Why is Captain Star Track bald? Don't they have a cure for that in outer space?
>>218212687He likes the look
>>218212687Gene Roddenberry said by the 24th century nobody would care
yet the women still wear makeup
>>218212687Too lazy to shower
>>218213087I’m pretty sure it was someone else who said that. Gene was seething about a bald guy being the lead
>>218212687In 24 centuries Star Man don't get hair, Star Man get iPad.
>>218213874Gene didn’t want a middle aged bald Brit at first but eventually came around and when asked, that was the response.
>>218213926worf and data have sex and its EVERYONE's business
>>218213926Crew get brainrot
>>218213874gene is legit EP for the first 2 seasons. stewart wouldnt be cast and wouldnt be bald unless gene approved. period.
>>218212687They do, but it's not a genetic cure because they don't believe in genetic engineering.You have to actually go to the doctor and get the treatment so it's seen as a bit vain, like a hair transplant would be now.
>>218214568Well, also remember he has specifically a genetic defect, potentially fatal. His clone has it in Nemesis, literally a plot point. So I guess it expressed itself in the clone in a way it didn't in Picard? Did he get treatment for that? Also, depending on what you consider eugenics and genetics, Picard also has an artificial heart, so they must have negotiated some justified treatment options even holding an anti-eugenics stance. Like how Geordi gets artificial eyes eventually.
>>218214986He grows new eyes in Insurrection, and yet Patty doesn't grow new hair. Though I seem to recall the main woman getting horny over seeing the first bald man for a hundred years
>>218215092They're cybernetic eyes. He's genetically born blind, so even cloning his eyes would be pointless and they are forbidden from genetic engineering functional ones by their laws.
>>218212687>Don't they have a cure for that in outer space?>In the future we dont concern ourselves with such things. People dont see baldness as a limiting factor, chuddism has been all but eradicated when scientists learned to delete chud genes from the gene pool. It allowed Humanity to prosper and directly lead to space travel. I dont want to think about where we would be if they were still around.
>>218215206thats only because hes a coward. pulaski offered him real eyes
>>218214986>depending on what you consider eugenics and genetics, Picard also has an artificial heart, so they must have negotiated some justified treatment options even holding an anti-eugenics stance. Like how Geordi gets artificial eyes eventuallythis isn't really how eugenics works. Its perhaps related to transhumanism but even then these people aren't deliberately replacing body parts with implants but rather adding implants to perform functions that their natural bodies are unable to perform. Its not eugenics because the fixes aren't permanent. Examples like Bashir are forms of eugenics because rather than just having him be stupid, his parents altered his genetics in a way that only made him smarter but also in a way that he could pass onto his children. Letting Picard die because he couldn't survive a stab to the heart and deeming that some kind of genetic weakness would be the eugenics mindset, an extreme one at that even by eugenics standards.
TNG humanity has a specific view on growing old that you don't really see in the rest of the series, at least not from humans. Becoming bald is just a thing that happens and people only see it as a sign that the captain is a mature and experienced man.
>>218215798I remember seeing this when i was 21.... now im 37 seeing it again and this shit hits
>>218215862Fr unc?
>>218214448>filenameFFFUUUUUUUUUUU-
>>218215547Yeah but Jean-Luc's genetic defect upends this. Like, they literally put him into a new cybernetic body to avoid its terminal status. What barrier here is between transhumanism and eugenics? Arguably eugenics and genetic manipulation would be the more humane treatment as opposed to forcing people to suffer life with disabilities. Seems transhumanism is just eugenics with extra steps.
>>218215862Weird how a franchise that has been around for now 60 years resonates as you get older...
>>218216052>they literally put him into a new cybernetic body to avoid its terminal status.yeah but they're not meddling with his genetics, just dealing with the consequences of them. If he has kids, they won't be born as cybernetic organisms. Letting him die to cull his flawed genetics from the gene pool or directly fixing the gene flaw would be the eugenics options.
>>218216052It's specifically gene therapy that is banned. Bashir on DS9 got some illegally as a kid to stop him being retarded, and his old man was jailed for it.Cybernetic enhancements are perfectly fine. It's a bit odd really.
>>218216678I think it's more that eugenics is banned because of the eugenics wars resulting in an uncontrollable escalation of it. Bashirs dad wasn't locked up for life and it was a pretty cushy stay by all accounts. With cybernetics, people just sort of don't go crazy with it. Its basically the Borg that shows just how extreme you can go with it and everyone just thinks it's very gross and the borg has to forcibly assimilate them.
>>218212687Hair has no evolutionary advantage in space. It would make sense that after centuries of space travel people would start becoming more hairless.
>>218214271Excuse me, Data only has loving procreative sex with Lore
