… what would it be?
I’d personally take the holo deck from Stark Trek.
I’d lock myself in and throw away the key. Well, okay I might come out once a week just so my maid could clean all the sperm stains. And maybe pay the electric bill which should be considerably larger than normally.
A light saber would be cool too.
Does Data count as a “gadget”?
Other than him, I’m with you on the light-saber. 
I would like a holodeck too, but I think I’d rather have a transporter. I hate driving. Imagine popping over to England for lunch in a pub, then beaming over to Hong Kong for dinner, and snuggling into bed at home.
Just curious…what effect does transporting have on jet lag? Sisko said when he was in the Academy in San Francisco he went home to New Orleans for dinner every night for the first week. He used up a whole month’s worth of transporter credits, as I recall. Would he have suffered jet lag?
You konw what’s coming…
A 1920’s style Death Ray!
Someone had to say it. May as well get it out of the way early.
I actually thought about putting a disclaimer on that (*other than 1920’s death ray) but thought it would go unmentioned.
Learning the hard way.
I want a flycycle, Puppeteer made, and fully equipped. The thing has a kitchen, an autodoc, and I hope, an instruction manual. Oh, and it goes mach 4!
“You can’t always get what you want.” ~ M. Jagger/K. Richards ~
A Starfleet runabout with a holodeck and an EMH specially installed.
That way, I get a small warp capable vessel that I can pilot myself but has room to comfortably house a dozen, replicators, an extensive library full of hundreds of different worlds’ knowledge and literature, and a transporter all in one.
Scotty seemed a bit nostalgic but wasn’t jet lagged when the E-D crew found him on the Jenolen in *Relics *so I imagine not.
A holodeck would be nice, but I’m not sure how my wife would like me hanging out with asian lesbian nymphomaniacs all the time. I think I’d take a replicator. I’d have me some hash brownies and Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee every morning for breakfast 
If Data counts, then so does R. Dorothy Wayneright.
She’s my gadget of choice, thank you.
Why think small?
I want a fully functioning starship.
Gooood. That’s goooooood!
And, you will operate it how ?
My life would be complete if I just had a Jet-Pack.
Well, a fully functioning starship would have a complete crew, of course.
Hell, those things fly themselves anyway, right?
Right?
Well, he wasn’t traveling anywhere. He was trapped. Does traveling via transporter lead to jet lag?
Rewatch the last fifteen minutes of Generations. 
Well, the incredibly geeky (and technically correct) anwer to this would be that he was on the Dyson Sphere for ~80 years and in that time, travelled a few billion miles as it orbited the center of the galaxy, but in the conventional sense you meant, no.
You can take your pick though.
Jet lag is caused by rapidly changing time zones, not travel alone - ie if you fly long distances west or east you have problems because your body thinks it is in the wee hours of the morning when outside it is the local noon and the sun is shining brightly; however flying long distances north or south doesn’t cause jet lag, just minor sores from sitting in a cramped airline seat. I would assume transporting around a planet would also cause jet lag, if you go large distance east or west.
However, in Sisko’s case, he was only moving two time zones (Pacific to Central) which wouldn’t be that hard to deal with. Especially since he would be going right back to Pacific time, after only an hour or two in Central.
As for Scotty, well it would depend on what the local Jericho time was when he stuck himself in the transporter, and what the local Enterprise time was set at when they brought him out. If they were the same, or similar, Scotty would not have had problems; however, if it was 2am Jericho time & 3 pm Enterprise time, well, jet lag would have hit.
If I could. . . I’d trade in my pickup truck for a BattleMech
Hells yes, I’d be squashing some cars and blowing sh*t up!
Tripler
It’d sure as hell make my commute to work a lot more fun!
Imagine the events you could witness and the people you could meet.
I want a giant flying robot.
Oh, and a crew of color-coded teenagers.
Another reason for a runabout. One quick run around the sun and it’s 1986 again.
