glory to the caffeine

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That's how Janeway actually looks, they used CGI and practical effects to edit her eyes down to normal human caffeine levels.
- A-a-are you sure you want to say that, without checking first whether she's had her coffee today?
  
  She might decide to find coffee in your nebula!? :-P
  
  She turned the molecules that once formed my ass into her personal replicator coffee rations to teach me a lesson.
  I might be assless but at least I'm no longer being yelled at.
  And Im sure the transporter will malfunction at some point & give me someone else's ass.
  \ (In hoping for spandex)

Tastiness changes erryone's minds 😋

Nah. Janeway would call it weak and pour it out.
Janeway's coffee is made from ground up steel.
- Ground up steel? I heard it was depleted warp plasma.
  
  That's the creamer.
  
  depleted warp plasma.
  Photon torpedoes. That's why Voy was always short on these
- Nah. Janeway would call it weak and pour it out.
  Janeway's coffee is made from ground up ~~steel~~Tuvix.
  Mmmmmmm such an exotic blend.
  
  She only did that because she was out of nebula.
  Only nebulae can charge up the replicators to provide ground steel at the purity she expects.

What's in raktajino, anyway? It's not caffeine; there are plenty of high-caffeine drinks - hell, I can make an awful-tasting, but high-caffeine espresso with what I have set up at home. And you can pretty easily consume enough caffeine to kill you; it is toxic, we just don't consume it at high enough concentrations.
I have the same question about Romulan Ale. Everclear is 190 proof - 95% ABV. You can go to a liquor store today and buy almost pure alcohol. It's nasty, but you can't get any more than 100% alcohol, and Everclear is pretty close. So what is the stimulant in Romulan Ale, b/c it probably isn't alcohol.
- Why can it not be caffeine? I don't understand the reasoning behind that. Raktajino might be just another high-caffeine drink with a special taste.
  
  Because it's always presented as being super-coffee, chemically. Good coffee is good coffee, but there's no universally great brewing method that always produces superior coffee. You can make bad pour-over, bad espresso, bad American, bad cold brew. But all Raktajino is apparently incredible and strong. I can make 8 shots of espresso, put it in a cup, and it'll taste strong and maybe give you heart palpitations by the time you finish it. But it won't be necessarily good. And it might not even taste as good as espresso made by James Hoffman.
  The more I think about it, the more I think the key molecule in Raktajino isn't caffeine. It's probably something like amphetamines.
- It’s like the lemonade at Panera.
- I imagine - for the thrill, that raktajino comes from similar grain to kopi luvak irl. Digested and pooped by targs and harvested for ahot cups of klingon coffee 🫠
  
  Oh, so it's the Klingon equivalent of civet coffee.

Lightweights
- Yee hot cuppa of 'jino and the reports... That's what former resistance fighters love in the morning
  
  That's what former resistance fighters love in the morning
  Lol, Kira probably grew up on the stuff.

Those eyes remind me of Monty Python's Complete Waste Of Time
- Oh fuck, Terry Gilliam's cutout animations were terrifying sometimes
  May the Prophets forgive you my child for linking this image 🪄

janeway one prob comes after the "year of hell" 💀
- One thing that never made sense about Year of Hell.
  If breaking the equipment reset the timeline... Wouldn't the timeline eventually reset at some point anyway? Like... Nothing lasts forever, so eventually it would have broken, either through accident, damage, or just entropy. So... Wouldn't the timeline just reset no matter what they did?
  
  Stop asking questions. This is Voyager. They pressed the big reset button.
  
  Anorax’s ship existed outside normal time and space. The ship would have lasted forever with Anorax continually tweaking the timeline if Kathy hadn’t done her thing.