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”?
In Discovery it’s said out loud: it’s waste recycled, including shit.
I had a feeling it was, it makes the most sense. An endless supply of organic compounds just speed running the cycle. Sometimes though the mushrooms are just straight out of the bins, not replication. Rinse before your eat.
It’s the same process nature does, just in a tighter space.
@bufalo1973 @backalleycoyote They already say so on Enterprise. In one of the early episodes the crew answers the question of a school class and Trip has to explain that part.