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[–] StillPaisleyCat@startrek.website 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

TAS and Discovery both showed the Enterprise has food synthesizers rather than replicators.

How significant is the difference? — it’s never made clear but picking up a meal from a food synthesizer is implied in TOS when Kirk gets a simple meal from a wall.

Also, it does seem that SNW’s food synthesizer is much more sophisticated than the one in TAS and Discovery, fabricating better quality basic materials.

Here’s compilation I made a while ago, of Scotty’s distain for the mayhem caused when the ship’s main computer gets hit by a ‘spatial anomaly’ and interacts with the ‘Rec Room’ 3D holographic simulator in TAS ‘The Practical Joker.’ At bottom right, Scott reacts to a misbehaving food synthesizer that is spitting out all manner of fruit — as shown later in the video OP attached.

[–] TrojanRoomCoffeePot@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I love it, but can I petition for release of the image of Scotty getting buried under an avalanche of bananas, grapes, and sandwiches, please? I need it for reasons.

[–] StillPaisleyCat@startrek.website 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It’s available as a BlueRay screencap from TrekCore…

Might be best to download directly from there:

https://tas.trekcore.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=61

[–] Skunk@jlai.lu 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Isn’t it in SNW that someone says something about eating their own processed piss?

Or I think it’s the admiral talking while negotiating at federation HQ in the last DIS season, so after the time travel and burn.

[–] StillPaisleyCat@startrek.website 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

In Discovery, in the 32nd century, Admiral Vance makes the point that all the food at Federation headquarters is made from reconstituted waste.

[–] Skunk@jlai.lu 3 points 1 day ago

Yep correct, but he’s talking about replicators and not synthesizers

Admiral Vance once claimed that Federation replicators often recycled waste – including fecal material - produced by living beings to provide the raw material for replicators. Such material was deconstructed down to the atomic level, though this may have been an attempt to mess with Osyraa as she had previously mocked the admiral for never eating a real apple.