Yes, that would be it, wouldn't it. Julian tilts his head in acknowledgement--Africa hadn't been part of his domain, but Iran surely had. He recalls that, of course.

"Curiosity, mainly. Genetic augmentation is banned by Earth law, and I began researching to find out exactly why that was. We were told in school, about the Eugenics Wars--not much, mind, but enough to put a seed there. I continued reading on my own up until I went to the Academy and Starfleet Medical." A grain of truth, without exactly going into the deeper whys. He could even say that gene therapy was something of a specialty of his, but that would be giving a bit much away, he thought.