From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos
From Address: macthevorlon@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: Star Trek: Am I the Only One?
Anim8rFSK wrote:
> In article <4b312d9d.7537000@news.west.earthlink.net>,
> quester@infionline.net (Harold Groot) wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 22 Dec 2009 10:46:49 -0800 (PST), Led4Aces
>> wrote:
>>>> And she created a pathogen that regressed most of the crew into
>>>> half whatever they were / half one of their ancestors (which
>>>> doesn't explain w= hy Barclay became half spider, since they
>>>> aren't ancestors of humans)...
>>>
>>> Not exactly. Go back far enough and Humans and spiders have a common
>>> ancestor. Probably hundreds of millions of years.
>>
>> Yeah, but none of Barclay's ancestors had actual spider genes. They
>> only came into being on a different branch of the evolutionary tree.
>> You might be able to "de-evolve" both a human and a spider to get
>> back to that same common ancestor, but you can't turn the spider
>> into a human or the human into a spider that way. Neither has the
>> correct genes (active or inactive) from that other branch. You can't
>> reactivate something that simply isn't there.
>
> Yeah. Crusher could probably make Barclay into an amoeba, and then in
> trying to bring him forward end up with a spider, both through her own
> massive incompetence,
Let it go, man! Let it go!
> but directly is a tough sell.
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