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Well, that also limits you to basically one style of looks. And that style is kind of hard to sustain, so if you don't really like it, it's a major PITA. Kinda

Well, that also limits you to basically one style of looks. And that style is kind of hard to sustain, so if you don't really like it, it's a major PITA. Kinda surprised that Captain Picard wasn't mentioned though. He actually is a hero who is bald and not steroid-levels of jacked.

TeMPOraL 2y ago
It's who came to my mind first. Also, there's this gem: At a press conference about Star Trek: The Next Generation, a reporter asked Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry about casting Patrick Stewart, commenting that "Surely by the 24th century, they would have found a cure for male pattern baldness." Gene Roddenberry had the perfect response. "No, by the 24th century, no one will care." (Via https://boingboing.net/2015/07/08/star-trek-creators-perfect-c.html https://boingboing.net/2015/07/08/star-trek-creators-perfect...)
- Gud 2y ago
  Which is absolutely bullshit. You’re not going to change millions of years of evolution by going to star fleet academy. I’m bald and although I’m blessed with a great skull shape, and being blonde haired also works to my advantage, I would lie if I said I wouldn’t be more attractive with hair.
  - hawski 2y ago
    If I understood it correctly humans in Star Trek are evolved. We found our way and went ahead as a, more or less, post scarcity society.
  - TeMPOraL 2y ago
    > Which is absolutely bullshit. You’re not going to change millions of years of evolution by going to star fleet academy. The very premise of the show is that humans found a way to mostly move past the worst parts of their nature. Not just in Starfleet, but in general. At least wrt. outside differences, I suppose it gets easier in a world full of "human with rubber forehead"-looking aliens.
    - Gud 2y ago
      Would be curious to know what that way is, because it’s not exactly made clear in the show.
      - Izkata 2y ago
        It's left a little ambiguous because obviously they don't know what would really work, but the timeline was roughly: WWIII -> Post-Atomic Horror -> First contact with the Vulcans, then the whole push into space getting humanity to pull together over the following couple of centuries would be when this happened. It wasn't just cultural stuff like caring about baldness, during that later period all sorts of things were solved, like hunger and various diseases. Basically we had to hit our lowest point before we could get better.

TeMPOraL 2y ago

It's who came to my mind first. Also, there's this gem: At a press conference about Star Trek: The Next Generation, a reporter asked Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry about casting Patrick Stewart, commenting that "Surely by the 24th century, they would have found a cure for male pattern baldness." Gene Roddenberry had the perfect response. "No, by the 24th century, no one will care." (Via https://boingboing.net/2015/07/08/star-trek-creators-perfect-c.html https://boingboing.net/2015/07/08/star-trek-creators-perfect...)

Gud 2y ago
Which is absolutely bullshit. You’re not going to change millions of years of evolution by going to star fleet academy. I’m bald and although I’m blessed with a great skull shape, and being blonde haired also works to my advantage, I would lie if I said I wouldn’t be more attractive with hair.
- hawski 2y ago
  If I understood it correctly humans in Star Trek are evolved. We found our way and went ahead as a, more or less, post scarcity society.
- TeMPOraL 2y ago
  > Which is absolutely bullshit. You’re not going to change millions of years of evolution by going to star fleet academy. The very premise of the show is that humans found a way to mostly move past the worst parts of their nature. Not just in Starfleet, but in general. At least wrt. outside differences, I suppose it gets easier in a world full of "human with rubber forehead"-looking aliens.
  - Gud 2y ago
    Would be curious to know what that way is, because it’s not exactly made clear in the show.
    - Izkata 2y ago
      It's left a little ambiguous because obviously they don't know what would really work, but the timeline was roughly: WWIII -> Post-Atomic Horror -> First contact with the Vulcans, then the whole push into space getting humanity to pull together over the following couple of centuries would be when this happened. It wasn't just cultural stuff like caring about baldness, during that later period all sorts of things were solved, like hunger and various diseases. Basically we had to hit our lowest point before we could get better.