//Well, Torri Higginson is still in her thirties; there's only so far you can age up a character from their actor.//
Oh, okay. Judging someone's age is like facial recognition -- incredibly complex pattern-matching routines that those who have don't fully appreciate how hard it can be to compensate for with normal pattern-matching (which is a fancy way of saying that I cannot tell people's ages, except in the most general "the-one-with-gray-hair-and-wrinkles is probably older than the-one-without" sort of way); so in the absence of other data, such as not bothering to look up the actor's age, I recall that my mother was forty-seven when she became general counsel of a national association and assume that director of a multinational intergalactic expedition would require at least that much experience.
(Which was probably unwarrantedly optimistic of me, given the part where their provisioning sucks.)
//Oh, you totally know that if something affecting brain chemistry were discovered, that knowledge would stay in Atlantis and under wraps until treatment had been concluded, and probably even then.//
Exactly; and there'd be the periods of "oh, look, the Daedalus, everyone pretend Elizabeth's still in charge; Elizabeth, remember that you still can't quite trust your judgment, try not to be in a position where you have to make command decisions without surreptitiously running them by whomever."
//Fanfiction is the opiate of the fannish masses. So much more useful than religion, eh?//
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Oh, okay. Judging someone's age is like facial recognition -- incredibly complex pattern-matching routines that those who have don't fully appreciate how hard it can be to compensate for with normal pattern-matching (which is a fancy way of saying that I cannot tell people's ages, except in the most general "the-one-with-gray-hair-and-wrinkles is probably older than the-one-without" sort of way); so in the absence of other data, such as not bothering to look up the actor's age, I recall that my mother was forty-seven when she became general counsel of a national association and assume that director of a multinational intergalactic expedition would require at least that much experience.
(Which was probably unwarrantedly optimistic of me, given the part where their provisioning sucks.)
//Oh, you totally know that if something affecting brain chemistry were discovered, that knowledge would stay in Atlantis and under wraps until treatment had been concluded, and probably even then.//
Exactly; and there'd be the periods of "oh, look, the Daedalus, everyone pretend Elizabeth's still in charge; Elizabeth, remember that you still can't quite trust your judgment, try not to be in a position where you have to make command decisions without surreptitiously running them by whomever."
//Fanfiction is the opiate of the fannish masses. So much more useful than religion, eh?//
As an opiate, certainly. ^_^