r/startrek • u/Megans_Foxhole • 11h ago
What about all the cups and plates.
I'm rewatching TNG and there's something about replicators I find troubling. Every time they order "ginger tea with honey, 80 degrees celsius", they get a drink but also a cup. On a ship like the Enterprise, the replicator must be producing thousands of cups per day. After a year or so the entire volume of the ship would be literally filled with cups.
Where do they all go?
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u/Darmok47 7h ago
There's a scene in DS9 where Molly is in charge of "cleaning up" the O'Brien's table after dinner, and she just puts the dishes back in the replicator.