"One": How much could you endure?
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I think I would endure the month. There have been months during Covid when I rarely saw anyone. I wouldn't call it pleasant, but I didn't remotely suffer from any stability or anxiety problems.
Then again, of course there's still a big difference between having no human contact, period, and having very limited human contact and seeing humans walking outside, even if it is only 2 minutes a day on the phone, so I can't really tell.
Then again, of course there's still a big difference between having no human contact, period, and having very limited human contact and seeing humans walking outside, even if it is only 2 minutes a day on the phone, so I can't really tell.
I second hanging on the holodeck for awhile... that said I'd probably be okay for at least a couple of months or longer. I'm pretty solitary as it is under normal circumstances.
Give me a never-ending supply of good stories to read and I could handle a month alone no problem. Handling working alone for a month though? Where I am the sole decision maker for an entire ship whose continued existence is in my hands? Big, big problem.
My career is in no small part ensuring the buck rarely stops with me. I am an assistant because I do not relish making the decisions that shape people’s lives rather I polish other people’s decisions. I would be in a state of nigh on constant panic if anything took me away from my reading during that trip through the nebula and I would have no one else’s expertise to rely on, no one to talk decisions over with, no one to reassure me that I wasn’t dooming us all.
My career is in no small part ensuring the buck rarely stops with me. I am an assistant because I do not relish making the decisions that shape people’s lives rather I polish other people’s decisions. I would be in a state of nigh on constant panic if anything took me away from my reading during that trip through the nebula and I would have no one else’s expertise to rely on, no one to talk decisions over with, no one to reassure me that I wasn’t dooming us all.
That could stress me out, too. I was only considering the effects of being alone, not the effects of being the only person responsible to make decisions that could save or doom 150 other people.
I agree with those who mentioned the holodeck: if I was able to be in the holodeck for a few hours a day, I would be fine. Otherwise I think I would last about 2 days.
Only a "couple"
?You have a way with words; I appreciate that quality.
Oh, yes: stress exacerbates even the most trivial challenge.
30 days I would be fine with the holodeck.
Without it I can reasonably say that two weeks would probably be my max. I would certainly be working on a lot of projects to keep me busy, writing a book, reading a lot of books, trying different culinary ideas, and the like.
I would like to think that I would be OK, even with the stress of decision making. I would plan it out with the captain ahead of time, identify potential contingencies and their execution.
I'd probably go mad within a week. Unless, as others have said, the holodeck was working.
In fact I'd do it on the condition that my holodeck history be permanently deleted as soon as the crew was awakened.
In fact I'd do it on the condition that my holodeck history be permanently deleted as soon as the crew was awakened.
Tuvok, is that you?
I think I'd be fine.
As someone mentioned, having the lives of all the crew in your hands IS a big thing, but I think that would actually make me bear it better.
I would be very focused on keeping things running and making sure everyone was alive and safe. So focused, in fact, I would forget I was the only person aboard that is still walking about.
There's something to be said about having things to do, and given how seriously I already take all my responsibilities as it is (I'm pretty much hardwired that way... family trait), I'd kick it up a few notches knowing everyone's actual survival depended on me.
As someone mentioned, having the lives of all the crew in your hands IS a big thing, but I think that would actually make me bear it better.
I would be very focused on keeping things running and making sure everyone was alive and safe. So focused, in fact, I would forget I was the only person aboard that is still walking about.
There's something to be said about having things to do, and given how seriously I already take all my responsibilities as it is (I'm pretty much hardwired that way... family trait), I'd kick it up a few notches knowing everyone's actual survival depended on me.
I don't enjoy social situations as it is so I would be fine for well over a month. The COVID lock downs didn't affect me at all. My circle is small. Everyone else was just forced to live their lives as I already do. That aspect of it amused me to some extent as all the social butterflies freaked out. (The virus itself was not amusing of course.) 
If there are tasks to do so much the better. The buck, quite often, stops with me at work so making decisions without input from others isn't a big deal. Interesting topic.
If there are tasks to do so much the better. The buck, quite often, stops with me at work so making decisions without input from others isn't a big deal. Interesting topic.
For some reason, I do not believe the Doctor would feel comfortable impersonating actual Voyager crew members (especially for a protracted period).
Are you kidding?
And he basically abused her body in this one....
So I really don't think the Doc would have issues walking around at moments, looking like someone else, just in passing.
Before you say those were life and matter situations, so is one's mental health in the situation in One.
Yeah, but, Finn, those were extenuating (i.e., immediate life and death) circumstances; imitating extant people that the two of them interact with on a daily basis is a harder sell in this particular situation.
(^ I submitted that before you revised your post to include "Before you say those were life and matter situations, so is one's mental health in the situation in One."
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(^ I submitted that before you revised your post to include "Before you say those were life and matter situations, so is one's mental health in the situation in One."
).Holodeck, problem solved :-)
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