It's a style choice - Picard and Sisko aren't really bald, they just shave their heads to resemble their idol, the great Captain Robau.
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Male pattern baldness in the Trek Era?
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The great Mr. Shishkabob.
Reasons? Well it's surgery, there's anesthesia involved, there's usually a scar involve where you really don't want any, they don't alway turn out right, they sometime feel unnaturally hard, there's a minor social stigma to having "fake ones," not all men think bigger is better.
Riker got a little "stout" and so did Troi (in TATV), now surely this would also be something that future medicine or future nutrition could fix?
Don't forget poor Scotty. And since the in-universe time between movies II, III, IV and V was weeks not the years we waited IRL, he got big at warp factor 9.
The great Mr. Shishkabob.
He became pretty much became a kabob.
I'd say either it was glandular....or he simply went and let himself go. I seen people pack on weight in weeks. Plus look at the difference between Mr. Cochraine in TOS and First Contact. I always felt the radiation and maybe chemical weapons from the war done some sorta mutation or maybe radiation sickness....maybe gigantism....which might also explain why he went to the bottle....since liquer is decent pain killer, and probably since it was the easiest to aquire/make as well.
Well, maybe that some don't CARE to have a full one. I know many girls...which include genetic females and male to female transexxuals....what are either small on top, or as flat as a board....and are perfectly fine and happy as they are. When I make picures of my charcters, I often make the feminine ones with smaller chests, anyhow.
Ah. Mh.He became pretty much became a kabob.The great Mr. Shishkabob.
It was those Klingon food packs that game him a "sour stomache".
This is probably going to veer us off topic, and that's not my intention, but are there really only weeks between those four films?
TSFS is probably accurately said to be set weeks after TWOK. They've had time to reassign the trainee crew and be close to getting back to Earth, but not enough time to do significant repairs to the ship.
At the beginning of TVH, however, Kirk clearly says that they're "in the third month" of their Vulcan "exile". So that means somewhere between 2-3 months, not just weeks, has passed.
And, as I recall, no definite time frame is given between TVH and TFF. While the Enterprise is still considered new, and Scotty is working out the bugs, which would imply not a large amount of time has passed, they've had time to swap out the bridge module with a new one. And we might assume that a shakedown cruise of some sort had also been completed to identify the flaws. I don't think it would be unreasonable to say that at least a couple of months had passed between the two films.
Given those assumptions, you could easily have 6-8 months or more of "in universe time" encompassed in those four films, and that's certainly plenty of time for someone to pack on some serious weight.
Ilia was a rarity for a woman. Even more gorgeous without hair than with...
Ilia was creepy.
YOU try being attractive when you're possessed by a machine intent on destroying life.
Hey it worked for the Borg Queen! Bald, part machine, intent on assimilation.
Huh? Meat on a stick? What does that even mean?
Reasons? Well it's surgery, there's anesthesia involved, there's usually a scar involve where you really don't want any, they don't alway turn out right, they sometime feel unnaturally hard, there's a minor social stigma to having "fake ones," not all men think bigger is better.
Riker got a little "stout" and so did Troi (in TATV), now surely this would also be something that future medicine or future nutrition could fix?
Oh I know. I was being facetious. I was pointing out the similarity between baldness in the 24th century and bosoms and noses in the 21st. Just because it's POSSIBLE to change the body doesn't mean everyone will of course opt to do so (for many reasons).
It's those who claim that if baldness is correctable in the 24th century, why of course everyone would go for it, that there'd be no accounting for bald men.
That's like assuming today that of course boobs and noses and whatnot can be "fixed", so why wouldn't everyone have suitably altered bodies?
Why indeed!
For women.
I recall that Kirk had to wear old-fashioned eyeglasses because he was allergic to whatever they use in the future to adjust one's vision.
So, it's possible that some men, for various reasons, cannot partake of whatever hair maintenance or restoration procedures are available.
Still, I'd support the view that some choose "to baldly go."
So, it's possible that some men, for various reasons, cannot partake of whatever hair maintenance or restoration procedures are available.
Still, I'd support the view that some choose "to baldly go."
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Well, I always had a thing for girls with bald heads, or at least a super short buzz cut or crop cut.
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