RISA: A False World?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ต.ค. 2024
- This video is a look into the planet of Risa, the world itself and an overview of its history. This holiday world, the home of the horga'hn and tropical bays is renowned for its facilities as a holiday retreat and shore leave destination. However so much of it, is a carefully maintained facade.
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I always saw Risa as a Federation flex of their technology. Other alien cultures build super weapons, the Federation builds vacation spots.
Starbase Yorktown counts too...right?
@@serinahighcomasi2248 Yep
I'm guessing Enterprise D is exhibit A
@@serinahighcomasi2248 That one from the Kelvin universe?
@@serinahighcomasi2248 no, thats just Kelvin Timeline...
Not the best place to go if you're just wanting to finish reading your book, tho. Especially if you have a first officer who likes pranks.
Riker ain’t complaining.
Didn’t Riker bring back the mind control game from Risa? Not to mention there’s the Academy cautionary tale Janeway and Chakotay laugh about; where a man who goes to Risa wakes up with a missing kidney. How much shady stuff goes on there too?
@@kaitlyn__L Oh I have no doubt whatsoever that some real bad happenings go on daily there.
@@kaitlyn__L In fairness that was the Ktarians, but Risa does seem like the Pattaya of the Federation.
Epstein's planet.
Can you imagine if Risa is also the most advanced developer of climate and seismic control technologies?
Imagine the chat between a Federation terraforming crew.
"So, where did you guys graduate?"
"Andoria."
"Vulcan."
*"not bad" faces*
"Risa"
*surprise faces*
According to STO, they are one of the leaders and exporters of climate and planetary seismic technology and equipment indeed.
Risa: Climate of an idealized Hawaii and the artificiality of Las Vegas.
I could imagine why Risa got into the Federation so quick. A: high tech Aliens, B: friendly at all costs diplomatic attitude, C: insane planetary terraforming possibilities. It would be foolish not to have these guys on your side when exploring and colonizing other worlds. The tech in use by Risa would bring major shortcuts to any expansion efforts by customizing new planets to fit each races climate needs.
Actually totally makes sense, they presumably met the tech and governance requirements, they're friendly and peaceful and love meeting other species. And seem to be all about cooperation and sharing, so I have trouble seeing their application for membership taking very long at all, really.
Plus think of all the spying opportunities to observe aliens gone wild. The Federation doesn't care what you do between the sheets, but other civilizations could.
"The signal for those looking to 'engage'"
I'm never going to hear Picard say that the same way again, thanks.
Risa is just the best brothel the Federation had to offer.
Is it a brothel if services are free for Federation citizens?
@@Gangerworld despite what the people trying to tell you, the federation does have money. Only Earth doesn't use money the rest of the federation still does.
@@TentaclePentacle No, no, no. It's FREE, man. The girls and guys of Risa don't WANT your money.
Considering how bloody boring the Federation is, I'd hate to see what their brothels are like. Then again, they don't take money so the space herp is free.
@@kevinramsey417 the federation may be boring on some levels but they are shown to be very indulgent and quite liberal in their sexual actions. The fact that you don't have to be a rebel or social outcast to express yourself in any number of traditionally immoral ways means that you are not as likely to get people assuming the outward behaviors and trappings typically associated with fringe liberal behaviors today.
That boring looking guy walking the corridors in his ugly beige civilian outfit may well be amongst the freakiest in the sheets just because nobody is going to judge his preferred choice of human caterpillar but with genitals as being deviant.
In the federation what we consider to be kink is just more vanilla, and likely things the most liberated among us would cringe at would still fall under that umbrella. Including creative uses of umbrellas.
Now I'm imagining a visitor that specifically wishes to see nature preserves of Risa's non-tropical paradise ecosystems. "How'd you get such chapped lips on Risa, Ensign?"
Right? I'm pretty sure that from space it looks almost like there are some deserts on the planet in the center of some of it's continents. Or at least mountains
Everybody gets "chapped lips" on Risa, Lieutenant.
I’m surprised by the only 1 million guests. Maybe only parts of the planet are manipulated at any one time.
I know, for example Las Vegas averages just shy of a million visitors per week (around 42 million a year) and that's a single tourist city! You'd think that Risa would have around a billion guests and ships in crowded orbits all the time, if they guest numbers are kept so low one wonders how hard it is to get a reservation.
Star Trek gets numbers wrong all the time. They're talking about millions and billions of people in a system, when it's actually more likely to be trillions by the time space technologies are as advanced as they are shown to be. The whole concept of basically everyone living on planets except for a few thousands on ships and stations is rather idiotic. Chances are the vast supermajority of people will never set foot on a planet in societies that advanced. Why bother with planets when O'Neil cylinders, Banks orbitals and, if you have gravimetric plating and force fields, even a flat square slab habitat are so much more matter and energy efficient?
@@off_Planet Trillions? No. I'm not sure you realize how many people is a trillion. A thousand billion people. Even if you constructed massive cities with lots of room, there's no way you'd fit trillions people. And you couldn't possibly feed them all, or give them all potable water.
@@riptaway Yes, you absolutely could. The mass of mercury or the moon alone would be enough to build enough habitats for that. Planets are woefully wasteful when it comes to mass for living area. Build a few Banks Orbitals and O'Neil cylinders and you can easily support a trillion people in a system with entire continents worth of area to turn into nature reserves without a human around for thousands of kilometers. And as for water? Do you have any idea how much hydrogen and oxygen there is flying around out there in the gas giants and terrestrial planets respectively? And food wouldn't be a problem either if you have those levels of tech. Energy basically stops being a limiting factor, and with that being the case any comet, carbon-rich moon or cloud of organic molecules in space just means dinner. You need to get that space opera notion of everyone living on planets out of your head.
I highly recommend you look up the megastructures series by Isaac Arthur here on TH-cam. It's an awesome channel and the guy (a physicist and science consultant for sci-fi works) does the maths, too.
@@off_Planet I don't know if human or alien society's would be so keen on exploding into the trillion-figures, but I agree that with Star Trek levels of technology, more should and could be done to enable population growth or to redistribute population growth throughout a star system. Perhaps the warp-drive, with amazing FTL ability in combination with a large subset of colonizable planets made it more tempting to just move away instead of reshaping planetary masses amounts of materials in new space habitats.
Also +1 for the Isaac Arthur mention. His video's are always worth attention.
In DS9 they imply that rain is scheduled.
Which makes sense, even plants can understand a schedule of weather, if they know they get a good amount of water they will keep growing, but if the environment lacks a stable water source then the plants wont grow as much or be as vibrant, it is the reason trees for instance are often times larger when next to bodies of water like lakes and rivers.
Just like Earth now
You should’ve said today’s video is sponsored by the risa vacation board , come have a great time in risa.
YT would take that too seriously and demonetize the video.
"We're the Risian Chamber of Commerce, and we approve of all the jamaharon that took place during the filming of this video."
A very tamed version of Planet 4546B.;)
Hands down one of the best lore channels, excellent video as always.
The good videos just keep coming. Rick is on a roll. This is my favourite one of his videos 👍🤝
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I think they mention in one episode that they have scheduled rain. From what i remember they mention that it is supposed to rain at 4 pm wherever they were.
So, Florida?
I wonder if they schedule hurricanes every few years for each region and just close down the hotels in rotation too so nobody from offworld who isn't super-curious even knows about it.
That could as easily be advanced weather prediction.
With those expansive oceans they would need precipitation to relieve the atmosphere of moisture. Regular scheduled rainfalls, with continued mild winds, would be a lot less of a bother for the population than alternatives.
@@DrewLSsix not if the time is timed to rain at 4:00pm of whatever time zone you’re in
Risa is just as synthetic as the environment of any resort or specialized vacation getaway. The only odd element is the scale.
Planet Vegas. What goes on Risa, stays on Risa.
So, it's basically a Disney WORLD, with bars and fully accepting staff.
who will bone you if you give them a statue.
And they don't try screwing over.......you know what I mean...... their customers.
And less racism
It’s not a Disney World, no. It’s a *Sandals* world.
@@pjlusk7774 - Mythal better watch out for the competition.
Ignoring Wrigley's Pleasure Planet, Argelius and the Shore Leave Planet.
The Shore Leave Planet being even more artificial as it's like a planet-sized holodeck.
Wrigley's planet scares the crap out me.
@@thesinfultictac5704 Well you certainly know more than I do.
@@jeffumbach the Shore Leave planet's way more fun because you never know what kind of weird crap is going to happen.
I'd totally go to Planet Shore Leave to fight my academy senior cadets.
It only makes you uneasy because utopia with some dark secret is a SciFi trope. You have been trained to distrust things like this.
It would be even more automatic if more people read S.P. Somtow's Inquestor books. Those are seriously down on Utopias even as a concept. They're also old and pretty obscure and he's pretty much moved on to musical work rather than writing, so no great likelihood of more folks running into his fiction.
Humans when they have first contact with a paradise world: “...so what’s the catch?”
Surprisingly sincerely friendly aliens: “what is a... ‘catch’?”
A reactionary trope at that.
I loved the episode where Worf and Dax go to Risa. Terry Ferril looked so good in her bathing suit.
I personally felt cheated, unlike Jadzia, Worf remained, for lack of a better term, "all buttoned up"!
For a planet that was once hostile now docile, I'm surprised there's no super predator lurking in the deep jungles.
Who says there isn't?
Most of our own larger predators (on land or water) are critically endangered, and we don't even have the technology to change the climate of our entire planet to the climate that best suits us. Sooo yeah ... they are goners.
You if play STO, you get to meet him on the beach. *evil laugh*
All the predators are hanging out at the bars now.
@@JackgarPrime Come for the cougars.
Stay for the Cougars.:)
It better be real. A guy just sold me a time share on Risa.
Was he short with orange skin, sharp teeth, & big ears with a 4 lobed brain?
@@xsailor85 That's him!
@@zippy-zappa-zeppo-zorba-etc “QUARK!!!”-Odo
@@zippy-zappa-zeppo-zorba-etc
I’m so sorry dude! You got had by one of the quadrant’s worst. Contact your intergalactic lawyer.
@@xsailor85 I can just hear the ads now "Contact the firm of Sailor Saturn and Pluto to get your no obligation Timeshare Elimination data pad and see how you can get out of your Risa timeshare today."
I’m impressed by the ingenuity and initiative of the Risians.
Risa is such a 90s idea of a gay beach party that at one point they even included Vanessa Williams
I think I like SFDebris reaction to Risa. In one of his reviews of a risa episode, I think the DS9, he pointed out how boring and bad every Risa episode is to him. Basically pointing out how the whole episode felt contrived and fake since its basically watered down to please TV censors of the day.
It just feels like they are trying so hard to be edgy when they can't really do anything actually sexy or edgy. It also doesn't help how some of the story lines on Risa feel very much like some sort of morality tales on how such a place could turn out bad since less than moral people hang out here as well.
@@Nostripe361 as opposed to the less than moral people inhabiting nearly every other planet displayed in nearly every other episode 🤣
That seems oddly specific, as in you have experience.
@@redapol5678 That's one of my gripes with especially Voyager, almost every single species they meet tries to screw them over.
It's a lot of "we can help you home, but for a price" the price is always morally questionable.
And so Janeway chooses to do the "morally right" thing, and they continue the Voyage.
@@Aoderic except for, of all people, the Borg.
I'm just remembering that episode of DS9 were Worf hates visiting Risa so much he winds up joining with a group of terrorists trying disable the planets weather control grid and return Risa to it's natural state
I think they schedule rain - I think I remember Jadzia saying “it wasn’t supposed to rain _today_” when the New Essentialist screwed with the weather modification net
"TH-cam is too pure and innocent for me to describe it further"
Meanwhile in other videos: "So this is how it kills you in the most painful way possible and turns you into a vapor..."
"Unfortunately TH-cam is to pure and innocent for me to describe further ... *snickers*". That was a nice jab certifiably you're like the only channel channel that does star trek content I actually watch, Oh and can you do an video on uniforms throughout start trek timeline would be nice. THANKS !
Look through his older vids, he's done ones on uniforms several times already.
*Snickers*, then cuts the recording while he does laughing offscreen.
Equestrian visiting Risa: So, how many Pegasi does it take to keep the rain on schedule?
You DON'T want to know
I love "because Star Trek"
Perhaps there are a number of regions that they fill then empty of guests over a certain period.
When one region is empty, they allow storms and rainfall in that area.
The storms and rain are then moved to another vacated area to "do its thing".
The area just left by the storm is the repopulated by newly arriving guests.
This cycle would repeat for all areas of the pleasure planet.
Watching this video gives you 75% discount for a session of Jamaharon.
Cannot wait for the next Risa event in STO. It's easily my favorite yearly event. Wish they would add more islands to give us more variety, but it's just so comfy.
Just think what would've happened if Dr. Sevrin and his group found Risa on their "Way to Eden."
I'm sure they would have called the Risians a bunch of Herberts.
Probably woulda saved themselves some grief, really. :)
I think he'd have still eaten the poison fruit just to get away from them.
*an entire planet inadvertently devoted to very bad karaoke thanks to the ubiquitous use of universal translators...and a few other distractions and biological exchanges that are best left to the imagination...on second thought, i'd rather not even ponder such things*
He, and his followers would most likely have heavily objected to Risa's manipulation of nature/[their] environment. That is what they were trying to get away from, and to find an "all natural" world.
9:00 how the hell did Gollum get from Middle-Earth to Risa? 🤣
What I was wondering!
And ~ 5:12 too!
If somewhere in the future a Ship reach the real System, they better rename it Risa^^
We need a trek sitcom based on Risa.
It would have to be rated M, at least.
We need a Trek version of _The Rum Diaries_ set on Risa imho
It should be like Friends. With the theme song "I'll Beam There For You."
Starring Wesley, Alexander, Naomi Wildman, Jake, a talking holographic Porthos voiced by Scott Bakula, and retcon Lal back to life. They live in 2 apartments across the hall from each other. Hang out at the Raktajino cafe on the beach cause it has Dom Jot tables. Regular guest stars would be Geordi, Paris and Torres, Rom, Morn and bring Tuvix back to life by repeating the accident but using conditions similar to how they made Tom Riker, splitting the beam and fixing one so nobody dies.
It would work. Barely any science stuff, they're just "Normal Sitcom People" in a trek world.
Risa coming from the German WORD for travel: „Reise“
Unwahrscheinlich
@@oholibama8888 Naja, wenn man sich ansieht, wie Amis "Porsche" aussprechen, kann ich mir das schon vorstellen.
Well, practically absolutely nothing common with Germany at all.
@@cmdrtianyilin8107 You've obviously never experienced Oktoberfest, lol.
@@pwnmeisterage Ah, how did I forget that? My sister lived there and she and her girlfriend both were lost at Hauptbahnhof station because they drank too much.
I don't mind Risa being controlled. Just as long as they don't own Star Wars.
Dude the quality of you content just continues to blow my mind. Thanks for all of the amazing stuff you put out. Look forward to it as often as you post
Futurama would define as "Risa 2, the Spring Break planet."
I’m trying to book my vacation now.
Even if the climate itself is artificial, Risa's landscapes and lush jungles are still naturally beautiful. The use of climate control tech allows for Risa to share its beauty but it's not what makes it beautiful.
This was the most relaxing lore video I've ever been privileged to watch. I feel like having a beer at the beach with that music
Risa: Planet Hawai'i where you can have endless love ins, and find some time for watersports.
More like Jamaica's Hedonism II
Risa, the Pattaya of Star Trek.
Video idea: Where would away team members sleep on multi-day missions? (particularly in voyager)
I didn't know Risa had natives. I always imagined it as a teraformed or artificially controlled biosphere with a Ferenghi as owner who somehow had a deal with the federation that allowed their citizens a basic level of entertainment for free.
Especially the always available yet free to play sex workers don't feel like a cultural trait of the natives.
Risians are basically humans, but they got stickers on their foreheads so you know they're alienses.
Risa has 3 billion natives and 1 millions visitors. So for every Risian who attends a visitor there will be 2999 Risians partnering with each other.
Maybe Risa's internal economy pays these "sex workers" to interact with aliens. Maybe Risa's legal system forces their criminals to perform these duties. Maybe Risa's spiritual leaders select a lucky few to share their special blessing. Maybe Risa's government requires these "workers" to earn or buy this privilege. Maybe these Risians are lounging around Risian vacation resorts because they're on (and want to enjoy) their vacation.
@@pwnmeisterage With 3 billion people and a worldwide culture that isn't judgmental about sex, odds are that enough of them just think sex with "exotic" foreigners sounds fun to ensure that supply meets demand. Only a million tourists, after all, and some of those (especially ones from the nonhuman species) won't be there for sexy times with the natives anyway.
@@pwnmeisterage only a million tourists? That seems really low for a planet that's so heavily focused on vacation and tourism. Like the small islands of Hawaii get several million tourists a year so if that were scaled up to the size of a planet it seems like one could expect way more visitors
Why doesn't anybody go to Wrigley's Pleasure Planet anymore? 🌎🚀
🌌🔭
I mean, yeah, all-inclusive resorts always feel a little off if you think about them too hard. No matter what planet they’re on, apparently.
Some of the caves reminded me of Sporeggar..
Great content again Thank You.
I remember when the STO event came around for the first time on console I earned everything in the event and enjoyed the planet
Maybe there are large sections of Risa that don't really get tourists, so we've only seen futuristic resorts?
well the yearly festival in sto happens in 1 spot every year. perhaps the weather control allows them to set up a rotating seasonal system of storms not per hemisphere but by quadrants. it gets turned off and natural risan weather is allowed in everywhere but the "dry" season area of that part of the year
I go there every opportunity I get. Very relaxing and a good place to go to meet new people.
"You're blocking the suns."
*_Is that a horga'hn in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?_*
"The Federation doesn't use money*
Me: **finding out how much lolhunat favors a hoverboard costs** *surprised Pikachu* (lucky for me I got the free Future Flyer)
Same! =)
Tell us more about the 'Gonewhoring' statue thingies. Sounds interesting. Perhaps we should go there. Does it have a Mistress Helga's House of Pain franchise? Um, asking for a friend.
I guess on Risa they'd be called Risaquakes but that sounds weird
Sounds like a crazy rave.
Nah, earthquakes are not called earthquakes just because the planet is called earth. The medium they are transmitted through is also called earth and earth the material doesn't need to be a part of earth the planet.
In fact, the planet was named after the substance. Ertha is old English for ground and erde old German.
Think of it this way, the moon is the moon but is also the source for the name of celestial objects orbiting planets.
So the moon might have moon quakes or lunarquakes while Titan would also have moon quakes lunarquakes AND titanquakes.
But since the ground of all these bodies is still ground, or earth they all can be said to have earthquakes just the same.
@@DrewLSsix it’s been a common joke among my friends that the UT has other civilisations perceiving this: “so where are you from?” “oh, our planet is called dirt”. Sometimes we wonder if literally every planet name is just their own word for dirt, ground, rock, etc. Or perhaps just home.
How do I feel about Risa? I have never once participated in the annual Lolhunat festival in Star Trek Online because I feel the same way you do about them. When hiding the Tox Uthat and Daniels mentions that they haven't installed the weather control systems yet, it just feels icky.
Nice! Would also love to see a Risian Index episode. I've always really enjoyed Risa-based episodes.
Jamaharon, Oomax or Klingon mating ritual?
Choose your fighter!
Just a thought: how do they deal with troublemakers? Can they exert enough control that they can put a perpetual storm over a single person?
Even if they're not that precise, you can arguably claim that they have successfully weaponized their very planet. They could easily stop an invading army just by turning off the grid. They survived the harshness of their world before. I'll bet they're prepared to do so again.
I wonder if the Risian's generosity stems from how difficult the conditions natural were, helping each other survive.
Starbase 12 is also near Argelius. Also a vacation destination. Though SB12 on my maps is near the Romulan and Klingon borders putting it about 750-800 light years from Earth.
Right on Ben Richt, I'd love to visit that 'reality' Someday.
What timing for eating with dinner
Oddly enough, I was just watching the DS9 episode on Risa last night. 😁
I'm a Trekkie and Sci-Fi fan. In my opinion, Risa is paradise. I would definitely go there to have a good time and to go swimming with a beautiful Risan woman.
I love your vids means a lot to me to be able to relax with something i just love (star trek) so thank for putting in all the effort
If Risa is so inhospitable without extensive iron control it is hard to see how its people could get to be so advanced.
The planet seems to be the Federation equivalent of Disneyworld........
Huh - now that you mention it, Risa does have a kind of slightly unsettling air to it. A carefully manipulated world characterized by huge oceans, that went from planetary earthquakes, volcanoes, and year-round hurricane seasons, to "global tropical paradise" in a comparative blink of an eye, open to anyone who wants to swing by, and celebrates fertility festivals with whoever happens to pick up a carved idol?
Yeah, aside from the lack of an "Innsmouth look", I'm starting to get some Shadows Over Innsmouth vibes here.
Not a vacation spot for Sub-Cdr. T'Pol-who wished not to go below for R&R. In the 'The Seventh', we discovered why. She had to go after the Jossen and Menos. Jesse, it appeared to pull out a weapon and she-in the Vulcan Security-shot him in defence-and then had to undergo the Fullara. Menos disappeared. Later, she, Archer, and Mayweather found him on another planet, where she became unsettled, and managed to captured, stun, and return him to the Vulcans.
I like to think that Risa brought the terraforming to the Federation when they joined, allowing less hospitable planets to be colonized.
I really need a trip to Risa.
Risa is also home to the Star Trek universe's bureau of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
It does sound like the Risans are clever business people. It's almost like a federation type package holiday. Wonder if Risa has a Disney world lol.
I've always wonder about planetary weather controls, like who gets to decided when it rains, when it snows and when its sunny and where?
It occurred to me while watching this; what if Risians weren't native to the planet, but colonized it? They grew tired of the rain and constant storms, so they terraformed it. And it all happened so long ago that they themselves forgot that they came from some other more temperate planet.
But yea, any attempt at weather control would really be more like weather regulation. The big problem with climate hacking is, once you start, and have wrested the planet's climate away from its natural processes, you can never stop, and have assumed responsibility for its continued regulation. And if you ever stop, the planet's natural climate isn't just going to go back to normal. It's going to unleash, suddenly, and chaotically, like a snapped rubber band. Water vapor goes up, it has to come down somewhere. And maybe you can redirect it to farmland, and schedule it at a particular time. You can't stop a hurricane, but maybe you could split it up, and spread it out over a wider area. A volcano or an earthquake (not weather/climate, but can be lumped in for our purposes) needs to happen to relieve pressure that builds up in the earth's crust and mantel. Maybe you can stop it from happening right now, but that's just buying time to give people warning for later, when you've got no choice but to let it happen. So realistically, Risa might still have its rain forests, but... in the off-season, when the plants need watering. Or over there, where there aren't currently any tourists.
As someone who spends a substantial amount of negative thoughts on the current weather, I really don't have much of a problem with the level of environmental control used on Risa. But I, too, hope that the original ecosystem was preserved. Maybe on another planet, maybe on a part of the planet?
I always thought that the weather suppression grid and seismic stabilizers were Federation Technology, the same the stuff thats used on Earth! I think its worth noting that 24th century Earth has weather suppression grids as well.
I wouldn't mind going there for vacation. 😁
In Trek, a place like this needs to exist, supply and demand. I feel like there society chose this and everyone enjoys it. I , personally would love to take the Express to Risa! Sign me up! (and give me a few of those statues...)
When the U.S.S. Voyager blasted its way out of that Borg Sphere, Capt. Janeway should off ordered Tom Paris to set a direct course to Risa at high warp. by passing the federation fleet assembled to take on the sphere. Now that would have been the best way to end Star Trek Voyager. Upon immediatly getting back to earth from the Delta quadrant and that hastle they def. needed a quick vacation.
What they wanted even more than a vacation was home.
@@anona2017 That was supposed to be a humorous ending
@@mikeshriver4282 oh haha sorry I'm like data- not good at detecting humor lmao
@@anona2017 that's perfectly fine Katie I didn't take no offense to it.I just have a massive sense of humor and I also love Star Trek and watching it since TNG first came out how about you you've been watching it since it came out?
@@mikeshriver4282 I did see some as a kid in the 90s but I was pretty young. I remember seeing the one where the enterprise crew turns into animals when I was way too young, it scared the shit out of me lol. Same with the wrath of khan, man I'm still traumatized. In high school and college I started watching TNG and voyager more seriously and basically never stopped. Feels like it got me through some really hard times and helped me grow up with good morals. So I'm immensely grateful.
There's defo a massive series in the Star Trek worlds, just like the Cultural Index.....I'm starting my planet library now
I've long since given up the idea that there is no money within the Federation. What makes more sense is that there is universal basic income, free housing, free education and access to basic nutrition and health care. If one wants to have more than basic income, then you are allowed to earn more, based on occupation and seniority, but capped at a certain level (ie. the most senior position cannot earn more than 10x that of an entry level position, or something to that effect). All based on both an economic credit system and a social credit system. IMO.
In the orbital images of Risa, you will see real Earth landforms on the planet's surface, usually modified. Like at 1:58, center bottom of the image, is Spencer Gulf, St. Vincent's Gulf, Yorke Peninsula & Kangaroo Island, from Australia. I think the area to the right might be India. At 2:22, at the bottom, is much of Nova Scotia, and also Prince Edward island, immediately to the right. The continent above looks like a modified map of Australia itself, though.
I still can't see how a civilisation would evolve like this
Me neither. On a planet with such harsh conditions the life should evolve into something rugged and not into humans with a culture of leasure and vacation, finding great pleasure in serving random strangers.
How could the Risans have survived to the point where they had universal control over weather and tectonic activity? That's beyond our current capabilities.
@@MetalheadAndNerd Maybe they were run by boring Spartan overlords so long their society rebelled and decided to become peaceful and hedonistic.
Sounds a lot like a combination of Dubai and Singapore
Risa, a Minecraft jungle biome but it's the whole planet.
I do believe that in the Borg trilogy written by David Mack (forgive me I have forgotten the name of it) Risa was destroyed by the Borg in the early to mid 2380's but it has been a few years since I have read the books
There's a word in German "Reise" which is pronounced almost exactly the same as "Risa". Reise means "journey" or "voyage" and is often used in the context of a holiday / vacation. Similar to using the word "travel" in English to refer to going somewhere on vacation.
There's no confirmation that the world was given it's name from Reise, but it would make a lot of sense.
Is klar. Es gibt auch eine Stadt namens Riesa in Sachsen...
I feel like Risa is sort of the Star Trek equivalent to Dubai. At least from the sense that Dubai is a modern, green city in the middle of a desert.
Risa could be a terraformed Europa with Jupiter rising and setting in the sky. Perhaps the UFP should think of it as an amusement world closer to home and they wouldn’t need Ferenghi or Orion “investors”
Yawl got any more of them Horga'hns?
Nature is a force of chaos, the more you try to contain it, the more pressure builds for it to buck back. I wouldn't wanna be on Risa when something finally snaps free, also I just generally hate sand, sea level pressure, and humidity. I'd be slightly more at happy on Androia, because at least snow & ice melts out of places you don't want it in unlike sand...
These tropical paradises even on earth, are paradises because of the unstable volcanic activity creating extremely fertile islands. Take that volcanic activity away and the fertility will slowly die down.
My guess is like the weather system, programming allowed storms... They MUST program in allowed volcanic activity to keep the planets surface fertile in this amazing ever green state. It might be more a case of island hopping the main resorts... So they can allow a volcano to do its job at the old location.
who knows.
I always thought that Risa looked to much like an unguarded flock of sheep just waiting for some malevolent race to invade, but I guess with all that geothermal and atmospheric energy being siphoned off, that could potentially power one heck of a secret hidden planetary defense system.
Risa probably had the fastest admission process to the Federation.
But why did they have a little statue to signal to others a willingness to play checkers
Here's what gets me. These planets, if they're comparable to Earth, have a quadrillion square kilometers of surface area. Even if 3/4 of that is water, and assuming a city is New-York-huge at about 10000 km^2, there should be tens of thousands of cities. Yet whenever we visit a planet, there's the one city we ever see.
*holosuites are a lot closer and can be custom tailored to provide what ever you want (eew)...assuming you have enough latinum and you book well enough in advance*
*Ferengi Rules of Acquisition # 299 Whenever you exploit someone, it never hurts to thank them...That way it's easier to exploit them the next time*