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Spoilers Star Trek: Discovery 5x02 - "Under the Twin Moons"

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Like Sargon's people, who had incredible life energy and other technologies 600,000 years before TOS.
 
Like Sargon's people, who had incredible life energy and other technologies 600,000 years before TOS.
Yup. Funny how android bodies were so easy to make, and soul transfer was easy.

Call back to TNG. Plus "neferious" purposes in the wrong hands.
Probably because constructing life and appropriate planets for that life is still manipulating things, perhaps uniquely.
 
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Like I said recently, Surely there have been another races through the eons whose knowledge and ability in genomics, all that, approached or even surpasses that of the Progenitors?
So more bad writing then.

Call back to TNG. Plus "neferious" purposes in the wrong hands.
Not really? TNG implied they seeded life in the sense of spreading single celled building blocks from planet to planet and just let things evolve naturally from there.


Probably because constructing life and appropriate planets for that life is still manipulating things, perhaps uniquely.
It's not, the Federation could literally do that 900 years ago.
 
Not really? TNG implied they seeded life in the sense of spreading single celled building blocks from planet to planet and just let things evolve naturally from there.
It's still a call back to "The Chase". In a very literal sense. What ever was "implied" in TNG can be altered to fit the needs of the current plot. That's the way it works and always has.
It's not, the Federation could literally do that 900 years ago.
Not sure if this is a reference to Genesis or some other swept under the rug technology.
 
Not really? TNG implied they seeded life in the sense of spreading single celled building blocks from planet to planet and just let things evolve naturally from there.

They had to somehow encode the humanoid body form into single celled organisms, and make quite a few of them able to reproduce with each other, sometimes with minimal assistance after 4 billion years.
 
They had to somehow encode the humanoid body form into single celled organisms, and make quite a few of them able to reproduce with each other, sometimes with minimal assistance after 4 billion years.
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If that's a Project Genesis reference then the torpedo and its effects could create simple multicellular life in a very, very short period of time up to and including plant life and vermicular species with occasional higher life forms like reptiles and carnivorous serpents, but I never got the impression that the work of Carol and David Marcus would necessarily lead to humanoid life evolving at accelerated rates on planets where Genesis technology was used to terraform.
 
Okay, Rayner has a chance, albeit slight, of becoming something more than a curmudgeon I guess--absolutely loved that "You can't handle the truth" moment that got him in trouble. Hopefully the writers will flesh him out further as Burnham's new number one. It was also good to see not just Saru's analytical prowess, but his physical gifts as well, from his "gazelle-like" speed and superior strength. The goodbye scene was almost perfect, and at least the pew-pew action scene didn't drag on endlessly. Finally, I'm actually just as interested in Book's side story with Moll as I am in the main story line... Here's hoping that Stamets gets a little more to do though, along with the remaining secondary cast, and that Saru won't just disappear. Borderline 9 from me.
 
So more bad writing then.


Not really? TNG implied they seeded life in the sense of spreading single celled building blocks from planet to planet and just let things evolve naturally from there.



It's not, the Federation could literally do that 900 years ago.

The progenitors encoded the fundamental building blocks with the info needed to ensure the evolution of sentient bipedal species across trillions of planets.

TNG made it clear that the Federation couldn't even bring white rhinos back from extinction.
 
Maybe someone mentioned it before, but why would a Romulan scientist put a critical piece of information on Trill, part of the Federation and therefore enemy territory?
It would be cool if it was intentional: put different parts in Federation, Klingon and Romulan territory, to make it extra hard to get them all.
 
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