Any personality-altering virus had better be really good to measure up to the shirtless fencing virus. (With Spock making a bonus Three Musketeers joke before going super emo!) It doesn't sound like this one is half as good.
The genetic engineering thing sounds even weirder considering Spock is there. I mean, okay, technically he isn't "enhanced," but you can't just splice human and Vulcan genomes together and call it good; there must have been considerable genetic jiggery-pokery (technical term) to make that work. And it did lead to him being significantly stronger than his human ancestors, and telepathic, so he kind of is enhanced with alien DNA, from a certain point of view. But it sounds like no one brought this up as a comparison for some reason? Or asks why it is that people might object to Spock's ancestry but aren't freaking out about him being a Frankenkid or whatever they'd call it in the 23rd century?
And yeah, why not just go with plain "Singh"? It's as conveniently anonymous as "Smith" and still part of her original name if she's attached to it!
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on 2022-05-28 01:46 am (UTC)The genetic engineering thing sounds even weirder considering Spock is there. I mean, okay, technically he isn't "enhanced," but you can't just splice human and Vulcan genomes together and call it good; there must have been considerable genetic jiggery-pokery (technical term) to make that work. And it did lead to him being significantly stronger than his human ancestors, and telepathic, so he kind of is enhanced with alien DNA, from a certain point of view. But it sounds like no one brought this up as a comparison for some reason? Or asks why it is that people might object to Spock's ancestry but aren't freaking out about him being a Frankenkid or whatever they'd call it in the 23rd century?
And yeah, why not just go with plain "Singh"? It's as conveniently anonymous as "Smith" and still part of her original name if she's attached to it!