Look, Mom! No Hair.

[Spock's Barber]

Baldness seems to be popular with some of the Council members of Gideon.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

The point is, for those races/people for whom baldness is neither biologically normal nor a personal choice, shouldn't there be a treatment? What are the odds that every character with male-pattern baldness and other such conditions in the future will be okay with it?

I guess those that want hair get the treatments and do have hair as a result by the time we see them. Those who don't are all the ones who don't want it or don't care one way or the other, so it's easier to do nothing.

 

[Nyotarules]

When Patrick Stewart was asked, "Won't we be able to cure or prevent baldness by the 24th century?", his standard reply was "By that time, no one will care."

To which I politely say: Bollocks. Male vanity will still be around a hundred or a thousand years from now. Fortunately for Patrick Stewart, he has a nicely shaped skull and looks good with no hair.

I say bollocks to your bollocks maybe humans and klingons will care and other hirsute species, but Deltans and Ferengi won't give a damn. Today folks spend money on skin bleaching cos they believe the whiter the better, hopefully in the future that ignorant attitude will disappear.

 

[retroenzo]

Who's to say there isn't a treatment though? I'm guessing that we just don't know about the ones that have decided to take up the treatment. After all, unless there's a plot reason for mentioning it, we probably wouldn't know.

 

[Nyotarules]

Who's to say there isn't a treatment though? I'm guessing that we just don't know about the ones that have decided to take up the treatment. After all, unless there's a plot reason for mentioning it, we probably wouldn't know.

There probably is, and I bet cosmetic surgery is as cheap as getting a filling, some folks will take it up and some folks won't. In my head canon Star Trek humans are still humans with different issues and prejudices.
Their 'Guess who is coming to dinner' moment will be a white woman and her Tellarite boyfriend with her parents complaining why she won't date the nice Kenyan doctor next door LOL

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Who's to say there isn't a treatment though? I'm guessing that we just don't know about the ones that have decided to take up the treatment. After all, unless there's a plot reason for mentioning it, we probably wouldn't know.

The EMH managed to stimulate Seven's hair to grow out after she was removed from the Borg collective. Ditto for Janeway, Tuvok and B'Elanna. So if he can make their hair grow, I'm guessing it's a common treatment.

 

[Poltargyst]

I used to say that you'd think there'd be a cure for baldness by then. But I guess we are supposed to take it that humans had moved beyond a place where baldness is something to be ashamed of.

My sister in law always found Picard hot, so there you go. Chicks dig it.

 

[2takesfrakes]

Women seem to prefer Men who are bald by choice, rather than those with bad testosterone levels causing it. If they get bored of his bald head, at least it won't be long before his lush mane returns, for her to run her fingers through it. But with a Man who's folically impaired ... it's either wearing a baseball cap, all the time, or sporting a rug. Either option only brings emphasis to the baldness, anyway. Whilst stocking up on Rogaine ... and hoping for the best.