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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MarkB" data-source="post: 7268702" data-attributes="member: 40176">It's not canon if it was never on screen. The origins of cloaking technology have never been established in any series.When V'Ger was approaching Earth in Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Spock sensed it from Vulcan and abandoned his Kolinahr training as a result. Similarly long-range telepathic or empathic connections have been shown elsewhere, for instance in the TNG episode Tin Man.The Eugenics Wars resulted in the outlawing of genetic modification of humans, not cybernetic. Have you forgotten that TNG's Geordi LaForge is also a cybernetically modified bridge officer, or that Captain Picard has an artificial heart?Which isn't dissimilar to the bridge lighting in most of the movies - which also made changes to the uniforms.Or at least, one person would, for a chance at stopping a war.Well, two of your points were things that weren't ever actually canon, and another was a stylistic nitpick that could equally be applied to each of the Star Trek movies. So that leaves you with "apparently the Federation will take desperate and sometimes illegal measures in times of war" to which the response is "yes, based upon plentiful established canon, they certainly will."</blockquote>