And let's not forget, McCoy in "The Alternative Factor" did call himself a "young" doctor with a skilled touch. 39 or 40 is still pretty young for a physician.
What is your personal head canon?
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At the end of the episode they mentioned diverting a freighter and that Sherman's planet would get their grain just a few weeks late.
Or possibly a Lapeerian (hybrid?). The ears kinda match.
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I rather like the FASA Star Trek the Next Generation Officers Manual...
But for it to make sense you need first edition FASA Star Trek the Role Playing Game materials in order to understand where the later materials are coming from.
For example; a warp drive according to the FASA Starship Construction Manual First Edition, the authors there of, maintained that a warp drive can maintain maximum safe cruising speed for ten days...two hundred and forty hours... problem: most high performance engines can operate for thousands of hours. Modern car engines can go for a 100,000 miles before needing a tune-up.
But back in the 1970s? It was still longer than an oil change.
But for it to make sense you need first edition FASA Star Trek the Role Playing Game materials in order to understand where the later materials are coming from.
For example; a warp drive according to the FASA Starship Construction Manual First Edition, the authors there of, maintained that a warp drive can maintain maximum safe cruising speed for ten days...two hundred and forty hours... problem: most high performance engines can operate for thousands of hours. Modern car engines can go for a 100,000 miles before needing a tune-up.
But back in the 1970s? It was still longer than an oil change.
There is a very narrow range of ages that would get that reference. And I'm one of 'em!
Although, it's not uncommon for anyone in their forties to wishfully describe themselves as "young."
Learn to grow, Sherman!
With more and more people making it to their 80s or even beyond I hope more people do consider their forties to be pretty young. Everything's relative but 40 isn't even approaching "freshness date rapidly approaching" to a lot of people in the modern world.
Where's Jack Benny when they needed him?
And Strange New Worlds has cast 56 year old Thomas Jane as Leonard McCoy.
Hopefully the makeup will help, but yeah, McCoy isn't even 40 when he begins serving aboard the Enterprise.
Nah. He was 46, the same as DeForest Kelley.
[*Places hand on chin and mouth and smirks at thread*]
Follows the SNW casting trend that they cast now 43 year old Paul Wesley as ~28 year old Jim Kirk.And Strange New Worlds has cast 56 year old Thomas Jane as Leonard McCoy.
I don't do that. I've called myself old for 30 years and just turned 41.
I wouldn't mind being 40 again.
If I could still be retired.
I never want to be reincarnated into junior high again. (Even if I provoked negative behavior by verbally reciting all the TOS episodes in James Blish publishing order....or bringing in that Lawrence Welk polka record. At least the teacher liked it.)
I’m not one of those people who insists on everything being connected to everything else — but after rewatching “Metamorphosis” (TOS), I could see the Companion being of the same species as the entity in “Lonely Among Us” (TNG).
(And I’ll try not to think about how the translator reads the brainwaves of something without physical neurons, nor touch the apparent and silly conceit that gender is a universal constant, let alone one detectable via said brainless brainwaves.)
EDIT: …and that’s what happens when I post before finishing the episode; I’d forgotten that the Companion can’t exist for more than a short time off its home planetoid, unlike the “Lonely Among Us” being who wants to go exploring. Uh, never mind, he said sheepishly.
(And I’ll try not to think about how the translator reads the brainwaves of something without physical neurons, nor touch the apparent and silly conceit that gender is a universal constant, let alone one detectable via said brainless brainwaves.)
EDIT: …and that’s what happens when I post before finishing the episode; I’d forgotten that the Companion can’t exist for more than a short time off its home planetoid, unlike the “Lonely Among Us” being who wants to go exploring. Uh, never mind, he said sheepishly.
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FredH, Metamorphosis is one of my TOS favorites.
I always liked it growing up, but in retrospect the science and gender assumptions it makes are just plain weird in 2025/6. But I have no problem retrospectively seeing Cochrane as a rejuvenated James Cromwell.
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