Burning Questions #1: The Vorta ~ Can they procreate?

[Kyan Mackenzie]

So, as we all know, the Vorta are cloned. When one is killed, their consciousness is transferred into a new clone body. There is a limited number of them... yadda yadda. We KNOW this.

What we don't know, and what I want NEED to know is this. There are female Vorta and male Vorta. SO... can they procreate themselves? What are your thoughts?

[Ian Galloway]

Sounds like time for the classic Dylan reply. "Whatever is dramatically appropriate."

We do know that Vorta do not have aesthetic comprehension of art and do not have the ability to taste anything but kava nuts and rippleberries as the Founders didn't think these traits served a purpose for the Vorta. My personal opinion is, I highly doubt they'd want the Vorta to be able to reproduce on their own as a family and children are powerful incentives to disobey even a God.

However, we do know that it is possible for a Jem'Hadar to be born without the need for the White and that occasionally a Vorta is born with a conscious, it stands to reason, that there could be Vorta capable of reproducing on their own.

[Orum N'Jeer]

I would speculate that that trait was not included in their genetic manipulation. Given that they have no appreciation for aesthetics, my creative money would be on them not having any notion of love or lust, either from a procreative or purely recreative angle, and anyone who did would be treated as an aberration.

Like Ian said though, not saying their couldn't be. Heck, maybe some rogue scientist even altered the code for a male & female just to see what would happen. It'd make for an interesting story, to be sure.

[Don Damien Addams]

I don't think they can produce cause that allow them lean away from the gods.