What 3 pieces of Trek technology do you wish were real?

[USS Triumphant]

Just one: a replicator, so I could have anything I wanted. Be it food, clothing, etc.

Better add one more - a small warp core (at least shuttle sized). I think a replicator requires a heck of a lot of power by current standards. You wouldn't want to replicate a cheeseburger and end up with a bill from the power company that would bankrupt a small country.

 

[Sparkle Fabulosa]

Good idea! Thanks

 

[Joel_Kirk]

1. Transporter

2. Tantalus Device

3. Holodeck

 

[Sparkle Fabulosa]

I forgot about transporters! Add that to my list. It would be very handy seeing as I don't drive.

 

[Joel_Kirk]

I forgot about transporters! Add that to my list. It would be very handy seeing as I don't drive.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

Can't argue with transporters. In the mood for Chinese food? Go to China! Reporter being held hostage in Syria? Now he's in my living room, problem solved!

 

[Captain Rob]

So pretty much everything has to come with one of those portable fusion power supplies that Geordi likes toting around. Does it run off of banana peels and beer?

 

[USS Triumphant]

I forgot about transporters! Add that to my list. It would be very handy seeing as I don't drive.

Actually, EVERYONE'S list should be:

1. CARGO replicator
2. Small warp reactor
3. The ship's computer from the Enterprise-J (Because why not? It's canon, after all. )

Because with those three items, you can MAKE *ANYTHING* else - aside from possibly relatively unique items like Data's brain or unreplicatables like gold-pressed latinum. (But then again, with the Ent-J's computer, who knows what would be possible regarding even those?) Give me those three items and a few days, and I'll have my own ship in orbit.

(Just don't forget that the first two things you need to replicate are a small phaser turret and a shield generator big enough to comfortably surround you and everything you're making, or all of this will soon be the property of whatever government can get to you first. )

 

[Captain Rob]

So you'll also need Flint's castle to house everything along with that fancy robot to ward off the revenuers. Is a truckload of replicated currency considered income?

 

[USS Triumphant]

So you'll also need Flint's castle to house everything along with that fancy robot to ward off the revenuers. Is a truckload of replicated currency considered income?

Not legally. But if you're aboard your own Triumphant-Class starship sitting in orbit, you don't need money. Or that castle or robot.

 

[Captain Rob]

If a starship is an option. Since Picard won't give up Enterprise. I'll take her sister. The USS Sovereign. With about 18 years of upgrades.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

Replicated paper money is counterfeit money.

Replicated gold is still gold. Replicate a ton of gold and sell it for real money. Problem solved.

 

[USS Triumphant]

Replicated paper money is counterfeit money.

Replicated gold is still gold. Replicate a ton of gold and sell it for real money. Problem solved.

You're going to want to use the transporter to do that right. If you sell a huge amount of replicated gold (or any precious material) in one place, they will know you are glutting the market and won't pay as much. If you divide it up and sell a little bit here and a little bit there, you're still going to glut the market, and by the end, you'll be getting very little for your gold. BUT, if you divide it up and sell it a little here and a little there ALL AT THE SAME TIME using transporters to deliver it, they won't have time to realize you're glutting the market, and you'll get the best price.

It's all dumb, though. Give me the three technologies that I mentioned everyone should want previously in the thread and a few weeks, and I will have eliminated any need for a scarcity based economy, planet-wide. And then if you still want all that gold, I'll set up a pool of it where you can frolic around like Scrooge McDuck.

 

[xvicente]

Since Rayna Kapec was already mentioned:

1) Romulan Ale
2) Saurian Brandy
3) Orion Slave girls (oh that's not technology? a warpship, then, to take me to Orion)

 

[Captain Rob]

Sounds like you're going to need alot of that replicated money. Singles or twenties?

 

[Captain Kathryn]

Holodecks (but for everyone)
Replicators
Transporters

Warp speed and the medical technology of the Federation too.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

Some of these technologies though you wouldn't necessarily want to be real.

Real people wouldn't have the plot blindness of ST characters, they'd know transporters are a weapon that allow you to completely disintegrate anybody in the world from anywhere else in the world. Or perhaps an unstoppable bomb delivery system.

 

[Captain Kathryn]

They would have to have security measures like at the airport.

And I think I would just live inside a Holodeck...even though I know logically it wouldn't be good. I don't think I would ever want to leave.

 

[Mudang Harada]

Sonic showers.

 

[RandyS]

For me, I'd go:

-Food replicators

- Holodecks

-Warp speed

1 and 3, absolutley, but I'd replace the holodeck with replicators.

I hate cooking. I'm bad at it.