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<p class="MsoNormal">When I read this news story:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2019/03/27/italian-chinese-surgeons-cite-spinal-cord-repair-head-transplant-canavero-xiaoping/3287179002/">https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2019/03/27/italian-chinese-surgeons-cite-spinal-cord-repair-head-transplant-canavero-xiaoping/3287179002/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">… I couldn’t help but think of TNG “Ethics”: After being paralyzed from the waist down as the result of an accident Worf’s
<span class="st">spine was damaged, resulting in paraplegia. </span> Worf at first felt his life had ended and decided to commit {<b>Heghbat}
</b>(ritual suicide) but<span class="st"> Dr. Crusher consults a specialist, Dr. Russell, who suggests a risky, possibly life-threatening, experimental, untested procedure that might allow him to regain all mobility. Essentially, they would clone his
</span><em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-style:normal">spine</span></em><span class="st">, extract the original and
</span><em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-style:normal">replace</span></em><span class="st"> it with the new one. Russell has been experimenting with a genitronic replicator that can grow
</span><em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-style:normal">replacement</span></em><span class="st"> organs, but Crusher doesn't think her research, or their knowledge of Klingon neurology, is far enough along to risk his life in the dangerous
operation. </span><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Not exactly genitronic replication, but still... Hey, TOS-era communicators inspired cellular flip phones!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">--<br>
Voragh<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><i>Ca'Non Master of the Klingons</i><o:p></o:p></p>
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