Janeway and cooking...

[teya]

Related to this is the recognition that, to date, every trek show (though TOS was more ambiguous) had men do the cooking.

Well, that's an old stereotype... Men are chefs (they go out to work to cook & get paid for it), women are cooks (they stay home & feed the family).

It's so pervasive, though, that I know female pastry chefs who had a hard time getting used to being called "chef." They called themselves "bakers." And these are pastry chefs who are recognized as among the best in the world.

You're right on the stereotypes and that some pastry chefs prefer
being called "baker." I think that "bakers" are actually more specialized chefs, so they should want the recognition of achievement in their specialized field. On the various tv cooking shows, many of the chefs, for all their ability, are damn afraid to bake, while the bakers are willing and able to cook at the same high level as the chefs.

Go bakers!

Baking is much more precise & a good pastry chef/baker understand the chemistry involved.

Many on the savory side are baffled by that part.

Me, I love the geekiness of the science behind baking & jam making & the like. :-)

 

[JanewayRulz!]

I mean this is a device that you could give the most vague description and it would give you what you wanted. yet somehow she manages to burn a pot roast.

I never looked at her inability to get the replicator to work properly as an indication that she was incompetent.

I always took it as a reminder that these wondrous things are mere machines, and mere machines break down.

I loved how even in the Captain's quarters, technology can fail, and that this particular hands on lady doesn't push a button and summon the maintenance guy to come and rescue her. No, she just pulls out her handy dandy hypospanner and takes it apart herself!

It's just another illustration of Scotty's line from "The Search for Spock".

The more they overthink the plumbing, the easier it is to stop up the toilet.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

That's a good point, actually. When the replicator breaks, your engineering crew are busy fixing the ship because you're tens of thousands of light years from home and no access to Starfleet, what do you do?

 

[R. Star]

That's a good point, actually. When the replicator breaks, your engineering crew are busy fixing the ship because you're tens of thousands of light years from home and no access to Starfleet, what do you do?

Knowing how cranky Janeway gets without her coffee fix, engineering stops what they're working on and gets to fixing the replicators.