Science fiction has a lot of common ground. Fans can find repeated tropes, character concepts, thematic notes, and narrative inventions across otherwise massively different franchises. Star Trek has countless iterations of this idea. The premise of a cruel leader killing half of a population in some misguided attempt to rescue the other half from a resource crisis might bring a certain purple gentleman to mind. Star Trek addressed a similar idea with a healthy dose of Macbeth when discussing the Tarsus IV Incident.