From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: David_Powell3006@msn.com   
   Subject: Re: Star Trek: Am I the Only One?   
      
   On Jan 6, 4:13apm, trag  wrote:   
   > On Dec 22 2009, 2:46 pm, ques...@infionline.net (Harold Groot) wrote:   
   >   
   > > Yeah, but none of Barclay's ancestors had actual spider genes. aThey   
   > > 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. aNeither has the correct   
   > > genes (active or inactive) from that other branch. aYou can't   
   > > reactivate something that simply isn't there.   
   >   
   > Well it would explain a lot about Barclay...   
   Unless Crusher _inserted_ a Spider gene, to fight some disease, and   
   the agent she used to regulate it spread to everyone and cause   
   problems....   
   Didn't Barclay have a cold or was it some Alien disease?   
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