Clone A clone is an organism that is genetically identical to its ancestor . Clones could be produced via asexual reproduction , or through technology . Though usually an exact duplicate , some clones were modified to differ from their ancestor . There were also natural ways to create a clone . The Lyssarian Desert Larvae for example , when injected with DNA from another organism , was transformed into a mimetic simbiot which was identical to the original donor and also carried his memories . In 2153 , Charles Tucker III had one such clone , Sim . ( ) The Dominion were experts in cloning , which they used to create successive copies of individual Vorta . As of 2375 , Weyoun had been cloned seven times . ( ) The Vorta cloning process was described by Weyoun 7 as a very delicate one . Once in a while , a clone could turn out " defective " , resulting in untypical behavior , like treachery . ( ) In 2155 , the xenophobic Terra Prime group created a binary clone of T ' Pol and Charles Tucker III , deliberately inserting genetic flaws in an attempt to " prove " that Humans and aliens should not associate . She was named Elizabeth , but she died in her infancy due to flaws in the cloning process . ( ) The Mariposa colony was inhabited entirely by clones of the five original settlers . Since the colonists knew that two women and three men could not sustain a society , they looked to science to survive and turned to cloning . Future generations later referred to them as the " progenitors " . However , by the 24th century the colony ' s survival was threatened by their limited genetic diversity because of a phenomenon known as replicative fading . In 2365 , the introduced new genetic material to Mariposa in the form of the colonists of Bringloid V . ( ) In 2269 , Stavos Keniclius 5 , himself a clone , created a giant clone of Spock called Spock Two on Phylos . Spock Two was several times bigger than the original Spock . Keniclius intended to create a master race of peacekeepers based on Spock ' s genetic template , but abandoned the idea when he learned that peace keeping was not necessary in the Federation . ( ) By the 24th century the aspect of cloning seemed repulsive to some Human s , considered to eliminate the aspect of one ' s uniqueness and specialty . When offered the chance to be cloned , William T . Riker claimed that a hundred or a thousand of Rikers would diminish that status . ( ) Circa 2364 , the Romulan s created a clone of Jean - Luc Picard , named Shinzon , as part of a plan to infiltrate the Federation . Shinzon ' s RNA incorporated temporal RNA , so that his growth could be accelerated , but they were never activated . The plan was abandoned when the government changed . Much later , Shinzon would become Praetor of the Romulan Star Empire and plan an invasion of the Federation . ( ) In 2369 , Ibudan created a clone of himself and killed it in order to implicate Odo . However , his plan was discovered and he was arrested for murder , as under Bajoran law killing one ' s own clone is an equal crime to other forms of homicide . In the meantime , a second clone of Ibudan was created in Bashir ' s infirmary and went on to make a new life for itself . ( ) The Kobliad Security officer Ty Kajada ruled out the possibility that Rao Vantika was a clone after she studied the DNA reference scan analysis . ( ) In 2376 , at the First Annual " Voyager " Science Fair brothers Azan and Rebi presented cloned potato es . They originally had the idea to clone Naomi Wildman but Seven of Nine suggested that they try and clone something smaller . ( )