In the future on Earth, money has no value because replicators can build almost anything. So all jobs are essentially done without profit. THis except, the replicator repairman.
Replicators have built in restrictions. Who thinks they can make perfect black tar heroin or a Fat Man nuclear device. Society couldn't function. Replicators must also be restricted from producing un-restricted replicators.
Enter the replicator repair man. He is the one who fixes replicators when they break down, since someone needs to be able to acquire parts. Which means an unscrupulous replicator repairman could fashion an unrestricted replicator.
He who has an unrestricted replicator and is ready to break the law could become an instant black marketeer. Which our protagonist does.
Phaser rifles, romulan ale, heroin, stimulants, those fucking pills that make woman look amazing? Shit ya. You get it from our protagonist. The replicator repairman. You expect the sidekick to be ferengi? Wrong motherfucker, SHE is born from a klingon male who rapes a vulcan female. So she is agressively sexual and cuthroat.
Imagine Star Trek, A scanner darkly and Breaking Bad mixed. That is this fucking show.
Actually the replicator wouldn't even make things free, because it would need some stock matter to convert into whatever you wanted. Also, since the elements have different sizes, you could just use any matter. A tank full of of carbon would only be able make a much smaller amount of uranium, because each uranium atom has many more protons/neutrons/electrons than Carbon. So In order to make the replicators effective, they'd have to be stocked with a large amount of atoms of a very heavy element. If replicators were common household items, it would take a lot of effort to feed that supply. So either they would be very expensive or restricted to people that needed them most like starfleet.
Landon Gomez
Getting too realistic ruins the series though. Just look at the dumpster fires after DS9 ended.
Kayden Collins
But couldn't the replicator just be like the Mr Fusion from Back to the future and run on garbage?
How much shit do you need to poop into a replicator fuel tank to build a unrestricted replicator.
Brandon King
Jesus fuck, are people really too stupid for original Trek now? The fucking replicator is a FUCKING APPLIANCE, like a goddamned toaster! It needs to get PLUGGED INTO an energy source. Does your toaster have a fucking tank?
Hence the FUSION REACTORS. The actual anti-matter reaction was only used for the Warp field, to .. you know... fold fucking SPACE AND TIME.
Well like I said you would need at least the correct number of protons, neutrons, and electrons. I'm not a chemistry or physics expert so I have no idea how that would actually work. If the thing you want to make is made out of pure carbon, then you couldn't make it if you only put in Hydrogen. That's because Hydrogen doesn't have any neutrons, and each carbon atom needs 6 in order to be stable. You would also need the energy to run it.
