Sci-Fi Universe for You?

[sbk1234]

I got this idea from another thread on another board somewhere, and I just liked the idea.

If you could magically transport yourself to a universe from some sci-fi show or movie, and live there for the rest of your life, what would it be?

Me? This may sound like a cliche, but I'd pick 24th Century Star Trek. Even though there was the Dominion War, things were pretty good there, especially on Earth.
With the world being as difficult a place as it is, I can use some of that Trek universe now.

 

[Kestra]

TNG Trek. I like the fashions of the time.

 

[sidious618]

The Star Wars universe because it's the one I know the most about.

 

[Australis]

Hands down, no question:

The Culture.

If you don't know about it, read the books. Read now.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Culture

 

[Admiral_Young]

^Been meaning to read those. My pick no question would be 24th Century "Star Trek". I think I would thrive in that universe.

 

[RJDiogenes]

My first pick would probably be (original) Star Trek, preferably TOS Era, but any would do. Asimov's Universe would also be cool, either on a Spacer world or during the Foundation Era. Clarke's futures are generally appealing, too, like in Imperial Earth or Fountains of Paradise, but the best would be to live out in the universe described in The Lost Worlds of 2001.

 

[iguana_tonante]

Easily Star Trek's 24th century. The Culture is a tempting choice, but I don't know enough about it to feel at home in it.

 

[Australis]

Trust me on this: the Culture would make the Federation look like... well, us.

 

[iguana_tonante]

Oh, I know roughly about it and the incredible technological and social level. My point was that since I wasn't exposed to it as much as Star Trek, it didn't feel like "home".

 

[Finngle Bells]

The 24th Century

 

[Niorah]

Iguana, I think that feeling is a big factor in choosing.

As much as I like Buck Rogers, Star Wars, Farscape and others, because my exposure to Star Trek began at such a young age and has been the most long lasting of all, I'd have to choose Star Trek as well. TOS era preferably.

 

[trekkiedane]

Hands down, no question:

The Culture.

If you don't know about it, read the books. Read now.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Culture

It's simply the best of all worlds!

Iain M. Banks: "A Few Notes on the Culture" READ IT!

 

[Electric Coleslaw]

Does it have to be sci-fi? Because I can think of a few porn flick universes I would kill to be in!!

I would pick Star Wars as long as I had access to some really good droids, a fast ship and full use of the Force. Life would be pretty sweet then.

 

[SmoothieX]

I would pick Star Wars as long as I had access to some really good droids, a fast ship and full use of the Force. Life would be pretty sweet then.

Right on!

I'd pick Star Wars as well, in the peaceful Old Republic, pre-Empire days. And I'd have an orange lightsaber.

 

[TheGodBen]

It's a close-run thing for me between the 24th century Star Trek universe and the Mass Effect universe. On the one hand I know more about the Star Trek universe than any other, but on the other hand I could live on Thessia and be surrounded by Asari...

 

[trekkiedane]

I would pick Star Wars as long as I had access to some really good droids, a fast ship and full use of the Force. Life would be pretty sweet then.

That's like saying you'd love to live on Earth, providing you'd get a house, a car a new phone every 15 months and had universal healthcare... most people on this planet simply don't have that - I'd hate living in the Star Wars universe; the chances of being a slave on a Hutt controlled world (or something similar) are simply too high!

Now, in The Culture there are no slaves and no cannon-fodder-jobs either and since the technology is so advanced that it is indistinguishable from 'magic' I'm sure I won't even miss 'the force'! (plus those drones are just so much more fun than any SW-droids could ever imagine being.)

 

[Holdfast]

Asimov's Universe would also be cool, either on a Spacer world or during the Foundation Era.

These were going to be my picks, esp. the Spacer option. Advanced, fascinating, liberating, enhanced, but at heart still very human, with all the wonderful highs and lows of being that entails. If one quickly sketches out the broad options as being "post-apocalyptic" (BSG, etc), "man-plus" (Asimov's Spacers, TNG), and "utopian" (like the Culture), I will pick "man-plus" type scenarios every time over either extreme.

 

[RoJoHen]

TNG Trek. I like the fashions of the time.

Jumpsuits all the time!

 

[MANT!]

Kubrick's 21st century....

 

[Lookingglassman]

The AI universe so I could kick the kid who played robot child in the butt. He was so annoying in that movie.