[tarheelswamprat]

“Mr. Scott’s Guide to the Enterprise” that I still have, with enough info about the refit Enterprise to send any nerd to geek Nirvana. It even had floor plans for crew quarters, and there was a “refresher” in each one. Even some of the department maps (like recreation, IIRC) had refreshers on them.

The "refreshers" were probably the other half of the replicator system. "Whatever" needed to be disposed of could be recycled and rematerialized as whatever was needed, such as lunch or "tea, Earl Grey, hot"... /g

[Mr. Silverback]

In allseriousness, that’s how it should be. Since the replicator builds stuff atom by atom, you aren’t drinking poo, you’re dringking the same hydrogen, oxygen and carbon you would be if the tea were grown and made with fresh water.

But I wouldn’t write it into the series. :0

[Sloth]

“Number One, is it just me, or does this tea smell like, well, ‘Number One’?