I know in various Star Trek episodes it was mentioned that Klingon ships were never built for comfort. I recall in one episode when data and Picard were on board a BOP, the bed was a metal grate with no blanket or pillows. So, do Klingon ships have food replicators? If so, hypothetical situation, could someone walk up to it and order a banana split? I saw on one episode that Klingons prefer their food either freshly killed or alive, as in the case of Gagh, but would that rule out food replicators?
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In the I.K.S. Gorkon novels it has been particulary noted that due to having Kurak on board as Chief Engineer and her awesome work, the Gorkon's food replicators were fine tuned to perfection resulting with a number of the crew chosing and even prefering the replicated meals due to their flavor being indistinguishable from the real stuff.
In canon, my memory is a bit foggy, but I think that I recall Klingons using food replicators at times onboard their ships in ST:DS9.
I imagine it's similar for Klingons and Replicators. i.e. Replicators on board, eat anything else if/when available.
When it comes to MREs, no-one who has ever had to live on them more than a few days likes them. They don't taste too horrific, but they sure as hell block you up. Troops have actually been hospitalised and medically discharged due to internal injuries sustained while trying to take a dump after living on MREs for a long period of time.
Combine that with the fact that they don't have toilets in trek and you have a recipe for disaster! :P
It really makes no sense for any people, ESPECIALLY a warrior, empire building culture to forgot basic ameneties for it's soldiers.
For one thing your enemies would be flying circles around you when all they have to stock up on is generic goo for replicator conversion and your ships are still waiting delivery of several tons of live worms.
They have transporters don't they...
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That'd be impractical. What ships in Trek have is tanks of organic paste which replicators form into whatever food they have the data for.
Now I'm sure replicators could at least simulate live food. If not.. well, it's ironic that it seems that the advocates for spartan Klingon warriors think they should have such luxury. In this context, live food would be a luxury to Klingons after all.
So...at some point...one of your meals really could be made up of half digested meals from the latrine? This sounds dangerous.
As a former military guy, yes, this is 100% true. A fresh cooked meal, even prepared out in the middle of nowhere goes a long way.
This is already being done. Lots of things get recycled. Not just cardboard and aluminum cans.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reclaimed_water
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wastewater_treatment
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not really. the matter is reorganised. Meaning it's broken down at the subatomic level.
Maybe there is really a valid reason why the VOY crew had to eat Neelix food to limit replicator usage...
Of course, that kinda means that the Klingon's preference for live food (or at least live Gagh) is probably effectively an energy-saving measure. Keeping a large amount of worms alive is not going to cost as much as disassembling and reassembling matter on a subatomic level. But of course, the energy you an get from 1 kg of anti-matter might vastly exceed the energy a bunch of Klingons can get out of 1 kg of Gagh, so it is also a question of available cargo space.
Personally I find the idea that the Voyager somehow lacked energy for replicators preposterous, especially given their use of holodecks (bulk forcefield and replicator device) and transporters with reckless abandon.
Also, ship power comes from it's fuaion reactors, not the warp core I believe.
To me, it's more logical to say that the organic matter used to replicate food is relatively hard to acquire when out alone without access to a starbase, or something like that. Granted using logic on Voyager is like using a hammer on jelly.
But the holodeck thing was always handwaved away with some "special form of energy" or some such, but why the heck would Starfleet build a special power source only for the Holodecks that cannot be fed into the rest of the system? No sane person would design it that way.
Unless they knew how unreliable holodeck technology was and didn't want it to interface with the ship in any way. Maybe a reaction to the Moriaty-Enterprise incident?
Considering they build their own shuttle craft and developed a transwarp drive, I can't believe they couldn't have found a way to convert the energy.
Star Trek is never quite clear on these things. At least not on-screen. It hink logically, both serve as energy source for everything, but the warp core is really only needed for the warp engine. But if that was true, then the would have a lot of reserve energy for shields and weapons at impulse, wouldn't they?
Ultimately, this.
I think in the 25th century, they can 'beam it out'
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