I don’t have the ST:TNG tech manual handy, but IIRC, the transporter erects a temporary force field around the spot where a person or item is being transported to, does the transport, then takes down the field. Unlike the plastic door on a coffee vending machine, force fields don’t get scuffed up and dirty - they’re made fresh each time, so they’re invisible.
Replicators are nothing more than transporters working off recipe books, rather than quantum scanners.
Thanks for confusing me with the facts.
Dammit
Apparently they do need “raw foodstock” to make things from. Which is probably why they can’t make really exotic things - they don’t have all the rare ingredients. Spicy, zesty, or otherwise unusual foods probably can’t be duplicated. In fact, it apprently can’t even get the taste of ordinary food down perfect.
Big deal. Neither can your basic High School cafeteria.
That’s still better than Neelix.
Accents confuse replicators.
Seriously! Try it out next time you’re hungry. Order a French pastry in an East Indian accent. You’ll get cheese doodles 7 out of 10 times. Do it 100 times in a row and most consumer level replicators wil just pop out the base organic materials. Which, oddly enough look a lot like the coloured food cubes Kirk and gang used to eat. Weird but fun. Military/government units have filtered protocols which prevent this, unfortunately. It would be so fun to hide a camera in a Klingon envoy’s guest quarters and watch him mangle “Tea! Earl Grey! Hot!” out of curiousity and see him get chocolatte mousse (poisonous to almost all humanoids other than Homo Sapiens Sapiens).
Gorram, how I miss my Academy days…
As do I, as do I.
As do I, as do I.
[Ship’s computer voice] bullbeep Please kindly remove your hand from the fuck’n replicator!" [/Ship’s computer voice]
The crew supplies the raw foodstock. Do you watch DS9? Surely you remember all the references to waste extraction.
UPN will never fuck with Star Trek again!!!
Because there is no more UPN. It merged with WB? to form CW.
I want UPN DEAD! I want their family DEAD! I want their dogs DEAD!
You remind me of King John in the Robert Taylor Ivanhoe: “Their women, their servants, their dogs! But most urgently, I want Ivanhoe.”
“I was at a party, and was just replicating a drink when we passed through a tachyon storm, at which point all my clothes fell off and the inertial dampers failed and…well, that’s how the coke bottle got stuck there, anyway, honestly!”
We’ve all heard that one before. :dubious:
actually I really mean 
but I just had to have an excuse to use the Spock face in this thread.
Jim
Don’t forget the ears, Dude.
^ :dubious: ^
Red Dwarf did it in Demons and Angels, the replicator mishap caused 2 ships to appear!
Now this would be a movie plot I could get my arms around!
I have a question about replicator etiquette. There was an episode where Crusher and Picard are in his office, and he requests a cup of Earl Grey tea, hot. I found it rude that he didn’t offer Crusher anything. I mean, it’s not like he had to go hunt down a targ or anything.
Actually Picard orders his tea as, “Tea, Earl Grey, hot.”
My guess is that there are enough replicators throughout the ship that offering him something wasn’t necessary.
He’s such a diplomat, very tactful, I can’t see him ordering some refreshment without ordering some for his guest.