OmniEatability
OmniEatability
The Omnicommunity and an episode of Voyager made me realize that for the amount of chemicals, alergies, reactants, and what not that can effect humans and for that matter other races eatting random foods sure doesn't seem to be a problem.
ENT offered the only plausable explaination of this when Archer's dog pissed on a tree they said they had sent the aliens a copy of the dog's genome, but still.. kind of far fetched.
ENT offered the only plausable explaination of this when Archer's dog pissed on a tree they said they had sent the aliens a copy of the dog's genome, but still.. kind of far fetched.
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Maybe they have a 'Universal Digestive System'?
Again, this is something that doesn't make that much sense when closely examined.
Again, this is something that doesn't make that much sense when closely examined.
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I'm sure it's checked by someone off-screen somehow. Or huminoids have a similar physiology, and may be able to eat food from other planets with huminoid life. Although I'm sure many careless ensigns have gotten sick or died from not checking their food first. Many alians look like humans with funny faces, or sometimes exacty like humans. This could mean that they have similar digestive systems.
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Well, it would make sense that it was checked off-screen. Or maybe with a tri-corder, somehow.
As for diets being similar, that is very unlikely. Even on Earth today, each species has it's own dietry requirements. Given the stuff we've seen Klingons eat, I'd say a lot of species are quite different when it comes to food.
As for diets being similar, that is very unlikely. Even on Earth today, each species has it's own dietry requirements. Given the stuff we've seen Klingons eat, I'd say a lot of species are quite different when it comes to food.
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We could assume that there are chemical "sniffers" that are always active, but it's still a stretch. In point of fact, outside the universe, it would just be a technical point that bogged down stories.
I don't like being made to explain away something from the show, but this particular one I don't mind ignoring.
I don't like being made to explain away something from the show, but this particular one I don't mind ignoring.
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This is the answer, in the end. The most attention it's really worth paying to this is 'oh they have funny foods' and maybe the occasional 'species x finds food y highly poisonous'.Mikey wrote:We could assume that there are chemical "sniffers" that are always active, but it's still a stretch. In point of fact, outside the universe, it would just be a technical point that bogged down stories.
I don't like being made to explain away something from the show, but this particular one I don't mind ignoring.
Flavor text, you might say.
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Good point.
Personaly, I just like to think they check their tricorders before eating anything.
Personaly, I just like to think they check their tricorders before eating anything.
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