Bashir himself did nothing wrong, but if you let genetic engineering go, you end up with brutal ubermensch and civil war. They know this first hand, as it happened to them.
They have to level action against him and his family, to prevent the mass death that their actions lead to.
That’s why I think it’s a shitty Star Trek take, not a shitty in-universe Federation take. Correcting disabilities at birth is not a slippery slope to ubermensch. Superior ability doesn’t create unchecked ambition. “From each according to their ability” implies we’re not all equal in ability.
“genetic engineering = eugenics” is the worst take in Star Trek, though. Bashir’s parents did nothing wrong.
Also the implication that Bashir himself would be punished for the way he was born is straight up punishing someone for not upholding racial purity.
Its a “tolerance of intolerance” situation.
Bashir himself did nothing wrong, but if you let genetic engineering go, you end up with brutal ubermensch and civil war. They know this first hand, as it happened to them.
They have to level action against him and his family, to prevent the mass death that their actions lead to.
That’s why I think it’s a shitty Star Trek take, not a shitty in-universe Federation take. Correcting disabilities at birth is not a slippery slope to ubermensch. Superior ability doesn’t create unchecked ambition. “From each according to their ability” implies we’re not all equal in ability.