Star Trek and Steroids

[Sisk0]

Currently they are banned in many competitive sports (football, soccer, synchronised swimming) but quite consistently the sports that they are allowed in (or are not tested for in) are more awesome: bodybuilding, powerlifting, chess.

My question is this: Will the society of the 24th century be more progressive in its approach to performance enhancers?

 

[Nardpuncher]

What do you think made Khan and his genetic supermen so super?

I'd guess they were eating that stuff like candy.

Can you eat steroids????

 

[BlobVanDam]

I'm guessing that by the 24th century, steroids as we know them today would be pretty archaic compared to genetic engineering and such. And I'm thinking that it would be near impossible to get any steroids past a medical tricorder. They seem to detect everything else. I'm sure that there will be whole new ways to cheat sports by then that would make it crazy to regulate.

 

[AlphaTrek]

what about hgh and the creatinez?

i bet all teh captains were on dat creatinez bruh!

thats harder to detect too.

 

[Sisk0]

Good point 7. Medical science will have advanced.

I guess what I can't help thinking about is, that if vulcans naturally have 5x out strength and copper blood (which apparently allows them to have shorter recovery time)- for it to be a level playing field wont we have to start using chemical advances?

 

[BlobVanDam]

Good point 7. Medical science will have advanced.

I guess what I can't help thinking about is, that if vulcans naturally have 5x out strength and copper blood (which apparently allows them to have shorter recovery time)- for it to be a level playing field wont we have to start using chemical advances?

Sporting events are currently split by gender, and sometimes by weight, or disability. I'd imagine that if there was ever some kind of interplanetary event, they'd split it by species. Or it might just end up like the Olympics now, where certain events are just mostly dominated by certain races/countries.

 

[AlphaTrek]

I'd imagine that if there was ever some kind of interplanetary event, they'd split it by species. Or it might just end up like the Olympics now, where certain events are just mostly dominated by certain races/countries.

which is why we'd need to take steriods/hgh/creatinz to stay in the game!

or dat dere celltech at least.

 

[Sisk0]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lf-kZXvb2ic were the crew of DS9 using performance enhancers?

 

[DBKlingon]

Wesley Crusher should have been on teh 'roidz cuz he looks like he got fullblown AIDS.

 

[AlphaTrek]

i don't think 24th century will be roids

it's all be dat-dere-cell-genetic-engineering-tech!

 

[RoJoHen]

what about hgh and the creatinez?

i bet all teh captains were on dat creatinez bruh!

thats harder to detect too.

Creatine is also perfectly legal. You can buy it at the grocery store.

 

[DBKlingon]

what about hgh and the creatinez?

i bet all teh captains were on dat creatinez bruh!

thats harder to detect too.

Creatine is also perfectly legal. You can buy it at the grocery store.

They'll illegalize it soon. It causes rhabdomyolysis. Remember those kids in Oregon over the summer. It's practically a steroid. Recent studies strongly indicate that creatine causes massive kidney and gall bladder damage, is responsible for many degenerative conditions in the amygdala and even can lead to a loss of control over emotions, in effect creatine rage.

 

[DBKlingon]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lf-kZXvb2ic were the crew of DS9 using performance enhancers?

Haha!
He didn't tag home!
What do I do?
Find him and kill him!

 

[AlphaTrek]

Creatine is also perfectly legal. You can buy it at the grocery store.

should be illeganized

it causes dat dere compartmenz syndrome

 

[the 4th hanson bro]

This appears to be a discussion between 3 posters, and is amazingly similar to one that got closed in TNG yesterday.

Since the topic's already been closed in a Trek forum, I'm not inclined to send it there and since it really has no content that applies to sports and fitness today, I'm closing it.

Additionally, per Holdfast's caution yesterday, AlphaTrek, DBKlingon, and Sisk0 all have infractions for spamming. Comments to PM.