retarded aging effect theme

Featured is a hypothetical effect that makes you age much slower than normal. The effect might, for example, be brought about by a futuristic medical treatment.

Examples

McCoy's tricorder scans of the Vaalians in tos2x09 "The Apple" revealed them to not be aging at all, praise be Vaal.

5 total · 4 major · 1 minor

StoryLevelMotivation
movie: City Under the Sea (1965) major Sir Hugh and his men were not subject to the process of aging while they stayed under the conditions of the underwater city.
movie: Star Trek: Insurrection (1998) major The Ba'ku villagers had not aged a day since they settled on their planet some 300 years ago because of the presence of metaphasic particles.
movie: The People (1972) major The people of Bendo didn't age at an appreciable rate and were free of illness.
rbt1985e3x10 major The story explores the consequences of Willie ceasing to age, for reasons that were left unexplained, physically at the biological age of 12. It turned out to be something of a curse, as Willie found it necessary to find a new family to live with every two years.
tos2x09 minor McCoy's tricorder scans of the Vaalians revealed them to not be aging at all.