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I find myself wondering if it would have been practical to replicate a viable coffee plant seed from a recorded coffee genome, and then grow coffee beans directly in the ship’s arboretum (assuming for the sake of argument they had one, or could construct one).
But then you’re into how difficult it is to replicate viable coffee growing conditions onboard a ship, and it might not even be more efficient than direct replication anyway.
then grow coffee beans directly in the ship’s arboretum (assuming for the sake of argument they had one, or could construct one)
Voyager definitely had an “aeroponics lab”. But I know absolutely nothing about botany/horticulture, so I have no idea whether or not a coffee plant is able to be grown in that kind of environment.
I find myself wondering if it would have been practical to replicate a viable coffee plant seed from a recorded coffee genome, and then grow coffee beans directly in the ship’s arboretum (assuming for the sake of argument they had one, or could construct one).
But then you’re into how difficult it is to replicate viable coffee growing conditions onboard a ship, and it might not even be more efficient than direct replication anyway.
Voyager definitely had an “aeroponics lab”. But I know absolutely nothing about botany/horticulture, so I have no idea whether or not a coffee plant is able to be grown in that kind of environment.