Cloning

This is a scientific and medical technique to grow a new body/being. The body grown is genetically identical to a previously-existing lifeform from which the template is taken.

Though usually an exact duplicate, some clones are modified to differ from their "ancestor."

The cloning of organs to replace a diseased or damage organ is common in Federation Space. However, the cloning of entire people is illegal.

Examples

• In 2155, the xenophobic group Terra Prime created a binary clone of T'Pol and Charles Tucker III, deliberately inserting genetic flaws in an attempt to "prove" that Humans and aliens should not associate.
  • The clone/'child' was named Elizabeth, and died in infancy due to flaws in the cloning process.

• The Mariposa colony was inhabited entirely by clones of the five original settlers. By the 24th century, the colony's survival was threatened by their limited genetic diversity due to replicative fading.

• The Dominion were experts in cloning, and they used it to create successive copies of individual Vorta. (As of 2375, the individual known as Weyoun had been cloned seven times.)