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* [[Star Trek: The Motion Picture|The first]] ''[[Star Trek]]'' movie, made 10 years after the series ended, attempted unsuccessfully to cover up how much the actors had aged. [[Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan|The next installment]], however, plunged full-force into this, even making it a major plot point (to the point where [[William Shatner]] has admitted he absolutely did not like the idea at first and "had to be dragged in kicking and screaming"). This wasn't emphasised quite as much in the later films, though they continued to make no effort to hide the actors' ages. This makes a certain amount of sense, as advanced medical technology would likely extend human lifespan (and probably working lifespan) significantly.
** Fandom seems to be agreed that although advanced medical technology has extended lifespans (as is shown in the first episode of ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation|Star Trek the Next Generation]]'', when a 137-year-old McCoy -- by current estimates this is older than a human is biologically capable of living -- is given the grand tour), strictly cosmetic procedures such as plastic surgery have fallen out of favour -- with the notable exception of hairpieces.
** It's also actor [[Brent Spiner]]'s rationale for Data's death in ''[[Star Trek: Nemesis|Nemesis]]''; in that case, of course, the actor's aging couldn't be handwaved or worked into the plot, since Data is an ageless android.
*** Remember Data's offscreen spoken line over the comm in the ''[[Star Trek: Enterprise|Enterprise]]'' finale? They wanted him to appear on screen but he refused because he felt he was too old to look like Data anymore.
*** However, in the last regular episode of Star Trek TNG, the Data of the (possibly no longer valid) future had had some gray added to his hair to simulate aging just to 'try it out.' The perfect explanation should they ever want to bring Data is ''already established.'' Of course, it wouldn't have worked for an episode explicitly set during season 7.
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* The new ''90210'' has characters from the old... but thankfully, they're actually adults rather than [[Dawson Casting|adults playing high school students]].
* ''[[Red Dwarf]]: Back to Earth'' begins with a title card that reads, "Nine Years Later".
* The ''[[Doctor Who]]'' special "[[Doctor Who/Recap/2007 Ci NS Time Crash
** [[Fanon]] also applies this to Patrick Troughton's aged appearance in ''The Two Doctors'', postulating the existence of a much greater gap between the last appearance of the [[The Nth Doctor|Second Doctor]] and the first appearance of the Third than suggested on screen.
* ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures]]'' featured an older Sarah Jane Smith, who had aged [[Grandma, What Massive Hotness You Have!|very well]], along with guest appearances by [[The Brigadier]], a [[Badass Grandpa]] if ever there was one, and Jo Jones, formerly Jo Grant. Lampshaded in ''The Death of the Doctor'' when, after Jo expressed surprise that the Doctor had [[The Nth Doctor|changed his face]] "into a baby's", he shot back that she looked like someone baked her.
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