Star Trek: The Rebel Generation

[Captain-Captain]

Originally Posted by LemmingLord

Parallels, season seven. :)

And parallels SPECIFICALLY negated that previous episode how?

[LemmingLord]

Throw out what won't work and feel free to call it cannon star trek. Parallel's says that every possible parallel timeline DOES in fact exist, including ones where episodes you don't like never occurred. :)

[ralphy_256]

Originally Posted by David Johnston2

4. Biotechnology. Officially, there are a lot of restrictions on what can and can't be done in the Federation. No cloning, no supersoldiers, no attempts to enhance people's brains. As far as the public at large is concerned, biotechnology goes so far as ensuring their offspring don't have a troublesome gene for muscular dystropy or an antisocial personality. As a result the most common genetic Disadvantage among Earth humans is Selfless. Of course, in secret the Federation does have covert projects trying to produce superspies, psychics to order and genius intellects but they are legitimately paranoid about genetic upgrades and hedge them around with restrictions to make sure they don't get out of hand, as well as keeping their existence very secret. Black market upgrades scare the heck out of them, since they don't have the carefully prescribed personality traits and indoctrination that that try to ensure their little supermen won't get out of hand. Even with their own projects, more than one germline has been terminated because some of them started to look a bit unreliable.

Is it just me, but doesn't this sound like it could be much more easily described as "Firefly with TNG tech"?

[dataweaver]

OTOH, the more you throw out, the less interesting this idea becomes. To that extent, I'd shy away from throwing out whole episodes, and would focus instead on editing them ("the Drumhead still happened, just not quite in the same way") or, better yet, reinterpreting them ("Admiral Satie from the Drumhead is more typical of Starfleet's views than Picard is. Her main crime in Admiral Henry's eyes wasn't that she was prosecuting people without evidence; it's that she got emotionally involved in the proceedings").

[David Johnston2]

Originally Posted by dataweaver

OTOH, the more you throw out, the less interesting this idea becomes. To that extent, I'd shy away from throwing out whole episodes, and would focus instead on editing them .

I'm not sure what you mean. If you are talking about "biotechnology", I wasn't throwing out entire episodes. I was reconciling the "genetic enhancement is illegal" stuff with the fact that the Enterprise-D did in fact encounter a Federation project to produce superhumans.

[CraigR]

Originally Posted by David Johnston2

I'm not sure what you mean. If you are talking about "biotechnology", I wasn't throwing out entire episodes. I was reconciling the "genetic enhancement is illegal" stuff with the fact that the Enterprise-D did in fact encounter a Federation project to produce superhumans.

Ah. "Unnatural Selection", or "The-Episode-Where-Dr.-Pulaski-Gets-Old-But-They-Invent-A-Fountain-Of-Youth-And-Forget-About-It-Later."

[Kymage]

I read somewhere that one of the writers of Blake 7 said it could be considered the dark side of the Federation from Star Trek. Maybe you could use that show for source material.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blake%27s_7

[dataweaver]

I was responding to LemmingLord's comments that you can feel free to ignore anything you want to, and proposing some guidelines for what sorts of deviations from Trek canon (such as it is) should be deemed to be acceptable. I was in no way stating or even implying that you weren't already doing just this sort of thing.

As for the genetic engineering thing, don't forget that a major cast member of DS9 was in fact the product of human genetic engineering, geared toward producing a superior human. Mind you, his family got into big trouble when word of this leaked out; OTOH, there did not seem to be any further repercussions to the character in question.

[AmesJainchill]

Originally Posted by David Johnston2

I'm not sure what you mean. If you are talking about "biotechnology", I wasn't throwing out entire episodes. I was reconciling the "genetic enhancement is illegal" stuff with the fact that the Enterprise-D did in fact encounter a Federation project to produce superhumans.

Of course it's illegal. For everyone else.

[Flyndaran]

Originally Posted by AmesJainchill

Of course it's illegal. For everyone else.

Trust us. We're the government. We know what we're doing.