Hi everyone! I hope you’re all doing well. Today is Wednesday, and it’s time for another post in the Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge hosted by Long and Short Reviews. If you want to join in, you can find the topics for 2026 here. If you’d like to know what others have had to say about today’s topic, click here.
Fictional Things I Wish Were Real
The Tardis From Doctor Who
The Tardis from the science fiction TV series Doctor Who is a time and space machine that can travel to any place and any time. I’d love it if this technology were real. I’d go back and ask my parents and grandparents all kinds of questions. All the ones I’ve thought of since they passed that I never got the chance to ask. You never think you’ll run out of time. Ask your questions now, everyone.
Teleportation from Star Trek
This one is pretty much self-explanatory. I’d love to be “beamed” all over the place. Wouldn’t it be great to be able to travel to wherever you wanted to go in an instant? Obviously, in reality, such technology would require disintegrating you—essentially killing you— and copying you, sending that copy to the destination where you would be reassembled. I don’t much enjoy the idea of that. But the Star Trek way? Absolutely!
Starships From all of Science Fiction
It’s a great grief of mine that I will never get to see humanity expand beyond the solar system. By the time that happens, everyone alive today will be long gone. I’d love to live on a starship like the Enterprise (from Star Trek: The Next Generation) or Red Dwarf. But alas, I was born centuries too soon.
Wishes
This one is also self-explanatory. If only wishes were real, none of us would suffer or face any hardships because we’d merely wish them away.
Zero Point Modules (ZPM) From the Stargate Franchise
A ZPM is a near-infinite power source, a battery that utilises energy extracted from subspace to power all kinds of things for thousands of years. The ultimate in clean energy. I do worry that we’re literally burning through our lovely planet—the only planet in our solar system capable of supporting life. If we irreparably damage Earth, we’ll wipe ourselves out…
What a cheery note to end on, eh?
Anyway, that’s me for post 8.
As always, thanks for stopping by!
Until next time,
George
© 2026 GLT
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GEORGE L THOMAS 
Enjoyed this! Transcending time and space, not being limited by geography or energy are definitely things that would be not only amazing but helpful in many ways… Who knows, we might see a glimpse of that in our life time!
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Let’s hope so! 😊
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The ZPM! yes! And the Stargate(s) in general would be amazing.
But again, we are deconstructed and then reconstructed at our destination, so …
Just don’t think about it. 🫤
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😂
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Infinite wishes would be wonderful!
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Great list, George. We were thinking similar things. The clean energy would be wonderful.
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Time travel might be fun. Though I’d think meeting ancestors would be awkward. “I’m your great-grandchild.” “What did I do to have a great-grandchild like you?” “I’m not supposed to try to explain.”
Meeting future generations of relatives, who might be able to accept one as a ghost, might be easier.
Or meeting total strangers. All they’d know would be that they’d met a strange person from some faraway land. One would just have to be careful to meet nice working people, rather than warlords…
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All very good points, Priscilla! Haha! Yes it could be very awkward indeed!
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