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Just want to point out that The Enterprise is like the nicest, most exclusive, most elite ship in the Federation. Most people living in the Star Trek universe don't have access to replicators or holodecks or highly-trained doctors.
Like it's basically a super cruise ship with all the bells and whistles. Even if you're onboard, chances are you're a lower decks crew member.
I think replicators are fairly standard, depending on which trek ofc.
Holodecks and highly trained doctors, no.
I take your point, it's like being a billionaire today vs being a regular everyday person. So we'd be comparing their healthcare, tech and gizmos to an everyday person.
Everyday person still has like semidecent healthcare compared to a few hundred years ago and you could quite easily buy pretty good gear yourself for certain basic medical things. Basic wound care, emergency medicine, get an ultrasound and learn to read it to scan your body in a rudimentary fashion if you'd like. Get yourself some EEG. You can easily get either (but prolly rather low maybe low-mid tier) for around 100 western money units. You train yourself rudimentary but still quite advanced medicine that doctors 80 years would've have had no idea of. Medications you'd have a trouble getting obviously, but aside from prescription meds..
So assuming a certain bottom level of technology, but also technological availability, replicators are pretty common, you can prolly quite easily get one for yourself and then you're pretty much off to the races. Surely there's things it can't build but yeah.
I'd much rather be some somewhat poor shmuck in the ST universe than a moisture farmer on Tatooine.
Also, lower decks? Fucking aces count me in. Love that shit. And I do mean both the show but also the ranks if I were on the Enterprise. I'd happily be a mid-tier NCO instead of a bridge officer. Seems more heroic yeah sure, but doing that 247 would be kinda tiring to be honest. Mid-tier NCO's have so much more agency. And still get to guest star sometimes. Although the rate of change of the redshirts under me would probably make me have to do a lot of interviews... hmmm...
If you're talking about earth then doctors and replicators are standard. People that don't have replicators are unusual. Holodecks do use a lot of energy so I'm not sure how common they are, probably more like a theater would be as an amenity for a city not one on every corner. They had free teleportation on earth with some usage restrictions so the holodecks would probably be free but with like a once a week usage or limited appointments.
Well, I'm more talking about human in general. Even the more spartan settlements we see usually have a replicator and something to power it with. Sometimes Enterprise gives them as "bare necessities" almost, imo. To modern day humans, that is. Well and the one's who were supposed to be modern day humans on some planet they had been kidnapped to. I thought it might be Voyager but now I'm not sure.
I imagine holodecks would run similarly to how library computers used to; they had a book and you could reserve an hour. On an empty day, you could do more. They'd allow you to use it as much as you want given there was no-one else queuing. Then it'd be shared equally. And it might depend on your relationship with the librarian, on just how much you annoy them.
unless you are Alexander
Or Harry Kim. Or Miles.
I just wouldn't want to be on the Voyager either the first or second time around.
Or in Florida during the Xindi attack.
Or near Starfleet HQ on Earth during the Breen attack.
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Uhhh...
Nah, bullshit. I'm living next door to Bluey and having a couple of tinnies with Bandit.
This reminds me of "You find yourself in your favorite fictional universe, what would you do first?"
On one end of the spectrum is Star Trek.
On the other end, Warhammer 40K.
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You're in the Star Trek universe! Right after the Burn.
Even before knowing about the ~~Burn~~ nuclear war in the lore, I always think we humans will annihilate ourselves first before coming into a utopia. It is a pattern in human history that things will always get worse before it becomes better. Humans are emotional and angry creatures. We always need catharsis.
Edit: everybody can tell I don't really watch Star Trek, as I mistook the Burn as Earth's nuclear war lol.
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I will one-up Star Trek and say I want to live within The Culture. Nothing yet beats The Culture. The Federation looks conservative, backward, and low-tech in comparison.
Well, except for the Borg and all that stuff.
I think I would want one where there was no big bad.