Statistical Probabilities

The reality is that if one day we manage to engineer our genetic makeup to improve our cognitive abilities we will look more like bashir and not at all like those mentally ill patients. Simply because we will have removed genetic predisposition for diseases as we manage to actually improve on cognitive abilities.

But that's not acceptable to some people who think man is already perfect as he is. They have to write episodes like this to say Eugenics are bad.

Instead of actually finding arguments that stand the trial of logical eximation, they'd rather create monsters and moralise. As if it was an argument.

I always thought Star Trek writers had a courageous vision of the future, but everything related to eugenics and genetic advancements is plagued with short sighteness and half baked moral arguments.

So there's apparently lots of genetically altered people around, and even though that's highly illegal there's a well known institute for doing just that. So Dr Bashir is the only one that turned out well it seems, as there's one who's autistic, one who is smart but quiet, and of course the woman got sexy powers of some kind. Basically she's horny for Bashir that's her mutation lol.

It's kinda bizarre, the genetically horny chick is kinda hawt but otherwise this is a pretty banal episode.

After a great start of season 6, with only sons and daughters as a filler episode, it's seriously going down hill now...episode 7,8 and this one as number 9 all rank among the worst Star Trek episodes in my opinion. they left the main plot line to bore us with these uninteresting side steps with horrible new characters. I had to watch this one in 3 steps because I couldn't handle more than 15 minutes at a time without getting too annoyed.

(I only write this review because of the 7,7 rating it has...I was expecting at least a decent episode after the previous 2)

The most annoying thing about this episode isn't even the annoying characters. It's that we've seen it all before.

In 1990, Dudley Moore and Daryl Hannah starred in "Crazy People." Emory Leeson (Moore) is an advertising executive who experiences a nervous breakdown. He designs a series of "truthful" advertisements, blunt and bawdy and of no use to his boss Drucker's firm. The ads were thought up by the honest but bright patients Leeson is now staying with, and when they're accidentally printed, they prove to be a huge hit with the public. (Their best was, Volvo: they're boxy, but they're good." The basic theme of "crazy" people who use their special abilities to see things others can't is identical to the theme of this episode.

Even worse is Tim Ransom's portrayal of Jack, the hyperactive genetically enhanced man whose constant "Hm? Hm?" makes him über-punchable. His mannerisms were lifted directly from Brad Pitt's insane man-child, "Jeffrey Goines," in "12 Monkeys" only a couple of years before this episode aired.

Of course, with Potsy (Anton Williams) directing, we can't expect "Becket."

As this episode progressed, my oldest daughter yelled out "It sure looks like this show jumped the shark!"--and I could understand her thinking this as we watched this pile of crap episode of "Star Trek: Deep Space 9". It is a pretty terrible episode.

This show is about a group of genetically enhanced humans. However, instead of being happy Starfleet members like Dr. Bashir, these folks are all weirdos who live in what looks a bit like an asylum. Regardless, Dr. Bashir agrees to babysit these uber-annoying beings. During this time, he bonds with these folks and together the new 'team' learn to run various statistical formulas--ones that would seem to indicate that the Federation is destined to be destroyed by the Dominion.

The problem with this show are these new characters. They are loud, obnoxious and 100% annoying. You just want them to shut up and die- -they are THAT annoying! Overall, I cannot believe that this could have been a lot better than it was--it couldn't really have been much worse.