Comments on: Boldly Heading Into The Afterlife http://www.trektoday.com/content/2011/10/boldly-heading-into-the-afterlife/ Daily Star Trek news Sun, 26 May 2013 03:16:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Kes'N santi-Martock http://www.trektoday.com/content/2011/10/boldly-heading-into-the-afterlife/comment-page-1/#comment-692 Kes'N santi-Martock Sun, 06 Nov 2011 23:46:00 +0000 http://www.trektoday.com/content/?p=13230#comment-692 It's a great idea for true Star Trek Fans who want to go out with a BANG what better than a TREK cASKET. It’s a great idea for true Star Trek Fans who want to go
out with a BANG what better than a TREK cASKET.

]]> By: Efeigenbaum http://www.trektoday.com/content/2011/10/boldly-heading-into-the-afterlife/comment-page-1/#comment-646 Efeigenbaum Fri, 28 Oct 2011 21:01:00 +0000 http://www.trektoday.com/content/?p=13230#comment-646 Maybe it's just me but this is the dumbest thing I've ever heard of. Maybe it’s just me but this is the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard of.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.trektoday.com/content/2011/10/boldly-heading-into-the-afterlife/comment-page-1/#comment-643 Anonymous Fri, 28 Oct 2011 17:27:00 +0000 http://www.trektoday.com/content/?p=13230#comment-643 Trek could never gets its story straight about future medicine. They can travel faster than light and beam things around; yet Capt. Picard went through life bald at the same time minoxidil came onto the market in the real world, and while an occasional human character lived past 100 (and looked like hell), the health care in "the future" couldn't rejuvenate people and keep them healthy indefinitely, unless the plot required it to do so to save a character with accelerated aging. If Trek really wanted to break new ground, it could have borrowed from Damon Knight's story "The Dying Man," where a character in a society of extremely long-lived people learns that her boyfriend has started to age and will eventually die, and she exclaims, "But that doesn't happen to <b>people!</b> Trek could never gets its story straight about future medicine. They can travel faster than light and beam things around; yet Capt. Picard went through life bald at the same time minoxidil came onto the market in the real world, and while an occasional human character lived past 100 (and looked like hell), the health care in “the future” couldn’t rejuvenate people and keep them healthy indefinitely, unless the plot required it to do so to save a character with accelerated aging.

If Trek really wanted to break new ground, it could have borrowed from Damon Knight’s story “The Dying Man,” where a character in a society of extremely long-lived people learns that her boyfriend has started to age and will eventually die, and she exclaims, “But that doesn’t happen to people!

]]> By: Rick Obert http://www.trektoday.com/content/2011/10/boldly-heading-into-the-afterlife/comment-page-1/#comment-642 Rick Obert Fri, 28 Oct 2011 15:12:00 +0000 http://www.trektoday.com/content/?p=13230#comment-642 Seriously, must have the photon torpedo casing. How else am I to get launched to the Genesis planet so I can be reborn? Seriously, must have the photon torpedo casing. How else am I to get launched to the Genesis planet so I can be reborn?

]]> By: Joseph http://www.trektoday.com/content/2011/10/boldly-heading-into-the-afterlife/comment-page-1/#comment-639 Joseph Fri, 28 Oct 2011 01:10:00 +0000 http://www.trektoday.com/content/?p=13230#comment-639 If I hadn't signed up for cryonics, this would so be in my will. If I hadn’t signed up for cryonics, this would so be in my will.

]]> By: dup http://www.trektoday.com/content/2011/10/boldly-heading-into-the-afterlife/comment-page-1/#comment-638 dup Fri, 28 Oct 2011 00:17:00 +0000 http://www.trektoday.com/content/?p=13230#comment-638 Seriously? Why does this not look like a photon torpedo? Seriously? Why does this not look like a photon torpedo?

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