There was a time, I think, when American media tried to draw a hard line. You'd have, like, Ben Bova and Asimov on one side, and George Lucas and Gene Roddenberry on the other. Mostly that was from about the 1970s through the 1990s, as far as I can tell.
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The thing being, of course, this isn't actually a "realistic" setting -- any more than it'd be realistic to imagine our world as being exactly like the year 1750 with the one exception of having invented diesel engines, or radio transmitters
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And for a show like Star Trek the nonsense universe-breaking ability of the transporter to just take things apart at the atomic level and rebuild them arbitrarily is half the fun What would Star Trek fandom even be without the Tuvix Debate
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The plates would degrade after a few hours and put back into the replicator for matter reclamation. It's less a plate and more an extension of the food.
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I mean this was the mass effect element zero approach.
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But then mass effect both also had actual psychic stuff and in at least one place just used biotics in the plot as a stand in for like general telepathy
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*Q pops in with the mariachi band from that one episode* "Here's what *I* think they should do-"
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