Weed and other hobbies the "DIscovery" crew might/should have?

[Jayson1]

There are few angle's to this question. The first one being recreational drugs. I never use drugs myself, except OCD medicine but that's not for fun, but I know a lot people do so It makes sense to finally deal with this, because right now the only time trek even came close was Yar's famous "Just Say No" speech to Wesley Crusher and a few mentions of "chemicals" on DS9, all done during flashbacks to the Ocupation days. I also know making weed legal is important to a lot of people. sometimes it seems overly important if you didn't think about some of the other effects such as having cops target comunities of color or prisions created to make profit or even the need to focus on treatment instead just locking people up.

The other angle is they proably won't have a holodeck unless they use that proto holodeck used in the "TOS" cartoon. I think it would be intresting to see if they treat subspace communication much like a internet or if they use music in the show a lot. I wouldn't even mind if they used modern music like the Kelvin Universe did. Anything other than classical music. Nobody listens to that for fun. that exsit for people to apreciate but most people prefer to listen to rock or jazz or anything other than that.
I got to admit that I would also love to see Parresis Square finally shown after so many mention of it on 24th century trek.

Jason

 

[Awesome Possum]

I was a fan of Fringe, so I want the crew to drop acid. An episode where a random red shirt contemplates the limitations of language and how it can cause a lack of empathy while watching the walls melt would be interesting.

It could be their version of the holodeck, but there's no chance of it killing you.

 

[Jayson1]

I was a fan of Fringe, so I want the crew to drop acid. An episode where a random red shirt contemplates the limitations of language and how it can cause a lack of empathy while watching the walls melt would be interesting.

It could be their version of the holodeck, but there's no chance of it killing you.

It would have to be a series regular or you would gut any important drama out of the story because people don't really care about what red shirt's do.
Jason

 

[F. King Daniel]

It would be nice if the characters weren't so clean cut as we've seen before in Trek. Personally, I'd imagine James Kirk and crew (either version) would have experimented with drugs in their pasts, but I can't picture the Next Gen crew having done ever so (remember Tasha's speech to Wesley?)

As for music, I'd pick what they listen to in the Kelvin timeline to what they listen to in TNG, Voyager and DS9

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[Guy Gardener]

Original script for City on the edge had a hopped up drug addict as the crazy guy running through time. Roddenberry nixxed it, since humans would be beyond that sort of thing by 2268.

 

[Jayson1]

Original script for City on the edge had a hopped up drug addict as the crazy guy running through time. Roddenberry nixxed it, since humans would be beyond that sort of thing by 2268.

Which I find intresting because we know Roddenberry was into that kind of stuff in the 60's not to mention alchol. Scotty can't sale drugs but he then writes him as a drunk at times and plays it for laughs. I do wonder why Trek has giving alchol a pass over the years if humans are supose to be evolved. I know they had synthehol but even they stopped using that eventually in the later seasons and shows.

Jason

 

[Awesome Possum]

It would have to be a series regular or you would gut any important drama out of the story because people don't really care about what red shirt's do.
Jason

Make it the captain then.

It would be nice if the characters weren't so clean cut as we've seen before in Trek. Personally, I'd imagine James Kirk and crew (either version) would have experimented with drugs in their pasts, but I can't picture the Next Gen crew having done ever so (remember Tasha's speech to Wesley?)

I can see Kirk partaking and McCoy was from the south so there was probably a bit of weed and mushrooms in his past. We know he had some Romulan Ale for "medicinal purposes". Spock seemed to get along well with space hippies, so who knows what he was getting into.

 

[Captain of the USS Averof]

For my head-canon the whole DSC will probably be a character's bad acid trip. That will explain any Prime universe canon violations and inconsistencies.

 

[Jayson1]

For my head-canon the whole DSC will probably be a character's bad acid trip. That will explain any Prime universe canon violations and inconsistencies.

Your Head can turn into a canon? That is awesome! Maybe my idea of all trek humans being robots in another thread in another forum wasn't that far from the truth afterall.
Jason

 

[Awesome Possum]

For my head-canon the whole DSC will probably be a character's bad acid trip. That will explain any Prime universe canon violations and inconsistencies.

Acid won't do that. It did once convince me that the human race were mutated chimps with severe emotional issues.

I'm still on the fence about that one.

 

[Bry_Sinclair]

Unless someone is going to undergo a trauma that they use drugs to help bury that's one thing, but I'd rather not a Starfleet officer or crewmember be a recreational drug user--these are meant to be human being who have evolved beyond such things. As for recreation, well they PTB need to take a page from current navy ships for what people do to relax on long voyages without holodecks, but throw in some sci-fi-y elements as well (a zero-g gymnasium or hoverball court). When it comes to music then I want contemporary Andorian blues, Tellarite thrash metal, Rigellian pop, etc, why do they always need to listen to classic earth tunes (especially not the Beastie Boys)?

 

[Jayson1]

Unless someone is going to undergo a trauma that they use drugs to help bury that's one thing, but I'd rather not a Starfleet officer or crewmember be a recreational drug user--these are meant to be human being who have evolved beyond such things. As for recreation, well they PTB need to take a page from current navy ships for what people do to relax on long voyages without holodecks, but throw in some sci-fi-y elements as well (a zero-g gymnasium or hoverball court). When it comes to music then I want contemporary Andorian blues, Tellarite thrash metal, Rigellian pop, etc, why do they always need to listen to classic earth tunes (especially not the Beastie Boys)?

The problem though is if weed isn't harmful then why would a evolved human need to move beyond it? In fact I am sure some people would say that if humanity was evolved there would be even more people using it.
As for contempary music I admit that would proably be more for the fans, who I asume would like that music. I do think it would help though if they choose great modern music., which means more Beatles and less Selena Gomez. I think Beastie Boys would count as great music, though I would avoid them simply because they have already been used.

Jason

 

[Spider]

In 200 years I would suspect the drug industry would have come up with the perfect recreational drug and natural substances like weed will have fallen out of favor. I mean, which would you rather have, a couple of joints or a couple of Vicodin?

The war on drugs won't last forever. The spirit of Huey Lewis will overtake humanity and we'll all be stoned hippies in the future.

 

[Captain of the USS Averof]

Your Head can turn into a canon? That is awesome! Maybe my idea of all trek humans being robots in another thread in another forum wasn't that far from the truth afterall.
Jason

That's cannon not canon. Hate to disappoint you (and myself) but I'm not Megatron.

Acid won't do that. It did once convince me that the human race were mutated chimps with severe emotional issues.

I'm still on the fence about that one.

Oh, I've definitely reached a conclusion on that one. The chimpanzees were quite offended by it.

 

[Ganderplus]

Maybe the way to handle it would be to show up at a planet that's growing some crazy space weed. Everybody tries it once as a 'cultural experience' and then they just go on with their lives which are much more interesting.

 

[Kemaiku]

So *that's* why fungus guy is onboard. Mushrooms *slaps forehead* of course.

 

[Awesome Possum]

Unless someone is going to undergo a trauma that they use drugs to help bury that's one thing, but I'd rather not a Starfleet officer or crewmember be a recreational drug user--these are meant to be human being who have evolved beyond such things. As for recreation, well they PTB need to take a page from current navy ships for what people do to relax on long voyages without holodecks, but throw in some sci-fi-y elements as well (a zero-g gymnasium or hoverball court). When it comes to music then I want contemporary Andorian blues, Tellarite thrash metal, Rigellian pop, etc, why do they always need to listen to classic earth tunes (especially not the Beastie Boys)?

Human beings have done drugs of some sort since the dawn of time. Why would we suddenly stop? Even the current shows have caffeine still being a thing (tea, earl grey, hot as well as Janeway's coffee) and it is known to be addictive.

 

[Space Coast]

Acid won't do that. It did once convince me that the human race were mutated chimps with severe emotional issues.

I'm still on the fence about that one.

Excuse you, I am a mutated Neanderthal with severe emotional issues.

 

[Bry_Sinclair]

Human beings have done drugs of some sort since the dawn of time. Why would we suddenly stop? Even the current shows have caffeine still being a thing (tea, earl grey, hot as well as Janeway's coffee) and it is known to be addictive.

Well there's been no evidence of humans using drugs in the time of Trek, they even got over controlling their armies through drugs at some point in the 21st century. Caffeine isn't a controlled substance though.

 

[Ganderplus]

So *that's* why fungus guy is onboard. Mushrooms *slaps forehead* of course.

...Also Harry Mudd, known Venus drug dealer.