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"Star Trek: The Next Generation" Unnatural Selection (1989)


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Director:
Paul Lynch
Writers:
Gene Roddenberry (creator)
John Mason (writer) ...
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Original Air Date:
28 January 1989 (Season 2, Episode 7)
Plot:
The Enterprise responds to a distress call from the USS Lantree, and find her crew dead, apparently from old age... more | add synopsis
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Genetics more

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The title is a parody of the term "natural selection" which is the process by which favorable inheritable traits become more common in successive generations and was first defined by Charles Darwin in his book "On the Origin of Species" (1859). more
Quotes:
Commander William T. Riker: [on seeing the dead crew of the USS Lantree] Looks like they had a battle with time.
Lieutenant Worf: And lost.
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Genetics, 29 June 2007
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Author: gritfrombray-1 from Ireland

*** This comment may contain spoilers ***

When The USS Enterprise intercepts the USS Lantree they are startled to find the crew dead of old age. The Enterprise heads to the Lantree's last stop, the Darwin Genetic Research Station. They find the Staff and Doctors all suffering of premature ageing. They are doing the same old rhetoric of tampering with Humans' dna and genetic structure. The children, the experiment, are super intelligent and mature for their age being the cause of the problem. Without ruining the story too much, the experiment is the result of the premature ageing and the station is quarantined and the Enterprise wistfully departs. Some great make up and storytelling here and the return to the experimenting on Humans to improve the race just does not work. We also learn of Pulaski's hatred for the transporter.....

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