Admittedly, I generally prefer to read about/ play around in sword & sorcery, medieval-esque type worlds... But I think the reality of living in one would be pretty grim for most people.
I love the sense of uncharted possibility that Star Trek has. If there were an Enterprise type mission leaving tomorrow, with no idea of when it would return, I'd be on board in a heartbeat!
(As an aside, I adore Firefly... but I find the idea that humans are the only sentient race out there to be very bleak.)
Edit: Just expressing this has made me realise how much I envy those first travellers to set out from Europe. (Sincere apologies for the Western bias... it's just where my brain is from)
To be amongst the first of your people to find somewhere genuinely new and to encounter new people so similar but so different from yourselves. (It's a damn shame they ignored the Prime Directive though.)
I would kill to be in the Star Trek universe, despite it not being as safe as it appears. If your on Earth, most likely fine. However there are a lot of threats. . . The Romulans, Klingons, Breen, Dominion, Borg. . . to name just a few. . .
But yes, every single time I think of space, I think of how much must be out there. . . how little and insignificant this little backwater planet must be in the grand scheme of things. An INFINITE universe. . .
Edit: Just expressing this has made me realise how much I envy those first travellers to set out from Europe. (Sincere apologies for the Western bias... it's just where my brain is from)
To be amongst the first of your people to find somewhere genuinely new and to encounter new people so similar but so different from yourselves. (It's a damn shame they ignored the Prime Directive though.)
Just like future times. Well, except for the scurvy and all....
I wanted to pick Dragonlance... but I'm not sure what you are asking. "If you could choose a universe from fiction. . ." to live in? I'd never live in Dragonlance, I'm too scared by Dragons. So I choose Star Trek.... and now I realize I could face the Borgs... I'm crying. I surrender, I know that resistance is futile, so here I am, assimilate me
Joke aside, @abacus i feel you. I would love to be on those ships(well, I'm pretty sure once I was actually on the ship, I wouldn't, but you know what I mean.) what I would give to see America(or any part of the world, really, but I live here) before it was industrialized. When we still had miles of planes, millions of bison, and the trees in the Rocky Mountains wert all dead below 11,000 feet. I would totally be bros with Lewis and Clark.
I would just love my own ship. Nothing to massive, a run about or so sized ship. . . Oh who am I kidding, I want my Akira Refit from Star Trek Online . . . It's just so. . . pretty.
That or a Klingon bird of prey crewed by hearty drunk Klingons. . . :P Would be great but I still don't think it would match Firefly. I don't know Firefly just holds a special place for me.
Personally, for years the Borg terrified me. The thought of being alive but not. . . it was AWFUL. Then I had the realization we are already in the Collective. . . something happens, it's uploaded to the internet, everyone accesses it. . . so close to being mindless drones. :P
Babylon 5, which is still the standard against which other shows set in space are to be measured. Gritty reality, lots of political intrigue, telepaths--although I do dislike how the Psi Corps got gimped into the Happy Rainbow Unicorn Society--highly advanced alien civilizations (you can still scavenge through their technological remains and they didn't all leave), and technomages (okay, technically no new ones can be created but the process might have been stolen and replicated by someone).
While i do love Star wars it is not someplace i would like to live, just to visit. Forgotten Relams seems great but that could be anything really. Faerune would be my first choice. Middle Earth is what i would have to go with based on my knowlege of it so far. I would not mind falling asleep to some Elven music.
On a side note i do have a fantacy realm in my head that i am working on. May take a while for me to put it to words however. Similar to a middle earth/forgotten realms style type thing.
The post apocalyptic gritty low scifi Cowboy Bebop world of Mars. Thats what I'd choose. Mind you I'd end up one of the delusional old card players...
Cowboy Bebop is one of my favorite examples of Anime. It somehow managed to balance film noir, kung-fu, pop culture and jazz-influenced music. It really shouldn't work, but it mostly does. I reckon that with the conventional weapons, itinerant bounty hunters and lo-fi slums it's kind of a hyperactive Japanese cousin to Firefly.
Ahh Midkimia I totalty forgot about that one. Loved the Riftwar books i would like to get more like those in the future. Heartrafts Maruarders for the win! (been a while so i might have spelled his name wrong)
Star Trek seems like the safest universe of them all... so I picked that. lol.
I think the point is that Star Trek is the one where you really could just live the life you really want to… If you want to be an adventurer, a scientist or even a warrior, there's the scope for that. But there are also countless worlds where normal people lead very comfortable lives… both inside and outside of the Federation. Yes there are big, nasty uber-baddies floating around... but it's fiction, which requires drama and therefore requires conflict. Think of all those episodes which just revolve around a relatively minor clash of cultures… and which the crew of the Enterprise only wants to resolve peaceably and for the good of all concerned. How many other shows provide so many compelling episodes in which nobody's life is ever on the line?
Comments
The Final Frontier.
... Gives me chills every time.
Admittedly, I generally prefer to read about/ play around in sword & sorcery, medieval-esque type worlds... But I think the reality of living in one would be pretty grim for most people.
I love the sense of uncharted possibility that Star Trek has.
If there were an Enterprise type mission leaving tomorrow, with no idea of when it would return, I'd be on board in a heartbeat!
(As an aside, I adore Firefly... but I find the idea that humans are the only sentient race out there to be very bleak.)
Edit:
Just expressing this has made me realise how much I envy those first travellers to set out from Europe.
(Sincere apologies for the Western bias... it's just where my brain is from)
To be amongst the first of your people to find somewhere genuinely new and to encounter new people so similar but so different from yourselves.
(It's a damn shame they ignored the Prime Directive though.)
But yes, every single time I think of space, I think of how much must be out there. . . how little and insignificant this little backwater planet must be in the grand scheme of things. An INFINITE universe. . .
"If you could choose a universe from fiction. . ." to live in? I'd never live in Dragonlance, I'm too scared by Dragons.
So I choose Star Trek.... and now I realize I could face the Borgs...
I'm crying.
I surrender, I know that resistance is futile, so here I am, assimilate me
Damn it.... why did I vote
I feel something is already happening to me...
I would totally be bros with Lewis and Clark.
That or a Klingon bird of prey crewed by hearty drunk Klingons. . . :P
Would be great but I still don't think it would match Firefly. I don't know Firefly just holds a special place for me.
That and Voyager ruined them. :P
On a side note i do have a fantacy realm in my head that i am working on. May take a while for me to put it to words however. Similar to a middle earth/forgotten realms style type thing.
For one thing, the food at the abbey sounds amazing!
Either way, my vote goes to Cyberpunk 2020. I'd get me some augmentations. Also, you know, glam rock. Bonus.
Yes there are big, nasty uber-baddies floating around... but it's fiction, which requires drama and therefore requires conflict.
Think of all those episodes which just revolve around a relatively minor clash of cultures… and which the crew of the Enterprise only wants to resolve peaceably and for the good of all concerned. How many other shows provide so many compelling episodes in which nobody's life is ever on the line?