(Science) Lessons from Star Trek

Captain's blog, stardate 9274.3....
As you all saw in the last post, physics is good science but provides horrible life lessons.
Now let's take a brief look at Star Trek, which can provide good life lessons...but horrible science ones.
This is just a sample, so if you want a full list, go watch the show for Pete's sake.
According to Star Trek...

• A race of creatures which must consume very large quantities of salt to live can survive indefinitely on a planet with no natural sources of salt. (This is from "The Man Trap". The creature in question normally drains living creatures of salt to survive. However, for some reason it couldn't do this on the planet where it had evolved due to lack of salt sources, apparently. The scientist who lived there had to feed it salt tablets--begging the question of how it survived before he got there.)
• Silicon-based life is just like carbon-based life, except it's virtually indestructible and looks stupid. ("The Devil in the Dark")
• Water can somehow be turned into a chain of molecules that behaves vaguely like alcohol, according to "The Naked Time". The best part? This is caused by an imploding planet. No, really.
• It is possible for the Enterprise to fall out of orbit if the engines run out of power.
• Human beings can survive temperatures of negative 170 degrees Farenheit with only small blankets and heated rocks to provide warmth, for extended periods of time. Not only that, even redshirts can do so! ("The Enemy Within")
• A person made of matter can travel to an antimatter universe with no adverse effects, unless the antimatter version of him is also there. ("The Alternative Factor". Then again, the person in question was Kirk, and he tends to change the laws of physics to suit his whims.)
• It is standard medical procedure to carry around 100 times the necessary dosage of a drug known to be dangerous in large quantities. ("The City On The Edge Of Forever", one of my favorite episodes)
• Cells can be any size whatsoever, including several thousand miles across. ("The Immunity Syndrome", "Operation: Annihilate!")
• It is standard medical procedure to use the entire light spectrum when instructed to shine lights on someone. ("Operation: Annihilate!"
• It is logical to have a vestigial set of eyelids, which are not used except in emergencies, rather than simply evolving one thick set of eyelids. ("Operation: Annihilate!")
• ULTRAVIOLET LIGHT IS RED. ("Operation: Annihilate!" once again...did I mention I hate that episode? It just makes no sense.)
• Cells can exist in the vacuum of space and survive by absorbing energy from passing ships. ("The Immunity Syndrome". I think this one could use some extra explanation: There is a 11,000-mile amoeba. Floating around in deep space. It drains the energy from a ship full of Vulcans and tries to do the same to the Enterprise. Doesn't convert the matter to energy, just drains the engines and makes everyone die of exhaustion. No one has been in this area of space before, and the amoeba doesn't move, so this is presumably all it's consumed. Ever. It is 11,000 miles across.)
• All computers can be destroyed by paradoxes. (Pretty much every episode featuring androids or computers.)
• Radiation poisoning can be cured or even prevented by adrenaline. ("The Deadly Years")
• Diseases which cause death within 24 hours somehow manage to infect small numbers of people on a regular basis. ("The Mark of Gideon". You'd think that pretty much everyone who got such a disease would die before they could spread it to someone else, especially since the virus in question was transmitted through blood rather than through the air.)
• Disembodied brains can transmit radio signals. Said radio signals sound like the voice of the person who once owned the brain. ("Spock's Brain", of course. Boy is that one silly.)
• When in doubt, the answer is always ions. If it's not ions, it's antimatter.

There are plenty more delightful science lessons one can learn from Star Trek, but now it's time for me to do some real science.
Quirk out!

EDIT: I can't believe I forgot this one! The episode is "Court-Martial". Kirk has a device that, he claims, will amplify all sounds by a power of.....
One to the fourth! Wow, that's powerful. (The best part: It makes their heartbeats louder, but does amplify their voices, breathing, etc. by a power of one to the fourth.)