ST: Generations, DISCO s5e10 “Life Itself,” and SNW s1e1 “Strange New Worlds”
technically Kirk didn’t have a cabin - that kitchen was some kind of construct within the Nexus wave he got swept up in. If he’d had a cabin he and the boys probably would have gone there in The Final Frontier instead of camping outdoors. But it’s a good question about the economics of the post-scarcity Federation, where everybody seems to take housing for granted. Who gets apartments and who gets chateaus?
Kirk had specific memories he was reliving, so at some point before or after FF he had the cabin. Also continuity is something of a myth in Trek.
Likely, one has the option to live to their level of comfort. Though, larger city living would generally be on the smaller side. There’s probably also restrictions on how large/opulent a home can be based on number of occupants.
I mean post scarcity means post scarcity. So anyone who wants a chateau gets one. Most people I don’t think would actually want one though. It means being more isolated, maybe one a newly habitable planet.
Personally I wouldn’t want or need one. Give me a truly for real actually sound isolated large apartment in a great location and I would be happy.
If you had teleportation available for transport, wouldn’t you move into the middle of nowhere?
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.
The entirety of the Maquis rebellion, explained in light pollution maps
This begs the question: who gets the beachfront property on Star Trek Earth?
The Commodore
Man this episode makes me cringe. Although the follow-up is arguably worse, with Geordi getting all indignant that someone would be upset at him dating a holographic deepfake of them. Is it so hard to write someone being socially awkward without making them a total creep?
Aww but he wasn’t a creep, he was just genuinely really bad at understanding women and communication in a relationship. Shit, Data got more action.
Laforge : I just don’t get it, Guinan. I can field-strip a fusion reactor; I can realign a power transfer tunnel. Why can’t I make anything work with a woman like Christy? It’s like… I don’t know what to do. I don’t know what to say.
Guinan : You’re doing fine with me.
Laforge : You’re different.
Guinan : No, you’re different.
Laforge : But I’m not trying now.
Guinan : That’s my point.
See, that’s fine. If he had taken Guinan’s advice to heart and been himself with an actual woman, great! Hell, even if he’d gone with a holodeck character that was fictional or dead, fine! Date Marie Curie for all I care. But dating an “idealized” virtual copy of a fellow Starfleet officer is super creepy.
Now, don’t get me wrong, I don’t think Geordi’s a creep. I just think the writers made him a creep for those two episodes, which is what bothers me.
I think he was more himself on that holodeck than he’s ever been with a real woman, but I’m not sure that helps my case that he’s not a creep 😆
Nah that’s fine. It’s good he found an outlet, dating on the holodeck itself isn’t a problem. Even if he’d had one of Quark’s holosmut programs, it might raise some eyebrows on a starship, but it would ultimately be harmless fun. It was his choice of companion that was creepy, same as Barkley when he had a Troi program.
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 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)
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.
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.
It seems like colony life is really only dangerous and rough when they’re first getting established. In enterprise and strange new worlds most of the colonies further from our solar system probably aren’t ideal, but by TNG there must be hundreds of well-established colonies with high quality of life that we just never see because nothing interesting happens there. I mean at the very least we see the one in the ghost fucking episode where everyone just decided they wanted to live like 1800s scotland, but they were safe and happy there for a long time and there’s no reason they couldn’t have had a more futuristic way of life. Their weather was fully controlled to simulate the highlands.
I mean imagine living on Vulcan, sheesh.
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.
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.
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…
