If you could step into any movie or book, what would you pick? Why?

No question about it, I don’t even have to think about it. But if anyone asks me that I could step into any book or movie – add television shows to it – and live my life as part of it, it would be and always will be, ever since I became a Trekkie at the age of 19 way back in 1995, STAR TREK! No thinking about it, no humming or hawing, no doubts! Star Trek it is. But which era?

You see Discovery & ugh Section 31 exist. So no I do not want to step into that era. And though I love TOS which is in the 23rd Century, the 24th Century looks more up my alley. I love the TNG/DS9/Voyager aesthetics and the life that humans live in that time period. So that’s where I would want to move my life into. Bring all my family members and friends and their family members. We should all live in a life where there is no poverty, no need for money, no hunger, no famine, no homeless, no accidents like we see now, no wars among humans and basically none of the illnesses that we see in existence now. Most of them have been eradicated and it is rare for someone to suffer and die due to the illness.

Even if I didn’t join Starfleet and explore the galaxy, we can still go out into space. Utopian Earth still will be there and we can always come back to the familiarity and comfort of it after some time spent on other planets or moons. Visit the alien landscapes and see the wonders out there but then come back home. Or hey, if you feel like you found another planet that you want to live on, you can carry one of those spaceships that double up as a home and settle there for a while. Take me there please!

Prompt from Journal Writing Prompts for January 2025 at Rebecca’s Country Notes