Talk:Hyper-evolution

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Of course, this is absurd, since it presumes the false premise that evolution has some sort of pre-set direction that can be forced to occur at a rapid rate. There is no pre-set direction nor outcome to evolutionary processes.

Opionated comments do not belong in articles. --From Andoria with Love 23:39, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

Doesn't look like opinion to me, just a statement of fact- evolution is the propagation of factors that give an advantage to alifeform in a specific environment, not a predetermined path. 150.237.47.3 19:35, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

EDIT:Logged in nowMartinMcCann 19:36, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

"This is absurd" is the opinionated area I'm most concerned about. Remove that, and reword it as necessary, and I don't see why it can't be included in the article - assuming that it's true, of course. I'm not a science major. :-P --From Andoria with Love 20:24, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

In addition, I removed:

• "The writers of "Threshold" later acknowledged that they took more liberties with this concept than fans were prepared to accept. {{incite}}"

For being uncited. --Alan 03:41, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

Apparently all these "Threshold not considered canon/accepted by staff, etc." references come from the season 2 dvd easter egg mentioned in the "Threshold" episode page. Someone who owns that release should check out what they exacly said in the interview, what were the actual aspects of the episode they hated, and such, as there have been a number of these uncited and unclear notes around MA in various pages relating to the transwarp and the evolution stuff from Threshold.

Also I would like to offer for the record that it is not absurd in the context of Star Trek that human evolution happens in this way. We know from "The Chase" that humans actually evolved to look like humans because our DNA contains a preprogrammed code to make us this way. And it has not been stated the programming has completed itself. The same is true regarding "Distant Origin" when the computer is asked what a hadrosaur would look like now if it had continued to evolve, and the computer assumes it turns into a humanoid. Again in the context of Star Trek it is not absurd because hadrosaur would have had the same DNA programming as humans do. --Pseudohuman 07:31, 30 June 2008 (UTC)