By universe, I’m talking a TV show, Anime, Graphical Novel, Cartoon, Movie, a book, heck even time travel.
The Traveller RPG Third Imperium would be the universe I would inhabit.
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Probably some chill children’s show
I’m shocked nobody has brought this up yet.
I would absolutely be a town citizen in Phineas and Ferb. Ideally the guy who always has a new fun project and the side effects from the kids just drop everything in his lap.
Every benefit of a cartoon world with almost none of the cartoon downsides. Nearly Culture level tech after a few years once the boys grow up to by adults and actually start taking things “seriously” as shown in episodes where they go to the near my future.
The worst people in the world are so bad at being bad that they are consistently kept in check and even rehabilitated by trained animals.
Either the one from the Robot and Monk series (psalm for the wild built by Becky Chambers) or the Culture series.
lotr high elf, so I can look at others with contempt
STARCRAFT ZERGLING! STARCRAFT ZERGLING! STARCRAFT ZERGLING!
Star trek has transporters, holodecks, and amazing medical technology. There are other usniverses that have some of these, but not all 3 in one place. But basically, that is what I would go for.
I’d choose a Ship’s Mind from the Culture Series by Ian M. Banks, specifically a GCU class vessel.
Fuck, Id be okay with any random Culture citizen
Since the question doesn’t force me to do it, just says I “could” do it, I would choose to not do it.
Would be pretty shitty to disappear, abandoning your family/friends/partner/kids, even if your new life would be nice.
Seems like everyone else in the thread is jumping at the opportunity to go pick up some milk though. :P
star trek next generation 100%. I can’t think of anything that would be better than that.
Conundrum: STNG overlaps in time with DS9 (even if they didn’t, they’re both part of the same “universe” as posed by the question), so by selecting the universe of STNG, does that mean having to live through the Dominion war? Not sure that makes it a deal breaker either way but definitely takes some of the utopian edge off.
My thought process as well.
TNG? Hell no, it was the end of a Golden Era. SNW, all the way. By the time you get old enough that missions of science and explorations are thrown to the side in exchange for war, you’re 100 and living in some retirement holodeck.
I guess real nice would be to have the star trek online universe where I like goto starfleet and become a captain like out of the academy and am allowed to do whatever I want with my vast fleet of ships n junk. I took STNG because that was the holodeck and replicators and until the borg invasion it was relatively peaceful and even that did not last long.
Star Trek TNG Picard anytime.
If not that, I’ll happily go for the Orville as well
Why not Q?
The good place from well… “the good place”
The only downside is living in a universe that has the Borg. They are existential terror incarnate.
That said, they seem to always get defeated one way or another. Just make sure you live in a major federation star system and you’re golden.
One thing they never really get into in Star Trek is how the body modification scene evolved in a future with medical replicators and “Doc will shine a light on it” levels of medical technology. I’m sure they could easily perform a gender transition, including changing reproductive organs to whatever combo a person wanted, in an afternoon, to say nothing of the possibility of cosmetic and functional structural changes. We see them perform highly complex and detailed biological modifications so crew members can pass as aliens like it’s nothing, so why not make people taller/shorter, wider/narrower hips, bigger/smaller boobs, more feminine/masculine face, horns, pointed or alien ears, new sense organs, extra arms, etc. What kind of wild piercings are people getting? What new methods and styles of tattoos have they come up with? The possibilities are incredible. That would be a fun world to explore, even within the Federation’s taboo against genetic alteration.
I think playing with the body and especially the mind (through eugenics, genetic engineering, or any other means) is as big of a nono in the Star Trek universe as fascism, due to trauma from the eugenic wars (you know, when Khan and his ilk fought baseline humanity).
Body modification enthusiasts, transhumanists, furries, and anything like that are probably treated with fear, loathing, and disgust.
Heck, they won’t even treat baldness despite being perfectly able to fix it if they wanted to, and they don’t seem to have made any effort to cure aging, despite being able to cure almost everything else; their life expectancy isn’t much higher than ours, when it should be much higher.
You want that kind of thing try Iain M. Banks’ Culture series. Even more freedom to live your life however you want, the only limits to body modification are your imagination and some of the laws of physics (much less than in Start Trek, though), and people live to a healthy 300 or so, throw a party, and die in their own terms because they’re done, or curious. Or do not, no one is forcing them, they can keep on living if they want to.
Heck, one character used to have about sixty penises all over his body, just for fun. No more, though, even with four hearts at that point it was starting to get difficult to maintain an erection at the same time in all of them.
Quark gets a gender transition on Deep Space Nine
Oh yeah that’s right I forgot about that. He got a full gender transition in a couple hours.
I want to live in high tech but ethical peace and comfort
Janeway: “Hold my beer”
Beer? Have you ever even watched voyager? It’s coffee all the way for her.
Having said that, voyager mostly wasn’t very good, and federation standards were indeed very fluid in that show
To be fair, they were a LONG way from federation rules enforcement.
Janeway: “Hold my
beercoffee”
Hm… Maybe … but I’m also shopping around for a universe that includes immortality.
The Culture has all that, plus furries.
Ok now I need to watch culture, what is this show?!?
It’s a book series. It’s a semi utopia based sci-fi. The culture is an amalgam of species (including human). It’s run by “minds” hyper powerful AIs. Humanity is akin to pet dogs. A mix of pampered and useful.
Basically, humans live in a life of luxury and choice. Changing genders, or even species is very common. Immortality is mostly a logistics and boredom issue.
And loads of sex IIRC
Edit: I was thinking a different Culture, from the book “remember Phlebas”.
Use of Weapons, Look to Windward, Surface Detail, and Hydrogen Sonata are all reasonably sex-filled (if not entirely sex-positive) too.
Definitely hits all the points of Luxury Gay Space Communism.
Discovery ruined that for us, you could end up in the shitty future after the Burn
Maybe, if this includes traveling to the future where the shoes mostly take place. Right now, in their universe, things aren’t exactly going too well.
The lack of porn/hentai universes in the comments is refreshing.
…That being said…
Everything can be porn.
