Depressed Barclay

[MacLeod]

I'm thinking when you are holo-dating a super model the play acting part puts a damper on any learning, you know it's not real and there are no stakes. So your learning to be suave on the 'deck doesn't always translate.

When you go to a real-world krav maga class, you know "it's not real and there are no stakes", in the sense that you won't actually be attacked with an intent to harm, but if you take enough lessons, you'll be far better prepared to deal with a bona fide actual fistfight, should you ever find yourself in one.

Same principle here; confidence and conversation are skills that improve with practice.

Whilst what you say is true, however if you suffer from low self-confidence it's easier said than done to overcome it.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Well, after they outlawed gene augmentation, sure, I'd going along with that.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

Do you have to be a child to have your genes augmented? Could I have my genes augmented now to make me more.. anything?

 

[Guy Gardener]

Yes, but as your intellect increases, your personality would become different. It's suicide or murder, depending on who is making the choices to commit this on yourself.

augmented = controlled-instantaneous-positive-mutation.

TNG Evolution, and any episode anyone "changed" from what they thought was "normal" to something different.

Greg wrote that Khan was test tube baby, but the comics said that the Indian government was turning slumdogs into super soldiers. the Episode of Enterprise backed up that Khanian Superembryo were being fiddled with on and off while in stasis.

8 year old Jules Bashir transformed into Julian Bashir, a smug git in need of a smack.

Khan married a bog standard woman, anticipating that his children would still be Supermen overcoming mommy's frailty?

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

It probably didn't matter to Khan how the babies turned out, he would just augment them into his own image (and then they would rise up and kill him, most likely scenario).

It seems no one wants tiny tweaking so they always stand too close to the flames, they want the super smart kid and they take risks. I will get myself tweaked maybe 5% improved in intelligence and another I'll take 2% improvement in motor skills. Just clean me up and point me forward.