A Better Earth...

[RobertScorpio]

other than Star Trek, which scifi movie/series/book, your pick, depicts a better Earth you wouldn't mind living on. Good enough to raise children on even? Usually the Earth of the future looks like a crappy place, because, you know, either Nuclear wars or diseases leading to zombies everywhere seems to be our fate...(usually due to George W..but that's another issue)

Rob

 

[darkwing_duck1]

Despite the devestation outside the cities, the Buck Rogers (79) Earth didn't seem too bad.

 

[Gaith]

IIRC, the society in The Sixth Day was reasonably nice... but indeed, slim pickings overall. Now if we could only count Naboo...

 

[Ensign_Redshirt]

(usually due to George W..but that's another issue)

Personally, I think that President Clark from Babylon 5 was merely a thinly disguised George W. Bush... oh, wait a minute.

In general though, I think that utopian futures are just too "boring". Or at least that's what most writers think. There's no conflict, no problems to solve, everybody's just happy... and then what? Star Trek gets away with it. But maybe that's because Trek is only one of the few actual utopias (DS9 and parts of ENT aside). Would more shows be like this, it would indeed become boring very soon. So Trek already fills this (small) nichè.

 

[RobertScorpio]

(usually due to George W..but that's another issue)

Personally, I think that President Clark from Babylon 5 was merely a thinly disguised George W. Bush... oh, wait a minute.

In general though, I think that utopian futures are just too "boring". Or at least that's what most writers think. There's no conflict, no problems to solve, everybody's just happy... and then what? Star Trek gets away with it. But maybe that's because Trek is only one of the few actual utopias (DS9 and parts of ENT aside). Would more shows be like this, it would indeed become boring very soon. So Trek already fills this (small) nichè.

Actually I think TREK's 'bright' future is part of the reason is,without doubt, the most successful TV-scifi franchise of all time. We all know the story; it came out during the Viet Nam War, the 60s civil rights era and all that. I think it gave people hope that this shitty world could actually survive.

So no, I don't find that boring at all. I find it, as Benjamin Sisko might say, "Innn..spirational..."


Rob

 

[RandyS]

other than Star Trek, which scifi movie/series/book, your pick, depicts a better Earth you wouldn't mind living on. Good enough to raise children on even? Usually the Earth of the future looks like a crappy place, because, you know, either Nuclear wars or diseases leading to zombies everywhere seems to be our fate...(usually due to George W..but that's another issue)

Rob

Ol' George is gone (thank God), Obama's to blame for everything now. For the next three years, anyway.

As for Earth, I have no desire to live on this disgusting planet fictional or not. And once I finish building the Enterprise, I won't.

 

[RobertScorpio]

other than Star Trek, which scifi movie/series/book, your pick, depicts a better Earth you wouldn't mind living on. Good enough to raise children on even? Usually the Earth of the future looks like a crappy place, because, you know, either Nuclear wars or diseases leading to zombies everywhere seems to be our fate...(usually due to George W..but that's another issue)

Rob

Ol' George is gone (thank God), Obama's to blame for everything now. For the next three years, anyway.

As for Earth, I have no desire to live on this disgusting planet fictional or not. And once I finish building the Enterprise, I won't.

Whats the time table on that? ...wouldn't it be cool if someone actually did build one, or created one out of their mind???

Rob

 

[RandyS]

other than Star Trek, which scifi movie/series/book, your pick, depicts a better Earth you wouldn't mind living on. Good enough to raise children on even? Usually the Earth of the future looks like a crappy place, because, you know, either Nuclear wars or diseases leading to zombies everywhere seems to be our fate...(usually due to George W..but that's another issue)

Rob

Ol' George is gone (thank God), Obama's to blame for everything now. For the next three years, anyway.

As for Earth, I have no desire to live on this disgusting planet fictional or not. And once I finish building the Enterprise, I won't.

Whats the time table on that? ...wouldn't it be cool if someone actually did build one, or created one out of their mind???

Rob

My target date is April 17, 2170 (in order to coincide with my 200th birthday), but I'm hoping to have it done long before then. Hey, you can come along once she's built if you want, as long as you understand that I'm the Captain.

But you can drive her, if you'd like.

 

[RobertScorpio]

Ol' George is gone (thank God), Obama's to blame for everything now. For the next three years, anyway.

As for Earth, I have no desire to live on this disgusting planet fictional or not. And once I finish building the Enterprise, I won't.

Whats the time table on that? ...wouldn't it be cool if someone actually did build one, or created one out of their mind???

Rob

My target date is April 17, 2170 (in order to coincide with my 200th birthday), but I'm hoping to have it done long before then. Hey, you can come along once she's built if you want, as long as you understand that I'm the Captain.

But you can drive her, if you'd like.

hmmmm...sounds like a double date I went on.

My brother-in-law works at JPL (hi Ben!!) and according to him? In twenty-fifty years, and I know this sounds crazy, but life expectancy will doube due to technolgies coming down the Pike. Which is good for Obama. Longer ages means more years for taxes to pay for all these new programs. Which is fine with me...

Rob

 

[Silvercrest]

Ol' George is gone (thank God), Obama's to blame for everything now. For the next three years, anyway.

As for Earth, I have no desire to live on this disgusting planet fictional or not. And once I finish building the Enterprise, I won't.

Whats the time table on that? ...wouldn't it be cool if someone actually did build one, or created one out of their mind???

Rob

My target date is April 17, 2170 (in order to coincide with my 200th birthday), but I'm hoping to have it done long before then. Hey, you can come along once she's built if you want, as long as you understand that I'm the Captain.

But you can drive her, if you'd like.

tri? That you, buddy?

 

[The Comedian]

Some interesting Earths I'd like to live on:

1. the world of Arthur C. Clarke's "Imperial Earth" had some pretty cool sightseeing.

2. the world of S.M. Stirling's "Draka" novels...so long as I was a Citizen.

3. Does Middle-Earth count?

 

[RobertScorpio]

Some interesting Earths I'd like to live on:

1. the world of Arthur C. Clarke's "Imperial Earth" had some pretty cool sightseeing.

2. the world of S.M. Stirling's "Draka" novels...so long as I was a Citizen.

3. Does Middle-Earth count?

I knew the HOBBITS would figure into this...no....'middle earth' doesn't count...

nice try though!!!

The future of the JETSONS (flying cars and all) could be cool...

Rob

 

[RandyS]

Some interesting Earths I'd like to live on:

1. the world of Arthur C. Clarke's "Imperial Earth" had some pretty cool sightseeing.

Oh yeah. I forgot all about that one. You're right, there was some good stuff there.

Anybody read Alan Dean Foster's Parraleities? It's a story similar to TNG's Parralells, about a tabloid journalist who while doing a story on a scientist's new invention, gets sent to one parralell world after another, and keeps meeting different versions of himself. In one, he meets a female version of himself, and they are so taken with each other they sleep together. In another, he finds out he's dead, and somehow (it's not explained how) also get's sent to that universes afterlife, and several other interesting worlds.

If you haven't read it, I recomend it. It was a great read.

 

[The Comedian]

Some interesting Earths I'd like to live on:

1. the world of Arthur C. Clarke's "Imperial Earth" had some pretty cool sightseeing.

Oh yeah. I forgot all about that one. You're right, there was some good stuff there.

Anybody read Alan Dean Foster's Parraleities? It's a story similar to TNG's Parralells, about a tabloid journalist who while doing a story on a scientist's new invention, gets sent to one parralell world after another, and keeps meeting different versions of himself. In one, he meets a female version of himself, and they are so taken with each other they sleep together. In another, he finds out he's dead, and somehow (it's not explained how) also get's sent to that universes afterlife, and several other interesting worlds.

If you haven't read it, I recomend it. It was a great read.

Thanks for the tip! I like stuff like that.

 

[Myasishchev]

The future Earth in much of Clarke's stuff is pretty awesome. I mean, even Childhood's End. In an extremely qualified manner.

But the civilization in 3001 would be great to wake up to.

Edit: Middle-Earth?! I mean, maybe. If I also got to choose my position in their society. Even then, probably not. They don't even bathe.