[ SECRET POST #5886 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5886 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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09. [SPOILERS for Treasure Planet]




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10. [WARNING for discussion of incest]

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11. [WARNING for possible discussion of transphobia (JK Rowling related)]




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Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[fscom]

02. https://i.imgur.com/E8TQj7q.png

[(Anonymous)]

IDK how this is selfish or dumb op, you're just right

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, totally agree! I'd rather live in the clean, organised Trek world than...some shitty moisture farm or dust planet full of raiders. Trek world still does have adventures and lands on shitty planets anyway.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, Trek is clearly better to live in than Wars. I guess maybe you could argue that Star Wars is better because magic is real in Star Wars but not in Star Trek. But I think the quality-of-life in Trek still wins out.

(also, wanting to live in a society that has effective medical treatment for cancer is in no way selfish!)

[(Anonymous)]

That's not selfish. I also would like to live in a world where I didn't have to worry about cancer. We don't even have universal healthcare!

[(Anonymous)]

Star Wars is more fun, but I would take Trekverse anytime, because replicators and cure all pills.

[(Anonymous)]

Star Wars has bacta which is pretty good at patching people up. It also has tech to create artificial limbs that behave virtually the same as flesh and blood ones, so it's not exactly a bad place to live, medically.

[sabotabby]

That's not selfish at all, OP. It means that you are good at risk assessment.

Plus if you live in the Star Wars universe there's a high chance of getting a limb lopped off or dying in childbirth, risks that are mostly mitigated in the Star Trek universe.

[(Anonymous)]

Those last two are really only high risk if you're a Skywalker. I suppose you could argue that there's a high chance of being secretly a Skywalker in the Star Wars universe though.

[sabotabby]

It's statistically more likely than being a member of any other family, I think.

[(Anonymous)]

Like being a secret Summers in the X-men comics-verse.

[philstar22]

Yup. Trek is not my favorite fictional universe and probably doesn't make the top 5. But in terms of where I'd like to actually live, Trek absolutely tops.

[akacat]

If you win the lottery, be careful about those unlimited full body scans. There’s medical evidence that scanning is leading to unnecessary treatment, because people are being treated for cancers that probably wouldn’t have progressed to anything dangerous before the patient died of old age. Of course, the trick is that nobody is sure which spots on the scans can be safely left alone.

In the Trek universe, I bet scans are barely necessary because they have vaccinations for all of the previously common cancers.

[thatwasjustadream]

Came here to say the same! Only wish for scans if the world you exist in is so advanced there is a treatment for everything. The slippery slope to becoming over-medicalized is amazingly steep, quick, and expensive.

But yeah - no question. Sign me up for life in the Federation. :)

[(Anonymous)]

The OP posted about body scans that don't cause harm, though - current body scans absolutely cause harm, even without taking into account unnecessary medical treatments like you mention. Maybe when we get to the scanners that OP is thinking of we'll have the medical knowledge to go with it.

[(Anonymous)]

DA

The medical knowledge ... and the lack of perverse incentives.

[(Anonymous)]

See ... the way I'm looking at it, these two diverge based on whether you're pretending (when you answer the question) that it's at all POSSIBLE to live in one of these fictional realities. If yes, Star Trek seems like it would offer a steeply better quality of life. If no ... then all pretend is equally fair game, because it would take exactly as much wishful thinking to be an elite bounty hunter - or unusually powerful force-sensitive, or whatever - as it would to make the premise "this world exists" real.

Realistically speaking, if you lived in Star Wars, your life would probably suck. A lot. But if you "lived in Star Wars," you could save yourself from your life sucking in the most improbable, melodramatic way possible, and it wouldn't even stick out from the main plot.

[(Anonymous)]

There's nothing selfish or dumb about wanting to live in the universe with a functioning medical system vs. the one where rich pregnant women die of 'having baby' and nobody finds this unusual, op.

[(Anonymous)]

Honestly, it's part of the escapism. One of the more poignant lines I've read from the Halo universe, another science fiction universe, turned out to resonate with a lot of people that have likewise feared cancer.


― It’s just cancer. "

―What do you mean, it‘s just cancer?"

―I mean, it‘s just cancer. A very simple cancer that hasn‘t spread or metastasized and is eminently operable."

―I don‘t mean to sound rude, Doctor—"

―I‘m not a doctor, I‘m a medical technician—"

―Whatever. What I‘m saying is that I don‘t know what cancer is."

―Oh. I got you. Cancer‘s a kind of um . . . slow-burn, localized infection, kind of. But we haven‘t really seen a lot of it since . . . hmm, twenty-second century, according to this. Anyway, it‘s easy to treat, but you‘re going to have to have surgery."


In the story, given the UEG has advanced in leaps and bounds in medical tech, it's treated more as an annoyance rather than something to fear. That made me realize even good medical care is part of a world's escapism.