Tuvok probably had Vulcan Love Slave running 24/7.
Replicator Rations
- Thread starter GotNoRice
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Some of the crew actually liked his cooking, or at least they got used to some of the dishes. I read that the actual problem was mostly a case of Talaxian taste buds being different from human taste buds. What humans would find pleasantly spicy or sweet tasted very bland to Neelix, so he prepared the food to appeal to a Talaxian's taste... which meant that to humans it was nearly inedible.
Gotta wonder about the leola root stew... they had that throughout the seven years, which brings up the question of where they got it. Kes' garden didn't look big enough to grow it, and it's hard to fathom this stuff growing naturally all over the Delta Quadrant but nowhere else.
I had a PM exchange on one of the fanfiction sites about what it means to make a meal from scratch or not. The story takes place post-Endgame, and stipulates that Mezoti (one of the Borg children) stayed on the ship instead of leaving. Seven adopts her, and the two of them move in with Chakotay. The story is mainly about Mezoti's struggles to adapt to Earth, attend a regular school, and how the three of them gradually become a family.
There are quite a few scenes in the story in which Chakotay teaches Mezoti how to cook, and the author had this bizarre idea that if you replicate the ingredients and just mix and cook them, that counts as "made from scratch."
My question: Since they lived in a large house with a large yard and Chakotay was from a culture that wasn't all that keen on replicators... why didn't they plant a garden? That way, their meals really would (mostly) be from scratch (this story assumes Chakotay is vegetarian so the meals are meatless).
Even so, had Neelix been sensible about it, he would have realized this 'taste bud difference' existed after a few meals at most and either adjusted his cooking, or admitted he should find some other niche to be useful in, because he couldn't really taste at what point the flavoring would be 'right' for most of the crew. Instead, they dragged out this 'gag' for year after year. And I think the crew was fortunate he left ship just before they came home - he probably would have cooked and served them a massive Leola Root Stew in celebration of their homecoming
If all Talaxians were as keen on leola root as Neelix, they probably could have traded for it pretty easily in the first 3 seasons because they seemed to be (mostly) following a Talaxian trade route. Hydroponics was suspiciously small to the point that I think they had multiple hydroponics rooms. You can grow a lot in a small space eg using vertical farming.
He certainly over did it with the "jalopy-nose" peppers in his Rodeo Red's red hot rootin' tootin' chili. In the episode Message in a Bottle.
I love how the the initiator of this thread has the username GotNoRice. Genius! Take it up with Neelix though if you got not rice… replicator rations are restricted when it comes to starchy carbs as they take up too much energy to produce. His alternative may just be Leola root stew though so be warned!
I've always felt that Vulcan Love Slave is super racist (specist) and exploitative.
Like a 20th century black and white minstrel show, but Porn.
"My cold heart only knew logic, until you touched it with your warm human hands."
Therefore it's nothing an actual Vulcan would be intrigued by.
Voyager did seem pretty okay on energy most of the time. It's almost like rationing their energy was somehow related to how much energy the ship had.
Periodic reapportionment only seems fair.
Although after episodes like Void or Night, they'll be on prison rations for a month.
Should be the case with "Night", but the opposite was true. I think that's the episode where they finally fully committed to the idea that Voyager had infinite power and resources: I think Voyager fired more torpedoes in that single episode than she did in some whole seasons.
Also, the Delta Flyer (a 21-meter ship five times faster than a standard shuttle) was built just a couple episodes later.
All they need to collect infinite Deuterium is a Buzzard ramscoop, which is just a 9 thousand kilometer square sheet of force fields rolled into a funnel.
Oh.
Bussard collectors are buzzard ramscoops.
(Not sure if it's variant spelling, or bad spelling. Google says that it goes both ways.)
Unforgettable.
The haunting of Deck 12.
So, the Bussard collectors only work at sub light speed. You need a Nebula to harvest exotic or interesting materials, but all deuterium is is funky hydrogen and that's actually everywhere, but in incredibly small quantities.
Is this why the damn ship is almost never at Warp when an episode begins?
Oh.
Bussard collectors are buzzard ramscoops.
(Not sure if it's variant spelling, or bad spelling. Google says that it goes both ways.)
Unforgettable.
The haunting of Deck 12.
So, the Bussard collectors only work at sub light speed. You need a Nebula to harvest exotic or interesting materials, but all deuterium is is funky hydrogen and that's actually everywhere, but in incredibly small quantities.
Is this why the damn ship is almost never at Warp when an episode begins?
