McCoy is a Superman.

[Guy Gardener]

137 years old in Encounter at Farpoint,.

Weeks later we see a human couple in their seventies on their last legs, in Too Short a Season, who are very likely at the absolute end of their life span.

Is there any other evidence of McCoy being stronger or smarter than he should be, or any evidence that he might be lying about his age?

What if he's even older?

In the 2240s, Emony (Dax) was once on Earth to judge a gymnastics competition at the University of Mississippi, where she met Leonard McCoy. Years later, Dax would comment that she had a feeling that he would become a doctor – "he had the hands of a surgeon." (DS9: "Trials and Tribble-ations")

He could have been a second generation Superman?

 

[Noname Given]

137 years old in Encounter at Farpoint,.

Weeks later we see a human couple in their seventies on their last legs, in Too Short a Season, who are very likely at the absolute end of their life span.

Is there any other evidence of McCoy being stronger or smarter than he should be, or any evidence that he might be lying about his age?

What if he's even older?

In"Too Short A Season", Mark Jameson was dying of Iverson's Disease (a chronic disease that was always fatal) - and was still in his mid 80s. He died at the end because he OD'd on a de-aging drug. There was no indication on the episode that his wife Annie was considered near death.

Also in TNG in general during the series run, Picard is in his 70s, while still active and in command of the 1701-D. To He also had a degenerative disease (Irumodic Syndrome); and a artificial heart but still lived to his mid-90s before becoming a soulless Song android.

In the end, my point is: Your premise here is flawed because Mark Jameson had a nasty disease, and in poor condition.

McCoy living to 137 maybe like someone living to 90+ today, but that hardly makes him a Superman. It just shows how good medical technology is by the 24th century.

 

[Relayer1]

There are a few people over 110 years old NOW.

137 looks like an unusual but not impossible age comparing TNG with today.

 

[Guy Gardener]

I'm "Too Short A Season",. Mark Jameson was dying of Iverson's Disease (a chronic disease that was always fatal) - and was still in his mid 80s. He died at the end because he OD'd on a de,-aging drug. There was no indication on the episode that his wife Annie was considered near death.

Also in TNG in general during the series run, Picard is in his 70s, while still active and in command of the 1701-D. To He also had a degenerative disease (Irumodic Syndrome); and a artificial heart but still lived to his mid-90s before becoming a soulless Song android.

In the end, my point is: Your premise here is flawed because Mark Jameson had a nasty disease, and in poor condition.

McCoy living to 137 maybe like someone living to 90+ today, but that hardly makes him a Superman. It just shows how good medical technology is by the 24th century.

Marsha Hunt is 103 and still alive.

The lad who played the baddie died 10 years ago.

Clayton is a silver fox and looks nothing like his old man prosthesis in the 80s.

 

[Methuselah Flint]

I thought Stewart has always played Picard as his own real-life age?

 

[David cgc]

I thought Stewart has always played Picard as his own real-life age?

Nope, Picard is 59 at the beginning of TNG, while Stewart was 47.

 

[Scott Kellogg]

McCoy is a Doctor!
Not a Superman!

 

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[FormerLurker]

The lad who played the baddie died 10 years ago.

The lad who played the baddie was Korax in The Trouble With Tribbles.

 

[Vger23]

I’m a superman.

 

[Spock .]

He doesn't wear a red shirt.

On a more serious note, with better medical technology than we have now (and, as a doctor, full access to all of that technology) McCoy probably could have lived longer. Also, he was a doctor and knew how to take care of himself (even if he didn't always do that).

 

[Nerys Myk]

He doesn't wear a red shirt.

On a more serious note, with better medical technology than we have now (and, as a doctor, full access to all of that technology) McCoy probably could have lived longer. Also, he was a doctor and knew how to take care of himself (even if he didn't always do that).

Superman wears blue.

 

[Oddish]

According to Dax, 140 is an attainable age for humans, even without augmentation. But, it's considered a very long life. As far as I know, we have no canonical 24th century human norm, or any longest recorded lifespan.

Given the number of ways a person could extend their life, if they chose to, it's almost irrelevant.

 

[IMC Headquarters]

I hope Scotty hooked up with him after his rescue.

 

[BillJ]

Also in TNG in general during the series run, Picard is in his 70s, while still active and in command of the 1701-D. To He also had a degenerative disease (Irumodic Syndrome); and a artificial heart but still lived to his mid-90s before becoming a soulless Song android.

Picard would've been roughly 66 in 2371 when TNG ended. Born in 2305 by all accounts.

 

[BillJ]

137 years old in Encounter at Farpoint,.

Weeks later we see a human couple in their seventies on their last legs, in Too Short a Season, who are very likely at the absolute end of their life span.

Is there any other evidence of McCoy being stronger or smarter than he should be, or any evidence that he might be lying about his age?

What if he's even older?

This works under the assumption that all humans are created equal in equal environments and circumstance. For all we know, someone like Mark Jameson could've been born on a colony world with much rougher environmental conditions than someone on Earth.

 

[publiusr]

Paul Rudd is as old now as Wilford Brimley was in Cocoon. Hard to believe.

 

[Guy Gardener]

This works under the assumption that all humans are created equal in equal environments and circumstance. For all we know, someone like Mark Jameson could've been born on a colony world with much rougher environmental conditions than someone on Earth.

Earth?

A Global nuclear War.

200 years of toxification and pollution.

(The Vulcans cleaned all that up in a couple years? Orbital transporters cleaning or replacing trillions of tons of soil, stone and water.

Over population?

(As the administrative throne of the federation, it's possible that the humans gave away their planet. I'd imagine a hundred year lease. Theoretically a very small human population remains on Earth, maybe less than a billion. The rest are colonizing the galaxy. I'd imagine that the ones who get to stay on Earth are the best of the best and not the worst of the worst.)

It takes up to a hundred years to make a class M planet. Why let the colonists arrive en mass before it's anything short of paradise if it's already going to take half a human life time to make a new home tolerable?

How McCoy talks.

Have we seen many other people in the 23rd or 24th century with a southern accent?

Trip.

Why does Charles talk like that if he's from Florida?

Was he faking?

In an interview on the Enterprise DVDs/Blu-rays Trinneer said he was a bit mad when the producers later told him Trip came from Florida and he has chosen the wrong accent. But only short time after they had visitors on the set from Clearwater, FL and the congratulated him for imitating the Clearwater accent so well.30/06/2017

To me a Floridian accent was how the people talked on Flipper.

 

[Eremurus]

The man attained rank of Emeritus for a reason. He definitely knows his medicine. Technology and living conditions are also much better in the 24th century.

 

[FormerLurker]

Paul Rudd is as old now as Wilford Brimley was in Cocoon. Hard to believe.

Wilford Brimley was never young, either.