A little over a month ago, Starfleet Command received some deeply disturbing information. A scientist working at Darwin Research Station, a Federation research center on Gagarin IV, managed to smuggle out evidence – aboard the Starfleet ship, USS Lantree -- that the facility had been conducting illegal genetic engineering on Human subjects. In fact, these experiments had been taking place, in secret, for the past 13 years.
Genetic engineering is illegal throughout the Federation, and has been so since the founding of the Federation in 2161. It has been illegal on Earth since the end of World War III and the Eugenics Wars. This ban exists to remove all possibility that someone creates another “enhanced” individual like Khan Noonian Singh, or his fellow Augments, and it restricts parents from genetically engineering their children in order to give them an advantage in normal society.
No planet within the Federation is permitted to experiment with genetic engineering on sentient individuals. The ban does allow limited medical treatment considerations, and it does allow selective breeding of certain animals, but the law is 100% clear in all cases of eugenics. It is illegal, and will not be tolerated by the Federation.
Unfortunately, it appears as though Dr. Sandra Kingsley, the lead researcher at Darwin Research Station, has been knowingly ignoring this law. Gagarin IV is on the outer edges of the Federation, and, until now, was registered as an ecological research facility. The 35-year-old Dr. Kingsley has, apparently, presided over the genetic engineering of a few dozen children on Gagarin IV. The Enterprise was assigned – via our Priority One order – to investigate, and ultimately apprehend Dr. Kingsley and her staff for prosecution.
With those orders, the Enterprise arrived at Gagarin IV earlier today, a Marine raid on the facility did confirm the existence of Human genetically-engineered children, and we are currently rounding up and executing arrest warrants for all 47 personnel working at Darwin Research Station. The arrested personnel will be transported to Deep Space 1, where they, and all evidence, documents, and illegal equipment will be transferred to a ship bound for Earth. They will then be tried for their crimes under Federation law. The children held under experimentation at Darwin Research Station will be treated at local hospitals on Earth.
Science personnel from the Enterprise will likely remain on Gagarin IV until other Federation vessels can arrive to clean up the research station, and appropriate it for other uses.
-Lieutenant Sam Archer
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September 22, 2364 -- (Original Devron Timeline)