#replicated food

[deepspacenightshift]

When starships dock at DS9, the crews and passengers are delighted to find non-replicated food.

It’s still more convenient for people to just eat replicated food here, but it’s a lot easier to get “real” food on Deep Space Nine than on a starship. There are regular shuttles back and forth from DS9 to Bajor with special containers for Kava root, Katterpods, fruits, vegetables, Jumja sap, and so on. For those who like more meat in their diet, the Klingon restaurant has special shipments of real meat flown in for their picky customers. And you can buy “authentic” tube grubs and other Ferengi foods from Quark’s Bar, but you might want to check before you assume they aren’t replicated.

[thewronglong]

Somewhere out there in a Star Trek AU, Aziraphale and Crowley are arguing about which is worse, miracled food or replicated food. God wants to tell them it's the same thing.

[deepspacenightshift]

If, like many people on the Deep Space Nine night shift, you feel lonely or bored when you go back to your quarters, one thing that can help is to construct a meal. Not an order of the same thing you’ve had for the past week; something new, something that combines multiple different items.

There are so many possible flavors and consistencies of each item that you’ll have to spend some time getting them to your taste. The puzzle of figuring out how to tell the replicator to make things just how you’ll like them is good for distracting yourself from stress.

And who knows? Maybe you’ll like your brilliant cubed cheese and smoked hasperat and warm reqilof with 1/3 cream combination or what-have-you so much, you’ll add another meal to your regulars.

[deepspacenightshift]

To eat replicated food or not to eat replicated food, that is the question.

And it’s actually a hard one, because opportunities to eat non-replicated food are limited on DS9 Station, so you know that you’ll be back to replicated food by the next meal and it’ll taste all wrong.