Blackstar the Chakat wrote:
I think the idea is that we're not allowed to mess with their natural order until they mess with it first, which makes some sense I guess.
Humanity and likely any society that has agriculture has been messing with it's own evolution for thousands of years. Right about the time they domesticeted the first animal to pull a plow and reduced the importance of physical labour.
Bonus points if they practiced slavery, eugenics or genocide. Thos are all events in human history that have an enormous impact on evolution. And Trek races are basically two demensional humans with a thing on there heads.
As previously mentioned, Archer's speech in "Terra Prime".
Also, Archer at the Drive-thru in "Carpenter Street" was good.
"What has been done has been done and cannot be undone."--Ruth, All the Weyrs of Pern
"Dragons can't change who they are, and who would want them to? Dragons are powerful, amazing creatures."--Hiccup, Dragons: Riders of Berk
Varthikes wrote:Also, Archer at the Drive-thru in "Carpenter Street" was good.
It may have been nice to watch, but the term "Greatest moment" would seem to call for something of greater importance.
"If you can't take a little bloody nose, maybe you ought to go back home and crawl under your bed. It's not safe out here. It's wonderous, with treasures to satiate desires both subtle and gross... but it's not for the timid." Q, Q Who
The fact that I am alive and have access to a treatment for diabetes is a testament to our evolution, not an attempt to sidestep it. What is the practical difference between having evolved a natural immunity or defense to diabetes, or having evolved a race including people who are able to devise treatments? One of our big advantages has been the ability to use tools (although this has been proven to be by no menas exclusive.) I don't really see that as being different in an evolutionary sense to being able to use scientific/medical solutions rather than innate physical attributes.
In any case, the only way that the concern for the evolutionary future of the Menk in that ep would be a valid reason, rather than a pitiful excuse for passive genocide, would be if Phlox a/o Archer had perfect omniscience and could see exactly what the evolutionary path of the Menk were to be millenia into the future. The Menk could very well have been an evolutionary dead end, fated to become extinct in 500 years.
I can't stand nothing dull
I got the high gloss luster
I'll massacre your ass as fast
as Bull offed Custer
Mikey wrote:The fact that I am alive and have access to a treatment for diabetes is a testament to our evolution, not an attempt to sidestep it. What is the practical difference between having evolved a natural immunity or defense to diabetes, or having evolved a race including people who are able to devise treatments? One of our big advantages has been the ability to use tools (although this has been proven to be by no menas exclusive.) I don't really see that as being different in an evolutionary sense to being able to use scientific/medical solutions rather than innate physical attributes.
In any case, the only way that the concern for the evolutionary future of the Menk in that ep would be a valid reason, rather than a pitiful excuse for passive genocide, would be if Phlox a/o Archer had perfect omniscience and could see exactly what the evolutionary path of the Menk were to be millenia into the future. The Menk could very well have been an evolutionary dead end, fated to become extinct in 500 years.
As an aside, I have a book, "Survival of the Sickest," which details how diseases like diabetes could have been adaptive for our ancestors (I haven't read it yet) ISBN 978-006-088965-4
"If you can't take a little bloody nose, maybe you ought to go back home and crawl under your bed. It's not safe out here. It's wonderous, with treasures to satiate desires both subtle and gross... but it's not for the timid." Q, Q Who
I totally agree. Except, that was mirror-Archer. Does this poll include both?
There is only one way of avoiding the war – that is the overthrow of this society. However, as we are too weak for this task, the war is inevitable. -L. Trotsky, 1939
There are more "Archer's Greatest" moments in that two-parter than the rest of Enterprise combined.
There is only one way of avoiding the war – that is the overthrow of this society. However, as we are too weak for this task, the war is inevitable. -L. Trotsky, 1939
