Robert April?

[Trinity Zeldis]

Sorry, thought I had it memorized. But I don't have the bible at hand. I was doing what I remembered as the quote, I stand corrected.

[AngryTree]

IIRC (which is always a big if ), D.C. Fontana (story consultant on TOS) wrote a TOS novel (Vulcan's Heart? Vulcan's Glory? I'm not sure...it was like book # 45 or something) which took place on Pike's Enterprise.

Her explaination for Number One was that she was a genetically engineered perfect specimen created from generations of work -- literally she was the "Number One" and this was the only name she had.

YMMV, but I like it.

[Sarge]

Number One genetically engineered? Hmmm... I smell story possibilities.

Right off the top of my head: After hearing how Kirk exiled him to Ceti Alpha 6, she volunteers to visit Khan and try to rehabilitate him. She thinks she can talk to him as one superior being to another and make him a productive member of society. Khan sticks a worm in her ear and uses her to attempt an escape. Mayhem ensues as the PCs try to keep Khan caged. I'd also manipulate the situation so that the PCs were responsible for the explosion that destroyed Ceti Alpha 5.

[Owen E Oulton]

Personally, I find her much more interesting a character as a very competent normal Human woman than as yet another genetically engineered superhuman, just as I found Julian Bashir less interesting after he was revealed to have been genetically enhanced.

Besides, the legal restrictions on genetically engineered individuals serving in Starfleet have quite explicitly been a fundamental part of Starfleet regulations since its inception, based on evidence in the Deep Space Nine episode Dr. Bashir, I Presume? where they cite Khan Noonian Singh and the Eugenics Wars as a basis.