When I read this news story:
… I couldn’t help but think of TNG “Ethics”: After being paralyzed from the waist down as the result of an accident Worf’s
spine was damaged, resulting in paraplegia. Worf at first felt his life had ended and decided to commit {Heghbat}
(ritual suicide) but 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
spine, extract the original and
replace it with the new one. Russell has been experimenting with a genitronic replicator that can grow
replacement 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.
Not exactly genitronic replication, but still... Hey, TOS-era communicators inspired cellular flip phones!
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Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons