Smart Augments

[Hando]

Given the uncertainity of nature versus nurture as source of of the Auguments agresivity, what if the Augments realy used their superior inteligence and somehow avoided the Eugenics Wars.

If they worked together as some sort of oligarchy or decieded not to rule but to guide.
Probably something akin to a good mirror universe to the story "Seeds of Dissent".

How would this Earth and/or the futire UFP equivalent evolve?

1990s
Increased population of Augments.
Shift of power to Third World Countries.
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?Delayed Eugenics Wars (started by Gery Seven?)
?WW3

PS. Would this Earth finaly utilise technology trading (to have an NX-1 similar to episodes in E2 and In a mirror darkly), reverse engineering ( of the Xindi superweapon, Iconian gateways, ...)

 

[T'Girl]

From my viewings of the supermen/augments, I sometimes question their supposed "intelligence." Khan did seem to possess superior intellectual abilities, without also possessing superior analytical abilities. You would think that his experiences on Earth would have taught him that just because you can take something, doesn't mean that you can hold on to it. Khan's followers quickly learned to operate some of a Starship's complex technology, but were incapable of formulating tactics to enable their captured Starship to combat a equal starship operated by "ordinary" people.

When it came to the brains department, the supermen did not have a package deal.

I'm even less impressed with the later "Augments" (hate that term), while physically superior to normal Humans, superior apparently even to Khan's people, there is not a single indication that they have unusual intellectual abilities. Produces of a more technological society, figuring out the controls of a Starship (even a Klingon one), would have been less of a accomplishment. Either though their genetics or perhaps owing to their upbring by their "father," the Augments were entirely lacking any moral or ethical footing, which I consider part of intellectual abilities.

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It's not that i don't understand how arrogance can lead to a misconception of superiority. I attend university with a large number profoundly intelligent people (sadly not me), these people do in fact have superior intellectual abilities, and many of them harbor feeling that they have more on the ball than "ordinary" people. When you lay the world out in front of someone, future money, position, prestige, career, maybe they should be making the impoetant decisions for others ... or instead of.

It might have been the same for the supermen of the eugenics war period, they did possess abilities that others didn't, probably were told so since birth by the scientists who crated them. They merely were going to "bring the world order." Something they felt (perhaps rightly) that we ordinaries can't do for ourselves.