Good evening.
In "Distant Voices", why does Julian muse about his turning thirty years old representing a slow descent? Putting aside his true nature, medical advancements during the centuries between DS9 and the then-present must have been massive (and that's only on the human side...imagine the breakthroughs introduced by allied aliens); even without genetic engineering, humans ought to live longer than folk from the late twentieth century and so "forty" or "fifty" might become the new "thirty". Was this realization meant to be relatability between a character and the audience and nothing more? Was Julian trying to "fit in" by pretending to be something closer to "normal"? Did the writers not predict or think that medicine (and nutrition, too, for that matter) would advance by leaps and bounds?
In "Distant Voices", why does Julian muse about his turning thirty years old representing a slow descent? Putting aside his true nature, medical advancements during the centuries between DS9 and the then-present must have been massive (and that's only on the human side...imagine the breakthroughs introduced by allied aliens); even without genetic engineering, humans ought to live longer than folk from the late twentieth century and so "forty" or "fifty" might become the new "thirty". Was this realization meant to be relatability between a character and the audience and nothing more? Was Julian trying to "fit in" by pretending to be something closer to "normal"? Did the writers not predict or think that medicine (and nutrition, too, for that matter) would advance by leaps and bounds?
