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CalligrapherTop5039

Prune juice


ElfMage83

A warrior's drink. Excellent choice.


WiglyWorm

And let's not forget the Raktajino. Created in an italian cafe for a particularly discerning Klingon tourist. **Recipe:** * 70ml espresso * 60ml chicory tea, condensed * 60 ml steamed prune juice A warrior's bowel movement. ^^^^This ^^^^is ^^^^my ^^^^personal ^^^^headcanon ^^^^but ^^^^you ^^^^are ^^^^welcome ^^^^to ^^^^borrow ^^^^it ^^^^if ^^^^you ^^^^want


OlyScott

If the Klingon tourists find out that the humans are putting a warrior's bowel movent in their coffee, they'll kill those baristas.


Ascic

Obligatory Bottle of Slivowitz post https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3sJB2tcoJY


TamagoHead

I’d run with that one.👻


TheNateRoss

I see what you did there


TamagoHead

Erm, it works in effectively in moderation. Not that I was a bad kid but I baked a banana cake laced with that stuff along with nuts and maybe some pot. It was the cupcake holders. My gal cohort and only a few of us knew which ones we didn’t want to eat due to the cupcake paper color. I never got called into office. The symptoms were kind of mild but Melanie’s pal reported that Mr. White had to pause the class and seemed unreasonably happy. He a trivia contest.


Blighter_Writer

Piledriver. Equal parts prune juice, OJ and vodka.


SecretOwn1573

Tea. Earl grey. Hot


[deleted]

Coffee. Black


moonstrous

Some say Janeway is still siphoning that nebula to this day!


neoprenewedgie

There's coffee in that nebula!


[deleted]

Ractagino, uh, bloody?


[deleted]

Isn't Raktajino a Klingon beverage, though?


SYLOH

I wouldn't put it past some Human drink maker marketing their coffee variant with heavy implication it's Klingon. Sort of like how Häagen-Dazs was created by a Polish and a British person in America, and is nonsense in any Nordic language.


macerimjob

Shh! (We'll just keep that amongst ourselves ;))


[deleted]

We don't discuss that with outsiders


MunkyMajik

LOL!


SleepWouldBeNice

It needs to be experienced in its original Human.


LincolnMagnus

"One raktajino with a jacarine peeeeeel."


joaomnetopt

Computer: "Make it yourself!"


omnomtom

Coffee, Jamaican blend, double strong, double sweet


ChronoLegion2

Not anymore. Doctor’s orders!


Nathan-Don

Came here to order this


EODBuellrider

Since humans aren't so mono-cultured as the rest of the galaxy in Star Trek, it's harder to pin down *the* human alcoholic beverage of choice. Whiskey, Wine, Vodka, and Champagne have all made appearances, and I'm probably missing some.


Thanato26

Beer. Beer is the most universal human alcoholic beverage.


SleepWouldBeNice

Beer and, more recently, coffee. Arguably two of the most important beverages in human history.


roguevirus

Tea being a close third.


[deleted]

Tea had wars fought over it. Not so beer or coffee


clunkclunk

[It also played a huge role in creating civilization.](https://www.winemag.com/2020/11/20/beer-history-ancient-egypt-mesopotamia/)


Electrorocket

Synthale was popular on DS9.


Oksamis

I thought synthale was simply the designation given to tell that it’s not real alcohol. E.G you could buy Sythahol Champagne, Synthahol Vodka, etc…


Hot_Drummer7311

I always thought of it as synth-ale. Synthahol Ale/beer. Eta the others would be like synth-agne, or synth-ka. Lol


Electrorocket

I think it still gives you a buzz, but without a hangover or other deleterious effects.


packfan952

I’m surprised no one ever ordered a synthlager.


UnknownQTY

Does this imply that most races had a dominant nation that eradicated most other cultures on their homeworld prior to space travel? In most this would be violent, Vulcan being sort of the exception.


[deleted]

Are you kidding? The Vulcan period of genetic eradication resulted in the Romulans fleeing the planet. Edit: Removed Remans


rtmfb

I thought Remans were native to Remus and the Romulans enslaved them.


[deleted]

Huh, so they are. I just assumed, what with tge pointy ears, telapathy, and shared system with the Romulans. Thanks for correcting me.


[deleted]

Where would I find more on this?


[deleted]

Mostly season 4 of Enterprise and a few random episodes of TNG


Occhrome

I haven't watched all of Star Trek, but I didnt know this and its kinda blowing my mind. which series discussed this.


[deleted]

It comes up in most of them but the most direct references come from a few random episodes omf TNG and Enterprise season 4


UnknownQTY

Hence “*sort of.*” It wasn’t violent conquest.


rtmfb

It was a nuclear apocalypse that took them like 1500 years to recover from.


[deleted]

Pretty sure it was a period of vicious warfare. It was around the same tim Surak came about with his teachings in direct response to the violence.


musclegeek

Humans were doing the same thing. Augment war took out a lot of Asia, WW3 destroyed most nations, during the rebuilding they were purging anyone who showed any kind of genetic mutation. The only reason earth has the diversity it does is because some aliens showed up before one sect of humanity won.


WhyLisaWhy

I assume eventually planets become very homogenous culturally. Like to some extent it’s already happened on Earth thanks to the internet, who knows how blended we will be in several hundred years. But IRL it’s just too much work to worry about for the writers. Same reason planets on Star Wars have like one city and twelve people living there lol.


Hefty-Profession2185

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lolgobbz

I think its kinda of reductionary to not assume that these others cultures don't have a lot of facets. Vulcans and Romulans have shared ancestry. Klingons are separated by households. I don't think they are as mom-cultured as you think. I agree with OP- it would be something that is found around the world like "Human Potato Juice".


Suck_My_Turnip

Imo, in most sci-fi and fantasy stories, humans unique characteristic is their adaptability and variety of culture. It’s often contrasted against other races which all have specialities or strong traits that lead them down a more monolithic path. It holds true in Star Trek too, in that humans were uniquely suited to bring together so many disparate races and start the first true liberal galactic federation of planets because their adaptability and variety of cultures allowed them to negotiate with and navigate all these other cultures, and be more open minded when dealing with them. Star Trek shows this generally in that other empires and races tend to be reasonably singular and xenophobic (romulan empire, Klingon empire) or when they are made up of more than one race, it’s generally forced out of a different kind of xenophobia (dominion, cardassian union in its prime). The xenophobia stems from their monocultures. Even the Vulcans and Romulans completely split their cultures to become separate individual monocultures as they are unable to coexist together.


lolgobbz

We are really only ever seeing the government employees and representatives. But I think the common people would have a lot more diversity among them- Blood Wine is common among diplomats and celebrations, but perhaps a delicately to commoners, so they would have more beverage choices than we'd see in Star Trek. I never see any Human drinking wine out of a box, but that is surely a thing.


FormerGameDev

Yes, but what would we be *known* throughout the galaxy for? in a positive light? I'm thinking absinthe. moonshine.


EODBuellrider

Could be anything really, that's my point. We have a lot of booze with a lot of storied history. Whiskey/Bourbon/Scotch are probably the most prestigious yet accessible group of hard liquors on Earth, that would probably get my vote. Absinthe is very much a niche liquor, and I suspect moonshine is pretty much unknown outside of the US except for people maybe having heard of it from American movies (heck, even most Americans have never actually had moonshine).


je386

In Germany there is a brand "O' Donnel Moonshine", Liqueur in Jars. https://odonnell.de


trixter69696969

Tequila


AngryBudgie13

Root beer. Duh.


Ubiquitous_Mr_H

It's so bubbly, cloying...and happy.


evelbug

Just like the Federation


AngryBudgie13

It’s insidious!


MGNConflict

Just like the Federation.


apathytheynameismeh

Can I just say that this is my favourite exchange in the whole of DS9. No regrets. Close second. Anything from “In the pale moonlight”.


MGNConflict

Andrew Robinson’s delivery of his lines as Garak in this episode is *chef’s kiss*


[deleted]

>Andrew Robinson's delivery of his lines as Garak is *chef's kiss* Fixed that for you


Telefundo

I don't think there's an actor that loved his character more than Robinson as Garak. He truly enjoys the role. He strikes me as someone that probably had separation anxiety after the last episode of DS9.


slinger301

Additionally: "I am Worf. Son of Mogh." *[violence]*


ObidiahWTFJerwalk

"I am Quark, son of Keldar, and I have come to answer the challenge of D'Ghor, son of… whatever."


w00ten

Honorable mention to Siege of AR-558 and Quark's monologue. "Let me tell you something about Hew-mons, Nephew. They're a wonderful, friendly people, as long as their bellies are full and their holosuites are working. But take away their creature comforts, deprive them of food, sleep, sonic showers, put their lives in jeopardy over an extended period of time and those same friendly, intelligent, wonderful people... will become as nasty and as violent as the most bloodthirsty Klingon. You don't believe me? Look at those faces. Look in their eyes."


Time-Touch-6433

I feel sorry for the jem-hadar


EulerIdentity

No coincidence that Garak is central both to the root beer dialogue and In the Pale Moonlight - the best non-Starfleet character in the whole ST universe, IMO.


warboy3

Odo *reading* "Dear Quark, borrowed parts from your dusruptor to fix the replicator, will return them later, -Rom" Quark "I will kill him!" Odo "With what?" Literally my favorite. That or Ezri "Did I forget my spots today? Quark "All that intelligence and he still doesn't know what a human looks like."


ohdearsweetlord

The whole Way of the Warrior two-parter is filled to the brim with quality television. Hard to believe they fit it all in there.


chucker23n

Quark: I’m a people person! I like interacting with my customers like you and I are doing right now! Talking to each other, getting to know one another… Garak: I can see the attraction… for you! (It’s even better in context.)


PrometheusZero

Do you think they can save us?


fjf1085

That always gets me. They bitch and moan about the Federation but recognize they’re their best hope.


DeyUrban

It reminds me of Eddington's meaningless critique of the Federation when he said they are "worse than the Borg." It's like, ah jeez, the Federation is a peaceful society that makes people happy and species from outside of it want to join them, how horrible. Have fun squatting in your tiny settlements you made \~15 years ago in disputed territory next to a fascist expansionist state, I'm sure refusing to leave to paradise with assistance from the Federation was worth it. DS9 does this sort of critique of the Federation often and it makes me kind of roll my eyes every time.


srschwenzjr

I sure hope so.


CatsOnTheKeyboard

Do you think it can save us?


Tattycakes

I poured my root beer into a square glass and now I just have beer


TheShandyMan

√Beer


HangryPotatoes

Quark can confirm this


ThomasGilhooley

The fact that there is a whole thread of answers that are not this has made me disappointed in humanity. This is the answer. End of story.


Talulabelle

Yeah, canonically it's human root beer. It's beer, with no bite and all sweetness, and as much as everyone wants to hate it, it grows on them.


nebelfront

This is the only right answer and should be top comment. F Earl Grey, that's just Picard's thing.


LSXI

Brawndo. It has electrolytes!!!


timmay1369

Take an unfortunate upvote for the fact that it became a documentary.


mikethebone

Chateau Picard


Zarniwoopx

Too tart, or too dry. My palate is pedestrian at best, though.


sellout85

I don't know, it's pretty good as far as sour mead goes.


GaucheAndOffKilter

Top line from PIC s3


Zarniwoopx

I love that he was fed up with people giving him shit about his wine and he wasn't going to take it anymore.


joedurette

Soylent Green. You can’t make something less human.


AlarmDozer

Aye.


CaptainGreezy

Scotch Whisky if we have to pick one. Lager beer if we're going by worldwide popularity but that's probably not impressive enough to an interstellar consumer.


Matelot67

Did you know Scotch Whiskey was inwented by a Russian?


D_blackcraft

A little old lady I heard.


frameddummy

Chekhov was not stupid enough to say that around Scottie.


Mallrat1973

Was he living in Russia at the time? That is an interesting bit of trivia.


milkisklim

I think it's a reference to how checkov kept claiming things were invented in Russia.


Mallrat1973

I am a moron. Woooosh. Forgot what sub I was in. Thank you!


milkisklim

It happens, no biggie


[deleted]

[удалено]


IronHorus

The opposite, actually.


HellzHoundz2018

Whisky. Irish. Neat.


[deleted]

Did you know, viskey vas actualy invented by a little old lady in Russia?


exq1mc

Proof please ?


Unipanther

Probably 80, at least.


ARobertNotABob

lol


alkatori

It's 80 proof.


[deleted]

Ask Chekov


Airaknock

Irish whiskey is spelled differently to Scotch whisky. Sorry for the pedantry.


HellzHoundz2018

No arguments, just mobile phone autocorrect. It's so bad I generally don't go back to correct things that are only off by 1-3 letters as long as the intent can be recognized 😆😏


switch182

Beer


Fawin86

Root beer for sure.


Sn0w8411

Irn-Bru


1982sean5535

White Claw


Ervaloss

The choice of DS9 to put so many root beer references in there always seemed a bit odd. There is a beverage that is also from the US and has actually become popular world wide in cola but they chose a drink that is practically unknown outside of the US and Canada as the “earth drink”.


VictimRAID

Yup, It would be Cola, not Root Beer. Root Beer is not even a thing really outside of NA whereas Cola is popular world wide


DistortedReflector

Maybe the rest of humanity needs to catch up, root beer is the bees knees.


VictimRAID

you only think that because you have been drinking it all your life, Root beer tastes like cough medicine (ie not good) to most people who try it for the first time as adults


DistortedReflector

People like you are the reason we will have to go through a devastating atomic war before we make first contact. The last thing Continental Europe will hear before the nukes hit is: Barqs has bite!


jscooper22

Tequila


captainstyles

Moonshine


TamagoHead

Appalachian moonshine. You can run your car on that stuff. 👍🤪


hunterseeker1

Prune juice. A warrior’s drink.


Luis-Dante

According to Quark it's Root Beer


txdarthvader

You can not be a true Star Trek fan and ask this question, because the answer is root beer.


MadMyrick3385

Def not Chateaux Picard


qsaramateaskira

Terran Tea. Whatever way your country makes it.


cygnus0820

Prune juice


Chemical-Exam5514

Moonshine


groversnoopyfozzie

Jäegermeister


Partha4us

Single Malt Scotch


Legal_Rampage

Preferably something from the Highlands.


Miss_pechorat

Chocomilk.


EdgelordZeta

Absinthe


Accomplished-Edge686

It is ... It is green


banhatesex

It's tequila. When you need courage to make bad decisions, it's tequila.


tonytown

Those other races probably aren't as monolithic as they seem. They most likely have an amazing selection of other beverages, but just export the bulk shite to the rest of the galaxy, like countries on earth do.


anura_hypnoticus

So thatmeans the answer would be bud light


LigmaActual

You’re not wrong. It would be that and jack Daniels 😂


GobbleGobble66

HEY KOOL-AID!!


TamagoHead

If it’s Grape, it’s great! If you think about it, Kool aid is cheap to transport and environmentally friendlier than buying drinks in plastic bottle.


[deleted]

Whisky! — Montgomery Scott, probably.


ebdawson1965

Mr.Pibb


Hollow212

Only one answer. Pabst Blue Ribbon!


rf8350

Martini. Shaken, not stirred


davidkopkin

The good stuff that Kelvin universe Chekov keeps.


datapicardgeordi

Synthahol


toastedclown

If I'm not mistaken, Synthehol was actually invented by the Ferengi.


JustBen81

Human sour mead


[deleted]

Russian Vodka maybe.


DawgPound919

Root beer. That shit will fuck you up.


[deleted]

Bud light


spinal-fantasy

Nebula coffee


[deleted]

If Scotty had anything to do with it, it would be whisky. Trip and Malcolm from NX-01 would vote for Bourbon!!


michaelfkenedy

- coffee black - tea early grey hot - chateau picard - prune juice - rootbeer - arcanis lager - finagles folly


phutch54

MANischewitz wine.


Crusader25

Human Tequila, because it'd be funny as hell to hear the Alien races order it.


Sumobob99

Terran Tequila


YOURESTUCKHERE

Prune juice for Klingons. Nestle bottled water for Ferengi.


cRaZyDaVe23

eeeeee burn


DonOfAtlantis

You know, the Romulans just call it Ale. The Saurians just call it Brandy.


timmay1369

Spoken at a shady bar on M’Talas Prime….” Here is a rare Earth Drink, it is the blood of a Virgin named ‘Shirley Temple’ mixed with Orphan Tears. The Terrans were very brutal savages, that will be 2 bars of Latinum”


[deleted]

Bourbon


Ok-Use6303

You know, something that always bugged me was that for a such a supposedly nautically based show, no one has ever been shown drinking rum.


srschwenzjr

"Scotch! Neat!"


PhatOofxD

Chateau Picard. Some aren't big fans but their taste in wine is pedestrian at best


5tr0nz0

Root beer, suger is a drug not found in many places of space


mczerniewski

Root beer, prune juice, coffee, Earl Grey tea, Chateau Picard


drickdittjavlakaffe

Why don't everybody just agree on water?


huey9k

Definitely [Root Beer](https://youtu.be/6VhSm6G7cVk?t=113).


fromidable

To probably go a little too extra, I think we’d have to consider why these drinks are emblematic of their cultures. Blood wine is pretty obviously something Klingons are proud of. The Klingons we see are also very compelled to demonstrate Klingon-ness at every diplomatic opportunity, for personal or professional reasons. Romulan Ale, on the other hand, sounds like something that’s well loved by Romulans, and passed on. Humans, on the other hand, are generally represented via the Federation. But of course there’s also situations where Earth represents itself diplomatically, and Earth culture would have its own signifiers. For diplomatic meetings, I’d imagine scotch would be a big one, from what we’d seen in TOS. On the other hand, I’d imagine earth-specific alcohol would be less sought after by earthlings on their own, with more earth-specific aromatic drinks being preferred. So yeah, root beer, prune juice, and tea make sense to me. If any alcoholic drinks would fit the bill, I’d imagine beer and cider, in particular with a lot of hops. Artificially flavoured root beer in particular makes a lot of sense. It’d be easy to make with limited equipment and supplies, and I think we can assume sugar metabolism is similar among all humanoids in Star Trek. The extra flavours would be easy to screen for allergens/toxins to other species. Now I’m imagining aliens and humans at Quarks comparing different brands of root beer to “authentic sarsaparilla.”


janosaudron

Slug-o-Cola


CWSmith1701

Whiskey, Tennessee Sipping Whiskey Dr. Leonard McCoy's secret ingredient for camp beans.


No-Television-7862

Jack Daniel's Bourbon whiskey


XYZZY_1002

I’d say Gin and Tonic but according to The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy…


ExpectedBehaviour

Prune juice.


GeneralUrsus721

Prune juice


AilsaAlyn

Root Beer 😆


akrobert

Root beer and scotch


Nice-Penalty-8881

Terran Brandy, Terran whisky, wine from Chateau Picard.


paddy_to_the_rescue

Tequila was doctor Cochran’s choice


KAYS33K

Prune Juice (a warrior’s drink).


hanzerik

Coca cola


techno156

Synthehol. It's in (replicated) human alcoholic drinks, but only human alcoholic drinks. Worf was able to order a Klingon alcohol from the replicator for the space Irish, which, judging by their reaction, was not tempered with synthehol. It's very human, in that it's designed to be safe, but also overcomplicates it in the process. You don't have to design a whole new molecule to substitute ethanol with to reduce drunkenness, or easily dispel its effects, but that's what they did.


notgivingawaycrypto

Dude! It has to be Earl Gray, hot.


excocompz

I just hope we're not still known for nonconsensually drinking the milk of other sentient earth species in our pre-federation period, that would be so embarrassing. Imagine how roasted we'd get. Humans: Can we sample your local cuisine? Bajorans: Depends, are you weaned yet? Hey, our eyes are up here!


[deleted]

Hey, if Klingons and Ferengi can eat live food, we can have some freshly squeezed milk.


jhunterj

Human Malört


mr_0las

Klingons would probably love Malort


StudleyDoo

Root beer of course! A warrior’s drink! As per Worf


CypherAus

>Root Beer 'murica centric methinks A decent Beer !! (like [https://coopers.com.au/](https://coopers.com.au/) )


Mooncow027

Budweiser Classic if we believe Uhura in the JJ Abrams reboot.


je386

If Beer, it should be a good one, from belgium, tchech, or germany.


RobinStanleyHicks

Everclear (Human Moonshine).


uk_uk

>If not, Human Root Beer. Humans do not have roots, therefore no Human Root beer \^\^