Spoilers Star Trek: Picard 1x03 - "The End is the Beginning"

[DEWLine]

Replicator food menus should surely be limited only by energy budgets and the physical limits of replicator tech as established in the Sternbach/Okuda/Drexler Tech Manuals. And maybe the tastes of the end user. Dahj wasn't into much beyond vanilla-flavouring, maybe? So long as whatever comes out of the device served her nutritional needs...

 

[Greg Cox]

As far as Raffi technically not starving (and therefore technically not being poor to preserve TNG's lines that poverty was eradicated), we do know that Dahj's replicator menu was described as "tragic". I can only wonder what Raffi's replicator menu was limited to.

I got the impression that Dahj's boyfriend simply meant that her menu was "tragic" because she hadn't bothered to download any more interesting options, not that she couldn't afford a better replicator. He was just teasing her about her bland, boring diet.

It was the 24th century equivalent of teasing somebody because they always order the same thing at Starbucks.

 

[SJGardner]

Replicator food menus should surely be limited only by energy budgets and the physical limits of replicator tech as established in the Sternbach/Okuda/Drexler Tech Manuals. And maybe the tastes of the end user. Dahj wasn't into much beyond vanilla-flavouring, maybe? So long as whatever comes out of the device served her nutritional needs...

I got the impression that Dahj's boyfriend simply meant that her menu was "tragic" simply because she hadn't bothered to download any more interesting options, not that she couldn't afford a better replicator. Plus, of course, he was just teasing her.

It was the 24th century of equivalent of teasing somebody because they always order the same thing at Starbucks, or have a poor selection of beer in the fridge. Apparently Dahj was not the most adventurous eater.

I've thought the replicator menu was more like a pinned favorites / recent orders menu than a hard-coded list of the only dishes it could create. It's like looking up someone's search history and find nothing else but the same three sites repeated in it ad nauseam.

 

[cooleddie74]

Yeah, Dahj was probably one of those individuals who eats the same boring things over and over again and when a visitor uses her replicator the menu they see is pretty bland or repetitive or both.

 

[Tuskin38]

I wonder if Picard's deaging the prologue was CG or makeup

 

[JoeZhang]

I wonder if Picard's deaging the prologue was CG or makeup

I would have to watch it again but did not see any deaging?

 

[137th Gebirg]

He definitely seemed a tad bit younger but his (older) voice was pretty much the same. Can’t tell if it was CG or not. Either way, I still think it looked more natural than the job they did on him in X-men.

 

[Tuskin38]

I would have to watch it again but did not see any deaging?

They smoothed out some of his wrinkles (most noticeable around the eyes and forehead), and his skin has more colour.

 

[Longinus]

I wonder why they didn't dye his eyebrows a bit. That would have been easy trick to make him appear younger. They were noticeably darker in Nemesis.

 

[jaime]

Yeah, Dahj was probably one of those individuals who eats the same boring things over and over again and when a visitor uses her replicator the menu they see is pretty bland or repetitive or both.

I suspect she probably never used it.

 

[BillJ]

Why did Europeans colonize remote areas of the world with a handful of colonist?

To have claims on resources and what they considered strategic pieces of land.

Plus, as I keep harping, TOS never said the Federation was a utopia. That was more of a TNG thing. Heck, judging from all those squabbling diplomats in "Journey to Babel" the UFP wasn't even all that well organized.

I know it changed later on, but to me, the Federation always felt like it was a fairly new organization in TOS.

 

[cooleddie74]

They smoothed out some of his wrinkles (most noticeable around the eyes and forehead), and his skin has more colour.

Believable. Not NEM Picard but definitely not the 2399 version of the Admiral.

 

[Gilora]

That could've been the guy Zhaban hit with the wine bottle.
But Picard's shot blue bolts, the others shot orange bolts...


I'm a Muenchner Kindl (born in Munich)

Guten Tag! Ich bin eine Amerikanerin, aber kann ein bißchen Deutsch.

(Forgive any spelling errors.)

 

[SolarisOne]

It's like looking up someone's search history and find nothing else but the same three sites repeated in it ad nauseam.

I totally wouldn't know anything about that. Nope. Not at all.

 

[BorgTheory]

I have always said the tasteful way to show the toilet would have been Picard putting Riker in command saying he has to step off the bridge a bit ( which everyone knows is code for the toilet ) and as he enters the restroom sitting on the toilet is someone reading a paper. Picard says “Oh excuse me, I did not realize this was occupied.”

Suddenly Q whips the paper down dramatically and says “oooof, Picard have you read the latest news? What’s going on at *_________* ( insert place name for plot here ) If I were you which thankfully I am not I would go right now and check it out. And then Q flashes away. Cue TNG intro.

 

[Greg Cox]

Or maybe Barclay has a bad case of space-sickness, turns green around the gills, and races to the nearest toilet with his hands over his mouth.

Cue comical retching noises.

 

[Kevman7987]

I imagine it's not so much what the software can do, as to how much actual physical materials one has to make stuff.
Replicators don't make chit outta thin air, one has to have a supply of basic materials on hand for the machine to work with.

That is probably the limiting factor for most less fortunate folks.

You really don't need to add that much new matter anyway, you get some back when you flush...

 

[Timelord79 (he/him)]

I haven’t read the entire thread yet, but a common theme here seems to be the effects or non-effects of a super nova.
What would kill the Romulans?
The explosion blast, the gravity, the ensuing planetary freezing...

the surprising answer is: Neutrinos.

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[oberth]

Guten Tag! Ich bin eine Amerikanerin, aber kann ein bißchen Deutsch.

(Forgive any spelling errors.)

 

[JirinPanthosa]

You can have the Federation be a utopia in the 2360s without conflict with it being less of one now. Look at the change of attitude in the US in 2001 because a few thousand people were killed, imagine if San Fransisco were bombed and we came close to the brink of annihilation from the Borg and Dominion.