Since you specify the Burrough-Libby device, then whatever happens to you there is real: if you are killed, you won’t be coming back, and if you get body/mind work done, it stays with you when you return.
In that case, I’m choosing Tertius. All the women are beautiful and the men, too (except Lazarus, I assume), as well as intelligent and engaging. Plus you can get laid in pretty much any configuration you find interesting. There might be a bit of a recursive effect when Dora and (Zeb’s plane–sorry, forgot your name) start slinging people all over the multiverse, but maybe I can avoid imploding. With 4 years to work in, I can get a cloned + fixed up body, maybe a bit of mental reconditioning, and perhaps even have my musical abilities enhanced–that would be nice.
I would also like to find out if that universe contains anyone, who is not a moron, who disagrees with Heinlein’s political agenda.
Since this is a temporary thing and I’ll be coming back, the absolute best value is to go somewhere where they have the medical knowledge and skills to clean up my body, deal with all the minor consequences of aging, fix my eyesight and minor medical conditions, cure any diseases and so forth. That way I come back to this universe in perfect health, ready to live a lot longer than I would have before.
Since it’s the Federation, I won’t need money or skills to pay for it <snerk>.
And heck, if I can smuggle anything back, it would be well worth it.
Not to mention that when you ask Reep if he knows ANY beavers, he will be obliged to point out that they’re extinct. Trumpkin mentions that the White Witch stamped them out; I think Mr. & Mrs. Beaver had no other names because they were the last two talking names. You will then be horribly, horribly depressed.
Even with the continua device, I doubt it’s possible to go to the world of Narnia unless Aslan wants you there, so you’ll likely get saddled with a quest as soon as you arrive, anyway. Unless you’re lucky enough to be Lucy Pevensie, whom the Great Lion is apt to bring over for the hell of it.
That’s true if you arrive on Galaxy-class starship and have business there. If you DON’T have business there, you’re gonna be put off at the next starbase, and if that doesn’t happen quickly it’s because they’re busy fighting Borg or Cardassians or whatnot.
If you’re on DS9, you’re going to need a job or a latinum stake. And stay out of Quark’s–well, the gambling side–till you get the lay of the land.
Ursa Minor Beta (with the caveat that if you’re tired of Ursa Minor Beta, you’re tired of life).
I’m going to go for New Atlantis and thereabouts (The Diamond Age). If being a Neo-Victorian gets boring I’ll venture out into the world, join the Drummers for a few depraved and decadent months. I know I’ll want to settle down in an artisan community like Dovetail afterward.
I’ll come home with a smart nanotech tattoo (think e-ink, but smarter) that I can turn on and off or redraw at will, and a sweet Diamond Age immune system.
I didn’t say I wanted to spend all my time on the holodeck. But if there’s anything to this reincarnation business, I’m coming back when there’s established space travel and joining Star Fleet.
I think I’d like to visit Eleven-Soro, or possible Hain. But definitely not Werel or Yeowe. Gethen would be nice to visit, but I really cannot stand the cold.
Yeah, that’s curious, isn’t it? Hundreds or thousands of superpowered crime-fighters roaming the planet, and the crime rate isn’t any better than a mundane world? :dubious:
No wonder the supers don’t like killing…it’s all just a big racket, so they can keep their jobs and funny costumes.
Anyway, the Federation sounds good, as always—good medical treatment, apparently a decent standard of living, ready access to Holodecks…come to think of it, maybe I could find “work” designing Holodeck programs/novels/whatever. I think I could bring a certain early 21st century “retro” charm to the table. Kinda like how those old exploitation flicks got big by denouncing and warning against things decent people all hated, in lurid detail.
Depends on the crime and the resident super. Non-idiot writers generally portray the petty crime rate in Metropolis as being fairly low. Unfortunately, Metropolis is also where aliens armadas attack first. I mean, if you’re trying to raise money for a conquest of Earth, and you don’t present your investors with a good plan for offiing Superman first, you don’t get laughed at from here to Durla.
But Gotham? No freaking way Batman does anything but make the situation worse.
