Star Trek didn’t invent the idea of humans having alien babies after undergoing a sudden biological mutation. In fact, the idea of humans raising aliens is probably as old as science fiction itself. Whether we’re talking Alien Nation or Enemy Mine, nurturing and caring for a weird little critter pervades the genre. But in “Threshold,” an infamous 1996 episode of Star Trek: Voyager, we saw unplanned alien babies be straight-up abandoned, even though they were technically the offspring of Captain Janeway and Tom Paris. The absurdity of this episode has been mocked for almost three decades. Now, Star Trek has issued a correction of sorts on its weirdest storyline.
