "youthful indiscretion",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "A juvenile does stupid or criminal things as juveniles so often do before they learn better.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "human childhood"
            ],
            "references": [],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "zombie",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "There is a mindless, reanimated human corpse.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "living corpse"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zombie",
                "http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/zombies"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        },
        {
            "name": "zoology",
            "aliases": [],
            "description": "Zoology is the branch of biology that studies the animal kingdom, including the structure, embryology, evolution, classification, habits, and distribution of all animals, both living and extinct, and how they interact with their ecosystems. This theme is used whenever an aspect of this science is featured in the story.",
            "notes": [],
            "template": [],
            "parents": [
                "biology"
            ],
            "references": [
                "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoology"
            ],
            "examples": [],
            "source": "./notes/themes/primary.th.txt"
        }
    ]
}