OK I can go with this. I've had similar experiences in food.
Food replicator produce.
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OK I can go with this. I've had similar experiences in food.
I figure that if I get a orange, and you get a grapefruit, that they with have the same physically consistency other than flavor and color, the substance will be the same.
Beef, pork and chicken the same deal, they won't have the unique cellular structures of each animal, it will be the same general replicated "meat" with different taste and color.
Beef, pork and chicken the same deal, they won't have the unique cellular structures of each animal, it will be the same general replicated "meat" with different taste and color.
Exactly this. In fact the replicated food is probably better for you since it has the right balance of proteins, fats and vitamins that you normally wouldn't get from an animal that wasn't raised in absolutely PERFECT conditions with a bit of genetic modification to boot. Natural food may taste a little better just because its the slight variation of texture and flavor that creates dynamic sensations we enjoy in the dining experience, where as replicator flavoring is more uniform and consistent.
I would figure the replicator makes a copy of an existing dish. Saves that data for later and them replicated an exact copy. The problem with this is not that the food isn't better or worse that the existing dish, the problem is that it will be exactly the same every single time.
Can the replicator make a Fender Stratocaster and matching amp?
Doctor Crusher tried something similar with a drug, the replicator couldn't make the copy after scanning the original.
In the case of a food dish, the replicator might be able to make something similar, but there's no guarantee it's going to be able to reproduce the original food dish exactly.
Which episode was that? That sounds vaguely familiar, but I can't place it, so I'm not sure if I really remember it or not.
Way back in Code of Honor, to explain why the Enterprise had to deal with a bunch of space hicks and their awful culture, IIRC. That might not be the only time they pulled that trick.
No, it isn't. I mean, it's not as racist as it's often purported to be, but it's one of the worse hours of Trek.
What episode is the first appearance of the crystaline entity?
Datalore? Is this some kind of trivia game or am I the only one who knows about Memory Alpha (which, for the record, I did NOT consult until after I made my guess).
Except there's no reason to 'figure' that. If you replicate an orange and someone gets a grapefruit, you got an orange and they got a grapefruit. Replicators don't create foodstuff that looks like food, they create the actual food.
There's just certain substances that replicators can't (or more likely won't) replicate because the creators of the show realized how that would completely destroy several plot points. Latinum, Starfleet uniforms, phasers, certain drugs, etc. are examples of things they can't/won't create, either because they physically can't for some trumped-up technobabble reason, or because it's a security feature.
It's really that simple. You don't need "quantum precision" versus "molecular precision" to make an orange or grapefruit. Or most anything else for that matter.
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