Amelia wrote: Tue Apr 29, 2025 2:21 pm
Night457 wrote: Tue Apr 29, 2025 8:05 am
I have commented plenty on that episode,
Where is your comment?
In "The Giant of Thunder Mountain" thread:
viewtopic.php?p=96373#p96373
EDIT: Oh, now I see that pillowbaker answered this question!
...Worf could hardly admit that Klingons look different in later Trek because they got a bigger budget for makeup!
By the 24th century, men are no longer vain enough to worry about baldness so there is nothing to cure.

It is just like the natural effects of aging (wrinkles, gray hair) as seen in some of the characters over the years. They are not bothered by it. There is a Star Trek TNG movie that mocked extreme plastic surgery as used by those seeking to avoid getting old.
With Sully's comment, I just now read about Patrick Stewart going bald at a very young age (17-19):
https://www.businessinsider.com/patrick ... 23-10?op=1
I had never seen him in movies until he was fortyish, so I had no idea! Still, actual children are rarely bald unless they have severe health issues like progeria, or cancer being treated by chemotherapy. I never thought that he was a bald child, just that he looked good as a bald man.
The original series had the extended-childhood-and-death-at-adolescence episode "Miri" although the lead child in it (Kim Darby) was 19. Some of the supporting characters were younger.
"And the Children Shall Lead" featured actual children playing children, in addition to a guest appearance by the devil.

(And yes, I know at least some of the original series by episode title.

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Captain Picard is uncomfortable with children, but Captain Kirk likes to make them cry.