Spoilers What's the craziest thing Trek has done?

[Richard S. Ta]

I forgot the hatred of women part... what the fuck were they thinking in the 60's?

It always sticks with me ‘cause it’s repeated twice by Bones in the space of about 20 seconds:

MCCOY: My work, Jim. This is prescription stuff. Don't forget, the explosion that threw Scotty against a bulkhead was caused by a woman.
KIRK: Physically he's all right. Am I right in assuming that?
MCCOY: Oh, yes, yes. As a matter of fact, considerable psychological damage could have been caused. For example, his total resentment toward women.
KIRK: He seems he's overcoming his resentment.
MCCOY: Of course, in my professional opinion, when he gets back to the ship, he's going to hate you for making him leave Argelius. But then he will have lost total resentment toward women.

“Total resentment toward women” because he banged his head on a bulkhead…

I do recall the first time I saw the episode in 2006 or so and wondering what the fuck I just heard Bones say.

Good episode, but I’m behind The Magicks of Megas Tu being the weirdest Trek ever. The show will never be that strange (and oddly, brave) again.

 

[Oddish]

Remember that in the 1960's, there were people alive who remembered the days when women couldn't vote or hold political office. Male chauvinism died hard.

 

[NCC-73515]

Sock-gliding through a Borg cube.
Drinking from an old bottle makes the room shake, glass explode, the drinker scream, and perhaps summons a Q, if one is around.

 

[NCC-73515]

Changing the Mirror Earth to actually be mirrored

 

[F. King Daniel]

Having an older man come on board and take an unhealthy interest in a teenage boy. Then a few years later they run away together.

 

[Oddish]

Having an older man come on board and take an unhealthy interest in a teenage boy. Then a few years later they run away together.

Payrick Stewart must not have minded that part, since he would later play a "mentor" character himself.

 

[Shazam!]

Turn Picard into a robot.

 

[dupersuper]

The more I look around, the more I think it may be just positing a bright happy future in the first place...

Star Trek needs to get over having only one (or two) ongoing timelines.

Does it, though?

The entire Star Trek universe being heavily implied to be in the imagination of an institutionalized author in the 1950s.

Well, they're already in the kids snow globe from St Elsewhere...

Funny thing... I read that the idea for shrinking the crew goes as far back as season 3 or 4 of TNG,

Surely it goes back to The Terratin Incident...?

 

[Oddish]

Turn Picard into a robot

And Dr. Crusher into a dog.

 

[Richard S. Ta]

And Dr. Crusher into a dog.

And Janeway/Paris into Salamanders (they got better).

 

[Deks]

Everything can kill you in the 24th century. Look at that Kazon ship in State of Flux, it got blown up by a replicator. A frickin' REPLICATOR! That's like an armed gunboat getting blown inside out because someone installed a coffeemaker onboard.

Any piece of technology which is sufficiently advanced can cause potential problems for less advanced species.
Trek portrayed things in a realistic fashion here if anything. Somerhing as common as a replicator is considered benign in UFP because its basically a 24th century 3d printer with molecular and atomic scale manufacturing capabilities... subatomic actually.
The thing converts energy into matter... there's no denying its powerful piece of technology and that dangerous radiation can be a byproduct if handled incorrectly... but for UFP, that's not a problem because they used thick enough shielding (the Kazon did not)... and they design it to be safe for everyday use. Seska simply gave them the technology and in their overzealous attempt to try it out, they ended up causing a problem which was devastating to the crew... it caused parts of them to be converted into energy and fuse with inorganic matter.
A species like the Kazon which is inexperienced with matter conversion technology is bounds to have issues (UFP has a collective knowledge base of over 150 member planets sharing technology, knowledge and resources freely - they are bound to have far less problems and to be able to have less issues with more advanced technologies).

Stargate did a similar story with Kalowans (I think) in Season 6 when it was discovered they hadn't been advanced enough to use thick enough shielding to contain radiation from Naquadriah... whereas the Earth humans were sufficiently advanced to use proper shielding (which was probably also helped by the fact they had more experience with reactor shielding from nuclear technology).

 

[Henoch]

Surely it goes back to The Terratin Incident...?

One more for the list: The transporter was used to fix the shrinking crew problem, too.

 

[Oddish]

Is it a transporter... or a magic machine?

 

[dupersuper]

Is it a transporter... or a magic machine?

Is there a difference?

 

[Oddish]

Not really.

 

[MarkusTay]

Aside from the two times insanely huge ships with ridiculous premises (returned satellite and space-whales) threatened the entire galaxy, but came specifically to Earth? I would say its the time several species' sciency-types went looking for god, and found a giant floating head.

The USS Discovery going to the Mirror Universe with its mushroom drive that rides space fungus mycelium threaded throughout the entire universe where they discovered that Michael Burnham's dead captain is both the Emperor and her mother, and that she had built a ship that would've destroyed all life in the multiverse if they hadn't turned up at that moment to stop it.

That's my definition of insanity.

Oh, you mean that time Star trek found Yggdrasil? I'm surprised they haven't run into Thor yet... the SG1 team did...