I’m still sticking to the idea that strawberry juice just isn’t economical to make or sell. After all, juice manufacturers seem to be able to make strawberry-kiwi drinks or strawberry-orange-banana drinks just fine. There is a Strawberry C Monster drink made by Odwalla, too; however, it is not 100% strawberry juice.
We know how to get the juice on a large scale, then. We just don’t have a way to make it sell on its own.
What the hell? I’m as big a Trekkie as they come and the Marissa Picard reference is flying right over my head. I don’t recognize it at all. Some scene from *Family *?
Um. And I agree with **Fish ** that it’s uneconomical, just to try to stay on topic…
Basically, the cough author has taken a minor once-off character (Marrissa Flores, the little girl stuck in the turbolift with Picard in Disaster) and turned her into the absurdist centerpiece of an entire alternate Trekiverse, where 12-year-olds are made ensign and given command of a “Kids’ Crew” capable of phasering the words “I was beaten by a bunch of kids” into Gul Dukat’s starship. And that’s only the beginning…
I add more years onto my sentence in Hell every time I share that link.