I always loved that … in an age of replicator technology, instant manufacturing and duplication, automated systems and digital recreations … no one ever finds it unusual that there is an individual of the species that was a former military opponent posing as an old school clothing merchant on a space station.
It would be like having a simple humble scientist from 1940s Germany working as a common rocket engineer in the American space program in the 1960s … weird right?
View it as a luxury service. Even in a world with replicators, people enjoy cooking but see it as more special. Getting your clothing made or adjusted by a tailor is also a sort of luxury. There’s a certain touch that comes with a person creating a thing that you can’t get from a computer.
I always loved that … in an age of replicator technology, instant manufacturing and duplication, automated systems and digital recreations … no one ever finds it unusual that there is an individual of the species that was a former military opponent posing as an old school clothing merchant on a space station.
It would be like having a simple humble scientist from 1940s Germany working as a common rocket engineer in the American space program in the 1960s … weird right?
To quote Lower Decks:
Mariner: I think it was the chef in the biolab with the sniper rifle that can shoot through walls.
Freeman: You always pick the chef.
Mariner: Yeah, because we have replicators. Why is there a chef? That’s just shady.
View it as a luxury service. Even in a world with replicators, people enjoy cooking but see it as more special. Getting your clothing made or adjusted by a tailor is also a sort of luxury. There’s a certain touch that comes with a person creating a thing that you can’t get from a computer.