That or there is one long lived alien out there banging his way through the quadrants… Either way, we know what he looks like.

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    11 months ago

    That was such a stupid resolution to that episode. Why exactly would this advanced race have hidden the message to their creations in random fragments of DNA on multiple planets?

    What if one of them got hit by an asteroid and all life got wiped out?

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      11 months ago

      Maybe they did something like Shamir’s secret sharing… So you only need a quorum of larger number of fragments of to reconstruct the whole? If you’re warp capable and able to seed humanoid life, I imagine you’ve probably built in some redundancy.

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        11 months ago

        I don’t think so, because the Klingons (or Romulans?) destroyed all life on one of the necessary planets after collecting a sample, which is one of the reasons they all had to share the bits of DNA they collected.