TNG s6e6 “True Q”

  • RBG
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    82 years ago

    Its not about looks when you talk about having kids at older age. Its about genetic risk factors, increasing the risk the pregnancy goes wrong or your child will have issues.

    • @Kepabar@startrek.website
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      2 years ago

      It’s not even about that.

      Like 99% of women have hit menopause by 55, and the number of births for mothers over 50 with no medical intervention in the conception process is extremely low. So low that Wikipedia has an article detailing specific women it’s happened to.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pregnancy_over_age_50

      This wouldn’t be a huge deal, except a major plot point is that it was an accidental pregnancy neither of them planned for. So it’s not like she was getting any kind of fertility treatment.

      While not impossible it just makes Jacks conception extremely unlikely