Talk:Augment (Star Trek)
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[edit] Race?
I'm not sure if the term Race should be used to discribe the Augments. They're still genetically human, so racr isn't a good discription of a speices. Ehticity wouldn't be very accurate either, since augments come from a variety of ethicities. Group is perhaps the most accurate term. --Eldarone 23:43, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
- Looking over the Memory Alpha Augment article, they also use the term group. --Eldarone 23:45, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Klingon Ridges
Wasn't it the cure for the disease caused by Klingon genetic manipulation that caused the loss of ridges, rather than the disease itself? It was the cure that required the infusion of human stuff(dna?) which they took from (incubated in?) Captain Archer on Star Trek Enterprise. This was the key to unlocking the mystery (lack of good make-up) of why Klingons on TOS looked different than the ones on TNG/Star Trek movies. --Fdinoto 06:32, 15 July 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Retcon
These dates make little sense. surely Enterprise made a retcon in dates, right? I am a molecular biology and this kind of stuff will ot happen in the next 20 years, secret breading experiments apart...
About Race, that word is not used in the scientific sence, but after Nietzche, hence the supermen term is not after J Siegel & J Shuster's DC comic book character, but as Übermensch, which he ment nor as Arians nor as superstrong but morally superior athest humans. About the Klingon ridges medically episode takes after the antigenic shift where two viruses that are coinfecting the host recombine into new viruses, where the most potent will obviously be more effective and hence it is a meaner virus than the original. Currently (Earth 2008) virus are used to deliver genetic information, called vectors. the virus used are often lentiviruses (something that was HIV once apon a time) and Adeno-associated virus. On the episode they use a vector on mature individuals, which went wrong as someone had the tarkanian flu making the experiment go wrong as they recombined making a deadly virus. But it cannot really do that. Star trek episodes have a good degree of physics accuracy but they lack completely medical accuracy. this plot cannot actually occur but it was well done. Medicine is good only in Enterprise.--Squidonius (talk) 01:59, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
