Troi's love of chocolate...

[Sec31Mike]

Troi's love of chocolate was a little over the top, it seems she took every occasion to eat it.

Those replicators must make chocolate balanced with protien, fat, carbs, vitamins and minerals. If that were the case I would eat it more frequently, but damn Deanna.

Didn't it reach it's height when she was being romanced by half the people in the Federation.

 

[Vanyel]

Sec31Mike said:
Troi's love of chocolate was a little over the top, it seems she took every occasion to eat it.

Those replicators must make chocolate balanced with protien, fat, carbs, vitamins and minerals. If that were the case I would eat it more frequently, but damn Deanna.

Didn't it reach it's height when she was being romanced by half the people in the Federation.

Wasn't it mentioned once, by Troi herself I believe, that she wanted real chocolate not the nutritionally balanced replicated chocolate the replicators give?

 

[Trekker4747]

Wasn't it mentioned once, by Troi herself I believe, that she wanted real chocolate not the nutritionally balanced replicated chocolate the replicators give?

She does ask the computer once for a *real* chocolate sundae, but I suspect that there's some real, and exotic, foodstuffs on the ship too. She ate something once and remarked that it was made out of 700 year old chocolate beans.

The replicator, certainly, makes nutritionaly balanced meals that likely taste like what they're supposed to. Which means she could eat nothing BUT chocolate but still get all the nutrition she needs.

 

[DayOldHotSauce]

Why is she not as big as a house? You never see her on a treadmill or something. Or are all people of the future on dieting pills?

 

[Trekker4747]

DayOldHotSauce said:
Why is she not as big as a house? You never see her on a treadmill or something. Or are all people of the future on dieting pills?

Again, it would seem the replicators produce "healthy foods" that taste like the requested item.

It could keep track of what you need and give it to you as food that tastes like the requested item. Once you've met your nutritional needs for the day any further food you order has no nutritional merit (good or bad).

 

[DayOldHotSauce]

Well, In some episodes she gets it from Ten Forward, which I am guessing is real food or she would just use her own replicator, and one time she told the computer to give her a normal chocolate Sunday without the low calories and no sugar or fat. Just a normal one.

 

[Trekker4747]

DayOldHotSauce said:
Well, In some episodes she gets it from Ten Forward, which I am guessing is real food or she would just use her own replicator, and one time she told the computer to give her a normal chocolate Sunday without the low calories and no sugar or fat. Just a normal one.

10Fwd uses replicators, there's one on either side of the bar. Yes she could get the same thing from her quarters but that'd be without the social aspect (and dramatic view) offered in 10-Fwd.

And when she tried to order a "real" sundae from the computer she was denied the replicator said it could only provide nutritional foods.

 

[DayOldHotSauce]

Ok then. You win! But still, why would Ten Forward not make its own food! Thats ridiculous!

 

[M'rk son of Mogh]

DayOldHotSauce said:
Why is she not as big as a house? You never see her on a treadmill or something. Or are all people of the future on dieting pills?

You see her and Beverly stretching for a workout in "The Price".

Plus she takes group classes from Worf. And again, her and Bev were practising in "Second Chances", when interrupted by Tom Riker.

So, yup, they do indeed burn off the calories in traditional ways.

 

[Trekker4747]

DayOldHotSauce said:
Ok then. You win! But still, why would Ten Forward not make its own food! Thats ridiculous!

Not having a kitchen for one.

 

[DayOldHotSauce]

Well replicate One! I mean really, its the future, they make things out of thin air. They can't make a stove top! Or a futuristic stove o matic auto cook thing?

 

[Brutal Strudel]

DayOldHotSauce said:
Why is she not as big as a house? You never see her on a treadmill or something.

We did see her once engaging in a workout session with Dr. Crusher that looked a lot like the run-up to a Sapphic, pornographic interlude...

...or was that just me?

 

[Jack Bauer]

^^^ It wasn't just you.

 

[Vanyel]

DayOldHotSauce said:
Well replicate One! I mean really, its the future, they make things out of thin air. They can't make a stove top! Or a futuristic stove o matic auto cook thing?

I think the Enterprise-D does have kitchen facilities on board. Remember Riker made scrambled eggs that only Worf liked? He had a hot plate and everything else he needed.

Picard once also gave real caviar to some delegate once and Guinan has real alcohol at her bar as well.

So I would imagine that you can equip your quarters with a kitchen and cook your own meals out of real food, and despite what Riker said about not enslaving animals, Picard's caviar would indicate that some real meat is available. Perhaps not on board a starship, but maybe farms on Earth still raise cattle and other animals for slaughter, just not in the numbers used now adays; and like Picard some may ensure that they do have real meat, or cheese, or milk or whatever to eat on special occasions.

 

[Jon1701]

My only problem with "that scene" in The Game is that Riker seems completely suprised by it.

He acts as though he's never heard of Troi's love of chocolate before. Given that they used to go out, this seems a little odd. I suppose you could argue he was under the alien influence at that point, but to me :

"I never realised chocolate was such a ritual"

always seemed to be an out-of-character line.

Of course, I'm just being a nitpick. I do love that scene.

 

[Therin of Andor]

Trekker4747 said:
This is one of the oddest, but greatest, "charcter quirks" MT probably introduced. And her eating the fudge sundae at the front of "The Game" is pretty damn sensual!

Susan Sackett, who, with Fred Bronson, sold that episode's story (but did not do the final script), fielded a lot of calls from friends, after the show aired, who knew Susan to be an avid chocoholic, and guessed she had projected herself into the script.

But the Troi love of chocolate was penned by... Brannon Braga! As far as Susan knew, Braga had no idea that Susan herself loved chocolate.

 

[Trekker4747]

jon1701 said:
My only problem with "that scene" in The Game is that Riker seems completely suprised by it.

He acts as though he's never heard of Troi's love of chocolate before. Given that they used to go out, this seems a little odd. I suppose you could argue he was under the alien influence at that point, but to me :

"I never realised chocolate was such a ritual"

always seemed to be an out-of-character line.

Of course, I'm just being a nitpick. I do love that scene.

I just assumed there was maybe a bit of "flirting" going on in the "I've never seen you do this before" kind of way.

Sort of like when couples to "spice" up their relationship might do a mock "picking you up in a bar" scenario.

In reality, yes, I suspect the writers goofed up, but that's how I rationalize it.

 

[Doug Otte]

Sec31Mike said:
Troi's love of chocolate was a little over the top, it seems she took every occasion to eat it...

Did she? I only remember it being mentioned maybe 3 times throughout the entire series. Or, maybe I'm just getting senile. Let me know...

doug

 

[Blueicus]

I can remember at least 4:

Deja Q: Data mentions how Troi orders chocolate sundaes when she feels down

The Game: "Better than chocolate" and her little ritual

Parallels: When she comments that she wishes the cake were chocolate when it was white

Liaisons: When Troi mentions that Ktarian chocolate dessert, etc.

There was also a scene where she was talking to the replicator about wanting a "Real" chocolate sundae.

 

[M'rk son of Mogh]

^^^
That was the beginning of "The Price".