Seeing the season finale of Prodigy only reminded my how much I loathe the way Trek has been handling genetically engineered persons. I didn't like it even back when they first touched on the issue in DS9.
First off, it's incredibly racist of them, and Trek isn't supposed to be about a racist Federation. They try to get around that by saying it's a legacy law from pre-Contact Earth in Enterprise, but it was a probelm even then. The Earth law doesn't mesh with what Data said about international law when he stated that the New United Nations had ruled that "no person could be held accountable for the actions of their race or forebears". Therefore any law on Earth could not penalize natural-born Augments.
Which brings me back to the Prodigy finale. I found the way Del was treated by Starfleet (excluding Janeway) to be positively shameful. The trail board didn't even grant him the dignity of his name, simply referring to him as "the Augment".
What the f***, CBS/Paramount?
First off, it's incredibly racist of them, and Trek isn't supposed to be about a racist Federation. They try to get around that by saying it's a legacy law from pre-Contact Earth in Enterprise, but it was a probelm even then. The Earth law doesn't mesh with what Data said about international law when he stated that the New United Nations had ruled that "no person could be held accountable for the actions of their race or forebears". Therefore any law on Earth could not penalize natural-born Augments.
Which brings me back to the Prodigy finale. I found the way Del was treated by Starfleet (excluding Janeway) to be positively shameful. The trail board didn't even grant him the dignity of his name, simply referring to him as "the Augment".
What the f***, CBS/Paramount?
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