Comment on Bullhonky Bev playing the long game
RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year agoIts 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 1 year 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.
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.
MrPoopyButthole@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s the future! waves hands mysteriously
ApostleO@startrek.website 1 year ago
The fact Q shows up at the end to meet Jack makes me wonder if he had anything to do with the “accident”.
GratefullyGodless@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Teleporters, Warp speed, and phasers you have no issues with, but medical science advancing enough to extend the human period of fertility is unrealistic?
Kepabar@startrek.website 1 year ago
If she were trying to have children, sure then I can believe medical science could make that happen.
But menopause happens in part because the body runs out of viable eggs. The body doesn’t produce more over a life; you are born with your supply.
Why would medical science have given her more eggs at some point?