Just like Neelix’s cooking. Or any Klingon dish, for that matter.
Do not play with your food! It will continue to perform the tricks you teach it in your stomach!
I loved that book. Basically, they didn’t have the large storage available to keep the coffee fresh, so they half-transported the coffee and kept the patterns in the transporter until needed. That way, they were able to carry more coffee and keep it fresh. Probably why, in Voyager, Janeway was always jonesing for a cup of java…they had to clean out the transporter to save energy.
Correct. There was a scene where Molly was done eating, and she put her dishes in the replicator and they were “dematerialized.”
It’s intoxicating (or it was when it first appeared in TNG) but its effects can be easily willed away supposedly.
Holy crap - I bow to your Trekkishness!
But the point is, actual coffee had to be stored, however they did it, because the replicator couldn’t make good coffee.
Same reason some people drink non-alcoholic beer, I suppose…
I don’t recall anyone on The Next Generation being married.
I thought that non-alcoholic beer existed so that the designated driver could have something a bit more manly than a Diet Coke.
Nah, real men designated drivers don’t screw around. They drink chicory coffee. 
I believe Chief O’Brien got married during the course of the show (to one of the nurses, IIRC), they both transfer to DS9 after the 6th season of TNG.
Worf and Riker were also married (no, not to eachother you pervey slash fiends! :eek: ), but not during the course of TNG itself.
O’Brien married not a nurse, but a botanist, Keiko. They had a traditional Japanese wedding in Ten Forward, and Captain Picard officiated. Later, on DS9, Miles and Keiko have two children, Molly and Kirayoshi. The latter of the two is partially named after Kira, since she carried the baby to term after Keiko was injured in a shuttle accident. [/huge geek]
As said, Keiko Ishikawa is a botanist. You’re thinking of Alyssa Ogawa.
Keiko, had her first child on the Enterprize. The baby was delivered by Worf because the ship had suffered a massive breakdown and they were stuck in Ten Foward.
Bow to my Trekness!!
My last 3 computers are all the same technology.
Attempting to play Warcraft III on my two-times prior one would have caused the damn thing to commit seppuku, although it runs fine on this one.
The same with the transporters and replicators. Transporters are a whole other level of power compared to replicators. (For various reasons, the most important being, it just doesn’t NEED to be as powerful. You only need transporter-level quality when transporting (and, really, only when transporting living organisms, or a handful of materials). Real coffee, chocolate, whatever, is easy enough to get that the replicated kind being inferior isn’t that big a deal.)
Which was a much more interesting way of incorporating Nana Visitor’s pregnancy than having Kira get pregnant, I must say.
The father was none other than Alexander/Siddig El/Fadil/Siddig, AKA Dr. Bashir. They later married, but sadly, are now divorced.
Sí. At one point during her labor with Kirayoshi, Kira even snaps “this is all your fault!” at Julian.
It’s a favorite moment of mine.
It was not a breakdown. The ship was damaged by impact with a quantum filament (which is a completely different phenomenon than a quantum string). Worf cut the umbilical cord with a phaser. Molly went on to stumble through a hole in time, and to meet Rumpestiltskin.
I always thought it kinda amusing that there were scenes of Siddig pretending to administer prenatal care to his own child.
And I will never bow to the Trekness of others, because I knew without checking that the episode was titled “Disaster” and can recite the major plot points from memory.