Why didn't the Doctor grow hair?

[Guy Gardener]

Doctor Van Gough/Motzart did in Before and after... meanwhile the doctor shreaded and personiformed his soul until it was utterly unrecognizable and killing people or he was insane living in a waking dream... HE BUILT A PENIS!

Picardo said he hated the wig in China Beach... But for about 5 minutes there, he was trying to bed Seven... Surely a little hair on his head would have helped?

 

[MrPointy]

The Doctor could have just made something up about copulation lessons and Seven would have gone along with it. Hair or no hair.

 

[CaptainStoner]

As a bald guy myself, (since the age of 22), all I can say is, why would he?
Women who dig bald guys tend to be...interesting I consider it an automatic way of weeding out the shallow -

 

[Guy Gardener]

It doesn't count unless they give it up willingly.

besides, you have to ask that since she was a completely hairless drone until one point that when he was remolding the lady into human looking that if he stimulated her follicle growth everywhere as she stated he had done for the follicles on her noggin, that he's been down there enough clinically and professionally that some sort of recreational visitation invitation doesn't encourage his selfesteem subroutines whatsoever.

I wonder if she programmed into the Chokotay sexholigram her "moves" or there's a puriant database on Voyager somewhere that keeps all this stuff in the public domain enough that the doctor would be little difference stylistically from the faux-Xo?

Imagine how virile the Doctor would have seemed with a carwash Afro?

 

[Jack Bauer]

I think he realized he looked better bald.

 

[Trekwatcher]

It did always strike me as odd that there was baldness in Star Trek. In TOS, there were many people with thin hair, and obviously Picard and The Doctor were bald (although he was programmed that way). I assumed that this meant that either a) humans had moved past seeing baldness as a "bad" thing b) people chose to go bald or c) nobody had figured out how to make a product better than Rogaine by the 24th century.

I assume people will still go bald in the future. Perhaps Picard is allergic to Folliclex 5 hairgrowth solution...

 

[Ezri]

He is bald in real life so he would need fake hair. It would look funny having the doctor have fake hair.

 

[Guy Gardener]

As I said, when he was on the long running Viet Nam drama "China Beach" playing a grumpy Doctor therein, the producers made him where a wig for YEARS, and he briefly wore a wig when Kes traveled a number of years into he future to meet him during season three's "Before and After".

Picardo is loath and more than familiar with "fake hair" but his appearance is a work of vanity based on his Creator Doctor Louis Zimmerman, Trekwatcher, if you were truly curious why it was decided to create a bald hologram?

Picard is a genetic mess. He was born with that thingy killed that idiot clone from nemesis and he's going to die from Irrumedic(sp?) Syndrone according to the future history semi-established in All Good Things... And there's some thing seriously wrong with his mouth or his nose, because Picard, just doesn't sound French. Considering his brother and nephew had the same issues, I'll say that that is a third congenital disorder ruminating through Jean-Luc's soup.

This is why we have Eugenics wars people, so that people ain't born into pain and then die form it. Obviously the Superman didn't make it into or, didn't want to make it into France while they were dividing up the world in the 1990s.

 

[Odon]

Well in the episode "The Voyager Conspiracy" they mentioned that Neelix had accidentally brought some fleas onto the ship that fed on photonic energy. Clearly said fleas forced the EMH to keep his head shaven.

 

[kipron]

Maybe in the future bald people are equals? I dunno. :thumbsup:

In fact this is like asking why Sisko didn't get a treatment to make himself white.

 

[Odon]

kipron said:
In fact this is like asking why Sisko didn't get a treatment to make himself white.

It's true that during the Post-Atomic horror there was much prejudice against those whose hair fell out due to radiation poisoning, and many of them were kept as slaves. Starfleet captain's heads now shed in memory of this dark time.

 

[Guy Gardener]

kipron said:
Maybe in the future bald people are equals? I dunno. :thumbsup:

In fact this is like asking why Sisko didn't get a treatment to make himself white.

If there was an episode of DS9 where someone traveled into the Future and met Sisko who was now white but after that traveler had returned to the present and there was never an occassion in the newly arriving/created future that the story progessed toward "What you leave behind" that Sisko didn't ever become white?

I'd ask about the schism.

The Doctor in Before and After's future time line did grow hair and he selected more than one name. Something happened in the new time line with Seven of Nine as a crewman that he didn't want a name and didn't want hair.

 

[JanineSal]

"It did always strike me as odd that there was baldness in Star Trek. In TOS, there were many people with thin hair, and obviously Picard and The Doctor were bald (although he was programmed that way). I assumed that this meant that either a) humans had moved past seeing baldness as a "bad" thing b) people chose to go bald or c) nobody had figured out how to make a product better than Rogaine by the 24th century.

I assume people will still go bald in the future. Perhaps Picard is allergic to Folliclex 5 hairgrowth solution..."

Why do you have a problem with baldness in the 23rd and 24th centuries? Is baldness supposed to be a sign of inferiority or something?

 

[exodus]

Bald is already in fashion in this century, even Kojak was seen as "da man!" and he was bald before was considered fashion. Sisko's style of bald with a goatee have never gone out of style.

I like it when the ladies rub my bald head.