• Welcome! The TrekBBS is the number one place to chat about Star Trek with like-minded fans.
    If you are not already a member then please register an account and join in the discussion!

Recreational drugs in Trek

I think it'd be dangerous to create virtual molecules that would get inside your body and disappear as soon as you leave the holodeck, causing sudden local chemical imbalance that could be fatal in some cases. Nog spent a few weeks in the holosuite, had the food he ate then be virtual. countless of his cells, including brain cells would have died of inanition the moment he had left the holosuite, causing death or serious brain damage.
That's why not everything in the holosuites/holodeck is holographic. If you eat or take drugs there, the computer would replicate whatever was needed.
 
Someone in another thread jokingly mentioned Worf using cocaine in the first couple of seasons of TNG.

I do wonder if some substances currently illegal would be made legal by Trek's time (marijuana for instance), and anything that is currently legal being made illegal (caffeine?)
With different species Earth drugs would have different results, cocaine is probably like chocolate to Klingons lol
 
That just reminded me, I'm not sure if it's from old novels or fanfiction, but sugar has the same effect on Vulcans as alcohol on humans.
 
^ I recall the novelisation of TVH said Spock was drunk on sucrose that's why he jumped in the whale pool and knocked out the rude punk passenger.
Also FF has Vulcans drunk on chocolate and horny on cinnamon. Alcohol they treat like normal juice and feed their children beer since its good for them lol
 
Was the Klingon restaurant even mentioned after Worf arrived? You'd think him and Dax would be regulars there.
 
Was the Klingon restaurant even mentioned after Worf arrived? You'd think him and Dax would be regulars there.
Jadzorf went there at least once, along with Major Kira, while Quark's was being repaired (see: Empok Nor).

However, I figure Worf would take care of the Klingon cuisine. The Klingon restaurant apparently can't even keep its racht healthy, and who knows what might have been sacrificed to make the food more palatable to a more diverse clientele?
 
Jadzorf went there at least once, along with Major Kira, while Quark's was being repaired (see: Empok Nor).

However, I figure Worf would take care of the Klingon cuisine. The Klingon restaurant apparently can't even keep its racht healthy, and who knows what might have been sacrificed to make the food more palatable to a more diverse clientele?

If I remember correctly racht was the name of the dish that Melora ordered. Does it mean something in Klingon?
 
If I remember correctly racht was the name of the dish that Melora ordered. Does it mean something in Klingon?
You are correct; racht is a dish consisting of live worms, similar to gagh. It doesn't mean anything in tlhIngan Hol, but has been retconned into the language as raHta'.
 
allegiance3.jpg
 
I do wonder if some substances currently illegal would be made legal by Trek's time (marijuana for instance), and anything that is currently legal being made illegal (caffeine?)

There are a few references to caffeine (rather than to coffee), so I suppose not, for that particular substance at least.

Would make for a nice short story though, Janeway forcing her crew to convert the replicators to produce coffee with this restricted substance ('It's not as if anybody would ever know, we're lost in the Delta Quadrant!')..
 
There are a few references to caffeine (rather than to coffee), so I suppose not, for that particular substance at least.

Would make for a nice short story though, Janeway forcing her crew to convert the replicators to produce coffee with this restricted substance ('It's not as if anybody would ever know, we're lost in the Delta Quadrant!')..

Quark was unable to make decaffeinated coffee that didn't taste awful and it was a special request of O'Brien, so I am guessing that the replicator can't even do that, otherwise why ask Quark?
 
Nobody can do that IRL, either.

I don't know. I like the taste of coffee in the evening but I hate to be kept awake so I've gotten used to drink decaf (only in the evening though, in the morning and noon, I drink the regular one), and I enjoy it.
 
We didn't see this but it's implied that Tom might have had a drinking problem at one time. There is a mention of his bar bills and he looked pretty soused in Non-Sequetor...and we know he used to hang out in a bar. It's also mentioned in the book Pathways which might be canon...or it might not.
 
If you are not already a member then please register an account and join in the discussion!

Sign up / Register


Back
Top