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Let's say the year is 2380, for simplicity. If I wanted a big house, let's say on Earth, let's say in either Japan or California, would I have to have positively contributed somehow to society? What does Universal Base Housing look like for the average Joe Schmoe Federation citizen?
Barclay had what looked like a relatively nice loft apartment in VOY, was that because he was involved in some important research?
Nobody asks these questions in the show, and frankly I doubt the writers ever gave it much thought either. It was enough to just say poverty and want and whatever were eliminated and be done with it.
Unfortunately I can't just let that slide, and I want to understand what gets you a nice house on Earth in a post-scarcity society without it belonging to your family estate (like Chateau Picard)
If I was in the Star Trek universe, I'd spend all day eating food and having sex on the holodeck. I think that's where most people would spend their time.
That's another question I have. What if I wanted to install a holosuite in my home on Earth? Do I have to put in a request to have someone come over when a work team is available? Or is that just something I can't do as an average Joe citizen?
People's homes would probably just be a holosuite with safety on and mainly inanimate objects.
But we know from DS9 that holosuites have an operation cost to them, unless the Federation waives that cost for Federation citizens? Dr Zimmerman had holoprojectors all throughout his lab on Jupiter Station but that was because he was literally a holo-engineer
Okay, but it's a utopia, and I want a holodeck, that means I get one. Otherwise it's shit.
Someone should get Rick Berman on the horn and ask him the hard questions
I just want a Officer K situation but it's more REAL because instead of an intangible Ana de Armas it's a hard light projection. AND, if it's a holodeck, it could produce scent and stuff
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not reading this either
or this, bitch.
tfw glimpsed the nemesis
is it because it wasn't about the cat doctor and the bajoran buff guy from lower decks
I just want my life to stop sucking. I thought it'd get better with time but it's declining so fast I almost feel like I'll never enjoy anything again. A holodeck could really turn things around for me.
forgot his boxing gloves, had to settle for a gun
I'm in total agreement with you, anon, I just want to understand the logistics of acquiring one in the supposed Federation utopia.
Samantha Wildman played those holonovels with the elemental characters when she was growing up, so there's definitely ways to access holodeck technology in some capacity, right? Despite it being new technology in TNG but I suppose we've retconned that
doesn't sound very star trek unless you watch SNW and enjoy it
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I hate to reference SNW, but was Benny Russell a real person? From "Far Beyond the Stars", I'd assumed he was an alternate version of Sisko that the prophets were using to teach him something, but then M'Benga (?) has a book written by him in SNW
What does Universal Base Housing look like for the average Joe Schmoe Federation citizen?
Enough to get a shrimp po'boy 3x/daily at Slisko's.
is that whole thing Sisko's? that's a big gumbo restaurant
You have to know someone in HR
It also includes a banquet room for Jambalaya and a war room to repel invasions by the Beignet Boyz
We know at the very least one or more of the top floors above the restaurant belong to Sisko so one could assume most of the building is his
that's a big gumbo restaurant
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There are only 4 billion people on Earth at that time, getting a big neetpad is easy. With the tech avaliable you probably have mile high skyscrapers with tons of comfy apartments.
San Francisco would still be packed and prime locations would still have multiple people wanting them.
and prime locations would still have multiple people wanting them.
Out of universe, the definition of prime location was pegged to what was prime IRL at the time, and that in turn was tied to real-world constraints around resources and transportation. However when transporters and shuttles and replicators are a thing, prime locations can be anywhere beautiful. The British Columbia Rocky mountains. The pampas of South America. Transylvania. Uluru/Ayers Rock. Montana (Bozeman, natch).
Transporters and shuttles don't equalize location sans natural beauty.
My theory is that Holodeck technology isn’t commercially available because the average person doesn’t have enough self restraint not to waste their lives inside it. Look how easily people become addicted to food, or social media, or video games. 80% of people would rather simulate living a perfect life than struggle in the real world.
No, but it opens up a lot of naturally beautiful areas you wouldn't think of because real world constraints mean they are currently shitholes. The Congo is beautiful, and in a world without war and pestilence and famine and the other guy, it would be on par with the aforementioned
Okay. Anyway
There is every likelihood that San Fagcisco will still be a shithole in the 24th C no matter what magic poo cleaning tech is invented.
As with every major city.