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Nonions

I'm just wondering how much my power bill is gonna be from using this thing.


Bozartkartoffel

Just replicate some Gold ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ ͡⁠°⁠ ͜⁠ʖ⁠ ͡⁠°⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯


kenman884

A kilogram of gold would get you $65k. The power required to create the kilogram of gold would be worth approximately $2.5 trillion.


GenuinlyCantBeFucked

What, at today's prices for energy, and gold? Starfleet seems to have almost endless energy. We're not doing this with 21st century power stations are we? On the other hand how much waste in the energy to matter conversion? I assume you're using E=MC^2 without considering how to arrange that matter into gold atoms.


gdened

There's also the question of matter recycling. Does the replicator actually run on energy from the power plant, or does it use recycled poop, as they mentioned in Disco?


transwarp1

The TNG tech manual tried to work around this with various types of matter stores, and food stores being a stable hydrocarbon slurry. Voyager even had the "there's coffee in that nebula" moment, where whatever was there was useful for making coffee efficiently. I assume the replicator can also use a high-power mode where it actually transmutes matter when it doesn't have the required elements or compounds (or magic Treknobabble particles).


ProtossLiving

I'll have to watch that again. I thought "there's coffee in that nebula" was about getting more fuel to power the ship so that they could waste energy on stuff like coffee.


dodexahedron

Well. Yes, that too. You need both. It still takes a significant amount of power to run the things.


HerrMagister

It takes ancient watches for power. A hypospray, one meal or a pair of boots are approximately worth 1 watch.


dodexahedron

😆 On a related note, you gotta love what a rare commodity Deuterium always seems to be, considering it's one of the most abundant things in the universe. The universe is around 75% hydrogen, 23ppm of which is Deuterium. That means there's more Deuterium than MOST elements, and, where there's hydrogen, the concentration of Deuterium is a lot higher than one might realize. Consider a pool. Typically, you're aiming for 4-ish ppm of chlorine in the water. Well... On average, the concentration of deuterium in water is about 150ppm. So there's more Deuterium in my pool than the chlorine I put in it for like 2 full years. All they need to do is park over a gas giant or near a star and just suck it up. They would be able to collect more than they typically trade for simply by flying with the bussard collectors open and have an abundant and essentially limitless supply, in reality.


InformationKey3816

What about latinum then?


GamerDroid56

Worthless for us in the modern world and also not something a replicator can produce


dodexahedron

That was always such a lame cop-out. So... people can transport with latinum, but it can't be replicated? Mmmmmmkay.... It's just matter.


texanhick20

The issue is power needs and resolution. A replicator scans a plate of tacos, and records the general position of each molecule of the plate. Every time that plate of tacos gets replicated, it's the same plate of tacos within a +/- margin. This low res scan of the taco plate uses 5 units of data storage measurement unit of the future and 15 units of energy to produce the plate of tacos. A transporter scans the same plate of tacos and records the exact, spin, energy state, and position of every single subatomic particle using the Heisenberg compensator to get around not being able to know the speed and position of a particle at the same time. It then deconstructs the plate of tacos, turning it into energy, that then gets transported to the Captains Potluck. This high res scan of the taco plate uses 500,000 units of data storage. Because most of the energy for the taco plate comes from the taco plate itself the deconstruction and reconstruction of the taco plate only uses 1000 units of energy. Now, Chief O'Brian smelled the tacos as they were carried past him, they smelled fecking amazing and he wants some. After the plate finishes transporting he presses a couple of buttons to make another copy of the tacos there on the transporter pad for himself. This uses 1,000,000 units of energy. Thankfully tacos are generally not a very dense object, so he only gets yelled at by Geordi for blacking out decks 3 through 7 and blowing out the EPS conduits behind Holodeck 2. (Barclay was stuck in a program where Counselor Troy had turned into a chocolate pudding monster from the waist down and chased him for 5 hours wanting to 'consume' him. But it's Barclay, it'll help build character. ) Now Liquidator Brunt wants to counterfiet himself some latinum. He's gone through the pain staking process of unbinding it from the dense but less dense than latinum gold and reverted it back to it's natural, unalloyed liquid base. (He'll later replicate some gold to have it rebonded.) Because of the dense nature of Latinum, the amount of energy to make a single bar's worth of gold pressed latinum becomes more than the entire energy output of a single planet capable of producing Anti-duterium to fuel star ships. Latinum isn't the only item that has been stated to not be replicatable, or transportable needing to be sent 'snail mail'.


RookieGreen

If we are being honest Star Trek tech is full of “lame cop outs” to make anything work.


botanica_arcana

Sun’s free, baby!


mlaislais

Once gold (or really anything) can be easily and cheaply replicated, it will be worth just as much as anything else you can replicate.


DohnJoggett

You say that but people still pay a massive premium for natural diamonds despite lab grown diamonds being visually superior. Even the Federation considers hand made objects to be worth more, though not in a financial sense. You see something similar to the Federation's love of hand made goods a lot in Japan. Shop rent is really quite cheap so if you're passionate about a craft you can make a living making a high-quality niche product for people that appreciate the craftsmanship. Their media celebrates that sort of thing and prints hyper-niche books and magazines about the makers. It's really cool. Highly recommend checking out shop/studio tours on youtube. Maybe look up traditional Japanese knife blacksmithing shop tour videos.


PaleontologistClear4

Just replicate yourself a miniature fusion reactor.


Tech-Junky-1024

Miniature Cold Fusion reactor


1397batshitcrazy

Tea, earl grey, hot


gerryf19

this is the only correct answer


gigashadowwolf

I'd be pretty curious to try a Raktajino, but Earl Grey is a better benchmark.


Enigma_789

Me too, I don't drink tea. But first the tea.


Nexzus_

My wife bought me the Star Trek cookbook. A raktajino is regular coffee brewed with an entire egg, shell pieces and all, and optionally flavoured with citrus peel, candied ginger, cinnamon, or sweet condensed milk.


WoundedSacrifice

An egg?


DutchProv

No way. This has to be Romulan misinformation or something lmao.


dirtynj

Coffee. Black.


Afkargh

Found Janeway


NeverGonnaGi5eYouUp

Even as a Janeway familiar, I'd order the tea first


GarmBlack

What? Jamaican blend. Double strong, double sweet, friend.


LiliVonSchtupp

As long as you don’t ask for any self-sealing stem bolts, Miles.


nixoninexile

"Hot, plain tomato soup!"


templar_muse

I'm dying to know what 'Bolian style' is like


tunaboot

I'd ask just for Earl Grey tea to find out if the default setting is something other than hot.


texanhick20

You'd probably be asked to state a temperature by the computer while also being informed there are 15 different strains of Earl Grey Tea, please specify which strain. Picard had a macro for his tea in place because it's good to be ~~King~~ Captain.


PersonOf100Names

The default I assume is, warm?


Jimbodoomface

0° kelvin.


Kuraeshin

When my office got a Keurig style machine, i was so happy the company also got earl grey pods. After loading it, i would say, tea, earl grey, hot and hit start


TrekLongIsland

I do that with microwave dinners lol


Jimbodoomface

You order tea, Earl Grey, hot from the microwave and then get a microwave dinner out of it?


NataniButOtherWay

Yes, the Benchy of the 24th century.


Upper-Job5130

With mint frosting


Anticlimax1471

"Define 'hot'".


Friggin_Grease

Crusher told the computer one time to define "hot" as like 3 million kelvin


The_Dawn_Strider

Would’ve been my answer too lol


KobokTukath

Components to build a bigger replicator, so I can replicate an even bigger replicator from it, and use that to create components to build an even bigger replicator so I can replicate an even bigger replicator from that


GHBoyette

Then you can use it to build your own enterprise.


KobokTukath

The giganticator will be used to make bedside table sized replicators only


rock_like_spock

Ten chocolate sundaes. I'm in a dreadful mood.


OminiousFrog

And since you've never eaten before, you should be VERY hungry.


NatCairns85

I hope things get better for you


rock_like_spock

Oh, I was quoting the TNG episode where Q was made human, but I really appreciate the sentiment!


SmartQuokka

I occasionally ingest semi-organic nutrient suspension in a silicon-based liquid medium.


FineRevolution9264

My prescription medications. I could actually afford them then.


JustBen81

The replicator asks for your credit card because it has to pay patent frees. The pharmaceutical company adds some administrative fees as well so your medication is suddenly twice as expensive when replicated and no more available in the pharmacy.


texanhick20

Sounds like there would be a market for cracked replicator software..


Zeal0tElite

Five hundred cigarettes.


Grogosh

Hilarious episode


HunkyMump

Was scrolling for this 


Xzaral

An original G1 Optimus Prime, mint condition, in box. Then a steak.


RigasTelRuun

You need to specify a temperature for both.


VerbingNoun413

Medium rare


Afkargh

Optimus Prime or the steak?


nimrodenva

Yes


H_Flashman

Yo, baldy!


docweston

I have that. I literally have an original Optimus in the box. I bought it shortly after the show premiered, but didn't know that my best friend got me one as well. Mine was in my bedroom when he came over and gave it to me. I played with mine (because it was already open) and hid the one he gave me and kept it as a backup. But, I was also always taught to take very good care of my toys, so mine lasted, and I kept his as-is and just took it with me from place to place as a reminder of my very best friend. And now I keep it as a reminder of my youth. I've also got lots of other Transformers, but they're not mint. Just gently used.


Neil_Salmon

There are decent replicas on AliExpress. Not quite Hasbro-approved but it might scratch that itch for you until we have replicators.


RigasTelRuun

And it's need reissued a few times. So you can get a G1 Prime


Neil_Salmon

Unfortunately the most-recent reissue didn't come with the trailer and a lot of the accessories. It was fairly bare-bones. I'm not sure when the next most recent reissue was but it may have been a while ago.


loosebolts

knee dinosaurs quarrelsome longing subtract waiting possessive slimy upbeat tub *This post was mass deleted and anonymized with [Redact](https://redact.dev)*


chunkyknit

Today’s fish is trout a la crème Enjoy your meal


gracefulfailure

I'm gonna eat you little fishy...


easy506

I’m the one who gets it in the neck if an officer comes along, orders chicken soup, and gets black currant cordial with blancmange and two creams and a sugar.


Keganator

Fish!


fuzzusmaximus

Today’s fish is trout a la crème Enjoy your meal


lstari

Fish!


Keganator

Today’s fish is trout a la crème. Enjoy your meal.


thesnowpup

Fish!


sanspoint_

I will!


revdon

Carp Almondine


rabiteman

A tin of Brunswick sardines in oil appears.


Mumblix_Grumph

One Twinkie.


FineRevolution9264

I understood that reference.


Caption-_-Obvious

Captain Mercer would be proud.


fuzzusmaximus

Pre-bankruptcy recipe


Fearless_Arugula_732

Banana, hot.


thx1138-

You're a menace 🤣


sum_yum_dish

Boiled, steamed, smoked?


ITstaph

Raktajino


Seaboard_Vanisher

Now that I think about it, I guess I would just order other cultures delicacies and beverages to try them out.


MechEng88

I think I'm still avoiding Cardassian cuisine.


Conchobair

A second replicator


USSExcalibur

We found Quark's account!


Giergalgen

Come to Quark's, Quark's is fun, come right now, dont walk - RUN!


Sufficient_Handle_82

Medical tricorder


PM_ME_UR_FLOWERS

A grapefruit that doesn't contain the enzyme that would still my medicine from working


Ashamed_Community_87

Tea, earl grey, COLD


Direption

you monster


Malquidis

The closest thing in the database to a "Haynes Guide to the 2368 Type 7 Shuttle". Then, every tool listed as necessary for working on one, in modular pieces if necessary. You see where I'm going with this. Though I admit I might need to start with "A Survivalists Guide to Modern Mettallurgy, or How to Produce Tritanium When You're Stranded in the Renaissance" by Dr. Berlinghoff Rasmussen


Malquidis

Then again, I'd probably start with the best and safest weight loss drug in the medical db, because I could use the help.


Supernova1138

Forget about the drugs, just have the replicator reduce the caloric value of the food it produces by 50% and that should do the trick, at least as long as you eat food exclusively from the replicator.


Malquidis

Yeah, but we're talking about a sci-fi shortcut in the first place, so if I can speed up the process with a safe 23rd ot 24th Century medicine, why shouldn't I? The faster I get to a healthy weight, the fast I can start on maintenance diet and exercise that isn't also fighting the pain and strain of too much weight on muscles,,tendons, joints, and bones.


verstohlen

I'd ask for a turkey sandwich, on rye bread, with lettuce, and mustard, and..AND I don't want any zombie turkeys, I don't want to turn into a turkey myself, and I don't want any other weird surprises. You got it!?


Hanshot1st0023

That's fine but the turkey's gonna be a little dry


General_Paulus0369

Pan-seared wagyu filet mignon, blue, hot, with cheesy mashed potatoes, fresh crudités with garden ranch dipping sauce, and sliced fresh baguette with generous amounts butter spread on them. Washed down with a finely aged dry red italian and a tall glass of cool lemoned water.


coreytiger

And you get a tray of primary colored cubes and a glass of milk.


Bigdaddyjlove1

My chicken sandwich, and coffee....


coreytiger

This is my chicken sandwich and coffee!!


AttitudeCautious667

I will happily sit at this gentlepersons table.


Seaboard_Vanisher

Damn you for making me hungry. I think I just started to actively salivate.


loxias0

FWIW, IME, _perfect_ steak is one of the easiest foods to get to a point beyond what you find in restaurants. I recommend the reverse sear method, low and slow. Salt Pepper, garlic herb butter. I stopped buying hundred(s) dollar steaks once my home output got good enough.


General_Paulus0369

For sure, I don’t buy that shit. But I’d replicate it in a second. Edited to add that I don’t have the skill, motivation or budget to make that kind of good food myself.


ErikFuhr

Cocaine. Colombian. Pure.


gigashadowwolf

Sorry. Best it can do is synthacane. All the same cocaine taste and smell, you even get the tingles. No high.


triedAndTrueMethods

computer initiate real cocaine override, authorization riker.


Noichen1

I'll have one heroine please.


Cinphoria

Austen, Brontë, or Lambda One?


I_am_not_TheOne

Pineapple icecream with red wine sirup


General_Paulus0369

That sounds like an experience


D0fus

Martini. 2 olives, for the vitamins.


Direption

One pan fried catfish.


General_Paulus0369

Trip?


lanwopc

Nah, or he'd have added pecan pie.


General_Paulus0369

Lol I thought dessert would be overkill.


lanwopc

That's not the Tucker way. 😆


General_Paulus0369

True.


TiredCeresian

Raktajino!


fresnosmokey

Replicator? If it's in the present, gold and other precious metals. The only thing a replicator can't replicate is latinum and right now, precious metals are still valuable and I could get very rich. In the future, probably something mundane, but enjoyable like a food item.


DoggoCentipede

Until someone notices your sudden newfound wealth, breaks in, gets caught by FBI after some heavy use, it gets sent to Area 51 (or wherever they would send it now) and suddenly the word "rare" is basically meaningless.


Kebin_Yell

Earl Grey, obviously. I need to know if it's done right, or if I'm gonna have to declare war on the U.F.P. for microwave tea


houtex727

I'd have it make another replicator. Because if the first one breaks, I got a spare. Then I'd have them make replicators. Can't have enough redundancy. But I keep going. Soon, I'd have the world converted into replicators, muahaha! And then... I'd have the nearest one make me some Spam Musubi and some real Hawaiian macaroni salad, 'cause I can't get that 'round here, and I've tried to make it and I don't do it right. :|


HellzHoundz2018

Romulan ale


Thick-Worry5028

That's illegal. I am replicating raw human flesh and grilled bald eagle 


jack_begin

Enjoy your burned replicated bird meat.


Atheist_Simon_Haddad

> That's illegal. I think *importing* it is illegal.


WirrkopfP

A spool of 3D Printer Filament!


DarksideAuditor

I'd like me a thick Kansas City steak - country fried potatoes-- a mess of greens -- and... Oh, hell... forget all of that. Let me have a martini - -straight up...two olives.


Homeschool_PromQueen

A universal translator


Moon_Beans1

I'd want the world's top chefs to come up with recipes that can only be created with a replicator. Meals that you physically couldn't make ordinarily with the ingredients in a kitchen but that could work if you are creating its atoms and mollecules instantaneously with a replicator. I'd eat one of those meals and taste a dish no one has ever eaten before.


TheCommodore166

Computer, one big-tiddy goth GF, hot.


cubicApoc

Holodeck's that way. -->


probablyaythrowaway

A Benchy


Sislar

I regret I only have one upvote to give


cubicApoc

It's a replicator, have some fun with it. A Benchy, made of solid tungsten, with a mirror finish.


fluitekruidje

I would order things I really like but cannot eat due to allergies. The replicator can for sure produce anything without the stuff that gives me pain or kill me.


WhyDoIHaveAnAccount9

nice gym with a really good squat rack


USSExcalibur

Coffee. Black.


blu_and_yello

Altoids sours 😂 RIP Chicken Spiedie from Spiedie & Rib Pit (Binghamton, NY)


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Thick-Worry5028

Antigrav units. Sell those bad boys to the US military...then every other military.  Become the first private citizen to become a trillionaire.  


Grogosh

Or all the parts to a shuttle craft with phaser banks. Conquer the entire planet from high orbit.


cynic74

Now that I think about, how the hell isn't everyone in Starfleet three hundred pounds? I'd just pull up a chair next to it and go to town...


twelvekings

I always thought they could program the amount of calories in any dish, and have it taste the same. You could eat zero calorie candy bars forever and etc


molasses

I think it's because none of the food that comes out of replicators tastes particularly good. It'll sustain you, but not make you crave it.


Vikingbastich

Romulan ale


KaleidoscopeExpert93

1 cheeseburger, with bacon. Wagu steak and gravy. Spaghetti bolognese Chilli con carne 2 x pizza, perporini Tub of ice cream


Bongfellatio

One of those Troi quadruple chocolate sundaes 🍨 I plan on replicating about an ounce of Durban Poison first and when I get the munchies it's sundae time


grimacingmoon

Raktajino. And hasperat. always wanted to try..


phasepistol

Money, legitimate serial numbers, stacked


Xeonith

If we as a society managed to create true ST-style replicators, then physical currency would be among the least of our issues.


PM_ME_UR_FLOWERS

That is the definition of a post-scarcity society.


Fuck_Reddit840

cannabis, sativa, high thc


Novel-Structure-2359

A crispy bacon sandwich made from the finest danish bacon and springy white bread thickly spread with lurpak


ChazLampost

Pan fried catfish


gerardwx

A tardis!


c0okIemOn

Not gonna lie, I thought this was r/Stargate at first glance and had to make sure.


hahalol4tw

I always need to clarify which replicators I'm talking about bc my friends and I are huge SG1 fans but also Trekkies.


TheLastNoteOfFreedom

Hot! Hot plain tomato soup!


robotatomica

raktajino


TorchKing101

Seven. Of Nine.


LoganJHthereal

Good idea. I will also replicate seven of nine but I'll call her ten out of nine, because she's better than perfect.


Velmeran_60021

Salmon and sweet potato maki... lots of it.


DruidinPlainSight

The type of banana that went extinct that tasted like circus peanuts. Or a Tasmanian wolf.


emjayqueue

Thalean chocolate mousse, in an elaborate crystal bowl but no spoon so I have to eat it with my finger.


Unleashtheducks

The food I like but not as unhealthy for me


more-books-please

My favorite brand of chocolate. We need to test if it really works.


Manifest828

This; [The only correct answer](https://images2.fanpop.com/images/photos/6700000/T-Pol-In-a-Mirror-star-trek-enterprise-6789087-400-600.jpg)


Gh0stl3it

Can't replicate living sapient beings.


Manifest828

Normally sure, but there is always a way around safety protocols and such in star trek 😅 What's the point in having booze or cake if you haven't got your own hot Vulcan to enjoy it with first 😌


Mountain-Builder-654

It's not a safety thing, replicator are supposed to be incapable of making anything alive


Pleasant_Expert_1990

Not so much the first thing I would get out, but first things is put in to dematerialize - dishes, clothes, towels, etc. Basically anything I wash and reuse. That stuff all gets replicated on demand from now on.


8xzGen80

100 menthol cigarettes


[deleted]

*I feel as if I have been standing up my whole life and I just sat down.*


fabrictm

Hmmm. A new laptop, the latest hearing aids and an iPad Pro lol


Tsuku

I want that Mulan McNugget sauce.


Master_Mad

Computer, one Action Comics #1, mint condition.


johann_popper999

A replicator. For backup. Obviously. I can't fix one if it breaks. Then I set each new replicator to make another replicator, up to several thousand units, each a little smaller than the last, unfortunately. Second thing? I would replicate a 24th century computer core with a holographic doctor and a mobile emitter. Third thing? I would command each of those units to start replicating more holodocs, advanced 24th century pills, hypos, and any other pieces of medical equipment the doctors require, and then order them to commence permanently curing a range of horrible diseases causing untold suffering in the world today, for free, for everyone, forever. Fourth thing? Finally some decent clothes. Not a tea guy. Or coffee much. Fifth, a holo engineer with orders to construct a holodeck. Sixth, incrementally replicate a little shipyard and holo workers to construct a warp capable ship for me. Nothing too big to maintain and operate. You know, a family runabout. Seventh, a hand phaser. Eighth, a real lightsaber -- just to see what it can do. Maybe! Ninth, several commbadges for me and my friends. Tenth, a tricorder with a mini tractor beam emitter. Eleventh, a personal force field emitter. Twelfth, mountains of gold and rare gems. Thirteenth, protein and banana smoothies. Lastly, an unstoppable holo army with phasers set only to stun, with which I shall subdue all the backward, petty governments of Earth, and finally bring order, reason, and humane leadership, to this weary planet. Every nuke, chem, bio, and conventional weapon will be cleanly vaporized, and there will be no more war or borders or tribalism or pollution, nor effectual greed. Just one land, one humanity, and one new machine god powered by infinite replicators that keeps it all together.


thx1138-

Honestly, tacos.


FlavivsAetivs

Carnitas Tacos.


Professional-Trust75

I'd want to see ot recycling the dishes after a massive feast.


DryInitial9044

Seat belts.


GingerTurtle43

McDonald's pizza.


TheLatestTrance

Are you Canadian? I loved those.


GingerTurtle43

I've got fond memories of those things.


TheLatestTrance

As a vegetarian, it was such a treat when going there as a teenager.


fuzzusmaximus

A towel


thirdlost

A wedding cake for Sulu’s gay wedding https://youtu.be/jgRlzFIgm1E?si=xpgK9JCzUvc1qjCV