Poll If you could live/serve in a StarTrek series

[Levi]

If you were able to live, and serve as a Starfleet Officer in either Enterprise, The Original Series, The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, or Voyager, which would you choose?

For any of the choices, you would graduate from The Academy and being your career at the beginning of whatever series you've chosen. You would get to live through the events as they happen in the series. Though there is no changes to the series, as you don't play an important enough roll. You may take part in some of the more major events.
After the series, your career would continue however it should. For the sake of this discussion, your career would end up the same in the end no matter what path you choose. So no one choice gives you any edge over another. Just a different path.
You do not die or sustain any injuries that would render you unfit for service. You would have interactions with the main crew, but again, nothing changes the timeline.

You do not have to serve in Starfleet. If there is some where else you would like to be during that ear. Please be specific!



Please! Post your choice, and what you believe would be your duty assignment. Share why!
Just for fun!

 

[Terok Nor]

I'll say Next Generation. Hardly anyone dies and the Enterprise-D looks like a really luxurious place to live and work. Too bad it can only last for 7 years before the ship is destroyed. The Enterprise-E did not look nearly as inviting a place.

 

[2takesfrakes]

STAR TREK: The Next Generation really satisfies. It's the equation that works. Gene Roddenberry's pièce de résistance!

 

[hux]

Voyager.

 

[Kilana2]

Voyager.

Would you please elaborate....

 

[hux]

On TNG, DS9 etc, a 21st century fool with no 24th skills would instantly be dropped off on earth at the first available chance. On Voyager, even the pet rat was given responsibilities.

Plus, I feel that I could help Seven explore her humanity.

If I was a 24th century ensign with no knowledge of upcoming events, I'd probably go with TNG (safe and beige).

 

[maneth]

DS9. It's my favorite Trek show and features most of my favorite Trek characters. I'd be in the life sciences and give Keiko a run for her money (I'd be a xenobotanist).

 

[Kilana2]

I voted for Voyager. But the same applies to TNG. I would be part of the science department.
Sam Wildman and the Doctor would be my workmates.

 

[Mr_Closet]

Plus, I feel that I could help Seven explore her humanity.

I was hovering between TNG and DS9 before I read that, but now...

In the end I've gone for DS9. Sure, the mortality rate is higher but from the point of view of the lower ranks, the opportunities for actual exploration of the universe are so much greater. You'll meet more people, see more things, get to explore cultures and witness amazing astronomical events in detail, close-up, from your bedroom window every day.

Compare this to TNG where the only people who get to go anywhere are the senior staff when they form an away team for a planetary visit that lasts maybe a day. You see plenty of astronomical phenomena, but only briefly and as a lower rank you probably don't have a window. Plus, everything is beige and there's a strong wiff of cultural arrogance on the Enterprise. To paraphrase Henry Ford, on the Enterprise you can be anything you want... so long as you're just like us. Let's face it, they don't have a good record of accommodating diversity. Worf was about as far out as any of them ever went, and he ended up repressed, culturally isolated and ostracised by his own people. Live on the Enterprise for too long and you'll end up thoroughly institutionalised - recall that Worf, who was in many ways a typical by-the-book officer (his heritage notwithstanding), never really adapted to DS9. Eddington was another example of a senior officer who struggled to integrate on DS9, despite exhibiting a better humour and being more personable than Worf.

TNG might be a good place to get promoted to after a few years on DS9, because you'll take your experiences with you and, if you're now more senior, you can set the tone and create a more interesting atmosphere onboard. But if you're just starting out, TNG is too much like the academy you just left: rigid, arrogantly self-assured, with no opportunities for juniors to shine because the privileged upper ranks never delegate any of the interesting tasks.

By comparison, as a first assignment a place like DS9 will keep your mind open, your pallet varied and your horizons broad.

So, will I be seeing you at the Replimat for lunch?

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Does it have to be Starfleet? I would be a civilian freighter captain during the ENT era.

 

[1001001]

TNG for sure.

 

[Triskelion]

Voyager. I like the ship better - nimble, powerful, efficient, and cozy.
I'd be a JAG Officer, now handling Security and Investigations.
Rank: LT CMDR

 

[TheGoodStuff]

If you were able to live, and serve as a Starfleet Officer in either Enterprise, The Original Series, The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, or Voyager, which would you choose?

For any of the choices, you would graduate from The Academy and being your career at the beginning of whatever series you've chosen. You would get to live through the events as they happen in the series. Though there is no changes to the series, as you don't play an important enough roll. After the series your career would continue however it should.

Post your choice, and what you believe would be your duty assignment. Share why!
Just for fun!

My choice is entirely dependent on the bolded. IF that means I do not die or sustain serious injuries and am just in the background even during dangerous events then my choice is certainly DS9.

I would love to meet all of those different species, each day wondering what each freighter might bring. No doubt some of them would be really cool and interesting to chat to. On a related note, have a pint in Quarks looks like it would be fun and similarly fascinating every day you went in. I'd also always feel safe with Odo and Starfleet security personnel strolling about.

Hell, just having a promenade with shops, different clothes [a tailor!] and food styles to sample every day would be great. I'm not sure what my role on DS9 would actually be [my degree's are museum & history related] but on the way to work I might pass some Klingons, see a Ferengi and a Bajoran negotiating a deal and I might stop to pick up a Jumja stick en route to my shift. At lunch time I could have some Plomeek soup at one of the little bars and watch the world go by!

Jeez, just typing that made me:

A: Love DS9 more
&
B: Wish I could experience it.

 

[Levi]

* Updated original post to cover a few questions asked so far!

 

[at Quark's]

Even though I love watching Star Trek, I think I wouldn't be in Starfleet. I'm just not the army type, pushing new frontiers. I think I would like a nice planetbound assignment, or an assignment where I can do some scientific work while traveling through deep space on a comfortable ship.

If I were forced on one of the five shows anyway, I think I'd like to avoid Enterprise (claustrophobic, relatively primitive, full year in the Delphic expanse), Voyager (not knowing if I'll ever see Earth again for 7 years, enduring Neelix' cooking), and DS9 (a not entirely familiar Cardassian station in the far outback, and when I'm finally settling in those d*mn wars and invasions start (first the Klingons, then the Dominion, perhaps see a lot of friends die...). So that would leave the original Enterprise and the Ent-D. I think I would choose the D, it simply being more luxurious and having more facilities.

(Perhaps this sounds dull and unadventurous. But actually having to live through it all makes for some other priorities. At least, for me

 

[Captain Rob]

Voyager
I'd work the night shift and be Paris' relief pilot.
And chide him on his fondness for Camaros. Everyone knew that the Camaro was a girl's car. It's Firebird, GTO, or Mustang. Preferably Firebird. I own a TA.

 

[STEPhon IT]

Original Series. Become a Yeoman and tell the Captain of a constitution class ship my ambitions to becoming a navigation officer in the future. And I think I look cute in an avocado green, command, dress. Red, engineering/ security, has a bad reputation to it, so I wouldn't want to wear it.

 

[HIjol]

While TOS is tempting, the Holodeck, 10-Forward and Stellar Cartography tip the vote to TNG. I would endeavor to be a decent ranking officer, no need for Captain in my ambitions. My (real) personal makeup would probably land me in some "Crew/HR/Support" role, with lots of people contact and people problem-solving responsibilities. I would definitely want time to spend in Stellar Cartography, the Holodeck, and 10-Forward...geez...how cool would that be...if only...

 

[Nerys Myk]

Civilian on DS9.

 

[JoeCabby]

I see myself as part of the Science or Engineering team. So that affects my decision.

TOS is missing the holodeck and I would likely be a red shirt on any away missions so no. Definitely not TOS.

Voyager and TNG are the same, but I wouldn't want to be stuck in the Delta Quadrant. So strike out Voyager.

Enterprise is an interesting one. As an engineer/Scientist it would have been fascinating to be one of the pioneers. On a recreational/personal level, it seems like it's boring as hell. It's all work and no play basically.

TNG likes to preach diversity and peace, they never really practice it. As long as you fall in line with the Status Quo. Yes, we have a Klingon, but he's shut down at any point where Klingon values interfere with Starfleet's. How many times has Picard told Worf ,You are a starfleet officer, not a Klingon aboard my ship. Or something along those lines. You can be physically different from everyone else, but you need to act the same as everyone else.

That brings us to DS9. They really do have different cultures all mingling with each other and getting along and in some cases not getting along, but it's real and it's not just be a cookie cutter starfleet officer and everything will be ok. There's a certain depth to the characters, that brings them alive.

Also, Quarks seems like a much better place to hang out than 10-forward. Gambling, Dabo girls, aliens from all over the alpha, beta and gamma quadrant.

From a professional standpoint, there was that one episode where O'Brian was trying to fix one of the many issues on the station. It just felt right at home for me as that it is exactly what I do already.