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(5) An alien who visited the home planet eons ago and was worshiped as a god encounters the crew.
Andorian captain makes one pro forma sacrifice and the ship departs.
Tellarite captain make full obeisance once and the ship departs.
Vulcans say ‘prove it’ so many times the god departs in a huff.
Romulan captain grabs the communications officer in an head lock, asks the god, ‘what can I get for a virgin sacrifice?’ Communicator calls the captain a bitch, god gets uncomfortable, departs.
Klingons kill their god (this is actually canon).
Ferengi captain contacts Ferenginar, where a class-action lawsuit has been on hold for one-half of eons ago, demanding satisfaction for two hundred and forty five generations of unanswered prayers, uncompensated sacrifices, unremarked obeisance, and temple worker overtime. Exact change would be appreciated. "Goddess" denies all claims to divinity, bags ass at high warp, never to be seen again.
Human captain makes a big deal about the alien being not actually being an actual god, never quite explains the difference between a god and an omnipotent, immortal, omniscient being who guided human development in the before time with superior technology/morality/city planning, discovers the god’s backstory. If historically presented as a good god, turns out to be a bit of a jackass in real life, and his evil plot is defeated, god is run out of town. If historically presented as an evil god, turns out not to be all that bad, they come to an agreement, depart the best of friends.

(6) An unfathomable alien being or artifact or something starts to mess with the ship’s technology, to alter the ship in unpredictable and irresistible ways, none of which matches anything in the crew’s frame of reference.
Andorians abandon the ship.
Tellarites abandon the ship.
Romulans delete all the computer files except the maps to the Klingon Empire and abandon the ship.
Vulcans find the whole process illogical and ignore the whole thing, until they’re finally forced to abandon the ship when the Mad Hatter turns all the plomeek soup into kitty litter.
Klingons immediately drive the ship into a sun, engage the self-destruct, and begin to sing their individual death songs. They only pause long enough to prevent the alien effect from escaping, holding wiggly little things to the deck while the computer counts down and the shields begin to buckle, finally shouting ‘See you in Hell!’ Boom.
Ferengi captain parks the ship in a stable orbit, files for a theme park license, sells tickets to Crazyland.
Half the human crew fights the technology or magic or software run amok and restore the ship. Half of the remainder of the crew attempt to establish communications with the artifact or beings to persuade them to restore the ship. Half of the remainder of the crew make preparations to scuttle the ship and abandon it, something of a planning challenge in that half of the escape pods have turned into something pink, wobbly, and smelling slightly of neon. The last of the crew wander around taking notes of all other efforts and the unpredictable changes, figuring this will all make the next Federation Holo-Novel.

(7) A transporter malfunction replicates the captain, creating his evil twin.
Andorian XO shoots them both. Better safe than sorry.
Tellarite XO shoots them both. Always hated that ugly bastard.
Romulan XO shoots the real one. Evil version will reward him when he rises to power.
Klingon XO lets the two fight it out. Whoever wins is accepted as the ‘real’ captain.
Ferrengi XO ties them both to chairs in the officer’s mess. “Let the bidding commence…”
Vulcan XO explains that an ‘evil’ twin assumes the CO was originally good, and thus has failed to live a life of pure logic so he must kill the evil one, might as well kill the failed one, too. One version says the logic is sound. One says his logic sucks ass. XO kills the agreeable one. The survivors both agree that logic could be equally built on a good or evil premise, making gestures to indicate goatees, and the imposter was ‘trying too hard’ to appear logical.
Humans isolate the ‘evil’ version through a combination of observation, reflection on shared memories, adherence to Starfleet principles, and blind goddamned luck. I mean, really, resolving an evil-twin episode because the love interest knows in her heart that the evil one isn’t her true love is one thing, but ‘the captain sang a drinking song in the bar, that’s how I know!’ What’s the point of an evil twin who’s going to wave a big ‘I’M NOT THE ORIGINAL’ flag for everyone to see? That's worse than the evil-twin-robot shows that end when someone scratches the fake skin off the chassis...

(8) Okay, sorry about that. Drifted a bit.
Um… The crew manages to obtain a special bit of tech from an alien species they may or may not have a treaty with, that provides the aliens with some tremendous advantage in combat, exploration, or exploitation of suborbital resources.
Andorians take it back to the scientists at their research facilities.
Ferrengi sell it to their research facilities.
Tellarites take it back to their research facilities.
Vulcans perform an initial analysis, take it and their notes back to their research facilities.
Romulans leave it where the Vulcans will find it and establish a spy network in the research facilities.
Klingons place the device on a spike, next to the spiked heads of the alien crew officers. We have a research facility?
Humans plug it directly into their power grid because someone did that once and the ship turned invisible, and if that doesn’t work, plug it into their weapons array because someone did that once and they shot through a planet, then plug it into their transporter because someone once beamed through 30 miles of solid rock that way, then plug it into their replicators because rumor has it someone made some kick-ASS tequila shooters that way, then plug it into their communicators and expose the Romulan spies at the Vulcans’ research facility.
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Star Trek Plot Devices Explained