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[–] BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee 32 points 4 months ago (4 children)

They have food replicators. The only thing not vegan about replicated meat is that they'd probably use your poop as bulk material to synthesize stuff

[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 17 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Pretty ure I saw Riker cooking with eggs at some point. And who knows what neelix gets up to in the galley

[–] tootoughtoremember@lemmy.world 15 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Could just replicate the eggs, or even a raw steak to grill, would still be poop meat.

Neelix on the other hand...

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

poop meat.

Knowing how chemicals and carbon compounds are recycled in Earth's ecosystem and taking into account factory farming, I would wager the line between poop to serving of hot steak is much a much less connected line on a ship that turns matter into its constituent energy patterns.

Meanwhile on Earth we routinely have meat recalls because of e-coli contamination. Which is poop. As well as what we use to fertilize our root vegetables. Everyone is eating poop to some degree, it just becomes a problem when enough of it is in one spot to become contamination.

[–] tootoughtoremember@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The replicators are also used to "recycle", converting matter into energy, to be used for future replication.

I doubt they were hauling poop through space rather than converting it to poop energy for their next earl grey.

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

This is the whole premise behind Star Trek, and one form a post-scarcity civilization could take.

As a tangent, Star Trek's technology is both magical and primitive, in that they can harness and focus energy levels that match stars routinely, they can literally form matter from raw energy and influence the fabric of time and space itself and even break causality if they really try, but despite this have almost no difference in how they are born, grow up and die.

I get the show is trying to make a relatable universe, but if we reach that level, we will also have reached so many other advancements in every other facet of existing as a human that our species itself would be utterly unrecognizable and we probably wouldn't be worried about how real our steaks taste.

If we're sticking with the lore, the only limitation should be what they have stored in the replicator database. No reason your poop steak couldn't taste like an A5 wagyu or a $2 steak, depending on your personal preference.

[–] BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee 6 points 4 months ago

True! Forgot about that. I think voyager had a few episodes with hunted game of some sort. The Klingons in general too. Guess actually trek isn't super big on veganism haha

[–] rufus@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah they have. But don't they go on to tell in several episodes of all of the shows, how someones mom makes/made the best X/Y out of real ingredients and how much better that tastes than replicated food? And they eat on some planets with other people or on vacation... ?! Or someone worked in a restaurant?

[–] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Keiko really came off as not a nice person in that scene.

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 7 points 4 months ago

I don’t think the Star Trek replicator use raw materials to produce stuff. I’m pretty sure it’s just energy converted into matter.

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 5 points 4 months ago

Mmmm, poop meat 🀀