TNG's "The Neutral Zone" How would you cope in this one?

[Gingerbread Demon]

I've often wondered this one. How do you think someone from our time would handle being dumped on Earth say in the time period of TNG and being left to figure out how best to survive on their own and slowly learning all the stuff that exists in this world they have been dropped into. The season one episode with the 21st Century humans kind of alludes to this but I wish we had seen those people again just to see how they all were coping.

I mean you land or wake up in this future where we have ubiquitous space travel and machines that can magic any object you want out of thin air, aliens are actually real and we have diplomatic relations with some of them. Wouldn't this blow the mind of an ordinary person from our time living in their future time?

I"m thinking this will be a cakewalk, but I say that easily here thinking about it. Not so sure it would actually be a cakewalk if it happened.

 

[BillJ]

The season one episode with the 21st Century humans kind of alludes to this but I wish we had seen those people again just to see how they all were coping.

Pretty sure there is a novel or two that touches on what happened to them.

Debtor's Planet.

How would I handle the situation? As best I could. So much would simply be out of my control until I was educated on how their society works.

 

[Ray Hardgrit]

I'd imagine I'd handle it about as well as John Crichton from Farscape. I'd say "Okay, aliens, FTL travel, holodecks, replicators, that all makes sense," and then get driven insane trying to figure out how to make the toilets work.

 

[1001001]

How do you think someone from our time would handle being dumped on Earth say in the time period of TNG

Based on the title, and this sentence, moving to TNG.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

I'd imagine I'd handle it about as well as John Crichton from Farscape. I'd say "Okay, aliens, FTL travel, holodecks, replicators, that all makes sense," and then get driven insane trying to figure out how to make the toilets work.

Oh that's why I love Farscape... But they became a generic scifi show with big bads and some kind of over arching conflict. I would have loved had the series focused more on John and friends to see how they lived day to day rather then adventure of the week, but then it would have been a very boring show and short lived.

 

[Alexander Corrino]

I'd be fine. I mean Jean-Luc would be there, right?

Nah, seriously... I'd be cool with whatever is going on. I mean there are MUCH worse futures to end up in than the one TNG shows us.

 

[Finn]

Imagine if a TikTok influencer was among them.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Imagine if a TikTok influencer was among them.

They would literally die from the lack of attention

 

[Phoenix219]

i would try to live in a fantasy in the holodeck, and if i ever found out about the guardian, i would become obsessed with finding a way home.

 

[DonIago]

Well, firstly, if I did find myself in the future of TNG, I certainly hope that I wouldn't be left on my own for a good long while except when I wanted to be. That there would be counselors and such to help me get situated and learn what opportunities there were for me in the future.

That said, inevitably at times I would miss my family and friends. I'm sure I'd try to find out whether I had any indirect descendants in the future; given that I have no children, direct descendants would be ruled out.

I feel as though in the modern world one of my skills is that I think I'm fairly adaptable and pick up new things fairly quickly, so hopefully in the world of TNG I wouldn't be totally obsolete, though I'm not sure I'd be comfortable serving with Starfleet or such.

 

[somebuddyX]

I would travel the stars telling everyone tales about the 20th century:
"What was the Cuban missile crisis like?"
"Don't know I wasn't born yet."
"Okay how did the Gulf War affect you?"
"I was 8..so not much."
"What was it like experiencing September 11?"
"I woke up after it already happened."
"X, I mean Twitter, has been derided as a cesspool for online discourse. How did it affect your life?"
"I made exactly one post on Twitter."
"Man this guys sucks."

 

[Captrek]

If it’s the world of Star Trek, I’d love it.

If it’s what the world is actually going to be in the 24th Century, I’m not so sure.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

If it’s the world of Star Trek, I’d love it.

If it’s what the world is actually going to be in the 24th Century, I’m not so sure.

At this point it's the version of the Bell Riots, but everyone dies