Additionally, while the franchise rarely emphasizes the possibility, Star Trek is a universe where countless people can undergo the wildest body modifications whenever they want.
Think about it: in a world where characters like Captain Sisko can be made to look like a Klingon warrior (seen in the Deep Space Nine episode “Apocalypse Rising”), the kinds of basic plastic surgery common in our world would be more attainable than ever.
This gives Federation citizens infinite options to explore the bodies they want to have, but anyone on the ship in Star Trek: Insurrection could, under this interpretation, revert to a version of themselves they might utterly hate.
