Star Trek Hunter
Episode 7:
The Great Mushroom
Scene 18:
Subspace Radio Ivonovic
7.18
Subspace Radio Ivonovic
“Some of you know me. Most of you probably do not. My name is Emory Ivonovic and I am coming to you from an undisclosed location. I am the duly elected planetary governor of the Colony of New Hope. They said I couldn’t win and they were wrong. So they accused me of cheating. Why would they go to so much trouble? Why is it so important to them that they would defy the Federation’s most sacred values - the rule of law - the consent of the governed - to try to run me out of office and silence my voice? To silence the voice of the people of New Hope Colony?
“Because that is the business they are in. They claim to represent the Federation’s most cherished values. And then they arrest a duly elected planetary governor because they don’t want you to hear what I have to say. They claim to represent the rule of law. And then their tricky lawyers come up with unsupported interpretations of obscure rules to get around the law and just do whatever they want to do.
“So who are they and what is it that they want to do?
“Folks, I tell you, there is a vast conspiracy within the Federation. A conspiracy at the highest levels to create and maintain a new elite who will control our lives in the name of public service. A conspiracy to create a new race of super-beings - people whom you, your children and your grandchildren cannot hope to compete with. A race that will make us, the naturalborn, second class citizens in this Federation that our ancestors worked so hard to build. That our generation has shed blood to protect.
“We were all taught about the eugenics war of the late 21st Century, when Khan Noonien Singh and a generation of genetically modified supermen tried to enslave the rest of the human race. And this led to some of our most difficult but critically important laws - some of our most cherished laws - laws that prohibit new attempts to create a ruling class of supermen. We still allow genetic modification to heal children from terrible genetic disorders and occasionally people cheat, but overall those laws have served us very well for generations.
“But as you know, as Dr. Kenny Dolphin exposed to all of us in his ground-breaking dissertation, there is another exception to the prohibition against genetic modification: the children of multiple species who cannot survive, and in most cases could not even be conceived, without extensive genetic manipulation. And we are supposed to accept these children in the name of families, in the name of love. They show us beautiful babies with human faces, but vulcan ears or andorian antennae or cardassian neck ridges. And they show us happy parents - one human, one of another species.
“And underneath all this pretty propaganda lurks the real truth. These beautiful babies - these products of love between human and non-human, between vulcan and non-vulcan, between bajoran and non-bajoran - these are the new generation of supermen. These are the new faces of Khan, the Conqueror and his ilk.
“The rules of genetic modification that make these children possible state this intent explicitly: ‘To the greatest extent possible, the genetic uniqueness and characteristics of each species must be preserved in the children of multiple species.’ Let me emphasize - ‘To the greatest extent possible…’
“As Dr. Dolphin revealed to us, that is not an invitation for well-intentioned doctors to create supermen. It is a commandment for them to do so. It is a directive - ‘to the greatest extent possible.’ How could it possibly be otherwise?
“I have seen the monsters this rule creates. A giant with the size and strength of an orion male, the balance and speed of an andorian, the intelligence and adaptability of a human, but far stronger and more resilient than any of these. A runner with the height and strength of a human and the endurance of a bajoran, but far faster than any bajoran or human. A sniper with the adaptability and eyesight of a human and the balance and dexterity of an andorian, but far quicker and more steady than either - he never misses his target. Something that looks human, but I don’t even know what they bred with a human to produce her - maybe a mountain lion - whose fangs and claws can reduce a roomful of big, strong men to a pile of meat within minutes.
“These abominations may sound like superheroes, but what they really are is a generation of elite supermen being bred right now, legally, right here within the Federation. And they call me a radical. And they try to overturn a legal election in which the people of New Hope Colony chose me to be their voice. Chose me to be the one to say, ‘no more!’ And believe me, if you stand up against this powerful elite they will come after you, too.
“Nevertheless, I say, No more! No more supermen! No more elite ruling class! These worlds do not belong to them. They belong to us - the naturalborn. We, the people who came together with hard work to build this Federation – these are our worlds, not theirs. No more monsters! No more overlords deliberately designed from the chromosome up to be our superiors.
“This is Emory Ivonovic, bringing you Subspace Radio Ivonovic – the voices of the naturalborn. And this is not my last word. They will not silence the truth. They will not silence the voice of the people. They will not enslave the naturalborn. We will not allow them to.
“I am Governor Emory Ivonovic and you will see my face again. You will hear my voice again.”
This is the final scene for Episode 7. The adventure continues in
Episode 8: The Bolian Web.
Also, somebody's planning on having a baby! Hard to believe an old war-horse like him is finally thinking of procreation. 
