Why didn't Bashir just replicate a new uniform??

[Nakita Akita]

I just figured that the room replicators only did food and drink.
Like on TNG, Worf and Data go to a specific room to replicate a gift for O'brien's wedding.
So it would seem that on the Cardassian station the replicators even for food were always on the fritz, the 'Other than Food' replicators would be way down on the repair list. So he could get a new uniform.

 

[Timo]

One would think that uniforms should be simpler than meat casserole... Plus, the Cardassian cabin replicators did (and undid) the plates, mugs and utensils from the very get-go, so doing non-food surely wouldn't be "conceptually" excluded.

Amusingly, a uniform is the first-ever thing we see replicated in Star Trek, in-universe, when Michael Burnham in DSC is finally allowed to print a uniform for herself.

But prior to "Move Along Home", we never saw Bashir successfully replicate anything in his cabin IIRC. Given the circumstances, if his personal replicator indeed was down for the count, he probably wouldn't go and knock on the O'Briens' door, or Kira's. Or go all the way to Replimat.

Timo Saloniemi

 

[Nakita Akita]

One would think that uniforms should be simpler than meat casserole... Plus, the Cardassian cabin replicators did (and undid) the plates, mugs and utensils from the very get-go, so doing non-food surely wouldn't be "conceptually" excluded.

Amusingly, a uniform is the first-ever thing we see replicated in Star Trek, in-universe, when Michael Burnham in DSC is finally allowed to print a uniform for herself.

But prior to "Move Along Home", we never saw Bashir successfully replicate anything in his cabin IIRC. Given the circumstances, if his personal replicator indeed was down for the count, he probably wouldn't go and knock on the O'Briens' door, or Kira's. Or go all the way to Replimat.

Timo Saloniemi

In the world of replication, the plates, drinking vessels and utensils are part of the food. (I'm sure it's in some episode someplace)
The uniforms atent like some crap we buy at Old Navy, made in China for $5.
Their uniforms have special properties for things like temperature modification.
Way more complicated than an omelette.

 

[Timo]

Well, hardly - an omelette is complex at molecular level, while copper wiring inside your jacket is still simple at the resolution of millimeters...

"Plates are part of the food"? What does that mean? You replicate stuff, you eat some of it, you put the dishes back in the replicator and make them disappear - this is what is described in dialogue, and largely shown, too (although I don't think we see the make-disappear bit in action). Plates aren't edible. But uniforms may well be, as per "The Terratin Incident"...

Timo Saloniemi