>The last Star Trek Deep Space Nine episode I saw was about Genetic
>enhancements and the cloning wars. Does anyone know anything about that?
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>Peiwen Ren
>wuyun@msn,com
While prejudice against people with genetic enhancements is a new thread,
the original Trek series established a war (that ended in 1996) with a
bunch of eugenically derived supermen in "Space Seed." There have been
references to cloning in the Next Generation episode "Up the Long Ladder,"
when the Mariposa colony resorted to cloning because their population base
was too small. (In reality, this awful Melissa Snodgrass episode with its
embarrassing Irish stereotypes was supposed to be about choice--the
Enterprise crew choose to abort fetuses derived from their hijacked DNA,
but this aspect ended up being somewhat buried). A clone was used by Ibudan
in order to frame Odo for murder in the Deep Space Nine episode "A Man
Alone."
And while eugenics is another topic, isn't amazing how attempts at
deriving genetically superior human beings (e.g. Nazi breeding programs)
have been miserable failures.
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