An upgraded comment meme from DS9 s4e10 “Our Man Bashir”
Replicator technology is so overpowered that star trek almost always steers clear of actually using it for anything useful, so I’m not sure why they decided to do it in this one episode. Like with replicator technology you could have an essentially infinite number of enterprises, or make a million billion defiants. You could build a self-replicating clown car and quickly bury the entire surface of a planet in a pile of clown cars that’s 3 miles high.
The only things it needs are power and base material.
The problem with complex things like starships and the like are some things can’t be replicated, they have to be manufactured, refined, or otherwise produced.
Gotta have something to cripple how overpowered they are.
That’s what people have said, but when you look at the objects being replicated on the show you see that it isn’t true.
Well you see, the people in charge of tuning the replicator just need to be motivated by death, and then they’ll find a workaround for literally any shortcoming!
Cant replicate a phased electron catalyzer and we don’t have a backup? Well if you don’t, everyone on this ship and that planet are dead in 20 minutes, so just invert the hadron matrix and it won’t be a problem anymore!
(repeat every other season)
Hah exactly
