TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name

There was a Stargate SG-1 episode where Jack O'Neill got regressed back to a 14 year old (actually he was cloned by an rouge Asguard) and eventually they released him into a public high school with all his adult memories intact. A bit problematic, now that he's an adult man in a child's body presumably banging other teenagers.

One of the innumerable examples of sci fi tech not being used as it would IRL. It's centuries in the future and they still steer the ship and fire the weapons manually.

They could literally sell it as immortality elixir, "Look and feel young forever!"

Or when they de aged Pulaski to her "proper" age, they could have just gone a few years younger.

Or when they are aged the people in this episode, maybe only age them into their early 20s.

The transporters open up all sorts of scenarios that they clearly show as possible, but no one ever uses it that way on purpose somehow...

He's nuts over her.

Even worse than the planet of awful African stereotypes?

I would be fine with that.

Well, we don't usually see a Day in the Life of a Normally Functioning Transporter. It'd make for a pretty boring episode. It's kind of like "Well, where ARE the bathrooms on the ship? What do they look like? How do they work? Do they also use the three seashells?" I mean, getting an answer might be mildly interesting, but really... do we need to see the space toilet? They only kind of got value out of complaining about a lack of showers on Voyager.

Transporters are perfectly safe, and we just see those ultra rare times when they aren't.

No, what you should really worry about is whether it's you that arrives on the other end of that transporter or not. Is there a soul? Does it survive? What is actually transmitted down to the planet? What makes you you, basically? Some people find that line of thought the stuff of nightmares.

Cars are kinda terrible. More than 1 million people die every year from car accidents. That's ignoring deaths from pollution.

I mean cars do occasionally just burst into flames

Considering aeroplanes are like 100-year-old technology by this point they fail a surprising amount of times.

Wacky stuff like that seemingly has been normalized over the years.

But the failure rate of transporters is probably low. With all the dangers of driving (accidents, weather, mechanical failures, etc) people still seem to have no issues driving

Some people in cars get yeeted into non-existence, at least the alternate dimensions have cool moustaches.

Trying to answer this seriously, I'd say no. This is like, a Princess Bubblegum de-aging situation. She has her memories, but her brain and personality is now that of a kid. As opposed to like, Claudia in Interview with the Vampire who is an immortal child that wanted to be treated as the 70 year old woman she was.

But even in the Claudia instance I'd say no because it's still just too gross. There's just no getting past the body age thing. I guess I'd say Claudia could probably have a legal right to seek adult experiences (though she would only find sick weirdos), but Keiko and Princess Bubblegum should not.

Heck, even in Adventure Time Bubblegum loses the right to rule because she is too young, despite being a thousand years old or something.

She is one of several characters with who the infamous 4000yo-dragon defense can actually work.

Even Molly is like "I can't take their shit anymore"