Who Is Flint the Immortal?
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Flint the Immortal is one of the most intriguing characters in Star Trek: The Original Series. First featured in the episode "Requiem for Methuselah," Flint is revealed to have been Alexander the Great, Leonardo da Vinci, Johannes Brahms, and others. But with many of Flint's aliases having well documented early lives, how could he have lived as such famous men from Earth's history?
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I've always wished that the writer of "Requiem for Methuselah" had also tied the Flint story into the legend of St. Germain. Who many believed was also some kind of immortal. Given all the questions that exist to this day over the possible true identity of Shakespeare it would have made just about a perfect tie in also with the Flint story.
By the the legend of St. Germain is really. He was last sited in the 1970. And by the way he " died in 1980" I believe he faked his death. And is out there somewhere living among us.
Flint is actually his last name, it's short for Flintstone, his original name was Fred and he worked in a stone quarry...
Ha ha ha that is pretty funny really. Another of his past lives huh? That would tie the Star Trek universe into the universe of The Flintstones.
@@komradewirelesscaller6716 Ever heard of Stone Trek? I'm not joking, look it up.
@@thefurrybastard1964 yes I believe I have heard of that. I will check it out again when I have a chance.
My aunt Peggy had a husband whose last name was flint...... which is so hard it sharpens steel......... um to many short stories just popped up in my mind............
this is cannon
Pretty much ninety percent of The Highlander script came from this episode of Star Trek. Flint's immortality is pretty much the same as the immortality experienced by the immortals of the Highlander film. One can just imagine a couple of writers, eating pizza, getting stoned, and asking, "Like hey, what would happen if someone cut Flint's head off?" Wham. The Highlander is born!
So is Flints real name Methos?
@3:15 Flint may have had a son, Derek Flint (who was later played by James Coburn), who starred in the movies entitled, "Our Man Flint and In Like Flint".
As I recall, this episode was written by Jerome Bixby, who later took this idea and expanded on it. His expanded concept was then made into a full length feature film called The Man From Earth, and features numerous Trek alumni.
Yes "Man From Earth" is the greatest and so is Part 2 "Man From Earth; Holocene" by Jerome Bixby's son, Both free on the web because his son is trying to get a series started.
I was going to leave a comment about The Man From Earth but your comment said it all.
A great movie, great script, great actors and all done like Star Trek, in one place, a cabin. 👍
The Man from Earth had a sequel.
I had no idea they were written by the same guy! I hereafter consider flint to be the man from earth centuries later!
Flint is a character that reminds me a little of the character Walter Jameson in the Twilight Zone episode 'Long Live Walter Jameson', a history teacher that has lived for around 2,000 years.
He would have to be the most influential person in history. If you remove all his alter egos from the timeline, the history of the human race would be immensely different. Even with all his "famous" identities, I would imagine most of his life was spent in relative obscurity.
Indeed. He was born several centuries before the invention of writing, so his "early" exploits (meaning the first 4-500 years or so) likely inspired a number of oral traditions that later evolved into the mythologies of many cultures. For a long time, he seems to have been preoccupied with power and fame (he was "a bully and a fool" after all), so it's not hard to imagine he was the historical Sargon of Akkad as well as the basis for Gilgamesh. However, he likely lived as many other kings whose reigns were more or less forgotten, and this could have made him realise the fleeting nature of both power and fame. It's also possible that when Herodotus invented the discipline of history in the 5th century BC, Flint decided it was better to space out his more notable endeavours so that people wouldn't connect the dots. Alexander the Great seems to have been his last and greatest attempt at bending the world and history to his will, as all the aliases he mentions after that point were quiet, artistic/intellectual types. It would be interesting to know what happened during his time as Alexander to inspire this change.
All this is to say that Requiem for Methuselah barely scratches the surface, and it's a shame that to this day, the character has not been revisited in canon.
@@barrygormley3986 I think he could have learned the futility of conquering. Alexander stretched a very long way and, in the end, he wasn't able to enjoy any of what he had gained. He was one of the greatest military minds of Earth's history, yet even his achievements crumbled away under the corrosive squabbling of his generals.
But his legacy lasted as a historical figure. People remembered what he did, even if his empire was no longer there. So, perhaps Flint realized that historical legacy lasts longer than physical deed. It's a short jump in logic to conclude that dedicating oneself to art and science will have equal or greater impact on the world than any conqueror could.
TOS was really groundbreaking. That characters such as Flint the immortal are so interesting today shows how amazing it was. But imagine how amazing it was THEN. I saw Flint the immortal when it was first aired. I remember that in this episode we found out that Spock was an excellent musician, and could sight read flawlessly (who knew!). There was almost nothing on broadcast TV like it. The only series that came close were Twilight Zone, and The Outer Limits.
I love perspectives like this on topics I'm interested in. Thank you for sharing.
@ed p What’s you opinions on sci-fi throughout the decades, is any decade head and shoulders above the rest, is cgi matching your imagination, do you prefer the practical effects over cgi?
What passed for sci-fi in the 50's and 60's was absolutely terrible. Everything was rockets, flying saucers, and tin can robots, with laughable stories and characters. Star Trek was probably the first sci-fi that was actually watchable, it was WAY ahead of its time.
@@Me-qp8vz Star Trek is not science fantasy. It's definitely science fiction, though a little on the softer side. Science fantasy is like, Star Wars.
Im a sperg and could sight read quite well but somehow lost it in one day.
You treat this somewhat improbable character with just the amount of irreverence it deserves 👍
Great fun!
As the character Spock would say, "fascinating". In a later cartoon version, Flint would abscond a ship containing vast knowledge from the TOS series/source saving the quantity pearls from destruction and presumably never be heard of again thus preserving the Federation, Klingons, Romulans, etc. from total, mutual oblivion.
I've just started watching the series in stardate order... so tas is coming next. I didn't remember him in one of the animated series.. freaking awesome.
Wow!!! Definitely didn’t see this video coming! Nice job! Fascinating…
Thanks Jeff!
Always look forward to your videos. Can't beat a fun enquiry into the "historical background" of the Trek canon. Keep it up!
Great work, Mate.
I really enjoyed this.
Impressive research.
Dang .... Never knew that about the 5th season episode of Enterprise ... wish they would have scrapped the time arch earlier in Enterprise .... I never thought about this until this video ..... but Apollo mentions that they came to Earth as visitors , where Flint as Achilles was a Super Human .... I wonder if the timeline for his 2200's personna and the Eugenics' wars line up ?
The novel Federation came out just before Genessis. Micah Back financed Zefram Cohchrane's warp ship. It too involved a cross over between the STOS and TNG eras. It involves Zefram Cochrane and the companion. Its they who crossover between generations. Pursued by something that was or at least is a copy of one of Colnel Greens faction from the 3rd world war. Some shenanigans inside a blackhole provide the crossover point. A very serious case of monomania, and obsession lasting centuries. Zephram fled known space to get away from the villian.
It would be interesting if his blood was used to actually start the Eugenics project (there was a TV show back in the 70's along those lines - a guy who's blood cured all ills, and everyone was after him for it).
Flint is one of my favourite characters from the tos, I wish he featured on enterprise or discovery
In a crossover miniseries with the Legion of Superheroes meeting the classic Trek crew an epilog at the end shows Flint talking with Vandal Savage the immortal threat in the DC universe only for it to come out they are the same man from 2 universes and hinting at the multiverse of them across it.
Snap. I remember reading that years ago! I found it fascinating!
Flint was the Timeless child's sibling who wound up in another universe.
That was very thought provoking. I enjoyed that :D
Watch Man From Earth same writer Jerome Bixby and possible connection, if you enjoy sci Fi of the mind it is the best movie ever!! Also mostly trek actors including words brother,Kamen from inner light and flox
I'd imagine that the Q Continuum were well aware of Flint, but chose to leave him alone on the Delta planet which I find highly strange.
Great summation! One of my favorite episodes.
Tyler don’t miss 🎯
I think the only way to explain all the identities Flint assumed is to suppose that, in addition to being immortal, he also had some ability to alter his appearance that just wasn't utilised during the episode. This is also a better explanation for why he appears to be a middle-aged man (an appearance which he probably figured would go better with his new hermit persona), as Flint in the episode does not seem to realise he isn't immortal anymore: which would be kind of strange if he's been noticing his body age for the last 30 years or so.
He forgot to mention the time he spent as an Ancient Egyptian posing as a Spaniard called Ramerez and how he faked his own beheadding.
I don't have anything constructive to add. Well written and I really like your straightforward delivery like you're sharing cool info you know with a friend. Star Trek was my first SF so I really enjoyed this deep dive.
Live long and prosper!
Great video! I have always wanted to see a breakdown of Flint’s life like this. He is a great character.
Thank you!
ST ENT 5th since would be so lit, curse this timeline...
Star Trek Enterprise definitely deserved ALL 7 seasons!! Curse Les Moonves
Star Trek franchises and spin off shows have taken on some delicate and controversial subjects over the years. The writers have handled them with good results for the most part.
They've been among my favorite programs.
amazing how much thought you put into this single episode of a '60's sci-fi TV series.
Immortality what a concept. I would have liked to see maybe a continuous episode on this character. Such a man would be the most interesting of characters. Definitely more interesting than Con.
You make such excellent content
Thanks Peter!
Damn this one runs deep! Flint is very complex due to his age. This is outstanding, and mind-boggling!
I am enjoying your videos today!
Flint was an unparalleled genius but didn't realize leaving Earth would kill him???
And Bones figures it out in like 10 seconds.
Excellent analysis and commentary of the highest order, demonstrative of deep understanding of the Trek zeitgeist, this episode and Flint.
The kind of deep thought lacking in most commercial Trek production post VOY/ENT.
Been relying on fan films, not a bad thing moving forward.
Another entertaining commentary on a classic tale. 🖖
What it comes down to is this; TOS had great writing which gave you the leave to suspend your disbelief and accept the premise of the story. This is why I enjoy your channel. Well researched, giving context to the characters. Fun speculation.
This dropped 16 minutes ago but I had a Livestream I had to go mod... Feels like I've been waiting forever to see this! 😂✌🏻🖖🏻
In like Flint.
I loved those two movies. It's a parody of James Bond movies. Our Man Flint is the other movie.
Very insightful
I’ve always wanted to say this to Flint when he said “flowers of my past, I hold the nettles of the present” and would finish “and the seeds of the future “.
Ahh, the might have beens!!
The childhoods of Flints various Personas are actualy less of a problem. Anyone who uses a false identity (i.e. deep cover spies) needs a background for this identity ("Legend" as the STASI called it), including a childhood.
Raising of course other questions like:
- does he uses made up identities, or steal them from real people
- asumed the later, what happens to the identity donors
- did he ever lived as Felix Edmundowitsch Dszerschinsky
- how is the abovementioned name spelled correctly
- etc?
Wow. Thank-you. I learned a lot.
Flint is one of my favorite Star Trek characters. Since Flint has a very long life remaining. It is possible that a future Star Trek episode will either meet him again or make note of one of his accomplishments. Stay Tuned Star Trek fans.
Thanks
This character reminds me of the DC Comics character Vandal Savage or characters in the TV series Highlander. It's interesting how popular culture has so many examples of truly immortal characters (not undead like vampires).
There is a Star Trek TOS And Legion of Superheroes crossover with Vandal Savage AS Flint. There was a cool amalgam of universes created (for example Vulcan/Coluan mix)
I don"t know why but Flint the Immortal was always one of my favourite characters.
There is a Sci-Fi/fantasy series where a time traveling Mage from a different humanoid race named "Bud" because there was a flower that bubed when he was born but never blossomed. The flowers stayed in the bud phase until it became a full spacemage able to do large magic by tapping in to the power from one or more star or even a black hole. He took a group of young warriors whose names Guinevere, Lancelot, Arthur, Mordred etc. there were around 30 or 40 knights/warriors traveled to various epics throughout the British Isles hoping various actual King Arthurs. He was known as Merlin the magician.
I think it's also important to remember that this is presuming that his memory is perfect, and that he is recollecting his past lives accurately. As a 32-year old, I've forgotten a LOT about my past, only remembering the ups and downs and the general flow, but the details are lost. I've also had to reconstruct past experiences through input from others, which have likely influenced or altered my memories. So if I could have all that happen in my comparatively short life, would Flint be immune to that? Is it possible that Flint's past identities are not entirely accurate, that he was some of the people he claimed to be but not all of them?
There is a movie from 2007 called The Man from Earth, which is also about an immortal man who has lived on Earth since the dawn of man. In this movie, he is with a group of his friends and tries to get them to accept that truth, but many are skeptical. They bombard him with questions, but the protagonist mentions that, like any other human, his memory is imperfect and he is incapable of remembering all the events from his many, many years of life.
Just like you can't remember everything that happened in your lifetime, he can't either, the only exception being that his lifetime is vastly longer. Also unlike Flint in this video, he never claims to be anyone important from history (with one pretty major exception), and that he is just wandering from place to place as a nobody, leading normal, unremarkable lives, because he realizes that if he draws a lot of attention to himself by becoming famous, his secret is much more likely to come out.
This episode reminds me of that movie quite a bit, but to be honest, the movie did the whole 'immortal human' story a lot better. It's much more believable (as far as immortality can be believable, at least), when you consider his flawed memory, imperfect choices and, like any human, ability to be hurt, both physically and emotionally.
Flint is a bit too far out there to be taken seriously. Ofcourse, it's science fiction and neither one of them is real, but the concept of Flint pretending to have shaped so much of mankind's history in such important ways is just too ridiculous to be anything but a lie. Or at least, partially lied. It's an interesting concept for the Star Trek universe to explore, but they went a little too deep into cheesy territory, imo. The movie did a far better job at making me suspend my disbelief.
@@Xylarxcode I loved that movie! It did so much without over-the-top acting or special effects, and it opened up a LOT of questions. Plus, it showed that being an immortal would be VERY difficult to prove short of failing to kill them through various means, or having DNA samples that match perfectly even 14000 years later.
@@Xylarxcode Someone else in this comment section said that _The Man from Earth_ and "Requiem for Methuselah" were written by the same author. I haven't looked into it, but you may want to.
You didn't explain how Flint shrunk the Enterprise! Or how Kirk could look inside to see the bridge -- the viewscreen isn't a window!
Kirk when he looked down at the Enterprise was also looking down at the scanner that was on that side of the bridge. Which otherwise would have had a view of the planet on the viewscreen when they were in orbit. Kirk was able to look into the bridge because the dome at the top of the bridge is transparent. As they showed at the start of The Cage and also in The Menagerie.
@@komradewirelesscaller6716 That would work, except that Kirk's view of the bridge was from the POV of the viewscreen, not the dome. ;-)
@@destronia123 huh??!!
Flint is a genius with the accumulated knowledge of 6,000 years so he would know how to protect himself and his planet without doing harm.
@@55Quirll Yeah, but at least have some technobabble to explain how he did it.
Or he lied realizing that he was going to eventually be found no matter where he went. So he created a plausible story of aging when off Earth. (I'm forgetting the specifics of how the episode ended though.)
My view here is, flint, who had first tried to guide humanity through conquest, then religion, then science and logic... likely turned to medicine and genetics in the 20-21st centuries.
His goal to improve humanity likely lead to the eugentics wars. Now this is the fun part. What if.. Flint and Dr Soung are the same person? so we go to enterprise, were dr soung is trying to fix the eugenics soldiers, remove the aggression, make a better humanity... at the end of that he gives up with eugenics and decides on... robotics...
where by we encounter him as flint in tos, working on his postronics... though androids and emotiosn don't seem to mix.. followed by him finally creating Data.
The android suffered the same fate as Lall, Data's daughter. Human emotions shorted both their positronic brains. The only reason Data survives is the emo chip acting as a buffer and filter.
He's a *Time Lord!!*
What I'm waiting for is Flint, Duncan MacCloud & Vandel Savage and a "young" Thor to do a crossover.
Good stuff
What about using Flint as a target for one's own life? Not speaking of immortality, but rather achievement.
Imagine... at the end of your life, having this long list of WORLD CLASS ACHEIVEMENTS!
He's alive and living amongst us now, and has been for the last 5,820 years!
At the end of original Star Trek episode, McCoy states that Flint has decided to dedicate his remaining years to research to help humanity. What if he returned to earth? Would his immortality be restored?🤔
Good job
"What little girl's are made of"
Star Trek
Would be a good topic of discussion
Flint the Immortal is from the Highlander Duncan MacLeod/Connor MacLeod Multiverse.
I like the idea that he's like a Steel Dragon and can start over with impaired memories of his past lives until he leaves one life and officially starts another.
I suspect you've given this a great deal more analysis than the original writers did. Like a lot of ST TOS episodes, it was tongue in cheek, a fun idea playing with history, like Who Mourns of Adonais, my favourite episode due to its secular themes. And you've right, the original series was bold, messing with the audience's heads, but in a good way, challenging false 60s prejudices and alike. May ST TOS live long and prosper. Star Trek now? Well, that's another matter. Far too dystopian.
I doubt the writers were historical experts. Indeed, I doubt they knew much more about Flint's personas than was said on screen - just what they could quickly read up in an encyclopedia or maybe a trip to the library.
They didn't need to know accurate facts. They needed to know entertaining narrative.
I do know that Jerome Bixby (no relation to Bill) had long wanted to do a movie called "The Man from Earth" about an immortal that lived through human prehistory and history. His son finally got the movie made after Jerome had died. But this Star Trek episode, written by Jerome Bixby, was an early version of the story when the version he really wanted to do was considered too provocative at the time.
Ahhh, Flint, one of my all-time favorite characters from TOS...Well, if you take the info on from the Excalibur novels, mix in the Cold Equations trilogy, with the novel Immortal Coil, then it does flesh out Flint's story admirabley...Not only did he bamboozle Dr. McCoy's medical tricorder, (a useful trick for plotting an imminent escape) so, exit Flint, enter Emil Vaslovic,
Well Done
What ruined it for me was Spock's tricorder indicating a new tune in Brahm's handwriting written with modern ink. How could a tricorder have such an obscure detail like handwriting from seven hundred years ago?
Spock downloads all sorts of crap on his tricorder because he never knows when he’ll need it
@@indetigersscifireview4360 Spock downloads the enterprise computer into his brain just in case he needs to know anything.
I mean, if that episode where his brain was running an entire planetoid is anything to go by he can store pretty much all of human and Vulcan history easily
Heck if I know but to those who say Spock's memory can handle that much information as if that was amazing Here's my take on Memory - disease, damage and like are exceptions once cast aside this is how I view memory - People do not forget the things that they truly care about. If you want to improve your memory Start by caring about thins more. A person that cares about everything Forgets Nothing. I think the Bible says that there are as many Angels in heaven as there are stars in the sky and God knows them all by their name. If you haven't experienced how much God cares you're really missing out. As far as His existence consider this -there is a set a data that goes with everything. For everything there is a set of data which among other things explains what it is comprised of , how it is formed/created, what it's function is , how it reacts with other matter. We know that Science does not create this data but rather realizes it by observation among other methods. We know we don't have all the data. We know we Never will have all the data but we Know that the data exists. The data does not require our understanding to exist. We know that we can observe, confirm , record, store , process and manipulate and apply data to do anything.
We know that the Data proceeds the matter because that is how we design and engineer things. Space is large enough and there is enough energy to record store process and apply all the data d in the universe. We know that we can transmit and receive data via space waves such as radio, x-rays, micro. These sp[ace waves have been bathing the entire universe w/ pause for as long it's been here.
We know we can connect the mind to an interface and control hardware and software. We know that being able to read the mind will someday be possible once we have thr correct data to do so .So if to have your data file pulled from it's storage location somewhere in space at the time of your death and have that data file you're dna genetic blue print processed and applied to an upgrade removing all negative aspects from your blueprint before re 3d printing you and placing you inside a VT that had all that you've loved and lost plus things you might or might not imagine. If all it took for this to take place is data with in your data file where you simply thought to yourself...OK I accept your invitation my sweeet Lord.....If that isn't God if this doesn't describe how He could be everywhere and know everything if being reprinted with a perfection upgrade and placed in a Negative free VR doesn't match what the Bible promises those who want it than you might be one of the many who don't go to hell they're just never reprinted. |I think this is worth consideration. No one forgets what they care about not ever. Could you for get what you care the most about? I couldn't. Which ofcorse is not true. We can't but we Want to remember with all of our heart and that's a set of data tat your file contains a simple keyword filter word search with your file would find it and that would tell the operating system data to do X, Sounds like very fckingh good news to me. I don't speak for you now do I? No I don't. You don't speak for me do you? No you don't. We don't speak for each other.
You can Google all kinds of obscure crap now like this video for example. So why couldn't the far more advanced Starfleet have handwriting?
One of my fave TOS episodes...
Could be he was responsible for the "well documented"lives
Flint looks more like a well preserved 50+ than age 30.
best episode by far
What Are Little Girls Made Of? also dealt w/a female android that Kirk kissed and loved--Just saying...
Watch "The Man From Earth" if you like this episode! It's an amazing film.
Curiously overlooked in Methuseleh, but Flint was also a secret agent during Earth's 1960s
Groovy, man
That’s Our Man.
It would be interesting to have a Flint series.
" We are not immortal....we just live longer!"
Movie idea:
Our Immortal Man Flint
It is generally thought that he 3rd season of TOS was not very good. However, Requium for Methusilah managed to become one of my favorite episides of TOS. I am inclined not to be too critical of inconsistances in Star Trek- especially the TOS. It was written on the fly and being a TV show and not a carefully pieced together literary work, some ideas had to end up a little sketchy from time to time. In later books Flint is depicted as having deceived McCoy and still being immortal has further adventures in the Star Trek Universe. Having lived 6000 years and by that time probably having an intellect as big as a planet (homage), it would almost inconceivable he would make the error of leaving Earth and not noticing what was happening to him. I suppose you could flip it and assume maybe he just got tired of living- which is also understandable, but if he was designing an immortal mate, it does not make sense that he would plan to make her a widow. One other thought, if one human accidently becomes immortal, it could very well be possible there are others, including Flint's offsprings- and after 6000 years , he must have had a lot of offsprings. The shadow that hangs over all of this is that humanity may find a way to survive climate change and the 3rd World War, however it seems to be very unlikely. It would be interesting if the ideals of Star Trek will sustain us for the long term, until we reach the stars, or just in the short term where humanity dies in the dust. Good luck to us all.
This would be a good character to bring back in Picard. They seem to do that a lot.
A-don-is. I love presentation!
Thank You!
He just got lucky that he never have run into the Kurgan or any of the MacClouds. :)
Flint was also the guy who worked at the video store in the 1980s.
I know this is off topic, but I've been wanting to present this query to you.
Much has been made about the similarities between the episode "The Changeling" and "Star Trek The Motion Picture", or more specifically, the back stories of Nomad and V'ger.
Question: could the probe "Tonrue" which Nomad encountered and actually replaced Nomad, have come from the same living machine civilization that built the V'ger probe ship? When considering the power and sophistication of the the alien probe posing as Nomad; that this little 1 meter tall machine could destroy all the life on four planets and sweep aside a mighty Constitution class with little effort had me pondering this. What do you think?
It's very possible. I haven't read many beta canon theories or fan speculation about Tan Ru. I'd actually like to explore V'Ger in a future video
Thank you. I will be looking forward to it!
In my view, the true era of Star Trek ended in 2005 with Enterprise and everything after that has not worthy of the name.
I'm not even a Trek purist and I totally agree with you.
It looks like highlander , there can only be one . :
Love it when Star Trek gets weird. Enough with the revenge stories though.
Thank you for sharing your thoughts on this CHARACTER, I did like the episode and I wonder if his knowledge of androids WAS learned or shared with the OLD ONES in the Episode What Are Little Girls Made Of. Did Dr. Sonu Singh ever encountered him, Androids are a common thing in Star Trek
I'm surprised (and a bit disappointed) that you didn't connect this to Jerome Bixby's deathbed story/screenplay, _Man from Earth._ You should do a video on the latter. Make it so.
What if Flint could alter his appearance? What if he regenerated like the Doctor (Who)? Maybe body transfer/possession like what Spock did to McCoy?
The should have also mentioned his son, the bringer of fire... Ferro-Rod as he became known by historians.
This story idea is also in the man from earth movies.. I love the first one, and a few star trek members play various rolls. Mainly phlox and kurn.
I like your comment near the end of your vid about the Twilight Zone. Which also had an episode on it about a man thousands of years old. Although off hand I don't remember the name of it I have always considered the character in tit myself hat was thousands of years old to actually have been Flint also!
I feel the simplest explanation about historical figures with well documents pasts and childhoods is Flint was always one of historians establishing and writing their histories.
Don't forget up till that first printing press was invented human history was patch work of Chinese whispers and propaganda of wealth elite that could actually read and write and afford to own books.
All Flint had to do was wait three or four generations after the death of one of his famous identities and just started saying the history he wanted the masses to believe loudly enough and often enough and in theory their would no one around to contradict him and he'd be one of few with education to write the books everyone reference. Don't forget since we don't have time travel and can't go back in time to verify most of our history book, their no way to tell if we in real work even know the real truths about historical facts beyond several creditable archaeological digs, lots of guess work and taking the writer of ancient historical books at their word and assume they weren't lying to glorify their past.
That's my theory any.
Flint is good story, a great character with great potential but they made him a bit too powerful for my taste with him being able to shrink the Enterprise 1701 to fit on desk. But personal I think the 2007 movie 'The Man from Earth' did the story better, I highly recommend it, Star Trek Enterprise actor John Billingsley AKA Doctor Phlox was in it along with Candyman's Tony Todd how also played Worf's brother Kurn and adult Jack Sisko in DS9 episode 'The Visitor'.
great video, totally enjoyed it, but you need to check on the pronunciation of Adonis
Actually, I had previously used the "A - DON - is" pronunciation in a previous video to refer to the episode title, but in actuality, it is "A - do - NYE - is."
That's why ST is so rich for unique fan fiction, compared to most other shows.
Interesting explanation. I only question one, your first. He says he was very foolish as Akharin, a Mesopotamian warrior who was killed in battle, "but didn't die". A very foolish Mesopotamian warrior would not likely live to the age of 30. He was more likely 20, or a little older. Actually, it was more likely younger than 20. Therefore he very quickly learned to look 30ish as this age is viewed by most acient societies as "a good age" when a man is still strong, and also wise by experience.
Wow, that's not a bad idea!
It would have been interesting to have Flint interacting with Apollo with Flint turning out to be Prometheus the Greek god who gave humanity fire hence his name "Flint".
I assume he also starred in a movie about immortal highlanders that had to kill the other immortals because there could be only one...
Maybe Flint was similar to the people in Octavia Butler's "Wild Seed".
One possibility you didn't touch upon, he could have simply been an immortal liar and thief.