#replicators

[trek-tracks]

Star Trek food replicator that for maximum efficiency also makes all dishware and utensils edible so mess hall scenes occasionally feature Spock casually picking up and eating his plate

McCoy having a cup of coffee and then stuffing the cup in his mouth

Kirk absently chewing on a fork and then realizing with annoyance that he's not finished using it so he needs to replicate another one

[epicallyepicepilogue]

[macmanx]

[a-wild-torterra]

Fucking replicators. Feeding them an extremely advanced ship only kept them busy and honestly I fully expected them to do it again

[schrodingers-lesbian]

an important distinction

[autistic-crypt1d]

SG-1 + text posts pt 2

[theshadowrealmitself]

My own lil hc for the replicators is that they can only hold a certain amount of recipes but you can have a separate device to download recipes on that you can plug into the replicator and it’ll work on all of them (like a usb thing)

Which is great if you have a ton of allergies, or you know that whichever replicator you’re gonna be around aren’t gonna have too many recipes for your species, or even just if you like having certain comfort recipes (like you know at some point you’re gonna crave salmon), or like a common dish in every replicator always has unsalted butter but you prefer salted butter or something like that, etc etc etc

But everyone always forgets they can do that, they’re like “aw man :( guess I just have to deal with what’s already pre-coded into the replicator :((“

[metronn]

REPLICATORS - stargate sg-1: the official DVD + magazine collection (2004?)

[trekwiz]

Food Replicators: A Missed Opportunity

I was just thinking about how we see food replicators portrayed in Star Trek: people generally eat their "staples". It's even a way to offer "a bit of home" for traveling alien species--just download the appropriate culinary database and you're good to go.

But we haven't really seen the shows explore what happens to a cuisine once you introduce replicators.

Sure. You had a busy day at work so you come home to your go-to. We make a lot of quesadillas: they're low effort, and it's easy to get a lot of variety in the fillings. And yeah, if I had a replicator, I'm probably still going to eat quesadillas.

But I really love dumplings. Especially fried dumplings and soup dumplings. I can make fried dumplings. It's a lot of work and it never tastes anywhere near as good as restaurant dumplings. I get them maybe once a month or every other month.

But if I had a replicator? My diet would probably be mostly dumplings. That's only a slight exaggeration. I would probably eat them daily--and try a variety of recipes--some days for lunch, some for dinner. And I might even explore what breakfast dumplings would be like: would egg and bacon dumplings work?

If I had a replicator, my staple foods would be different from what my staples are in reality. Not drastically. But it would be noticeable.

I want to add one more layer of complexity, though. I'm imagining foods I know I enjoy, and removing the expense and effort from the equation. I can easily recognize how my food norms would change under those terms. Exploring that concept is interesting enough, but it doesn't really capture how deeply a replicator could affect cuisine.

Can replicators make impossible foods?

What completely unique thing could come out of a replicator that revolutionizes what we eat?

The premise of a replicator is that it doesn't cook food. It assembles molecules in the right sequence, at an appealing temperature. That would necessarily suggest something huge: cooking methods can be irrelevant.

Could you have soft, steamed broccoli stems, with a crisp sautéed floret still attached? Roasted Potatoes with an au gratin interior?

How many desserts with mutually exclusive bake times and methods could now be seamlessly combined together? Maybe a perfectly baked meringue inside a cake instead of on top?

You could probably have a literal creme brulee snack bar, with a crispy caramelized shell all around it, holding it together.

People would experiment. Which ones take off as a standard after dinner treat for local culture, and which ones are so fantastic that they become tomorrow's festival foods? Which ones spur "gross" eating competions? Will this affect food fights?

I feel like this would be an interesting side plot for a random food historian on the crew to geek out over.

[katjohnadams]

I see people talk about how Star Trek transporters kill you and like, you can argue that but not for the reasons I've been seeing.

See, the Transporter in Star Trek does not "destroy" your atoms and make a new you. Rather, it scans every molecule in your body and then converts them to energy, memorizes the exact pattern of those molecules, then fires that energy at the target location and converts it back to the same matter that it was to begin with.

So, yeah, you kinda die, but also you don't. They have shown repeatedly that somehow during transport your consciousness remains active. For a short period, you are a conscious being of pure energy, confined in a very careful beam of other energy, before being made a physical entity again.

And, wildly, the computer and ship can temporarily *store* that pattern and the energy, and hold you for a while if necessary. But the pattern degrades over time, so it's not optimal.

"But Kat!" I hear you say, "You can't measure an electron's location and velocity at the same time!" And normally, you'd be correct! Except the Next Generation writers knew this and wrote in the "Heisenberg Compensator" to account for this.

And even more, the replicators! This is even wilder- remember how I mentioned your molecular pattern was temporarily saved in the pattern buffer? Fun fact, that's apparently only because of the overwhelming complexity of producing a living organism!

Replicators take energy and, using a molecular pattern stored in the computer, create matter in the same way as the transporter!

One can extrapolate from that that replicated items are a far simpler molecular pattern than, say, a living being meaning the pattern doesn't degrade over time.

The amount of energy being discussed is insanely astronomical. Even small amounts of matter being converted into energy would be absurd to even contemplate, and these fools are out here using it to whip up their morning coffee.

So, yes, the transporters don't kill you perse, but turn you into a temporary cosmic being before sticking you back in your stupid squishy meat robot.

That's just Tuesday in Star Trek.

[trek-tracks]

"Sonic shower or water shower" discourse is so limited. This is the replicator-equipped Enterprise! Set that to "Caffeine Mist." Melted butter, gently cooled. Chocolate fountain and I'm the strawberry.

[baharnoth]

honestly, I could never live on the enterprise bc I would hate eating replicated food... like why am I eating holographic meatloaf in the middle of space?? 😭😭

[knchanted]

Stargate: Replication is a title for a fan story I started forever ago, concept of a continuation story for Stargate Atlantis. (Reposting this blogpost in a different format cuz it was lowkey ugly before)

Concept art for my OC Kataerin, a Replicator, pre-Atlantis departure. (Used a pose base by Anadia-Chan)

Concept art for my OC Kataerin, a Replicator, post-Atlantis departure. (Used a pose base by Anadia-Chan)

Complete re-draw of my OC Kataerin’s post-Atlantis departure outfit, redone completely from scratch and recently tweaked.

Concept art for a new character, Princess Amelia of Avalon, a Replicator, daughter of Eliza. (Used a pose base by Anadia-Chan)

Concept art for a new Dr. Elizabeth Weir, now known as Eliza the High Priestess of Avalon, a Replicator, mother of Amelia. (Used a pose base by Anadia-Chan)

Concept art for a new Dr. Elizabeth Weir, now known as the Red Empress, a Replicator, allied with the King of the Wraith Empire, or what’s left of it anyway. (Used a pose base by Anadia-Chan)

This story takes place 15-16 years after the departure, and eventual return of Atlantis to the Pegasus Galaxy, answering open ended questions, wrapping up plots, and filling plotholes with a bit more than basic story putty. It also features new characters in an updated setting.

I drew these 2+ years ago and probably bit off more than I can chew trying to draw a full-art 200 page comic with how many ADHD hobbies I have. BUT!

I am planning to finish this. As a fanfic, with more updated concept art of the whole cast and the new sister city called Avalon.

[janetfraiserspenlight]

I know that replicarter was lying to them the whole time and all, but I think this scene was generally real. It proves that she really did have some of the same feelings as Sam, and even if it didn’t happen, she still has to have those feelings the same way as Sam does. Because she knew exactly what to make her see to get her to believe it. She probably altered it a bit, but she had to of known what it felt like to be able to put that type of emotion into that ‘vision’ or whatever you want to call the things you see when replicators shove a hand in your head.

The slight pain visible in her face when he shoots at her in the beginning, and the face she makes when she actually shoots him. Then the realisation of what she’s done after the fact, all just seems too… Sam?

The first one is her right after she shot Jack, and the second is the ending where fifth had just walked off and she starts crying.

Idk it all just seems too specific for her to just fake. Even if she faked the actual thing, made it up, i think the emotion was real. And if Jack had gone with Sam and Teal’c, I don’t know if she would have been able to hurt him.

And if she did hurt him, I feel like she’d feel bad and apologise or something. I don’t know.

I think I’m letting the delusions get to me 😄

[silerismyblorbo]

Not a fully formed thought at all but im Thinking about "if you immediately know that candle light is fire, the meal was cooked a long time ago" and Sam IMMEDITLY recognizing the replicator utopia delusion of Pete and the farm and im going to cry