Flashback in Voyager also says that there were no replicators in TOS, which Strange New Worlds firmly contradicted (they can even replicate a time travel suit!)
What is your personal head canon?
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Who said that on Flashback? Unless it was Tuvok, we can easily dismiss it as character error.
Kim notes it to Janeway.
JANEWAY: It was a very different time, Mister Kim. Captain Sulu, Captain Kirk, Dr. McCoy. They all belonged to a different breed of Starfleet officer. Imagine the era they lived in. The Alpha Quadrant still largely unexplored. Humanity on verge of war with Klingons. Romulans hiding behind every nebula. Even the technology we take for granted was still in its early stages. No plasma weapons, no multiphasic shields. Their ships were half as fast.
KIM: No replicators, no holodecks. You know, ever since I took Starfleet history at the academy, I always wondered what it would be like to live in those days.
Now, it could easily be argued that Kim is stating technology as they have it then. For instance, mobile car phones have been in use since 1946 but if I say I have a mobile phone I mean something much different than those mobile phones, though they could be described as such.
It definitely contradicts TAS on holodecks.
Although that can be called a simulation or projection room. I mean, to be honest, the phase pistols of the mid-22nd century are little different from 23rd and 24th century phasers but aren't called that, so Worf's line in TNG about there being no phasers in the 22nd century is both true and rings kind of hollow now that we've seen ENT.
Or Recreation Room from TAS.
And, to be fair, current technology users like to look down on the past and say their tech was nowhere like their own technology and current developments are far superior. Downplaying the past while ignoring the stepping stones it took to actually get seems to be a common human activity.
And, to be fair, current technology users like to look down on the past and say their tech was nowhere like their own technology and current developments are far superior. Downplaying the past while ignoring the stepping stones it took to actually get seems to be a common human activity.
What is the Klingon equivalent to section 31?
Or is it just in your fantasy?
SNW's "Fast 3D Printers" are a far cry from the Replicators we see in the TNG era and above.
The 3D Printing we see in DISCO / SNW looks like a high-speed, multi-Laser Head Sintering type unit.
It's fast, but not as fast as a replicator.
They is coming up with his head canon, including the name as they note.
"Food slots" and how they work is not entirely clear, since there is a cook referenced in Charlie X making Thanksgiving Dinner, and Nurse Chapel prepares soup for Spock in "Amok Time." As well as the fact that the tribbles can get in to the machinery, including the food slots, which probably wouldn't happen with replicators, since they wouldn't replicate a coffee and chicken sandwich as tribbles.
"They didn't have machine guns in the 19th century."
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Well, food synthesizers. Except for a couple of errors in terminology during the DSC Era they've always been food synthesizers or food slots.
What is the difference between a food synthesizer and a food replicator?
The fictional technology. 
The synthesizer basically assembles food orders in a physical manner and very rapidly and doesn't employ transporter technology and stored matter patterns.
The synthesizer basically assembles food orders in a physical manner and very rapidly and doesn't employ transporter technology and stored matter patterns.
I don't believe they are the same version of the 23rd century, and that all of the time travel, between the late 24th century stuff, then First Contact, the borg drones being left behind, all of the TCW meddling, Daniel's quarters on the NX, and the Romulans in the 21st century on SNW - we are no longer in the same iteration of the timeline that we saw during first-run TOS and TNG, and small details referring to past technology no longer applies.
Some technological developments were classified and could not accurately be depicted in the Kirk Log Dramatization produced for the general Federation public.
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