The prime directive must be followed faithfully.
But like a Vulcan, you can solve this logically.
And with some engineering you’ll get off Scotty-free…
There must be…fifty ways to kill an ensign.
Look, no two redshirts die the same way, so once we have stroke, heart attack and the major cancers covered, I could live a really long time. What are the odds this nursing home has a gravitemporal maceration?
And as a middle Boomer who watched Star Trek on TV in 1970s reruns rather than their original seasons, I can't say it's because they've got people still working there who are too old to have seen it.
That's not the future of retirement.
That's the future of life.
The prospect of death doesn't suddenly pop up when one retires. It is guaranteed the moment one is born.
Trust me, I don't find much humor in the fact that myself and most everyone younger than me won't be able to retire. The joke is that the rich took away pensions, told everyone they had to invest in a 401k instead, then crashed the market all while never raising anyone's wages. The joke is on us.
