Spoilers Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 1x03 - "Ghosts of Illyria"

[Belz...]

And McCoy.
Sybok hit the mother lode when he captured the Enterprise.

I guess you kind of need to be a weirdo to join Starfleet to begin with.

 

[thribs]

Not permanently, and only far enough to fool a simple biometric scanner. Nobody got super strength or x-ray vision.

Still very dangerous. I wouldn’t want them doing that to me.

 

[Jack Wolfe]

I guess you kind of need to be a weirdo to join Starfleet to begin with.

There's the flagship, then there's the freak-flag ship.

 

[Belz...]

There's the flagship, then there's the freak-flag ship.

Imagine how insane the lower decks crew on the Enterprise must be.

 

[UssGlenn]

So, I guess that communicates Una is intended to be an alien, not from a human colony that goes by the name Illyrian

Other way around the Illyrians from "Enterprise" are highly modified humans. The original "Illyrians" would have left Earth at the earliest opportunity.

 

[Jack Wolfe]

Imagine how insane the lower decks crew on the Enterprise must be.

I can see Hemmer at a rave.

 

[Vale]

Well, there is no real confirmation, one way or another. However, we do know that the JJverse diverged the timeline around Kirk's birth, long after the Earth-Romulan War.

It diverged before then, according to Word Of God, because time travel is sufficiently prevalent in the Star Trek universe that changing the future also changes the past. Nero's incursion caused retroactive alterations to the timeline before he'd even arrived.

 

[Belz...]

It diverged before then, according to Word Of God, because time travel is sufficiently prevalent in the Star Trek universe that changing the future also changes the past. Nero's incursion caused retroactive alterations to the timeline before he'd even arrived.

Well of course, other time travel events in Trek, such as in First Contact, have also made their mark, but Nero's change, specifically, didn't affect the past of where he ended up in the timeline. I don't see how it could be retroactive, so I'd like you to explain. I mean, the changes made in the past stay there. Otherwise ANY change would create a time loop or paradox. Avengers Endgame kind of made a lot of sense in that respect.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Again, there's always a point at which people will find it too unrealistic for comfort, within the premise of the show.

Seemed to work out okay for TOS.

 

[cooleddie74]

For what it's worth here's the scale comparison and evolution from the NX-Delta in 2144 to Enterprise NX-01 in 2151 with the Franklin the evolutionary midpoint between the two in the NX warp program:

 

[Belz...]

Seemed to work out okay for TOS.

You must be new to this "fandom" thing, then.

 

[fireproof78]

The Denobulans would disagree.

And the Illyrians in this episode suffered and died out because they tried to de-engineer themselves to be normal.

There's nothing wrong with a bit of genetic enhancement in the right areas.

Imagine if you could agument yourself to be better, imagine what it could do for your quality of life.

Perhaps humor could be added. Twas a joke.

 

[Tracy Trek]

If Khan was La'an's ancestor, wouldn't she be an augment as well?

M'Benga's little girl was adorable.

 

[KamenRiderBlade]

Perhaps humor could be added. Twas a joke.

=D

You could be a genetically enhanced comedian.

 

[Nerys Myk]

If Khan was La'an's ancestor, wouldn't she be an augment as well?

Three centuries is a long time with a lot of people contributing DNA.

 

[fireproof78]

=D

You could be a genetically enhanced comedian.

Not if jokes fly by my audience.

 

[cooleddie74]

Khan disappears in 1996 and La'an is probably born around 2235. That's 239 years. Augment DNA would be pretty thinned out after two centuries.

 

[Jack Wolfe]

Khan disappears in 1996 and La'an is probably born around 2235. That's 239 years. Augment DNA would be pretty thinned out after two centuries.

So any superiority would be down to punching things, lifting things, and opening pickle jars.

 

[KamenRiderBlade]

So any superiority would be down to punching things, lifting things, and opening pickle jars.

After that many generations of dilution, the enhancements probably come down to:
1) Opening Pickle Jars
2) Lifting Things
3) Punching Things

in that particular order

^_-

 

[Jack Wolfe]

After that many generations of dilution, the enhancements probably come down to:
1) Opening Pickle Jars
2) Lifting Things
3) Punching Things

in that particular order

^_-

Logical. Pickles are important.