Timeline for Don't replicators make the Ferengi rather pointless?
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| Feb 14, 2019 at 20:06 | comment | added | Blaze | @Matt. But they do replicate any entertainment their imaginations and whims desire: it's called the holodeck (or holosuite) | |
| Feb 14, 2019 at 17:29 | comment | added | MissouriSpartan | Not to mention cultures that don't believe in using replicator tech as well as the fact that the Ferengi aren't Federation members and trade with other non-Federation cultures too. Many of those cultures likely don't use replicator tech (either because they haven't arrived to that technical evolution, or don't believe in it). | |
| Oct 31, 2016 at 22:58 | comment | added | Xantec | @n_b Also, in TNG "The Wounded" Miles O'Brien comments how his mother cooked real meals at home, "She didn't believe in a replicator. She thought real food was more nutritious." | |
| Oct 30, 2016 at 2:43 | comment | added | n_b | As I just watched it a day ago, DS9 episode "Blaze of Glory" (S5E23) has a short conversation between Sisko and Eddington where Eddington remarks how he would rather eat ground grown food over replicated food. | |
| Oct 26, 2016 at 15:02 | comment | added | Luaan | @Xantec And technically, only Federation from TNG on. Both ENT and TOS had Federation use money - it just wasn't used much in Starfleet (for obvious reasons). In TNG, it seems there's no longer much difference between the Federation and Starfleet anymore... A quite military coup sometime between TOS and TNG, perhaps? :) | |
| Sep 15, 2015 at 9:21 | comment | added | trejder | @Xantec OK, agreed, but I'm not trying to set a new canon. I'm only repeating, what I heard -- that there is very little toward no robots and ALF in Star Trek, because Gene R. has something about them and didn't like them very much. | |
| Sep 14, 2015 at 23:01 | comment | added | Xantec | @trejder I am pretty sure that there are artificial life forms in the Federation beyond Data. I believe in the VOY episode with the Automated Units Belana comments something like "We have artificial life forms but only one looks like us." | |
| Sep 14, 2015 at 6:09 | comment | added | trejder | @Xantec It depends on how you understand "unknown". Across Star Trek (especially TNG and VOY) we can see a dozens of nations, that base their existence more or less on trade, exchanging goods etc. We don't know the very specific details about how their trade works, but we do know, that it exists. And I think this is enough in the context of this question. | |
| Sep 14, 2015 at 6:07 | comment | added | trejder | @BraveLilToaster We don't see robots in Star Trek (and I think, that most people noticed that), except for Data, becasue Gene Roddenberry simply didn't like them and didn't accept them in the universe, he had created. This is a well known fact, widely discussed in this site and in many other sources. | |
| Feb 7, 2014 at 17:17 | comment | added | Xantec | @BraveLilToaster You would be more correct to say that money doesn't exist within the Federation. The monetary structure of other sovereign nations within Star Trek, Ferengi aside, is unknown. As for the "dirty" jobs, we do see in the Voyager episode Author, Author that the Federation will use artificial labor (in this case holograms) to do undesirable activities. | |
| Feb 7, 2014 at 17:11 | comment | added | BraveLilToaster | But money doesn't even exist in the Star Trek universe. So services that people don't like doing must either be done by robots (that we never see? Have you ever noticed that?) or out of some sense of duty. I can see this working on a military vessel, but someone has to clean the storm drains. A quick perusal of Mike Rowe's TV show "Dirty Jobs" would result in a boatload of work that no one would do if they weren't getting paid. Replicators would eliminate jobs involving raising cows or tanning leather, but some things would still need to be done. | |
| Feb 6, 2014 at 22:32 | comment | added | Matt | Let alone services (like entertainment or tax shelters), which cannot be replicated. | |
| Jan 5, 2012 at 21:27 | vote | accept | Reinstate Monica - Goodbye SE | ||
| Jan 4, 2012 at 20:38 | comment | added | DampeS8N | Even within the Federation natural food is prized. See Joseph Sisko's restaurant and Robert Picard's Vinyard. | |
| Jan 4, 2012 at 4:55 | comment | added | HNL | Also, federation replicators are programmed not to replicate certain classes of items, the most notable being poisons. | |
| Jan 3, 2012 at 21:44 | comment | added | Xantec | @NorbyTheGeek well sure. Who would want synthohol when they could have the real thing with all its intoxicating effects intact? | |
| Jan 3, 2012 at 19:46 | comment | added | NorbyTheGeek | Indeed, it seems in the Star Trek universe that "real" alcoholic beverages created in a traditional manner are almost always preferred over a replicated equivalent. Hence, Quark's Bar. | |
| Jan 3, 2012 at 19:27 | history | answered | Xantec | CC BY-SA 3.0 |