I always imagined that his 'restaurant' is essentially a hobby he happens to get requisitioned a shop, source the food himself from people whom run hobby farms and fisheries and the like in order to deliver as close an 'authentic' experience as possible and those people get first reservations followed by friends, locals and those interested. Novel, but even in that could earth really ever have the sheer logistics to allow billions of people to exist in such a fashion?
Let's be honest, DS9 makes trekkies nervous with it's introspection so any attempt to closely scrutinize absolutely any aspect of the universes workings outside of 'it just works, ok nerd!?' makes cracks start to form.
Indeed but it was made a point that some, particularly older folks prefer grown food to replicated. So who determines who gets farmland on earth, or restaurant space in new Orleans? Is it first come first serve, hereditary or on a space share?
I mean even with seizing the means of production from reality itself there's going to be intangibles that cant be solved with a replicator. These space empires are fighting for territory and resources after all.
when I was younger I hated the introduction of the section 31 that went completely opposite of the theme of previous trek shows. now knowing what I know, deep space 9? more like deep state 9!
I'm going for added irony with this one since this character had cooking as a plot centric skillset at times.
I always imagined that his 'restaurant' is essentially a hobby he happens to get requisitioned a shop, source the food himself from people whom run hobby farms and fisheries and the like in order to deliver as close an 'authentic' experience as possible and those people get first reservations followed by friends, locals and those interested. Novel, but even in that could earth really ever have the sheer logistics to allow billions of people to exist in such a fashion?
Let's be honest, DS9 makes trekkies nervous with it's introspection so any attempt to closely scrutinize absolutely any aspect of the universes workings outside of 'it just works, ok nerd!?' makes cracks start to form.
it's supposed to be a perfect post scarcity society where energy = matter, so anything they want they can just materialize.
Indeed but it was made a point that some, particularly older folks prefer grown food to replicated. So who determines who gets farmland on earth, or restaurant space in new Orleans? Is it first come first serve, hereditary or on a space share?
I mean even with seizing the means of production from reality itself there's going to be intangibles that cant be solved with a replicator. These space empires are fighting for territory and resources after all.
when I was younger I hated the introduction of the section 31 that went completely opposite of the theme of previous trek shows. now knowing what I know, deep space 9? more like deep state 9!