Flint.. what did he do with his remaining life?

[ItsGreen]

McCoy "Oh, those tricorder readings on Mister Flint are finally correlated: He's dying. You see, Flint, in leaving Earth with all of its complex fields within which he was formed, sacrificed immortality. He'll live the remainder of a normal life span, then die." ...."He intends to devote the remainder of his years and great abilities to the improvement of the human condition. And who knows what he might come up with."

So what do you think he came up with? Do you think he moved back to Earth? or stayed in the Omega system? What did he do to improve the "human" condition? What about the other Federation species? What problems did humans have on or around stardate 5843.7? (except for the Rigelian fever of course) that he could have helped with?

 

[Ronald Held]

I believe, like the novelverse, that he fooled McCoy's tricorder. Shortly after, he became someone else.

 

[Methuselah Flint]

There are several novels out there, and the inference is that he probably faked those readings, since he appears to be the same physical condition well into TNG times.

Regarding what he did post-Methuselah... I always thought, similar to the novels, he would have remained on his planet, perhaps looking at cybernetics and its relationship to the human body, much like Data's human brother was seen to be doing at the end of Picard. Of course, he appears to be a lot more mentally and physically superior than the average human (the former probably partly due to acquiring much knowledge over the centuries. Although, of course, he fails to recognise that Rayna saw him as a father figure, rather than the love interest Kirk had. Which is strange, not only in that he has had countless relationships up to this point, but also considering the role he claimed he was (that of guardian) when he first introduces Rayna to our heroes). This suggests he may have indeed had a lot more advances than he let on, and perhaps the advances even in the TNG era, may not have even equalled his own. His recluse status, suggests he may have even simply invented/tinkered for his own self-serving hobbies at this point in his life, and indeed many more secrets may have gathered dust in his lab over the centuries. There's certainly no indication he intended to suddenly leave the planet.

Then again, he is very sceptical of our heroes, so it's possible he may well have re-located and/or changed identities yet again in fear of his secret slipping out.

Did Kirk and co instill in him a longing to return to the galaxy? I don't think so. But their encounter may have well made him question himself and his decisions, and out of fear he may have moved on.

Interestingly, for a man of agelessness, the episode does not really urge us to sympathise with him at all.

 

[wayoung]

Probably went back to banging sexbots until he died.

 

[F. King Daniel]

He discovered grunge music.

 

[Nerys Myk]

1. He began exchanging emails with Zephram Cochrane and they came up with transwarp
2. He revived a previous false identity and began calling himself "Dr. Soong".

 

[BillJ]

Masturbated. A lot.

 

[Replica Picard]

I don't know, but it would be neat if he did fake his aging, and we got to see him again on Discovery in the 32nd century at some point.

 

[johnnybear]

I don't know, but it would be neat if he did fake his aging, and we got to see him again on Discovery in the 32nd century at some point.

So Flint could travel to other realities too? Or is that the DSC version of Flint? I've always wondered what would have happened to him if he'd have returned to earth. Would his body have stopped degenerating and his immortality been regained? But I think he had had enough of life and probably lived out the rest of his life on the planet Holberg 917-G!
JB

 

[Nerys Myk]

So Flint could travel to other realities too? Or is that the DSC version of Flint? I've always wondered what would have happened to him if he'd have returned to earth. Would his body have stopped degenerating and his immortality been regained? But I think he had had enough of life and probably lived out the rest of his life on the planet Holberg 917-G!
JB

DIsco is in the Prime reality so no dimension hopping is needed.

 

[Replica Picard]

So Flint could travel to other realities too? Or is that the DSC version of Flint? I've always wondered what would have happened to him if he'd have returned to earth. Would his body have stopped degenerating and his immortality been regained? But I think he had had enough of life and probably lived out the rest of his life on the planet Holberg 917-G!
JB

Okay, so first of all, I'll add the obligatory "DSC is Prime" comment. I don't really care, but someone is going to do it, so it may as well be me.

(Edit: Crud. Ninja'd by Nerys Myk.)

Second, though, I think the implication (if not outright statement) of the TOS episode is that he was the Roman soldier that Christ cursed to walk the earth until His return. So as long as we don't have "Star Trek: Revelation" I think he'll be okay.

 

[Forbin]

Probably went back to banging sexbots until he died.

Dammit, I was gonna say that.

 

[Ronald Held]

Why couldn't Flint become Soong's mentor in the early 24th Century?

 

[Timo]

Because Soong then probably could put together a decent android and wouldn't become the laughing stock of the scientific community?

...Okay, we still don't know exactly which segment of the scientific community threw rotten tomatoes at him for failing positronics. Probably Ira Graves, his actual (or at least self-declared) mentor, who worked in molecular cybernetics, was part of that. Graves also appeared to despise androids as a thing, but that may have been an act.

If Graves was Flint, though, it was quite the act, and if it wasn't his final one, all the more glory to him: he fooled 24th century doctors and had his body buried in space...

Timo Saloniemi

 

[Kor]

Flint spent the remainder of his life making a ton of money from "fake" Da Vinci and Reginald Pollack paintings.

Kor

 

[BillJ]

I don't know, but it would be neat if he did fake his aging, and we got to see him again on Discovery in the 32nd century at some point.

Please no, for the love of God. Allow Discovery to attempt to stand on its own.

 

[Timo]

What's the full list of people he was, in the novel continuity? Memory Beta has some of the dirt on him; no idea if that's complete. And there are no temporally overlapping personae there, so we don't have to believe in him being capable of wearing two faces as such. And perhaps Alexander the Great looked exactly like Leonardo anyway. Or like Pollack...

Him being both Pollack and Brack might force us to at least believe Pollack looked way different in the Trek reality, though. Or that Flint had received quality plastic surgery after having been Pollack.

(Do we have to assume that Leonardo looked like Rhys-Davies in the Trek universe, so that the holo-version is accurate, or was that just a best-guess simulation?)

Timo Saloniemi

 

[Relayer1]

Probably went back to banging sexbots until he died.

That's an impressive commitment right there.

And a novel cause of death on the paperwork.

 

[Nerys Myk]

That's an impressive commitment right there.

And a novel cause of death on the paperwork.

It's the future, there's a check box for it on the standard form.

 

[Ronald Held]

I do not think Graves was Flint. I think Flint lived into the late 24 century and beyond.