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Long of the short, I was inspired by this video by Two Bit DiVinci:

youtu.be/qH0ysXosCuQ

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About a new way to produce food through precision fermentation and cellular farming. How it works is in the video, but it uses genetically modified yeast to grow non-GMO foods like meat and other foods like vanilla and milk -- according to the video.

And as the video said, it's been used since the 1970's for the production of insulin and vanilla.

The best part, 80% less energy, 90% less water, 94% less feedstock, 99% less land.

And I wouldn't be surprised that's what was feeding Earth between 2063 and 2151, while most of the land was being reclaimed by nature, and before protein resequencers -- let alone food synthesizers and replicators.

This also means the Picard family vineyard can still remain without any consequence at all to the environment, even to the beginning of the 25th century.

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Before I get way too technical, I'm showing all the food production facilities on the Bonhomme Richard class starship as it's more extensive than the Constitution class, and the reasons why later on.

Unlike the Constitution class that has 430 people, the Bonhomme Richard class only has 350. And unlike the Connie that can handle up to 114 passengers, the Bonny can only handle up to 16 passengers comfortably. But the corridors can have cots opened from the TMP style corridors that can handle refugees and survivors. As well as the guest quarters and privacy lounges can be set up for ICUs for non-critical cases.

Three quarters of deck 4 is allocated to aeroponics. As well as 2 smaller compartments on deck 5, and 6 compartments on deck 6 all dedicated to aeroponics.

This doesn't include the integrated gardens in the officer's lounge on deck 3, the mini-parks attached to 2 of the mess halls on deck 6, the gardens on the recreation deck on deck 9, nor the arboretum on deck 20 -- and that kinda does a Frankenstein thing with the orchards for apples, oranges, lemons, etc.

Deck 5 had the bioreactors to grow algae, kelp and seaweed for the food synthesizers, but remade them here for cellular farming using precision fermentation. This because unlike Vulcans, humans are not geared up to be put on a strict vegetarian diet.

And since Vulcans can consume meat as with Tavin on, "Fusion," we can assume Vulcans are omnivores, but chosen the vegetarian ways. This is further enforced by Mestral wanting to kill a deer for food after he, T'Mir and Stron were marooned on Earth on, "Carbon Creek." So we can guess they adapted over time.

Back on topic, with the cellular farming, the crew can grow meat and other consumables like milk and egg whites -- according to the video -- to get the meat they need in their diets. Since they most likely need living cells, they probably keep them in stasis to be grown later for food. Which would explain why they had to rely on meatloaf instead of turkey for Thanksgiving on, "Charlie X."

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Now onto the technical stuff.

According to this site:

worldbuilding.stackexchange.co…

You can feed on the outside 49,210 people on a diet of sweet potatoes using aeroponics in an area of 1 square kilometre -- and I'm not a fan of sweet potatoes. Either way, that translates into ~20 square metres per person. So to feed a crew of 430, you need an area of at least 8738 square metres.

Meaning for aeroponics to feed 430 people, you'd need about 69% of the total floor area of deck 6 including corridors, turboshafts, and impulse engineering.

The purple ring shows the outside of the ring being the diameter of the original Constitution class, and the hollow part of the ring being how much is needed for aeroponic crops to feed 430. Which makes sense why the Kelvin timeline Enterprise doesn't have the concave under saucer, and it's smooth flat. That might allow for the necessary for a sustainable aeroponic garden if that Enterprise was relatively the same scale, even the Strange New Worlds Enterprise.

The scary part, aeroponics uses only 5% of the land when compared to conventional farming. But cellular farming uses only 1% of conventional farming, and the video also claims that you can also grow plant material this way as well. But I don't know if it used less land as aeroponics or not.

This is just sweet potatoes, nothing else. And I prefer having a variety.

Since it uses a hell of a lot less space than for grazing livestock, then what's shown on the Bonhomme Richard class is probably the minimum they need in terms of a balanced diet of meat and produce, as well as the need for occasional resupply missions as on, "Tomorrow is Yesterday." Especially grains as they still need grains like quadrotriticale for Sherman's planet on, "The Trouble With Tribbles."

FYI, quadrotriticale goes further back than 1954 Canada, but to Scotland and Germany in the 19th century. Something Spock should review.

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Oh, on the Enterprise-D that houses 1012 people, along with several cats including Spot, if we reduce the usable aeroponic space to 20,000 people per 1 square kilometre to add a greater variety in produce, then the Enterprise-D would need at least 50,600m2 for aeroponics, let alone cellular farming.

If we use the major and minor axis of 470m and 385m on deck 9 -- not including the removal of the impulse engine and stardrive docking stations -- is about 142,000m2. 35% of deck 9 only with lots of room for say internal parks on decks 6 and 7 with deck 8 that might be a soil layer, but still having an atrium not to dissimilar to this:

movies.trekcore.com/gallery/al…

And deck 8 could still be the lowest park level with deck 9 being the soil as aeroponics could go up to deck 8 as well.

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The only other issue is what feeds the GMO yeast?

I see 2 possibilities. They are fed from the algae, kelp and seaweed in the bioreactors that also recycles the sanitary wastes, or the generate synthetic C6H12O6 -- glucose -- that's manufactured from the ship's captured CO2 from life support and the fermentation process, and the stored water supply. Which each glucose molecule made releases 6 O2 molecules.

The former I think makes more sense the video doesn't have all the details.

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But overall, you can see why bioreactors and food synthesizers makes a lot more sense. Even with genetic samples in storage, they still need to restock once in a while.

It also makes more sense either way than packaged foods.

If each crew member eats 3 Hungry Man meals a day, then you need 2,400,000 of them to last 5 years assuming they figured out how to get around the expiry date problem.

If the meals were on standard 40" x 48" skids, that's 24 meals per layer on a 10" x 8" x 1.5" package. Assuming 48" high per skid, 768 meals. That's not even 2 meals for the crew.

Anyways, that's 3125 skids of meals. If not stacked, 3871 square metres.

The good news is that only occupies about 30% of deck 6. And with the Bosch reaction:

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosch_…

They can easily recycle their oxygen supply.

But I think it's safe to say that the Enterprise uses all 3.

Albeit the NX class with a crew of 82 and a beagle, it only needs 28% of deck 5 to supply aeroponics, and 235 skids of Hunger Man meals, same dimensions, as the NX-01 Enterprise is only geared up for 2 years. That's 235 skids, only 291 square metres, or 2% of deck 5.

And stores it's oxygen and waste CO2 in tanks on here:

www.deviantart.com/newdivide17…

And seeing the stakes raised even more if either of those O2 tanks were ruptured during season 3.

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But for Travis Mayweather spending 4th, 5th and 6th grade to reach Trillius Prime, they needed some way to grow food and recycle oxygen. And without protein resequencers, aeroponics and cellular farming would be the best options.

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As to why didn't Star Trek predict this? As with most science fiction, they don't really predict so much as they inspire. Added they rely on what is known. It's why 1993's Babylon 5 said hydroponics as at the time, most writers didn't know about aeroponics despite being invented in 1957.

Not to mention there are many things today that didn't exist back in 1966 that are commonplace today. Hence the need to try to work around much of the outdated information with as little retconning as possible.

So we can forgive a lot of science fiction for looking so dated, as the video on cellular farming came out recently.

Description
I was having trouble uploading this image:

www.deviantart.com/newdivide17…

Where the app was refusing to upload it, so I did it through the website on my phone. The description was on the site, but not the app.

Long of the short, I was inspired by this video by Two Bit DiVinci:

youtu.be/qH0ysXosCuQ

With sponsors:

-----------------------------------------------------------------

www.paypal.com/paypalme/newdiv…

e-transfer: newdivide1701@yahoo.ca

-----------------------------------------------------------------

About a new way to produce food through precision fermentation and cellular farming. How it works is in the video, but it uses genetically modified yeast to grow non-GMO foods like meat and other foods like vanilla and milk -- according to the video.

And as the video said, it's been used since the 1970's for the production of insulin and vanilla.

The best part, 80% less energy, 90% less water, 94% less feedstock, 99% less land.

And I wouldn't be surprised that's what was feeding Earth between 2063 and 2151, while most of the land was being reclaimed by nature, and before protein resequencers -- let alone food synthesizers and replicators.

This also means the Picard family vineyard can still remain without any consequence at all to the environment, even to the beginning of the 25th century.

tng.trekcore.com/hd/albums/sea…

tng.trekcore.com/gallery/album…

picard.trekcore.com/gallery/al…

picard.trekcore.com/gallery/al…

--------------------------------------------------

Before I get way too technical, I'm showing all the food production facilities on the Bonhomme Richard class starship as it's more extensive than the Constitution class, and the reasons why later on.

Unlike the Constitution class that has 430 people, the Bonhomme Richard class only has 350. And unlike the Connie that can handle up to 114 passengers, the Bonny can only handle up to 16 passengers comfortably. But the corridors can have cots opened from the TMP style corridors that can handle refugees and survivors. As well as the guest quarters and privacy lounges can be set up for ICUs for non-critical cases.

Three quarters of deck 4 is allocated to aeroponics. As well as 2 smaller compartments on deck 5, and 6 compartments on deck 6 all dedicated to aeroponics.

This doesn't include the integrated gardens in the officer's lounge on deck 3, the mini-parks attached to 2 of the mess halls on deck 6, the gardens on the recreation deck on deck 9, nor the arboretum on deck 20 -- and that kinda does a Frankenstein thing with the orchards for apples, oranges, lemons, etc.

Deck 5 had the bioreactors to grow algae, kelp and seaweed for the food synthesizers, but remade them here for cellular farming using precision fermentation. This because unlike Vulcans, humans are not geared up to be put on a strict vegetarian diet.

And since Vulcans can consume meat as with Tavin on, "Fusion," we can assume Vulcans are omnivores, but chosen the vegetarian ways. This is further enforced by Mestral wanting to kill a deer for food after he, T'Mir and Stron were marooned on Earth on, "Carbon Creek." So we can guess they adapted over time.

Back on topic, with the cellular farming, the crew can grow meat and other consumables like milk and egg whites -- according to the video -- to get the meat they need in their diets. Since they most likely need living cells, they probably keep them in stasis to be grown later for food. Which would explain why they had to rely on meatloaf instead of turkey for Thanksgiving on, "Charlie X."

--------------------------------------------------

Now onto the technical stuff.

According to this site:

worldbuilding.stackexchange.co…

You can feed on the outside 49,210 people on a diet of sweet potatoes using aeroponics in an area of 1 square kilometre -- and I'm not a fan of sweet potatoes. Either way, that translates into ~20 square metres per person. So to feed a crew of 430, you need an area of at least 8738 square metres.

Meaning for aeroponics to feed 430 people, you'd need about 69% of the total floor area of deck 6 including corridors, turboshafts, and impulse engineering.

The purple ring shows the outside of the ring being the diameter of the original Constitution class, and the hollow part of the ring being how much is needed for aeroponic crops to feed 430. Which makes sense why the Kelvin timeline Enterprise doesn't have the concave under saucer, and it's smooth flat. That might allow for the necessary for a sustainable aeroponic garden if that Enterprise was relatively the same scale, even the Strange New Worlds Enterprise.

The scary part, aeroponics uses only 5% of the land when compared to conventional farming. But cellular farming uses only 1% of conventional farming, and the video also claims that you can also grow plant material this way as well. But I don't know if it used less land as aeroponics or not.

This is just sweet potatoes, nothing else. And I prefer having a variety.

Since it uses a hell of a lot less space than for grazing livestock, then what's shown on the Bonhomme Richard class is probably the minimum they need in terms of a balanced diet of meat and produce, as well as the need for occasional resupply missions as on, "Tomorrow is Yesterday." Especially grains as they still need grains like quadrotriticale for Sherman's planet on, "The Trouble With Tribbles."

FYI, quadrotriticale goes further back than 1954 Canada, but to Scotland and Germany in the 19th century. Something Spock should review.

--------------------------------------------------

Oh, on the Enterprise-D that houses 1012 people, along with several cats including Spot, if we reduce the usable aeroponic space to 20,000 people per 1 square kilometre to add a greater variety in produce, then the Enterprise-D would need at least 50,600m2 for aeroponics, let alone cellular farming.

If we use the major and minor axis of 470m and 385m on deck 9 -- not including the removal of the impulse engine and stardrive docking stations -- is about 142,000m2. 35% of deck 9 only with lots of room for say internal parks on decks 6 and 7 with deck 8 that might be a soil layer, but still having an atrium not to dissimilar to this:

movies.trekcore.com/gallery/al…

And deck 8 could still be the lowest park level with deck 9 being the soil as aeroponics could go up to deck 8 as well.

--------------------------------------------------

The only other issue is what feeds the GMO yeast?

I see 2 possibilities. They are fed from the algae, kelp and seaweed in the bioreactors that also recycles the sanitary wastes, or the generate synthetic C6H12O6 -- glucose -- that's manufactured from the ship's captured CO2 from life support and the fermentation process, and the stored water supply. Which each glucose molecule made releases 6 O2 molecules.

The former I think makes more sense the video doesn't have all the details.

--------------------------------------------------

But overall, you can see why bioreactors and food synthesizers makes a lot more sense. Even with genetic samples in storage, they still need to restock once in a while.

It also makes more sense either way than packaged foods.

If each crew member eats 3 Hungry Man meals a day, then you need 2,400,000 of them to last 5 years assuming they figured out how to get around the expiry date problem.

If the meals were on standard 40" x 48" skids, that's 24 meals per layer on a 10" x 8" x 1.5" package. Assuming 48" high per skid, 768 meals. That's not even 2 meals for the crew.

Anyways, that's 3125 skids of meals. If not stacked, 3871 square metres.

The good news is that only occupies about 30% of deck 6. And with the Bosch reaction:

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosch_…

They can easily recycle their oxygen supply.

But I think it's safe to say that the Enterprise uses all 3.

Albeit the NX class with a crew of 82 and a beagle, it only needs 28% of deck 5 to supply aeroponics, and 235 skids of Hunger Man meals, same dimensions, as the NX-01 Enterprise is only geared up for 2 years. That's 235 skids, only 291 square metres, or 2% of deck 5.

And stores it's oxygen and waste CO2 in tanks on here:

www.deviantart.com/newdivide17…

And seeing the stakes raised even more if either of those O2 tanks were ruptured during season 3.

--------------------------------------------------

But for Travis Mayweather spending 4th, 5th and 6th grade to reach Trillius Prime, they needed some way to grow food and recycle oxygen. And without protein resequencers, aeroponics and cellular farming would be the best options.

--------------------------------------------------

As to why didn't Star Trek predict this? As with most science fiction, they don't really predict so much as they inspire. Added they rely on what is known. It's why 1993's Babylon 5 said hydroponics as at the time, most writers didn't know about aeroponics despite being invented in 1957.

Not to mention there are many things today that didn't exist back in 1966 that are commonplace today. Hence the need to try to work around much of the outdated information with as little retconning as possible.

So we can forgive a lot of science fiction for looking so dated, as the video on cellular farming came out recently.