"Requiem for Methuselah" is the nineteenth episode of the third season of the American science fiction television series Star Trek.
Spock notices that the brushwork of the paintings is identical to Leonardo da Vinci's, but his tricorder indicates that they are made with modern materials.
Flint has lived "lifetimes" as Methuselah, Alexander the Great, Solomon, Lazarus of Bethany, Leonardo da Vinci, Brahms, and many others.
Back on the Enterprise, McCoy reports that readings from the earlier tricorder scan show that Flint has been aging normally since he left Earth's environment, and will soon die.
Club criticized the Rigellian fever scenario as contrived and wrote that Flint being numerous famous men from history was both completely irrelevant and contradictory to his claim that he had kept a low profile to avoid his immortality being discovered.
[3] In 2017, Den of Geek ranked "Requiem for Methuselah" as the 15th "best worst" Star Trek: The Original Series episode, echoing Handlen's criticism that Kirk falling so intensely in love with Rayna over the course of just four hours was highly out-of-character.
[4] According to fantasy and science fiction scholar Ace G. Pilkington, "Requiem for Methuselah" is a Star Trek adaptation of the film Forbidden Planet (1956).
[5] Actress Anne Francis reported that Gene Roddenberry, the creator of Star Trek, had talked to her about lifting some ideas from Forbidden Planet.
[5] Actor Leslie Nielsen noted the similarities between Forbidden Planet and Star Trek, suggesting that the film served as a pilot for the television series.
He is also encountered in Greg Cox's The Eugenics Wars: The Rise and Fall of Khan Noonien Singh as Dr. Evergreen, a 1980s scientist who discovers a hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica, in Immortal Coil by Jeffrey Lang, and in Federation by Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens as Zefram Cochrane's benefactor Micah Brack.
In the crossover comic Star Trek/Legion of Super-Heroes, the crew of the Enterprise joins forces with the Legion of Super-Heroes to investigate an alternative timeline where Earth has become a galaxy-conquering empire, learning that the villain is immortal Vandal Savage, who turns out to be an alternative version of Flint, Flint being a Vandal Savage who turned his back on violence and conquest.
The character of Rayna appears briefly twice without speaking as a hallucination in Episode 4 of Star Trek Continues, "The White Iris",[7] this time played by Gabriela Fresquez, Spock's removal of Kirk's memory having been loosened by a brain injury and an experimental drug.
This episode was released in Japan on December 21, 1993 as part of the complete season 3 LaserDisc set, Star Trek: Original Series log.3.