> Alberto Vieira Ferreira Monteiro wrote:
> Watching a Deep Space 9 episode, something caught my
> attention.
>
> Quoting from:
>
http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Vorta#History_and_Politics
>
> The Vorta believe, perhaps apocryphally, that they
> previously
> existed as small, timid, ape-like creatures living
> in hollowed-out
> trees to avoid the many predators on their
> homeworld. A group
> of Vorta hid a Changeling from an angry mob, and
> in return the
> Changeling promised that one day they would be
> transformed
> and placed at the head of a vast interstellar
> empire. The
> Founders fulfilled this promise by genetically
> changing the
> Vorta into humanoids and employing them at the
> highest
> level of the Dominion. (DS9: "Treachery, Faith and
> the Great River")
>
> Is this an Uplift rip-off?
Not to underplay Himself's importance or brilliance,
but genetic engineering of 'lower' animals to get
intelligent servants/companions is not His invention:
the book I just referenced, _Breed To Come_ is about
gengineered cats and was written sometime in the late
'60's or early '70's, and what about _Planet of the
Apes_?
Oh, and somebody recommended _Footfall_, which I am
nearly through, and in addition to the gengineered
"oliphaunts", there is I think a reference to
Himself's work WRT 'if somebody loved dolphins, whales
and chimps...'
Debbi
Starting At The Near End Maru :)
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