TNG's "The Neutral Zone" How would you cope in this one?

[Gingerbread Demon]

We are just not ready for the 24th century. Some jerk would revive Twitter and before you know it the federation would crumble.

I'd love to see that happen it could be funny watching one tiny app do that

 

[Riley]

I'd probably be unable to enjoy life because I wouldn't have my family. If I'd been frozen when I was younger and single, I'd probably get a ship of my own somehow (I've always liked the Raven-type ship) and would explore and try to find out a purpose for myself in the 24th century. I don't think I'd get very far if I was told about Risa early on, though...

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

I'd probably be unable to enjoy life because I wouldn't have my family. If I'd been frozen when I was younger and single, I'd probably get a ship of my own somehow (I've always liked the Raven-type ship) and would explore and try to find out a purpose for myself in the 24th century. I don't think I'd get very far if I was told about Risa early on, though...

Who needs Risa when you have holodecks?
Isn't Risa just a pleasure planet, what other things can you do there?

 

[Phoenix219]

Who needs Risa when you have holodecks?
Isn't Risa just a pleasure planet, what other things can you do there?

well, knowing its real and not a hologram, with unpredictable sentient beings to interact with, might make a difference to some people.

probably more legit drugs and alcohol, too.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

well, knowing its real and not a hologram, with unpredictable sentient beings to interact with, might make a difference to some people.

probably more legit drugs and alcohol, too.

Oh for sure Risa being a real place there would be more attractive. I just wonder what other activities are on offer besides nookies?

 

[Riley]

well, knowing its real and not a hologram, with unpredictable sentient beings to interact with, might make a difference to some people.

probably more legit drugs and alcohol, too.

Bingo.

Oh for sure Risa being a real place there would be more attractive. I just wonder what other activities are on offer besides nookies?

What else do you need?

Of course, I'd also have a ship of my own, so I could eventually make my way back to Earth and see how things are back home.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

What else do you need?

Of course, I'd also have a ship of my own, so I could eventually make my way back to Earth and see how things are back home.

Well does Risa offer sports or hiking, climbing mountains if there are any, that kind of thing.

 

[ThankQ]

How would you cope in this one?

 

[ananta]

To quote Riker himself, I’d be, “If you need me I’ll be in the holodeck.”

 

[valkyrie013]

I'd imagine I'd handle it about as well as John Crichton from Farscape. I'd say "Okay, aliens, FTL travel, holodecks, replicators, that all makes sense," and then get driven insane trying to figure out how to make the toilets work.

He doesnt know about the 3 sea shells??

There would be a time of reflection and morning. Then i would see counselers on how to adjust to that society, what are the does and don'ts. Figure out money or lack there of. So the first year would be full of adjustment.
After that, go join a science ship or something, the galaxy is now available to me, why not go explore for awhile.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

We are just not ready for the 24th century. Some jerk would revive Twitter and before you know it the federation would crumble.

That could be a funny Trek episode of the week

 

[Phoenix219]

He doesnt know about the 3 sea shells??

There would be a time of reflection and morning. Then i would see counselers on how to adjust to that society, what are the does and don'ts. Figure out money or lack there of. So the first year would be full of adjustment.
After that, go join a science ship or something, the galaxy is now available to me, why not go explore for awhile.

I'm not sure any of us would be smart enough to do Star Trek science. This is a world where kids are learning calculus. They're at a level a bit above our capabilities I would think. We would have to start our education back at like kindergarten level and hope we can keep up lol

 

[cgervasi]

I mean you land or wake up in this future where we have ubiquitous space travel and machines that can magic any object you want out of thin air, aliens are actually real and we have diplomatic relations with some of them. Wouldn't this blow the mind of an ordinary person from our time living in their future time?

I"m thinking this will be a cakewalk, but I say that easily here thinking about it. Not so sure it would actually be a cakewalk if it happened.

Picard smugly points out that people no longer want for their material needs. That's a great feature of the Federation. But most people, or at least many people on Earth are not affected by poverty, violent conditions, or severe oppression. It would be obviously be better to live in a place where everyone enjoys prosperity and safety, but I don't know if achieving that would affect me in my daily life. I think I would struggle with other things:

• My skills are no longer useful.
• There are hundreds of historical, geographical, political, literary, and scientific references that I don't get. I try to learn them, but they feel endless.
• There may be practices, like monitoring brainwaves of young people to detect the seeds of criminal behavior, that would feel intrusive.
• People repeatedly want my insights into why people abided sweatshops, killing non-human animals, and nation states.
• Most things are abundant, but there's still scarcity. The abundance feels like decadence or freeloading, while the institutions to manage scarcity feel overbearing.
• I feel a sense of loss that traveling to the other side of Earth isn't that different from traveling to the other side of town.

I think would move near the old town area of my home town, where some of the pre-WWIII buildings still stand and the streets designed for ground cars are preserved. But everying would be different. Many people would wrongly assume the state capitol building was the capitol for a nation state instead of one of the US states. I would learn about technology and get a job developing the sensors used in biomedical tricorders. People say I should try to use my insights from the age of silicon to systems based on transtators and duotronics. In practice that means supporting incremental improvements in specifications. That should be okay, people say, because I can explore art, physics, or whatever interests me. I can't complain about that, but it feels decadent. I want markets to crystalize how productive my actions are into a dollar value, and people find that boorish. I probably learn to adjust, but I think I would alway be from a different time.

 

[at Quark's]

.....and then get driven insane trying to figure out how to make the toilets work.

I think you're getting a bit ahead of yourself.

You'll have to find those toilets, first.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

I think you're getting a bit ahead of yourself.

You'll have to find those toilets, first.

T'is a rare thing even on 24th Century Earth

 

[TheMoonIsMadeOfCheese]

I've often wondered this one. How do you think someone from our time would handle being dumped on Earth say in the time period of TNG and being left to figure out how best to survive on their own and slowly learning all the stuff that exists in this world they have been dropped into. The season one episode with the 21st Century humans kind of alludes to this but I wish we had seen those people again just to see how they all were coping.

I mean you land or wake up in this future where we have ubiquitous space travel and machines that can magic any object you want out of thin air, aliens are actually real and we have diplomatic relations with some of them. Wouldn't this blow the mind of an ordinary person from our time living in their future time?

I"m thinking this will be a cakewalk, but I say that easily here thinking about it. Not so sure it would actually be a cakewalk if it happened.

I think I would have a really hard time dealing with the fact that everything I know/learned is pretty much obsolete. I mean, warp drive physics, xenobiology, xenoanthropology, those things don't exist in our world. And IIRC, in one episode a kid is told that he "has to do calculus" even if he finds it boring. So if primary school kids are learning calculus, we can only imagine what they're learning in secondary or college. And yeah, it sounds easy to say "I'll just learn new things and adapt", but I honestly don't think I would be able to.

That's in addition to the emotional stress of learning that everyone you know and love is dead.

On a more lighthearted note, that is absolutely what I would be using this technology for. I would go for familiar favourites first, then move on to sample the more exotic offerings of the 24th century. Eventually, I think I would discover the holodeck, and then you would never see me again.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Replicator "large bowl of yellow rice and beef vindaloo"