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Comment on Star Trek Discovery Kind of Forgot There Were No Replicators in the 23rd Century

StillPaisleyCat@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

TAS and Discovery both showed the Enterprise has food synthesizers rather than replicators.

How significant is the difference? — it’s never made clear but picking up a meal from a food synthesizer is implied in TOS when Kirk gets a simple meal from a wall.

Also, it does seem that SNW’s food synthesizer is much more sophisticated than the one in TAS and Discovery, fabricating better quality basic materials.

Here’s compilation I made a while ago, of Scotty’s distain for the mayhem caused when the ship’s main computer gets hit by a ‘spatial anomaly’ and interacts with the ‘Rec Room’ 3D holographic simulator in TAS ‘The Practical Joker.’

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TrojanRoomCoffeePot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
I love it, but can I petition for release of the image of Scotty getting buried under an avalanche of bananas, grapes, and sandwiches, please? I need it for reasons.

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- StillPaisleyCat@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  It’s available as a BlueRay screencap from TrekCore…
  
  Might be best to download directly from there:
  
  tas.trekcore.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=61
  
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  - TrojanRoomCoffeePot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Hell yes, fruit tsunami FTW, thanks.
    
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    StillPaisleyCat@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    I just realized there’s even a fried egg in there.
    
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Skunk@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Isn’t it in SNW that someone says something about eating their own processed piss?

Or I think it’s the admiral talking while negotiating at federation HQ in the last DIS season, so after the time travel and burn.

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- StillPaisleyCat@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  In Discovery, in the 32nd century, Admiral Vance makes the point that all the food at Federation headquarters is made from reconstituted waste.
  
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  - Skunk@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Yep correct, but he’s talking about replicators and not synthesizers
    
    Admiral Vance once claimed that Federation replicators often recycled waste – including fecal material - produced by living beings to provide the raw material for replicators. Such material was deconstructed down to the atomic level, though this may have been an attempt to mess with Osyraa as she had previously mocked the admiral for never eating a real apple.
    
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    StillPaisleyCat@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Definitely replicators, and ones that are presumably more sophisticated than the 24th century ones on Voyager given the general use of programmable matter by Starfleet in the 32nd century.
    
    What’s challenging in the 32nd century setting is that more advanced technology exists but it’s availability is very uneven.
    
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