"At least we can blame it on the phenomenon of the week!"

[Hikaru_Ichijo]

I'm trying to imagine how awkward it must have been for the crew to face the next morning after going through an episode like "Genesis":

"Honey, remember when the kids turned into iguanas and me a cro-magnon man?"

"Yes, dear. You were only trying to mate with our cat."

I'm wondering how many other awkward moments everyone on the ship had to face after episodes like "Naked Now," "Conundrum," and even "Sarek"?

 

[Mojochi]

Hell, I don't even think I could look Worf straight in the face again, after seeing him altered to look like a Boraalan in Homeward

And Barclay would pretty much have to leave the ship

But apparently, 24th century people are evolved enough to get past that stuff more easily

 

[Hazel]

In the 24th century, humans will have evolved beyond embarassment.

 

[The Old Mixer]

In Soviet 24th century, phenomenon of the week is embarrassed by YOU!

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

...And Barclay would pretty much have to leave the ship...

Turning into a spider was the very least embarrassing thing to ever happen to Barclay.

 

[AgentCoop]

^At least he got a disease named after him. That's something.

Data probably needed to have apology cards printed up to have on hand whenever an outside force took him over and endangered the ship.

 

[Armored Saint]

Doctor Crusher didn't seem to be embarassed by Dern's death.

 

[Mister Spock]

The closest we get is in The Naked Now when Yar approaches Data and tells him nothing happened.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

I think in most cases, professionalism trumps embarrassment.

But Genesis is an exception. Some members of the crew must have woken up to find in horror that they ate their best friend.

 

[Makarov]

An episode like Genesis is just a fun thing where I let my eyes glaze over and don't worry about continuity.

There's plenty of episodes though that realistically would have a major major impact on a character. Picard would be a completely different person after The Inner Light - having had the fake kids and lost them would probably change him completely.

The one where Riker is forced to kill that female assassin he was also dating would probably change him a lot too.

 

[Silvercrest]

...And Barclay would pretty much have to leave the ship...

Turning into a spider was the very least embarrassing thing to ever happen to Barclay.

Wow, I finally came up with an explanation for why Barclay turned into a spider when there's no evolutionary connection. After the events of "Genesis", Barclay's hypochondria and obsessiveness drove him to research his genetic history...

... and he discovered he was descended from Tobey Maguire.

 

[2takesfrakes]

Sometimes, it's not such a bad thing to let the writer "have his mind," and just go with it. Like Time Travel episodes, it's entertaining to let "things" happen. One of the many, splendor things I love - absolutely love - about The Next Generation is its fertile imagination. Everything from a crystaline entity ... to an entire species, like the Borg ... to fun episodes like GENESIS. That someone's mind could conceive such and find expression in this series is one of the many pleasures it offers.

 

[Mister Spock]

There's also The Mind's Eye where Geordi has a bit of a breakdown at the end. Every scene he was in from then until the end of the series should have just been him silently knocking back drinks in Ten Forward.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

Sometimes, it's not such a bad thing to let the writer "have his mind," and just go with it. Like Time Travel episodes, it's entertaining to let "things" happen. One of the many, splendor things I love - absolutely love - about The Next Generation is its fertile imagination. Everything from a crystaline entity ... to an entire species, like the Borg ... to fun episodes like GENESIS. That someone's mind could conceive such and find expression in this series is one of the many pleasures it offers.

I agree in general, but I think if there's a case where a significant percentage of the crew should have died there needs to be fallout. Either that or they should have said something like 'The quarantine system locked down the ship, or else more of the crew might have killed each other'.

I disagree about Mind's Eye, I think a person would be able to work through that, only it wouldn't be as instant as it seemed.