Maybe I missed an episode or something but I don’t think I’ve ever seen any replicators except food ones.
Two off the top of my head.
TNG “Data’s Day”: we see Data and Worf in a replimat while Worf picks out a wedding gift for Miles and Keiko. A family in the background picks out a new stuffed toy for the kid.
ENT “Dead Stop”: the mysterious repair station has large arms with industrial replicators that fabricate and install entire ship pieces at once.
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Industrial_replicator
They were mentioned in DS9 a few times.
Didn’t Prodigy show one in a cargo bay making a shuttlecraft? My memory is a bit hazy.
I never got around to watching prodigy. I’ll look into this
Why not just use the transporter pads?
Throughout the show, we see the replicators both materialize and dematerialize things. Janeway gets her coffee, it comes in a mug, when she’s done drinking, she puts the mug back in the replicator and says “Computer, recycle.”
So why couldn’t you use the transporter to do that for larger objects?
Does it also render cargo bays pointless? Can any material just be dematerialized, the data stored and then replicated later?
