Both B5 and DS9 had bars on station, but have and space stations have a fast food restaurant?

  • @Dabundis@lemmy.world
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    322 months ago

    There’s at least one instance on futurama where a space ship is flown through a drive-through that’s just out in the vacuum of space

      • @TexasDrunk@lemmy.world
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        142 months ago

        Pop a Poppler in your mouth,

        When you come to Fishy Joe’s.

        What they’re made of is a mystery,

        Where they come from, no one knows.

        You can pick 'em, you can lick 'em,

        You can chew 'em, you can stick 'em,

        And if you promise not to sue us,

        You can shove one up your nose.

  • GreyShuck
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    272 months ago

    Doctor who (2005) s01e07 - Kronkburgers on Satellite 5 in the opening scenes.

  • teft
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    192 months ago

    There is a jumja kiosk on the DS9 promenade. It also had a bunch of different restaurants. Klingon and Bajoran are the two i remember off the top of my head.

  • @StrawberryPigtails
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    182 months ago

    I seem to remember a scene in Babylon 5 where Vir got sick eating at a place that sounded like a rebranded McDonalds. Londo was chastising him saying you know Centauri stomachs can’t handle fast food. I wish I had time to rewatch that show.

    • @deegeese@sopuli.xyz
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      152 months ago

      The Minbari fast food restaurant in brown sector named McBari’s with the golden head bone. S5E14

  • @neidu2@feddit.nl
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    2 months ago

    ISS orbits at ~7.66km/s, so technically any pictured food up there can be considered fast food.

  • @EABOD25@lemm.ee
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    162 months ago

    That one is difficult because in star trek they had replicators that could make any food instantly. I’ve never actually watch B5, so can’t speak on that, but at least in the star trek universe, fast food would be pointless unless it was in the Delta or Gamma quadrants because it was never spoken about with the residents there. Good question though

    • @deegeese@sopuli.xyz
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      122 months ago

      Voyager mentioned several times that replicator technology was not widely known in the Delta quadrant. They had Neelix cooking slow food to save on replicator energy usage. There were plot points of possible technology trade with the Kazon and others.

    • @xuv@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      2 months ago

      Star Trek still has traditionalists and hobbyists that prepare food without replicators. Sisko’s father famously ran a Cajun restaurant in New Orleans. I wouldn’t be surprised if someone ran a fast food burger shop because “the fries just don’t crunch the same from a replicator” or something.

      It also would be possible to have something like a replicator kiosk shop, which would be like fast food.

      There are a few restaurants mentioned on the wiki, but they don’t distinguish between traditional preparation and replicator food (it includes Quark’s on the list). None of the space ones look like fast food though. https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Restaurant

    • skulblaka
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      52 months ago

      Came here to say this. Expanse hits the notes of “real people actually live on this ship/station” way more than any other sci-fi I’ve consumed. Fast food, bars, brothels, restrooms, storage and maintenance areas, all of these are specifically called out at most stations.

      • @jpreston2005@lemmy.world
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        52 months ago

        I noticed this too, The Expanse does that so well, really fleshing out what life would be like living as a grunt in The Belt. They had their own culture, their own sayings, their own food. Like any colony, it gave host to any number of establishments meant to provide a bit of comfort out in the inky black nothing. The shared suffering also gave them a sense of community, which is a powerful motivator when the far off motherland starts imposing increasingly burdensome levies… Makes you want to grab the closest thing and hurl it at them! 😉

        WATCH THE EXPANSE

        It’s amazing.

  • @cm0002@lemmy.world
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    102 months ago

    Not technically a Space Station, but there’s a whole Invader Zim episode on an entire planet being dedicated to fast food, Food Courtia iirc