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For such a long trip, the only logical ship type would be a self-sustaining generational colony ship full of hundreds of people. The concept of 'home' would qui
by mattowen_uk 5y ago
For such a long trip, the only logical ship type would be a self-sustaining generational colony ship full of hundreds of people. The concept of 'home' would quickly shift from being the Earth to being your ship, so staying in contact with your origin planet would become irrelevant.
- quickthrower2 5y agoMight be why the simulator is the most important technology in star trek, to keep people sane, connect with nature etc.
- jonplackett 5y agoThe thing they never address - booking slots. That simulator would never be available!
- mjevans 5y agoWe the viewers follow high ranking officers on a capitol starship. Surely this cushy position comes with a well equipped post on a vessel that has a good number of such units. Enough so that Voyager had the meme of holographic crewmembers. I don't know if RedDwarf (Rimmer) or some other scifi show got there first.
- jonplackett 5y agotrust the internet to have already calculated the answer to this question (you can have 10.8 hours per month = 30 minutes a day - not bad!) https://www.reddit.com/r/startrek/comments/3aajfy/how_much_holodeck_time_can_i_have_on_the/ https://www.reddit.com/r/startrek/comments/3aajfy/how_much_h...
- nsxwolf 5y agoIf it's anything like VR, a bunch of the people on the ship would lose interest and rarely use it, leaving lots more time for the devotees.
- Spare_account 5y agoPresumably a bunch of people could book sessions in one simulator at the same time and simulate multiple simulators inside the simulation, massively increasing the capacity of the top-level simulator.
- jonplackett 5y agoHaha! That's like wishing for more wishes. Definitely not allowed.
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- Dylan16807 5y agoWhy do you need a self-sustaining generational colony ship to go 30 years? Especially in the space future when we should be able to slow aging down at least a moderate amount.
- DonHopkins 5y agoIn space, they just call the "space future" the "future". ;)