Keiko's age???

[USS Fardell]

In 'Dax' Keiko is on Earth for her mother's 100th birthday.

So... how old is Keiko in 2369?

 

[Melakon]

Her birth year is mentioned here I think, but if not, it's never been canonically established.

http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Keiko_O'Brien

 

[Mark_Nguyen]

I wonder if they'd consciously thought of that. Anyway, it's the future - so they'll probably have figured out ways to stave off menopause, or for all we know Keiko was born via surrogate. It sorta makes her later pregnancy transfer less weird. :P

In the novels, Beverly Crusher conceived a child at the apparent age of 56. Yay, science!

Mark

 

[JirinPanthosa]

If they can genetically resequence Trills and Klingons to produce offspring, I'm sure they can make it possible for older women to have children.

Anyway, with no canonical answer the usual fallback is to go with the actress's age. She was born in 1957, so in the first season of DS9 that would have made her 36.

 

[Grant]

Or perhaps she was not Keiko's birth mother but the woman who raised her and she called her "mom" as many folks do with the woman who does the actual raising.

 

[Albertese]

^^^
Yup. Maybe she was adopted.

--Alex

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

In Trek's time, the age of 100 is considered the prime of life, so I can only assume any issues relating to menopause have also been taken care of.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

That's true. In 24th Century Trek, 60 = 40 and 100 = 60.

 

[borgboy]

While adoption and surrogacy are options, I think the mentioning of the age was intentional, to show that in the 24th century people lived much longer and had improved health, including fertitlity. Keiko's mom probably had her in her 60s. Women do it now with fertility drugs, at least I've heard of a few rare cases. If it's possible now, I don't find it so strange that it's more common in Trek's 24th century.

 

[Grant]

While adoption and surrogacy are options, I think the mentioning of the age was intentional, to show that in the 24th century people lived much longer and had improved health, including fertitlity. Keiko's mom probably had her in her 60s. Women do it now with fertility drugs, at least I've heard of a few rare cases. If it's possible now, I don't find it so strange that it's more common in Trek's 24th century.

That's probably the right reason.

 

[Bry_Sinclair]

You can't rule out some kind of temporal anamaly in Keiko's childhood

 

[Melakon]

Or maybe by the 24th century, they're using some sort of metric calendar system.

 

[Jono]

Earth in the 22nd century was capable of making a binary clone from Human and Vulcan DNA you'd think that a little thing like Human fertility in the making of babies wouldn't be an issue in the 24th century.

 

[SoM]

On aging - isn't Picard a decade older than Patrick Stewart was while playing him? I definitely seem to recall that coming up at some point. If so, I could certainly believe that was a deliberate decision.

 

[Melakon]

Stewart was about 47 (damn, there's that magic number again) when he started as Picard, who seemed to be closer to 60.

 

[Timo]

It's always possible that Sisko misunderstood and Keiko was going to celebrate the birthday of her grandmother...

Timo Saloniemi

 

[SoM]

It's always possible that Sisko misunderstood and Keiko was going to celebrate the birthday of her grandmother...

Well, with better nutrition and medical care people live longer. In the 24th century, both seem to be "free" in the Federation (Quark even bitterly notes "What does Bashir know - he doesn't even charge" at one point), and medicine as a discipline seems to be an order of magnitude ahead of its current state (McCoy, from the 23rd century, grew a woman a new kidney just by giving her a pill in Star Trek IV! Not to mention the dermal regenerators, plastic surgery that can turn you into a Klingon to the point you can pass security on Kronos, and so forth). And while McCoy did look pretty damn old in Encounter at Farpoint, fact is he was still active at 137 years old to an extent that someone fifty years younger would be happy with today.

I don't have a problem assuming Keiko was a decade older than the actress, and that her mother had her in her early fifties given all that...

 

[varek]

Was Keiko that woman's only child, or just her youngest? Maybe she had children spread out over the years.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

^ Yep. Picard was 59 when TNG first aired. Although I don't remember how long it took before they ever gave a year for Picard's birth (2305).

 

[Melakon]

Keiko's a health nut too, so she probably eats things that help the look of her skin and everything else.

(K key is skipping a bit, and failed to strike when typing "look" and "skin". Some sort of Freudian keyboard I guess)