# Was the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) A - D a 'closed environmental system'? **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-the-uss-enterprise-ncc-1701-a-d-a-closed-environmental-system/943723 **Category:** Cafe Society **Tags:** tv-shows-scripted **Created:** [June 6, 2021, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-the-uss-enterprise-ncc-1701-a-d-a-closed-environmental-system/943723 "2021-06-06T21:23:55Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 54
### Author: ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train) #### Post date: [June 14, 2021, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-the-uss-enterprise-ncc-1701-a-d-a-closed-environmental-system/943723/54 "2021-06-14T17:44:56Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > It’s from the TNG episode Relics, the one with Scotty in it. He orders a scotch in Ten Forward, and says it tastes bad. > [@silenus](#): > > When Worf entered a security override so the fake Irishman could get real alcohol from the replicator, Danilo orders “whiskey.” No further qualifier. What did the computer produce? Although it is never explicitly described in show, in the extended canon, Costco Pepsi Beam Suntory emerged from the Post-Atomic Horror is the only producer of consumer goods and beverages, and maintains a monopolistic stranglehold on all of the patented replicator patterns available to the Starfleet. As a result, all “whiskey”, regardless of the style specified in the order, is a flavor reflecting a blend of Jim Beam Kentucky Dram, Canadian Club Bottom Barrel, and something called Kessler, which produces a beverage that is almost, but not entirely unlike anything a 20th century aficionado would recognize as any form of whiskey. This is why Romulan Ale, despite being made for a species that is so incompatible with humans that they actually use some kind of hemocyanin molecule for oxygen transport, is so prized and prohibited; as bad as it must be, it is at least a novel product that wasn’t made by the people who brought you Crystal Pepsi. Just be glad that the Coca-Cola Corporation lost the Eugenics Wars when it pegged its deterrence strategy on the triad of Fanta, Glacéau, Tab Clear. Stranger --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-the-uss-enterprise-ncc-1701-a-d-a-closed-environmental-system/943723)._