I must say, I feel a bit deceived by the size of the original fronds! *suspicious glare*

weeeeeellllll your not gunna get coconuts I can promise you that..some big poison seeds if your lucky but no coconuts

Poisonous seeds, eh? So you're saying I was right to suspect the plant of plotting my demise?

Any idea how I can prevent its own?

I see you have an angel near the plant. Is that to protect the plant, or to protect you from the plant, LOL. Cycads usually go through what's called a "flush" when they put on new growth. The plants seem to remain inactive for a long period and then suddenly put out a lot of new fronds. The fronds unfurl and then the leaflets open out. It appears that's the stage your plant is at. But those new fronds are really large. Bit hard to tell from that photo but it looks like it might be some sort of Zamia. But sorry, Zamias don't produce any coconuts. If yours did though, you'd make a lot of money selling them, LOL.

this might be cycas revoluta, one of the most common cycads in many parts of this world.
but unfortunately for you, they do terrible and become insect-disease magnet and fail easily from cultural errors in typical indoor condition.
yours looks enormously etiolated because of too much darkness or lack of enough lighting.
also, they don't need a lot of water indoor and too much of it is always fatal even in the tropics.
but if situated in outdoor environment, fed with high nitrogen fertilizer, and if given daily water, they would thrive and flush many times in a year.
pruning its fronds may also force the plant to flush and explode in trunk size as i do with mine.
you could easily get more than ten throws of leaves with these methods within a year if condition is conducive.

Well the first thing is that is a Cycad. They are often confused with palms; however, they are much closer related to pine trees than to palm trees! Coconut palms are what give you coconuts. Cycads are ornamentals. I don't know any that are really used as a significant source of food, although there are 1000's of species so it's possible some are somewhat edible.

You have a Cycas revoluta which is a really common one. They are very low maintenance plants in the landscape, but they require a lot of light for the fronds to grow normally. The reason why yours is looking so "weird" is because the new fronds did not develop properly because of the lack of light.

I've personally never had luck with cycads indoors. Mine always flushed before I took them outside for the summer which meant I get stuck with the same disfigured fronds yours have. I've actually had more luck growing coconut palms indoors than cycads (I take my coconut palms outdoors during the summer and unfortunately they will never fruit in a pot!)

My recommendation is to cut off the new weird growing fronds and bring it into a place with direct light. If you can take it outside during the summer months, that would be great for it (just make sure it does not get full sun for the first few weeks because the fronds will burn in the sun since they are used to indoor life). If your cycad makes a "flush" outdoors, it will probably grow normally, but they will not develop normally indoors. They make great indoor plants when they are not actively growing though as you probably noticed!

Good luck!
-Alex

I agree,cut the antennas off(you never know,it looks
harmless but why take a chance?)(-;...a new BIGGER pot too.

The smaller fronds do look like C. revoluta but I've never seen Cycas put out huge new fronds like that. Zamia is more prone to that sort of thing. I'd leave them and see how they open out. As long as they're photosynthesising they're helping the plant.