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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Orius" data-source="post: 1842329" data-attributes="member: 8863">The storyline's still going pretty strong.   I sympathize with Soong a little bit. It seems that he's operating under the assumption that the Augments weren't really as inherently dangerous as every else seems to believe. He might be right as well; I do not think that genetic enhancement itself makes them arrogant and aggressive, after all, there are plenty of violent people in the real world who do these sorts of things without genetic enhancement. I don't know or care what Khan's excuse was. But it seems Soong's history lesson might be the (or a major) root behind Malik's aggression here, I don't really know. Like Archer said, this thing happens when one group of humans thinks they're better than everyone else.   Anyway, I think Soong took these embryos because he believed they could be raised without going berserk and killing everyone else. He disagreed with the widely help opinion by most of the rest of humanity, and Earth's/The Federation's authorities rarely seem tolerant of dissenting views in Star Trek*.  The fundamental moral question here is, "Do the Augments have a right to live?".  Soong definitely thinks so, and there's probably enough people back on Earth and its colonies who have moral issues with the thought of the embroys being destroyed.  *Of course that raises the question of why Kirk's loose cannon behavior was tolerated; my assumption is that Section 31 had no problem with Kirk taking on threats the way he did regardless of how many times he broke the Prime Directive or Starfleet Regulations. <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/devious.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":]" title="Devious    :]" data-shortname=":]" /></blockquote>

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