re: #381 Throbert McGee

But that was just Picard — one of the other humans on board de-evolved into a spider sort of thing (which suggests that the writers had a Creationist-like misunderstanding of evolution — even allowing for the obvious fact that one doesn’t expect the “science” on Star Trek to make sense).

Ah yes, that was Lt. Barclay. Perhaps the implication is that Barclay wasn’t actually human. After all, he was a consummate nerd, as I recall.