Passengers...kinda

[astuffedshirt_perv]

So that movie Passengers, where Pratt wakes up JLaw and they get busy...
How about a future similar to that, except there is a skeleton crew of families to maintain the ship before getting to where they are going (arriving after a few generations of crew). Some of the crew gets bored, wake up hot chicks, have an adventure with them, then they put them back to sleep.

 

[Hypoxia]

So that movie Passengers, where Pratt wakes up JLaw and they get busy...
How about a future similar to that, except there is a skeleton crew of families to maintain the ship before getting to where they are going (arriving after a few generations of crew). Some of the crew gets bored, wake up hot chicks, have an adventure with them, then they put them back to sleep.

I'm not familiar with the film but the scenario sounds like some Golden Age SciFi stories.

The 'Passengers' I know is a dark old SilverBob (Robert Silverberg) short story, later rendered in graphic form by Larry Todd, about invisible aliens who 'ride' humans and force them to commit random unwanted sex acts, leaving little memory. Humans don't speak of their passengers -- too humiliating -- and almost never recognize those they've fucked.

That dark tale could be LIT-eroticized by inventing happy outcomes. Right.

 

[ElliottEden]

And why just the hot chicks?

One of the problems with a multi-gen colony ship is the launch generation is committing future generations to a task they have no say so in. It is a form of chattel slavery - if you want to take that kind of approach.

And if you're talking a trip that is going to take four to five generations, I image gen two through four is gonna get mighty pissed over living their lives in a tin-can.

I'd think by gen 3 the rules break down, and the crew starts taking advantage of the colonists.

Consider - what would the repercussions be for gen 2 through 4? They ain't gonna live to the end of the journey; it would be the last gen of the crew that would have to suffer the consequences of their actions. Or not depending on what they decide to do 'at journey's end'.

 

[astuffedshirt_perv]

It certainly depends on the terms of employment for the skeleton crew. Considering today's economic environment, would you sign up for a guaranteed job for life, for the life of you kids, and their kids...then again, what would you spend it on? Lots of deep questions. Maybe not angry at being caretakers of the ship, but bored and the skeleton crew girls aren't as much fun anymore..

 

[Hypoxia]

It certainly depends on the terms of employment for the skeleton crew. Considering today's economic environment, would you sign up for a guaranteed job for life, for the life of you kids, and their kids...then again, what would you spend it on? Lots of deep questions. Maybe not angry at being caretakers of the ship, but bored and the skeleton crew girls aren't as much fun anymore..

The classic SciFi tales usually dealt with with either a multi-generation ship where future generations decay, forget where they came from and where they're going, and go more-or-less dystopian; or a cold-sleep population whose never- or shift-sleeping maintenance cadre amuse themselves by waking, fucking, and possibly disposing of sleepers.

A multi-generation maintenance cadre would likely go decadent pretty soon. The smaller the skeleton crew, the faster they'll deteriorate. So let's say the starship's sponsor/owner is some cheap-shit organization that cuts standards everywhere, including the skeleton crew, recruited from those who can't find better jobs. They start off sub-standard and get even worse -- a bunch of horny scum, sure. How to come up with a happy-ever-after ending here?