That's one of the many things that bugged me too, Irumodic Syndrome was meant to be space Alzheimers, it wasn't meant to be a ticking time bomb that just would go off suddenly like an aneurysm. So that bit annoyed me.
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That's one of the many things that bugged me too, Irumodic Syndrome was meant to be space Alzheimers, it wasn't meant to be a ticking time bomb that just would go off suddenly like an aneurysm. So that bit annoyed me.
Seems reasonable.
Annoying is a 10 and claiming it was different in structure to earlier seasons.
That's an issue I had with Season 3. In AGT, Beverly said that the structural defect in Picard's parietal lobe could make him susceptible to several neurological disorders, including Irumodic Syndrome. I felt the reason they avoided naming it in PIC S1 was because they wanted different symptoms - the ticking time bomb rather than Alzheimer's, so I inferred that whatever disorder Picard developed in the Prime timeline, after different experiences and environmental factors, it wasn't Irumodic. Then Season 3 made it so anyway.
What brief information about Irumodic Syndrome is available is that it is a neurodegenerative disease that can run its course over years, and be maintained and not cured. As neurogenerative diseases go, yes they take time to cause death but they still can as the neurons die.
As Beverly notes, it can take time, but that doesn't mean it can't eventually kill. The progression could be hastened by stress, or, since it was retconned to be something with the Borg, perhaps the encounters with the Borg hastened the progress.
As Beverly notes, it can take time, but that doesn't mean it can't eventually kill. The progression could be hastened by stress, or, since it was retconned to be something with the Borg, perhaps the encounters with the Borg hastened the progress.
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