# In the 24th Century, Do They Know What an Omelet Is? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** food-cooking\ **Created:** [November 13, 2020, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-24th-century-do-they-know-what-an-omelet-is/925485 "2020-11-13T02:48:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2020, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-24th-century-do-they-know-what-an-omelet-is/925485/21 "2020-11-13T03:24:26Z")
Indeed; the spandex uniforms that they used in the first two seasons of TNG were well-known for causing back issues for the actors, because they were _so_ tight. It’s part of the reason why they switched to the two-piece uniform design, with the less skintight top. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2020, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-24th-century-do-they-know-what-an-omelet-is/925485/22 "2020-11-13T03:25:03Z")
Better question: How many people on that ship have multiple butts? 🤨 ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2020, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-24th-century-do-they-know-what-an-omelet-is/925485/23 "2020-11-13T03:31:06Z")
^ And this is where I came in. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2020, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-24th-century-do-they-know-what-an-omelet-is/925485/24 "2020-11-13T03:41:22Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > And this is where I came in. Or, is it where you butted in? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2020, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-24th-century-do-they-know-what-an-omelet-is/925485/25 "2020-11-13T03:45:15Z")
Whereas most people have two… > **[Monty Python A Man with Three Buttocks - video Dailymotion](https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6qglec)** > > Monty Python A Man with Three Buttocks ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2020, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-24th-century-do-they-know-what-an-omelet-is/925485/26 "2020-11-13T03:54:15Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > ^ And this is where I came in. 😉 Sounds like the punch line to a Michael Jackson joke. 😆 ---
**Author:** ![D\_Anconia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@D\_Anconia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Anconia)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2020, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-24th-century-do-they-know-what-an-omelet-is/925485/27 "2020-11-13T04:22:40Z")
I don’t get this. If two plates are placed in front of someone, one with an omelet, and one with scrambled eggs, who couldn’t tell the difference? 🤨 ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2020, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-24th-century-do-they-know-what-an-omelet-is/925485/28 "2020-11-13T04:31:28Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > Why are they allowed to cook in their quarters? And with a replicator, why would they need to? > [@terentii](#): > > Cooking comes under the heading of “Recreation.” Not surprising that a senior officer would have a kitchenette in his wastefully spacious quarters. > > I love cooking too. I find it very relaxing. Plus, I get to eat what I cook. 😋 To illustrate this, Captain Benjamin Sisko’s father ran a restaurant in New Orleans where they actually cooked fresh food and Sisko himself preferred to cook on Deep Space Nine over synthesizing food from the replicators. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2020, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-24th-century-do-they-know-what-an-omelet-is/925485/29 "2020-11-13T04:36:32Z")
They also stank after a day on the set, and no amount of dry cleaning could get rid of the odor. Yeccch! 🤮 ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2020, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-24th-century-do-they-know-what-an-omelet-is/925485/30 "2020-11-13T04:54:57Z")
You might as well ask them to distinguish a Spanish omelet from a French omelet (or a Denver omelet, for that matter). ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2020, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-24th-century-do-they-know-what-an-omelet-is/925485/31 "2020-11-13T14:36:16Z")
Not much sadder than being the butt of a **Star Trek** joke. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2020, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-24th-century-do-they-know-what-an-omelet-is/925485/32 "2020-11-13T14:37:28Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > > [@ekedolphin](#): > > > > I dunno; Riker sometimes sits on the tactical console, where the phasers and photon torpedoes are fired from. > > Apparently, in the 24th century, they have eliminated the butt-dial issue. Have they? [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/lMHAZwR-BdQ/hqdefault.jpg "Star Trek TNG - Will Riker Destroys the Enterprise-D") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMHAZwR-BdQ) ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2020, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-24th-century-do-they-know-what-an-omelet-is/925485/33 "2020-11-13T14:40:30Z")
If I saw eggs that had been scrambled and then re-assembled into a solid mass with an apparent outside I would still call it an omelet, perhaps incorrectly. Every time I’ve seen something called “scrambled eggs” it was scattered rather than solid. Then again, I never have scrambled eggs and only rarely have omelets so it’s an academic distinction for me. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2020, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-24th-century-do-they-know-what-an-omelet-is/925485/34 "2020-11-13T14:52:08Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > To illustrate this, Captain Benjamin Sisko’s father ran a restaurant in New Orleans where they actually cooked fresh food and Sisko himself preferred to cook on Deep Space Nine over synthesizing food from the replicators. There was a brief scene in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country that showed a very conventional-looking professional kitchen on the Enterprise. They were searching the ship for the weapons used by assassins and found two phasers. Someone said, but phasers cannot be used onboard a Star Fleet ship, so someone else proved that these could, by suddenly pointing one at a large kettle and firing it. As I remember, the kettle was vaporized but the food in it was left intact. (I tried to find a YouTube clip of the scene but could not.) ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2020, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-24th-century-do-they-know-what-an-omelet-is/925485/35 "2020-11-13T18:02:02Z")
More inconsistencies. 🥺 Phasers have been used on board the ship many times, usually by Redshirts. In “The Corbomite Maneuver,” Janice Rand even heats up coffee using a hand phaser. Yeesh, don’t those scriptwriters even do their homework? 😒 ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2020, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-24th-century-do-they-know-what-an-omelet-is/925485/36 "2020-11-13T18:19:25Z")
So Riker is The Assman?!? 😮🤨 ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2020, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-24th-century-do-they-know-what-an-omelet-is/925485/37 "2020-11-13T18:34:33Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > To illustrate this, Captain Benjamin Sisko’s father ran a restaurant in New Orleans where they actually cooked fresh food and Sisko himself preferred to cook on Deep Space Nine over synthesizing food from the replicators. The impression I’ve had is that replicator food is perfectly fine, even day after day, but prepared food has that something extra. Compare today’s high-end frozen food with something prepared by a chef who knows what s/he’s doing. There was a restaurant chain called The Velvet Turtle that was a big favorite for some of my co-workers to eat at, especially the women. The menu had over two-dozen lunch entrees – besides their burgers and sandwiches – and I wondered how they could do it. Then after studying the menu, it became apparent every single entree would freeze well and could be finished off in a convection oven. ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2020, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-24th-century-do-they-know-what-an-omelet-is/925485/38 "2020-11-13T18:52:44Z")
It’s also sort of swaggery/cowboy-ish, which fits with Riker’s general character. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2020, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-24th-century-do-they-know-what-an-omelet-is/925485/39 "2020-11-13T18:54:46Z")
Even today, people call scrambled eggs with mix-ins “omelets.” Hotels often set up omelet bars where they were just mixing things into scrambled eggs. So it’s likely the term changed to that over the centuries. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2020, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-24th-century-do-they-know-what-an-omelet-is/925485/40 "2020-11-13T19:21:29Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > Even today, people call scrambled eggs with mix-ins “omelets.” Hotels often set up omelet bars where they were just mixing things into scrambled eggs. So it’s likely the term changed to that over the centuries Yes, I have observed that, too, that as long as it has veggies in it, and is more or less one cohesive mass, they call it omelet. So Riker’s “omelet” would be consistent with the drift in usage at least in English. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-24th-century-do-they-know-what-an-omelet-is/925485.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-24th-century-do-they-know-what-an-omelet-is/925485.md?page=3)