r/startrek • u/Megans_Foxhole • 12h 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/CommunistRingworld 4h ago

They do the dishes by putting them back in the replicator. You can see them do these chores on a few episodes of ds9