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How did the Eugenics thing start, was it a biotech company or was it a government run thing?


The idea was that scientifically bred supermen took over much of the planet in the 1990s and became Tyrants. There's no real attribution to whether the science was private or government funded. Since the original episode was written in the 1960s when most cutting edge science was publicly funded, I think we can assume it was more or less a government project. It was also something that happened in many nations at once, which has the smell of an arms race. Eugenics was pretty popular science in the early part of the 20th century but had fallen from favor by the 1960s, largely because it was used by the Nazis as justification for the whole master race thing.

Anyway, in the Trekverse the science was outlawed after the Tyrants were defeated and exiled. Enterprise featured a few episodes with Data's creator's ancestor pursuing Eugenics as a rogue scientist.

That never made sense to me unless the genetically enhanced were sterile. Otherwise, like any other genetic modification, they'd mix and mingle with the rest of humanity. Yes, Eugenics is specifically about controlling breeding but you can't tell me that in the midst of all out global chaos, more than enough of them didn't get it on with regular humans.

So really, how would humanity determine which were bred from the Eugenics program and which weren't?

Maybe some did. Maybe those genes are in the pool of humanity from that point on. Maybe Zephram Cochrane, born in the 2030s, was a second or third generation descendant and gifted with genetically enhanced intellect. That would explain why he is able to conceive of and develop Warp technology in the wake of a nuclear apocalypse despite the notable disadvantage of being frequently and thoroughly sauced.