Maybe I missed an episode or something but I don’t think I’ve ever seen any replicators except food ones.
Two off the top of my head.
TNG “Data’s Day”: we see Data and Worf in a replimat while Worf picks out a wedding gift for Miles and Keiko. A family in the background picks out a new stuffed toy for the kid.
ENT “Dead Stop”: the mysterious repair station has large arms with industrial replicators that fabricate and install entire ship pieces at once.
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Industrial_replicator
They were mentioned in DS9 a few times.
Dammit, Eddington. We know that’s you spilling these secrets!
What are you up to, Javert?
Prodigy shows that the Startship Protostar has a replicator on the ship itself that they use to replicate shuttles.
Didn’t Prodigy show one in a cargo bay making a shuttlecraft? My memory is a bit hazy.
It did! in a kinda cool replicator fight scene
I never got around to watching prodigy. I’ll look into this
i bet a lot of furniture is designed to be modular too/different designs for “DIY” (absolutely just my headcannon)
It’s not canon, but in the novel Metamorphosis, crewman visit Data’s cabin to install a bed.
I recall he ordered it from the replicator center. I imagine they had large replicators for furnature, then beamed it to his quarters.
The star yards where they build starships are the biggest replicators they have ever shown. Unless you count that one planet with an automated system selling weapons of war as a planet sized replicator.
There was that one in Enterprise that tries to capture Mayweather to be part of its computer.
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Why not just use the transporter pads?
Throughout the show, we see the replicators both materialize and dematerialize things. Janeway gets her coffee, it comes in a mug, when she’s done drinking, she puts the mug back in the replicator and says “Computer, recycle.”
So why couldn’t you use the transporter to do that for larger objects?
Does it also render cargo bays pointless? Can any material just be dematerialized, the data stored and then replicated later?
