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Poll Would you trade your real life to live in the ST Universe?
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It's free at the point of service and that's what counts.
Kind of the whole point of living in a society. You can pull your resources and use them for things that are important to the community.
Yeah a world where skin colour and gender is as important as....as...as actually not an issue at all. I like the TOS era, get a job in Paris working for some Federation diplomat, get a Vulcan lover who believes in IDIC...sure why not?
Well I don't think much of human society of 50 years ago either lol
Sadly most people would just squander those opportunities on various forms of entertainment rather than self progression.
All jokes aside, there are times when it seems like people from the Trek future practically go out of their way to be patronizing toward those they find from "our" present. About the only two exceptions that I can think of are Edith Keeler (whom Kirk and Spock both acknowledge as forward-thinking) and Gillian Taylor (of whom we learn nothing beyond joining a science vessel).
For what it's worth, I've felt that whatever we were supposed to take away from Star Trek was meant to be applied to our world rather than making us wish we lived there. After all, that's the only thing that can really happen.
Also, I've come to the realization that we know very little about life in the Federation, and what little we see is looked at through the lens of Starfleet. We're told a lot, but we don't see much of it. There too, there is a patronizing attitude toward civilians from the Starfleet point of view.
It is why I enjoy Star Trek novels that are based on Federation planets but there are not many of them. We get to see life lived as a nonhuman with cultural practises that very few real life humans would tolerate (arranged marriages in childhood like Vulcans and Andorians anyone?). The 24th century did come across as patronising or maybe Picard was just a snobbish asshole
I like the idea and would probably do it but I don't know. I'm not too keen on the constant threats of invasion. If I did do it, I'd make every effort to get real food though. That replicator stuff sounds worse than the processed food we have today.
Pain is fine. Suffering? Not so much.
Rigley's Pleasure Planet... Just from the sound of it, it seems more like Atlantic City than Vegas.
I imagine Risa as a more naturally beautiful place; while Wrigley's Pleasure Planet is more like a theme park.
I guess what I mean is that while we see bits of diversity among some of the Federation's faces, we don't really see how it all works together. So much of Federation life is largely unknown to us, and it all works simply because we are told it works.
And with good reason. People today, at least those who profess to believe in "inclusivness" are VERY patronizing and tend to look down their noses at everybody else with their "agree with me or else" attitudes.
This post gets and uberlike!
Try saying that arranged marriages or any other different cultural practice should be acceptable and many so-called supporters of inclusiveness have a tizzy fit. People don't want inclusiveness or tolerance, they just want what they are to be accepted and what they dislike to be forbidden. I'm not talking about any politic group, I'm just talking about people in general. Very few people are able to support someone, even when that someone professes something they disagree with.
I'd make the move if I could bring everyone in my Facebook friends and everyone on the board here with me.
And if pressed, I'd cut that down to just ten other people. And if *really* pressed, I'd make the move with just my wife and two kids.
But not without them.
And if pressed, I'd cut that down to just ten other people. And if *really* pressed, I'd make the move with just my wife and two kids.
But not without them.
Yes. It's a no-brainer.
I dunno. I'd be looking at all the continuity errors and glaring suspiciously at all the aliens that look very much like humans with a lump of dyed plastic stuck to their heads. I think I'd be a happy slave here in the 21st century, thanks.
Then you run into the 6-degrees problem. All the people you know will want to bring all the people they know. Soon everyone on the planet is moving to the 24th century.
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