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How Star Trek: Discovery Gets Genetics Wrong, But Is Still Worth Watching Anyway
Discovery has made a genome-sequencing error into Star Trek canon. But it's hardly out of line with what came before. As much as it pains this Trekkie biologist to admit, the franchise has long had a fairly shaky grasp on the details of genetics and biological evolution.