Did Voyager even have a series bible?

[MissKittyFantastico]

Replicated food is every bit as good as real food. It has to be. The tech is based on transporter tech, which can replicate entire people with 100% accuracy (and if it can't, I sure as hell wouldn't ever want to step into one). If it can do that, surely it can perfect a steak.

According to the TNG tech manual - which is quasi-canon, generally agreed to hold some weight - replicators function at 'molecular resolution', whereas personnel transporters need 'quantum resolution' to successfully transport a living being. Not sure if part of that is cost of manufacturing the transporter element - I know, post-scarcity and all that, but there's clearly some limitations on resources or they wouldn't keep flying around in all those old Mirandas and Excelsiors - but even Federation computer technology has storage capacity limits; the pattern buffers seem to be some kind of enhanced storage at the cost of short lifespan before pattern degradation, when they shunted transporter patterns into conventional memory in 'Our Man Bashir' they filled up the entire station. So - in addition to the always-the-same factor you mentioned (although perhaps you could program a controlled amount of RNG into replicator patterns to get around that a bit) - the replicator is just standard definition TV. It's fine if you're used to it, but once you eat at Sisko's you realise you've been missing out, and you start being annoyed that your lunch hasn't been remastered to HD.

[Makeshift Python]

Replicated food is every bit as good as real food. It has to be. The tech is based on transporter tech, which can replicate entire people with 100% accuracy (and if it can't, I sure as hell wouldn't ever want to step into one). If it can do that, surely it can perfect a steak.

According to the TNG tech manual - which is quasi-canon, generally agreed to hold some weight - replicators function at 'molecular resolution', whereas personnel transporters need 'quantum resolution' to successfully transport a living being. Not sure if part of that is cost of manufacturing the transporter element - I know, post-scarcity and all that, but there's clearly some limitations on resources or they wouldn't keep flying around in all those old Mirandas and Excelsiors - but even Federation computer technology has storage capacity limits; the pattern buffers seem to be some kind of enhanced storage at the cost of short lifespan before pattern degradation, when they shunted transporter patterns into conventional memory in 'Our Man Bashir' they filled up the entire station. So - in addition to the always-the-same factor you mentioned (although perhaps you could program a controlled amount of RNG into replicator patterns to get around that a bit) - the replicator is just standard definition TV. It's fine if you're used to it, but once you eat at Sisko's you realise you've been missing out, and you start being annoyed that your lunch hasn't been remastered to HD.

Best analogy I've read in awhile.

[Yukaphile]

Only reason I asked if Voyager had a series bible is that I think DS9 definitely had one. Granted, I think it was the exact one for B5, but you get the point.

Was it just, "Let's redo TNG," like TNG had probably been, "Let's redo TOS?"

[King Green]

The 10 Commandments via Our Lord of All; James T. "MEEEE!" Kirk.

1. Worship him above all Admirals.

2. Bleesed booze at the alter must be blessed by thyn own brewery.

3. Woman of all be blessed and happy for Kirk's communitive "gifts".

4. Have not kill unless filled with our Lords "Great Passion".

5. Cry for life for the angelic "Red Shirts" for nobility and death.

6. Pray not to thy enemy by brow who is burned with sin and "kills by Kackling".

7. Hold your heart and loins for our Bleesed Lord givith you more "life".

8. Face the end and flee thy fire in the darkness with thy call of the Lord.

9. Obey your Admirals and call upon them for "cleansing" of godless nations.

10. Smile, smile with great glee and lust for thy prayer is greater for all.

Hows that crack parody?!

[CharlesPhipps]

In fact, I believe that Kirk lost 90% of his skill when he became an Admiral.

I mean people literally died being transported on his maiden voyage and he left the parking break on.

I suspect the Romulans are poisoning the flag officers' food on Earth.

[MissKittyFantastico]

In fact, I believe that Kirk lost 90% of his skill when he became an Admiral.

Hadn't really considered it before, but maybe that's why Khan's so blown away at the thought of "Admiral Kirk" - it's not bitterness at Kirk's rise while he was forgotten, he's just realising that he's finally in with a shot of kicking Kirk's arse because he's not a Captain anymore.

[Yukaphile]

His Khan sense was tingling.