Why is the Airponics set up so very very small?

[Lynx]

The food should be out after a few days, it takes months to get scurvy due to vitamin c deficiency.


The worst that can happen due to a high intake of vitamin c is is some diarrhea and of course if he gave them almost toxic levels that means non-toxic so it's not an issue.


Replicating medication would obviously take priority over other things, especially if it affects the entire crew. There's no believable scenario where they wouldn't just do it.


No, it's awful. The writer should have come up with a made up illness or at least have picked one that isn't super easy to treat.

I'm not an expert on medicin and diseases so I can't come up with anything which contradicts what you are writing.

But you should read the book. It's very good.

 

[Finn]

Was airponics shown or even mentioned after Kes left?

It was mentioned several times. I don't think it was shown again, outside of Fury which is technically after Kes left.

 

[Oddish]

Perhaps those 6 small flower beds were enough. I suppose those 24th century evolved humans can live on much smaller portions of food than we can?

Well, if you ever watch a scene where food is being eaten or liquid drunk... they sure don't consume much of it.

I always thought kids had fusion plants inside them, given how little they seem to eat and how much energy they have. Maybe in the future, everyone's like that.

Going by the apparent lack of toilets on starships I guess they convert food with 100% efficiency to energy?

Explaining two oddities at once. Nice.