In my head canon genetic engineering is legal, the Bashirs got done for not declaring on their tax returns.
Things we have now that Prime universe Trek did not foresee
- Thread starter Laura Cynthia Chambers
- Start date
In my head canon genetic engineering is legal, the Bashirs got done for not declaring on their tax returns.
WIFI is nothing but a digital radio protocol. The early space probes could could do that at a primitive level. They just called it "telemetry".
Mass Global migration. All the human crew come from places on Earth based on their stereotypical racial phenotype. Why couldn't Geordie La Forge be French as well? Uhura could be from Western Europe. Sulu from Australia. Frakes or Picard from South Africa. Dr M'Benga from Scotland. Bones could have African American and European ancestry from way, way back. If Earth is politically united and upwardly mobile then I assume a universal open or lax immigration policy because no matter where you live on Earth your standard of living will be the same. Not one of the human has a mixed parentage, Spock and Troi are more diverse than they are.
Couldn't disagree more - email followed by SMS, chat, message boards, instant messenger, whatsapp, Facebook etc etc has meant that people communicate by textual means far more than they used to. It has advantages over phoning people (or a high tech equivalent of that) that I don't see disappearing as tech becomes more advanced.
Economic migration ceases to have much impetus, however, if everywhere is equally prosperous.
This could be a result of communications technology eliminating the need for migration in the first place. I've been telecommuting to work for upwards of 10 years already. And more and more, I see my friends and family going that way too -- even those with corporate jobs. So it stands to reason, in a society where people can work anywhere from anywhere, that many might not opt to go through the bother of packing up the family and moving someplace. If you don't need to go for your job, and you don't have a natural inclination toward travel, why would you choose to leave familiar surroundings and the people you love?
On the contrary, in episodes like Disaster, it would have been useful, nay vital to access the consoles of one section of the ship from another section. The chances of an alien finding out a security password, if that password is complex enough are negligible. In Chosen Realm there's some backward religious zealot who's able to access Archer's logs just like that, without even having to ask for his access codes. That's absurd. Even if Archer's captain log weren't protected by an unbreakable password, he'd have to figure out how the computer works and what orders to give to get what. Remember that that guy was supposed to be anti-science to boot.. WTF?
Indeed. I find text to be much more efficient as well. The messages wait for when I want to consume them; they're easily scannable for relevant content and can be programmatically parsed to add in hyperlinks (to call phone numbers, or add dates to the calendar, etc); and there'a always a record of the text to refer back to as needed. And that's for person-to-person communication. That also extends to content like websites though, for many of the same reasons. I don't see text going anywhere. Ever.
In my head canon genetic engineering is legal, the Bashirs got done for not declaring on their tax returns.
Well, I always figured that the crime the Bashirs did was giving underground, unregulated surgery to their learning-deficient six-year-old child.
Technically, Richard pled guilty to "illegal genetic engineering", a phrase which by itself, implies the existence of legal genetic engineering.
A job vacancey for a transporter technician comes up in New Delhi. JimBob from Georgia applies and moves his family to India. Imagine that happening now.
The Browns of New York are fed up of the American winters and move to Khartoum where the cost of living is cheaper and you can get good jobs.
Jamal in Sudan tranposts to his job in Toronto and comes home to Sudan every weekend.
T'Polly of Vulcan decides being a V'tosh katur is easier on Earth than it is on Vulcan. She ups an moves to San Fran after the relevant migration cleareance
Life on Earth in the Star Trek universe , global migration in action
In general, the effects of the Information Revolution of recent years.
The Doctor using genetic engineering on Tom and B'Elanna's kid didn't seem to be an issue.
Maybe because he was following regulations. We can assume that what's acceptable and what isn't will have been well charted by then.
In the books, Riker and Troi are receiving genetic therapies to help concieve. Helping during childbirth/pregnancy is the only exception to the rule apparently.
Well, it's ONE exception, we don't know if it's the only one.
To be honest through, McCoy seem pretty frail.
"Frail"? You mean he should work out more?
Plus you can read it over and take it in several times - chew it, as it were - before responding, analyzing for nuances that you missed the first time. By the time you finally respond, you're fairly certain what they're saying. That, or you've overthought it and it's hours later, way too late to answer or take advantage of what is being expressed.
