To my defense, I’ve never seen the episode in English before.There’s a trick to it.
Look for the one that looks and sounds like DeForrest Kelley.
Why was DeForest in old-man makeup?
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Is there such a thing as "too many" mint juleps?You have also had too many mint juleps
I think the old man make up was meant to convey that McCoy was really really old, much older than people who are still alive today.
Nope. It was twenty five years since since La Forge last served on Enterprise with Picard as a captain. That was probably quite a bit later than the 'now' (2370) of that episode. In the normal timeline last time we saw them in Nemesis (2379) they were still together on Enterprise (albeit different one on that timeline.) But assuming a timeline where D is not destroyed, they'd still probably serve together many years after 'now' of AGT.
The future of AGT is probably more like forty years in the future (2410'ish)
To my defense, I’ve never seen the episode in English before.
Ok ok...it’s the one with the TOS sleeves under his cardigan, and the only person on the ship not wearing tight clothing. Apart from Q. Maybe.
I think McCoy was trying to live to an age older than Spock, just to get back at him. He made a good attempt for a human. I think the age difference is only about 25 years.
They've also evolved elective surgery and people should look young even longer. In fact, bald people are an absurdity in the future, even now we have remedies against baldness. I can't believe that in an age when they can make artificial limbs that feel like the real McCoy, they can't do the same about their hair.
“In fact”…?!
Commodore Mendez takes exception to that remark.
Besides, why is hirsuteness considered a virtue? Why is baldness treated as a defect?
The point is, they've also outgrown the small-minded and prejudiced notion that baldness is a disease. Lots of people in cultures around the world choose to be bald on purpose -- even women, in some cultures (notably in Africa, hence the Dora Milaje in Black Panther).
Star Trek is supposed to be a future where people are proud of who and what they naturally are and celebrate their differences from one another, not one where everyone is pressured to conform to a single arbitrary standard of appearance.
It's a stylistic choice. Everyone in the future wants to look like the great Captain Robau.
I don't think wrinkles are a stylistic choice or people wouldn't spend fortunes trying to remove theirs.
“Encounter at Farpoint” is a fiction set in a future where humanity has evolved. There is no indication (saving Star Trek: Insurrection, of course), that the diagnosis and treatment of wrinkles was ever addressed. And even if there is, expense is not an issue: they don’t use money in that undiscovered country.
How much is this going to run me?
How much is this going to run me?
Seriously? Lots of people spend fortunes on trying to be stylish. The marketing of clothes, shoes, cars, home appliances, and countless other products is all about urging people to stay current with the newest styles. Heck, the whole reason fashion was invented was so that rich people would have an excuse to show off their richness by continuously, frivolously throwing out perfectly usable items and buying new ones.
Wrinkles are directly associated with being old. People, as a rule, don't like to be/look/feel old. People regardless of fashion/period of time/culture have always valued seeming young. I think it's almost genetic.
For one thing, when you're young, death is still a long way ahead.
The point is, saying "something can't be a stylistic choice if people spend lots of money on it" makes no sense at all.
That is a side issue.
Wrinkles don't shorten your lifetime. Removing them serves the same purpose as getting firmer boobs or bigger lips or thicker hair - you can pretend to be younger, in a game of medically ineffective make-believe.
Different people choose different versions of the make-believe, if they feel like participating at all. Some feel removal of hair makes them look younger. Others add skin imperfections instead of removing them. Where you add fake body fat or remove the real thing is pretty arbitrary, too. What counts is being fashionably, rather than unfashionably, immortal.
Getting artificial wrinkles ("See, I'm like a hundred and sixty and still going strong") seems like a reasonable assumption for the next big thing in that game...
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Different people choose different versions of the make-believe, if they feel like participating at all. Some feel removal of hair makes them look younger. Others add skin imperfections instead of removing them. Where you add fake body fat or remove the real thing is pretty arbitrary, too. What counts is being fashionably, rather than unfashionably, immortal.
Getting artificial wrinkles ("See, I'm like a hundred and sixty and still going strong") seems like a reasonable assumption for the next big thing in that game...
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Ummmm - enough about wrinkles. I’m about to turn 72 and I can show you some wrinkles. And they’re here to stay.
McCoy had been through a lot in TOS and with his finding a cure to the accelerated aging in The Deadly Years and maybe it gave him a much longer life enabling him to reach 137 years of age! But it was just a cameo as such and his appearance did nothing really to enhance the story!
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