Replicator Rations

[Mark]

That works out perfectly then!!! The dead tribble can provide the matter for my next shrimp cocktail!!!!

[KuvahMagh]

That works out perfectly then!!! The dead tribble can provide the matter for my next shrimp cocktail!!!!

Exactly...

On a side note relating to Food and Replicators. We have seen numerous times how people 'prefer' regular food and can tell the difference, this supports the idea even further than sometimes the 'base material' isn't always ideal, even on a fully staffed and supplied vessel like the E-D

[Mark]

Ok....so thinking along these lines, I'm on Voyager. Neelix has cooked some unpronouncable and unrecognisable foodstuff. I could take my plate with a smile, walk over to the replicator, recycle it, and get something I want? Then why would ANYBODY eat any of Neelix's experiments?

[Blackstar the Chakat]

Ok....so thinking along these lines, I'm on Voyager. Neelix has cooked some unpronouncable and unrecognisable foodstuff. I could take my plate with a smile, walk over to the replicator, recycle it, and get something I want? Then why would ANYBODY eat any of Neelix's experiments?

The rations may be as much about the energy as the raw resources.

[KuvahMagh]

Ok....so thinking along these lines, I'm on Voyager. Neelix has cooked some unpronouncable and unrecognisable foodstuff. I could take my plate with a smile, walk over to the replicator, recycle it, and get something I want? Then why would ANYBODY eat any of Neelix's experiments?

This crew boldly stated you can not turn when at warp... had a state of the art doctor proclaim a single generation mutation as evolution while no one questioned it...

I think they werwe all trying to do the assisted suicide thing without alerting Tuvok or Janeway, at least then their nightmare would have been over...

[Mark]

Ok....so thinking along these lines, I'm on Voyager. Neelix has cooked some unpronouncable and unrecognisable foodstuff. I could take my plate with a smile, walk over to the replicator, recycle it, and get something I want? Then why would ANYBODY eat any of Neelix's experiments?

This crew boldly stated you can not turn when at warp... had a state of the art doctor proclaim a single generation mutation as evolution while no one questioned it...

I think they werwe all trying to do the assisted suicide thing without alerting Tuvok or Janeway, at least then their nightmare would have been over...

I see your point

[Mikey]

To use the steak example, I'd imagine it could be replicated with a stock as basic as the pre-composite simple peptides.

[katefan]

Ok....so thinking along these lines, I'm on Voyager. Neelix has cooked some unpronouncable and unrecognisable foodstuff. I could take my plate with a smile, walk over to the replicator, recycle it, and get something I want? Then why would ANYBODY eat any of Neelix's experiments?

The rations may be as much about the energy as the raw resources.

Going by that logic, then, how much energy was expended when twenty or so crew members are beamed some fifty thousand miles to a planet's surface to pick up stuff for Neelix's salad?

[Mark]

Or constantly running that irish town program around the clock. I imagine that took QUITE a bit of power.

[KuvahMagh]

Or constantly running that irish town program around the clock. I imagine that took QUITE a bit of power.

According to Voyager the Holodecks have their own power source which is incompatible with the rest of the ship. I can't remember the ep but I remember that...

[Blackstar the Chakat]

Or constantly running that irish town program around the clock. I imagine that took QUITE a bit of power.

At one point early on they stated that the holodecks had their own generators but were incompatible with the ship's main power network. This was one of the writer's smarter ideas, as it gave them an excuse(a lame one but better then nothing) to have holodeck episodes without energy concerns being brought up. Too bad they weren't even consistant about that, with transfering holodeck power to some other system I can't think of.

[Mark]

Or constantly running that irish town program around the clock. I imagine that took QUITE a bit of power.

At one point early on they stated that the holodecks had their own generators but were incompatible with the ship's main power network. This was one of the writer's smarter ideas, as it gave them an excuse(a lame one but better then nothing) to have holodeck episodes without energy concerns being brought up. Too bad they weren't even consistant about that, with transfering holodeck power to some other system I can't think of.

Point taken. I seem to remember something like that too, now that you mention it. But that still no sense to me. Why not give the replicators there own genterators then? They CANNOT be as power intensive as a holodeck.

BTW.....isn't it true, if you have something to eat or drink in a holodeck, it is replicated in the holodeck? Otherwise, how would anyone eat or drink holographic food? Why not turn a holodeck into a galley four times a day then?

[Sionnach Glic]

I can't remember the ep but I remember that...

The Cloud. About halfway through the review he mentions it and talks about how stupid it is.

Oh, and this episode also seems to indicate that the ship's cook can overrule you on what you want to use your rations on. Either that or Neelix is just being a sh*thead again. My money's on the latter.

[KuvahMagh]

Oh, and this episode also seems to indicate that the ship's cook can overrule you on what you want to use your rations on. Either that or Neelix is just being a sh*thead again. My money's on the latter.

I don't rem,ember the ep but it seems to me that since most ships don't seem to have 'cooks', even in TOS they had the machines doing it, or so it would seem, that Janeway would throw Nelix a bone or two in that department. If for no other reason than to keep him away from the Bridge and Tuvok's ensuing murder trial...

[Mark]

Yet, on the E-A they had a galley, and I would assume with a galley, a cook as well. Never understood why they had food despensors on the E-Nil, and a galley on the E-A