>>86392961But Dilithium IS supposed to be a resource that the engines spend over time and requires replacing, isn't it? It's like, the only thing close to a fuel source that a Federation starship is ever mentioned needing.
So if you can restore them using 20th century technology, then I ask again, how would the Voyager EVER run out of resources?
I mean sure, if they were damaged enough, they'd need to find a dock for repairs, but people complain all the time about them never running out of photon torpedoes or shuttlecraft, but what's actually stopping them from constantly building more?
"building material" isn't even a problem because replicators work by using transporter tech to change the atoms of something into something else. They make food out of the ship's garbage. What's stopping them from beaming up a giant slab of any god damned kind of rock from the nearest planet and turning dirt into steaks, potatoes, warp coils, and torpedo parts?
In fact, speaking of transporter capabilities, here's something I always wondered: what's stopping them from cloning dead crewmembers? I mean there is that whole philosophical argument of "what if every time someone is beamed up, they're not actually the same person, they just died and then were recreated when their molecules were disassembled and reassembled?"
