

It seems like colony life is really only dangerous and rough when they’re first getting established. In enterprise and strange new worlds most of the colonies further from our solar system probably aren’t ideal, but by TNG there must be hundreds of well-established colonies with high quality of life that we just never see because nothing interesting happens there. I mean at the very least we see the one in the ghost fucking episode where everyone just decided they wanted to live like 1800s scotland, but they were safe and happy there for a long time and there’s no reason they couldn’t have had a more futuristic way of life. Their weather was fully controlled to simulate the highlands.
Can confirm. When i first met my fiance, i gave her a tea box that i filled with pretty rocks, shells, pinecones etc. that i had found and enjoyed. We spent basically every day together for a month, but i already had a move planned and after i moved we drifted apart. Saw eachother maybe once every couple years as friends, and we both had other relationships. Then 6 years later we both got out of long relationships at the same time, ended up reconnecting, and basically immediately moved in together. She still had the box. Now we’ve lived together for 5 years and are getting married soon. Girls like pretty things that you find on the ground, and they like it even more when those pretty things make you think of her.