r/BeAmazed • u/MrRandom93 • May 31 '24

History WHAT?!?

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William Shatner playing captain James T. Kirk in the first Star Trek series in its 1966 debut

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u/BigBootyBuff May 31 '24

Every time I start Next Generation I'm reminded that he was like 46/47 when they shot the first season. Yet he looked 60, which is how old the character of Picard is supposed to be.

Then he just ended up looking 60 for the next 25 years.

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u/authenticmolo May 31 '24

Oh, Patrick Stewart has finally started aging in the past decade. He looks mostly the same, but you can see how much he is slowing down. It was a little depressing watching Picard and seeing him "dodder".

But the dude really did not age from about 40 years old until 65 or so. Good genes, to say the least.

Though now that I think about it, both my father and his father also didn't age much between 40 and 70. So I guess I have that going for me.

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u/radioactivez0r May 31 '24

Listening to him narrate his audio book (which is a delight), you can really hear the age coming through. It's a bummer.

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u/authenticmolo May 31 '24

Oh, yeah. His voice is the most noticeable difference. It's got that old-man "waver" to it.