An Alternative Reading of TMP

[YARN]

Kirk still got fat and old! Case Debunked! LOL

He had to get older for the illusion to be semi-plausible. Captain Kirk always had a weight problem (recall the salad diet he was put on in Corbomite Maneuver). Getting heavier and older is all just part of the fantasy. These are issues he's worried about struggled with. He's vain. He never wanted to lose his looks or grow old. TWoK through UDC, again, amounts to Kirk working through these psychological issues.

And notice, even as he gets old and fat he still has his "mojo" at least until Episode V. I submit that the only way Kirk has his mojo in the "Search for God" is if his reality is already some sort of massive illusion.

 

[xortex]

We got old and fat too, only he got rich and famous as well.

 

[xortex]

It's starting to make sense to me that Decker and Ilia were the Talosians choice for Adam and Eve and that the Nexus was Decker's evil alter ego child's connection to an alternate reality where the Borg are.