Starfleet Chef

The culinary specialist: the one job in Starfleet that will definitely never be replaced by automation. Definitely.
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[@AndrewD8Red]

I get a massive kick out of the fact that Steve has put more thought into the practicalities of Starfleet than the writers of the show ever did.

[@Ultrasound700]

The idea of a species in the Federation that's super vulnerable to common chemicals found in foods humans and other common species eat, making them masterfully skilled at meticulously preparing gourmet food, is actually a really creative idea that I could see being part of canon.

[@templarw20]

For all that Klingon food was developed to be off-putting to human crews and audiences, I feel like they could do a LOT with some of the stuff humans regularly ingest. "It is a biochemical defense to prevent consumption of seeds." "It's just a bit to heat. Relax." Or "It is a nurotoxin excreted by micro-organisms infesting the-" "This is the last time I invite you for a beer."

[@TheVincentKyle]

Like how Beethoven couldn't hear the music, Guy can't taste the food.

[@travisbic]

Keep in mind, the best barber in Starfleet was a Bolian... a species completely without hair.

[@jonathankleinow2073]

@@travisbic Except for the one Bolian woman in that episode where Picard was kidnapped by aliens who wanted to study how he handled pressure.

[@JgerV2]

@@TheVincentKyle Well, he could.

[@TheJacobG]

My new headcanon is that replicator development was accelerated in response to the food cubes. A couple of engineers took one bite of those things and were like, "Nope! We are fixing this ASAP."

[@samuelkane1717]

" I would literally rather eat my own recycled feces than this garage!"

[@tabathacarruthers5122]

I've heard MREs are nasty

[@karenm7857]

@@tabathacarruthers5122 It depends on how hungry you are. If you heat them up, they are better but still not gourmet.

[@OpinionsNoOneCaresAbout]

If you don't laugh at Steve talking about a full stomach and slapping his ass, then playing with Play-Doh, you're dead inside. I DO make the rules on that one.

[@elibalin]

The worst part of working the line in a Starfleet kitchen is when an officer bursts into the kitchen and phasers one of your pots just to make a point, leaving a giant mound of mashed potatoes just standing there. Every damn week, this happens, I swear.

[@EMSpdx]

I have ALWAYS felt sorry for that kitchen crew! They were literally making a Thanksgiving dinner for the Klingon peace treaty and here comes Valeris with her bs!

[@scaper8]

That or taking the cheese you've been working on. To sick bay, of all places! I mean, why‽

[@Mattteus]

Why do I feel like that’s a reference to Star Trek VI?

[@Willpower-74205]

Setting aside the fact that the officer conspired to assassinate a foreign head of state AND pin the deed on her superior officer, it was just a dick move on her part. 🖖😎👍

[@scaper8]

@@Mattteus Because, it is?

[@arthurdowney2846]

This accent is how I imagine french volunteers in the American revolution sounded after a few months in new england.

[@allanolley4874]

"I do not have a French accent, I am just... how you say? Ah yes ludicrously pretentious."😉 So he doesn't actually taste the food he serves, he just lets the essence of pure flavour guide him directly without such distractions, truly a masterful artist.

[@nadiroahmed]

More French than Jean Luc? I haven’t watched the whole thing…. Lol

[@ruffethereal1904]

He can't eat them, he's biologically incompatible and they will be his last meals.

[@terran046]

food allergies suck balls and they must be even worse for someone with a passion for cooking.

[@saljm697]

Just a few drops of LSD

[@ghijkmnop]

@@terran046 Yep. Especially an egg allergy.

[@veganmonter]

I love how Steve Lampshaded his bad French accent with the Sci-Fi hand-waving - here for more of it. Plus it even reminds people that there is more to Star Trek than Earth.

[@andrewklang809]

It's a better French accent than Picard's.

[@paulgiametta9471]

The thing about "this isn't a bad French accent, this is a perfect Saviggarian accent" is genius! That aside, the message is well delivered like it is in all the Starfleet Jobs skits. Keep up the good work!

[@SlyPearTree]

Until that part I thought this was the worst French accent I ever heard, after I thought it was the best Saviggarian accent I ever heard.

[@joewhite4564]

First. What do Saviggarians eat? Second. Is a meat being with no experience of a chicken sandwich any better a chef than a Starfleet level computer with no experience of the same?

[@Jayk129]

I just have this feeling that this entire sketch started because Steve happened to stumble upon that red chef’s jacket and it looked enough like a TOS uniform that he just had to go for it. Great video as always!

[@ryanmcallister9177]

How in the sweet hell does he keep making these funny silly sketches about weird niche divisions of Starfleet no ones ever heard of and then pulls a deep meaningful lesson out of it so.....artfully.

[@pittycrepido]

"People will never choose the Computer". 😂 Deep cut, man ❤

[@jbz4788]

The bit about the accent reminds me of a conversation from Doctor Who: (Paraphrased because it’s been a long time since i watched it) Rose: You’re an alien? Dr: Yes Rose: But you have a northern accent Dr: Lots of planets have a North.

[@mrclueuin]

S 1 Episode 1 Love it!

[@StormsparkPegasus]

She actually said "Why do you sound like you're from the North?" It was a double joke because Eccleston is from the northern part of England.

[@yanboubou]

As a french Canadian (Québécois) I can confirm it is a legit Savegarian accent 💯

[@thing_under_the_stairs]

As a Canadian who has spent time in Quebec and France, I am loving all the relevant jokes about the accent here!

[@usbmassstoragedevice]

At first I missed him rubbing his chest when he referred to his kidneys, but then the 'stomach' gag really sold it 😂

[@TheMAZZTer]

He also points to his head when he talks about his heart.

[@patsfreak]

Faking a chicken breast sounds like something out the 24th century edition of Kitchen Confidential

[@EMSpdx]

There is a company called Quorn that makes fake chicken using mycoprotein ( Fusarium Venenatum) and potato starch or egg white and once prepared, you would be pressed to think that this was NOT chicken.

[@wolfegaming36]

"This only sounds like a bad French accent to you, but it is actually a perfect Savigarian accent" can I please steal this for my fantasy/sci-fi series? Because that's gold.

[@Bakamoichigei]

The accent handwave... You brilliant bastard, I can't even... 🤣👌 Wow, the Play-Doh extruder remains almost completely unchanged from the one I had in 1982. 🤔

[@renatocorvaro6924]

I was wondering about timeline, the food cubes were the perfect indicator. Well done.

[@joshuasims5421]

You know, I have to compliment you on your perfect Saviggarian accent. Spot on!

[@f0rth3l0v30fchr15t]

"In early iterations, the computer, when asked to make a pizza, it added glue to prevent the cheese slipping off. And what it called the recommended 'one to two small rocks a day'. What next, a pizza with the cheese *beneath* the sauce? No, I think the technology, it still needs work."

[@FiXato]

with where his heart and stomach are, I get the feeling this guy is talking out of his arse 😂

[@KariIzumi1]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@siskinedge]

Damn, It's so star trek the idea of one of the star's of developing nutrition cubes, which can feed 99% of species - cannot eat them.

[@zenosAnalytic]

that organs gag is priceless XD

[@kevinkeeney9418]

There is no shortage of big, scary space clouds Starfleet personnel have to face, so I'm glad they're eating well.

[@disky01]

Can't wait for episode 2, in which the Starfleet Culinary Workers Union is formed

[@mk1st]

Will they be protesting deployment of replicators?

[@lennierofthethirdfaneofchu7286]

He was more than a hero. He was a union man.

[@CerexFlikex]

Now I'm tearing up for Guy at the end. "Never happen." Also the way this ties to AI art is just awesome. I'm assuming this was intentional.

[@Stray7]

I mean, we did have Neelix for 7 seasons of Voyager, ad people like Sisko's dad in DS9, so he's not completely wrong -- there's still places for a chef, even if you can just order "Tea, Earl Grey, Hot."

[@VladamireD]

@@Stray7 Also Riker liked to dabble with cooking, he discovered an omelette that Worf (and only Worf) liked!

[@andyb1653]

Steve's French-Canadian accent is on-point

[@thing_under_the_stairs]

I was thinking the same thing! That planet must have started out as a Quebecois colony...

[@ThePongles]

@@thing_under_the_stairs Ah, so that's how they end up separating from the rest of Canada

[@samanthagray1103]

How’s his poutine 😂

[@jonathankleinow2073]

If there were one part of Earth that deprecated Federation Standard to a necessary evil of a second language and kept their native language the primary for everyday use, it would be Quebec.

[@andrewweitzman4006]

@@jonathankleinow2073 And there is a damn good reason nobody lets them pilot the ship...

[@iceblaster1252]

As someone who’s run an rpg in Star Trek, the question in the TNG era game that came up was ‘did the ship have a preset menu for the replicator.’ I decided there’s a Starfleet kitchen corps that is continuously innovating and compiling menus that starship captains can switch between at starbase. In short, I’m glad the idea of a kitchen corps is not just my idea :P Anyways good video! As always, love the Starfleet [Job] series both as a commentary and Star Trek fan content in general.

[@TheMAZZTer]

I think there's an episode of TNG where its explained the replicator is loaded with food and drinks from a wide variety of federation cultures. We also know that have Klingon food and drinks. We have seen episodes where someone asks for something the replicator doesn't have (II think usually because it doesn't fit that criteria). Of course how/if this menu is ever updated is never explained. But I would bet if someone were to write something about that today it would be AI-based (our modern day "AI", not sci-fi) using the ship's computerized library.

[@kawibil]

1st thought "Ah shit,here we go again" 2nd thought "Damn those uniforms are always on point!"

[@while_coyote]

The need to give you your own show. You need to have your own star trek show, Steve. We all need this to happen.

[@mrclueuin]

👍

[@TonysMusicChannel]

A wonderful commentary/analogy on the status A.I. driven art

[@LollipopKnight2]

I am here for this chef's gentle repudiation of replicator supremacists. Even if you could get the same thing once, with a sufficiently advanced replicator, there would be no soul, no intuition, no expansion of possibility beyond what already exists, as you can get when collaborating with a person.

[@Fizzbuzz994]

Counterpoint: a replicator wouldn't forget the pickle.

[@namkha209]

@@Fizzbuzz994 Counterpoint: I dont like pickles :D

[@RandomMaster123]

I remember when Starfleet first rolled out those nutrition cubes. I was stationed at a starbase by the Plei Deux system, which had several industrial planets with lots of factories.

[@nastropc]

Is that the Plei Deux system in the Toi-Zaruuce expanse?

[@ryandrew-tv7bg]

"My kidneys explode" Motion across his chest.

[@TheMAZZTer]

I had one of those "nutrition cube extruders" when I was a kid lol. Loved that bit.

[@hesthatguy]

Hanging a lampshade on the bad accent was :chefskiss:

[@WingedWyrm]

You know, the character is right. It's a standard of TNG that while people are good with replicator meals, the preference is for hand-made meals. And listening to him speak, I get it. I do want to see what he would do with things he can eat, what of his culture does he bring to the dinner plate as it were. There's certainly a passion to him.

[@jpotter2086]

It's the difference between John Bonham drumming, and a drum machine drumming. There's organic 'perfection', and mathematic precision ... I know which I would rather eat, listen to, speak with, etc.!

[@GSBarlev]

Replicated ingredients, hand-prepared seems like where it's at, especially if you grow your own garnish.

[@xionkuriyama5697]

Maybe it's just me, but I read a bit of metaphor for AI "art" in this. I love how Steve pays homage to Star Trek's commentary.

[@KassFireborn]

Replicators would also potentially encourage falling into a rut. You're not gonna have the experience of going to a restaurant, looking through the menu, and finding something you've never seen before that looks nifty; the replicator *has* a billion new things, but that's the problem, there's so much choice you wouldn't even know where to start. In a post-scarcity society, that would probably be even more a function of restaurants than now, because you, the culinary specialist proprietor or chef or merely enthusiastic waitstaff, are in it just for the joy of serving the food and seeing others experience it. (Unless, of course, you've been co-opted into being waitstaff because your grandpa is the enthusiastic culinary specialist, but I bet even Jake is pleased when he helps a new customer find a dish that suits them.)

[@tristanmorris1007]

This was a wonderful mix of silly and serious. You managed to have an absurd character say something interesting. Well done!

[@tbgold07]

I felt like it was commentary on AI art at the beginning. Didn’t realize it was going to be that obvious by the end. Great skit.

[@loveless131]

I appreciate the sheer silliness of the character.

[@chahleybrosfullsignal]

I still like the addition DS9 made that while Replicators *can* make any food you tell it to, people like Joseph Sisko and O'Brien's mother will still insist on handcooked meals. Whether it be just the enjoyment of cooking itself, or simply wanting each meal to taste a little different each time in a way you can't fully control. Many cultures have centered themselves around cooking and dining as an artform and no amount of perfectly replicated food will get them to abandon that. There's also the aspect overlooked a lot at how important "gut biome" is. The bacteria introduced into your stomach through the food you eat which aid in digestion. Replicators are routinely stated to be incapable of producing living things, so all the food they produce is "dead". There's a large degree to which some foods we would be functionally incapable of eating if the food we ate had no bacteria present, like Cheese, and spice heavy dishes like Gumbo. Starfleet ships would need to retain a stock of naturally grown foods just so ones stomach didn't become sterile and incapable of eating non-replicated food.

[@clarknicholscomposer]

Praise the sun. Lost my job last week, and this brought me some much needed joy.

[@Mark73]

A couple weeks ago for me 🤜🤛

[@kyleuser123456]

Just commenting even before I even watch that I'm a chronically online chef who watches a lot of your content. This has been my favorite "series" you've done. Thanks!

[@reglavcor]

The preparation of that food cube, finally shows haute cuisine at its best!

[@thomasd4738]

remarkable character building - I want a show about this man!

[@thing_under_the_stairs]

I want a show about his anatomy.

[@ExploringFate]

Federation Good Eats - next week's Chef is Sisko. He will be making his signature dish "Time Jump Jambalaya". It will make you feel like you're traveling through time while flying through a wormhole.

[@sanmerci]

What a beautiful and insightful commentary on AI. Well done, Chef Guy!

[@Shasta--1]

I love your Starfleet jobs videos! I don't know how many more you can come up with, but I'm here for all of them.

[@Xenotric]

if you ever visit saviggar make sure to visit the wiffel tower, a giant V shaped tower made of white plastic with lots of holes in it. Always buy a little model of it

[@ZGVideosChannel]

Little hint of smirk as Steve does the organ pats 👌

[@Forsworcen]

The accent slipups make this 100% funnier

[@evandenis5488]

The nutrition cube extruder was hilarious.

[@nealjroberts4050]

I was a tad sceptical of that Savvigarian accent but then I realised that travel with Humans might have affected it!

[@LucasSmart-nz8nu]

It wasn't until the end I realized your description of a synthesized chicken breast impregnated with stock and breaded is just a fried chicken sandwich. Bravo, delivery can mask all manour of sins.

[@BlueBeetle1939]

I thought he was cajun french and it was gonna turn out he worked under Sisko sr but I guess this isn't lower decks

[@polarknight5376]

He's a TOS era cook.

[@namkha209]

@@polarknight5376 nah, ENT era, since he mentioned Protein Synthethizer

[@kaitlyn__L]

@@namkha209 it's between eras but closer to TOS. The food cubes are almost in standard production (TOS), I don't think we saw them in SNW but I don't want to read too much into his use of a SNW badge. Could be 5-10 years before Discovery. (Also double nitpick, he says synthesiser not re-sequencer, which sounds closer to the TOS food synthesisers even if it can still only do proteins. Like maybe with the ENT one, if you ran out of some amino acids you were screwed. While this one can make them from raw chemicals.)

[@whelpd]

A replicator can take a pre set meal and reproduce exactly a million times, no slight differences or alteration in taste it is the same on every ship and station across the fleet. A chef can make a meal a million times but it will always be ever so slightly different and will change wherever you travel.

[@matthew.datcher]

I'm a bit upset the chef didn't use a beefsteak tomato. And, where's the lettuce? I hope the chef wasn't thinking about using iceberg.

[@MonarchRigel]

rocket on top or we riot.

[@KassFireborn]

As a non tomato-enjoyer, I am okay with that lack.

[@mooniejohnson]

The poor fellow dies when consuming beef… I’m guessing his anatomy might not tolerate beefsteak tomatoes, either! 😉

[@hobbitronic]

In an optimistic future, humans have realised that lettuce ruins everything and adds nothing

[@nomadicsynth]

Iceberg is the *only* lettuce to use for this and any other opinions are an act of war.

[@MrLiabu]

As an ex-cook, I find this video rather compelling. Well done, Steve.

[@mxspokes]

An ex cook? You mean a corpse?

[@bryanmccrary139]

I've gotta say, for someone who hasn't watched much Star Trek ever-and none in the last decade-it's pretty impressive that your Starfleet videos can be so captivating. A nice cutaway into the sort of 'unseen faces,' every time; always glad to see another one.

[@RichardMyers-fz8sv]

Every time. You get me every single time. I say, oh good another Starfleet interview! They’re so good! And then BAM, right at the end, the cutting social commentary. Like the second velociraptor, I never see it coming. Right in my gut (heart. Wherever the pertinent organs are). Well done

[@fuzzygoldfish]

A fantastic addition to this series! Every time we see one come out the whole house stops. You really bring a depth and thoughtfulness to these that is always a joy to watch. It's clear you love Trek as much as we all do. Thanks for sharing this!

[@JJ-ml7pq]

I love this video. - This is not a bad French accent, this is a perfect Saviggarian accent. Genius. That’s geniunely a perfect way to address/preempt criticisms about the accent while still staying in character. - I love how you referenced the debate between replicated foods and those cooked in the more classical way. I’m sure Capt. Sisko would approve. - That chicken sandwich sounded amazing. If that’s what the man preaching creativity and artistry can come up with, I say we listen.

[@encodedpr]

im glad they have air fryers in the far future

[@ThePongles]

I got so invested in Guy Langlois' story I forgot that this was a fable about AI until you directly said it was about art.

[@gateauxq4604]

Thanks Steve, that thumbnail’s gonna haunt my sleep for the rest of the year. 😭

[@samwill7259]

Is every single one of these going to smack me with the metaphor at the last second?

[@DawnDavidson]

I wheeze-laughed at the specialized nutritional equipment. Thank you. I needed that

[@windgraceproject]

I certainly hope nothing happens to the Moon causing it to accidentally careen through space and forcing Guy into a series called "Chef: 1999."

[@hannahlarge5738]

it's nice to see one of the lower deckers who doesn't want to go jump into a plasma stream.

[@justarandomgothamite5466]

You sneaked a message in there! ❤

[@AlRoderick]

That Captain was so impressed that she completely glossed over the fact that he forgot the dill pickle.

[@MonkeyJedi99]

What's wild is I can hear Steve's Upper Midwest through his affected accent here, you betcha.

[@queenannsrevenge100]

There is something about that evil smile with that hat in the thumbnail that would scare the shit out of me if I saw him offering me a hamburger in a lunch line 😄

[@ExploringFate]

Star Fleet Hell's Kitchen - next week's Chef Khan. He will be making his signature dish "Botany Bay Chicken Vindaloo". It will make you feel like your abandoned on a searing deserted desert planet.

[@frazerx01]

That was great, the elaborated history of a chef, his opinions on how food should be made and what the future might bring, and than that revelation 10 min. in, haha. I love the acting, the accent and the running gag that he is(!) different and only looks human. I'm feeling not so great today (catched "something" + summer heat) but this made me smile.

[@trackeduser2577]

I desperately needed this. sadly no one will have to suffer the grin I'm going to have for a while.

[@shawnholbrook7278]

In the beginning, I thought his promotions were to get him off the ship! It got funnier when I saw the nutrition cubes, perfectly placed in a pleasing pattern. It is amazing that one who cannot taste the food prepares it, kinda like our local school board makes decisions, but they aren't teachers..

[@Veggie13]

That poignancy at the end, though... Brilliant stuff. I came for the jokes but adored the world building and underlying message.

[@Tim3.14]

I'm impressed! Lots of American actors butcher the Saviggarian accent, but yours was perfect.

[@davidstorrs]

I love your 'jobs of Starfleet' series, Steve. Please keep making them. Hopefully it's not too mean to say that with this particular one, an especially funny bit was the way your accent drifted in and out. :>

[@agentblackfyre5922]

Im just thinking about Poor O'brian actually liking those field rations, im sure they were delectable

[@Atlas3060]

"How did you manage to obtain chicken breasts when we're still due for resupply?" "A magician never reveals their secrets, also don't ask where the Avian tech Lt Tzeentch went. He resigned from Starfleet, rather suddenly."

[@vtmarik]

God i'm getting flashbacks of cranking in the galley on USS First Ship. Well done!

[@toonezon4836]

i love it! youre explaining the food cubes. i've always wanted to know what they were made of irl and what they tasted like both in universe and irl

[@patrickdodds7162]

The chef looks like Commander Riker. This video is on point.

[@EMSpdx]

I love how the internal organs are all VERY different than humans! Also, I love how Chef Guy really can't taste his Popeye's sandwich!

[@twitchew]

thank you so much for finally giving us the inventor of the food cube!!!!

[@ctrlaltdoom]

variant steve chives unlocked

[@rhondawest6838]

It's nice to know Quebec gets it's own planet eventually

[@SiriusMined]

I love the "this is not a French accent" cover 😂😊

[@TheMAZZTer]

It made me wonder if the universal translator is capable of "adjusting" accents the listener may have trouble with.

[@lucky-segfault]

Its nice to know we will have passionate people finding new ways to make delicious food far into the future

[@fakeyoutubenameftw390]

Canonical-shit-tier French accent worthy of Picard. Bravo.

[@jkwatcher47]

I adore these. I love the lore and I love the contemporary commentary. It is so good.

[@Shasta--1]

Thanks!

[@SteveShives]

Got it! Thanks so much!

[@zenosAnalytic]

Great prop-work, I'm sure they're still selling them but I haven't seen one of those playdoh presses in ages XD XD And I like how sneaky and understated the anti ~AI~ sting was at the end; it really built on the themes established through the vid(Creativity and Consistency) but at the same time sneaks up on you, and it's a viewpoint on replicators you don't often see in the fandom!

[@beckfink6261]

i love this series of videos. its the kind of fan addition to works that i love for

[@AggieNC]

Wow, I've been doing a Saviggarian accent for all these years. Thanks, Steve for letting me know!

[@skittles7306]

I clicked soo fast! Loved these. I can't wait to see what you come up with next . Starfleet teachers? Hairstylists? Uniform designer? 🤔 The galaxy is yours!

[@smmydvr]

I am sure this conversation has been had in a Chick-Fil-Et board room at least once.