Computer, tea, earl grey, hot

>computer, tea, earl grey, hot
why would he need to specify "hot" every time he ordered tea? Surly the computer has the ability to save and remember user preferences? Could Picard simply not program the replicator with his desired beverage and temperature preference so that all he'd have to say was "the usual" and the computer would know exactly what he wanted.

its baby's first scifi what do you expect

Maybe he likes it cold sometimes? It's an asian thing.

Maybe he likes giving orders

Maybe he goes on different federation ships all the time, so when he orders "tea, Earl grey, hot" it's the same across the board.

it's like google, the computer doesn't want to creep people out by revealing how much it knows

Only way to be sure

Or more accurately, Star Trek is a utopia, and they understand that saving literally less than one second per order is not worth the abuse potential of profiling the users.

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it was his deadmans switch to prevent the ship from blowing up on a daily basis

what's the next step then

>Surly the computer
How do you know the computer's name is Surly?

this 100%

because he drinks iced tea when nothing interesting is going on (too boring to see on screen)

hot is for important command decisions

It's a scientific/military-ish computer, maybe it tries not to ask many questions or make any educated guesses, since the stakes could be massively high, and that translates to the replicators, too? I know it makes you tell it a temperature when you ask for a glass of water, too.

He'll say something faggy like Farscape of SG-1 Atlantis.

The X-Files
Dan Simmons

Picard has other tea programs
>Tea, Earl Grey, Cool
>Tea, English Breakfast, Hot
We just never see him use them.

Told you

Computer

Pan. Nice and hot.

hot is what picard calls the replicator.

How would the computer be able to differentiate between slang terms.
If he asked for "hot" tea how would the computer know if he meant "spicy" or even "stolen"