From Chris Snellgrove
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Star Trek is the type of franchise that fans like to repeat again and again and which led to a steady stream of fan theories. Since the premiere episode of The next generation There was a cameo of a very older Dr. McCoy, there was a fan theory that people just live much, much longer. And what most Star Trek fans do not recognize is that this theory was apparently detected by guest actors who played much older characters in the TNG episode “The Survivors”.
The survivors
For Star Trek: The next generation Fans, “The Survivors” is a memorable episode in which Captain Picard and the Enterprise Crew come across an elderly couple who is apparently the only survivors of a devastating attack. Finally the man is revealed Aliens He refused to fight his culture because of the pacifism. He reacted by excluding and destroying each member of the attack Foreigner Race, and while this moral game history is fascinating, we are here today to concentrate more on how it turns out to be a long -term fan theory.
Star Trek: The next generation started with the two -part episode “Encounter in Farpoint”, which laid the foundation for the theory that “the survivors” would later confirm. Original series Icon Dr. McCoy makes a Cameo appearance in the premiere episode of TNG as an elderly person who (as talks to data with Android Precision) is 137 years old. From a relative point of view, he seems to be physically and mentally lively in this cameo appearance, and this led to a long-standing fan theory, which of course people live longer thanks to various progress in science and medicine in the 24th century.
Outside the later Star Trek: The next generation However, episode “The Survivors” can be difficult to find confirmation of this theory. For example in Picard, our title character actually dies at the age of 94, but still to the truck, because its consciousness is transferred to a robot body. There were some mitigating circumstances (he died, for example, from Irumodic syndrome), but this later Trek spin -Poff seems to imply that most older people probably do not make it 100 without convenient intellectual transmission to transmit it into an equally convenient robot body.
So enough Star Trek story. How do “the survivors” apparently confirm that people of course live much longer in this fictional future? Our two guest actors play characters that are much older than them. Kevin Uxbridge is said to be 85 years old, but is played by an actor (John Anderson) who was only 67 years old; His wife Rishon is an 82-year-old character played by an actor (Anne Haney) who is only 55 years old.
Now none of these characters is actually human … We find that Kevin is a god -like being and his wife is someone he has used his powers to recreate. What the Enterprise crew initially knows, these characters are completely human. And nobody fought an eye (or visor in Geordi’s case) against the fact that these characters look much younger than they actually are.
While most Star Trek fans have overlooked the importance, this casting for “The Survivors” seems to confirm that people naturally live longer because they may be older than they appear to be older than them. And we see older people, the people who, in turn, have to be logically older than they appear. As it turned out, most people live for a long time in the 24th century, and Picard’s death at the tender age of 94 was contrary to the folk poems, the exception and not the rule.
