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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mark" data-source="post: 901398" data-attributes="member: 5">Tim Russ is about 30 years younger than Robert Guillaume.  I'm always amazed how many folks claim Voyager was horrible coupled with a statement of how they hardly, if ever, watched the show.  Let's stick with a discussion of things with which you are familiar so my forehead doesn't get brick impressions...I assume the wink is meant to mean the cycle of the Pon Farr doesn't need to coincide with the seven seasons of the series. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Nonetheless, there are a number of actual medical conditions that can be prematurely triggered by a virus so the plot device didn't bother me.  How a condition that compels a vulcan to mate, and in this case gets displayed in a female vulcan, could hardly be done in a way too differently from how it was handled.  And, as said before, since we've seen this in other main characters who happened to be vulcans throughout the franchise, to not do it would have been the greater of two evils, IMO.That's something that's been true of ST since day one, old timer.  You should be used to it by now.  The public standard is not being stretched by modern ST...especially compared to TOS.  But you know that. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />Uh?Please copy and paste it here (or just hit the highlights) if you'd like to discuss it further.</blockquote>

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