What is the odd food in "Journey to Babel"?
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Sushi rolls looked alien to most Americans not so long ago...and the confections you find in Indian marketplaces still look alien to greater America. For all we know those cubes are some of the most delicious food from Alpha Centauri. I don't know why people have such a hard time grasping it. They didn't not show "real food" because of the budget...they were trying to portray THE FUTURE. Guns don't look the same, and neither does some food.
Sushi rolls looked alien to most Americans not so long ago...and the confections you find in Indian marketplaces still look alien to greater America. For all we know those cubes are some of the most delicious food from Alpha Centauri. I don't know why people have such a hard time grasping it. They didn't not show "real food" because of the budget...they were trying to portray THE FUTURE. Guns don't look the same, and neither does some food.
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Thats my take too. Never bought the "protein pill" stuff.
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I was recently at a con and asked Andrea Weaver, a costumer on the show, this question. To the best of her recollection, the bits were cantaloupe dyed various colors.Originally Posted by Facinoma:
What is the odd-shaped, brightly colored food in "Journey to Babel"... the shapes that come in bright colors?
I'm thinking, if I ever have a "geek party", I'll use melon and food coloring
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Yep, Memory Beta mentions gristhera as being the food we saw in "Journey to Babel". It's an Andorian food that a lot of different alien races like to eat. It was only mentioned in one actual novel, though (The Art Of The Impossible), and never named as such onscreen.
Yep, Memory Beta mentions gristhera as being the food we saw in "Journey to Babel". It's an Andorian food that a lot of different alien races like to eat. It was only mentioned in one actual novel, though (The Art Of The Impossible), and never named as such onscreen.
Wow, this thread is almost two years old! In fact, I posted in this thread only two days after I joined the board!Re: What is the odd food in "Journey to Babel"?
Anyone who's ever seen an episode of Jetsons knows that the common wisdom of the 60s was that people of the future would eat synthetic food in some compressed form (like pills or out of a tube). They were convinced that all food in the future would be synthetic. Thus the folks on Star Trek initially at funky looking colored cubes. Its only really later in the series that they ditch that for real food.
To me that stuff just looks like the synthetic unfrozen "Astronaut Ice Cream" one could buy at the Space Center of the Museum of Science and Industry.
Anyone who's ever seen an episode of Jetsons knows that the common wisdom of the 60s was that people of the future would eat synthetic food in some compressed form (like pills or out of a tube). They were convinced that all food in the future would be synthetic. Thus the folks on Star Trek initially at funky looking colored cubes. Its only really later in the series that they ditch that for real food.
To me that stuff just looks like the synthetic unfrozen "Astronaut Ice Cream" one could buy at the Space Center of the Museum of Science and Industry.
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Corbomite Maneuver
Mudd's Women
Man Trap
The first few times he see food on Star Trek it real looking, if slightly alien:
Corbomite Maneuver
Mudd's Women
Man Trap
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KIRK:"I like mine hammy with a touch of cheese.
Not stirred."
KIRK:"I like mine hammy with a touch of cheese.
Not stirred."
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Kirk did have his chicken sandwich and coffee in the Trouble with Tribbles.
Kirk did have his chicken sandwich and coffee in the Trouble with Tribbles.
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you may be right. He had a glass of milk at least.
EDIT: NO, he had the classic coloured tofu or 'marshmellons'.
Here: http://tos.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/1x13/conscienceoftheking125.jpg
you may be right. He had a glass of milk at least.
EDIT: NO, he had the classic coloured tofu or 'marshmellons'.
Here: http://tos.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/1x13/conscienceoftheking125.jpg
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And Kyle got the Air Force guard in "Tomorrow is Yesterday" some good ol' fashion chicken soup.
And Kyle got the Air Force guard in "Tomorrow is Yesterday" some good ol' fashion chicken soup.
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Don't you just love these new kids....
Anyway, viewed in the 70's it looked more like a solid gelatin, but these hi-def photos do resemble colored melon, go figure.
What about the fake turkeys in the Charlie 7 episode?
Don't you just love these new kids....
Anyway, viewed in the 70's it looked more like a solid gelatin, but these hi-def photos do resemble colored melon, go figure.
What about the fake turkeys in the Charlie 7 episode?
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Its. Not. Food.
Its. Not. Food.
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