What are your controversial Star Trek opinions?

[knightgrace]

Well, Kess and company, would have to have I. Q.s ten times higher than a standard human, OR, they are organic Borg...

Which could be truly horrifying if done right.

Let's say Borg rejects...something that terrifies even them.

 

[TRON JA307020]

I thought picard should have gotten hair. He mentioned losing his hair a few times over the years. It seemed to bother him ever so slightly when he has mentioned it. So why not just use the cure thats most likely there and grow it back and have a cool hairstyle? If he didnt like the hair he could have gotten a reversal. I would like to have seen a whole episode devoted to it and how it changed the way others saw picard. Lol


P.S. Yes im aware Roddenberry said people wouldnt care about hair in the future.

 

[Rowdy Roddy McDowall]

I thought picard should have gotten hair. He mentioned losing his hair a few times over the years. It seemed to bother him ever so slightly when he has mentioned it. So why not just use the cure thats most likely there and grow it back and have a cool hairstyle? If he didnt like the hair he could have gotten a reversal. I would like to have seen a whole episode devoted to it and how it changed the way others saw picard. Lol


P.S. Yes im aware Roddenberry said people wouldnt care about hair in the future.

I can't say I do, at least since 1992. Sigourney Weaver's brief bout with baldness led me to a similar whim which led to a lifestyle choice. Thanks to Roddenberry, we got Jaris, Hengist, Ed Lauter and (brace yourself) Shatner as well as Jean-Luc.

 

[Macintosh]

I thought picard should have gotten hair. He mentioned losing his hair a few times over the years. It seemed to bother him ever so slightly when he has mentioned it.

Picard has only mentioned his baldness twice that I'm aware, and each time he made a humorous remark out of it ("you'll never look at your hairline again in the same way" to his suspected son Jason Vigo in TNG: "Bloodlines", and "enjoy it while you can" to his actual son Jack Crusher in PIC: "No Win Scenario", even though we know from TNG: "Violations" that Picard didn't lose his hair until his 50s).

 

[cooleddie74]

Tell that to the writers and prop department of NEM. But that movie missed the mark in many ways so that detail being botched isn't the dealbreaker for the film.

 

[Macintosh]

Tell that to the writers and prop department of NEM. But that movie missed the mark in many ways so that detail being botched isn't the dealbreaker for the film.

Thanks for reminding me Nemesis existed...

 

[TRON JA307020]

Picard has only mentioned his baldness twice that I'm aware, and each time he made a humorous remark out of it ("you'll never look at your hairline again in the same way" to his suspected son Jason Vigo in TNG: "Bloodlines", and "enjoy it while you can" to his actual son Jack Crusher in PIC: "No Win Scenario", even though we know from TNG: "Violations" that Picard didn't lose his hair until his 50s).

Yeah. Hes never talked about his baldness much. He did have a tingling of some kind of hair growth in star trek resurrections. But yup he hasnt mentioned it much. But when he has I always get the feeling he wish he had hair.

 

[Richard S. Ta]

I think if Picard wanted hair he’d get it. It’s not like the technology to do so doesn’t exist in TNG times. In fact the technology exists now.

JLP doesn’t give a fuck. He’s bald and he rocks it.

If he didnt like the hair he could have gotten a reversal.

Haircut is the word you’re looking for. ;-)

 

[Tallguy]

JLP doesn’t give a fuck. He’s bald and he rocks it.

Rascals says maybe otherwise.

Perhaps in the 24th century we have cured baldness but because "we don't care" it is considered unseemly to take advantage of it.

 

[Ceridwen]

The word "Croatoan" was carved on a big tree. As far as I know, their fate is still a mystery.

Croatoan was the name of a nearby island where the Croatan people lived. While it is still technically a mystery, as no one ever went and confirmed it (one ship tried, but bad waters prevented it), the reigning theory for over four hundred years is that the survivors of Roanoke went there.

 

[Farscape One]

Croatoan was the name of a nearby island where the Croatan people lived. While it is still technically a mystery, as no one ever went and confirmed it (one ship tried, but bad waters prevented it), the reigning theory for over four hundred years is that the survivors of Roanoke went there.

I've heard that theory. Still was never proven since no one went there to find out, so their fate still remains a mystery.

 

[Macintosh]

Rascals says maybe otherwise.

I just interpreted this as him suddenly being aware of his baldness after experiencing a full head of hair again. Not in a negative or positive way, just in a "oh, I had forgotten what that was like" way.

Perhaps in the 24th century we have cured baldness but because "we don't care" it is considered unseemly to take advantage of it.

He could just blame it on a transporter accident, negative space wedgie, or any other umpteen unusual anomalies that they encounter.

 

[Richard S. Ta]

It was a colony in the late 16th century, located in what is now North Carolina.

About 120 people were there, but they all disappeared. The word "Croatoan" was carved on a big tree. As far as I know, their fate is still a mystery.

Croatoan was the name of a nearby island where the Croatan people lived. While it is still technically a mystery, as no one ever went and confirmed it (one ship tried, but bad waters prevented it), the reigning theory for over four hundred years is that the survivors of Roanoke went there.

I've heard that theory. Still was never proven since no one went there to find out, so their fate still remains a mystery.

Apropos of nothing, thanks to both of you for this. It resulted in a 20 minute Wikipedia dive. I love learning stuff.

 

[Enterprise1701]

I've heard that theory. Still was never proven since no one went there to find out, so their fate still remains a mystery.

Watch yourself. You're being borderline racist.

 

[137th Gebirg]

Objectively wrong. And you’re not a mod either.

 

[Farscape One]

Watch yourself. You're being borderline racist.

What are you talking about?

 

[Newt]

Perhaps in the 24th century we have cured baldness but because "we don't care" it is considered unseemly to take advantage of it.

Believe me as someone who's started the path of patchy and thinning hair if we had a chance to cure it I would.
It's very disheartening realising your hair is on its way out. Yes there's treatments today that may or may not work or even make it worse, treatments that are very expensive in the long and short term.
It's really a gut punch.
So with that in mind I just have to accept it, buzz cut is the new norm and I own it. Also lots of hats haha

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

Believe me as someone who's started the path of patchy and thinning hair if we had a chance to cure it I would.
It's very disheartening realising your hair is on its way out. Yes there's treatments today that may or may not work or even make it worse, treatments that are very expensive in the long and short term.
It's really a gut punch.
So with that in mind I just have to accept it, buzz cut is the new norm and I own it. Also lots of hats haha

Keeps version of Finasteride and minoxidil are the only medications approved by the FDA for hair loss.
They're pretty cheap too for what it is.

If you notice the hair thinning, now is the time to start using it and prevent any more loss & keep what hair you have.

 

[knightgrace]

Why bother? Fifteen to twenty years ago my barber was complaining about how thick my hair was...

When I was twenty-four I noticed my first Grey hair... I went Grey first .

 

[Newt]

Keeps version of Finasteride and minoxidil are the only medications approved by the FDA for hair loss.
They're pretty cheap too for what it is.

If you notice the hair thinning, now is the time to start using it and prevent any more loss & keep what hair you have.

I researched it. Just didn’t like the idea of the possible side effects, some say hair loss gets worse before it gets better, no guarantee it will work at all for you. Plus these treatments are not cheap here in the uk, and I’ve read even if it does work for you and you stop using them the hair loss returns.
Certainly not going to look into the hair plugs route ..
So I’ve accepted it, purchased hair clippers and owned my new look.

If there was a true miracle cure, no side effects and no financial dependent treatment I’ll go for it lol.
But that’s life, embrace it. If anyone takes the piss I just say Sir Patrick Stewart was considered a sexy man by many and he’s balder than I.