Science Fiction Trivia

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Hint - food to accompany the ultimate end of everything.

[spud42]

too easy that but does it actually qualify?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAF35dekiAY

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too easy that but does it actually qualify?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAF35dekiAY

Well, that sure as hell isn't any earth-type animal, it has surface similarities but I'm pretty sure it's not a vertebrate as we know it, it looks segmented. I think it qualifies.

Two to go!

[Disembodied]

From Larry Niven's Known Space series: Whitefood, also know as Bandersnatchi - especially their large, delicious brains - as eaten by the Thrintun during their ascendancy some 2 or 3 billion years ago. Alternatively, Tree-of-Life root, native to the Pak homeworld: simply irresistible to hominids once they hit early middle age …

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Tree of Life appears in more stories so we'll go with that. One to go!

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Another clue - food that's very popular on another space station, especially liked by aliens with tentacles in unexpected places. VERY surprised it isn't sold in the Ooliteverse.

[spud42]

from your " unexpected tentacle placment" hint i think you are referencing the Centauri from Babylon 5 ? but i cant remember any particular food....

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from your " unexpected tentacle placment" hint i think you are referencing the Centauri from Babylon 5 ? but i cant remember any particular food....

Exactly right - remember the clue about the Ooliteverse, it really is relevant, especially two letters (another hint). The Narn also like it, but prepared differently, humans don't.

[cbr]

Well I am curious what it is because I really can't remember/visualising it... B5 how long ago?

Can remember something between the Narn and the Centauri

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Love the illo!

I think I'm going to give this one to spud42 since B5 plus Centauri is most of the answer. The word you're missing is the name of the food (and I suspect that some here will be kicking themselves)

SPOO!

https://babylon5.fandom.com/wiki/Spoo

"Would you like some spoo? It's fresh."
"Fah! Get that away from me. Spoo needs to age. It takes time to cultivate its flavour. To eat fresh spoo is to insult a Centauri."

– G'Kar and Londo.

[RockDoctor]

SPOO!

I got this far wondering how come nobody had mentioned the Edible Arts Graduate/ Poet. Best use for them - they're decidedly unreliable as aggregate in bridge abutments. Very wibbly-wobbly.

[spud42]

oky doke then....

this should be quick....

5 alcoholic , or equivilent to aliens , drinks.

usual 1 per universe etc.etc...

[Disembodied]

1) Pan-Galactic Gargle Blaster
2) Romulan Ale

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Bor'Kaan - Drasi drink, B5 universe
The Black Wine of Thentis - the Gor Novels (a mysterious stimulant drunk hot and allegedly made from some sort of bean)
Sapphire Wine - drink of choice in the distant future world of Tanith Lee's novels Drinking Sapphire Wine and Don't Bite the Sun

[RockDoctor]

oky doke then....

this should be quick....

5 alcoholic , or equivilent to aliens , drinks.

usual 1 per universe etc.etc...

- OK, in the Draco Tavern short stories,the "Chirps" get mildly bombed and somewhat incautiously loose-lipped on "sparkers" - which I've always envisaged in a Babycham glass, fizzing away like those eyeball-destroying fireworks. With a parrot and an umbrella in the glass too.

- In some of the Star Treks there is a peculiar non-human played by Patrick Stewart and some latex who changes his very peculiar mental state with a witches brew called "tearlgrey", taken hot.