What is THE Worst continuity error in Trek history..?!

[The Wormhole]

All you've made clear is that you don't like Alexander's rapid aging. Fine, you don't have to. But it isn't an error.

 

[Richard Baker]

DS-9 showed us a Jem'Hadar that aged remarkably fast so it can happen in the Star Trek universe. IIRC nobody said "like how Klingons age so quickly", but then again there is a lot about the Klingon race which is not shared by outsiders- from cranial ridges coming and going to having duplicate organs.

I can see how a race of beings who live in a hostile culture would want their young to grow up and be capable of combat as early as possible, natural selection would shift things that way over the years...

 

[JonnyQuest037]

I feel like that if Klingons aged faster than humans, we would have heard something about it by now.

And I don't really see how Klingons aging faster than normal would work along with them having a longer lifespan than humans, anyway.

 

[B.J.]

I don't really see a problem with Klingons aging faster than humans. Compared to other species from our own planet, we age very slowly.

 

[The Mighty Monkey of Mim]

I don't really see how Klingons aging faster than normal would work along with them having a longer lifespan than humans, anyway.

The rate needn't remain constant throughout their lives. They could develop faster than humans in their first decade and then age slower than humans thereafter.

 

[Shawnster]

That's how dogs age. The 7 years to 1 human is a myth. It's not a constant, consistent ratio, nor is it the same ratio for all dog breeds.

 

[The Wormhole]

I feel like that if Klingons aged faster than humans, we would have heard something about it by now.

And I don't really see how Klingons aging faster than normal would work along with them having a longer lifespan than humans, anyway.

They're aliens. The point is they aren't like humans at all.

 

[BillJ]

They're aliens. The point is they aren't like humans at all.

Except Klingons and Humans can mate. Which means, on some fundamental level, they are alike.

 

[The Wormhole]

Yeah, but in Star Trek a human can mate with anything.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Of course any alien couple can have sex, but actual procreation is another matter. Was there any indication that Tom and B'Elanna needed assistance (genetically speaking) to actually conceive a child?

 

[stardream]

Of course any alien couple can have sex, but actual procreation is another matter. Was there any indication that Tom and B'Elanna needed assistance (genetically speaking) to actually conceive a child?

No. They were however surprised when B'Elanna became pregnant because the the chances against it were so high.

 

[The Wormhole]

We know that it's near impossible for Klingons and Trill to mate, in fact Dr. Bashir was preparing a series of treatments to allow Jadzia to carry a Klingon child. The fact that he was making progress was enough to make Jadzia a believer in the Prophets.

And the thing is, Trills are basically just humans with spots on their neck and a pouch in their bellies for a symbiotic slug.

 

[The_Baroness]

We can feel all sorts of things without very much conscious awareness of them. We experience things on different levels of consciousness. We push all sorts of feelings and memories, etc ., onto a lower, less conscious level, especially if we don't consider it right or acceptable to feel these things, because it goes against one's religion, say, or because one is a Vulcan.
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People become alienated from their own feelings all the time. It's just a basic part of sentience, to some extent or another.

Absolutley.

For example, ever since my marriage ended I suffer with depression. The only way I can get through each day is by trying to repress the feelings I associate with that part of my life.

For the most part, it works. I can get by but if i drop my guard it's overwhelming and I literally can't function.

Vulcans are more adept at it than me, but the feelings will be very much there.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

We know that it's near impossible for Klingons and Trill to mate, in fact Dr. Bashir was preparing a series of treatments to allow Jadzia to carry a Klingon child.

Also I believe Samantha Wildman and her Ktarian husband were also receiving similar treatments. IIRC, Sam was surprised that it worked.

 

[fireproof78]

They're aliens. The point is they aren't like humans at all.

Which is funny give the episode "The Chase."

 

[The_Baroness]

And they'll be thankful for it. You need to see the visuals in a TV show, audio alone won't cut it, unlike the radio serials where they compensated by being more descriptive. Example: Superman saying "Up...Up...and Away!" To let the audience know he was flying off.

Back in the 90's I had a TV in my room that only had a tinny mono speaker, but I plugged a cassette recorder into the headphone socket and recorded the audio for an episode of voyager, then played it back through my stereo while watching the repeat on sky one later that day so I could try to enjoy decent sound...

...it did not succeed..

 

[velour]

I feel like that if Klingons aged faster than humans, we would have heard something about it by now.

And I don't really see how Klingons aging faster than normal would work along with them having a longer lifespan than humans, anyway.

Kang, Koloth, and Kor looked like they may have already been the equivalent of middle aged men when they first appeared in TOS.

Those three Klingons showed up again in DS9. This time all of them had ridges. Also, each one of them must have been well over 100 years old by then. However fast or slow Klingons age, the fact was that 100 or so years had passed since their days in TOS.

They may have been retired, but they were still very agile and combat capable. They didn't act like decrepit old men, like McCoy was when he appeared in TNG.

 

[Tracy Trek]

They may have been retired, but they were still very agile and combat capable. They didn't act like decrepit old men, like McCoy was when he appeared in TNG.

It seems like a lot of the races in Star Trek age slower than humans.

Don't some of the novels have Uhura, Chekov, and Sulu still alive during the TNG/DS9/Voyager era?

 

[Phoenix219]

It seems like a lot of the races in Star Trek age slower than humans.

Don't some of the novels have Uhura, Chekov, and Sulu still alive during the TNG/DS9/Voyager era?

GODS AND MEN!! RENEGADES!!!!

 

[JonnyQuest037]

Kang, Koloth, and Kor looked like they may have already been the equivalent of middle aged men when they first appeared in TOS.

Those three Klingons showed up again in DS9. This time all of them had ridges. Also, each one of them must have been well over 100 years old by then. However fast or slow Klingons age, the fact was that 100 or so years had passed since their days in TOS.

They may have been retired, but they were still very agile and combat capable. They didn't act like decrepit old men, like McCoy was when he appeared in TNG.

...And what exactly does any of this have to do with Klingons aging faster than humans, which is what I was talking about?