A Conversation About Their Hobbies

[Takeru]

A foodie doesn't have a dumb argument with the replicator about wanting "Real" chocolate.

They would if the replicator insists on spitting out syntholate.

 

[Mojochi]

They would if the replicator insists on spitting out syntholate.

Which it almost certainly would automatically do, but that doesn't negate the objective truth that "Give me real chocolate" is unquestionably the dumbest way someone could ever ask a computer for a quality example of chocolate, if they were a hobbyist/aficionado in that subject. In such a case, it could in fact be the least thought out request of the ship's computer they ever depicted, including Geordi asking the holodeck to create a villain opponent capable of defeating a supercomputer AI that lives in a nearly indestructible android body

Troi is by no measure, in any calculable way, a chocolate hobbyist, or afficionado, or expert, or anything. She's a lady who likes eating chocolate, & has a couple favorite dishes of it (eg, Liasons), which btw, were almost assuredly also created by the replicator, having been done so by someone far more adept at rendering chocolate products with it. I will die on that hill lol

 

[Kor]

Granted I was a kid at the time, but I don't recall the foodie/aficionado approach being used with Chocolate much at the time. Or maybe it didn't have the visibility that it does now. If a character on one of the new Trek shows is into chocolate, we might see something more like that.

Kor

 

[Orphalesion]

Holodecks are like their tv. Is that really a hobby?

From what we've seen at least some Holodeck programs are seem more like a fusion Tabletop Roleplaying and/or LARPing and video games; Picard's Dixon Hill programs, many of the Programs mentioned on DS9, Deanna suggesting to Worf that 'a trip to the holodeck fighting his holographic monsters' could be a reward for Alexander after finishing all his chores and such, the various fighting programs we see ( or hear) Worf taking part in.
Others, like that terrible trash the Doctor on Voyager was "writing" seem like interactive novels (again a kind of video game)In fact with some of the programs, like Janeway's little gothic adventure you gotta wonder how much dialogue they are expected to memorize before playing...A more "realistic" modern depiction would probably include something like a wrist-watch with a display that suggest possible dialogue options to respond or gives needed explanations such as when that little boy started speaking Latin.
And some of Barclays seem to steer into self-indulgent fanfiction territory.
And others yet seem to work as simulations for other hobbies (Picard's horse riding, and at one point they mention something about...was it parasailing on New Mecca in a program on Ds9?)

So it seems more like an evolution of gaming than TV. And gaming is absolutely a hobby.

 

[Ghel]

So many of the crew we saw played musical instruments, like Keiko & Miles, who in all their time on 2 shows, we never see them play together. What a shame really. Do you have any idea how beautiful Miles cello & Keiko's clarinet would sound together?

Data played music with pretty much anyone who played, at some point or another... except Riker. WTF man? I have to think Riker is deliberately ducking a musical collaboration with Data. I guess he must think Data can't do jazz improv.

But for the good of social interaction, you'd think Data, Riker & Picard could drag themselves together for... something. The top 3 officers all play music, & not one get-together?

I can see the rationale for Keiko & Miles playing together, but I would play "devils advocate" and say that between poker and work, the bridge crew probable doesn't *want* to spend more collaboration time in their hobbies even if they have similar tastes.

I, for example, have a great team at work and enjoy my co-workers quite a bit. That said, I spend 8+ hours per day with them and don't need to spend all my down time with them as well. Sure, a drink after work is one thing, but at a certain point you need some distance...especially on a starship where there are presumably limited ways to get away from your coworkers.

 

[Mojochi]

And others yet seem to work as simulations for other hobbies (Picard's horse riding, and at one point they mention something about...was it parasailing on New Mecca in a program on Ds9?)

O'Brien likes kayaking, & Picard rock climbing

 

[at Quark's]

Data trying so many things probably fits in with his more general quest of understanding humanity (and different facets of it).

Riker not collaborating with Data might have been partially for reluctance of being exposed as the less-than-perfect player he is. (Remember his inability to play certain pieces, and Data probably would comment politely, yet openly on such technical shortcomings).

 

[Orphalesion]

O'Brien likes kayaking, & Picard rock climbing

So...further evidence that it isn't just "their version of T.V."