Should the new Trek series depict radically different dietary habits?

[Kor]

... and not have to be subject to constant and strident lectures on how their food is "unhealthy" ...

Especially with such radically varying and completely incompatible ideas on what constitutes "healthy" food. Macrobiotic? Paleo? Low-fat? Ketogenic? Alkaline diet?

Never the twain shall meet.

Kor

 

[Jackson_Roykirk]

People 200 or 300 years in the future would probably still want meat and meat products, but I can imagine a future where the muscle, fat, and connective tissues that form a piece of raw beef are grown in a factory rather than being grown as part a living bovine.

So even if we see Captain Lorca and Lt. Cmdr. Rainsford enjoying a nice filet Mignon, that doesn't mean a bull died in order to feed them.

...Oh -- and the asparagus on the side will be genetically modified in order to not make their pee smell odd.

 

[Relayer1]

People 200 or 300 years in the future would probably still want meat and meat products, but I can imagine a future where the muscle, fat, and connective tissues that form a piece of raw beef are grown in a factory rather than being grown as part a living bovine.

So even if we see Captain Lorca and Lt. Cmdr. Rainsford enjoying a nice filet Mignon, that doesn't mean a bull died in order to feed them.

...Oh -- and the asparagus on the side will be genetically modified in order to not make their pee smell odd.

Whilst I think some kind of meat eating will continue, the idea of killing something to eat it will be viewed as barbarism in the future. You only have to view how attitudes to animal rights have already changed, and then compare it to similar changes in attitudes to race and colour, homosexuality, transgender and disabilities.

Animal rights may be lagging behind, and they will probably never attain the same status as humans (possible exceptions being the great apes) but things are changing.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

People 200 or 300 years in the future would probably still want meat and meat products, but I can imagine a future where the muscle, fat, and connective tissues that form a piece of raw beef are grown in a factory rather than being grown as part a living bovine.

Then cows had better start hoping that their dairy products are still seen as valid, because otherwise the species is history. Cows exist entirely to feed us (you never see them in the wild, do you? ), and if they can no longer do so, then they will disappear.

 

[Kor]

Then cows had better start hoping that their dairy products are still seen as valid, because otherwise the species is history. Cows exist entirely to feed us (you never see them in the wild, do you? ), and if they can no longer do so, then they will disappear.

Well... there are wild bovine species in certain areas of the world.

Kor

 

[Relayer1]

Besides, we would no doubt keep breeding herds of the various species of cow as a conservation measure in just the same way as we would conserve wild species.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

EAT MOR REPLIKATED CHIKN

 

[cultcross]

I would hope by the 23rd century, we will have ceased to treat species entirely by their value to us as a commodity.



Except for wasps. Fuck those guys. Ain't nobody ever doing a time warp to rescue two wasps.

 

[Relayer1]

I can see the huge wasp probe pulling into orbit to REALLY fuck up your picnic.

Zzzz zz Zzzz zz Zzzz....

Kirk turning up with a jam jar containing a breeding pair...

Epic !

 

[Captain Indecisive]

Memory Alpha: Depicting Klingons

Richard Arnold remembered, "Gene was really bothered by the Klingons in VI [....] [They] were, in his words, 'too civilized, too decent, too much of the good guys in the story.' [....]" (Star Trek Movie Memories, hardback ed., p. 289)​

From Star Trek Writers/Directors Guide (The Original Series):

Is the starship U.S.S. Enterprise a military vessel?

Yes, but only semi-military in practice -- omitting features which are heavily authoritarian. [. . .] We avoid [. . .] annoying medieval leftovers. . . .​

TOS Klingons were portrayed as wearing fine chainmail-like vests for males. Mara, a Klingon female, wore a chainmail-like dress.

Memory Alpha: Kurak

Kurak was played by Tricia O'Neil, who applied a pre-existing knowledge of Klingons while playing the role. She said about the character, "I knew the difficulty this particular Klingon was involved in because she was advancing. She had the great weight on her shoulders of being intelligent, of being a scientist, and she was crossing barriers. But she was still a Klingon, so she was very… not savage, but physical, where a lot of muscle was still involved, even though she was crossing over into being a scientist. . . ."​

That's from an interview conducted by CBS on the official Star Trek website.

Memory Alpha: Bat'leth

Introduced in "Reunion", the bat'leth was originally inspired by comments from Worf actor Michael Dorn, as he wanted his character's fighting style to be more martial arts than barbarian. . . . (Star Trek: Communicator issue 114, p. 59)​

Looking at the actors' voiced thought processes, can you guess what "pre-existing knowledge of Klingons" was given to them as a background?

I don't see what any of that has to do with what I posted about?

 

[Sisko_is_my_captain]

I think i remember a non-canon novel where the Titan's carnivores and vegetarians has informally established exclusive periods in the mess hall where they could eat with just their groups and not gross the other guys out.

I imagine in the future there will still be small-scale boutique farming of live animals for consumption as a cultural tradition, just as Picard's family grew grapes for traditional wine making. Maybe there are small enclaves of cowboys, fishermen, or even seal hunters on Earth.