Which Universe Would You Like to Live In?

[jgalley]

Just in general..most are out of their minds if they don't say Star Trek...seriously...it's the one with the most "utopian society" for the average joe...which 99.9% of us would be. In other universes, like say Middle Earth, we'd end up dead or enslaved or some such horrible thing.

now if we could live in the universe of our choosing AND be one of the "heroes"....then I can see picking others...and in that case I'd go for Marvel Universe or Star Wars.

but overall Star Trek wins I guess.

 

[YellowSubmarine]

Our universe but with the technology from the Star Trek universe. I don't like the way aliens, alien world and galactic phenomena are depicted in the ST universe. Well, I like them, but I'd rather have the real thing, and not some version that's been changed for more entertainment. Our universe is probably amazing, just give me warp drive to explore it, a holodeck to have fun and a replicator to sustain myself, and I'd be happy. I don't want the rest.

Or maybe I'll make some Klingon women for myself in the holodeck.

 

[Captain Ice]

Noting the absence of the Star Wars Universe, which I would find interesting to live in, I have to choose the Star Trek universe. No poverty, no greed, and unlimited resources are huge advantages here.

 

[Miss Chicken]

I'd say Star Trek, but it'd have to be nuTrek - I can't stand the way Earth is depicted in TNG/DS9. It makes no sense at all. Joseph Sisko runs a resteraunt - but no one pays! Everyone walks around with a labotomized grin on their faces, and no one even drinks real alchohol. There's no TV! They don't even have bad weather.

My thoughts exactly.

How can anyone appreciate anything in life if everything is perfect? You can't enjoy good weather unless you have experienced a few storms. You can't appreciate gourmet food if all you eat is gourmet food.

I would like our current universe to be better than it is, but I wouldn't want it to be as perfect as the Star Trek universe.I find the Babylon 5 universe more appealing than the Star Trek universe.

 

[iguana_tonante]

Star Trek's universe all the way.

The Federation is would be the best place to live in my opinion, but if you want bad weather and adventure, there are still colonies and frontier worlds. Not to mention Starfleet and other long-range private ships.

 

[RandyS]

Isn't our universe the Star Trek universe anyways?

No. We're alot closer to Babylon 5 than we'll ever be to Star Trek. Of course, they way the world is going, we could end up in New Battlestar Galactica if we're not careful.

I just pray to God I don't live to see that.

As to the question, I'd live in the Star Trek universe. Everything is better there.

 

[RandyS]

Who the hell would want to live in the perma-misery of BSG? I can't even stand watching it!

My boy, you have forever won my respect.

 

[Naira]

As much as I love technology, I did not choose the Star Trek universe. The Harry Potter is much more attractive to me because (in my mind) it seems very much like this one with an extra flavor of magic. And I like magic.

 

[RJDiogenes]

I'd say Star Trek, but it'd have to be nuTrek - I can't stand the way Earth is depicted in TNG/DS9. It makes no sense at all. Joseph Sisko runs a resteraunt - but no one pays! Everyone walks around with a labotomized grin on their faces, and no one even drinks real alchohol. There's no TV! They don't even have bad weather.

NuTrek took future Earth and made it a real place. There's grime, police, bar fights, drinks and megalopolii while keeping the united Earth concept. Awesome.

RealTrek had all those things, with the added advantage of everybody not being retarded.

 

[Australis]

Wow, no love for the Culture?

Or possibly more accurately, no love for books?

 

[RJDiogenes]

Wow, no love for the Culture?

Or possibly more accurately, no love for books?

I've only read the first Culture book. If I was going to choose something from literature, I would pick something that probably nobody here has ever heard of: The Universe of Clindar and the Planet Eos, i.e. the alien civilization behind the Monolith in Arthur C Clarke's The Lost Worlds Of 2001. If you can get your hands on that book, buy it; it contains the most beautiful and poetic and intriguing grand tour of a super-civilization ever written. I really wish he had incorporated that stuff into the sequels.

I might also pick the Foundation Universe, depending on where and when I could live (being a Foundation librarian or something would be cool). Niven's Known Space could be good, too. Or the Universe from McDevitt's Priscilla Hutchins series. Or perhaps some version of Heinlein's Future History, if I could go off and live peacefully on Settler's Green with Friday.

 

[FPAlpha]

Star Trek all the way

The almost perfect utopia where one can really do what they want and can without worrying how to earn money just to live a decent life

 

[Miss Chicken]

I always wonder how the Trek universe copes with those unpleasant jobs that no-one would do unless they were paid to.

 

[RandyS]

I always wonder how the Trek universe copes with those unpleasant jobs that no-one would do unless they were paid to.

EMH Mark 1 holograms.

 

[Miss Chicken]

I always wonder how the Trek universe copes with those unpleasant jobs that no-one would do unless they were paid to.

EMH Mark 1 holograms.

then why did they have people working in the waste extraction unit?

 

[RandyS]

I always wonder how the Trek universe copes with those unpleasant jobs that no-one would do unless they were paid to.

EMH Mark 1 holograms.

then why did they have people working in the waste extraction unit?

The EMH's didn't always exist.

 

[Miss Chicken]

EMH Mark 1 holograms.

then why did they have people working in the waste extraction unit?

The EMH's didn't always exist.

Or else the EMHs refused to do it because they would rather be pursuing careers in opera.

 

[Nerys Ghemor]

I'd say Star Trek, but it'd have to be nuTrek - I can't stand the way Earth is depicted in TNG/DS9. It makes no sense at all. Joseph Sisko runs a resteraunt - but no one pays! Everyone walks around with a labotomized grin on their faces, and no one even drinks real alchohol. There's no TV! They don't even have bad weather.

My thoughts exactly.

How can anyone appreciate anything in life if everything is perfect? You can't enjoy good weather unless you have experienced a few storms. You can't appreciate gourmet food if all you eat is gourmet food.

Yeah...again why I'd pick a colony.

OR...I might actually (IF I could be an average ALIEN citizen, not human) want to be part of reconstruction on Cardassia.

 

[RegFan]

I'd say Star Trek, but it'd have to be nuTrek - I can't stand the way Earth is depicted in TNG/DS9. It makes no sense at all. Joseph Sisko runs a resteraunt - but no one pays! Everyone walks around with a labotomized grin on their faces, and no one even drinks real alchohol. There's no TV! They don't even have bad weather.

My thoughts exactly.

How can anyone appreciate anything in life if everything is perfect? You can't enjoy good weather unless you have experienced a few storms. You can't appreciate gourmet food if all you eat is gourmet food.

I would like our current universe to be better than it is, but I wouldn't want it to be as perfect as the Star Trek universe.I find the Babylon 5 universe more appealing than the Star Trek universe.

I completely agree with you. Also, life would have no meaning in a world where everything is perfect and will always be perfect.

On second thought, I'd rather live in the Babylon 5 universe than in this one. The B5 universe is not the perfect utopia Star Trek is, but they still have advanced technology. And as much as I love BSG, there's no way I would want to live in that universe, for obvious reasons.

 

[MetalPants]

Just in general..most are out of their minds if they don't say Star Trek...seriously...it's the one with the most "utopian society" for the average joe...which 99.9% of us would be. In other universes, like say Middle Earth, we'd end up dead or enslaved or some such horrible thing.

Well in Middle Earth after the Ring was destroyed it would be nice to be in a small village and enjoy the peace of an agrarian culture. Or even if you were in a city, life would stilll be a bit more relaxed than say modern city life.