Star Trek Advocated For Life Extension And Didn't Even Know It
Channel: Lifespan News
Date: 2021-07-05

Aging in Star Trek is pretty much like in the real world—people may live a little longer, but they age just like we do, and science hasn't really defeated aging (except in a few episodes, where the cure for aging winds up being nonchalantly forgotten shortly thereafter). But there's one episode where Star Trek advocated for life extension, and didn't even notice it.

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You can find a transcript of “Half a life” here:
http://www.chakoteya.net/NextGen/196.htm

Information on human life expectancy:
https://ourworldindata.org/life-expectancy

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Other images:

"Star Trek/United Federation of Planets sign on a door at Kennedy Space Center" by Heather Paul (https://www.flickr.com/photos/warriorwoman531/)

Life expectancy breakdown from Our World in Data
World life expectancy from Our World in Data
https://ourworldindata.org/life-expectancy

Smiling face with heart-eyes emoji clipart, Vincent Le Moign, http://emoji.streamlineicons.com/
Music: "Cold - Instrumental version" by Anthony Lazaro. Artlist.io

"U.S.S. Enterprise NCC 1701-D.jpg", Unknown author, distributed under CC by-sa 4.0 license, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:U.S.S._Enterprise_NCC_1701-D.jpg

Clips from “Half a life” are copyright of CBS Corporation
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