From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: trag@io.com   
   Subject: Re: Star Trek: Am I the Only One?   
      
   On Dec 22 2009, 2:46 pm, ques...@infionline.net (Harold Groot) wrote:   
      
   > 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.   
      
   Well it would explain a lot about Barclay...   
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