Replicators, food poisoning, and Ringworld

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2003-08-09 01:03am

Ok, explaining this theory is going to take a little.

I was reading ringworld throne, and going over the fact that metabolisms are different between people of the same species on the same planet. We have differnt immunities, and food that might be perfectly safe for you, could give me a very painful night in the bathroom. With alien worlds, microbes & prions, etc. Space travel has to be pretty dangerous.

So purhaps replicator food, allegedly tasts so badly is because it's lierally strung togehter artificial "Veat" made with no salt, no MSG, or anything originally organic. It literally has nothing that would compromise anyone's digestive system etc.

Yeah, just something that occured to me reading ringworld throne, while sitting on the porceline throne surviving an encounter with a refridgerated, store bought Turkey "Deli" sandwich....

God I hat the runs.

Typhonis 1 · Post by **Typhonis 1** » 2003-08-09 01:50am

makes sense to me the only "safe" food for em is the replicated food.

though Picard forced to visit the porcelin throne is a funny thought specially since we havent seen a toilet in STTNG

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2003-08-09 02:03am

Picard: So #1 how was the shore leave on Rigel IV
*Riker runs off the bridge*

Data: Sir did you know the pies on Rigel IV contain non-replicated meat?

Darth Fanboy · Post by **Darth Fanboy** » 2003-08-09 02:35am

Typhonis 1 wrote:makes sense to me the only "safe" food for em is the replicated food. though Picard forced to visit the porcelin throne is a funny thought specially since we havent seen a toilet in STTNG

In the Federation, humans have evolved beyond the need to take shits, making them far superior to their SW counterparts who must still waste precious time on the john.

Also in TNg, the only shit we saw was the mind numbing socialist jargon that spewed from Picard's mouth

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2003-08-09 04:13am

oy, this is getting bad

first I introduce toilet humor to trek, now someone takes it as an excuse to start flaming....

Warspite · Post by **Warspite** » 2003-08-09 07:53am

But since replicators are based on transporter technology, wouldn't they have bio-filters incorporated?

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2003-08-09 01:33pm

The point is that replicated food doesn't have much flavor as per the actual food. However due to the impossibility of bacteria that can adapt to alien foods. They would all suffer from food poisoning any time they ate any food that was not replicated...

Typhonis 1 · Post by **Typhonis 1** » 2003-08-09 04:10pm

pity the crew if the ever go to Mexico

Jeremy · Post by **Jeremy** » 2003-08-09 04:37pm

or New Jersey

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2003-08-10 01:28am

That's when they discover that Jan and Silent Bob have taken over the ship.....

What's all that smoke, is something wrong with the Warp Core?

No, Jay just turned it into a gaint water pipe....

TrailerParkJawa · Post by **TrailerParkJawa** » 2003-08-10 02:50am

The Yosemite Bear wrote:Picard: So #1 how was the shore leave on Rigel IV
*Riker runs off the bridge*

Data: Sir did you know the pies on Rigel IV contain non-replicated meat?

Haha. I almost spewed my glass of water across my monitor. Well, thats better than it coming out my nose!

I wonder if those pajama uniforms they wear could have super asorbant crotches to contain "space diarrea"

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2003-08-10 03:08am

So what you're saying is that since they've been eating replicated, nonorganic-based food for so long (some all their lives), they're no longer being exposed to things like impurities, allergins, and bacteria, never developing any sort of immunity. So since they're lacking these tolerances, they'd get sick any time they eat real food.

Is that right?

Typhonis 1 · Post by **Typhonis 1** » 2003-08-10 03:35am

waitwaitwaitwaitwait can the replicate Weed??

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2003-08-10 03:37am

I don't see why not, but it'd probably end up like smoking dead leaves (serves them right, anyway

).

SPOOFE · Post by **SPOOFE** » 2003-08-10 03:46am

But since replicators are based on transporter technology, wouldn't they have bio-filters incorporated?

Chocolate will kill a dog, no matter how much it's "bio-filtered".

I think that's the OP's point... replicators are designed to make food that's safe for the largest number of species possible. In doing so, they also take away the "risky stuff", which is what actually makes it taste good to us.

Take tequila, for example... some people just can't hold it. There's an additional pleasure-inducing substance in tequila that isn't present in other alcohols, and that additional substance has adverse reactions in some. By the OP's reasoning, if I were to replicate some Patron, it would lack that additional certain something that sets tequila apart from other liquors.

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2003-08-10 04:10am

yeah, Which would explain why Romulon and Klingon alcohol is illegal in the Federation...

gives me evil thoughts as to what the Orions and Ferengi are probably smuggling.

Lord Pounder · Post by **Lord Pounder** » 2003-08-10 02:04pm

Hows that explain places like the Sisko fish restraunt where everything cooked used to be alive at one point? Also i remember a TNG episode where there was an entire colony that refused to use replicators.

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2003-08-10 02:13pm

Not really the Colony has been doing it quite well for a long time, they are used to their own food. Undoubtably humans in New Orleans are used to the Sisko family cooking, I don't have problems with it. Now take a Vulcan, a Tellerite, or a Klingon they will have no inbuilt bacterium/enzumes to break it down.

Lord Pounder · Post by **Lord Pounder** » 2003-08-11 10:22am

How come the place was crawling with Starfleet on occasion. A guy like Sisko is hardly gonna get repeat customers if the customers get food poisoning every the 1st few times they eat there.

Grand Moff Yenchin · Post by **Grand Moff Yenchin** » 2003-08-11 10:54pm

Lord Pounder wrote:How come the place was crawling with Starfleet on occasion. A guy like Sisko is hardly gonna get repeat customers if the customers get food poisoning every the 1st few times they eat there.

Perhaps they have a subspace food-processor which could send those intolerable parts to subspace and keep the taste original

Or maybe due to the transporter-biofilter technology, the toxins and other bad stuff eaten are sent away.

Edit "bad" stuff

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2003-08-12 03:15am

Or purhaps folks can get supplimental symbiotic bacteria for certain postings. The alternative is that DS9 like other trek shows is ignorant basic biology and food prep theroy.