By Chris Snellgrove
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Star Trek is the kind of frankness that fans like to revisit many and many times, and this has led to a constant flow of fans theories. Since the first episode of The next generation Presented a very old Dr. McCoy Camée, there was a theory of fans that humans live much longer. And what most of Star Trek fans do not realize is that this theory has been proven by invited actors playing much older characters in the TNG episode “The Survivors”.
The survivors
For Star Trek: The next generation Fans, “The Survivors” are a memorable episode in which Captain Picard and the corporate team meet an elderly couple who is apparently the only survivor of a devastating attack. Finally, the male turns out to be a creature similar to God who settled on this planet with a human, but she died by defending the planet of alien He refused to fight because of the pacifism of his culture. He reacted by rushing and destroying each member of the attack stranger Race, and although this story of morality is fascinating, we are here today to focus more on how it proves a long -standing theory of fans.
Star Trek: The next generation started with the episode in two parts “encourage at farpoint”, the one who laid the basics of the theory that “the survivors” would confirm later. Original series The icon Dr. McCoy makes a cameo in the TNG episode as an elderly human, the one who (as the data tells us with Android Precision) is 137 years old. Relatively speaking, it seems physically and mentally lively in this cameo, which led to a theory of long -date fans according to which humans live naturally longer in the 24th century thanks to various advances in science and medicine.
Apart from the last Star Trek: The next generation The episode “The Survivors”, however, can be difficult to find a confirmation of this theory. For example, in Picard, our title character died in fact at the age of 94 but continues to truck because his conscience is transferred to a robot body. There were attenuating circumstances involved (it was already dying from Irumodic syndrome, for example), but this subsequent hiking spin-off seems to imply that most elderly humans are not likely to make it pay 100 without a practical transfer of mind in an equally practical robot body.
So enough Star Trek story. How do “survivors” apparently confirm that humans naturally live much longer in this fictitious future? Our two guest actors play much older characters than they are. Kevin Uxbridge is supposed 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 who is played by an actor (Anne Haney) who is only 55 years old.
Now, none of these characters is in fact human … We discover that Kevin is a being God and his wife is someone he used his powers to recreate. But with regard to the business crew initially, these characters are completely human. And no one has hit an eye (or a visor, in the case of Geordi) to the fact that these characters seem much younger than they really are.
While most of Star Trek fans have neglected the meaning, this cast for “survivors” seem to confirm that humans live naturally longer because that implies that many human characters that we see in this franchise can be older than they appear. And we see humans in the elderly who, in turn, must be logically older than they appear. It turns out that most humans of the 24th century live for a long time, and the death of Picard at the age of 94 was, contrary to popular belief, with the exception and not to the rule.
