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                     The LogBook Master Index of THEMES 
                     by Earl Green 

   The use of this file is vastly simple, but this file is vastly useful - quite
possibly the closest thing there is to a LogBook file which would interest those
who have *no* interest whatsoever in any of these shows!  To put it simply,
though it still deals with purely fictional concepts (and hopefully it's fun to
skim through), this file is really meant to be a scholarly work - or something
which could give you an idea for such a work.
   This file is, compared to the simple episode guides and what not, complex and
still under development.  It lists general plot ideas or themes alphabetically
followed by a list of any episodes of any show dealing with this concept.  Like
Mark Holtz's Lists of Lists, it does its best to catch every instance of the
related concept, though it deals with more general social and political themes.
(I can't give a high enough recommendation to Mark's work - if you haven't got
it on your hard drive, see if you can download it from the system from which you
picked up this file or Freq it from Mark's Itchy & Scratchy BBS, as it will be
right up your alley if you like the Master Index of Themes!)  The relevance of
certain shows' subject matter was a very tricky thing to draw the line on.  For
example, there is a "time travel" category in which such Trek episodes as "City
at the Edge of Forever" and "Time's Arrow," along with Babylon 5's "Babylon
Squared," are listed.  But do we list every episode of Doctor Who ever made
here?  No, we do not.  Because time travel is one of the basic underpinnings of
Doctor Who, it's too broad a definition to go on, rather like trying to flag
every episode of Star Trek for space exploration.  Therefore, you won't find any
categories such as "spacecraft" or "aliens" here; they're simply too broad to be
given a focused listing!  The listed concept has to be the lynchpin of the story
in question to be listed.
   Also, to keep the file reasonably sized and to keep its author sane, I am
making the assumption that you know what you're looking for.  Terry Nation's
original intention with his Dalek serials was to echo the brutality and single-
minded disdain of "impurity" espoused by the Nazis, but since that is such a
central character point of the Daleks, you needn't go looking for their every
Thal-hunting expedition under "Hate Crimes," because I've made the assumption
you already know that the Daleks are that sort of entity.  I'm not going to
point out, under "Telepathy," that Deanna Troi, Cally and Talia Winters are all
telepaths, and so on; you get the idea.
   The categories each include a definition.  These definitions are not taken
from a particular dictionary, but are simply there to outline what the category
in question means for our purposes.  Assassinations are listed as politically
motivated murders, but the same crimes you'll find under "assassinations" aren't
going to be listed under "murders" to save space.  Also, no offense is meant by
grouping together such things as "religions."  This file has taken a great deal
of time to assemble, and I wasn't going to wrack my already spinning head by
trying to be politically correct and separate, for example, modern Christianity
from instances of early pagan practices.
   Examples of the categories in question really aren't grouped into any order
by series, airdate, or story chronology; if anything, they're closest to the
alphabetical order of the titles, as I used MITITLES.TXT extensively in the
course of finding the examples.  Any new instances of the already listed
subjects will be piled on to the end of the entries.
   This listing was inspired by a bold step taken by a friend of mine who, for
his graduate thesis upon which his honors diploma was riding, decided to do a
paper on Star Trek's treatment of women.  Despite my warnings that the paper
might not be taken seriously, he persevered and turned out a work which stood up
to oppositions and questions and got him his honors.  For those who similarly
seek thematic threads in science fiction, consider this a sort of simplified
"telebibliography."  Of course, I can't cover any of the smaller points of story
nuances; in the 60s, it almost seemed like any speaking part given to a woman
in a non-housewife role was a victory blow for feminism, but I'd be doing a lot
of typing just to list all the Trek episodes where this happened.  (Actually, I
am trying to persuade my aforementioned friend to allow me to release his paper
to fandom and the public if he is unable to publish it.  On the other hand, if
he does publish it, I'll tell everyone where and how to get a copy, it's sure
interesting!)
   To catch the tiny bits which have occasionally greater insight than more
obvious examples, you'll have to sit down and watch the shows for yourself.
Here, the Master Index is only trying to point you in the right direction.
We're not out to beat the Trek Encylopedia, the Doctor Who Universal Databank or
the Blake's 7 Programme Guide - this document's purpose is to highlight more
general ideas and concepts which likely would be too general appear in any of
those publications.  And actually, it's hard NOT to beat the Blake's 7 Programme
Guide! <evil grin>
   See the bibliography at the end of this file for more info and other sources
of information that will fascinate you if you like this project.  And finally -
if you can think of a category you'd like to see that isn't already here and has
been seen numerous times, and most *especially* if you can be kind and provide
examples (all due credit and much appreciation will be given!), please bring it
to my attention for inclusion in future updates of the Master Index!  I'm open
to anything that would be of interest.  Hopefully some of you will reach into
the entries below, pull out a handful of ideas, and the wheels in your head will
start to turn with even newer ideas.  Or at the very least, enjoy the tidbits
and trivia within!  This file has been one of the most fun LogBook documents to
pull together, and I hope you guys have as much fun with it as I did.        -eg


ANARCHY:

ASSASSINATION:  An act of premeditated and politically-motivated murder.  In
  "Assassin" (B7), Servalan dispatches the female bounty hunter Cancer to do
  away with Avon and his crew; Morgus murders the President by pushing him into
  an empty lift shaft ("Caves of Androzani," DW).  In the alternate universe
  entered by Kirk and later Kira, assassinations are a routine means of gaining
  power ("Mirror, Mirror," TOS; "Crossover," DSN), much as they are in the
  Klingon Empire ("A Matter of Honor," TNG).  In "The Curse of Peladon" (DW),
  Hepesh planned to kill the King.  The Daleks killed the Thal leader Temmousus
  in "The Daleks," and planned to ensure the explosive death of Sir Reginald
  Styles and several other international delegates in "Day of the Daleks"; they
  also planned to replicate the Doctor, Tegan and Turlough and send the copies
  to Gallifrey programmed to assassinate the High Council of Time Lords in
  "Resurrection of the Daleks" (DW).  The Valeyard also planned to kill the High
  Council with by channeling the backwash of the particle disseminator through
  the Matrix screen in "The Ultimate Foe."  The departing Lord President of
  Gallifrey was killed by Chancellor Goth under the control of the Master ("The
  Deadly Assassin," DW).  An attempt was made on Deeta Tarrant's life aboard the
  neutral starliner Teal Star ("Death-Watch," B7).  Kira launched an elaborate
  plot to murder Sisko and usurp Federation control of DS9 in "Dramatis
  Personae" (DSN).  Aboard Babylon 5, an attempt on newly arrived Vorlon
  Ambassador Kosh was very nearly successful ("The Gathering"), and a later
  scheme was planned by Home Guard proponent Malcolm Biggs to kill all of the
  alien ambassadors on the station ("The War Prayer," B5).  Josiah Samuel Smith
  engaged the services of explorer Redvers Fenn-Cooper to hunt down and kill the
  Crowned Saxe-Coburg, also known as Queen Victoria ("Ghost Light," DW).  An
  attempt on the life of Vedek Bareil ("In the Hands of the Prophets," DSN) was
  thwarted at the last minute by O'Brien and Sisko.  Vulcan Ambassador Sarek was
  accused of brutally killing a Tellarite delegate during a mission to the
  diplomatic summit on Babel ("Journey to Babel," TOS).  In "The Mind of Evil"
  (DW), the Master used an alien mind parasite to murder the Chinese delegate.
  Geordi, under Romulan mind control, was used as a pawn in an attempt to kill
  Klingon Governor Vagh ("The Mind's Eye," TNG) in order to start a war between
  the Klingons and the Federation.  Quark nearly lost his lobes after becoming
  "The Nagus" (DSN) thanks to Rom and Krax.  Zygon leader Broton planned to
  destroy the World Energy Conference with the Skarasen ("Terror of the Zygons,"
  DW).  Klingon Chancellor Gorkon was killed by humans in league with General
  Chang and Admiral Cartwright in "Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country."  A
  number of planetary governors - whether they sympathized with Governor Le
  Grand's resistance efforts or not - were gunned down by Federation death
  squads in "A Voice from the Past"; rebels on Earth were dealt with similarly,
  though Roj Blake narrowly escaped suffering the same fate just by being there
  ("The Way Back," B7).

BIOTECHNOLOGY:  Devices or tools of an organic nature which have evolved either
  naturally or as a result of genetic manipulation.  The spacecraft/beings Axos
  ("The Claws of Axos," DW) and Gomm-Tu ("Tin Man," TNG) were bred especially to
  serve their respective purposes.  The dragonlike guardian of the "Dragonfire"
  (DW) on Svartos was genetically created by the inhabitants of the long-extinct
  world Proamon.  Light's spacecraft ("Ghost Light"), the Zygon ship ("Terror of
  the Zygons") the Silurians' and Sea-Devils' undersea craft ("Warriors of the
  Deep," DW) and the futuristic Earth vessel encountered by Red Dwarf ("DNA")
  all seemed to have some measure of organic components, and the artificual
  planet "Ultraworld" (B7) was created to expand the knowledge of its organic,
  brain-like Core.  The Vorlons and possibly the Minbari are said to possess
  biotechnology in "Infection" (B5), though Earth may also discover those
  secrets after studying confiscated Icarran artifacts.  The Source was
  allegedly a "bio-electronic" device ("The Keeper of Traken," DW).  The most
  feared secret service branch of the Cardassians, the Obsidian Order, used
  biotechnology such as "The Wire" (DSN) to monitor or punish subjects.  A sort
  of reverse biotechnology was demonstrated aboard the Enterprise after contact
  with the archives hidden in an artificial comet in "Masks" (TNG), when plants,
  animal life, and other distinctly organic-looking objects were created by the
  transformation of parts of the Enterprise itself.

CLONING (also see replication):  Creating a living copy of a being by purely
  organic means.

CONSPIRACY:  A small, organized group clandestinely planning or carrying out
  questionable or illegal activities.

COUPS D'ETAT (also see assassination):  The transfer of governmental power by
  means of force and/or conspiracy.

DIPLOMACY:

DRUGS:

DRUG ABUSE:

EDUCATION:

ENERGY LIFE FORMS:

ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGE:

EXECUTION:  The formal and sometimes ceremonial fatal punishment of individuals
  deemed guilty of some crime; occasionally dispensed more arbitrarily in times
  of war.

GENETIC MANIPULATION (also see biotechnology):

GENOCIDE:

GUERILLA WARFARE:

HANDICAPS:

HATE CRIMES:

HYPNOSIS (also see mind control):

LIFE SUPPORT (i.e. artificial organs, etc.):

MIND CONTROL:  The uninvited control of an individual's mind gained by another
  party through telepathic or technological means.

MINING:  Removal of mineral resources by means of labor or machinery.

MUSICAL SKILL:  A proficiency at performing or composing music.  Commander Riker
  demonstrated his trombone skills in "11001001" and "Second Chances" (though he
  dreaded the song "Nightbird" because he could never get through the first
  measure); however, he seemed a bit out of practice in "Future Imperfect."  A
  true jazzman, Riker also proved he could tickle the ivories in "Unification
  II" when he played a duet with Amarie.  In that same story, Worf bellowed a
  few notes of the Klingon Opera "Aktuh and Melota," and also showed a good
  grasp of Klingon folk music in "Birthright, Part II."  Spock was a very good
  Vulcan harp player; he accompanied Uhura's soulful singing in "Charlie X" and
  joined Dr. Sevrin's followers in a jam session on "The Way to Eden" (TOS).
  Dr. Bashir attempted to impress Kira with his knowledge of Bajoran musicians
  in "Crossover," but didn't get far with his overanalytical approach to
  listening; Kira instead preferred just to listen to such musicians as Varani,
  who played a gig at Quark's while waiting for the Jolanda Forum music hall to
  be rebuilt on Bajor ("Sanctuary," DSN).  The third Doctor occasionally sang a
  capella; his knowledge of Venusian lullabyes came in handy for pacifying
  Aggedor ("The Curse of Peladon," "The Monster of Peladon"), he sang "Shine On,
  Martian Moons" to the tune of "Shine On, Harvest Moon" ("Inferno"), and on one
  occasion seconds before blowing up an experiment, he sang "I Don't Want To Set
  the World On Fire!" ("Terror of the Autons," DW)  To help celebrate his
  reinstatement to the Continuum, Q conjured up a brassy mariachi band on the
  bridge of the Enterprise ("Deja Q," TNG).  Billy, the young mechanic at the
  Shangri-La holiday camp in Wales, was an excellent guitarist and balladeer as
  demonstrated in a concert he and his band the Lorells played there; Delta's
  rapidly evolving daughter, on the other hand, had her own idea of when the
  Singing Time was ("Delta and the Bannermen," DW).  Dave Lister liked to
  imagine he was the heir to Hendrix's throne, though his ineptitude with the
  guitar was already legendary by "The End," in which Rimmer threatened to snap
  the E string on Lister's guitar and garotte him with it if he attempted to
  play so much as a note.  Curiously enough, Lister's guitar started out as an
  acoustic, but suddenly became "an authentic Les Paul copy" electric when he
  took it with him and got "Marooned," a trip during which he unfortunately
  tried to strum a few notes and sing "She's Out Of My Life."  Perhaps we can
  chalk this metamorphosis up to the unaccounted-for second polymorph!  When
  faced with "Psirens," Lister's staggering lack of musical ability allowed
  Kryten to determine which of the two Listers was real, and which was the
  camouflaged Psiren whose hands played guitar a lot like those of Roxy Music's
  Phil Manzanera.  Chief O' Brien played cello and Data played violin in the
  Enterprise orchestra in "The Ensigns of Command"; Data also played violin in a
  concert attended by "Sarek," classical guitar in "Silicon Avatar," and flute
  in "In Theory" (TNG).  Jadzia Dax's humming irritated Sisko during a game of
  chess in "Equilibrium" (DSN).  Kirk, Spock and McCoy drunkenly bleated "Row,
  Row, Row Your Boat" during shore leave in Yosemite Park (well, okay, so Spock
  wasn't drunk...yet); they only lived to see their next mission because no one
  else was around to suffer through it ("Star Trek V: The Final Frontier").  The
  fifth Doctor was able to sight-read the musical notes in a painting of
  Rassilon well enough to play them on Rassilon's harp, thus triggering the
  secret door to the hidden Time Scoop control room ("The Five Doctors").  In
  his seventh incarnation, the Doctor briefly crooned a song over an old-style
  microphone in the town square on Terra Alpha while waiting for "The Happiness
  Patrol" to arrive.  The second Doctor's companion Jamie McCrimmon was the
  piper for the clan McLaren ("The Highlanders," DW).  Picard, experiencing the
  life of Kamin, became more proficient on the Ressican flute as Kamin aged, and
  that instrument was found aboard a probe as the only remaining artifact of
  Kamin's extinct civilization ("The Inner Light").  Picard played a duet with
  Nella Darin, whose instrument of choice was the piano, in "Lessons."
  Cryogenically-frozen and resuscitated 20th century musician "Sonny" Clemonds
  was a country music star whose vices caught up with him; Data replicated a new
  guitar for him en route to "The Neutral Zone."  Barclay, under the enhancement
  of the Cytherian probe, was a virtuoso violinist in "The Nth Degree."  Spock
  was telepathically coerced to sing "Maiden Wine" to "Plato's Stepchildren"
  (the song itself was one of Leonard Nimoy's original compositions).  Namin was
  a fluent organist until Sutekh shut down all of his organs ("Pyramids of
  Mars," DW).  Geordi was astoundingly bad in the brief period of time he spent
  tunelessly strumming a lute before Worf, in the interests of good taste,
  smashed it against a nearby tree ("Qpid," TNG).  Dayna played some manner of
  electronic lute aboard the Liberator ("Sarcophagus," B7) and sang very well.
  Data could not whistle at all when Riker first met him ("Encounter at
  Farpoint"), but later gained the skill while possessed by Dr. Ira Graves ("The
  Schizoid Man," TNG).  The Doctor and Ace spent an afternoon enjoying a jazz
  quartet on Earth ("Silver Nemesis," DW).  Uhura played the harpsichord at the
  behest of "The Squire of Gothos" (TOS).  Turlough, new to the TARDIS crew,
  claimed to be singing when Tegan overheard him concluding a conversation with
  the Black Guardian ("Terminus," DW).  Not that Londo Mollari could stake much
  more of a claim on being an expert vocalist, as he demonstrated by singing
  "The Hokey-Pokey" to Delenn and Draal ("A Voice in the Wilderness, Part 1,"
  B5), though Draal quietly admitted to having liked the song.  Scotty's bagpipe
  rendition of "Amazing Grace" graced Spock's funeral ceremony ("Star Trek II:
  The Wrath of Khan").

MUTINY:

OLD WEST:  The period of American history which saw the Euro-descended settlers
  expand their territorial claims westward, frequently skirmishing with the
  native Indians.  Perhaps because Hollywood's got so many stock western sets,
  costumes and props, the Old West seems to be resurrected with alarming
  frequency in the future!  An accident during an experiment in engineering
  swapped some of Data's files with those of a holodeck "ancient west" program
  being played out by Sheriff Worf, Deputy Alexander and Troi as a mysterious
  sharp-shooting stranger.  Troi claimed to have shared her late father's
  fascination with this often-romanticized period of history ("A Fistful of
  Datas," TNG).  The atmosphere was distinctly western in Freedom City, a
  gambling and recreation establishment visited by Blake, Cally and Jenna in
  their search for Docholli ("Gambit," B7), from the feisty barmaid right down
  to Travis's ten-gallon fedora.  The Doctor, Steven and Dodo visited the OK
  Corral itself in "The Gunfighters" (DW).  Lister, Rimmer and Cat used a wild
  west virtual reality game to access Kryten's systems and save him from a virus
  absorbed in an attack by warlike GELFs, who appeared in the game as the four
  "Gunmen of the Apocalypse" (RD).  Kirk and most of his senior officers also
  visited the OK Corral when the Melkot, in retaliation to the Enterprise's
  violation of their territory, thrust them into a re-creation of the old west
  to determine their codes of morality ("Spectre of the Gun," TOS).

PACIFISM:

PARASITIC LIFE FORMS:

PASSIVE RESISTANCE:

PLANETARY DISASTERS:

PREHISTORY:

RELIGION:

REPLICATION (also see androids, cloning):

REVOLUTIONS:

SURGERY:

TELEPATHY:  The ability to transmit or receive thoughts directly from mind to
  mind.  Telepathy has been used for many uses other than simply communicating
  with one's fellows to get out of a scrape; interrogations were conducted by or
  with telepaths/empaths ("The Drumhead," TNG; "The Gathering," "Eyes," B5;
  "Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country").  Telepathy has also been used to
  repel or defend against attackers ("The Curse of Fenric," DW; "Eyes," B5), and
  the Doctor did telepathic battle with "The Brain of Morbius" (DW).  Ambassador
  Kosh and Abbut determined a series of mental images which would intimidate
  Talia Winters ("Deathwalker," B5), similar to the "mind rapes" committed by
  Jev ("Violations," TNG).  Those who were not telepathically gifted could be
  given the ability by artificial means such as the devices implanted into
  Picard and Dr. Crusher in "Attached" (TNG), or could have their latent
  abilities amplified by devices such as the Haliian Canar used by Geordi and
  "Aquiel" (TNG).  Telepaths have been lured by other telepaths; Cally was
  telepathically baited by the Thaarn ("Dawn of the Gods"), the long-dead
  creators of a spaceborne burial vault ("Sarcophagus"), Orac under alien
  control ("Shadow"), "Ultraworld," and by Saymon, one of a legendary group of
  outcast Aurons known as the Fallen ("The Web," B7).  Tam Elbrun maintained a
  tenuous link with Gomm-Tu ("Tin Man," TNG), as Spock did with V'Ger ("Star
  Trek: The Motion Picture").  Non-telepaths could also be similarly influenced,
  such as the entire senior staff of DS9 in "Dramatis Personae" (DSN), the
  Enterprise crew and a party of Klingons in "Day of the Dove" (TOS), and
  Beverly Crusher in "Sub Rosa" (TNG).  Spock managed to cross the gap between
  organic and silicon life-forms by mind-melding with the Horta ("Devil in the
  Dark," TOS).  Time Lords could establish telepathic contact with earlier or
  later incarnations of themselves as demonstrated by "The Three Doctors" (DW).
  Telepaths could lose their abilities, as Troi did in "The Loss" (TNG);
  conversely, their abilities could evolve to the point of telekinesis; an
  experiment intended to force this advanced skill was conducted on Jason
  Ironheart ("Mind War," B5), and there is a hint that he passed this skill or a
  fraction of it along to Talia Winters.

TIME TRAVEL:

TRIALS:  Formal courtroom proceedings or hearings with a defendant, a plantiff,
  and an arbiter.  (Simple and/or abitrary judgments without a trial do not
  apply here.)  It is perhaps no surprise that the instantly understandable and
  recognizable framework of the legal adversarial process has shown up so many
  times, being a staple not only of television, but of western literature.  Q
  subjected Picard and the rest of humanity to an ongoing trial to determine the
  species' worthiness of existence ("Encounter at Farpoint," "All Good
  Things...," TNG); this was not so much a trial as a gross exaggeration of a
  kangaroo court.  Gul Dukat was questioned in a brief hearing to determine the
  legal guardians of the Bajoran-adopted Cardassian child Proka ("Cardassians,"
  DSN).  Captain Kirk was the subject of a formal "Court-Martial" to determine
  his fitness for command after he allegedly killed records officer Ben Finney.
  Jadzia "Dax" (DSN) stood trial to determine whether or not she was responsible
  for a murder attributed to previous host Curzon.  The Doctor was given a brief
  hearing when the Time Lord assumed him to be "The Deadly Assassin" responsible
  for killing the Lord President; by invoking Article 17 and nominating himself
  a candidate for that office, he evaded the proceeding.  Dalek creator Davros
  was imprisoned for transport to stand trial on Earth ("Destiny of the Daleks")
  and later was ironically taken back to Skaro where the Daleks planned to try
  him for crimes against the purity of their race ("Revelation of the Daleks,"
  DW).  Picard and Ardra locked horns in "Devil's Due" over the issue of Ardra's
  claim of ownership to the Ventaxians and the Enterprise; Picard also withstood
  a series of Admiral Satie's frantic accusations of conspiring against the
  Federation ("The Drumhead," TNG).  Kira told Marritza/Darhe'el that he would
  stand before a tribunal ("Duet," DSN), though it would be hard imagining that
  body deciding on anything but the death penalty.  "Ensign Ro" had been
  court-martialled and removed from Starfleet service after an incident aboard
  the Wellington, and was threatened with another court-martial by Picard if she
  defected to join the Maquis ("Preemptive Strike," TNG).  Commander Sinclair
  was tried by his fellow council members on charges of attempting to murder
  Ambassador Kosh ("The Gathering") and was lated forced to comply with Colonel
  Ari Ben-Zayn's formal inquiry into his command fitness and loyalty ("Eyes,"
  B5) until the Colonel's own sanity became questionable.  Wesley Crusher and
  three classmates at Starfleet Academy originally dodged the questions of a
  formal inquiry into the death of another cadet, but later Wes admitted the
  truth ("The First Duty," TNG).  Criminal and small claims cases aboard Babylon
  5 were handled by the Ombudsmen ("Grail," "The Quality of Mercy," B5).  Trials
  had been eliminated by the Edo in favor of a more swift and arbitrary system
  of "Justice."  Commander Riker was tried on charges of murdering scientist Dr.
  Aphar, but was cleared of the charges ("A Matter of Perspective").  Data's
  sentience and independence were the subjects of a fierce courtroom battle
  ("The Measure of a Man"), the successful results of which Data later cited in
  his decision to try to preserve the Exocomps ("The Quality of Life," TNG).
  Spock was given formal court-martial proceedings for acts of mutiny and clear
  violations of Starfleet general orders in "The Menagerie" (TOS).  Riker
  arrived in time to see the end of a very brief hearing concerning the fate of
  "deviant" J'naii Soren ("The Outcast").  Riker and his first commanding
  officer had been questioned in hearings regarding the mutiny and loss of "The
  Pegasus."  Federation Space Commander Travis had been removed from service for
  overt acts of brutality and mass-murder before Servalan called him back into
  active duty to hunt down Blake ("Seek-Locate-Destroy"); when he failed to do
  so and became a political embarassment to Servalan in the process, she had
  other similar charges brought against him in an attempt to get him sentenced
  to death and silenced forever ("Trial," B7).  Khan Noonien Singh and his
  accomplices, including the impressionable Lt. Marla McGyvers, were sentenced
  to exile on Ceti Alpha V in a military-style trial conducted by Kirk ("Space
  Seed," TOS).  The Doctor acted as an attorney prosecuting Vivien Fay and then
  Cessair of Diplos in "The Stones of Blood," in which he was confronted with
  two Megara, automated and pre-programmed dispensers of justice, not unlike the
  computer aboard a penal station visited by Lister and Rimmer; the station's
  automatic mind-reading device immediately detected memories of committing any
  crimes and pronounced sentence accordingly, which meant that Rimmer, for not
  fixing a drive plate and thus being responsible for the death of the entire
  Red Dwarf crew, was in for one hell of an afterlife sentence ("Justice," RD).
  Kryten managed to get Rimmer off, though not in a way most of us would enjoy.
  The Doctor was the subject of two trials at the hands of the Time Lords; the
  first resulted in his second regeneration and exile to Earth ("The War Games")
  while the second was a kangaroo court set into motion by the Valeyard ("The
  Trial of a Time Lord," DW).  Another biased legal battle was fought by Odo for
  O'Brien's life in a "Tribunal" (DSN) on Cardassia Prime, where the chief was
  accused of smuggling weapons for the Maquis.  Janice Lester's body, inhabited
  by the transposed mind of Captain Kirk, was subjected to a quick trial by
  Lester (in Kirk's body), but was invalidated by the other senior officers who
  realized that their captain was not behaving like himself...or herself
  ("Turnabout Intruder," TOS), though Kirk didn't fare quite so well many years
  later when the Federation Council stripped him of his admiralty for his theft
  of the Enterprise and violation of a quarantine on the Genesis Planet ("Star
  Trek IV: The Voyage Home").  Finally, evidence and arguments were entirely
  contained within some manner of computer storage device to enable speedy
  proceedings, such as the one-sided trial of Blake in "The Way Back" (B7).

TRIBAL CULTURES:  Simple, primitive groupings based upon survival; "hunting and
  gathering" societies sometimes influenced by superstitions and simplistic
  religious beliefs.  Early man was visited by the Doctor, Susan, Ian and
  Barbara on their first journey in the TARDIS ("An Unearthly Child," DW), and
  the Doctor later encountered "The Aztecs" (DW).  The inhabitants of Gamma
  Trianguli VI lived as primitives in fear of Vaal ("The Apple," TOS).  The
  Ligonians prided themselves on their seemingly simple existence, though they
  possessed such technology as transporters ("Code of Honor," TNG).  Conditions
  on some planets were so unfavorable that the inhabitants and their descendants
  reverted to more primitive ways of live, as was the case with the criminals
  shipped to "Cygnus Alpha" (B7), the natives of Exarius ("The Doomsday
  Machine," DW), the Sevateem and the Tesh ("The Face of Evil," DW), the human
  survivors on Ravolox ("The Mysterious Planet," DW), the Morgs of Sigma
  Draconis VI ("Spock's Brain," TOS), and the P7E crew's descendants living in
  the "Underworld" (DW).  The Thals, at some point in their ever-raging war with
  "The Daleks" (DW) reached a relatively primitive, pacifist state.  The
  Exxilons ("Death to the Daleks," DW) were reduced to a primitive existence by
  their own creation, a computer-controlled city; similarly, the inhabitants of
  Yonada ("For the World is Hollow...," TOS) were kept in a primitive but
  structured society by the Oracle.  "The Savages" (DW) were referred to as such
  by the Elders who had sapped their life energy from them to keep themselves
  alive.  The descendants of a planet visited by Avon had no idea what their
  ancestors' dormant launch center and gene bank-carrying rocket were for
  ("Deliverance," B7), and the natives were very restless on Sarran when Avon
  visited there later ("Aftermath," B7).  The doomed natives of Boral II were
  saved from extinction in their planet's collapsing ecosphere by anthopological
  observer Nikolai Rozhenko ("Homeward," TNG) and were moved to another planet,
  a Prime Directive violation of immense scale.  The Shobogans of Gallifrey
  rejected the Time Lords' ordered elistist society and lived in the wilds
  outside the Capitol ("The Invasion of Time").  The Goths lived in a series of
  vast caves beneath the radioactive surface of their planet ("The Keeper," B7).
  Though they appeared to eke out a simplistic lifestyle on Deva Loka, the
  "Kinda" (DW) shared telepathic links throughout their society.  The Swampies
  of Delta Magna were enslaved by human methane miners ("The Power of Kroll,"
  DW).  Captain Kirk twice visited a planet, one of whose tribal leaders, Tyree,
  he befriended ("A Private Little War," TOS), though this society was changed
  forever by the intervention of both Federation and Klingon parties, who gave
  more advanced weaponry to the two warring tribes.  The Cheetah People
  ("Survival," DW) had a simple, food-gathering lifestyle based upon typical
  feline relations.  The GELFs encountered by Lister, Rimmer and company in
  "Emohawk: Polymorph II" (RD) were sometimes violently tempered, but usually
  meant well.  The proto-Vulcans of Mintaka III were influenced by the
  accidental decloaking of a Federation anthropological observation post and a
  subsequent rescue mission by the Enterprise ("Who Watches the Watchers?,"
  TNG).  A number of cultures seem to have been influenced in some way by the
  Indian cultures of Earth such as the South American Indians ("Black Orchid,"
  DW) and descendants of North American Indians who left Earth to claim their
  own soverign territory ("Journey's End," TNG).  Two examples of societies
  modeled after Earth Indian culture to some degree are the natives of
  "Horizon" (B7) who were virtually enslaved by the Federation, though they
  later revolted; and the North American Indian colony encountered by Kirk and
  the crew of the Enterprise ("The Paradise Syndrome," TOS).

WAR:


   For those of you who want even more information organized along these lines,
I give Mark Holtz's Star Trek List of Lists files the *very highest*
recommendations!  Separate files cover the original Trek, the animated series
(something which I regret I've never gotten around to with any LogBook files),
ST:TNG and Deep Space Nine.  Doctor Who fans are strongly advised to seek out
Jean-Marc Lofficier's excellent - and thick - book "Doctor Who: The Universal
Database."

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