Hey, well if it's in Star Trek, it must be possible, right? A lot of (very smart) people who don't properly understand the nature of quantum entanglement seem to think it allows some kind of loophole to break the lightspeed barrier (it doesn't).
People seem to readily admit they don't understand relativity, though - I just don't get why people think the finer points of evolution should be any easier to fully grasp. Both are pretty abstract concepts and take years, even decades, to properly understand.