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[-] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 2 points 4 hours ago

Also, I forget if it’s ever explained how Lazarus has dormant scorpion genes that he could be (d)evolved into/out of/from. The whole thing is fairly nonsensical, even for a Doctor Who episode.

There's a handwave about the dormant genes representing an evolutionary path not taken, which...yeah, it's nonsense, but maybe I'm just grading it on a Star Trek curve, because I actually don't mind it!

[-] SiliconAvatar@startrek.website 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 34 minutes ago)

I mean, in Star Trek TNG s07, Barclay "devolved" into a spider or something, too, so I guess there's precedence?

Edit: "Genesis", blanked on the name of the episode...

[-] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 1 points 17 minutes ago

Yeah, "Genesis" is exactly what I had in mind. I think this episode's "road not taken" idea to be marginally less silly than TNG's "the DNA has recombined to an earlier lifeform" one, so that extremely low bar has been cleared!

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