>watch Star Trek: The Next Generation. Episode is called Rascals
>Picard and some other crewmates are accidentally de-aged into children, while still retaining their adult minds and memories
>They decide to return to their adult bodies at the end of the episode for no reason
Why wouldn’t a man in his fifties remain as a 15 year old? Sure a few years would suck. But he’d soon be in his twenties again and in his physical prime, but with the same experience and status he had as a captain.
>Why wouldn’t a man in his fifties remain as a 15 year old
15 year olds have no rights.
Only downside was Miles O’brien couldn’t be with his wife because her body was now 14 years old
Legally he wasn’t a 15 year old though. Only physically. He was still captain of the enterprise even, although he chose to relinquish command because he felt the crew couldn’t take him seriously looking like a kid
How is the Federation not unstoppable at this point? They can use transporters to become immortal as well as create copies of themselves like Riker. The Dominion War should have been over in a week.
Yeah, but for every minute spent using OP tech, they have to spend an hour doing tribunals about philosophy and morality while they get attacked. So it balances out
I skimmed some eps and saw that Will/Thomas Riker episode. Wasn't sure the logic behind the cloning transporter so I googled it. Sounds like Thomas later in life, hijacks the Defiant disguised as Will and tries to start a war.
Based!
What the fuck is wrong with you that you think those kids look like they're 14 or 15? Maybe mini-picard, but the rest of them look like they're 11 or 12.
Well the episode came out in 1992, and the actor playing kid Picard was born in 1977
Besides, who says they keep aging past 11 or 12 anyway?
Would any of you want to keep your adult brain in that of a child for all of eternity?
What? There’s literally nothing to suggest they stopped aging.
I would commit genocide to return my adult brain to a child body.
Also, why didn't the Ferengi think they were regular crew members? They still wore their uniforms and could have been aliens that just look like that and try to hide in the Kindergarten.
Even funnier when adult future Nog in a DS9 episode is still played by kid Nog's actor with some age makeup.
>Be old enough to gather a fuck ton of knowledge and experience
>Go back to a younger body with same knowledge and experience
>Have more time to gain even more knowledge and experience
Yeah. I’d do the exact same thing.
Not to mention, you know. The ladies. Heh heh.
What happened to Picard's artificial heart?
You want to debate the constructs of a science fiction show as if it has 1 to 1 bearing in real life? Were talking adults magically turning into children here, normal rules do not apply.
I'd "probably" do the same (getting old sucks). But do 11-12 year olds get boners? Are they fully grown? I got a big donger irl, not sure I could go back to being average size or not being old enough to fuck.
There was a story a few years ago about some Russian (or maybe Ukrainian) dude that came to the US as a university exchange student. Didn't want to go back when it ran out so he made an arrangement with a middle aged couple to have them legally adopt him as their 14 year old son. Only cache was he had to go back to high school. He goes back and ends up being the most popular Chad in the whole school. Excellent grades because 20+ year old brain, tons of bitches because not an awkward pubescent retard, and had top universities lining up to give him a full-ride scholarship. He would have had it fucking made if he hadn't got caught. Ended up getting charged with fraud and statutory rape for his underage gfs
I fell in love at 8 and learned how to pound my raging Ares spearhead by 11. Shot blanks until 13, though.
FYI males can get erections as early as in the womb
Sounded like a CW series up until that last part.
I think they ended up turning that into a Law & Order episode, with the gender reversed.
Fair enough. There's not a lot of downside to it, it seems. It might be hard to bang 18+ year old chicks though, so you better get good at training virgins.
I started wanking on the reg at age 7-8, was shooting blanks until 11. When it finally happened I panicked because I thought I broke something. All these years later I thank god I haven't gone to ask adults about this or I'd never hear the end of it eventually I just figured it out
In this situation you’re still able to think like you’re 25-80, just in the body of a 13 year old. Sure your penis might not work as well at first, but you still remember your technique and how to build stamina. Once you turn 16-18 again, you’re a God at sex.
Just because people can do something that you might think is good and logical doesn't mean they have the same cultural feelings towards it.
The conceit was that you stay a child forever though. That's the more challenging thought provoking question - Nobody in their right mind would say "no" to getting the chance to grow up again, only wiser and smarter.
Why not?
For an in universe logic lets say...
The Earth banned eugenics, so maybe they have a ideology that you have to let your life run its course. So de-aging is taboo and wrong.
I think there was a shitty season 1 episode about this
I'd do anything for my wife to de-age.
her body is disgusting now.
Because it’s wrong
Grow up again? Fuck that shit. Having to put up with puberty and waiting for my brain to mature at 25? Nope nope nope nope nope. 25 is as far back as I want to go physically. Beyond that, I better be going back in time and be able to use all my future knowledge to set myself up on sports betting and stock trading.
In every culture, there is going to be outliers, degenerates, and ne'er-do-wells. The question cannot be explained away by "cultural feelings."
Y'all remember the part where kid Keiko gets pissed that O'Brien won't fuck her?
That was totally weird haha
Because Picard was actually happy with his adult life and not a depressed manchild full of regret.
Go to bed Jordan.
People on TV make short sighted decisions.
Yes
Lol. That reminds me, maybe this is the place to ask, I seem to recall it being canon that currency does not exist in the Federation (or on Earth) - if somebody needs something, it is given to them by their fellow man or of course, replicators.
But how is it in the few Derp Space Nine eps I saw, Quark is always trying to deal in latinum or credits (money). The Ferangi are like space jews.
So is it that humans don't have money, but aliens do?
Space has money. You don't need money to live comfortably on Earth.
It was actually really heartbreaking when Molly looked at her and said "where's mommy?" and when told she was her mommy she angrily rejected her and said "you're not mommy, I want mommy!" Jokes aside, that's too much heartbreak for anyone.
Literally this. He faced all his demons with stolid maturity and that made him what he was, a great leader and captain of a galactic power's flagship. He accepts looking like a teenager and loses all his credibility.
>living twice and still not having the knowledge and experience to earn credibility from anyone
The Federation doesn't have currency, but Federation members are sometimes forced to use latinum to purchase things they're not able to get through replicators.
The Ferengi seem a lot like space Jews, but they're supposed to represent the general greed and selfishness in the 20th/21st century
>downside
Makes sense, thx
Even if replicators can't make latinum, they can make any number of other items that can be sold for latinum. They should have just kept the Ferengi as space perverts.
>"Hey baby! You wanna see my deep space 9 ?"
>let's replace our beloved cast with a bunch of no-name kids who can't act, for the sake of giving this dumb story a conclusion that makes sense
Not in this timeline
Look at this faggot asking what I wanted and nobody replies.
I would give my left ball to be a disembodied force that could hijack people's bodies and then cast them off when I find a better one
It's a dumb question. Nothing happened to it, Picard still has it. The end.
