Is Bashir considered an Augment?

[PKTrekGirl]

What the hell is an 'augment'?

I mean, I know what 'augment' means...but where in the world did you get that terminology?

Did I miss something?

Did you watch Enterprise, specifically Season 4 where Brent Spiner had a guest role?

No. I am one of those rare Star Trek fans who actually turn off shows I don't like as opposed to continuing to watch them week after week, week in and week out for years on end with the express purpose of turning up here at TrekBBS to bitch about them.

 

[Marie1]

I liked ENT...
But that aside, I'm not sure that ENT was the only instance... but yes, the term "Augments" has been used for those who have been "augmented" or genetically engineered... I believe specifically to the Eugenics Wars, but I'd have to glance at "Statistical Probabilities" or something and see if that's the only usage.

 

[Myasishchev]

How so?

Technology is the byproduct of a species's natural intellectual evolution. Artificially manipulating that progression is not.

The natural/artificial dichotomy is meaningless. The natural state of all life is to either adapt itself to its environment or adapt its environment to them (and a third state, of course--to die).

Humans merely do this with rational intelligence and opposable thumbs and the tools we create from them. A skyscraper, I posit, is as natural as an anthill.

The replicator is fundamentally no different than genetic engineering in that it radically alters the human genome. In fact, instead of replicators, let's use the advent of agriculture. Without food surpluses, only the strongest, fastest, hardiest humans, those capable of hunting or gathering the resources of life, will survive; at the least, billions of human beings would not be sustainable. The "natural" course of human evolution changed. Genetic engineering is merely a deliberate instead of incidental alteration of what it means to be human.

I might point out as well that the human being already practices, and has always practiced, a slipshod form of directed eugenics every day, by choosing who and who not to have sex with.

No. I am one of those rare Star Trek fans who actually turn off shows I don't like as opposed to continuing to watch them week after week, week in and week out for years on end with the express purpose of turning up here at TrekBBS to bitch about them.

You're missing out on at least 40% of the fun of Star Trek.

 

[-Brett-]

I don't think I've ever heard the word augment used as a noun before. So I'm going to guess that he isn't.