Being mostly bald by the time one’s in one’s mid 40s plays a big part.
You aren’t entirely wrong. Though I don’t think that they ever stated his age in the series, Memory Alpha (the Star Trek wiki, which is usually very well-sourced and documented with canon information) indicates that Picard is born in July of 2305, while Star Trek: The Next Generation occurs during the years 2364-2370 (with each season mapping to a calendar year, roughly).
So, canonically, Picard was 58 or 59 at the premiere of the series, which also made him over a decade older than Patrick Stewart.
Most likely close, if not more - I remember when I started working in 1980, my father was shocked that a part-time job would pay me close to $100/week or $5200 a year. He said it hadn’t been that many years since $100 week was good pay, and it was above the SS tax threshold.(earnings above a certain amount are not subject to SS tax) I looked it up - and that threshold was $4800 in 1965, $9000 in 1972 and $168,600 in 2024.
If Back to the Future was set this year (2025) instead of 1985 they could go back thirty years to 1995 instead of 1955.
And they could use “Macarena” instead of “Mr Sandman” to set the scene.
Not a pop culture one but I think many people don’t realize how young the men who founded the United States were.
In 1776,
Samuel Adams was 54
George Mason was 51
George Washington was 44
John Adams was 41
Patrick Henry was 40
John Hancock was 39
Thomas Jefferson was 33
John Jay was 31
James Madison was 25
Alexander Hamilton was 21
Benjamin Franklin was the old man of the group at 69
That is INSANE. Wow. Just…wow.
It’s partly (maybe mainly) because the cultural shift from 1964 to 1969 was so unusual. I thought of this last week when I saw outtakes (unused shots) from the “Woodstock” film. The way those folks talked, dressed, and acted would not be out of place today, 55 years later…and yet would have been out of place just five years prior.
(Note that Sha Na Na played Woodstock as a late-50s-early-60s nostalgia act. It would be like if we had a whole nostalgia industry for, say, 2019 – Lil Nas X? Billie Eilish?)
Danielle Brisebois, who played Edith’s niece (or was it cousin) on the last season of the show is now 56. She was nominated for an Oscar in 2015, for songwriting.
I remember watching The Price is Right in the early-'70s. The price of “a brand new car” was always four-digits, and started with a 3.
I have to explain to my young co-workers who the “agony of defeat” guy is.
I was 22 when I first saw the Rolling Stones live in 1990. They were older than dirt to me, but now I’m 10 years older than Mick and Keith were then. What’s most impressive/depressing is the fact that they are still going strong and touring, while I’m retired for medical reasons. And I never took anything stronger than alcohol or weed…
I am two years older than anime. (Astro Boy premiered in 1963).
By 1991 the stars of Sitcoms were younger than me.
The rat catcher protagonist of The Stain would be about the same age as my nephew
A few years ago, I did a double take when re-watching an early episode of Frasier where he states his age…and he’s like 38? I was in my early 40s.
I am rewatching the Sopranos and am in seasn 5 and he’s definitely showing his age… Tony says he’s 46. I am 46….I don’t claim to look good for my age AT ALL and I definitely look at him and say “shit… that looks right.”
Average age of the Rolling Stones = 80.3
Average age of the US Supreme Court = 64.8
I was 17 when I saw the Stones in November of 1981. We made jokes even then about what old men the Stones were-- “are they gonna show up on the stage in wheelchairs, har har?”.
Mick was 38. Keith was still 37 for another month or so. Granted, they were probably already more weathered for their age than most at the time, but I see people in their late 30s today who still look like children to me.
My father would have been 120 years old this year. That means he was born closer to the writing of the Constitution than to today.
In 1987’s Lethal Weapon Danny Glover was getting too old for this shit. He was 41 at the time.
I was listening to BBC Six Music the go to radio station for old farts who want to listen to some new music but also be comforted by songs from their youth 
They were interviewing some young up and coming musician and one one their standard questions is “who had the #1 single on the day you were born”. It was Atomic Kitten FFS! I could feel myself get older as she said it 
6 Music need to understand their listener demographic and can that question, it’s way too traumatic
Boy the way that Hendrix played
Drugs that put him in his grave
Geearolla (indecipherable)
Those were the days
A teenage nephew stayed here for a few days. After a while he said, “don’t you watch anything current”? I thought the show we were watching was fairly new. Then I did the math. What tv shows where that old when I was his age? Then I got it.
We’re further away from the Moon Landing than the Moon Landing was from the start of WWI.
More time has passed since the movie Apollo 13 than had passed between the actual Apollo 13 mission and the movie.
Boy our GTO ran great