I've been on this BBS nearly 8 years, I had my pon farr last January. This (amazingly) is not about that.
WHAT IF I spent the next 7 years on, or doing, or in something to simulate what it was like for the good people of Voyager who were lost with no way of knowing if they were ever getting off the frigging ship for 7 whole years. Yes I realize I can't really experience that, short of commiting a crime that has a 7 years locked up sentence. Which I do not need to do as this is an exercise, it is not intended to be that close to reality.
I'm thinking I could commit to only posting in the VOY forum for the next 7 years. This would be a sacrifice, another Star Trek movie is presumably coming out before that and I would be sacrificing talking about it just like how Harry sacrificed talking to his mom and Janeway sacrificed hearing about her dog's puppies. There's also a Star Wars movie coming out and though I might be able to squeeze some NuTrek talk into this forum I would probably die a little inside not being able to talk about the new Star Wars either that or I would join theforce.net though frankly that would be cheating. Unless I viewed it as my holographic life over there but then what does that make this place?
At the end of the 7 years would I be SO HAPPY to be posting on the rest of this BBS again?
Or would I have become institutionalized and be unable to communicate in the linear fashion other forums on this BBS effect?
What if someone famous on the BBS who doesn't post in VOY ragequit and I didn't find out about it until years later, like how Janeway was DUMPED and still all faithful and stuff because she did not know? Well. That would make this excercise more meaningful. Poignant, even.
Yes. I feel I should experiment upon myself.
WHAT IF I spent the next 7 years on, or doing, or in something to simulate what it was like for the good people of Voyager who were lost with no way of knowing if they were ever getting off the frigging ship for 7 whole years. Yes I realize I can't really experience that, short of commiting a crime that has a 7 years locked up sentence. Which I do not need to do as this is an exercise, it is not intended to be that close to reality.
I'm thinking I could commit to only posting in the VOY forum for the next 7 years. This would be a sacrifice, another Star Trek movie is presumably coming out before that and I would be sacrificing talking about it just like how Harry sacrificed talking to his mom and Janeway sacrificed hearing about her dog's puppies. There's also a Star Wars movie coming out and though I might be able to squeeze some NuTrek talk into this forum I would probably die a little inside not being able to talk about the new Star Wars either that or I would join theforce.net though frankly that would be cheating. Unless I viewed it as my holographic life over there but then what does that make this place?
At the end of the 7 years would I be SO HAPPY to be posting on the rest of this BBS again?
Or would I have become institutionalized and be unable to communicate in the linear fashion other forums on this BBS effect?
What if someone famous on the BBS who doesn't post in VOY ragequit and I didn't find out about it until years later, like how Janeway was DUMPED and still all faithful and stuff because she did not know? Well. That would make this excercise more meaningful. Poignant, even.
Yes. I feel I should experiment upon myself.
