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If we lived in a Star Trek universe.........

hawkwing43hawkwing43 Member Posts: 1,701 Arc User
edited September 2014 in Ten Forward
How do you see your life tuning out now if you lived in the Trekverse?

Think of it this way. Everyone you know would be there, everything would have the trek look and feel. You would still be born in your home towns, but everything is set in life after when Voyager returned to earth.

So, knowing the person you are, how do you see things shaping out in a Star Trek life?

So everyone knows, part of my life would have been in Starfleet for a very short bit, down in the enlisted ranks, and I would have returned to earth to attend school. :D
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  • capnmanxcapnmanx Member Posts: 1,452 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    Since all I'd need to survive is a replicator and a power source, I imagine I'd be even lazier than I am now. :P
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  • hawkwing43hawkwing43 Member Posts: 1,701 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    Oh and don't forget the holo-programs. I for one would be deep into the RPG of the holo-games. lol
  • steamwrightsteamwright Member Posts: 2,820
    edited September 2014
    Hmm...well, since money's no option, my life might be very different. I do computer repair work currently to make ends meet, but I've always wanted to get back into art, which I minored in for 2 years in college. And history is a major interest to me. So, I suspect I'd probably sign up on the first shuttle to Aldea, and have them teach me art. Then I'd probably find a part-time position as a history researcher and alternate my time between the two. I'd also find a good culinary training program, as I see cooking as another art.

    Alternatively, I'd move from Aldea, and find a way to get someone to sneak me over to the Baku. There, I could hone my art for the next 300 years or more under teachers with that many years experience.
  • hawku001xhawku001x Member Posts: 10,768 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    move to either Casperia Prime or Risa and get into holo-addiction
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  • cbrjwrrcbrjwrr Member Posts: 2,782 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    Well, Ill be homeless if we go by STO - STO's render of Earth has Lincolnshire, England missing in the 25th Century...
  • hawkwing43hawkwing43 Member Posts: 1,701 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    holodecks addiction here. At least until my family dragged me away from it, and put me into medical care for it. lol
  • kuntelkuntel Member Posts: 16,484 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    Probably as I would be now. In the Academy, heading for a Medical officer's education. Get on a ship and serve as a Bones replica.
  • moonshadowdarkmoonshadowdark Member Posts: 1,899 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    I'd be playing the 47th edition of D&D on the holodeck.
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  • steamwrightsteamwright Member Posts: 2,820
    edited September 2014
    By the brief summation of you lot here, Reg Barclay may just be the most realistic character on Star Trek. :rolleyes:
  • marcusdkanemarcusdkane Member Posts: 7,439 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    I'd have a tattoo studio up on ESD :cool:
  • iconiansiconians Member Posts: 6,987 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    steamwright wrote: »
    By the brief summation of you lot here, Reg Barclay may just be the most realistic character on Star Trek. :rolleyes:

    It's why he's my favorite character in Star Trek. He's not like the virtually flawless humans portrayed in the series.

    He's quirky. He has his own personality flaws, but despite all of that, he's extremely gifted and an invaluable asset to Starfleet and takes his job very seriously.

    If I were in in the Star Trek universe? I'd likely go find a moon or planet far away from everybody else and get involved in scientific research on some colony world.
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  • gulberatgulberat Member Posts: 5,505 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    I would have probably preferred to be nonhuman in the Star Trek universe, but seeing as that option isn't on the table per the OP, I think I would end up either emigrating to a non-Fed colony or doing long-term relief work outside the Federation, such as helping to rebuild Cardassia. That isn't to say I would not like some of the perks of 25th-century technology (considering that how the middle class in an affluent country these days would be roughing it by 25th-century standards and I think I have a good life, I know I don't have to have it all), but I think I there is a such thing as having too much, and no challenge in one's life. I also think Fed tolerance and diversity of thought is a lot narrower than it appears and I strongly doubt I would have all of the freedoms I have IRL if I stayed in the Federation.

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  • grandnaguszek1grandnaguszek1 Member Posts: 2,188 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    I would get my own escort and do work for the sphere allied forces. I could help save the Federation without having to be ordered around and without rising through the ranks:P.

    After that I would work with Morn on his freighter buisness.
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  • alexmakepeacealexmakepeace Member Posts: 10,633 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    I'd probably be a xenobiologist, either with Starfleet or a civilian, working on the fringes of known space.
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  • venkouvenkou Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    hawkwing43 wrote: »
    How do you see your life tuning out now if you lived in the Trekverse?

    Think of it this way. Everyone you know would be there, everything would have the trek look and feel. You would still be born in your home towns, but everything is set in life after when Voyager returned to earth.

    So, knowing the person you are, how do you see things shaping out in a Star Trek life?

    So everyone knows, part of my life would have been in Starfleet for a very short bit, down in the enlisted ranks, and I would have returned to earth to attend school. :D
    I would be fighting to abolish Starfleet.

    While the Federation of Planets has its usefulness, the idea of living in a military controlled society is problematic. Virtually every part of your life is regulated through behavioral laws. Everyone on a ship is constantly recorded by the computer. If you do not agree with a commanding officer, you are either removed or put though behavior modification (Counselors). Everyone on the ship is also wearing the same type of clothing.

    Utopian societies, such as Star Trek's, are based upon an illusion of freedom.

    I would belong to a Constitution supporting faction, which fights to maintain independence from bureaucracies and military constructs.

    Firefly is the most desirable outcome.
  • sander233sander233 Member Posts: 3,992 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    If you transplanted me in my current life stage into a post-Voyager Star Trek universe, I'd probably be at the Ganymede Test Range finding new and better ways to blow up Borgs.

    If I'd grown up in that universe though, I'd probably be a Starfleet biologist with tactical training.

    As for holodecks, I don't have an addictive personality so I wouldn't go full Reg Barclay but I'd be spending a lot of downtime pretending to be a pirate. Or Ironman. Or especially [REDACTED - NSFW]
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  • steamwrightsteamwright Member Posts: 2,820
    edited September 2014
    sander233 wrote: »

    As for holodecks, I don't have an addictive personality so I wouldn't go full Reg Barclay but I'd be spending a lot of downtime pretending to be a pirate. Or Ironman. Or especially [REDACTED - NSFW]

    Hmm, would that be a pirate Ironman? :P
  • mirrorchaosmirrorchaos Member Posts: 9,844 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    hawkwing43 wrote: »
    How do you see your life tuning out now if you lived in the Trekverse?

    Think of it this way. Everyone you know would be there, everything would have the trek look and feel. You would still be born in your home towns, but everything is set in life after when Voyager returned to earth.

    So, knowing the person you are, how do you see things shaping out in a Star Trek life?

    So everyone knows, part of my life would have been in Starfleet for a very short bit, down in the enlisted ranks, and I would have returned to earth to attend school. :D

    first off, get medical attention, full work up and get the various drugs into the system and such, find a pretty bajoran woman whom the prophets have deemed me the man to be with her and they give their blessings in advance. sweep her off her feet and have a new life with her on bajor, enjoy the utopian lifestyle, eat hasperat, watch the waterfalls in a some city somewhere and at times take long walks in a very rich grassland, and other times go with her to the temple, get into the spiritual side of things, learn so much in libraries feeling the wind in your face on a nice warm summers day and smelling a sweet nectar being thrown into the wind from a nearby springwinery and crops. just a nice stead quiet life if i ever got into the trekverse.
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  • eldarion79eldarion79 Member Posts: 1,679 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    venkou wrote: »
    I would be fighting to abolish Starfleet.

    While the Federation of Planets has its usefulness, the idea of living in a military controlled society is problematic. Virtually every part of your life is regulated through behavioral laws. Everyone on a ship is constantly recorded by the computer. If you do not agree with a commanding officer, you are either removed or put though behavior modification (Counselors). Everyone on the ship is also wearing the same type of clothing.

    Utopian societies, such as Star Trek's, are based upon an illusion of freedom.

    I would belong to a Constitution supporting faction, which fights to maintain independence from bureaucracies and military constructs.

    Firefly is the most desirable outcome.

    Apparently, you have never served in a military. Besides the fact, that Star Trek is Starfleet-focus and that whenever you do see civilian life, it has none of the things you described. So, basically you would be a terrorist in the Federation's mind, and a war hero in the Maquis' mind.

    Back to the question, given that humanity's basic needs are met in 23rd to 25th Centuries, anything, as long as I put the effort into it, but a Starfleet career sounds nice.
  • moonshadowdarkmoonshadowdark Member Posts: 1,899 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    venkou wrote: »

    Firefly is the most desirable outcome.

    Doesn't the Firefly universe have more death and destruction than the Star Trek universe, due to all the gangsters, Reavers, outlaws and the constant rebellions between worlds going on?
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  • dragonogredragonogre Member Posts: 70 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    I would be homeless since were I am is destroyed by a quake but I would probly join starfleet and become a warpcore engineer
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  • kestrelliuskestrellius Member Posts: 462 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    Actually, Trek has far more death and destruction, because Firefly is only about the human race, consisting just of one (large) solar system. So, objectively speaking, Trek has more. Percentage-wise, you're probably correct, though. Although my impression is that the Core Worlds actually aren't that bad, if you don't get out of line.

    As for me? Yeah, holodeck. Probably do a lot of holodeck program design, too. And possibly a bit of exploration; I want to meet aliens. Proper aliens, though, not these stupid cosplaying humans who think that having funny bits on their faces and blathering about logic or honor makes them aliens.
  • frontierplanetsfrontierplanets Member Posts: 61 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    Well, between college and a Betazoid lady friend (fnarr fnarr ;)), I'll probably be working with the distant descendant of Games Workshop on testing the latest holodeck edition of Warhammer 40k. Because people can get tired of the utopian post-scarcity society of the 25th century every now and then. :rolleyes:
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  • eaglesixactualeaglesixactual Member Posts: 9 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    Join Starfleet.

    Play the game in Real Life.
  • kain9primekain9prime Member Posts: 739 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    I wouldn't be a starving artist anymore since I'd have access to a replicated "all you can eat!" buffet any time I wanted.
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  • kjwashingtonkjwashington Member Posts: 2,529 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    Well, I'm in college for teaching (technology education) now, I would probably be doing the same. (Except I would be learning how to teach something far more advanced.)
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  • spaceshipfoodfspaceshipfoodf Member Posts: 54 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    I would sign up for a long journey on a science ship to learn as much about the universe as I possibly could :)

    Also Holo-deck addiction... Who wouldn't want to play a first person shooter for real? ;)
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  • worffan101worffan101 Member Posts: 9,518 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    marcusdkane wrote: »
    I'd have a tattoo studio up on ESD :cool:

    I'd probably be a paleontologist on some far-off planet, perennially scheming to get my hands on a timeship to see dinosaurs and stuff alive.

    I'd write bad Captain Proton fanfiction that poked fun at the tropes of the holoshow in my spare time, and I'd probably subscribe to your hypernet site or something because I like your art and writing.

    I'd also be secretly genetically augmenting myself because I think it's cool.
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