History Main / SendInTheSearchTeam

** In ''StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'', this was the plot of at least one in every four episodes, including "The Omega Glory", "The Tholian Web" and "The Doomsday Machine".

* In ''StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'', this was the plot of at least one in every four episodes, including "The Omega Glory", "The Tholian Web" and "The Doomsday Machine".
* ''StarTrekEnterprise'', "Terra Nova". A Vulcan ship is sent into the Expanse to find the ''Seleya'', and ends up suffering the same fate before the NX-01 Enterprise stumbles across them.

* In ''StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'', this was the plot of at least one in every four episodes.

* ''Aliens'' The Marines are dispatched to LV-426 to determine why contact was lost

* Both ''Film/{{Alien}}'' and ''Aliens''.

* {{Patlabor}} parodies this ''twice''.

* Miranda of ''Film/{{Serenity}}''.

* Miranda of ''{{Serenity}}''.

* The third "{{Avernum}}" game has your party assigned to take over the mission of the first surface exploration team. While your primary goal is to deal with problems on the surface, you're also asked to figure out what happened to the earlier team if you can.

* ''{{Sunshine}}'', sort of. The crew of ''Icarus II'' passes ''Icarus I'' in space, and initially decides ''not'' to stop. However, [[spoiler:they are forced into a SendInTheSearchTeam situation after their own ship suffers catastrophic damage and they are unsure of whether their payload is still functional.]]
** ''{{Sunshine}}'' is really only a partial example, though, since [[spoiler:the primary goal of the mission was not to rescue ''Icarus I'' and thanks to [[NiceJobBreakingItHero thanks to the mathematician's forgetfulness]] the lives were in danger before the rescue mission was undertaken]], this trope still is quite the driving force behind the plot.

* ConquestFrontierWars: In the intro, a ship was lost shortly after going through a wormhole. After that, a small search team sent through the wormhole was also lost. They then decide to send in the protagonist commander.
* PhantasyStarIV has this as Hahn's primary motivation for joining the party-- he wants to join Alys and Chaz, professional monster hunters, and bring them with him to search for the missing Professor Holt. Unlike most other examples, though, several search parties have ''already'' been sent and come back with nothing; Alys and Chaz are recruited because it's assumed (by everyone but Hahn) that the Professor and his crew were killed by dangerous monsters.

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Note: This trope was previously named ''HeartOfDarkness'', which is an actual work and has its own article. ''Heart of Darkness'' is also an example of a [[RiverOfInsanity Doomed River Expedition]].

Note: This trope was previously named ''HeartOfDarkness'', which is an actual work and has its own article. ''Heart of Darkness'' is an example of a [[RiverOfInsanity Doomed River Expedition]].

* The first ''ResidentEvil'' film featured a team of commandos searching an underground laboratory to find out why the AI in control of the facility killed everyone.

* ''Cannibal Holocaust''.

* A few of RayBradbury's ''Martian Chronicles'' follow plots of this type.

* ''{{Stargate SG-1}}'', "The First Commandment"

* In KnightsOfTheOldRepublic, you're sent to find out what happened to the research facility in the Hrakert Rift on Manaan. They were all [[spoiler:eaten]] by [[spoiler:Selkath]] who had been [[spoiler:driven insane]] by a [[spoiler:giant Firaxan shark]].

* In Knights of the Old Republic, you're sent to find out what happened to the research facility in the Hrakert Rift on Manaan. They were all [[spoiler:eaten]] by [[spoiler:Selkath]] who had been [[spoiler:driven insane]] by a [[spoiler:giant Firaxan shark]].

* This is the plot of ''The Voyage of the Dawn Treader'', part of ''[[TheChroniclesofNarnia The Chronicles of Narnia]]'' by C.S. Lewis.