Wonky Science: Hybrids in Startrek
Posted: Fri Aug 12, 2011 8:26 am
Peace 'n Long Life, y'all
Since we didn't have a good ol' argument for, well a few hours, I'm gonna throw the next steak to the lions. Topic of the day, science, when it comes to Hybrids ('lil interspecies-nookie don' hurt anyone )
In genetics lessons of 7th grade, I learned something along the line of this :
(picture shamelessly pilfered from Wikipedia)
If we look at the F1 generation, you'll see a red and a white something. That'll be our two favorite characters, with red being Vulcan appearance and white being human appearance.
*fade to black*
*groan,giggle,wheeze*
*fade back in*
Look, it's the F2 generation That'll be Lorian, Elizabeth, Soma, T'San, the lot (number depending how bored TnT are or if the TV set's broken again)
Now Mendel tells us, that for each trait a being has a pair of genes and when mom and dad do the dirty, each one of them sends a copy of one of their genes to make up a new pair which is used in the uterus shipyards to lay down the keel for T'Baby.
[side track]
It'll be awfully interesting what Chief Genetic Engineer Phlox's gonna do when it comes to the logic trait. With T'Pol contributing a slightly Trellium-D-stained strain of Phenylalanine and Trip delivering a bag of hot air, it'll be interesting to see, how he nails that together.
[/sidetrack]
Anyways, uncle Mendel says if red and white end up in the sack, T'Baby will be pink ( not if Shran's involved ) So it'll look neither human nor Vulcan, but a mixture of both, if red and white are TnT.
So why did I bore y'all out of your skulls with that?
Dunno, sounded funny at the time So here's the question. To make them recognizable as hybrids, in the TV shows, hybrids involving a human parent, always resembled the alien parent. Interestingly enough, we as fanfiction writers do generally seem to follow that trend. The only exception I can remember is bluetiger's T'San, who looks human and is all Vulcan-like
So what's your take on it, especially when the F3 generation comes into play? I personally find it funny to imagine a Charles Tucker IV, looking like a spitting image of dad, but delivering nerve-pinches left and right and melding around like nobodies business.
Since we didn't have a good ol' argument for, well a few hours, I'm gonna throw the next steak to the lions. Topic of the day, science, when it comes to Hybrids ('lil interspecies-nookie don' hurt anyone )
In genetics lessons of 7th grade, I learned something along the line of this :
(picture shamelessly pilfered from Wikipedia)
If we look at the F1 generation, you'll see a red and a white something. That'll be our two favorite characters, with red being Vulcan appearance and white being human appearance.
*fade to black*
*groan,giggle,wheeze*
*fade back in*
Look, it's the F2 generation That'll be Lorian, Elizabeth, Soma, T'San, the lot (number depending how bored TnT are or if the TV set's broken again)
Now Mendel tells us, that for each trait a being has a pair of genes and when mom and dad do the dirty, each one of them sends a copy of one of their genes to make up a new pair which is used in the uterus shipyards to lay down the keel for T'Baby.
[side track]
It'll be awfully interesting what Chief Genetic Engineer Phlox's gonna do when it comes to the logic trait. With T'Pol contributing a slightly Trellium-D-stained strain of Phenylalanine and Trip delivering a bag of hot air, it'll be interesting to see, how he nails that together.
[/sidetrack]
Anyways, uncle Mendel says if red and white end up in the sack, T'Baby will be pink ( not if Shran's involved ) So it'll look neither human nor Vulcan, but a mixture of both, if red and white are TnT.
So why did I bore y'all out of your skulls with that?
Dunno, sounded funny at the time So here's the question. To make them recognizable as hybrids, in the TV shows, hybrids involving a human parent, always resembled the alien parent. Interestingly enough, we as fanfiction writers do generally seem to follow that trend. The only exception I can remember is bluetiger's T'San, who looks human and is all Vulcan-like
So what's your take on it, especially when the F3 generation comes into play? I personally find it funny to imagine a Charles Tucker IV, looking like a spitting image of dad, but delivering nerve-pinches left and right and melding around like nobodies business.