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* The episode "Darkness Falls" of ''[[The X-Files]]'', where a logging company accidentally releases a marabunta of man-eating bugs, was praised and even received an award for its never intended ecologist message against deforestation. This is even funnier if you consider that every death in the episode could be blamed on the actions of an [[Animal Wrongs Group]] in continuous possession of the [[Idiot Ball]], and that the bugs' release was going to happen anyway since they were originally [[Sealed Evil in a Can|trapped in a very old tree]] that was going to fall more sooner than later.
* The original ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series|Star Trek]]'' episode "This Side of Paradise" is explicitly stated to be a modern take on the Lotus Eaters and the arrested development drugs and complacency can have, but to a modern viewer the Aesop appears to be about date rape when Leila Kalomi knowingly drugs Spock so that he will fall in love with her.
** ''The Next Generation'' had an episode where the ''Enterprise'' encounters a colony that's been practicing enforced eugenics and social engineering for centuries. Geordi rather passionately argues at one point about how he has value, something to contribute, and a right to live despite being the exact sort of person this society would never have allowed to be born... causing some people to get a Pro-Life aesop out of the episode. The creators were outraged at this interpretation... apparently they'd rather side with the eugenicists who would have aborted Geordi rather than ever speak a word against Pro-Choice.
* [[Quantum Leap]]: Sam can leap to any day in his own lifetime. In two episodes, he leaps to days that are a few months before his birthday. The obvious message? Life begins at conception.
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