Edith Keeler's speech in "City on the Edge of Forever." I love the episode, but her speech in the mission starts out normal, and then just goes off the rails into total insanity.
Okay, so far, so good. Edith Keeler believes in tough love. And then, in the very next sentence:
And
WHAAAA---?!? 


That speech took a weird left turn.
"Don't worry that you're homeless and don't have any food to eat, you guys. Scientists are going to split the atom, we're gonna build spaceships, and the people in those spaceships will bring back food and cure your diseases and stuff!"
First of all, the spaceship thing has
nothing to do with her supposed peaceful philosophy. Secondly, the stuff she's talking about would take decades to achieve, at
best. How is that supposed to give the folks in her mission enough hope to make it until tomorrow? Why not say something more practical about how they have to work hard to overcome their circumstances, or something about how they all have to put aside their differences, band together in brotherhood, and help each other through this tough time? Either of those would fit in with her POV and give more inspiration to the homeless people there.
She doesn't sound insightful, she sounds insane. As it is, that speech reads like either Edith Keeler snuck a look at the script and knew that Kirk and Spock were from outer space, or else someone laced her coffee with a hallucinogen.