I mean when the option is Leeola Root *everything*...

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• EmergMemeHologram@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  And yet an argument for murdering Tuvix was they needed a cook, even though everyone hated Neelix’s food.

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  • Steve@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Anyone else on the ship could have learned yo cook from youtube

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    • Bonehead@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Crewman Chell took over immediately with a full menu after Neelix left, so I'm pretty sure there were already something planned back then too. And it's not like he enjoyed the work that he was assigned, so why they wouldn't just let him work with Neelix before? Really, a lot of problems could have been solved by just allowing the Maquis crew a little more freedom in choosing their duties.

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    • teft@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Shit they probably could have just set up and Emergency Culinary Hologram. Not like the Doctor would complain.

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  • EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    And everyone loves Tuvix’ cooking

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• a9249@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I never understood that trope in the shows technobabble. Technically they have anti-matter reactors that produce so much power its unfathomable in todays world. Technically the replicator is a energy->matter machine… And the fuel for all these things comes from these crystals that they can detect from onboard scanners. Would it not then be plentiful enough to not require rationing? I can see the odd time when they run low on fuel, but constantly? really?

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  • Stamets@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s just simply a fuel problem. As you pointed out, all energy comes from those dilithium crystals. There are other sources of energy one could harness but it won’t be remotely enough to power the ships systems. The replicator specifically uses a MASSIVE amount of energy and the conversion from matter -> energy -> matter isn’t a 1:1:1 ratio. There’s loss. So you’re always going to require some sort of fuel source which is the crystals.

    However dilithium isn’t common to start with but surface-level dilithium that doesn’t require intensive mining operations is rarer still. The rationing gives Voyager more time and more dilithium for all primary ship functions. The ship likely wasn’t fully stocked with all needed dilithium for the trip because honestly it didn’t need that much for the initial trip it was taking. Once getting into the Delta quadrant they needed to stockpile in the event of coming into contact with hostile entities for an extended period of time, see ‘Year of Hell’ as an example of that.

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  • mkwt@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The replicator is not a straight energy to arbitrary matter machine. It uses a lot of energy to rearrange matter quickly. But there are still storage tanks of basic nutritional components that go into the process. At least that’s what the Star Trek Technical Manual says.

    Also, the dilithium crystals are allegedly not fuel, but catalysts or moderators. The ships (at least in the TNG era) still fuel up on cryogenic deuterium slush, of which half is converted into anti-deuterium before entering the warp core.

    Enterprise-d, at least, had some limited capability to gather fuel from space with the ram scoops. These were the red things on the front of the nacelles.

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• Etterra@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Maybe it needs more jalapenos…

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