Moving from Burroughs’s mechanical cafeterias to a Star Trek-style food synthesizer was simply a matter of miniaturization, and, by 1933, David H. Keller was imagining “a small but complete ...

The 23rd century predecessors to replicators, known as food synthesizers operated on a similar principle, the main difference being that, while replicators could rearrange individual atoms to ...

In Star Trek's 23rd century, an era before food replicators, matter synthesizers can create foodstuffs for meals. Of course, everyone prefers real food prepared by an actual chef, like Captain ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. If future space travelers wish to make a cup of Earl Grey tea like Captain Jean-Luc Picard ...