This makes sense. McCoy did say his boots were too small.
Hey, I never noticed that before....
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New boots usually are. If it was replicated with a size template and not McCoy's foot shape from his medical file, that is (assuming they take such things, or that one can glean a crewmember's clothing size from transporter logs). Wear 'em a little longer and they'll stretch to a comfy size.
In the Franz Joseph blueprints, fabrication facilities are on Deck 22.
In the teaser of The Gamesters of Triskelion we see a brief close-up of Kirk's phaser when he (unsuccessfully) tries to fire it. When he presses the
trigger (twice) you can see a faint flash of light inside the beam emitter. Don't think I would have been able to see that in a standard definition TV broadcast back in the day.
trigger (twice) you can see a faint flash of light inside the beam emitter. Don't think I would have been able to see that in a standard definition TV broadcast back in the day.
No, that was always visible. But you had to be paying attention in SD.
Another thing about that scene is that when the three first land and get to their feet, Shatner has rolled over on his communicator, and the brass lid is bent to the side. They got him a fresh one for the next shot, and the damaged prop got repaired.
That probably involves regulations not to waste energy to produce certain luxury items, unless they're needed for a legitimate purpose, such as diplomacy.
Well, they have a certain amount of items in cargo, and they also have raw materials, but there are some things that are neither in stock, nor can they be made with the ingredients present onboard ship.
That seems most likely. In the same "Charlie X" episode McCoy and Spock mentions the other ship's "food concentrates" being exhausted after a year. As you suggest earlier, the ship carries raw materials for fabric, metals, etc. The ship's manufacturing facilities are probably very sophisticated with mechanical 3D-type printers versus later energy-to-matter replicators. IMHO.
Perhaps. However the same episode also has "synthetic meatloaf" placed into ovens. Since Kirk could only change the appearance of the meatloaf to look like turkey it would suggest that they were incapable of manufacturing synthetic turkeys. Which circles around to they more simply couldn't manufacture Rand's favorite gift (like they didn't have turkey concentrates in the turkey example) rather than it being an energy limitation.
That was probably due to the fact that they didn't think about matter fabricators/replicators at that point in the show's run. Remember they also mentioned a galley and putting synthetic meatloaf turkeys in the ovens.
My point?
With food replicators you don't really need to have a large galley on the ship.
Perhaps the food machine made raw meat, or they had raw frozen meat in stores. It was a simple matter of cooking it, perhaps faster and less power required than synthesizing it.
I was thinking that the synthetic meat loaf was created using the ship's food store concentrates because they lacked the concentrates for synthetic turkey. Kirk had ordered them to be shaped as turkeys (instead of meat loaf). From there the galley then had to heat them up. They were more like 3D printers and less like energy-to-matter replicators that we see in TNG and beyond which seems reasonable to me, IMHO.
Kirk says "On Earth today, it is thanks giving"... Um? All of Earth has American Thanksgiving in the future, or United Earth Thanks Giving is celebrated similar to American Thanks Giving and Canadian Thanks Giving which is also not American Thanks Giving.
Maybe United Earth Thanks Giving is another name for First Contact Day, since Natives saving the Pilgrims, is similar to The Vulcans saving the Humans... Even if it is reversed.... So maybe its when the Vulcan relief Fleet dropped anchor, or if its a United Earth Holiday, maybe its something that happened after the United Earth was founded in 2150?
Maybe United Earth Thanks Giving is another name for First Contact Day, since Natives saving the Pilgrims, is similar to The Vulcans saving the Humans... Even if it is reversed.... So maybe its when the Vulcan relief Fleet dropped anchor, or if its a United Earth Holiday, maybe its something that happened after the United Earth was founded in 2150?
And Canada now has the same Thanksgiving day as America?
"(Somewhere) on Earth" - the highest proportion of Earth people celebrate it that day. Does Mars celebrate it on another day?
"(Somewhere) on Earth" - the highest proportion of Earth people celebrate it that day. Does Mars celebrate it on another day?
Or, it's an Earth Thanksgiving combined holiday as all holidays were post unification.
Does TOS United Earth still have distinct, self-governing Countries such as USA, Russia, Canada, France, etc.? Maybe Earth countries are about the "same" as today, but under the umbrella of a stronger United Nations governance (now called United Earth).
For example, Chekov displays that Russia is his home country more strongly than UE. His education system is not EA uniform as it comes to language (he is primary Russian speaking with English as a second language), and its history education is very pro-Russian. Another example is that Scotty is a proud Scotsman from Scotland.
Back to turkeys and an USA Thanksgiving Day (and Christmas parties, too), I can easily see that the crew of a ship will celebrate their cultural holidays. The Enterprise appears to be crewed by mostly humans with Earth-based origins. Bringing a little fun and home to dreary, deep space life is good for morale.
For example, Chekov displays that Russia is his home country more strongly than UE. His education system is not EA uniform as it comes to language (he is primary Russian speaking with English as a second language), and its history education is very pro-Russian. Another example is that Scotty is a proud Scotsman from Scotland.
Back to turkeys and an USA Thanksgiving Day (and Christmas parties, too), I can easily see that the crew of a ship will celebrate their cultural holidays. The Enterprise appears to be crewed by mostly humans with Earth-based origins. Bringing a little fun and home to dreary, deep space life is good for morale.
Whereas some holidays commemorating specific events, such as a legendary battle, or a significant day to mark a religious leader/concept, mean more to some cultures than others, being grateful for who and what you have transcends culture and religion. It's a concept you can have without subscribing to the religion or valuing the historical events that prompted it.
Countries today have “self governing” sub units. In the US there are states, And those states contain counties. The counties have towns and cities. So I imagine UE has “self governing” sub-units called countries or nations,Does TOS United Earth still have distinct, self-governing Countries such as USA, Russia, Canada, France, etc.? Maybe Earth countries are about the "same" as today, but under the umbrella of a stronger United Nations governance (now called United Earth).
For example, Chekov displays that Russia is his home country more strongly than UE. His education system is not EA uniform as it comes to language (he is primary Russian speaking with English as a second language), and its history education is very pro-Russian. Another example is that Scotty is a proud Scotsman from Scotland.
Back to turkeys and an USA Thanksgiving Day (and Christmas parties, too), I can easily see that the crew of a ship will celebrate their cultural holidays. The Enterprise appears to be crewed by mostly humans with Earth-based origins. Bringing a little fun and home to dreary, deep space life is good for morale.
Regional pride won’t disappear. Being a proud Scotsman in the UE would be like be a proud Texan in the US. All regional language won’t disappear either. There will be enclaves where some are spoken, like today, Basque is one that comes to mind because I was reading up on it recently,
Why wouldn't they? Managing resources takes effort and regions have unique needs that are not one size fits all. As @Nerys Myk notes there are smaller units all the way down to the local governments to manage those unique issues. I don't imagine a United Earth would be much different, and is just adding another level of government above countries that actually has administrative and political power, rather than how the United Nations currently works.
Indeed, I don't expect that to disappear at all. Humans like there little tribes, be it state, regional, school or team.
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