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A one way ticket with no messages back to/from home.

For such a long trip, the only logical ship type would be a self-sustaining generational colony ship full of hundreds of people. The concept of 'home' would quickly shift from being the Earth to being your ship, so staying in contact with your origin planet would become irrelevant.

Might be why the simulator is the most important technology in star trek, to keep people sane, connect with nature etc.

The thing they never address - booking slots. That simulator would never be available!

We the viewers follow high ranking officers on a capitol starship. Surely this cushy position comes with a well equipped post on a vessel that has a good number of such units. Enough so that Voyager had the meme of holographic crewmembers. I don't know if RedDwarf (Rimmer) or some other scifi show got there first.

trust the internet to have already calculated the answer to this question (you can have 10.8 hours per month = 30 minutes a day - not bad!)

https://www.reddit.com/r/startrek/comments/3aajfy/how_much_h...

If it's anything like VR, a bunch of the people on the ship would lose interest and rarely use it, leaving lots more time for the devotees.

Presumably a bunch of people could book sessions in one simulator at the same time and simulate multiple simulators inside the simulation, massively increasing the capacity of the top-level simulator.

Haha! That's like wishing for more wishes. Definitely not allowed.

Why do you need a self-sustaining generational colony ship to go 30 years? Especially in the space future when we should be able to slow aging down at least a moderate amount.

In space, they just call the "space future" the "future". ;)

after the last year I imagine quite a few people would put their hand up for that.

but also, what about deceleration?

You gotta stop some time to smell the roses... so would you cut that acceleration time in half to decelerate?

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