30 Times ‘Star Trek’ Was a Dumb Vision of the Future

Space. The final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: To explore strange new worlds. To seek out new life and new civilizations. To boldly go where no man has gone before!
With these words, a jazzy 1960s theme song and a couple of whooshes past the screen, the world was introduced to the world of Star Trek, a sci-fi series that's now comprised of multiple series, movies, novels, comics and much more. Each episode features the crew of the Enterprise encountering some new, challenging, big idea. As powerful as a great episode of Trek can be, its biggest fans know that it’s also often pretty dumb. Hey, when you cram all this science-fiction goodness into an hour, something is bound to go wrong.
Here are some of our favorite moments and episodes that are about as a dumb as a bag of space rocks…
Threshold

Sub Rosa

Riker's Trombone

Picard

Into Darkness

Up the Long Ladder

The Child

The Way to Eden

The Corbomite Maneuver

We didn't come from spiders

Source: 15 'Star Trek' Episodes That Got Science Embarrassingly Wrong
Oxygen & Hydrogen

Source: 15 'Star Trek' Episodes That Got Science Embarrassingly Wrong
Not that much water

Source: 15 'Star Trek' Episodes That Got Science Embarrassingly Wrong
No shouting at spaceships

Source: 15 'Star Trek' Episodes That Got Science Embarrassingly Wrong
Spock and Evolution

Source: 15 'Star Trek' Episodes That Got Science Embarrassingly Wrong
Punching Event Horizon

Source: 15 'Star Trek' Episodes That Got Science Embarrassingly Wrong
Space Oil

Source: 15 'Star Trek' Episodes That Got Science Embarrassingly Wrong
Neutrinos

Source: 15 'Star Trek' Episodes That Got Science Embarrassingly Wrong
Tardigrades

Source: 15 'Star Trek' Episodes That Got Science Embarrassingly Wrong
Justice

Arena

Spock's Brain

Into Darkness

The Cloud Minders

Code of Honor

Falling on comets

Source: 15 'Star Trek' Episodes That Got Science Embarrassingly Wrong
Radiation and fuel

Source: 15 'Star Trek' Episodes That Got Science Embarrassingly Wrong
Evolution

Source: 15 'Star Trek' Episodes That Got Science Embarrassingly Wrong
Viruses don't hunt

Source: 15 'Star Trek' Episodes That Got Science Embarrassingly Wrong
Turning off gravity

Source: 15 'Star Trek' Episodes That Got Science Embarrassingly Wrong
You can only get so cold!

Source: 15 'Star Trek' Episodes That Got Science Embarrassingly Wrong