Sure, I’d go. It’d be better to be the chief science officer or something. I’d want to have a senior position with valuable input regarding the crew’s activities, but I wouldn’t want to hassle with personnel issues all the time. It’d be nice to get a look at the crew first, but if Suzie is crazy about me, I assume the other crew members will be equally awesome as me. 
Two years under the command of an evil technomage stalker…with assurances that all is copacetic coming from an evil 3rd party. I am chaotic, not stupid. Not going.
How is casting a spell whose only purpose is to keep you from being murdered “stalking”?
Seems to me that you’re either the second, third, or fourth person being hired. The chief mate is obviously first, and next is going to be either second mate, chief engineer, or surgeon. Obviously the bridge crew, engineering crew, and deckies will have to get along with the officers, not the other way around. Point is, there’s good odds you’ll be involved in the hiring process. Only so many hours in the day.
But of course there’s no post called “chief science officer,” though the mates and bridge crew obviously have to do a lot of cartography and scanning and so forth. There’s only 3 dozen in the ship’s company, so clearly no multi-division science department like Kirk & Picard’s Enterprises had.
And of course there is no goddamn holodeck. Anyone who suggests the inclusion of a holodeck is invited to stay home.
Cats can take care of themselves. I’m outta here.
If it wasn’t for the restriction against Canid-Americans, I’d go in a heartbeat, I hate the general public, and kids, but I’m not leaving my dog behind.
As far as asking for the assailants to be taken to hospital, that’s not my response, I’d want them fired…out of a cannon…into the sun, or at the very least shot with a Veridian Disruptor (the “banned” personal sidearm in the Star Trek TNG-verse)
Not all that keen on having self-appointed guardians “watching over” me without my request or knowledge. YMMV.
I’d start a second thread asking if anybody here would mind Suzie’s spell, but I’m too lazy.
Works for me. I can more or less download the required knowledge into my brain and I’m interested in a wide variety of things anyway, so it sounds like a great job. Who needs holodecks when you’ve got the fraking galaxy to explore? Picking the crew or helping to pick the crew would be fun too.
I have a friend who loves cats and she’d happily take mine. The personal SO thing isn’t an issue for me, and I’d have 32 cool new friends to interact with.
Suzie knows better than to ask me with the “no pets” stipulation in place. I can’t leave The Druidess, and The Druidess won’t leave the pets. But being the charming rogue that I am, I’m sure I can talk Suzie into making an exception for our doggies.
Waitaminute - people are turning down the chance to be among the first humans to walk on other worlds, to see sights unimaginably cool, to be a frickin’ SPACE TRAVELER, to . . . take care of pets? I mean, I love my cat madly, and it’s very admirable to be prepared to stay home for them, but Jesus. The cat can live with family for a year or two.
It’s SPACE. As in, OUTER SPACE. Getting off this little grain of blue-green dust, and going . . . anywhere. Aliens. Space fights. Allies. Possibly death, but hey, that makes it exciting.
(takes off space geek hat)
So anyway, yeah, sign me up. 
Yep. Just let me get my bags. On second thought, there’s nothing there I really need.
My SO, while not a surgeon, has worked in real life as The Medic on a couple of navy ships and spent a stint up in the Arctic Circle, so I know he’d be up for it. Between the two of us, we could deal with most of what needs dealing with in a sick bay, although if she expects to be doing actual surgery on her ship, then she’d better keep hiring.
If it was longer than two years, I would hesitate, based on the having a kid thing. But thousands of soldiers are parents and do two year stints without blinking. She can stay with her dad, or her older brother, or my mother. They’ll work it out. I’ll be back before she’s in high school.
Yeah I wouldn’t even need some large luxury officers’ quarters either. Give me a dorm room with a bed and a place to store my clothes. I wouldn’t be hiding in my room playing video games.
I’m glad somebody said it, you can share a space-bunk with me any time Octarine…wait, that didn’t sound right…
Sign me up. As a precaution I would make liberal use of the library to make myself:
a) indispensable or at least very, very Useful To Keep Around, and
b) Very adept at learning the skills needed stay alive under various scenarios
because even somewhat evil geniuses need their Renfields and Eyegors.
Sold on this basis alone!
I very, very regretfully had to answer I couldn’t leave my pets behind. Call me foolish, but I love my dog too much to do that to him.
If it wasn’t for that I’d go in a heartbeat.
Maybe Suzie has a way to put pets into suspended animation? Then I could come back to my dog just as he was, and he wouldn’t know what had happened.
If I don’t go I’ll regret it for the rest of my life, but that’s the breaks.
Yep.
I’d miss my dog, but she would stay with my family while I’m gone and be safe and mostly happy. No way am I not going.
My first thought is while I start walking home naked I’m glad the robbers head the other way. It would totally suck to get home to see the car parked down the street because they live there.
Oh, and we really should have a Hello Deck. It will pay for itself if we are meeting lots aliens.
Sounds like technology is developing at an E.E. Smith pace so if she see their weapons work once and survives she will have weapons ten times more powerful for the next encounter.
You just wiped out my last possible objection. Frell yeah, I’m going!
do you just stare out the porthole or is there a holodeck?
do you have to eat long journey expedition food or is there a replicator?