"It happens, when one is seeking out illegal treatment. It's something of a black market. Standards aren't uniform, training inconsistent. The treatments actually carried out by Federation doctors, when they're done to correct the odd throwback, have a very nearly perfect success rate. But those like my parents sought for me wouldn't have been done."
His disability hadn't been life-threatening. It would have resulted in him having a different life path, almost certainly. But there'd been no guarantee of that, or even that it would have taken. He could have ended off worse than before.
"At any rate, the context is different. There are caveats to the legislation, simply because of how prevalent engineering was in our past. Having ancestry, even Augment ancestry, a certain number of generations back is permissible. And you and your crew are from another reality entirely, or at the very least another time frame. I've done a bit more reading, and I'm not sure our laws regarding it would apply to any of you at all."
It wouldn't be fair to expect, anyway. It's not anything that he personally would challenge legal precedent on, but he preferred to fly under the radar anyway--so to speak. Since Captain Hunt and his crew's presence isn't intentional, and expected to be temporary, he can't expect a reaction to the level of his. It's been 15 years or more, since he researched this in earnest, and while his recall is perfect, his understanding of legal interpretation had been somewhat limited as a teenager.
He sips his tea, but has ignored his scone.
"Hypotheticals aside, do you have any questions I might answer, specifically?"
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His disability hadn't been life-threatening. It would have resulted in him having a different life path, almost certainly. But there'd been no guarantee of that, or even that it would have taken. He could have ended off worse than before.
"At any rate, the context is different. There are caveats to the legislation, simply because of how prevalent engineering was in our past. Having ancestry, even Augment ancestry, a certain number of generations back is permissible. And you and your crew are from another reality entirely, or at the very least another time frame. I've done a bit more reading, and I'm not sure our laws regarding it would apply to any of you at all."
It wouldn't be fair to expect, anyway. It's not anything that he personally would challenge legal precedent on, but he preferred to fly under the radar anyway--so to speak. Since Captain Hunt and his crew's presence isn't intentional, and expected to be temporary, he can't expect a reaction to the level of his. It's been 15 years or more, since he researched this in earnest, and while his recall is perfect, his understanding of legal interpretation had been somewhat limited as a teenager.
He sips his tea, but has ignored his scone.
"Hypotheticals aside, do you have any questions I might answer, specifically?"