A food critique of the Star Trek characters (TOS, TNG, and DS9)

Jun 28, 2022 12:40 AM

Swiggy1957

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Janeway: Can't but blames it on the replicator.

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Chekov can make really good sushi rolls and Sulu makes good perogis. Uhura can cook 300 species delicacies, but everyone assumes she can't.

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Kirk is a master of Cream Pies.

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Pike: Yes.

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Barclay: I dunno, maybe he can. Who cares?

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He specializes in cruciferous vegetables.

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Deanna - Tries to cook but senses the fear in the ingredients and decides better of it.

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Pike: Literally has his whole command staff cooking.

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Didn’t Miles O’brien cook for Keiko once on DS9? Maybe he just talked about it.

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He's more of a replicator kind of guy

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Man, Keiko is in the show a LOT for someone who doesn't actually show up much. O'Brien never stops talking about her.

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Subject extremely misleading :(

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Wesley Crusher: yes, but only microwave chicken nuggets

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And pizza rolls.

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Cooking basically is math in so far as it’s just chemistry with things you eat. Geordi using math to cook would probably be good…?

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He'd be the best. IIRC he builds model ships in his spare time. engineer/hobbyist. He'll research techniques out of love.

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Mmm cellular peptides.

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With mint frosting!

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FYI, Rikers back story is he grew up in Valdez, Ak bet he can cook halibut and salmon like a master.

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I want to say Riker expresses surprise when someone suggests eating real meat.

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Yeah but that was in season 1 soooooo most folks just sorta ignore it.

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Data - would create the perfect dish both in terms of flavor and preparation, everybody agrees that this is the most amazing thing they've->

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<- ever tasted, but will still insist that "something's missing" and go on a long speech about how technical perfection doesn't mean shit ->

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<- without a nebulous "human touch" and whimsy and spontaneity leaving Data dejected he is lacking that because that's good sci-fi writing.

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However, most agree his cellular peptide cake (with mint frosting) was excellent.

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Left out Worf's legendary tea brewing and baking skills

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Meanwhile, Pike:

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Honestly I kinda love how fucking 60's these scenes feel.

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For me, it's how they modified the costumes and props to make them clearly resemble the originals, but still feel futuristic in 2022.

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Yeah that's cool too. Even the recent episode had that super lame history feel of original and early TNG. Well for most of it.

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Garak will make splendid homey food all while carrying the conversation. Even if he poisons it he'll make sure it's tasty.

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ESPECIALLY if he poisons it.

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I mean everyone deserves a nice last meal wouldn't you say?

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I read this in his voice.

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I love paprikás csirke.

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That does get me thinking. Given the availability of food replicators, cooking would become one of those activities where technology has >

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> rendered it obsolete as a regular profession, but is still practiced by hobbyists. Modern examples include horseriding and swordsmithing.

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Yep. Every 20 years or so a profession dies as tech makes it obsolete.

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But the serious riders still have their own saddles.

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Basically. And such restaurants are basically patronized by hipsters who believe they can tell the difference between replicated and non-.

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I am pretty sure everyone could - at least notice that each dish does not totally taste exactly the same every day.

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Seems like perfectly replicating a dish took time to optimize. Probably an odd collaboration between chefs and programmers.

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Something like that. And the computer will make it exactly the same every time. No "extra spicy today" or "surprise tenderness".

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Revenge is either gelatto or gazspacho.

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Tartar might be more appropriate...

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Ceviche

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"According to the database I downloaded for this purpose, you appear to be...an idiot sandwich. My apologies, Lieutenant."

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If Data had access to Tasha and Ishara, I am certain Brent Spiner would not have minded being in that sandwich

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Tasha Yar - yes but may need assistance assembling the ingredients

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Gotta dodge those rape gangs.

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#1 *Baking* absolutely works out mathematics. *Cooking* is more like "Yee haw"

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Works *like* mathematics

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Baking is witchcraft. If a recipe tells me to stir the cake batter three times widdershins and let sit I will take it at its word.

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Sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from mathematics.

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Cooking is an art, baking is a science

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And I'm only semi good at both.

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Sisko and Miles O'Brien can cook.

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I'm not so sure about O'Brien. He likes Starfleet field rations.

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He cooked for Keiko, some Irish cuisine. He said he was raised on home cooked food.

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His cooking is like his work: It's not flashy, but it'll get you where you need to go.

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Worf: yes, but only it’d kill any non Klingon

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I'm almost positive that he's learned a dish or two from his adopted mother. Also it'll all be served with Prune Juice. A Warrior's Drink.

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Klingon food seemed popular among non-Klingons. DS9 even had a Klingon restaurant that seemed very popular. Plus Worf was raised by humans.

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He does like Riker's eggs tho.

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And Riker can eat Gagh while hitting on Klingon warrirors.

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Sisko - Absolutely can cook.

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I think Miles O'Brien might be able to as well. He spoke of his mother cutting meat like a master chef.

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Sisko's the guy who suggests the potluck, keeps the ball rolling, provides most of the food, and enjoys every step of it

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Might just be the best cook in starfleet.

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Pike: would be interesting to see him in a coming competition with Sisko

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A what kind of competition? Uh... I thought this was about food.

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No no, let him speak, I want know where we can observe this contest.

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Nobody touches his peppers.

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I can hear this sentence

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Was gonna say, his dad ran a restaurant. Absolutely he learned something.

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Not just any restaurant! It was in New Orleans!!!! ???

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His whole family could cook, and do a damned good job of it too.

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Janeway cooked Tuvix

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Lmao +1

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Multiple races’ cuisine if I recall.

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He even did a Ferengi take on gumbo IIRC.

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He put tube grubs in the gumbo sauce. I figure it'd taste like mealworms

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Janeway - Does coffee count as food?

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To Janeway? Probably. To anyone else, it's just a beverage.

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To me, it's a way of life!

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Riker apparently now makes good pizza. Still makes fires occasionally though.

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I think he makes some eggs at some point during the TNG run. It looked a bit odd at the time.

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I think the eggs had gone bad.

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They didn't have an actual heat source on the set

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Neelix: Pros: can make food out if anything. Cons: food is made out of everything.

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"Food". "Edible." "Technically not lethal if ingested in correct quantities" and such.

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Neelix got some leola roots while foraging in the 3rd episode then serves them every week for the next 7 years.

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I recall that he made a dish made of mostly jalapeños. “Juh-lop-in-o’s”

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Neelix: literally his job.

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I'd still try Neelix's food. Good guy

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https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/ Please don't eat Neelix's "food", there are many new Star Trek things to enjoy...

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That's not funny.

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Paris would have laughed :(

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Cons: Can and will fuck up so bad the SHIP gets lethal food poisoning.

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I mean, he did warn them about those “apples”

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Get this cheese to sickbay.

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It is stated canon that Voyager has only three toilets for the whole ship of 170-odd.

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Plus toilets included in individual quarters.

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Turns out Humans are the only Starfleet member species that needs to shit ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Hey, sounds like the building at my job.

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Nah, if you're referring to the episode I think you are, they were just DOWN to only a few functioning toilets during a power crisis.

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Cons: Neelix

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Imo I wish tuvix survived and neelix had died.

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Star Trek's very own Jar Jar.

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Pros, comes with Kes

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Con: Kes hadn't reached her species' equivalent of puberty when she was with Neelix. He was shacked up with a 10 year old in our terms.

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Pro Any southern state

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