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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Voyager actually had to cut back on basic but unnecessary resources like real coffee. On BSG, they never ran out of cigarettes. Was there a cigarette cargo ship in the fleet?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Thank the gods that the Marlboro freighter had a working FTL

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

i always felt that one of the awesome things about the show was how ftl was considered antiquated technology and that, besides the military, only the older and the nicer ships had them; while the newer and much more common average ships didn't

something about a society that is both capable of traveling through the stars and has collectively forgotten where it had originated from in the galaxy; but widely considers both unimportant is super fascinating to me.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

One of the ships in the fleet was probably a cargo ship with enough cigarettes for a planet supply run.

So they probably had to smoke them or dispose of them just to make a room for other supplies as they had opportunity