# Would you live in the "Star Trek" universe, if you could?

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**Created:** [July 13, 2006, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-live-in-the-star-trek-universe-if-you-could/364290 "2006-07-13T03:36:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![GargoyleWB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gargoylewb/32/199_2.png) [@GargoyleWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GargoyleWB)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2006, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-live-in-the-star-trek-universe-if-you-could/364290/41 "2006-07-16T22:56:59Z")

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I’d want to be one of those serving boys on the planet of the matriarchal six-foot women.

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**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2006, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-live-in-the-star-trek-universe-if-you-could/364290/42 "2006-07-16T23:03:29Z")

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Sure, I’d like to live in a civilization that has replicators, holodecks, and medicine that can cure anything short of death!

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**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2006, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-live-in-the-star-trek-universe-if-you-could/364290/43 "2006-07-17T01:02:57Z")

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[QUOTE=UncleRojelio]

[QUOTE=Spatial Rift 47]

1. I’d have to make sure there were plenty of attractive, intelligent female officers aboard.

2. And the holodecks.  
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Forced to make a choice, which one?  
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I’d choose the holodecks. You could program plenty of attractive, intelligent female officers into it. Of course, they would have to stay there, but why would you want to leave them? 😃

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