Doesn’t that person generally get their life ruined by all the other characters?
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Great. I get to be Frank “Grimey” Grimes…
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I’ve worked on enough sitcoms to know I would never want to live in one.
And I’ve seen enough fantasy to have a good grasp of my survival chances in a world with wizards and dragons. Even without the magical perils, living in a world wherein you can recognize the king because “'E 'asn’t got shit all over 'im” strikes me as a VERY hard pass.
Honestly, my biggest argument against living on a Starfleet vessel would be the uniforms. I’ve always hated them, in every iteration. Only in part because I hate uniforms in general. If I could maybe get a gig in the ship’s machine shop I’d probably be a happy li’l crewman, as long as I can wear jeans.
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Inconvenienced, yes, but generally not ruined. So again, like real life.
But yes, still not as good as living on the Enterprise.
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As I said, Medieval fantasy is a hard pass. Even though it’s not quite the “everyone dies by 35” land that everyone expects it to be, it’s still feudal, which sucks for everybody except for the Lords and the King (which you’re probably not going to be). Although living in immediately-post-ROTK Gondor might not be so bad.
By contrast, living in Harry Potter’s Britain would be basically indistinguishable from real life if you’re a Muggle, and considerably more awesome if you’re a witch or a wizard.
Now, if the option wasn’t living on the Enterprise specifically, but living under the umbrella of the United Federation of Planets, then there’s no contest at all.
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I always did want to explore the galaxy, so being a crewmember would already be a fun job for me, even if I had to wear those nasty 1987 TNG uniforms (or those discotacular but hideously polyester 1979 TMP ones).
Fantasy realms seem to usually involve too much hand-to-hand combat for my tastes. And the magic often feels too aggressive. And as fun as Hogwarts seems, being magical in Harry Potter’s England also seems unnecessarily perilous.
I’m not really all that adventurous, I guess.
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Yup. Unless you were somehow involved with Cryptids, our reality could be that world. Same with Daniel José Older’s Bone Street Rhumba. Or any other Urban Fantasy you’d care to name. And I don’t think that I am cut out for the Enterprise.
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I’d be happy to be Guinan’s intern or assistant. She doesn’t have to wear the dumb uniforms.
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Hmm. I’d need a robo-bouncer to deal with any overindulgers.
Plus, I’m afraid I’d have to insist on keeping my eyebrows.
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In a bar that primarily serves synthehol?
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Well, we’ll just have to see how well our eyebrows hold up when we’re more than 600 years old…
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When 600 years old I reach, look that good, I will not.
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I want to read all his words, including the YA ones, Shadowshaper is excellent. But I definitely don’t want to live in that world unless I have powerful magic.
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Sitcom world is where I live already! At least the SO and I are always trading puns and jokes, and she’s REALLY good with song parodies, especially for the cats. E.g., “Dyselweiss” (Dyson’s nickname is Dysel, which is a Yiddish diminutive) sung to the tune of Edelweiss.
As long as every episode turns out happy.
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As long as we’re not a Red Shirt!
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Why would that be an issue? Red uniforms are command. You’d think that yellow uniforms (ops/engineering/security) would have a higher fatality rate.
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Well, apparently it’s a myth anyway . . . didn’t Kirk wear yellow, or sometimes green?
Googled it – yellow or green in TOS, red in TMP.
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You could always just be married to someone in star fleet and go along for the ride! The jeans would be totally retro by that point.
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Nah, I’d feel a need to pull my freight and help out. It’s no cruise ship, after all.
Then again, were I to hop on board possessing my current skillset, I’m not so sure I’d be much help. Hmm. Maybe I can write entertainments for the holodeck. Like maybe some science fictiony series about exploring galaxies on board an interstellar ship!
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