Poll: Is Commander Shepard shooting blanks? (spoilers)

[Negatempest]

From replaying ME2 and remembering Miranda's issue with procreation, it made me wonder about Shepard. Considering he "is" repaired...does that mean it saved his swimmers as well or are they dead?

Personally, without an Asari, I doubt Shepard can get anyone pregnant. I believe his future generation/decedents could not be saved.

Edit: Yes, it's obvious he is not a clone, but I am too tired to make proper corrections...meh...

lol.

Edit 2: How about I put it like this, can Commander Shepard procreate after his emergency repair/surgery?

 

[Dimitriov]

If they brought him back I would assume they brought everything back. If they could reconstruct his brain so he retained memories and personality why couldn't they get his testes working again?

 

[Lord Devius]

What? Duplicate? He's the same him, his body was recovered and revived. Where you asleep through the whole intro?

First-reply /thread.

GOOD JOB.

...Yeah. No. No duplication. That intro was pretty blatant about Lazarus being revival, not cloning.

 

[Furioso]

He would be but he isn't a clone, hes a zombie (at least how I saw it, once you've been dead and come back, your undead in my book)

 

[The Lugz]

If they brought him back I would assume they brought everything back. If they could reconstruct his brain so he retained memories and personality why couldn't they get his testes working again?

better question: why WOULD you spend more money making his testes work again think about it as a potential 'employer'

 

[Bara_no_Hime]

A man produces new sperm every day. Assuming his balls still work, they should churn out new, fresh sperm to deal with his needs.

Also, Miranda's issues aren't the same as Shep's. Her Dad designed her genetically - generally, when creating a genetic experiment, you make it sterile to prevent accidentally letting a bad genetic code into the population. I assume that's what happened with her - intentional alteration rather than accidental.

 

[Dimitriov]

If they brought him back I would assume they brought everything back. If they could reconstruct his brain so he retained memories and personality why couldn't they get his testes working again?

better question: why WOULD you spend more money making his testes work again think about it as a potential 'employer'

Professional pride, and common courtesy D:

If I was spending billions of credits to bring a man back to life I wouldn't skimp on the important stuff. Especially since he was brought back as a symbol for humanity as much as anything.

 

[Ruedyn]

By that logic he doesn't have any brain cells either. I do hope that he isn't just to see the murderous spawn he'd make with Tali.

 

[Lyri]

From replaying ME2 and remembering Miranda's issue with procreation, it made me wonder about Shepard. Considering he "is" created as an exact duplicate of himself...does that mean it saved his swimmers as well or are they dead?

Personally, without an Asari, I doubt Shepard can get anyone pregnant. I believe his future generation/decedents could not be saved.

He isn't created though, he's to a clone he's the exact same guy just "fixed".

 

[Ticonderoga77]

Shepard can't shoot blanks if she's a woman.

But if she is a he in your playthrough he still wouldn't technically be shooting blanks. If an individual's DNA remains undamaged then the information required to create new sperm would remain unaltered. So if the viability of his 'swimmers' were fine before, then it would be fine now.

However the ones he possessed during his death are toast. It still doesn't stop him from making more.

 

[Flailing Escapist]

[sub]AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!![/sub]

You know, I never thought about that before. But I'm pretty sure the Commander Shepard you are in Mass Effect 2 is the same being you are in Mass Effect 2. Try reading the Mass Effect: Redemption comics. They recover Shepard's actual body, or what's left of it.
[sub]DUMBASS! THE TITLE WAS PRETTY FUNNY THO.[/sub]

Really, watch the beginning again. I'm sure that Shepard's swimmers could be unusable by several other reasons. Like being dead for 2 years but his body would probably start making more once he came back to life.
[sub]UNLESS HE'S A WOMAN!!![/sub]

 

[Negatempest]

Now to my own knowledge sperm is, this includes making many of them, a complex little thing. Repairing the human body from scratch is one thing, but to make sure that creating sperm that are both healthy and functional is a completely different matter. Heck we have problems nowadays with sperm just working normal.

 

[Laser Priest]

What? Duplicate? He's the same him, his body was recovered and revived. Where you asleep through the whole intro?

The first reply answered the thread already.

Someone wanna derail the thread?

 

[thedoclc]

There really should be mandatory education in basic biology.

Also, Shepard's gender is not established.

A clone, having the same genetic structure as the original, would also have cells which differentiated into the progenitors of reproductive cells should the original have had them. In other words, if the original was developmentally normal, the clone would be as well. This does not apply to Shepard.

If the Lazarus project worked as advertised, Shepard's reproductive status would be the same as his -or- her status before the Lazarus project was used. The Lazarus project was a bit of applied nonsense, sure, not that it really matters.

Sperm, for those who need this information, are derived from cell lines which are designed to continue dividing and producing sperm indefinitely. Adult males make sperm unto death. Eggs are set before birth, and only a very small number of the cells that -could- potentially be released are released before menopause. A typical woman only lets about 400 oocytes ("egg cells") actually mature enough that a sperm could fertilize it in their entire lifetime.

Basically, Shepard's reproductive status is whatever Bioware decides is more dramatically appropriate.

/silly questions

 

[Canid117]

If they brought him back I would assume they brought everything back. If they could reconstruct his brain so he retained memories and personality why couldn't they get his testes working again?

better question: why WOULD you spend more money making his testes work again think about it as a potential 'employer'

So that baby Shepards can save the galaxy from baby Reapers in the apocalypse of adorability.

 

[Jamash]

I wouldn't be surprised if they tampered with Shepard's swimmers when they repaired him, so that the potential offspring of him and one of his crew would be something that they desire and could control, like a Human-Asari-Reaper hybrid with a genetic leash/kill switch controlled by Cerebus.

 

[LordLundar]

If you pay attention, Miranda points out that the Illusive Man wanted Shepard completely restored with no modifications. To quote Miranda "you are the same as you always were. You just have a few extra pieces."

 

[The Great JT]

It's funny, every time I see that scene, I make a joke about that...

But really, no, I don't think that's what's going on.

 

[A-D.]

If you pay attention, Miranda points out that the Illusive Man wanted Shepard completely restored with no modifications. To quote Miranda "you are the same as you always were. You just have a few extra pieces."

He's got Quads now! You know, Krogan Style. Also another Wang, just for the sake of it. Seriously, when you think about the line itself "just a few extra pieces". How many are a few? And where are they? and what are they?

Thats totally left open.

But to the Topic, well not like it matters. I doubt there would ever be actual procreation of any kind within the Games themselves. Yes you can have "Sex" in that sense, but thats it. You arent Daddy/Mommy just cause you went for Liara in ME1.