- For the series of novels, please see Star Trek: The Eugenics
Wars. "Superior ability breeds superior ambition." The Eugenics
Wars (or the Great Wars) were a series of conflicts fought on
Earth between 1993 and 1996. The result of a scientific attempt
to improve the Human race through selective breeding and genetic
engineering, the wars devastated parts of Earth, by some
estimates officially causing some 30 million deaths, and nearly
plunging the planet into a new Dark Age. (TOS: "Space Seed";
ENT: "Borderland") Records from this period are fragmented, but
what is known is that the wars' roots lie in a group of Human
scientists' ambitious attempt to improve the race through
selective breeding and genetic engineering. They created a race
of "supermen," popularly known as the Augments, who were
mentally and physically superior to ordinary men and women. They
were five times stronger than the average person, their lung
efficiency was 50 percent better than normal, and their
intelligence was double that of norma