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Vigo:
Space Prank: Set Picard's default tea setting to some obscure tea made from fermented pig ---steaming pile of meadow muffin---.

trekking95:

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--- Quote from: Le Chuck on June 26, 2012, 11:50:43 am ---Replicated items are assembled on a molecular level and are identical to the original data sample.  Just read Diamond Age by Stephenson - all makes perfect sense.

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But still . . . did the computer take a lowest common denominator approach, a la Applebee's/Chili's? It could be a problem. For example, Picard is always all, "Computer, tea, Earl Grey, hot." I happen to drink Earl Grey tea most mornings, and I tell you the difference in flavor between brands is monumental. I suppose the computer might have the data sample for like a million different brands and Captain Picard just went into settings beforehand and selected his personal favorite as default. But if it's just defaulting to, like, Lipton or something you can see the problem.  :)

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These are the uptown problems of a cashless future society.  Beats the ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- outta cancer and aids.  

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In their future there was no sickness, as in when they said colds were something people got a long time ago. Okay there was some disease (McCoy had arthritis, unless he was joking) but not as much of it in the later series.

With the tea I would think that there was only one type of Earl Grey, why have different brands when there is no money and no brand competition? It would just be the classic one from back when Earl Grey made it.

And in the holodecks the food and drinks would be real.
But why would the water in a lake be replicated when there is no need to drink it?
I think the safety thing in the holodecks is lame, if just any self aware holo-program can override them why are they in place? There should be nothing to override, the safety protocols should be there and that's all there is too it. No real bullets, self aware programs, wild creatures, Klingons, WW2 soldiers running through the ship, problems where if the holodeck is shut off the people in there are dematerialized, etc. Nothing like that. No risk at all with an override by a Captain, alien, program, virus, just nothing. But there would be no plot for the shows then, now would there?  :)

trekking95:

--- Quote from: shmokes on June 26, 2012, 09:31:34 am ---
--- Quote from: trekking95 on June 25, 2012, 11:59:26 pm ---You watch Star Trek, right? They get along fine with no money but only after World War 3, warp drive and the Vulcans showing up.
I would just stay with the money.  :applaud:

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Ignoring for a moment that anything is possible in fiction . . . the moneyless society in Star Trek has nothing (or at least very little) to do with World War 3, warp drive, or Vulcans. None of those things would have much impact on the utility of money.

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Well warp drive had to be there for the Vulcans to show up and show humans how to work to benefit mankind by exploring space and improving themselves, not just work to fill up their bank account. When you work for benefiting something like that there is no need or want and therefore money is useless. WW3 would also show people that life is not about power and nuking the crap out of people to get it. But that only works if the Vulcans are there to clean up the nuclear mess, otherwise there are better (safer) ways to learn that.

Vigo:

--- Quote from: trekking95 on June 27, 2012, 02:43:43 am ---With the tea I would think that there was only one type of Earl Grey, why have different brands when there is no money and no brand competition? It would just be the classic one from back when Earl Grey made it.

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Tea is kinda not just a brand thing though, it varies quite a bit from even where the tea leaves are harvested. The actual original recipe is probably not even known. I'm sure there are multiple tea companies claiming to be the one with the original recipe, but Earl Gray can be pretty much any black tea with a certain type of citrus oil in it.

It would be along the same lines of saying that they can only replicate one type pale ale, one type of black coffee, one type of chocolate bar.  While that might be how it works in the Star Trek universe, it only supports my idea that replicator food really blows, and people not stuck on a starship prefer the real thing. They probably have just one lager beer programmed in their replicator as well, and it's probably just Pabst Blue Ribbon.

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