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Honestly people are looking younger than previous generations.
Fewer smokers. Smoking really ages you.
For sure, and I’m sure a large part of it is less smoking and more sunscreen. That shit ages you.
Sunscreen is probably less of a factor in this case. As I understand it, she has a skin condition that basically makes her avoid direct sunlight altogether.
People with freckles tend to avoid sunlight, yeah.
I know people are citing smoking and sunscreen but i'd like to give a shoutout to microplastics
Haha are you talking indirect exposure or the jam it in my face kind?
The environmental "jam it in my everything" kind. It's like we're being slowly plasticised.
Maybe we can add 3d printed extrusion to the list of future practices when it comes to death and handling of the body
That picture is still recent, albeit a few years old. Here is one or 2 from 2024. And yes, she's still got it!
She's aging into Kerri Kenney-Silver
Nah, accurate projection for what a fifty year old looked like in the 90's.
Go look up william hartnell and Peter capaldi as the 1st and 12th Doctors. Dudes were the same age bracket when they portrayed the character. We're lasting longer.
Lasting longer, but also having much better access to basic skin care routines, smoking has dropped sharply and nobody has natural hair color anymore.
Stallone was the same age in Creed as Burgess Meredith was in the original Rocky.
Tom Cruise was older in Top Gun Maverick than Tom Skerritt was in Top Gun.
Still would.
Is that you Commander Riker?
You can bet your hurting back on that.
Isn't Terry Farrell dramatically allergic to direct sunlight? I feel like I read that in the trivia for the episode The Ship, and that was why Dax had to stay inside for the whole episode.
Never being allowed to go out in direct sunlight will have a real positive effect on one's aging process.
Yep, she has a skin condition. I didn't know this, so I looked it up. I guess it's not super common knowledge, but she has discussed it before.
One of the fans asked Terry Farrell about her skin disorder, which prevented her from doing much shooting outside, such as the episode Rocks and Shoals where Dax stays inside a cave for most of the episode. Farrell told how she was teased when people saw her about walking about with a parasol.
I’d imagine it would make me super depressed but I guess less blemishes.
Likely at the behest of that bastard Berman.
Her breasts don't look big enough for that.
"today" is before 2021, and it seems to be a carefully selected photo she uses when asked for autograph.
who would expect such photo with good lighting, make-up and possibly any amount of digital editing look better, than character who was supposed to be "old person in the wild", right?
They always over did it with the aging make-up in those days. Picard at the end of The Inner Light looks straight up horrifying.
Old people used to look different
Used to and will again, apparently.
They always make old women's hair look like shit in flash forwards, like women stop taking care of their hair when they're old and just let it turn into a wirey mess
I think it would be difficult to smile with face contours made of latex.
Huh. 1995 was almost 30 years ago. Now excuse me while the nurse rolls me out to the patio so I can take a nap.
I finished high school in 1995, so I'll be along shortly.
-95 was just like a decade ago, right?
As far as I'm concerned, it's been 1998 or so for years now.
Yeah the thing they don't really inform us of as kids is that while you may live for several decades after "starting your life" (ie finishing schools, going to work), but that it weirdly feels shorter than the few odd years in school.
Having a kid really sped things up for me. It felt like just yesterday she was the little baby that I could hold in the crook of my arm and now she's 14.
Looking forward to that, unless I missed it already.
Luckily we men have a tad larger window, but I always imagined being with someone pretty much exactly my age, but that's not like a criteria or anything. Just aways had that thought.
If I want that I should really hurry up some. My own father didn't really the ability to play with us and I'd like to be able to physically play with my kids.
Oh completely unrelated rant, sorry, I'm just jealous.
The last decade feels like it has gone by faster for me than some years in school. And nothing much to show for it, except a decade of aging on my face.
I had the rare good luck of finding someone early and being with her, but waiting until our 30s to have a kid.
Yeah. I'm happy for you, friend.
My luck is pretty much the same as Donald Duck's.
Eh, perhaps some day. Never say never and all that.
Yeah, I would definitely never say never. I have a friend who is an awesome guy. Really likable and good looking. Not an enemy in the world. He could never stay in a relationship. He just got married last year at age 45.
That does instill some hope in me. Thank you for the reassurance.
You're welcome and good luck! I don't believe in soulmates or being made for each other or anything like that, but I do think that, unless you live out in the middle of nowhere, there's probably someone not too far away that will think you'll be compatible with them. No relationship has to be perfect. Ours has sure had its ups and downs over the years. It's really hard to find that person, especially these days when there are so fewer social options (everyone in cafes is wearing earbuds now), but they're still around.
And even if you do live out in the sticks, people find love online all the time.
I have faith in you finding love out there!
Not to brag, but getting into a relationship was never a challenge for me. I'm not really looking right now, due to the situation I'm in. Let's say the dating pool around my current living situation isn't one I feels like investing in. (There's a related saying, "never stick yo dick in crazy")
And even if I decided not to have kids, I can still have meaningful relationships. It's just... I'm around that baby fever age. I don't have one or want a crying shitbucket, essentially, but there clearly is an evolutionary need to procreate. Perhaps I'll grow out of it.
But like, just on a cognitive level, it seems so... weird, not to procreate, becsuse literally all my ancestors going back to their beginning of life have done that.
I'm sure you know what I mean.
I have faith in you finding love out there!
Me too man, but I'll look for it... a bit later. Cheers for the sentiment tho!
damn it's hot in here! did you guys know it '98 up in here?!
True story: Just the other day, I saw kids dancing to "I put my hand upon your hip, when I dip, you dip, we dip". That took me back 😅
IIRC, that timeline was pretty stressful, so I think it's fair
Considering what happens on a weekly basis, I'd say all timelines are pretty stressful in Starfleet.
