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“Computer: Tea, Earl Grey” So then why did Star Trek happen if they had replicators?

• dsfyu404ed 4y ago
  >So then why did Star Trek happen if they had replicators? Because when you have everything you poke around for fun. Kind of like how science was pushed along by bored aristocrats doing it as a hobby for centuries.
  • Turing_Machine 4y ago
    Sure -- like the way people participate in Renaissance fairs, or spend their spare time weaving cloth or making candles by hand.
• danso 4y ago
  Replicators seem to have developed well after — and probably as a result of — warp travel
• yamtaddle 4y ago
  Basically nothing in Star Trek makes any sense, as far as the social consequences of the setting. The writers are constantly having to struggle with it. You've got the original series' pretty strong but apparently-accidental dystopic vibes, constant trouble with sorting out how the whole "the Federation doesn't have money" thing works[0], holodecks only rarely having the kind of effects everyone knows they would, and so on. [0] Some major Tenacious D "City Hall" vibes with how well that part of the setting works. "Third decree: No more rich people, and poor people. From now on we will all be the same! Umm... I don't know, I gotta think about that...."