Lines in the sand...Form Ranks!

POSTED BY: Iremisst
UPDATED: Sunday, May 16, 2010 17:28
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IREMISST

Friday, April 9, 2010 3:10 PM

Question of the day! It's a toughie.

Congratulations, you have all just won an all expense paid trip to the 'Verse! Where do we drop you off at? You have your choice of Sunny Allianceville which is a lot like the upscale parts of Florida or Wisteria Lane...except if you dare to put a pink Flamingo on your lawn you run the risk of being picked up by people with blue rubber gloves and having pointy things shoved into your frontal cortex. Your children will have the best in brainwashing schooling and you will most likely live to be 115 very average years old thanks to state of the art medicines. Yippee.

Or you have the option to go to lovely Down-to-Earth-that-was-Independant-ville which is alot more like rural parts of Missouri or South Africa.(<< For the most part you will be left alone to partake in whatever illicit device that tickles your fancy the most. Your children will probably be able to graduate from...oh -8th grade? Your medicines will most likely come from an herbalist or shaman but if you need an actual surgery you are pretty much outta luck unless someone can poach a passing doctor genius... but do you really want someone under a knife to be holding a knife on YOU? What can HERE offer you, you ask? Freedom! Well, partial freedom anyway, 'cause remember sometimes that boundry between you and your slave-holdin'-gun totin'-probably molestin'-eco terrorist of a neighbor doesn't really exist... So ask yourself, do you really have the balls to rough it here?

PIZMOBEACH

Friday, April 9, 2010 3:30 PM

Interesting question - though you're not exactly selling me on either option! In fact, Imma gonna steal a ship and get a crew and take my chances on the black.

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IREMISST

Friday, April 9, 2010 3:51 PM

Wouldn't we all, cheater cheater pumkin-eater!

IREMISST

Monday, April 12, 2010 3:36 AM

Ok, this was supposed to be a sociological research type question, as I was curious what people would and would not live with and since getting a ship and a crew and going bye-bye is not really a valid alternatve for MOST of us, I was wondering who here (I hear tell quite a few here consider themselves to be in the anarchist range!) would own up to be willing to take a mediocre core life over an unpredictable outer world life...BTW, I'm still not sure what I would take. Both are good and both ...suck.

CHRISISALL

Monday, April 12, 2010 3:59 AM

Mudder's milk can take its toll...

The laughing Chrisisall

IREMISST

Wednesday, April 14, 2010 2:03 AM

yes, dat's true.... hmmmmm, new question!!! Cirrosis of the liver or (gah!) Synthahol???

Scotty: What...is it?
Data: It is.... *sniff*... It is *look*....It is GREEN....

Note to the galley : Romulan Ale no longer to be served at diplomatic functions...

IREMISST

Wednesday, April 14, 2010 2:31 AM

Ok I've decided... I'm going to take an outer planet... since I pretty much am on one already...I just couldn't live without rum ...or apricot brandy...or champagne... or baileys...or miller...or corona...or lambrusco...or vodca Did I miss anything? God, I feel thirsty all of a sudden............

AURAPTOR

Sunday, April 18, 2010 4:04 PM

Insufficient data to offer a hard answer.

While I'll give you that the Alliance living is close enough to accurate, I'm not sure we have a full view of what life on the border planets can be like.

You present a Green Acres sort of view, either down town Manhattan or out in the sticks rural living.

Even in the most desolate of places, I'd have to think that there'd be some level of technology available that would make living on the more tolerable.

Summer Glau can simply walk into Mordor

Bones: "Don't 'rawr' her!"
Booth: "What? she'rawred' me first."

FEARTHEBUNNYMAN

Sunday, April 18, 2010 4:43 PM

I think it would depend on what you're starting out with. If you have money, power, and resources, you may want to head out to the outer rim where you can afford security, education, and provide for your own healthcare. Otherwise, if your option is to basically live like a serf, or a miner, a poor farmer, etc...well, economic freedom and opportunities count for a lot and doesn't seem like you get much of that out there - freedom to work yourself to the bone and into an early grave just to put food on the table, at the risk of mercenaries and thugs, doesn't sound much like freedom to me. And from what little we see in the show, if you're female and end up on the wrong planet, you're doubly screwed, and not in a good way.

IREMISST

Saturday, May 15, 2010 4:28 AM

Ok, I just hafta say I'm depressed, then I'll let this thread die, 'K?... Not a single person managed to pick a theoretical planet in a theoretical question? Come on!! It only took me a day to decide and you all have had weeks!!!
For shame, for shame....

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