On Thu, 8 Mar 2001 14:17:26 +0000 (GMT) =?iso-8859-1?q?Stephen=20Date?= stephend999@yahoo.co.uk writes:
I think the Federation would have been interested in experiments in this direction. My own personal explanation as to why the Mutoid crew promised to Travis in Trial turned into Mutoids is that the Crimmos were merely a nastier version i.e Criminal Psychopaths modified to direct their sadistic tendencies against the Federation's enemies.
It could be the limiter was a new application of already existing technology (like implants that might have already been in use in Crimmos and Mutoids), but working in a different way.
Since we don't see them again, I'd guess the experiment was largely a failure. This could have been just because one man in possession of one still managed to become a high profile rebel/terrorist or it could have been more practical problems (if we assume Gan's normal personality has been largely unchanged by his implant, then he's an unusually nice and easy going guy - not the target audience for violence control. If this is the case, even people just falling into the 'normal' range of violent impulses may have suffered severe mental and personality disturbance [sure, you wouldn't think it would work that way, but that's what throws a left curve in a lot of experiments - the unanticipated side effects]).
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