Hey yall! I’m stoned af and watching star trek on a weekend, naturally. I lost my place since last weekend in TNG season 3, but I knew that I wasn’t far in so I just watched all the intros until I found where I left off. Episode 8 “the price”, Troi gets frustrated with the replicator for wanting a “real” chocolate sundae. This raised a question for me, wouldn’t food replicators be intelligent enough to simulate the process of “the standard” ingredients being processed into the recipe? Like I thought that was the point of being able to say “Earl grey tea, hot”. Like wouldn’t she just have to say “betazoid chocolate sundae” or whatever?
EDIT: SECOND QUESTION: Say you have a family recipe cookbook or whatever and the comfort food is in that cookbook, couldn’t you just say “simulate the process of making the recipe from this cookbook”?
Transporters also have different modes based on the precision used, the lesser one being used for cargo that doesn’t have to be reassembled as perfectly and takes less energy and time to do so. I hope they have safety measures to ensure a newbie transporter isn’t moving people in the wrong mode.
That would honestly make a great way of demonstrating how evil an authoritarian government like the Cardassians were. Have them moving undesirables around in cargo transporters, show the debilitating health effects its caused them. Maybe going through the cargo transporter doesn’t turn you to goo, but it gives you cancer, infertility, etc.
There are industrial/cargo transporter platforms as well as industrial fabricator/replicators.
Perhaps only the ones in humanoid transport pads are set with the highest level defaults?