If you could live in the ST Universe rather than ours, would you?

[AdmiralBruno]

And why or why not?

YES. Without a doubt. Sure there is the occasional intergalactic war or serious alien threat, but the 24th century is a much better world than the one we live in.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Don't know enough about it. The brief glimpses from the franchise probably doesn't paint a full picture. I might wind up in a society that accepts practices and ideas that are morally questionable.

 

[AdmiralBruno]

like??

 

[Nerys Myk]

like??

That's the point, I don't know enough about this "24th Century".

 

[ManOnTheWave]

In Star Trek, you have a society with a post scarcity economy, interstellar space travel, sentient robots that can be your friend, almost magical medical technology, magical and limitless energy, limitless (apparently) free food and drink, magical holographic entertainment technology to make your every fantasy real (at least for a little while), magical technology in general, communicators so you can keep in touch at all times, monitor your vital signs at all times, and let the higher ups know your location and what you are doing at all times, transporter technology allowing instantaneous travel which also leads to questions of a metaphysical nature, people who use the holodeck to create replicas of you to ridicule, abuse, assault, and rape, killer robots, a class system despite the absence of money, population control through colonization, impoverished colonies despite a post scarcity economy, colonies wiped out by aggressive alien species, aggressive alien species, aggressive alien disease, and the likelihood of being murdered by a fucking cloud. Fuck Star Trek. Who the hell would want to live in that nightmare?

 

[AdmiralBruno]

Me?

Also, I think Picard is supposed to be in his 60's, so clearly people age slower and live longer.

I'd live on Earth and join Starfleet but Earth is fairly safe

 

[T'Girl]

No. For me it would be more a matter of all that I would be leaving behind, and would lose by relocating to the Trek universe. Others may feel different, but I personally like the world around me and the people in it.

The Trek universe would be an interesting place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there (forever).

 

[BillJ]

No.

Too much to leave behind here and I find I live in interesting times.

 

[Shark]

Maybe. Were it not for the Borg I might have said yes definitively. I wouldn't be a member of Starfleet though. Were I to go into space I would probably do so in a ship I bought or made.

 

[borgboy]

As long as I could bring my dogs along, God yes. ST's future is a virtual utopia. Virtually no drawbacks other than the occasional alien invasion that is always beat back (which is still better than living in a world with terrorism and war, school shootings, etc. Even a universe with the Borg and Dominion is safer than our world). No poverty, prejudice, much longer life, amazing health care, no need to work a drudgery job to survive...I'm not seeing the drawback.

 

[BillJ]

As long as I could bring my dogs along, God yes. ST's future is a virtual utopia. Virtually no drawbacks other than the occasional alien invasion that is always beat back (which is still better than living in a world with terrorism and war, school shootings, etc. Even a universe with the Borg and Dominion is safer than our world). No poverty, prejudice, much longer life, amazing health care, no need to work a drudgery job to survive...I'm not seeing the drawback.

Also no gay people, if you go by the shows.

No thanks.

 

[The Wormhole]

To be honest, probably not. Culture is stagnant in the 24th century. No new movies, no TV, no new music, and the only new literature was written by Jake Sisko in an alternate timeline. Okay, so there's holodecks as the primary entertainment medium, but even then, the popular programs are based on Shakespeare, Sherlock Holmes, a 1940s noir detective, and a Flash Gordon-esque adventure program.

Granted, Hollywood is becoming more and more creatively bankrupt, but at least there's still something new being done today.

 

[ZapBrannigan]

In The Number of the Beast, a novel by Robert A. Heinlein, the heroes discover that their little spaceship can travel to any fictional universe. Someone suggests Star Trek, but the idea is vetoed because they don't want to catch a photon torpedo when they fail to give a Klingon recognition signal.

Vast numbers of people, from whole ship crews to whole planetary populations, get killed in Star Trek all the time. Four billion people die in the teaser of "The Changeling" just "to show that the situation is serious." If you go, you'd better bring your plot armor.

 

[HIjol]

My First Instinct was to say, "Hell Yeah!"

But, No

If you think about it, the Borg, Romulans, Dominion and other antagonists in the ST World are right here on this planet. ISIS/Daesch is very like the Borg, assimilating and destroying original icons and enclaves of civilizations as they go. The Romulans, with their duplicitous ways and forked tongues are seeing "Empire" in the Crimea (do not think for a second that that is over) and now in Syria. And on and on and on.

That said, we are at the forefront of so much by way of discovery about our world and universe and the very nature of life (Sorry, Dryson, no pre-gravity or Time before the Big Bang, yet! ) Why not live here and see how it all unfolds, and see if we, indeed, make it to a better, more peaceful time?

Still, a Transporter and Holosuite would totally rock!

 

[Sparkle Fabulosa]

For the most part, everybody gets along, no worrying about money, and amazing advancements in medicine. Yeah that sounds great!

The only things I would really miss are the movies, tv, and music. Holonovels and decks are cool but I'd rather sit and enjoy entertainment than be a part of it.

So I'm not too sure.

 

[borgboy]

As long as I could bring my dogs along, God yes. ST's future is a virtual utopia. Virtually no drawbacks other than the occasional alien invasion that is always beat back (which is still better than living in a world with terrorism and war, school shootings, etc. Even a universe with the Borg and Dominion is safer than our world). No poverty, prejudice, much longer life, amazing health care, no need to work a drudgery job to survive...I'm not seeing the drawback.

Also no gay people, if you go by the shows.

No thanks.

There are plenty of gays in the Trek novels. So I still say yes.

 

[Amaris]

Nah. If I had a choice, I'd rather live in Equestria: ponies, magic, benevolent rulers, ponies. Also, ponies.

 

[T'Girl]

There are plenty of gays in the Trek novels. So I still say yes.

Does the OP refer to the universe of the show or the novels, the novels wildly veered off into their own existence some years ago.

 

[Frontier]

Yes, in a heartbeat. Please, yes. Q, if you're out there, come offer this to me, ok?

The medical tech. The holodecks. Everywhere you could travel to. The aliens you could meet. Just so much. A peaceful earth with humans that aren't trying to murder each other 99.9% of the time? Ugh, yes.

The Borg, the Romulans, the Dominion: they're out there, sure. But Starfleet does always manage to save the day. At least as far as Earth is concerned. So I'd stake out a tiny tropical island there, occasionally venture around the world and even the solar system, and just be thrilled with no money, no greed, no hate, no war, no murder, no real danger so long as you avoid being in Starfleet or on some colony world?

YES.

 

[HIjol]

Careful, oh, so careful now...Q is likely to give you what you wish for, and let you live out your new life in The ST Universe as a Denebian Slime Devil or a Secondary Power Coupling or some such!