Captain Seafort wrote:That renders the issue of warp coils irrelevant, as Mikey says. It does not answer the question of why they're also incapable of producing various medicines, Romulan blood (but Klingon blood is an acceptable substitute) or fancy rainwater.ultron2099 wrote:Yes, and as I stated, replicators leave bit errors in the molecular pattern. a warp coil i suspect must be exactlingly made to such a high degree that pattern duplication with a replicator leaves too many errors to function with the degree of necessary precision required such as the creation of a stable warp field.
Various medicines because again the pattern needs a certain level of precision in its creation, perhaps in the enzyme layout to bond with other enzymes or what not. Romulan blood because they haven't got it programmed into the system and its too divergent from vulcan blood and perhaps because vulcan and by extension romulan blood is based off of a different chemical process then klingons and humans who have simpler blood. Klingons bleed red, vulcans and romulans bleed green.
fancy rainwater? maybe latinum, which you could scan and find the bit errors signifying pattern replication marking it as forged and thus not true gold pressed latinum. Remember, the federation and all other empires having mining operations and still require raw materials. replication technology does not free them up from requireing material resources, it just allows them to molecularly construct simple things that don't require exacting precision down to the molecular or atomic levels.