What is the reference for no math in the 21st century? Could it just be protective camouflage?
Pelia and Akharin
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In the Time Travel ep, she wasn't educated in engineering back then like she was in the future.
Though that is plenty of time to pick up a new hobby/career.
Hard to believe over ~~3 millenia, she did not have a wide range of knowledge of arts and sciences. Maybe not cutting edge engineering?
Maybe we can merge the "Highlander" universe into Star Trek!
Why exactly would she? Long life doesn't equal intellectual curiosity.
It's unlikely that Pelia and Flint have met. Even Earth is a big place, and as both of them have extensive experience in concealing their identities, they probably wouldn't recognize each other anyway.
And no, I don't think Flint is a Lanthanite like Pelia. He doesn't have the accent.
And no, I don't think Flint is a Lanthanite like Pelia. He doesn't have the accent.
It took him centuries and lots of gold to get rid of itAnd no, I don't think Flint is a Lanthanite like Pelia. He doesn't have the accent.
Maybe it didn't interest her.
I would imagine her interest in things would wax and wain over time. Might be really into living the urban life for a while. Then spend two centuries as a hermit. Get into painting but later become an inn keeper.
I imagine that immortality in the Trekverse takes many forms.
My recollection is Pelia's people are native to Earth. I think Guinan is the only El-Aurian on Earth. so not a race, just an individual.
Pelia's group of Lanthanites choose to live on Earth. But they aren't native to Earth.
It does help that the Lanthanite species blends in perfectly with Humans.
Lanthanites Physiology were almost indistinguishable from Humans.
Also, her species life-span is VERY LONG.
In 2022, Pelia claimed that she hadn't taken a math class "since Pythagoras made the crap up".
Assuming she isn't lying, her species can EASILY live in the 4-digit (#,###) amount of years with no problem.
Hell we don't know if her species can live onto 5-digits or beyond, the range of how old she can be is pretty insane.
Picard and others in Trek keep saying that "records of the late 20th/early 21st century are fragmented" (or something along those lines. Picard says it as recently as Season 2 of Picard. Spock says something along those lines as far back as Space Seed.
Why does no one just ask Pelia about life in those times?
Maybe her recollections are part of the "fragments". She could only share what she experienced first hand or read about. She wouldn't know much else.
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How many people know about Pelia?
Obviously, IRL she was a newly created character.
But even within StarFleet, only so many people would know about her.
But the Historians would ask her opinion on things, but she only provides a single view point into a time frame.
She obviously isn't "All Knowing". She might have a few trinkets / souveniers from that era, but at best, she's more of a PoV person as a single source.
Hardly definitive evidence of the general prevailing trends of that time.
And given what she did in the past and wasn't technically proficient until fairly recently by Human Time Frame standards, there is only so much you can gleam from her past.
She would however be great as a "Time Travel Guide" should she live into the 26th century & beyond.
She would have the ability to talk about where to go if she traveled back to where she lived in the past and went in under cover.
Pelia's basically a kid compared to 50,000 plus year old Bele of 'Let that be your last battlefield'
