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  1. “star trek would be the ideal fictional universe to get trapped in because you’d explain your situation and they’d be like yeah makes sense. no further questions. fortunately we can use the mysterious warp signature emitting from this system’s icy moon to counterface with the solar radiation and slingshot you back home”

  2. “I’m from a universe where your world is all a work of fiction.” Benjamin Sisko, nodding. “That happened to me once.”

  3. “I Got Isekaid Into The Star Trek Universe And They Quickly Understood What Was Happening”

  • GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world
    9·
    19 days ago

    Genuinely? I think I’d have a hard time with the idea of it.

    Don’t get me wrong, 2026 sucks actual, authentic unwashed ass. I hate it here. But unfortunately, all of my favorite human beings are here, and I don’t want to leave them behind.

    And since Federation laws won’t let me take them with me here, and they also have people they love too much to leave behind, the right choice for me would be to go back. What if I end up being one of the tiny events that makes the change that starts this utopia? Would I risk this awesome future not happening at all, just to be selfish?

    I would love to stay. But I couldn’t.

    Edit: Idk if a yankee is allowed to have a favorite Canadian singer. But Heather Dale covered a pretty awesome song about something kind of like this idea.

    • cannedtuna@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      5·
      19 days ago

      Maybe if they could like… let me peak at the time continuum so I knew how to enact the most effective change to move society towards Star Trek futurism I’d accept that as my role and return.

    • notabot@piefed.socialEnglish
      4·
      19 days ago

      What if I end up being one of the tiny events that makes the change that starts this utopia?

      What if you end up being obe of tge tint events that prevents that utopia happening, and only by bringing you forward through time can that be prevented? Maybe they don’t even realise that it is only the act of brining you forward in time that allows for the future to unfold as it has for them, so they willingly send you back, destroying their timeline in the process, or at least divering the flow of time away from it.

      • GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world
        1·
        19 days ago

        How would we know, either way? Causality’s a bitch, and time travel logic always ends up looking pretty convoluted.

        Which is why I think that, opting for the simplest likelihood, the past is immutable. Because the present is proof positive that whatever choice I made was already made. My first logical conclusion was to go home. So if it succeeds, then the future happens and the past doesn’t change. If it doesn’t succeed, then I was already stuck in the future and my friends in the past will have already lost me.

        In either case, I have to try.