A fun and well imagined notion for their “transformation.” Of course, as is the law of “Trek pedantry,” it was hypothesized in DS9 “Trials and Tribble-ations” by Dr. Bashir and confirmed in ENT to be the result of viral manipulation gone awry.
I had forgotten what they came up with but yeah it was the virus thing. I still think a history-based explanation would have been a lot more interesting.
A fun and well imagined notion for their “transformation.” Of course, as is the law of “Trek pedantry,” it was hypothesized in DS9 “Trials and Tribble-ations” by Dr. Bashir and confirmed in ENT to be the result of viral manipulation gone awry.
Per Memory Alpha:
I had forgotten what they came up with but yeah it was the virus thing. I still think a history-based explanation would have been a lot more interesting.
Plausible and relatively lore-friendly. As much as the writers usually draw from history, this is one of those areas where they strayed a tad.