de-evolution fails at everything

[megotelek]

So, I was reading the TWoP recap of last week's episode of Eureka, "What About Bob?", and got to this jewel of a paragraph (um, spoilers?):

Stark pipes up from the monitor behind them that no disease could alter Bob's DNA like this. He has a theory of what could, though: "evolution in reverse." "Explain," Eva orders. Ooh, I hope it's like that episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation when Dr. Crusher totally screwed the entire crew over (yet again) by accidentally infecting them with a disease that made them devolve and Troi turned into a fish and Barclay turned into a spider, for some reason. Since when did humans evolve from spiders? Riker was human, and he turned into a caveman. Picard was about to turn into a lemur. Those make sense. But the spider? Weird. Anyway, even with the product placement, Eureka doesn't have the budget Star Trek: The Next Generation did, so we won't see any elaborate devolutions.

Which is TOTALLY what I was thinking during Stark's entire "de-evolution" speech. Well, except mine was more like: "Oh GOD, it's like that awful episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation where Barclay de-evolved into a spider because all their DNA got turned on at once. Like that would EVER happen." And then I may have banged my head against the coffee table. Repeatedly.