I wish I could crawl into the universe from my TV just so I could try real and replicated foods side by side to see if I even could tell the difference.
It’s a maddening argument. Replicated food is the very same molecular arrangement as the “real” food. I would assume any objection to taste comes from the recipes on file, which you could change barring certain restrictions (like im sure you couldn’t change the hasperat recipe to instead be explosives).
Vreenak in DS9 claimed to be able to tell the difference between real Romulan Ale and Replicated, claiming the replicated was really good, but not perfect.
It could be he was attempting to show off, but maybe he really could.
I always assumed replicator food was identical every time because the ship’s “recipe book” is just a giant pattern buffer. It’s always the same so it’s easy to tell the difference from home made since there’s always a little variability. You can’t copy a person in the pattern buffer since that’s illegal cloning, but copying anything from a coffee to a car is totally fine as long as your pattern buffer and replicator is large enough.
Also, at least according to the TNG Tech Manual, replicators work at the molecular level, while transporters work at the quantum level. Sentient beings generally need quantum precision to be transported or replicated.
I wish I could crawl into the universe from my TV just so I could try real and replicated foods side by side to see if I even could tell the difference.
It’s a maddening argument. Replicated food is the very same molecular arrangement as the “real” food. I would assume any objection to taste comes from the recipes on file, which you could change barring certain restrictions (like im sure you couldn’t change the hasperat recipe to instead be explosives).
Vreenak in DS9 claimed to be able to tell the difference between real Romulan Ale and Replicated, claiming the replicated was really good, but not perfect.
It could be he was attempting to show off, but maybe he really could.
I always assumed replicator food was identical every time because the ship’s “recipe book” is just a giant pattern buffer. It’s always the same so it’s easy to tell the difference from home made since there’s always a little variability. You can’t copy a person in the pattern buffer since that’s illegal cloning, but copying anything from a coffee to a car is totally fine as long as your pattern buffer and replicator is large enough.
Also, at least according to the TNG Tech Manual, replicators work at the molecular level, while transporters work at the quantum level. Sentient beings generally need quantum precision to be transported or replicated.
But I like my hasperat spicy.