--- Mistral mistral@centurytel.net wrote:
Trevor Hoyle notwithstanding, I'm not sure I buy the experimental technology explanation. Kayn, who was not a Federation scientist, recognized the limiter, its purpose, and knew how to repair it - that suggests to me it wasn't new or experimental stuff.
Well Kayn was the best in his field, and the laws of Neurophysics are presumably the same on Earth and XK-47. :)
I'm wondering if its real original intent wasn't to control violent impulses in both directions, perhaps for the purpose of turning homicidal types into obedient Freddy Rationtroopers.
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.
Stephen.
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