From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos
From Address: David_Powell3006@msn.com
Subject: Re: Star Trek: Am I the Only One?
On Dec 24, 1:11aam, Led4Aces wrote:
> On Dec 23, 12:18apm, Dimensional Traveler wrote:
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> > Led4Aces wrote:
> > > On Dec 22, 12:46 pm, ques...@infionline.net (Harold Groot) wrote:
> > >> On Tue, 22 Dec 2009 10:46:49 -0800 (PST), Led4Aces
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> > >>>> 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=
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> > >>>> 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. a
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> > > But they have the genes of the common ancestor....which is spider-
> > > like.
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> > Not even close.
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> Well you probably are right. aA little digging reveals that the common
> ancestor is back further than I thought, not a hundred or two hundred
> million years, but closer to 600 million years.
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> The common ancestor was more worm-like, likely found in oceans. Some
> of the features it might have: A heart, A gut running the length of
> the body, A central nervous system, eyespots and limbs of some kind,
> not well developed.-.
What I didn't get was Riker turned into a Neanderthal or maybe Cro
Magnon, but started to forget things. Worf and Troi turned into a
Klingon beast and an Amphibian but didn't hav the mental lag Riker did
while they were all doing that.... I'd think Riker wouldn't be losing
that much brain power in comparison.... oh well!
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