What is other transportation like in the 24th Century?

[Gingerbread Demon]

I'm not talking about Disco here but regular Trek from Picard down to the past, what is other transportation like on 24th Century Earth?

Do we still have things like trains and cruise ships? Do people even bother with this kind of thing, would submarines be able to go deeper then anything we have today with forcefields and other exotic technology, I guess propellers are now a thing of the past for submarines and boats.

Is any of this side of life covered in books or novels?

Can we discuss?

 

[Nerys Myk]

Dune buggies mostly.

 

[1001001]

Jet packs.

Duh.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Dune buggies mostly.

But only if you are a ship captain haha

 

[Nerys Myk]

But only if you are a ship captain haha

 

[F. King Daniel]

We see flying cars in a couple of episodes. They've always fascinated me.

 

[Timelord79 (he/him)]

Jet packs.

Duh.

Smaller Jetpacks?

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

Anti-Grav Packs instead of JetPacks.

 

[matthunter]

Sisko's mother died in a hovercraft accident, so they exist.

 

[Jedi Marso]

Didn't we see some sort of transporter-portal like device where you just walk through at one point and emerge somewhere else?

If not, it seems that in a post-scarcity world where power consumption is no object, transporters would supplant just about all other forms of transportation for intercontinental or transcontinental travel. Anti-grav vehicles would be used for the rest, probably an uber-like 'johnny cab' service completely controlled by a Daystrom Industries AI control system. Or something.

I still don't grok why, in SNW ep 1, Pike took a shuttle to the Enterprise, then only to beam aboard.

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

Didn't we see some sort of transporter-portal like device where you just walk through at one point and emerge somewhere else?

Yes, in the early eps of ST:Picard S1.

But that seems to be linking to transporter sites that might be "Far Away" (like in another city or on the other side of the planet).

There's no point in transporting to somewhere locally, it costs energy to transport.

If not, it seems that in a post-scarcity world where power consumption is no object, transporters would supplant just about all other forms of transportation for intercontinental or transcontinental travel. Anti-grav vehicles would be used for the rest, probably an uber-like 'johnny cab' service completely controlled by a Daystrom Industries AI control system. Or something.

It might transport medium range distances like from city to city or from the surface of a Planet to somewhere in Orbit on a StarBase / Space Station.

Local travel, it still might be more energy efficient to use a vehicle to travel.

I still don't grok why, in SNW ep 1, Pike took a shuttle to the Enterprise, then only to beam aboard.

If Enterprise wasn't in Transporter range, that may be why he needed to take the shuttle.

If the shuttle didn't belong to the USS Enterprise, it might have belonged to another vessel or StarBase's shuttle.

Transporter range is finite, linear, prone to interference and is easily obstructed by Astronomical objects and lots of mass. Ergo you can only beam so far past solid rock without Transporter Pattern Enhancers.

If Pike isn't anywhere close to the USS Enterprise, he may need a ride.

 

[The Wormhole]

I still don't grok why, in SNW ep 1, Pike took a shuttle to the Enterprise, then only to beam aboard.

It's because everyone enjoys doing TMP style flybys of the ships. Probably the silliest example of it was in Caretaker, Tom Paris and Stadi take a shuttle from DS9 to Voyager, despite the fact Voyager was docked at the station and they could have therefore just walked onboard.

 

[JesterFace]

Simple, blimps.

 

[Shawnster]

Do we still have things like trains and cruise ships?

Cruise ships are more about the experience than transportation. Most people who take a cruise finish their cruise at the same place they start.

Now the experience might be different than today. It might not be such a experience to take a Caribbean cruise to various tropical ports of call when one can literally do the same thing simply walking from transporter station to transporter station.

Deep sea submersibles that actually survive deep ocean depths might be very popular.

Mundane transportation light freighters, freight trains, semi trucks, passenger air liners, and such might not exist on Earth. Why waste time unnecessarily when a transporter can do all that?

We see that school children take shuttle buses through space the way kids today take regular buses

 

[Arpy]

Floating cities. On water and on air. Some stationary, some ever in motion.

But imagine also a multi-"step" city with sections on the ocean floor, floating on the ocean, hovering among the clouds, and orbiting in space. This is a multi-trillion being civilization, headquartered on Earth, with some member-worlds spacefaring for millennia. The Federation is badd-ass and don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

Mundane transportation light freighters, freight trains, semi trucks, passenger air liners, and such might not exist on Earth. Why waste time unnecessarily when a transporter can do all that?

Energy cost to move cargo might still be cheaper the old fashioned way through the slower methods compared to the Transporter.

The economics of the future still do revolved around energy efficiency and doing what is the most efficient and safe for every situation and adjusting as needed.

We see that school children take shuttle buses through space the way kids today take regular buses

In Short Treks, we see kids taking shuttles to school.

Apparently it's still more energy efficient to shuttle kids around the old fashioned way.

 

[matthunter]

I still don't grok why, in SNW ep 1, Pike took a shuttle to the Enterprise, then only to beam aboard.

Storywise, it's to show that Pike isn't in the same mindset as Kirk was in TMP - he just wants this mission done and dusted, fuck the flybys. April might have requested the shuttle flyby hoping it would spark Pike's love for his ship and exploration again, but Pike wasn't there yet.

 

[Jedi Marso]

Storywise, it's to show that Pike isn't in the same mindset as Kirk was in TMP - he just wants this mission done and dusted, fuck the flybys. April might have requested the shuttle flyby hoping it would spark Pike's love for his ship and exploration again, but Pike wasn't there yet.

Interesting read, although I didn't get this vibe at all. I also don't bite on the idea that a starfleet admiral micro-manages the travel habits of starship captains. However, that doesn't make it impossible.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Which short trek had the kids in shuttles?

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

Which short trek had the kids in shuttles?

The Short Trek called "Children of Mars".