I’d get famous by adapting movies made by Warner and Universal and such into holonovels, since in the Star Trek universe, only Paramount-owned pop-culture exists.
I’d get a lucrative federation consulting job as head of OSHA, as featured in a thread I made on the subject some time ago.
I’d go directly to my bank and see what 300 years of compound interest has netted me…TRM
I’d become a dissident and try to overthrow the Federation government.
Sign up for a Councellor, to get advice on fitting in. Everyone gets one of those, right?
:smack: Okay, fine.
Can I look up their TOS-era selves on the holodeck, then? (oh, and I’d like to add Zarabeth to the list, too :p)
I’d track down Ensign Ro and spend a few hours licking her forehead.
Fool of a Took!
Oakminster will shortly explain to you the three reasons that will be a bad idea, I am sure.
Oh yeah . . . and never leave. Who needs reality anyway?
teach history.
One of the comedians at the end of the movie Trekkies touched on this. He suggested that the fourteen-year-old Wesley Crusher might have locked himself into one 24x7 (with a virtual Counselor Troi perhaps). So yes, I’d be curious how the much access the average citizen of Earth has to a holosuite. And more seriously, I’d be curious how well they get along given that all of one’s basic needs are taken care of by replicators and there’s no need for money.
Win, mainly for attitude.
Considering how much of a patsy the Humans were in those series, IIRC, this won’t be too difficult. Sign me up!
Well, let’s hear 'em.
You’re not going to the future, guys… it’s an alternate universe. All your memories of the 1990s will be useless since to everyone around you, that was when Ricky Ricardo took over Earth during the euthanasia wars.
It’s a Battlestar Galactica joke.
This. Add to that that the ST universe diverged from ours about fifteen zillionths of a second after the big bang, as the laws of physics & biology are canonically different, and the laws of chemistry are probably different. It’s just a fluke that you can survive there in the first place, but there’s nothing you can tell a historian about the 21st century that will be of professional interest to him.
D’oh, I totally missed the reference.
Can I spend a couple hours licking K’Ehleyr’s forehead or is she dead already?
Been dead a long time. But Suzie Plakson played both a lady Q and a female Vulcan doctor whose name I’m too lazy to look up. The Q is obviously ageless, and the female Vulcan (Selar!) probably looks almost exactly the same; I’m thinking fifteen years to a Vulcan is about a year for a human.
I wouldn’t try it with Selar, though. That can only end in tears. You might risk it with LadyQ.
I’m not quite sure. I’ve never thought of this further than having them fix me. I’d probably not want to go exploring space: I could do that more safely in a holosuite. (Surely they don’t fail as often as they do on-screen. But I’d have a few contingency measures to make sure I could get out of any situation, including that nice transporter button that Data gave Picard in Nemesis.)
I’d study up on everything I could, and probably try to get certain video games into holosuite form. I’m not sure how much of our history is the same, though. I have a feeling that none of my relatives would exist in their universe, and, with different people, creative works will probably be different.
I do know one thing: I will not be anywhere near anyone who is a main character on the show. That’s where the red-shirt curse kicks in. People who aren’t on screen with them, and aren’t on their ship tend to lead normal lives. Heck, I’d consider relocating to a planet close to Earth that no one in our universe has heard of. (Close to Earth means no explorers. Not being heard of means nothing interesting ever happens there.)
Now, when I started to get closer to death, I’d probably start risking more. But being safe is very important to me.
Oh, and I’d eventually try out Synthehol, and any other synth drugs. It seems their technology has allowed them to make safe recreational drugs, that, if you don’t like them, can be taken away. The key point is that you remain in control.