Earth’s presence in the Federation says we survived. Environmental collapse, wars, etc. didn’t condemn us to extinction. Yes, it got ugly but we made it and we reached the stars. Star Trek gives us hope.
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Tell that to the victims of Wolf 359.
Don't be in Starfleet, and don't be a scientist on a remote outpost.
Ok, so remote Federation scientists seem to suffer a lot in ST, but I wonder how much of that is survivor bias. I mean, we can assume redshirt casualty rates are fairly consistent across starships, although that could be a leadership issue; but what if there's a vast population of remote research outposts and only a very tiny fraction ever gets in trouble? We just don't know. The Federation is enormous, and covers a vast 3d volume - if there are outposts even slightly evenly distributed across the surface of that volume, we'd be looking at a large population. More researchers probably die from slipping on food spills than rogue revived eugenics war corpcicles.
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And on the opposite side we have "I'd rather be human trafficed into a nazi concentration camp than spend even 5 minutes in the universe of Warhammer 40K."
I'm sorry, like, I would choose 5 minutes in Warhammer 40K versus the Nazi death camps.
My overweight native ass would be tortured to death over the period of several months, whereas five minutes in Warhammer 40k, like maybe I catch a stray bullet, maybe I get gang raped by orcs, but more than likely I survive, and I'm relatively unharmed.
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Star Trek. I can live on Earth free of the stress of being disabled with mental illness in a capitalist hell. The worst thing I'd have to worry about is some kind of alien invasion that gets thwarted by the crew of the Enterprise from time to time. I'd rather have to deal with the latest Doom Cruiser from Beyond the Stars now and then than have to worry about if I'll be able to afford groceries this month.
"Gay space communism" is my new favorite description for Star Trek.
"Fully automated luxury gay space communism" is the full phrase fyi
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usually peaceful interstellar community
Uhhh...
It's quite easy too. UBI.
Musk has a good talking point about a Star Trek future instead of skynet. But he is part of the cabal going for skynet. Just because Skynet will be programmed for US government and military supremacy in political service to its zionist oligarchy, doesn't make skynet less of your enemy.
No, don't live on Earth in Star Trek.
As the functional capital of the federation and HQ of starfleet, its like living in DC comics Metropolis. Every damned alien race capable of plotting has a secret plot on Earth. Whether its some weird parasitic bugs taking over the admiralty, the borg, the romulans, the Dominion, or the upstart of the week, the casualty/injury rate has to be pretty horrific.
Mars is theoretically ideal, but get targeted because of the massive public shipyards, so it has a time limit of being good.
Jupiter, however, has less well known shipyards and all those moons to explore. It never gets outright attacked or destroyed, even the Borg just go past it. Jupiter is the place to be.
Risa.
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So long as you're in the right timeline/universe. I'm not sure I'd fit into the Terran Empire that well.