Vidiians and cloning

[TheSubCommander]

^ IIRC, the Phage attacked a Vidiian's body down to the DNA level, so I don't think cloning would have helped them.

The Phage would mutate, spread from the infected Vidiian DNA to the new clone parts and start all over again.

That makes sense to me......

They didn't find any DNA capable of truly resisting the Phage until they met B'Ellana.

....But this doesn't. And this always has bugged me.

If the phage was that badass of a disease, why were the Vidiians the only ones affected? Why not other DQ species? For that matter, why weren't the crew of the Voyager affected, also (besides B'Ellana)?

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

^ Every species is unique. To have any given disease affect more than one race, would seem to be very unlikely.

 

[Guy Gardener]

No. We found out in TNG The Chase that almost every known alien humanoid race was seeded onto millions of planets 5 billion years earlier by a race of Preservers.

There is a common ancestry.

And then there's interbreeding.

What if most people on any given planet, no matter what they look like, if you go back far enough are from at least 6 other planet?

 

[Anwar]

No. We found out in TNG The Chase that almost every known alien humanoid race was seeded onto millions of planets 5 billion years earlier by a race of Preservers.

There is a common ancestry.

And then there's interbreeding.

What if most people on any given planet, no matter what they look like, if you go back far enough are from at least 6 other planet?

The Phage wouldn't affect others, despite common ancestry, the same way Vulcans have green blood and have telepathy despite most humans not having that stuff.

Enough of a difference to matter.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

You never know, the Phage could have been intentionally targeted at the Vidiians...

 

[Kobayshi Maru]

You never know, the Phage could have been intentionally targeted at the Vidiians...

The Dominion in the gamma quadrant are known for doing that kind of stuff to peoples. The same could have happened here with some other malevolent culture that then went extinct. 2000 years is a long time.

 

[TheSubCommander]

You never know, the Phage could have been intentionally targeted at the Vidiians...

That is actually a good idea. As in a (now extinct) race the Vidiians were at war with could have developed the phage as a biological doomsday weapon. Would have been a good explanation in show, anyway.

 

[Guy Gardener]

OH!

The Think Tank's modus operandi is to fix problems that they create.

 

[Kobayshi Maru]

OH!

The Think Tank's modus operandi is to fix problems that they create.

I didn't get the impression that the Think Tank was 2000 years old... and counting.


Besides you can't infer an MO from one example, you need at the very least two.


Plus I don't see the point in creating a problem if you're going to collect only 2000 years later.

 

[Guy Gardener]

How hard is it to get a Krenim temporal torpedo? Send the disease back 20 centuries?

Boom?

I read a (new) comic (last month) where a corporation sent an employee back to the big bang to stamp the company logo onto the fist block of matter in the universe so that subsequently after that all matter would be stamped equally so and be the property of John Smith Inc (I can't remember the name.), The nature of the time travel was one way, but the traveller also wouldn't age, so he spent the next 16 billion years watching the Universe grow up (without going insane) nudging things along. When he finally got back to the Future to his research group, they took out their microscopes to see if they owned the universe. They didn't. Instead of the company logo (John Smith inc), what was grafittied across every unit of matter across all creation was "John Smith is a loser with a tiny penis."

 

[Kobayshi Maru]

How hard is it to get a Krenim temporal torpedo? Send the disease back 20 centuries?

Boom?

I read a (new) comic (last month) where a corporation sent an employee back to the big bang to stamp the company logo onto the fist block of matter in the universe so that subsequently after that all matter would be stamped equally so and be the property of John Smith Inc (I can't remember the name.), The nature of the time travel was one way, but the traveller also wouldn't age, so he spent the next 16 billion years watching the Universe grow up (without going insane) nudging things along. When he finally got back to the Future to his research group, they took out their microscopes to see if they owned the universe. They didn't. Instead of the company logo (John Smith inc), what was grafittied across every unit of matter across all creation was "John Smith is a loser with a tiny penis."

That story started with a bang but like the world ended with a whimper...