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[nerd alert] In ‘Charlie X’ episode of TOS, Kirk asks the ship’s cooks to try and make the rations look like real turkeys for Thanksgiving. Later the cooks report that the turkeys came out as real birds, bones and all.

For the record. It’s not my fault that the writers on this episode didn’t know about the replicators, and I have no idea how Charlie would have known what real turkey would taste like.

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Stamets@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

For the record. It’s not my fault that the writers on this episode didn’t know about the replicators, and I have no idea how Charlie would have known what real turkey would taste like.

Actually I can answer why that happened. Replicators didn’t exist at the time. They were an invention in between TOS and TNG! In DSC, SNW and TOS they use ‘Food Synthesizers’. Replicators can create matter from energy by ‘simply’ converting the two but food synthesizers would use nutrient stock and protein slurries and such to sort of ‘3D print’ a meal. You’d be starting with organic input that was then rebuilt. Fresh food that was prepared by hand tasted far better which is why you have Pike cooking in his kitchen and Chefs onboard the Enterprise.

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- aeronmelon@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Best thing I’m going to read all week.
  
  This is the kind of response only a true Trekkie could write.
  
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  - Stamets@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Well at least you know I ain’t fucking about.
    
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aeronmelon@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I wish TOS writers had kept leaning into hilariously absurd moment like that. It would have made the show better. It’s part of what makes Star Gate and The Orville so lovable.

It’s also why I was the only person I knew who actually liked Team Knight Rider. Because there would be random announcements over the home base intercom that would indiscriminately break whatever tension there was with a report of something stupid that just happened somewhere on the ship.

“Technicians, please report to the rec room. The jukebox is stuck on Moon River again.”

“Fire control team, report to the kitchen… just in case.” Or something to that effect.

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- Dagwood222@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  If you’ve never seen it, watch ‘Buckaroo Banzai.’ The entire movie is filled with things like that. If you’re really ambitious, find the special edition DVD with onscreen commentary. In the original, you see the hero carrying a briefcase with him as he bards the experimental Jet Car. The commentary informs us that he’s carrying Einstein’s brain and a tuna fish sandwich.
  
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