Kalia Qinn

For those who may have been following my decent down rabbit holes, I have posted the document to the Species Guild forum group looking for comments and critiques. If you have a chance and are interested take a look. ~Patrick

I am now actively researching how terrioir is described, how different varieties of grapes are classified, and how wine is made. Once this is done, I'll move on to spirits, probably starting with gins as I know the least about those. Even if this is never actually approved for use in game, I now must see this through. I may be lost. ~Patrick

Oh lord, this is a rabbit hole I could get lost down. If no one hears from me in a week send help.

Yeah, I think my general rule of thumb with names is if I replaced the Species (Bajoran, Bolian, Trill) with Terran, would it make any sense. In the OP example of a Bollian Soufflé, if I told the replicator Terran Souffle would that be enough information to get an answer (in this case I would bet not, unless the replicators work on a default setting that allows them to dispense some generic option when given a generic request. But Terran Souffle wouldn't let the replicator know if I meant sweet or savory, and any number of options below that). The Spring Wine example. If I ordered Terran Spring Wine I wouldn't be giving nearly enough information at all. French, Italian, Spanish, German, American, would need to be known at minimum, beyond that you could specify type of wine, locality within the region, and even down to the vineyard. We do thing kind of thing every day without thinking about it much. After my post above, I'm not going to try and create a wine lovers guide to Trill, just to see if I can come up with something that seems internally consistent. (Don't look at me like that, I find this kind of thing relaxing) ~Patrick

I'm with Gogi on this one for a good portion of it. I think diseases make sense (they don't but lets just avoid that quagmire), similar types of diseases just get translated, Bolian Flu is similar to Terran Flu with some Bolian-esque differences. I tend to get a little bit pickier when we move towards food and drink. Think of how many different types of Ales and Brandies and whiskey and cheeses and breads and everything else. Ordering Romulan Ale (made with Romulan yeast, I assume) would/should describe such a broad category of different types of drink that it wouldn't be something you ordered so much as the parent category of what you ordered. It makes cultures other than Terran feel a lot less three dimensional, we have so many cultures here on Earth, but every other planet seems to be a monoculture with some exceptions. I've made up vineyards on Trill so I can name the wine and variety of grapes so I can name the wine my PC ordered. I enjoy coming up with that kind of thing. Hell, I'd be happy to just sit down with a Species and start working out foods/drinks so people could just use it and not have to do the leg work when they're just trying to get a post out on a Tuesday night before bed. That said, I think about this stuff way too much. I love detail. The more detail I have the better. I also understand that I am pushing towards one end of the bell curve and am happy to make stuff up myself and let others operate at what ever level of detail they are comfortable with. I will never be fully comfortable until I've worked out all of the details, I don't like unexplored corners. ~Patrick

Thank you all for the welcome. I look forward to jumping in. ~Patrick

Thank you, I'm happy to be part of the group. ~Patrick