
“Why does this sweetener taste kinda like gasoline and makes my teeth numb?”
“Just following orders sir”
Somehow the mention of coffee in Voyager made the ship seem instead like an office block on earth that they were cosplaying in. All they needed was a water cooler on the bridge to completely kill the immersion.
That would be the replicator.

Right above Forever Ensign’s head are two people shootin’ the shit by the replicator.
I can’t unsee it now!
“G’morning Walter. How ‘bout that traffic on deck 12 today!”
I find myself wondering if it would have been practical to replicate a viable coffee plant seed from a recorded coffee genome, and then grow coffee beans directly in the ship’s arboretum (assuming for the sake of argument they had one, or could construct one).
But then you’re into how difficult it is to replicate viable coffee growing conditions onboard a ship, and it might not even be more efficient than direct replication anyway.
I think the captain might need a fresh pair of knickers.
Yeah, but before she can even get them on, Picard will have seen everything.
Heh. Why is “knickers” such a funny word?
I can’t not read this in SF Debris’ crazy Janeway voice.





