Question, something I can't seem to find general consensus in regards to: regardless of cloning being common and accepted practice in the 25th century or not; are clones in the station supposed to know they've been cloned?
If not, who's supposed to know the truth about it (I assume geneticists and heads, and maybe the rest of the medical staff)?
If cloning was meant to be a hidden practice, you'd think NT would take better precautions and move genetics to a more secluded place. Also, there's such a limited time frame available to bring a fresh clone out of genetics that they may wake up while being carried away and suspect what happened to them, even as incredibly confused as a newborn clone may be.
Or perhaps it's meant to be a secret hidden in plain sight; the average Joe may not even know what those machines in genetics are for, or be told that the cloning pod is for experiments on humanized monkeys.
There wouldn't be a problem with secrecy with the implanted heads of staff, and NT would hire as geneticists only people willing to keep it a secret, whether they find it ethical or not.
Then again, imagine a (non-implanted) geneticist not willing anymore to keep silent, maybe because they got cloned themselves and found out they're not able to accept it as they thought they would; plot for a Revolution round writing itself.
So, cloning in the 25th century: more like
The 6th Day or more like
Moon? <-- If you haven't watched it, don't spoil it further for yourself and watch it now. Seriously.