ST: Generations, DISCO s5e10 “Life Itself,” and SNW s1e1 “Strange New Worlds”
My head canon is that instead of monetary rewards for doing important or dangerous work, you get more land to use. That would mean trashmen, farmers, nurses, and starship crew would have huge palaces and ceos would live in a shoebox. Picard gets double sized because he’s a captain and a farmer. Same with Boimler.
Poor Boimy has it rough.
I rather thought that there were no “palaces” and no “shoeboxes“, but still a varied range of accommodations that are a mix between inheritance and state ownership where they lend it to an individual or our family.
There’s a very good reason why most sci-fi series that espouse a futuristic socialistic utopian future never really get into the details. Because we, today, haven’t figured that shit out yet.
I always thought that land wasn’t really an issue since there are thousands of star fleet planets. Also I assumed earth would have more attractive land available since there wouldn’t be a need for a lot of transportation infrastructure in the future(transporters, stuff flies,etc)
There are “only” around 150 Federation planets in the TNG era, probably most with extremely high quality of life like Earth, but you might not feel as welcome there. I mean imagine living on Vulcan, sheesh.
There are thousands of colonies and room for lots more, but colony life is dangerous and relatively rough.
I mean there’s only so much ocean view property in San Francisco available. But I think you’re right about transporters and replicators - with the ability to go anywhere nothing needs to be novel, and everyone is basically free to homestead wherever they want without actually having to work.
I mean imagine living on Vulcan, sheesh.
I imagine that outside of industry and population centers, most other areas would become a natural preserve. That is, unless an Admiral owes you a favor.
This begs the question: who gets the beachfront property on Star Trek Earth?
The Commodore
If you had teleportation available for transport, wouldn’t you move into the middle of nowhere?
After vetting local flora and fauna.
Dinner! (For a
monthyear!)Just buffer the leftovers.
My guess is that in post scarcity societies, a cabin in a remote location far from everyone is the easiest thing to get. There’s plenty of empty land all over the world.
City centre on the other hand, apartments might be small with a waiting list.
About the only way the apartments the cast from Friends live in could make sense.
The entirety of the Maquis rebellion, explained in light pollution maps
When you control large portions of the galaxy handing out land is like handing out stock before an IPO
Doesn’t everyone want a cabin in the woods?
Sure, but not the one run by these guys:
I found their revised black board:
John Shepard?
EDIT: Oh, I misunderstood what was going on in this board.
Of course. Who else would bet on the wraiths vs some dumb college kids?
He doesn’t fear the Wraith. Now clowns, that’s another story. They scare the crap out of him.
I would also have accepted O’Brien under wraiths, so long as it’s possessing Keiko.
O’Brien already called his. He took “The Bride”
We even know Sisko was planning on building a cabin in the woods on Bajor over looking some river. He bought land sometime in the later seasons.
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It’s my belief that Starfleet still pays their officers, but that since they spend so much time on missions, they have fewer opportunities to spend the money. And by the time they become captains, they’ve probably saved up quite the nest egg.
How do you think Sisko afforded that land on Bajor? Though, being Emissary might have afforded him free or deeply discounted land.
Bargain, for sure. I wonder what Kasidy’s doing with that plot these days. Let’s check in…
Post Scarcity Society have a cabin in the wood for everyone
Honestly with replicators and the amount of forest that grows naturally on Earth, we could have a lot of people do this.
Aesthetically, it works extremely well because it contrasts with the Enterprise. Anyone who is a fan will feel on some level that the Captain is somewhat out of their element when they’re not on board the Enterprise.
Also lots of nautical references.
Isn’t the Kirk image from Kirk Heaven?
Also, he achieved the rank of admiral prior to this scene, and self-demoted. So, I mean, Kirk, at least, makes some sense. He also had the smallest, most reasonably sized, cabin.
This is a shot from the Nexus, but the cabin itself he did previously inhabit. He describes in hilarious ADHD manner various memories as Picard tries to reign him in.
in a post scarcity society with industrial scale matter replication and matter/antimatter power sources—why the hell not? I’m sure anyone could have one if they asked.
