With Vulcan help and guidance, humans rose to become a major player on the galactic stage. They outpaced the Klingons, Romulans, Cardassians, etc. The only ones that are ahead of them are Species 8472 (whom almost killed the Borg), the Borg, Changelings, the Breen, probably the Nacene ... not to mention the godlike entities/species/collectives like Trelane, the Q, the Traveler’s people, the Bajoran Prophets, etc.
"Always listen to the crazy scientist with a weird van or armful of blueprints and diagrams." -- Vibranium
I recall the Vulcans being far more advanced than the Humans. As for other races like Andorians or Tellarites, I can't recall their exact technological levels
...but your point is made up though... I mean, there's no other way to say it; you are objectively wrong here and there is no evidence to the contrary. Of the core races of Star Trek that we have the most knowledge they were the first to achieve warp, had the fastest Starship (the so called "Jellyfish") and I could go on and on with the achievements.... and you have nothing?
A season 2 TNG episode suggested that there was an insoluble problem with "replicative fading," or cloning the same biological entity endlessly. The idea was that each repetition introduced an additional flaw into the biological makeup, and was not sustainable. A current day analogy is repeatedly photocopying a document, each time copying the copy, rather than the original.
Isn't that essentially what the transporter has always done? Break down the atomic structure and recreate it from the copy, rather than the original?
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