Star Trek TOS Re-Watch

[Commander Troi]

I tend to go with the Highlander explanation - he took over identities from babies who died.

 

[Kor]

Bixby more or less returned to the premise of Flint in The Man from Earth.

It was an idea he played around with for years. I read that he actually came up with the idea for The Man From Earth in the early '60s, so that was before he wrote "Requiem."

Kor

 

[mb22]

It was an idea he played around with for years. I read that he actually came up with the idea for The Man From Earth in the early '60s, so that was before he wrote "Requiem."

Kor

Has anyone read (or heard of) the 1953 story "Whatever Happened to Corporal Cuckoo" by Gerald Kersh? It is similar to Bixby's idea of an immortal individual. However, unlike Flint the title character does not grow in sophistication as the centuries go on but instead remains an unsophisticated soldier.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whatever_Happened_to_Corporal_Cuckoo?