Question about the integration of Star Trek and Harry Potter

[Rabrrrrrr]

I'm watching Star Trek right now, and for some reason Harry Potter came into my head with the thought, "Wow - if I were Jean Luc Picard, I would want Dumbledore as part of my bridge crew".

Which led me to wonder and ask this question: Given that the humanity of the 24th century is so much more socially, culturally, and intellectually evolved than we are nowadays, would the wizards and witches of earth need to continue hiding, or would the muggle humanity accept them easily as just another part of the tapestry of the universe?

I would hope for the latter -

and I think that would be very cool indeed.

[Goblinmonger]

1. I didn't think it was you that started the

"I'm baked ask me anything" thread.

[ZombieNixon]

2. There must be some terribly written fanfic about this somewhere..

:P

[Kutjara]

3. Ah, but if there were witches and wizards in the Star Trek universe...

...the technology would be much different than it's protrayed. Why use transporters when you have flue powder? Why phasers and disruptors when an Avada Kedavra curse would cut through a Romulan battle fleet like a Bat'leth through Gakk?

Starships would be able to reconfigure themselves on the fly, growing or shrinking as needed. And Bones, Beverly Crusher, The Doctor and Phlox would be out of business.

Oh yes, unless the wizarding classes are still hidden in the 24th Century, the Universe would be a very different place.

[ThomCat]

4. Because people who don't have magic

can't use flue power on their own. Anyone can be trained to use transporter. The same with phasers.

Technology is available to everyone, and magic isn't. :P

[Kutjara]

5. But you can imagine...

...how the Federation would have developed if wizards had been openly living in society. Transporters may never have been invented; instead a wizard Transportation Officer might be employed at every designated fireplace to enable Muggles to travel. They'd be like transporter chiefs. It probably wouldn't be much different in cost terms, because transporters require specialist technicians to operate them and repair them. Most wizards get the hang of flue powder when they're still children.

The same with weaponry. If ultra powerful wizard spells were available to the Federation, they might not have bothered developing other weapons. Starship would therefore be more primitive vessels, with most of the sophisticated propulsion, armament, life support, replication and navigational functions provided by wizards instead of automated systems.

[Kutjara]

6. Maybe the wizards in the ST universe are the:

Q Continuum.

If humanity can evolve from the squabbling mass of selfish, brutal vermin we are today to the enlightened, unfettered and endlessly curious people of the 24th century, maybe the wizarding classes evolved into the Q. By that time, they can do anything, so they're a bit bored and decadent, but still like tweaking Muggles from time to time.

[Irreverend IX]

7. If there were wizards in Star Trek

Geordi would be like captain, I've discovered a quantum flux cohabitation leak, and Troi would be like, captain, I'm sensing something very evil and bad and important to the plot, and Data would be like, it's scientifically impossible for there to be magic, you dumb asses, and Worf would be like, launching photon torpedoes now. And the wizards would try to kill them and make them turn into newts but Wesley would be like, captain, I just figured out how to make the shields block magic and shit because I'm a boy genius who figured out how to reverse the modulated positron grid shift phase particle circuit popsicle device. And then Picard would be like, we had to kill them all because people don't have the moral capacity to use magic properly. And then he would probably say something about Shakespeare.