Captain Oblivious :: What Star Trek technology do you most lust after?

For me, this one's easy. I've always been incredibly jealous of the transporter system. Beam me up? Come on, how cool is that?!? And then they added site-to-site transporters during The Next Generation, and it was all over. My fondest wish is that some genius will invent site-to-site transporters during my lifetime, and I can stop wasting 2 hours a day performing the ritual we know as the daily commute.

What are the other contestants? Replicators would be pretty snazzy, wouldn't they? Walk over to the wall and tell it you'd like a pint of Guinness at room temperature, or a 24 ounce prime rib cooked medium rare? Since I hate cooking, I'd be a big fan of anybody who invented replicators. And the name has a nice ring to it, no?

Phasers don't do it for me, though a gun that could be set for stun instead of maim would be pretty cool.

Medical tricorders, though. Those would be awesome. Ever have 35 tests done, all to rule out one condition or another, because the doctors don't know enough to be able to diagnose what you *do* have so they're reduced to making lists of things you *don't* have? Wouldn't it be cool for somebody to wave a tricorder over you and tell you immediately what's wrong? I thing medical tricorders are a close second, for me. For the good of society, they would come first, of course.

But enough of my opinion. Anybody else have a preference? Did I forget some incredibly important tech toys?

Comments

1 - dude, you already named all the good stuff! ok, so i thought that astrometrics lab on voyager was pretty cool! even if they just had like, one of those per city, that would be enough! would be cool to have one in your house though!

while we are at it, how about your own version of enterprise? we always think of the little stuff. i want a whole starship! with a crew! so i can say stuff like, "make it so number one!" and "engage!" and "second star to the right and straight on till morning!"

hey, if we are going to dream, we might as well dream big, right?

Posted by jonvon At 03:56:10 PM On 03/18/2004 | - Website - |

2 - I'm not much of a Trekkie, but the holographic medic does it for me. Imagine you could make a holographic spitting image of yourself, send he/she/it off to work to politely and inanely smile and reply to everyone who comes to bug you, so you can stay home instead. With a PlayStation.

Posted by Colin Pretorius At 05:05:09 PM On 03/18/2004 | - Website - |

3 - Does my very own "seven of nine" count as a piece of technolgoy to lust after

Portable time modulator from enterprise would get my vote. Favourite pet would have to be a tribble

Posted by Paul Mooney At 05:13:10 PM On 03/18/2004 | - Website - |

4 - 7 of 9? Guess it serves me right. After all, I *did* use the words Star Trek and lust in the same sentence, didn't I...

But while we're being perverts (hey, she's hot, but she's only part human - next thing I know, you bestiality/alien-ality types will want to do something really crazy, like legalize gay marriage...

), wouldn't the holo-deck be the most *successful* Trek invention, in terms of capitalism? After all, look what pr0n did for the internet! Zounds!

Posted by Captain O At 07:39:45 PM On 03/18/2004 | - Website - |

5 - Fo shizzle, my nizzle. The best Star Trek technology has to be the elimination of scarcity. After the advent of replicator technology and matter/anti-matter power generation, there's no more hunger, disease, poverty -- so you don't have to WORK for a living. You can, if you choose, just loaf all day on a holodeck.

Now *THAT'S* technology.

Posted by Nathan T. Freeman At 08:34:12 PM On 03/18/2004 | - Website - |

6 - Nathan, we already have that. It's called "management"

Posted by Colin Pretorius At 03:46:13 PM On 03/19/2004 | - Website - |

7 - so cap'n, seriously man, tell me you'd let a few nanoprobes get in your way...

Posted by jonvon At 07:24:48 AM On 03/22/2004 | - Website - |

8 - Well, it's a little old school, and similiar to the 7 of 9 comments, but I would like some Green Bimbo Chicks (GBC's.) I mean if Shatner got laid, every geek in the world could get laid. It would sure lower agressive tendencies

Posted by Greyhawk68 At 10:47:32 AM On 03/22/2004 | - Website - |

9 - Hey, hey, hey! Keep that thing away from me!

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Ohhh, you said *nano* probes. My bad.

Posted by Captain O At 12:03:26 PM On 03/22/2004 | - Website - |

10 - Grey, my friend, I'm all for "lowering agressive tendencies" (now *there's* a euphemism we could slip past the kids for a while, no?).

Posted by Captain O At 12:10:16 PM On 03/22/2004 | - Website - |

11 - You have to have the sex drive and ability of Data on that first time he said he was correct in all the places and had been implanted with numerous pleasing manuevers. NOw if they can bottle that in a spray

Posted by At 09:28:03 PM On 03/22/2004 | - Website - |

12 - You know me... I want photon torpedos and phasers mounted on my '96 ford Probe. Oh, and sheilds. No sense zinging through the wreckage of the the car that was just in front of me... it should all just bounce off to the sides and make shimery lights all around.

Though, I gotta say... if someone does by chance figure out a replicator (Not one of those lame sounding protein sequencers), that would just be it. Think about it. Once you've mastered energy to matter conversion, you pretty much have transporter technology, unlimited power, and could probably get that holodeck thing working in short order, provided you're a scottsman or wear a hair barret over your eyes.

Posted by Jerry Carter At 06:47:26 PM On 04/07/2004 | - Website - |

13 - Dang, someone beat me to 7 of 9...good thing though, don't think the wife would appreciate it

Posted by Christopher Byrne At 10:12:08 AM On 04/16/2004 | - Website - |

14 - How about cloaking devices? I think if you could have a personal, portable one - bit like Harry Potter's invisibility cloak - you could hide from people you don't want to see AND get to play great practical jokes on your mates.

Aside from that the holo-deck would be my first choice with the replicator coming in second, tricorder third and the ability to scan anything you meet to check its intent coming in a close fourth.

Posted by Kitty At 08:04:49 AM On 03/27/2007 | - Website - |

15 - @3.. hmmm.. my own seven of nine.... that was Annika Hansennot that i fantasised about it.. LOL Emoticon