The vege garden was entertainment.
Also, real food tastes better even if it is a billion times harder to "create".
8 months to make one carrot, or more resequenced protein... Oh?
Where do they get the protein from?
Monkeys?
Seriously.
8 months to make a carrot they can turn into an orange, or they grind monkeys into paste and pour it into the protein tank on the back of the replicator.
Yes, I suppose there's vegetable protein growing wild in the jungle that is plentiful...
But what if they'd been marooned on a planet with no wild life and no vegetation... I assume that it must be sanitary by some definition of the word to poop into the protein tank and replicate human faeces into carrots and oranges that they could chow down on?
If they were eating each other's shit, it's no wonder she didn't want to kiss him if he was smearing her poop all over his lips ever day... I can imagine that there is a dna sifter in the replicator to make sure that they only eat food made from other persons poo?
Leaves.
they could probably make protein from leaves.
Of course a metric ton of leaves would be needed to make a single steak.
Which brings us back to ground up monkeys.
And really how ####ing lazy are they?
Just cook the damn monkeys!
I wonder if there is a phaser setting for skinning?
i suppose turning a dermal regenerator into a dermal degenerator wouldn't be impossible?