“Synthahol” in TNG, DS9 and VOY was supposed to be a Ferengi invention that allowed a person to get drunk and then shake off the effects immediately. So, sort of intoxicating with none of the after effects.
Right, different tastes. Coffee ranges from just barely consumable caffeine delivery system to OMG that was so tasty. Each person will have different opinions on where a cup of coffee falls on that scale.
Do you like cola? Do you like one more than another? Personally I can’t stand any cola at this point but still love me some good root beer. When I liked cola, I drank Coke as Pepsi was too sickly sweet and it was hard to find Jolt or RC.
If that wasn’t just a straight up bar, I completely missed that. I thought Ten Forward was totally an after hours officers’ club type deal.
The problem with consumables on duty (although I still loved seeing that come out of the replicator) is that unless they’ve changed them somehow in that era (entirely possible), they actually have a stronger and longer-lasting effect than smoking or vaping. Or…so I’ve heard, in reports from places where it’s legal. 
Most coffee (like you’d get at a midrange hotel or wherever) tastes like crap. And straight black coffee, even made from high quality beans, is not a taste I enjoy. Nor can I stomach a sickly sweet beverage like most of what people order at Starbucks.
But.
I don’t know if it was here on MPSIMS or where that I advanced the notion that the best “pure taste” (leaving aside texture–just involving the taste buds only) of any food or drink is three parts good cold-brewed coffee, and two parts whole milk. No sugar or anything else, just that 60/40 mix. God, that’s good.
I recognized Holland Taylor from Two and a Half Men, but who played Ed’s father? 
George Bluth Sr.
…I mean Jeffrey Tambor.
I first knew him as the sidekick on The Larry Sanders Show back in the '90s; but you must not follow the Emmys, as he won the Best Actor award year before last for his role on transparent.
I remember him from the Ropers and her from Bosom Buddies. They’ve both been around forever at this point.
Ships I served on, I found that it depended largely on whom was in command. And/or whether or not there was an embarked Flag who smoked.
Now, smoking in the workspace wasn’t allowed, but most of the ships I served on still had designated smoking areas.
It would, but I stipulate that most of the people that I do/have associate(d) with only drink to get fucked up. And since I don’t drink to get fucked up, I don’t really see the point: like, I’ve been offered scotch before, and came away from the experience wondering why anyone would do that to themselves. Then again, I also stipulate that my own palate is very unrefined in that regard, and I’m the kind of philistine who would prefer all alcoholic beverages to taste like Kool-Aid.
But, I don’t drink enough for it to matter, anyway: I’m basically a pitcher of sangrìa per year, on average, away from being straight edge.
Aha! Tambor I remember from Hill Street Blues.
Back when I served, when dinosaurs roamed the earth, alcohol was available when off-duty, and smoking was verboten in all but a few designated areas (and never during unrep). Of course, I served on a carrier, so rules may have been different on other vessels. Jet fuel and flame don’t mix.
Uhm … homeworld. Homework is … something else. 
NB: Correct spelling is “synthehol,” not “synthahol.” Duh! :smack:
Doh…missed the edit window…
*Or during flight ops.
I was on the Ranger, so also a carrier. Smoking was allowed in most her things and most of the shops but alcohol.was generally not available except what was snuck onboard or made and the aforementioned beer days for long sea periods.
LHA-4, USS Nassau here.
What OST was it were the crewman was drunk and singing over the intercom…some Irish song…what was he drunk on?? The song was ‘Kathleen’…
They didn’t have synthehol in the Kirk era - that’s a TNG thing. In Kirk’s age, they drank real alcohol (and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri).
That was in The Naked Time, so he was drunk on water.
For actual booze, look to Scotty getting the Kelvan tanked by emptying out his (extensive) liquor cabinet in By Any Other Name.
Oh! Good point. I missed the big picture there (though if the guy who took off his glove to touch something while investigating the mysterious deaths of a base full of people was drunk on booze before the water got to him, that would explain a lot).
He took his glove off to scratch his nose. Still, not the smartest thing to do under those circumstances. 
The water there had changed into a complex molecule similar to alcohol under the effects of shifts in that planet’s gravity as it decayed, which was never explained in that episode. I don’t remember right offhand if I heard it on ***TNG ***or read it in Blish’s adaptation, which was from an early draft of the script.