TOGOM really wasn't my favorite episode. The A-plot was dorky and a bit comic-bookish for my taste (not your fault, I know), since Hamilton's attempt at personality "fixes" was genetically based. It smacks of eugenics and Nazi pseudo-science. And since it's easier by far to make such changes in the fetal stage of any organism, and is almost impossible to perform in the adult stage (Star Trek et al notwithstanding), I always wondered how Hamilton was going to do what he said he was trying to do. I sorta believe he was using the clones he'd already grown to identify the genes he was looking for and then grow new ones with the alterations he planned. What he intended to do with the clones he already had, I have no idea. I doubt he'd planned that far ahead, but they would have been a problem. If they were as long-lived as Luthor's clones were supposed to be, he couldn't just wait for them to die. So they would have caused tons ot trouble no matter how bad the science is in this episode.

Whoa! Nigel? Nigel and Luthor are involved now? Oh, this makes it all worthwhile! A diabolically excellent twist, Dandello! Keep it up! This changes everything! This goes on my must-read list right now!


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