@SmudgeTheInsultCat I was in a drunken, yet passionate argument on this topic about 25 years ago.
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What about the Romulans, Cardassians, Ferengi, Orions, Jem'Hadar, Kazar, etc.?
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The ferengi use — if I’ve understood correctly — a mossgrain flatbread pasted with tube grub puré.
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Before or after the females chew it for them?
@drakenblackknight naturally chewn by a female. Listen, when they say tube grub puré… That’s what that means.
@drakenblackknight @SmudgeTheInsultCat bread with something on one side which should not touch the ground is a universal dish, like thin dough bags filled with something. Almost any culture has developed something like that. Yautse, Pirogue, Maultaschen, etc
@SmudgeTheInsultCat Oh. I always thought they flung Mr. Data out of an airlock into empty space. Whichever way he was oriented after he stopped spinning and screaming was up. I stand corrected. Buttered toast it is.
@SmudgeTheInsultCat I saw an episode where a saboteur strapped the toast to a cat's back.
@SmudgeTheInsultCat FINALLY! A reasonable and completely logical explanation.
@SmudgeTheInsultCat the Kzinti are able to do this manually
@SmudgeTheInsultCat This skit from Alasdair Beckett-King does a good job of this too. Starts at 0.26 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9W7pvOLxmQ
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@SmudgeTheInsultCat That is the reason why Riker, in "All good things", disabled the buttered toast before attacking the Klingons from below.
@SmudgeTheInsultCat that was the reason to invent replicators for food. Dropping the toasts leads to severe wear (aka crumbling) and the crews got tired of smearing new ones.
@SmudgeTheInsultCat I'm irrationally mad that all the ships approach at the same angle now, as if all the solar systems were on the same plane. Fuck Earthen studios with Earth gravity!
@SmudgeTheInsultCat ships exploding in space is really the antimatter toast leaking out and eventually collapsing everything
@SmudgeTheInsultCat Galaxy class require an entire pizza.
@SmudgeTheInsultCat So nothing to do with the cost of the star ship?