I like the one where it was all a secret ploy to uncover a traitor on the crew. And he basically gets kicked out for being late to work and kind of grumpy all the time.
That's not true at all. No biologist will agree that IQ tests produce usable data that shows anything of the sort, IQ tests are a skills test and the biggest skills it tests are studying for an IQ test and speaking English fluently.
I don't know if you know this, but Eugenics was bunk science and it's been shown to be nothing more than academic racism that holds no validity
There's no evidence it's generic at all. It's very difficult to access 'intelligence' or make usable data about intelligence. You really can't test how intelligent people are, most of what we can test with repeatable results is skills, which famously can be improved over time reliably. To the point there's time estimates on how long it takes to be a skilled person in one ability or another. I work with special needs kids, and let me tell you, you learn real quick working with these kids that there's close to zero differences between them and their same age peers. People are very similar, and even people you'd consider rather foolish on a lot of metrics interacting with them, can be quite brilliant at what they are interested in and skilled in.
Yes, and it was shown as a huge internal conflict in TNG, and honestly even TOS had a bunch of inconsistent morality that didn't quite fit a utopian society, you have a lot of state secrets, a lot of espionage, paranoia, and a cold war that includes violating the prime directive on a regular basis as long as they think the Klingons will also violate around the same degree, and that's really not a very good idea, I really doubt the Vulcans would arm a bronze age civilization on a developing planet with muskets if they thought the Klingons might also do That.
It was considered pretty serious at the time. I remember being at a new year's party and everyone went outside at the ball drop to see if the world turned off.
We did evolve grandmother's. That was an evolutionary pressure response. Deep knowledge and long growth have lead us through doors of perception far beyond the reach of all life we have yet precieved.
You don't know if the man was willing to be saved at this point, he may have been in a situation where he wasn't able to hold himself up. Also this appears to not be the US, I assume they have their own cultural views on suicide and often cultures do have longer term solutions for people who are suicidal, Some cultures in Africa will take a normal workday off as a group and have a public celebration of sorts they will stay in the sun most of the day and community members will all individually take time to talk to the community member in need and show effort to spend time with them about anything at all, they rarely talk about their troubles is what I understand. There are approaches that differ from the west and there's places with less stigma.
I like the one where it was all a secret ploy to uncover a traitor on the crew. And he basically gets kicked out for being late to work and kind of grumpy all the time.