TNG S3E15 - Yesterday’s Enterprise
I’ve been out for a few days, and will be sparse for the next couple weeks, sorry about my lack of meming
TNG S3E15 - Yesterday’s Enterprise
I’ve been out for a few days, and will be sparse for the next couple weeks, sorry about my lack of meming
This is Admiral Vance explaining to Osyraa that the replicators use processed waste as their base. I would assume every generation of ship uses this tech if they used if from the NX-01 until the 31st century. Maybe the replicators are just souped up protein shufflers but they called them something new so that people wouldn’t be constantly reminded that they’re eating poo.
The fleet being in their little hidden pocket forced them to make use of waste materials. I imagine ships sent out on missions also have a duty to collect supplies/energy usable for sustaining the population.
hidden poo-cket dimension
I mean, that’s pretty much what life on earth does today. It’s not like an apple tree conjures its fruit from nothing. Most biomatter was at one point shit or a corpse. By now, probably both many times over. We just use biological protein reshufflers.