I Like the Genetically Enhanced Misfits

[Nebusj]

The Cutest of Borg said:
I love the Jack Pack! What other Trek series would dare show that mental illness is still around in the perfectly evolved Federation society?

Well, there was this series made in the 60s, although they'd gone far toward channelling almost all the violently insane to socially useful purposes.

 

[The Cutest of Borg]

Nebusj said:

The Cutest of Borg said:
I love the Jack Pack! What other Trek series would dare show that mental illness is still around in the perfectly evolved Federation society?

Well, there was this series made in the 60s, although they'd gone far toward channelling almost all the violently insane to socially useful purposes.

Point taken. OTOH, one could argue that the cowboy diplomacy Federation of Kirk's era transformed into the sterile, evolved Federation of the Sisko's era over the 100 years that separates them.

 

[Bill Morris]

They were fun, but what happened to their project (mentioned near the end of Statistical Probabilities) to devise a plan to beat the Dominion?

 

[Mike Have-Not]

^ They came up with a plan to go back in time and infect the Founders (via Odo) with a deadly disease. They went straight to Section 31 with the plan, knowing no one else would have the "balls" to implement it...

 

[Judas Ascendant]

The Jack Pack are Trek's Beatles, which would make Bashir Yoko Ono....

 

[EEE]

Judas Ascendant said:
The Jack Pack are Trek's Beatles, which would make Bashir Yoko Ono....

Totally different personalities. He wasn't mean enough to inflict, err, I mean sing.