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{{quote|'''Tom Servo:''' The cop never said anything about doing ''intensely stupid'' things!}}

** Also mocked in the song "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYuJA0oaw4s&feature=relmfu Danger To Ourself And Others]".

* In a tragic example, the entire Markab race which was wiped out by a plague in episode 18 of Season 2 of ''[[Babylon 5]]''. Instead of going through their own quarantine procedures, they routinely sent out people carrying the plague to different planets, eventually infecting all of their known colonies. Know the reason? For the dark age belief that the disease only targets the 'immoral' and the immoral people are getting divine retribution. Many of the first outbreaks were covered up ''due'' to this dark age belief. Were humans the ''only'' race in this show to go through an Age of Enlightenment and an Age of Reason? Even Doctor Franklin [[~~Lampshades~~]] this through the episode. At the end, all 5000 Merkats on the station were dead, Two Billion on their homeworld were dead, and millions more throughout their colonies were dead. Too. Dumb. To. Live.

* In a tragic example, the entire Markab race which was wiped out by a plague in episode 18 of Season 2 of ''[[Babylon 5]]''. Instead of going through their own quarantine procedures, they routinely sent out people carrying the plague to different planets, eventually infecting all of their known colonies. Know the reason? For the dark age belief that the disease only targets the 'immoral' and the immoral people are getting divine retribution. Many of the first outbreaks were covered up ''due'' to this dark age belief. Were humans the ''only'' race in this show to go through an Age of Enlightenment and an Age of Reason? Even Doctor Franklin [[lampshade]]s this through the episode. At the end, all 5000 Merkats on the station were dead, Two Billion on their homeworld were dead, and millions more throughout their colonies were dead. Too. Dumb. To. Live.

* The new Discovery reality show ''[[The Colony]]'' saw an ''engineer'' say she would rather have toilet paper than electricity. Just proof that having an advanced degree doesn't make you smart.

** That's not "dumb", that's personal choice. Mankind got by for a long time without electricity, people still do it today. Life without toilet paper would be most unpleasant, on many levels.

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* Also in [[DS 9]], two people were fighting in front of a group of armed, angry Klingons. The first accused the second of being a shapeshifter, with whom the Klingons were at war. The second then shapeshifted his arm to choke the first, promptly getting shot and destroyed by all the Klingons, thus spoiling a yearlong undercover operation.

* From ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'', Seven of Nine's parents. A pair of scientists who plan to study the Borg by ''sneaking onto Borg Cubes''. This could be considered TDTL all on it's own, but they also '''bring their young daughter along with them''' on their expedition.

** The Doctor actually [[~~Lampshades~~]] this by expressing his digust over their blatant disregard for their daughter's well being by bringing her along on such a dangerously idiotic quest.

** The Doctor actually [[lampshade]]s this by expressing his digust over their blatant disregard for their daughter's well being by bringing her along on such a dangerously idiotic quest.

** Also, the Borg themselves could arguably be considered Too Dumb to Live. Namely because of their tendency to ''ignore intruders on their star ships'' until the intruders go out of their way to present an obvious threat (such as by shooting a drone). Of course, this makes it absurdly easy for Star Fleet officers to do stuff like wander right into the very heart of Borg ships, plant a bunch of high explosives, steal valuable Borg technology, and beam safely out.

** And therefore, any Star Trek captain who fights Borg ship-to-ship (the Borg have repeatedly been demonstrated as ''invincible'' that way) instead of just asking nicely if they might beam over, and then ''setting a bomb and then beaming out.''