Pre-Dominiom war when everything is pretty chill. Starfleet kinda seems fun until you realize that you have to basically do military training and all this bullshit to join and then you gotta go die in space half the time. I'd maybe just try and get a runabout or the equivalent and just sorta wander around with some pals and look at totally safe and previously explored space things. I would also open a Volcel Precinct on Risa.
get holodeck addiction, get treated for holodeck addiction, relapse into holodeck addiction
I've been rewatching some TNG and it's offputting how many episodes have people going nuts with the Holodeck.
"i've fallen in love with a construct from the holodeck," "the Holodeck made a character that's too fuckable," "I've been using the holodeck to escape reality and play through bizarre scenarios with people I know and serve with."
geordie didn't go into that planning on falling for holo-brahms and he was incredibly down bad, and the followup episode shows professionalism and maturity in handling rejection, although it's a bit of a contrivance that he never looked at her space wikipedia article and saw she was married so half the conflict shouldn't have happened but whatever.
minuet was extra special binar computer magic.
barclay is a mental illness character and i don't think there's a all that much difference between what he did and the masturbatory fantasies people have, and there's dialogue about how the other characters invaded his privacy. He wasn't shown as creeping on the women outside of the context of the holodeck either.
Yeah, the Brahm's thing wasn't as bad as its made out to be. Except for All Good Thinfs where in that future they're married. Let Geordie find his own path and let Leah just be married, let's not fuck over a husband who for all we know is a great guy just so our main character can obtain love interest.
i’ve fallen in love with a construct from the holodeck,” “the Holodeck made a character that’s too fuckable,” “I’ve been using the holodeck to escape reality and play through bizarre scenarios with people I know and serve with.”
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I'd fall in love with a holodeck character, catch wind that they sometimes become sentient, figure out how to do that, then get rejected by my holodeck character
"My step-hologram has gotten stuck in the holo-washing machine, wat do"
Enter holodeck, create disgusting sexual fantasies that would make Reginald Barclay go "4/10 pass while sober," never leave holodeck
Holodeck is cool but like, you've got almost a quarter of the galaxy that you're just pretty much free to check out IRL as well. While in warp to cool places though....HOLOTIME
nah i'm not enough of an ambitious tryhard for starfleet shit and the shows aren't very detailed on how regular people applying for the use of limited communal resources like a shuttlecraft works.
A shuttle craft would be easy as hell to get but they're shuttles, they run on impulse power at best, probably a decent amount are just thrusters. They aren't specific about how people get ships but based on the shoenit does seem pretty easy. If Okona can do it, you can too! :dax-stoked:
, they run on impulse power at best
what? no, people leave the ship on shuttles to go to conferences to get kindapped as a plot contrivance constantly. the real tiny ones don't but the typical shuttle has warp drive in TNG era
There are also plenty of times that a shuttle craft not being warp capable is crucial to the plot, ds9's The Sound of Her Voice for example. I'm going into ship manual quasi canon stuff but the enterprise D had like...a LOT of shuttlecraft of different variety. Later on in late tng early ds9 the variety would be parsed down to a standard none warp capable shuttlecrsft and a warp capable runabout which was larger and had greater warp capacity than the few warp capable shuttles starfleet had beforehand. So, if you're not in starfleet or something like thar, chances are your shuttle isn't breaking warp.
I was honestly thinking outside the Federation would be more likely for the shuttle to be warp capable, because not having a huge ship around would make it a necessity. Like the Enterprise can afford having ships that are practically dinghies, someone selling a civ shuttle would be selling to people without that luxury
The federation isn't just Starfleet, remember. So it's sorts the difference between military and civilian tech minus the capitalism. The cutting edge cooler stuff being only used for certain ships and the tried and true being used for the majority of the fleet has been seen due to the fact that production wanted to reuse old ship models. I'd wanna stick to federation space and not too far from backup cause I've seen the show and know I could get attacked by a Greek God or Lincoln.
It does seem like any random asshole can get a warp capable ship if the plot needs it though. Can't be too hard to come by. I was also considering general living space too, a shuttle is like a trailer that you can't leave. A runabout or something like that has more room to.
We don't really see civilian ship manufacturers do we? It would seem most options for federation citizens are federation built or made outside the federation. That's why I assume they would have warp drives, you need to be offering _something to buyers. Business would need to be super localized for dealerships if you are selling only single-system crafts. Not out of the realm of possibility, but even just an emergency warp drive would make sense. People buying a private vessel for themselves are likely willing to shill out the higher price a warp drive and associated upkeep requires.
Trek doesn't really have much in the way of in-atmo craft like Star wars
There's stuff like the Vulcan Science Institue and other ventures that fall under federation jurisdiction or 'funding'. Lower Decks had that recruitment day episode that shows a whole bunch of the space weirdos with spaceships are part of some kind of guild or whatever.
Transporter technology and the fact the average Starship can depopulate a whole planet makes in-atmo ships kinda more trouble than their worth. But there are plenty short range vessels that aren't ftl capable. Impulse in tng can get you pretty close to warp 1 anyway. When they're Starship they're called that because they are capable of interstellar flight. Thst being said, Quark also makes a big deal about getting his own warp capable ship in Little Green Men.
At this point I feel like the best way to get a ship is to become plot relevant and hope it's a lighthearted one off where you fly away sage at the end.
Stsrfleet is Q's way of testing random weirdos with spaceships when they venture too far.
Go through Starfleet Academy and work hard for years rising through the ranks...
... or walk into the Holodeck and pretend you're Indiana Jones
First I'd get 24th Century medicine to clear out all of the microplastics and other shit that has saturated my body.
Then I'd make an appointment with a counsellor, because I wouldn't have to pay through to ass or wait eight months to see a mental health professional.
Haven't thought further ahead than that yet.
I really didn't expect this to be that hard of a hypothetical to grasp.
You're you, but also have all the medical stuff and enough general future knowledge to adequately operate like anyone else at the time and know as much of what's going on news wise as you've seen of trek. Is that specific enough?
THIS IS THE KIND OF ANSWERS I WAS HOPING FOR!
I feel like a whole bunch of planets being around and space being explored would make science in general just so fun. Just constant cool new shit to learn.
When I retire I'm gonna move to a town that has thar Inner Light set that they use constantly where the city is the size of a Soundstage and there's stairs going to a higher level for extras to walk up and down. I'll maintain the two tubes with the red lights that is in every science facility.
Ship of theseus myself into an android body, get addicted to replicator drugs and then get addicted to the holodeck
It'd just be for fun.
"Horgon police! Stick em up! Oh, you already have. Carry on."
Open a speakeasy that gives bathtub gin to Federation seamen (commissioned officers have to barter) while they're in dock above Earth. Just drinking synthehol has to get old. We'd have watchwords and shit to make it fun.
I'm aware, but like, by a couple years. Still falls outside the spirit of the question
I mean that is kinda the point of the Maquis, the spirit of the federation at the time of TNG only takes you so far, if not the Maquis, then helping the Bajoran refugees we see in Ensign Ro, or any of the other frontier problems. The Federation just seems too comfy, sterile. I guess most of us if living in it would not realize, but if I'm myself something would feel deeply off about it all.
IDK become an attaché to the Tholians
Fair play. I guess I'll just go with like, season 4 ish of tng for timelinery. Although initially I was thinking like, pre Wolf 359. When Starfleet was at its most Vibin'. You could just start the Maquis early.
The Cardassian Wars do predate even Wolf 359, though I forget by how long. The Wounded is so good because it establishes the fact that the dissent and dissatisfaction is already there, not just in terms of Cardassia, but in general
If you want to be on the crew of the Rutlidge be my guest. I am just kinda aiming for the less obvious 'fight' answers.
Also this is getting annoyingly pedantic.
I am a coward so I am not even thinking about fighting, more just helping outside the Federation, we see people like Kasidy do so
Hell yeh, cool space trucker who sometimes let's things fall off the back of the truck. That's a sick way to live and Kasidy Yates is a hero.
Also this is getting annoyingly pedantic.
buddy you asked a hypothetical question about star trek, the pedantry is baked in
I'd probably study xenolinguistics or make holodeck programs for funsies
I feel like with FALGSC I could have done well enough in my youth to be one of the random engineers that nod silently while a named character tells them what to do during the intro to a scene, and I'd recalibrate the hell out of some dilithium crystals or run a sub-surface probe like a boss. Probably not the on Enterprise, but on one of the other ships.
Really I'd just be hoping that I'd be included in one of the horny episodes left over from the 60's and get to go to one of the sex planets for shore leave.
anybody in here volunteer to be the person who mops jizz out of the holodeck yet?
Due to advanced space magic medicine, I'd run an RPG and not have to cancel every other session due to one of my players getting strep or the flu.
More seriously, I kind of turn into a mess without structure, so not having a job would be a concern in a FALGSC situation. Traveling with a preplanned itinerary would probably be cool, and I'd get to experience a lot of alien cultures and beautiful sights.
Engineer. There are a lot of big, beautiful ships that need maintaining in the 24th Century.
