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==[ORIGINS] USS HOOD: It's Not Your Father’s Augment== | |||
===by Steve Apple=== | |||
SD: 2260.005 | |||
Scene: Truck on its way back to New Detroit. | |||
Corbett said nothing as he listened to the exchange between Steele and Merrick. He agreed that their eventful trip was best discussed over a drink. Smiling to himself he bent back over the PAAD that Gar had handed him. | |||
While the data was intriguing it was also absolutely horrifying. He would have to discuss the finer points with ARr'Rhiana later. This Bastard was good and had resources, that was for sure. The formulas in this article were breakthroughs in genetic engineering; however, something about this last gene replication sequence bothered him. He couldn’t quite put his finger on it. | |||
Come on Stile, think. Your Masters was in genetics so it shouldn’t be that hard. He said to himself staring at the PAAD, trying to make it tell him the secret by force of will. | |||
“Doc you ok?” DeSimms asked. “You look like you got brain damaged, or something.” | |||
Corbett looked over at the man his eyes narrowing. “What did you say?” | |||
“I asked if you were ok.” DeSimms said. “That pod landing looked rough.” | |||
“No you asked me something else.” Corbett said anger and frustration in his voice. | |||
DeSimms not one to back down growled. “The way you were looking at that PAAD I thought maybe you had sustained brain damage.” | |||
“That’s it.” Corbett yelled throwing the PAAD down and facing DeSimms. “You’re brilliant well at least brighter than you look.” He finished, smiling. | |||
DeSimms ready for a fight wasn’t sure what had just happened. “Huh.” | |||
“You see this DNA replication sequence,” Corbett yelled excitedly as he shuffled over to DeSimms with the PAAD. “Its unique in that it’s base pairs are a combination of both antiparallel DNA and RNA substitutions.” | |||
“Okay.” DeSimms said completely unsure if Corbett had gone insane and needed to be subdued. | |||
“No not okay.” Corbett screamed. “I wasn’t sure what the hell this was until you said the words brain damage.” | |||
“Just what are you getting at doctor?” Steele asked warily. | |||
“This gene sequence is what begins the process of neurulation, or creation of the embryonic CNS.” | |||
“So what, isn’t that part of augmentation?” Gar asked from the driver’s seat not sure what Stile was getting at. | |||
“This son of a bitch needs to be killed not captured, is what it means.” | |||
“Stile slow it down.” Merrick said calmly. “You need to help us medically challenged folk with what in the hell you’re talking about.” | |||
Corbett took a deep breath and began again. “I was reading one of Sachen’s articles. It was in one of the Romulan Medical Journals that Gar had down- loaded and it contained several genetic formulas.” | |||
“Why would he put his formulas for creating an augment in a journal article?” ARr'Rhiana asked. | |||
“Because he’s a genius and like all geniuses he lacks common sense.” Corbett shouted. “Don’t get me wrong ARr’Rhiana; you can’t make an augment from the bits and pieces he’s put in the article.” | |||
“Alright then, what about them has you so excited?” She added. | |||
“The article was about his revolutionary process of combining antiparallel DNA and RNA on the same strand.” | |||
ARr'Rhiana’s eyes took on a fiery look as she began to understand the implications. “He found a way for 5-3 DNA to pair with 5-3 RNA so he can substitute whatever coding sequence he wants without facing an untranslated region.” | |||
“Yes that’s what the paper was about.” Corbett answered. “However, he used his CNS formula as an example because it best exemplified his breakthrough.” | |||
“Now how about saying that in a language we all might understand.” Steele demanded. | |||
“What it means Cap is that he can give his augments any ability he wants. He can imbue them with super strength, endurance and intellect without…” | |||
“I kind of thought that was what an augment was.” DeSimms interrupted. “I’m also not sure how my bringing up brain damage started all of this.” | |||
“First off John you’re right, that is precisely what an augment is. As for the brain damage part, what is the one problem with augments?” | |||
“Besides super ambition and ego,” Gar shot back. | |||
“No that’s it.” Corbett nodded sadly. “The genetic code that was in the article made me think back to the early days of eugenics and what went wrong. Those who create the supermen and women of that time wanted robots not people with emotion and ambition. The code he showed in his paper could actually affect conscience and behavior.” | |||
“Are you saying that he has found a way to make docile augments?” Merrick asked. | |||
“That’s exactly what I’m saying. The formula he has here changes the embryonic growth of the augments brain. Neuroanatomical structures which have been linked to certain behaviors have been stunted, or eliminated.” | |||
“You got all that form a formula I don’t believe it.” DeSimms said shaking his head. | |||
“Think about it John. How often is someone’s behavior altered after a severe head injury? We know that specific areas of the brain control certain behaviors and that brain damage can affect those areas and thus those behaviors.” | |||
“Behavior is more complex than that.” Gar added. | |||
“He’s found a way to genetically keep his augments from developing ambitions of their own.” Corbett said then added in a sterner voice. “Let me make this clear, not only can they can learn, adapt, and reason without conscience, but he has genetically and anatomically taken away their ability to rebel and self direct.” | |||
“Are you telling me he has perfected the augment?” Steele asked. | |||
“That’s precisely what I’m saying.” | |||
<<<NRPG>>> | |||
All, | |||
I looked through the logs and didn’t find a reason why Dr. Sachen’s augment work would be any different then Arik Soong’s. I figured that there had to be a reason why this guy would be so important so I created one. I hope this is in keeping with the story line and if I have missed the mark please feel free to scrap this post. | |||
Respectfully, | |||
Steve Apple | |||
Stile Corbett, MD | |||
CMO, USS HOOD NCC 1703 | |||
ASR: ORIGINS | |||
