Age

Players need to be able to make older characters, a la Picard and Janeway. It is not inconceivable that an older person might be a fresh Academy graduate, as this universe's reliance on technology and intelligence ensures that characters of all adult ages (no offense, Wesley Crusher!) can be useful to their faction.

While the player enters their age in the normal fashion (e.g. selecting '25' from a drop-down list), this age, combined with the birth date entered, will provide a precise age for the character.

When choosing physical characteristics, the age chosen by the player will limit the 'age slider' bar to a particular range. Players can still look 'young/old for their age', but seventy year-olds who look like twenty year-olds (and twenty year-olds with long white beards) should be avoided.

It is possible that, as a character advances in age, the 'age slider' bar might be moved for them, giving them an older appearance. Since the game plays in real-time, however, such an advancement would have to be extremely gradual.