Ever read a book, watched a movie, or played a video game that you love the universe/world so much that you want to move there and live there forever?
Ever read a book, watched a movie, or played a video game that you love the universe/world so much that you want to move there and live there forever?
The Culture is objectively the safer answer. Living in Star Trek feels like it carries a fairly significant daily risk of being assimilated / used in a Romulan plot / sucked into some weird negative space wedgie / having a console explode in your face for no good reason.
Meanwhile, if you’re in the Culture, you’ve pretty well got it made.
Yeah The Federation has a surprising lack of Space OSHA?