I will one-up Star Trek and say I want to live within The Culture. Nothing yet beats The Culture. The Federation looks conservative, backward, and low-tech in comparison.
this post was submitted on 11 Jun 2025
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You're in the Star Trek universe! Right after the Burn.
Even before knowing about the ~~Burn~~ nuclear war in the lore, I always think we humans will annihilate ourselves first before coming into a utopia. It is a pattern in human history that things will always get worse before it becomes better. Humans are emotional and angry creatures. We always need catharsis.
Edit: everybody can tell I don't really watch Star Trek, as I mistook the Burn as Earth's nuclear war lol.
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You want to play a game with me not realizing that I am going to construct the board from your bones.
It does come with the caveat that you're not in TOS whilst wearing a red shirt, or DS9 and called O'Brian
Think of the power consumption needed to power holodecks 24/7 so nerds can fuck wood elves or whatever their kink is.
Lucky we have these McGuffin Crystals lying around for nearly limitless clean energy
Also the Culture, Star Trek on ultra steroids.
Getting altered to become a furry would get you institutionalized in Startrek.
Or get naturalized as a Caitan.
"You wanna be a Caitian? Sure, what the fuck ever."
People always forget that Star Trek is post-apocalytic science fiction.
Aliens, holodecks, and regularly breaking the laws of physics? Kid stuff.
Humans actually learning from their mistakes? Now that’s what takes a leap of imagination.
It's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.
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In our defense, it is VERY post-apocalyptic, like 400 years or so depending on where you tag in.
It's not like the bombs dropped yesterday and all of a sudden they have holodecks and microwaves that make food out of raw materials and transporters and warp drives.
If you consider our technology in 1625 versus today, Having that kind of tech in 2425 seems perfectly reasonable.
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Send me to the elder scrolls just after the Warp in the West stops making time fucky, by the time anything interesting happens I should be set up to comfortably avoid it. I'll just stay the fuck away from Morrowind and find a nice defensive city during the Oblivion Crisis, guess id bunker down in Winterhold since it would still be packed with mages.
It's all fun and games until they literally atomize your entire body, assemble totally different atoms in a totally different place so they take on your former shape and call that "beaming."
I really appreciate the direction Enterprise took with this. The whole crew was just terrified to use the damn thing. To be fair, it was new and relatively unproven technology, but the same central "just let the computer atomize you what could go wrong" flaw holds.
$0.02: It was great foreshadowing from episode 1 that they're gonna need it to get out of jam, and it's not guaranteed to even work. But the writers undid all that by letting the crew overcome technological and scientific inferiority way too fast. They could have made something far more compelling by having a crew that could make a go of it with zero conveniences. The show run could have ended with giving way to the next generation of explorers, who now have far more advanced tech than the NX-01 ever had; a much more compelling arc, IMO. It also robs T'pol of some of the gravity behind choosing to do something so reckless as to cruise the quadrant under such dangerous circumstances.
The problem with Enterprise is that it was kind sold as Star Trek before the transporters, before the shields, before the replicators, etc., but what we got instead was:
- ~~Transporters~~ Transporters, but only if we really need to.
- ~~Raise the shields~~ Polarise the hull plating.
- ~~Replicator~~ Protein resequencer.
- ~~Tractor beam~~ Grappling hook.
They didn't actually write a story about what it was like without these things, just what it was like with slightly shittier versions of these things.
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Jokes on you, it's Star Trek in the year 2025. It's about to get a lot worse before it gets better.
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With the assumption I can choose who I am, I would argue that Banks' Culture would be my choice. The Culture as a whole is much less vulnerable due to its size and scale and their technology is more advanced. Want cool space adventures? Join Contact or just go travel around in another civilization. Magic adventures? The sleep games and VR is like holodecks but on steroids. Want to live forever? No problem (although it's frowned upon).
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Granted. You're now in the bell riots
The Culture. Which is all of the above plus friendly superintelligent AI to run it for us.
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This reminds me of "You find yourself in your favorite fictional universe, what would you do first?"
On one end of the spectrum is Star Trek.
On the other end, Warhammer 40K.
Nah, bullshit. I'm living next door to Bluey and having a couple of tinnies with Bandit.
You and me both, brother. My son loves Bluey meanwhile I'm just jealous at their level of patience for all of the girls' shenanigans.
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Earth’s presence in the Federation says we survived. Environmental collapse, wars, etc. didn’t condemn us to extinction. Yes, it got ugly but we made it and we reached the stars. Star Trek gives us hope.
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Shit, I'll take Mordor at this point
At least Sauron owns being evil.
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