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Maybe I missed an episode or something but I don't think I've ever seen any replicators except food ones.

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[–] cattywampas@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week ago

Two off the top of my head.

TNG "Data's Day": we see Data and Worf in a replimat while Worf picks out a wedding gift for Miles and Keiko. A family in the background picks out a new stuffed toy for the kid.

ENT "Dead Stop": the mysterious repair station has large arms with industrial replicators that fabricate and install entire ship pieces at once.

[–] Apeman42@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] j4yc33@piefed.social 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Dammit, Eddington. We know that's you spilling these secrets!

[–] crimson_iris@piefed.social 3 points 1 week ago

What are you up to, Javert?

[–] wjrii@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Didn't Prodigy show one in a cargo bay making a shuttlecraft? My memory is a bit hazy.

[–] j4yc33@piefed.social 7 points 1 week ago

It did! in a kinda cool replicator fight scene

[–] daannii@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

I never got around to watching prodigy. I'll look into this

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

The star yards where they build starships are the biggest replicators they have ever shown. Unless you count that one planet with an automated system selling weapons of war as a planet sized replicator.

[–] j4yc33@piefed.social 5 points 1 week ago

There was that one in Enterprise that tries to capture Mayweather to be part of its computer.

#SentencesINeverThoughtIWouldWrite

[–] librekitty@lemmy.today 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

i bet a lot of furniture is designed to be modular too/different designs for "DIY" (absolutely just my headcannon)

[–] limelight79@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's not canon, but in the novel Metamorphosis, crewman visit Data's cabin to install a bed.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 2 points 6 days ago

I recall he ordered it from the replicator center. I imagine they had large replicators for furnature, then beamed it to his quarters.

[–] Maven@piefed.zip 4 points 1 week ago

Prodigy shows that the Startship Protostar has a replicator on the ship itself that they use to replicate shuttles.

Why not just use the transporter pads?

Throughout the show, we see the replicators both materialize and dematerialize things. Janeway gets her coffee, it comes in a mug, when she's done drinking, she puts the mug back in the replicator and says "Computer, recycle."

So why couldn't you use the transporter to do that for larger objects?

Does it also render cargo bays pointless? Can any material just be dematerialized, the data stored and then replicated later?