• grue
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    Oh Hell no, I don’t push the button!

    It said shifting into the Star Trek universe; it didn’t say anything about time travel or ending up on a planet other than Earth.

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      Also thanks to Discovery’s writers, in the further away future there’s also a few centuries of dogshit living until they restore the Federation

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        Yep, we are on track already to live in the star trek universe. We just have to live through WW3 first and it will be paradise.

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        World War III ends and Earth is left devastated, mostly because of nuclear warfare. Most of the major cities are left in ruins with few remaining governments and the death total reaching 600 million.

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Star_Trek

        Push the button. Only 600 million is a generous offer. This timeline will have many more.

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      The 40k timeline is basically just normal Earth for a few more centuries at least. The Emperor is just out there, somewhere, fucking with shit.

      In fact, there would be a golden age on the horizon

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        Yeah ironically it would probably be better to be in the 40k universe if it was current day.

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          It’s basically Star Trek for like a millennium or so if I recall. Things didn’t always suck so hard in 40k, it took a while for it to become the grimdark hell it is in the 42nd century

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      Well, everyone dies. Both options seem more interesting than a cult of idiots worshipping an orange idiot.

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        Obviously. And it could also mean neither of those

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    So I get transported to a futuristic utopia with Replicators and Holodecks, or I immediately get killed by a Space Marine or whatever.

    Either way I don’t have to live in this shithole any more. 🤷‍♂️ I’m pressing it.

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      With all the endless war the Imperium is so huge most of the humans probably never saw war and space marines are so rare it’s almost impossible for you to be killed by them.

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        Even on “safe” planets, the average person is basically a slave doing endless, arduous labor with no concern for their lives or well-being, all under the merciless thumb of Imperial dogma. It’s just a bad place to end up.

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    You narrowly avoid Warhammer as you see you’re on the Enterprise. You’re called for a mission. Shortly before you’re beamed down you see it. You look down.Your heart starts racing. You’re wearing a red shirt.

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      As Agent Smith said of '90s New South Wales, “the Matrix was redesigned to this, the peak of your civilization”.

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        I wonder how the robots understood that peak civilization is being 12 and riding your bike all day every day with no supervision.

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    When talking about the Star Trek universe, it’s important to designate both what time and which one.

    Before first contact in any universe? No.

    Prime universe? Sure.

    Kelvin? Sure, why not?

    Mirror universe? No.

    Totally-not-the-mirror-universe-from-Picard? Fuck no.

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      Flee to federation space, theres ships going everywhere, maybe you even get to be a a Kajit or ArgonianCaitan or Gorn.

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        But the button said nothing about transmogrification into other races…
        And being a human among Gorn might really suck.

        On a completely different note:
        Being a (decent) human among Khajit might be fun! :-)

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      humans outside of the federation are treated with xenophobia sentiment mostly. one of the overarching themes, is that non-federation races dont like the expansionist nature of the federation, also the assimilation/melting pot of other cultures. one tng episode, where the native americans decided to leave earth 200years before tng, to find a world of thier own, said the federation became too homogenized in thier culture, and lost its unique identities.

      originally cardassians and KLINGONs before allying with the humans. romulans, SHeliak, paxans,tholians, and the now defunct marquis. since STD isnt really accepted by most fans to be canon, the federation stopped expanding over that 900 years, i think the influences got stretched way too thin by then.

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      In other words, about as safe as real life if youre a normal person. We’ve got a lot of time before crazy shit starts happening, and a golden age coming up as well.

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    Pro… you’re transported to the Star Trek Universe. Con… it’s still year 2025.

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    You get transported into the Star Trek universe.

    But

    You will be transported by the Star Trek transporter.

    Is that still you?

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      Either I’m in the star trek universe or I’m dead and some other smhuck has to live with my choices

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      Yes, unless consciousness is more than the totality of our biology and there really is a soul or something erather.

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    I would give my best Matt Damon in Interstellar “… that’s the best chance I have had in years.” And then smash my face jnto the button as hard as I could.

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    Which part of the star trek universe, because if it’s being on voyager, fuck that, but if I get to hang out on Deep Space nine, then I’m so in, instantly befriending Quark.

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    So I go to the 40k universe and all of the other beings are the size of my pinkie…

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    Hell yes I’ll press. Either place is better than this

    And now we wait for the replies… :)