I always had a difficult time accepting a bald captain in TNG. I've been trying to visualize Kirk with a hairless skull. I just can't see it working with GR's initial futuristic view of almost perfect humans and Shatner's vanity. What say you?
Look, Mom! No Hair.
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Science fiction tells us hair is a passing fad. The more advanced, the less the hair.I always had a difficult time accepting a bald captain in TNG. I've been trying to visualize Kirk with a hairless skull. I just can't see it working with GR's initial futuristic view of almost perfect humans and Shatner's vanity. What say you?
I got used to Picard's smooth skull, but it took quite a while because I was used to seeing Kirk's full head of toupee. 
I got used to Picard's smooth skull, but it took quite a while because I was used to seeing Kirk's full head of toupee.
The doctor is just a hologram and yet he's bald too. Isn't that even weirder?
I guess The Hair Club for Men didn't make it past the 21st century.
It must be a post WWIII mutation.
He was designed to be bald.
They can make artificial limbs that look like the real thing and yet they can't heal baldness? Don't you think it's a bit, bizarre?
The EMH is an entirely artificial being and looks like his creator.
I assume baldness in organic beings is a choice.
Yet we see the doctor with a hair piece in Before And After.
So? It obviously didn't last. He stuck with the original design. Probably because he preferred it.
It was in an alternate timeline, so in fact it never happened. It lasted long enough since it was the last thing that old Kes saw before she went back in time.
You would think that by the 23rd century that they would have a special pill that would make bald people grow hair that made them look like Chewbacca.
So in the main timeline, he's bald either by choice or programming.
Why is baldness supposed to be some kind of disease? Did it ever occur to anyone that some people actually want to be bald?
So combs, brushes, shampoos and *gasp* Spock's Barber will be obsolete in 150 years!
Not Picard, though. He's made it quite clear on more than one occasion that he doesn't like being bald and that makes the reason why he never did anything about it all the more mysterious;
Really? I don't remember that. Can you give some examples?
In the future baldness in people won't matter, it will be as relevant as eye, hair and skin colour. There will be species where hairlessness is the norm - The Deltans.I always had a difficult time accepting a bald captain in TNG. I've been trying to visualize Kirk with a hairless skull. I just can't see it working with GR's initial futuristic view of almost perfect humans and Shatner's vanity. What say you?
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